10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

What we don’t get to hear is them singing, as they seem to only sing once they reach their breeding grounds. Yellow-throated Warblers are another species that tends to overshoot, though recent reports indicate that it might be in the process of establishing a breeding population in New York.

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New York United States New York City Louisiana 265

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JULY 3, 2014

The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. I have seen them foraging on sandy shores of rivers deep in the Amazon, enjoyed them in their raucous breeding colonies in the Everglades, flushed them out of canals during walks around my house, and perhaps more importantly contribute to their recovery. Photo: U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2012

The magical month of May draws to a close, leaving all good birds ensconced in their breeding territory and getting down to the business of making more good birds. We fortunate humans who live on the upper half of the planet can finally acknowledge the onset of the most sultry season of the year.

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2012 Mexico Birds Breeding 197

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Let’s say you’re a bird wrapping up your breeding season in the north of Scotland—where do your thoughts turn when winter beckons? If you’re like most, you head southeast, meeting up with your continental cousins near the Mediterranean or Arabian Seas. the Caribbean islands, and Ecuador and Peru.

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Iceland Stray Ecuador South America 238

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

They breed on a number of basaltic lakes in southwestern Argentina, and it is not entirely clear where they all winter, but some wintering Hooded Grebes have been found outside their breeding range (and a few none-breeding birds have been found year round at two locations on the Atlantic, apparently).

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2010 South America 2011 Argentina 261

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Check out this graph adapted from eBird that shows the frequency of sightings in the United States in 2012 – Red-breasted Nuthatches are showing up on birders’ checklists just over sixteen percent of the time! Remember that friend of mine that saw 17 breeding pairs of Snowy Owls in a single valley? Thank a pine cone.

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United States Owls Atlanta North Carolina 275

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2022

They are often nearby and breed locally, but we don’t always have them at the water. Here are some Brown Honeyeaters enjoying the water in 2014 and Zebra Finch in 2012 at this location. The only other similar species is the White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike , but it is a much smaller species and the call is quite different.

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Australia Zebras 2014 2012 278

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

A New York City Parks Department contractor just wiped out a breeding population of sparrows in tons of trouble already, on land owned by the parks department that was supposed to be protected as “Forever Wild.” This species is in too much trouble to throw away a breeding ground. Another is in the works. . By then it could be too late.

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New York City New York Sparrows 2016 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2020

The last time I had seen a Summer Tanager was during a Christmas Bird Count in 2012. Bon voyage , friend, may you traverse the next two thousand miles safely, may you not encounter any glass windows and may you find a mate and breed successfully! Typical of the species. Until maybe next year, who knows?

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Trinidad Birds Squirrels 2012 263

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MAY 15, 2012

Sadly, it did not stick around to breed though I thought that it might. Harlequin Duck - 01 January 2012 – A great way to start the year at Fort Tilden, and it made up for missing several the previous winter. Lark Sparrow - 26 August 2011 – Also at Edgemere Landfill, the first of four I saw in the borough last fall.

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Connecticut 2011 Jamaica 2012 231

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JULY 1, 2018

It is not unusual for only one Pied Oystercatcher chick to survive throughout the whole breeding season despite in excess of sixty eggs being laid by sixteen pairs. It is for this reason that there was not an update last year on Pied Oystercatchers breeding success , because there was not any.

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Breeding 2018 Eggs 2008 100

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JULY 3, 2016

This is not surprising at all due to the fact that we have monitored the Pied Oystercatcher breeding success (or lack thereof ) since 2000 along a twenty three kilometre stretch of beach and it is very rare for any of the sixteen pairs to succeed. This pair of Pied Oystercatchers has been successful on one occasion and that was in 2012.

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Breeding Feral Cats Eggs 2000 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2014

They have been here for several months and are currently changing into their breeding plumage and fattening up. It won’t be long and we will watch them fly off into the sunset as they make their journey north to breed. It changes into its breeding plumage and heads off, but has never been seen back in Hong Kong!

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Japan 2012 Taiwan China 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

And we headed down to this part of the world in early 2012 to find out more about these threatened birds. They are not bound to wetlands the entire year and large groups of birds will disperse to dry grassland and savanna outside of the breeding season.

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Botswana South Africa Africa Ethiopia 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

I have followed the breeding activity of the Pied Oystercatchers in Broome along Cable Beach since July 2000 when I found the first nest site and the birds have continued to use the same territories, though there have been some partner changes. I can also monitor any movement along the coast during the year when they are no longer breeding.

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2007 Eggs 2014 2002 220

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

When to bird: The best period birdwise is from November to February, because the Danube in Serbia seldom freezes; although it did so recently, in February 2012, when the 1000 m / 3300 ft wide river was frozen solid from bank to bank, causing a large mortality among waterbirds. In March and November, Common Cranes are a possibility.

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Serbia Ducks Birds Eagles 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This is perhaps the best place in Florida to find a rare gull for the state and though I had no luck picking a vagrant California Gull out of the teeming hordes I did enjoy myself as much as I did back in 2012. But my failure to find a rare species doesn’t mean that I saw nothing of note.

