10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2017

In early 2014 the rainfall was good and flooded the main highway south from Broome and made for some excellent birding from your car. The area remained flooded for several months in 2014 and there was significant road damage, but over the months the birding improved as more and more birds arrived in the area.

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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 268

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Some birds with populations on different breeding grounds move not to the same winter quarter but to far-distant ones – such as the Red-necked Phalarope.

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Alaska Kenya Georgia Russia 250

10,000 Birds

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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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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

In winter, Laughing Gulls should have black legs and bill and in alternate, or breeding plumage, those parts, while staying dark, get a nice deep red color. … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub-Jay level sponsor of the 2014 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

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Florida Panama Wildlife 2014 226

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2014

Though hardly common, Great Gray sightings are a yearly occurrence in Western Montana, and it is one of the twelve species of owl known to breed in the state. As part of my commitment to birding excellence in 2014, I signed up for eBird alerts — receiving messages each time a bird not yet on my year list is reported in Missoula County.

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Owls Minnesota Montana 2014 252

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

I reviewed the New Jersey volume in May 2014 and, being in Florida at the moment, I thought this was a good time to take a closer look at both the Florida volume, published just last month, and the Colorado volume, published in June 2014. (I December 2014. A generational ago, nobody knew any of that!” 320 pages; 0.8

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits.

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Idaho Bears Protection Birds 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

A section in the Appendix, “Rare Shorebird Vagrants,” lists 16 additional species that do not show up annually in North America but who have more than ten records; the list notes where the species breed and where their vagrant paths have taken them within North American borders.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

While regular in winter, Pygmy Cormorants do not breed in the vicinity and are absent in spring and summer. There is a breeding pair of White-tailed Eagles at the Veliko Ratno Island and they can be seen year-round, but the best chances are in winter, when they hunt ducks around the island. More: 10000birds.com/all-my-patches.htm.

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Serbia Ducks Birds Eagles 254

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to Honduras in 2014, I was advised to use The Birds of Costa Rica by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (2014) and The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N.G. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries. Howell and Sophie Webb (a classic, but big and published in 1995).

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 235

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

One would think that a bird named Grey Butcherbird is a shrike or at least related to shrikes (which are commonly called butcherbirds), but one would be wrong, as Duncan already explained in a 2014 post for 10,000 Birds. “She monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot.”

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant. © 2007, 2014 text Richard Garrigues, © 2007, 2014 illustrations Marc Roegiers and John K.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. Although it breeds in areas as small as 25 acres, Golden-cheeked Warblers are much more successful in larger un-fragmented patches.

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Austin Texas Endangered Species United States 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. Distribution of the European Crested Tit in the Tara NP in the breeding season (Rajkovic and Pantovic). Distribution of the Ural Owl in the Tara NP in the breeding season (Rajkovic and Pantovic).

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Bears Serbia Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.

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Russia Penguins Whaling Whales 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2015

Oh, and I need to sort out about 4000 photos and add 250 year birds to 2014 and 400 to 2015… So , yeah, I’m kind of in a state. The beach isn’t just a roost, it’s a breeding site. It was certainly more fun than the last penguin I wrote about. Boulders Beach. Demanding youngsters. And a moulting site.

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Penguins Seychelles Albatross Africa 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

Their movements and breeding is determined by rainfall and for that reason they are not always where you think they might be. Only three days later and after torrential rain, but eager to get a start on the 2014 year list we returned to the ephemeral lakes. It was quite rough on the water with the wind, though.

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Ducks Zebras Australia Shelters 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014. In warm climates they can breed year round. The northwestern spread of this non-native species made it to my yard a few years ago. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

In fact, in New York State, other than a small breeding colony west of Rochester, there are very few records of Eurasian Collared-Dove. That is, that was it until 22 June 2014, when David Ringer found one on the west side of Manhattan.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

In 2014, the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC) voted to add this species to the Florida state list. Egyptian Goose sightings submitted to eBird in 2013-2014. The ABA Checklist Committee quickly followed suit. Egyptian Goose parents watching over nearly fully grown goslings.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2014

Four teams with renowned birders from United States, South Africa and United Kingdom will travel through the diverse and endemic bird rich region of Northern Peru, from May 12 thought May 20, 2014. It is the month of May when Black and White Tanagers , Gray-capped Cuckoos , and Slaty Thrushes begin to leave the region to unknown destination.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. This often applies in animal behavior and ecology, and this often comes about in relation to predator pressure.

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Alligators Leopards Protection Rabbits 139

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

We have been busy walking the beach and keeping an eye on our local Pied Oystercatchers and the two pairs that laid their eggs earliest for the 2018 breeding season and successfully hatched out their chicks have now lost their chicks to predation. Pied Oystercatcher nest in the rocky sandstone. Animal prints leading to and from a raided nest.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral 2018 143

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This is evident in the introductory material, which includes sections on The Origin and Evolution of Borneo’s Birds, Conservation in Action, Vegetation and Bird Life in Borneo, Climate, Rainfall and Bird Breeding Seasons, and Bird Migration. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. 372 pages, 8.3

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Brunei Asia Birds China 193

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

It returns to Broome with a mottled breeding plumage pattern and gradually changes its moult during its stay. This past breeding season the pair that inhabit this area of reef successfully raised three young birds and the last chick finally left its parents at the end of 2014 and they now have the area to themselves once again.

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Birds 2014 Australia Breeding 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2016

Along Broome’s coastline we encounter literally hundreds of Red-necked Stint among all the flocks of migratory shorebirds that make Australia their home during the non-breeding season. This individual was more intent on feeding than worrying about our proximity and already had good breeding plumage.

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Japan Australia Breeding China 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2023

Way back in 2014, when I saw my first Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo near the little town of Pino Real, and shared the sighting on a birders’ chat group, it took just over a month for the first biologist/ornithologist to visit me. Summer Tanagers do not often show their full breeding plumage down here.) Look closely.

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Mexico Cuba Species Turkey 252

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Birds of the Iron Gates: While the best birding season here is the breeding period (May to June), the Iron Gates is also an important migratory stopover and wintering area. The Woodchat Shrike, Boljetin, June 2014. The Forgotten Road does not exist on the GPS screen either.

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Serbia Turtles Romania Birds 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

It is one of those interesting few species that winter in South America, but only migrate as far north as Mexico to breed. I saw the movement, I swear I did, but it wasn’t until June of this year that I really saw this bird. And then saw it again, a month later. Another Acapulco sighting. .

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Mexico 2020 2019 Turkey 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2023

As I sit at my desk writing this post about the latest attempt at breeding for one of our pairs of Pied Oystercatchers I realise I have written 677 posts now for this website. Nothing to do for a few days other than stand around on a rock together and contemplate another attempt at breeding. One large Pied Oystercatcher family !

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Eggs Australia Protection Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2024

This was the first time Bee-eaters had nested in Britain since 2014 (the first-ever successful nesting in Britain was in Sussex in 1955). Thanks to a friendly land-owner, the Norfolk site was opened for visitors, and thousands of people came to see them.

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Greece Investigation 2014 Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The page-long entry on Geographic Variation offers descriptions of the five groups, in painstaking detail, differentiating subspecies of each group, articulating differences between males and females within each subspecies, drawing out winter and breeding ranges with the help of Lehman’s maps. National Geographic Society, October 2014.

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North America America Family Falcons 182