2016 Breeding Experience 
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2017
Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good. I think this might be my best bird of 2016. Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. It was a good birding year. 4) Small Pratincole.
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 Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2016
June in the Northern Hemisphere brings birds on their breeding grounds, some still frisky and others settled down taking care of their chicks. Lots of breeding songbirds live in those gorgeous woods, including several Hooded Warblers ! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
Fortunately, Conesus Lake holds all manner of superb waterfowl, including more Common Loons in breeding plumage than I’ve ever seen at one time. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. That’s a win in my book. What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. They also occasionally show breeding colonies or isolated populations, possible occurrences, and directions of range expansion. I don’t think scientific artwork holds less value when used more than once.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
I discovered that it had been ringed on 26 September 2016 at Iken, on the River Alde on the Suffolk coast, so almost exactly four years before my sighting. Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. WildGuides, Princeton University Press, summer 2016. The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group. 560pages, 6.3
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