10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish. This is not something I needed to tell you but there is some new research. From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research.

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Science Iraq Oregon Charlotte 151

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Very little is known about this enigmatic species.

South America 185

South America San Diego Mexico America 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

And here is the author’s summary: Pelagic birds, which wander in the open sea most of the year and often nest on small remote oceanic islands, are able to pinpoint their breeding colony even within an apparently featureless environment, such as the open ocean. Birds Navigation Olfaction research Sheawater'

Investigation 193

Investigation 2013 Humane Research 193

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” They also occasionally show breeding colonies or isolated populations, possible occurrences, and directions of range expansion. 4 (July 2013), pp. ” These are just some examples. I love the writing here.

Costa Rica 217

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 217

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2020

One of these wintertime visitants is the “Greenland” Greater White-fronted Goose ( Anser albifrons flavirostris ), a subspecies of the Greater White-fronted Goose that breeds in western Greenland and which has experienced drastic population declines in the last half-century.

Geese 156

Geese Ireland Investigation Wildlife 156

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Keep in mind that the special nature reserves (dark green on the park map) enjoy the highest level of protection and are off limits to visitors (possible only with research permits issued by the park authorities). Published by the National Park in 2013. The Forgotten Road does not exist on the GPS screen either. Milovanovic and M.

Serbia 190

Serbia Turtles Romania Eagles 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Birds are presented by family, genus, and species, following the taxonomic order of the American Ornithological Union (as of August 2013), Each of the 89 families is described by an essay that details distinctive characteristics, addressing structure, behavior, plumage, distribution, taxonomy, and conservation.

North America 177

North America America Family Falcons 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can of Texas Press in 2013 (I haven’t examined either title).

America 213

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station in Toronto had an extremely rare and beautiful Townsend’s Warbler x Black-throated Gray Warbler which was banded in April. This past June I was invited along by the Edmonton Nature Club on a field trip to a Piping Plover breeding site. Bruce Wilson was excited by a hybrid wood-warbler.

2012 133

2012 Ghana Ireland Costa Rica 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

The first batch of proposals for the 2013 American Ornithologists’ Union North American checklist supplement has hit the ‘tubes. Proposal 2013-A-2 would split the “Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl” ( Glaucidium cobanense ) of southern Mexico and northern Central America from the widespread Northern Pygmy-Owl ( G.

2013 187

2013 Stray Sparrows Owls 187

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

I didn’t know much about Birds of Paradise either before 2013, when I accompanied a non-birding friend to a presentation at a local college, not really expecting much. The speaker turned out to be Tim Laman, and the topic was the incredible research he and Ed Scholes had spent years doing on birds of paradise in New Guinea.

Guinea 263

Guinea Papua New Guinea Birds Family 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2013-2014. Matt Young (may6 at cornell.edu) of The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will identify types for you from recordings and this will help his research. Interestingly, I found a Blue Jay feather stuck on a hazelnut north of Toronto on 11 August 2013.

2013 161

2013 2014 Alaska Canada 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2016

Irruptions of Snowy Owls in 2011 and again in 2013 found these Arctic birds wintering well south of their usual range , in some cases straying down to Bermuda and even Hawaii. (I But new research, published in The Auk , suggests that this narrative may not provide the whole story. Snowy Owl at Breezy Point photographed by Corey.

Owls 100

Owls Hawaii Stray North America 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Some people love books like that.

Eggs 263

Eggs 2006 Family New York 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The big book (2017 edition, let’s call it the ABG ) covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species (I’m assuming the revised edition includes a few birds that were missed because of the cutoff point, I don’t have it in hand).

Australia 243

Australia 2017 Birds New Zealand 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The 2013 ‘Tyto alba’ from Companhia das Lezírias is a red wine from Portugal’s Tejo region, and – as you may have guessed from its name – there is in fact a Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) on the label. Companhia das Lezírias ‘Tyto alba’ Vinhas Protegidas Tinto (2013). Good birding and happy drinking!

Barn Owls 211

Barn Owls 2013 Owls Livestock 211

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There is a major difference: the Raptors guides are photographic and the Birds of Prey guides are illustrated with Wheeler’s paintings, over 1,000 images in each guide, organized with logical precision for reference, research, and comparison, with a self-evident side benefit–the portrayal of the beauty of raptors.

North America 193

North America Mississippi Bald Eagle Falcons 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. I feel certain that, given Tennessee’s 18-year track record of celebrating cranes in a tremendously successful festival, the opposition will only be stronger in 2013. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly.

2011 248

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 248

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APRIL 13, 2023

The disadvantage is that this is not a typical parrotbill at all – it is a bit like the old joke of searching for your keys not where you lost them, but where there is plenty of light to facilitate the research. A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan.

Pandas 207

Pandas Eggs Birds China 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

.” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels. Which ones? Does it follow fishing boats?

Albatross 159

Albatross North America Birds Family 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The guide covers over 650 species, most of the breeding birds in the United States (minus Hawaii) and Canada (like most guides with ‘North America’ in its title, it does not include Mexico or the Caribbean). Acorn Woodpeckers use both communal and cooperative breeding strategies which vary widely among family groups.

Eggs 234

Eggs United States Sparrows Birds 234