10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2021

The first words describing this species in Wikipedia are “poorly-documented” Before 2015, when I first saw it in Paso Ancho, it had only been reported twice on eBird outside of its Sierra Madre Occidental breeding range: once from Taxco, Mexico, and another report from Nicaragua. This fellow, however, was the real deal.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2024

The Sinaloa Martin is a large swallow, which seems to breed only along a narrow band of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, and Jalisco. Since 2020, when I figured out that it only appears there in July, I have managed to see it every year.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

I have not left the state of Michoacán since January of 2020. This is the only migratory warbler to live entirely within Mexico, breeding in the northeast and wintering in the southwest. His family’s 7 hectares (17 acres) of wooded land includes a lovely grassy marsh. Corey, I can do you one better. also from my garden.

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Mexico Virginia Barn Owls Birds 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. The material on Boreal Owl is a wonderfully condensed account about the species’ sexual dimorphism and its relationship to breeding plus the link between the species’ cyclical abundance and the red-backed vole. Bohemian Waxwing, p.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. Simon & Schuster, February 2020, 336 pages. And, in some weird coincidence that won’t be believed if it makes to the movie (there’s got to be a movie, right?),

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. Like most maps, colors are used to indicate seasonal status (breeding resident, Austral migrant/visitor, Boreal migrant, etc.). Distribution maps are also different from other field guides.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 228

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas.

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2020 Birds North America Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2024

Handsome but never flashy, the Old World Buntings are a fascinating family of birds. Only four species breed in Britain – the Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting, Corn Bunting and Cirl Bunting, but there are rather more in Europe, of which my favourite is the Black-headed Bunting. It’s easy to explain its upturn in fortunes.

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Bulgaria Greece Breeders India 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Now, I am holding the 5th edition (2020) in my hands – what has changed in the meantime, especially in the 9 years since the 4th edition? The inner side of the front cover contains the visual Quick Reference with paintings of one representative of the family followed by the relevant page number.

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Africa South Africa Swaziland Lesotho 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

It does seem like the order is concurrent with the 61st Supplement, which came out in 2020, but Northwestern Crow is included as a full species. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. These are all informative and current.

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Didn’t every household have a copy of a Peterson Field Guide on the shelf, maybe a third or fourth edition that family members grew up with, which they could quickly consult to see the arrow pointing to that belly band? .” I was puzzled by what seemed like a universal lack of knowledge about hawks and falcons.

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The material on habitat tells us that sometimes looking for odonates in the tropics means thinking outside the North American box: Bromeliads and water-holding tree holes are breeding locations for certain species, including Blue-winged Helicopter. Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. First page (p.

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Costa Rica North America Family America 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; April 2020. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before!

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North America America Hawaii Birds 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. The book roughly follows American Ornithological Society taxonomic order; a version date or number isn’t given, but it’s probably the 2020 version, before the Big Reshuffle of New World Warblers.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction.

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Guinea Papua New Guinea Birds Family 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2020

Driving through dairy country we soon added Australian Wood Duck , Pacific Black Duck , Grey Teal , Grey Fantail , Wedge-tailed Eagle , Laughing Kookaburra , Eastern Rosella and Superb Fairy-wren to the 2020 Year List. An Australian White Ibis flew in whilst I searched for the family of Dusky Moorhen that I have observed there recently.

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Fish Australia Ducks Japan 160

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). The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Introductory Material.

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Eggs United States Sparrows Birds 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. The chapters on courtship and breeding and roosting and migration are the longest, which isn’t surprising. Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors. This is a great summer read.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. So yes, this appears to be a breeding population.]. And since I don’t go to the lake very often in late spring, I rarely get to see these Avocets in their breeding plumage.

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Mexico 2018 Ducks South America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Birding a Kimberley quarry in 2020. Windjana Gorge in 2020. Australian Painted Snipe breeding near Broome once again. I have written about birds that breed here and birds that we observe regularly as well as birds that we only see occasionally. Pied Oystercatcher family. Birdlife at the Fortescue River.

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Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147