10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2013-2014. Breeding success is higher in areas with budworm outbreaks because the abundant larvae are eaten by adults and fed to young. Numbers are increasing due to expanding spruce budworm outbreaks in northern forests.

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2013 2014 Alaska Canada 161

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.

Costa Rica 210

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 210

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

I visited Hong Kong from February 20-27, 2014. Hundreds massing at Mai Po, many coming into breeding plumage. Despite impressive, often rampant development, Hong Kong reserves 40% of its land as greenspace. The result is a nature lover’s paradise rich with mountains, beaches, and birds. Lots and lots of birds! 9 Little Grebe.

2014 211

2014 Eagles Asia China 211

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

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 !

Eggs 130

Eggs Australia Protection 2000 130

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 192

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

but spring is still springing and birds still winging towards their breeding or wintering grounds. Last week might have been the official observance of International Migratory Bird Day along with innumerable Big Days, Big Sits, and Great Texas Birding Classics (well, maybe only one of those!),

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2014 Texas Birds Breeding 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

In addition to the camping and camaraderie he took some time to catch up to the local breeding birds of which there were quite a few. Corey greatly enjoyed his weekend in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of upstate New York with family and friends.

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Colombia 2014 New York Birds 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

Even better, many of them, adorned in fresh breeding plumage, are at peak pulchritude. The first weekend of May is not a time to ask if one will be birding; that avian observation will ensue is a foregone conclusion. Birds are on the wing AT THIS VERY MOMENT. Obviously, you will be birding.

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2014 New York Birds Breeding 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The recently released 2014 State of the Birds Report lists the Bank Swallow as one of the common birds in steep decline. These birds have lost more than half their global population, and the 33 species combined have lost hundreds of millions of breeding individuals in just the past 40 years. Click on photos for full sized images.

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North America 2014 California America 187

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.”

Australia 184

Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

The Results of the 2014 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey confirm that this species is in rapid decline. ” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice.

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Blackbirds California 2014 Sacramento 186

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 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles , which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country. Wigeons are only migrants and not a breeding species in Serbia and August is a bit too early for any longer distance duck movements. Photographed by Szekeres Levente. and one ad.).

Serbia 164

Serbia Eagles Protection Boars 164

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 2002 2014 168

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.

Japan 100

Japan Australia Breeding China 100

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 169

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

APRIL 5, 2016

Unlike other grouse species, the male Willow Ptarmigan remains with the female throughout the breeding season to help raise the chicks. Partners in Flight estimates that there are nearly 50 million breeding Willow Ptarmigan throughout the world. Willow Ptarmigan calls are apparently favorites with Steven Spielberg.

Alaska 102

Alaska Finland Indiana Russia 102

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 117

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.

Idaho 182

Idaho Bears Protection Birds 182

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.

Penguins 155

Penguins Seychelles Albatross Africa 155

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 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

…maybe there’s a secret Corn Crake breeding farm out in Gilgo Beach. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G. No, I’d remember that, I didn’t see that many birds in France. What if it’s an escapee? Do people keep Corn Crakes?…maybe I should go. America but going undetected.”

New York 153

New York North America France Feral Cats 153

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.

Alligators 115

Alligators Leopards Rabbits Protection 115

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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Los Angeles Miami San Francisco San Antonio 154

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.

Russia 169

Russia Penguins Whaling Whales 169

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 190

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 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

I understand that this is a complicated undertaking, but a new birder reading this book would have no idea that Bushtits (#92: “Breeding System: ‘It’s Complicated'”) are only found in Western states. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.

North America 115

North America Birds Prairie Dogs Barn Owls 115

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 163

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.

New York 167

New York New York City North America Bahamas 167

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.

Ducks 169

Ducks Zebras Australia Shelters 169

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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Peru United Kingdom South Africa 2013 160

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.

2014 160

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

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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Colorado Florida New Jersey North America 233

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2016

First, most of Europe’s owl species are breeding in Germany anyway and are better found at other times of the year. A “winter owl” however has little meaning to German birders for two simple reasons (and male smew aren’t one of them).

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Germany Owls 2013 2006 102