10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

White-throated Magpie-Jay: I had first seen this magnificent bird sometime in the early 2010s, back before I kept track of my sightings, and again in 2019, on my way back from the Michoacán coast. It is one of those interesting few species that winter in South America, but only migrate as far north as Mexico to breed. Photo from 2019.

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That antiquity produces a high level of endemism, e.g. 19% of 62 breeding birds are endemic to the islands! He is the author of Underwater Guide to Seychelles (2015), Underwater Eden (2019) and Reef Fishes of Seychelles (2021). On the other hand, the isolation makes for those huge seabird colonies.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Cranes breed in very small numbers in UK but are always impressive en masse. And also Golden Oriole because of its good looks, even though the UK has one tiny breeding site.”. At the time of writing (March 2019), so far there are 248 eBirded species in the wider area officially representing Belgrade.

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MAY 11, 2019

With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest. Threatened by loss of habitat both on breeding as well as wintering grounds, a few species have even become endangered or at least on a perilous track towards that worrisome designation.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

of January 2019, which resulted in 10,711 species, 40 orders, 246 families and 2,313 genera. Within a total of 301 tightly-packed but well organised plates, illustrated are all male breeding plumages, as well as females – where significantly different. The author’s decision was the IOC list, version 8.2 Subspecies are not included.

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JULY 6, 2020

Global warming is a factor in nudging birds northward, he says, but not necessarily the only, or main, factor: “bird breeding ranges have probably always been in flux and will be changing for centuries to come.”. May 21, 2019. This is Beehler’s tenth book; the last one, North on the Wing, was previously reviewed here. . .

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Some Thai researchers looked at the breeding ecology of the Buff-breasted Babbler and published their findings in the somewhat unsuitable-sounding journal “Agriculture and Natural Resources”.

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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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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. On Trinidad it took me some more time until I saw my first snipe.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

We have observed the first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2019 over the past two weeks grow steadily. It is quite common for several clutches of Pied Oystercatcher eggs to be laid during the breeding season and often within ten days of egg or chick loss.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Last week I introduced you to the first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2019 and so far they are surviving. This is a popular beach at the moment for vehicles and most people would have no idea that Pied Oystercatchers and Red-capped Plovers are trying to breed along our coastline at the moment. Nest on top of the sandstone cliff.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the 1980s to be part of a captive breeding program. Audubon thought there should be some wild condors to serve as “guide birds” for condors that would eventually be released from the captive breeding program. It is not always obvious which side of a bird-related conservation lawsuit is the right side.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. clouded yellow) butterfly and one Brambling greeted me. Two hundred metres further on, two young White-tailed Eagles were soaring.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay.”. Sombre Tit by Ivan Medenica/Wikimedia Commons.

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MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!

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MARCH 1, 2024

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. In breeding plumage islandica godwits develop a deeper red plumage than their limosa cousins. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For oceanic birds he uses the taxonomy that he and Kirk Zufelt developed in Oceanic Birds of the World: A Photo Guide (PUP, 2019). They also occasionally show breeding colonies or isolated populations, possible occurrences, and directions of range expansion. Howell utilizes the IOC World Bird List (v.11.2, Not every bird.

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APRIL 7, 2020

2019), and now this book. a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan.

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JUNE 19, 2019

I’m happy to say, last year 98 people submitted checklists here, and it looks like 2019 will be the year we finally pass the 100 mark. They breed in northernmost Canada and Alaska, and winter in Patagonia in southernmost South America. All of which makes me a true one-eyed king. (It One-eyed birding wins again!

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MAY 20, 2023

The Kirtland’s Warbler is an endangered bird species that breeds primarily in the jack pine forests of northern Michigan. Specifically, the warbler’s primary breeding range is concentrated in a few counties in the northern Lower Peninsula and the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Where should I go?

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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. National Geographic, March 2019, 304 pages, 6.3 He received a B.A. in Ecology from Penn State University.

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JUNE 12, 2018

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. The plan is to conduct the eradication in July or August 2019. On March 21, 2018, FWS released a 198-page document entitled “ Midway Seabird Protection Project — Draft Environmental Assessment.”

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MAY 10, 2017

My recent trip was fantastic, and really re-kindled my love of diving, so much so that I’ve started planning and saving for a diving (and birding) trip to Costa Rica in 2019. I can’t explain it, maybe some kind of breeding aggregation? Thats a puffer and behind? Thats an awful lot of puffers!

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The mixtape covering the year 2019 would be a rather boring affair, including mostly songs by The National, with one or two by Craig Finn and Hold Steady added, as well as Avant Gardener (almost none of which were released in 2019, showing how far behind I am these days). A Chinese Pond Heron in its full breeding plumage glory.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting in every month of the year. This bit of trivia was given in an article in my local bird club’s monthly newsletter about the ongoing breeding bird atlas in New York State. The post Z.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, and John Kieran. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. 130 mature individuals, in 2019 (Monge et al. 2010; Macaw Recovery Network 2019). This equates to a decline of 99% over three generations for Nicaragua and Costa Rica (IUCN 2019).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The seasonal life of one bird species is complex; life cycle events like aging, breeding, molt, and migration are intricately tied to habitat, food availability, genetic ‘instincts,’ hours of daylight, and weather. Princeton University Press, 2019. Birds in Winter: Surviving the Most Challenging Season. Written by Roger F.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

For species with more than one subspecies in the region, the separate resident/breeding ranges of the distinct subspecies are indicated on the map. As I said before, well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. What I don’t like?

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MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Geological Survey.

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JUNE 7, 2022

” But Gorman points out that we really don’t know much about the species outside of Europe and that the usual explanations for population decline–loss of habitat, trapping, climate change–don’t explain startling changes predating these trends, such as their extirpation as breeding birds in Great Britain.

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MAY 5, 2020

Species Accounts names and species have been updated to all changes up to the 2019 American Ornithological Society Supplement. The guide ends with the famous Peterson bird silhouettes. Then again, try explaining to a new birder why falcons come after woodpeckers and before parrots!

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MARCH 29, 2019

I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This guide has since been published in a revised edition (CSIRO, 2019) that thankfully includes a more complete index, but which is not available through its U.S. publisher and distributer, Princeton University Press. The Compact Guide (which I’m going to call this book for convenience) weighs less than one pound is 4.8

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

However, even now, the ancient movements of birds between summer breeding grounds and tropical wintering places have been taking place in Costa Rica. Whether we add that 2019 Cerulean or not, contemplating the journeys being taken by Red-eyed Vireos and other migrants seen at the house and elsewhere in Costa Rica is invariably mind-blowing.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2019, 448p. Range and Geographic Variation. Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America. by Rick Wright.

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