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Florida Panama Wildlife 2014 245

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

This land is currently very green from the recent rains and in very wet years it floods and becomes a great breeding area for terns. The first bird we came across was the Brown Songlark and this was my 143rd bird for 2012. Wedge-tailed Eagle So you have now seen a few of our “brown” birds!

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Falcons 2012 Eagles Birds 197

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Even in their basic plumage and lacking the cinnamon plumage of breeding birds they are beautiful. I had only been in Florida for about fourteen hours when a herd – yes, a herd, not a flock* – of American Avocets was foraging its way across the shallow water in front of me.

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Wildlife Florida 2012 Groups 207

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. The one case that could have been an actual Turkey was a bird spotted in Honduras, where they may or may not have been, by our friend Christopher Columbus. 78(1):61–78.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 260

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FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Meanwhile, the shorebirds are changing into their breeding plumage and they will soon be on their way as well! So, I have two challenges at the moment-working out a new computer and adding to my 2012 bird list! We have to make the most of being able to get into these places, as one more big downpour and we won’t be able to.

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Ducks 2012 Breeding Birds 200

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MAY 15, 2011

Will it come back in 2012? Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Wood-Warbler Week is finally over for 2011. Below is the logo. What species is shown?

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United States South America 2011 2012 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

.” Here’s the information I have on it: With 2012 breaking records as America’s hottest year ever, America’s migratory birds face unique challenges because of their long journeys and need for multiple habitats. At least 350 bird species in North America go to South or Central America in the fall and return in the spring.

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Maryland Penguins Birds Wildlife 271

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. That is a big difference compared to the 2,000+ singing males detected in 2012, well above the recovery goal for this species set by the U.S. this species breeds. this species breeds.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2024

Around 2011 or 2012, I discovered an online forum of a rather select group of Mexican birders. It breeds on the shores of the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic, then gathers around the southern arm of Hudson Bay, to fly non-stop all the way to the southern tip of South America. Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo : I get game.

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Squirrels Mexico Kansas South America 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But I have now visited Magee Marsh in autumn, or, technically, the very tail end of summer, but whatever the season might actually have been the birds were not in their breeding finery and they were heading south. Maybe spring of 2012? I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.

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Ohio Birds 2013 Massachusetts 236

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MARCH 6, 2012

There are few birds in North America so obviously tropical, so necessarily tied to flowers and sunshine and balmy summer afternoons on the back porch with some sort of gin-based mixed drink, but these winter residents are generally not our breeding birds, the dainty Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.

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North Carolina United States North America 2011 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2016

Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States. Baltimore Orioles breed in open woodlands or forest edges , preferring deciduous trees. Their populations have been declining , though they were not placed on the 2012 Watch List.

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Maryland Baltimore United States Legislature 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 210

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2016

You are then able to position yourself behind the shorebirds and enjoy their magnificent breeding plumage! In fact we are still observing our Grey-tailed Tattler that was flagged in Taiwan on 4th August 2012 and returns to Broome each year in the non-breeding season! Standing behind shorebirds an hour after the tide has turned.

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Taiwan New Zealand Japan Transported 178

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. It is at the same time of year that the migratory shorebirds that spend part of each year in Broome are also breeding, but in the Arctic.

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Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 208

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In 2012 we had a lone Little Curlew at our local park and this year it was a lone Little Curlew on Cable Beach. One of the Curlew Sandpipers still has quite a lot of breeding plumage across its breast feathers. Last year we encountered over five hundred Little Curlew near Broome. Little Curlew.

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2012 Raised Breeding Birds 186

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AUGUST 17, 2014

On the first trip in 2012 we used public transport to get there and the train conveniently gets you to Macarthur Square shopping centre and you can then get a bus that drops you right at the entrance to the park. We encountered one crossing the road in 2012, but with the cooler weather this year there was less turtle activity.

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Turtles Australia 2012 Litter 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2018

According to Macauley Library’s migration map the overwhelming breeding activity for this species occurs north of the state of California. I think their breeding range may be moving South. This is a photo of a female who showed up in August of 2012 with some juveniles.

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California 2012 Breeding Species 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

It is estimated that the total European population is 28,000 to 39,000 breeding pairs. The study was prepared in 2012, but no protection has been declared to date. Between 900 and 1,600 pairs of this species breed in Serbia, mainly in the north.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2007 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

From one side, the reserve is under the attack of spreading arable fields, from another by numerous wind generators and it is no easy task to support the surviving breeding birds within its borders. My guide, Chirag Solanki, told me he had once been searching here for five days, before he managed to locate the birds.

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India Gazelles Pakistan Endangered Species 252

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

A fine example of site faithfulness in shorebirds can be shown by the Grey-tailed Tattler “35” that was flagged in Taiwan in August 2012 and has returned to our local beach during the non-breeding season for five years now.

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Taiwan 2017 2012 Breeding 140