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As we all well know there is something very different about 2020. Following on from our first camping trip for 2020 we took another camping trip a bit further afield. Having observed the Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at the Derby Poo Ponds on June 19th we found ourselves at Windjana Gorge first thing the following morning.
There was the Botteri’s Sparrow giving a larger Canyon Towhee a piece of its mind, on my way into town: The reservoir itself was underwhelming, only offering me a collection of white Egrets (Cattle, Snowy and Great) and a single Great Blue Heron. This was my fourth and final FOY bird for the day. Brown-backed Solitaire.
This is my year list for 2020, the list of the bird species identified from January 1st, 2020 to December 31st, 2020. It’s going to be good, it already is, I wish all you other birders out there a fantastic, fulfilling year of birding in 2020! Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis; Tambor, 3-Jan.
Cattle have been in the area and so there will be small remaining pools from their hoof prints if rain does not come to the area soon just like last time. The post Birding a Kimberley Quarry in 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Spinifex Pigeons cautiously working their way down to the water. A bush full of Zebra Finch .
Our 2020 drought taught me that any body of water, no matter how small, might host these “drought refugees” in dry years. The former should number at least a hundred thousand individuals each winter, while the latter should be present in the tens of thousands.
Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. The post Collaborative List – July 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Intermediate Egret – Ardea intermedia. Little Egret – Egretta garzetta. Snowy Egret – Egretta thula. Little Blue Heron – Egretta caerulea. Tricolored Heron – Egretta tricolor.
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis). The post Collaborative list – April 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea). Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea). Great Egret (Ardea alba). Little Egret (Egretta garzetta). Snowy Egret (Egretta thula). Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides).
This was the month we (in the northern hemisphere) had all been waiting for, but what a strange month May 2020 has been. Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis). The post Collaborative List – May 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea). Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea). Great Egret (Ardea alba).
And yet, less than halfway through our 2020-2021 winter dry season, Lake Cuitzeo had essentially dried up. Each of the dark marks in this photo from August, 2018 was a duck. There were lots of gulls and terns in November of the same year, as well. But mostly, there was just lots and lots of water. They’re riding horses on my lake.
Several likely winter in the southern Amazon (where the forest and all of its incredible biodiversity is being steadily decimated and replaced with massive cattle farms) but according to migration data, even more may depend on the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay and northern Argentina as well as related dry forest habitats in Bolivia.
For 2020, the list will only contain the relevant month’s sightings to avoid huge, bulky posts as the year progresses. These are the opening stats for 2020. 17 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 28 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 10 Jan 2020. 01 Jan 2020. 25 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020.
When I returned to the small dam where there had been so many Australian Wood Ducks earlier in the day I discovered that the eleven cows had been joined by two Cattle Egrets. There had been quite a few Cattle Egrets in the area until recently and so it was good to see them for the first time in 2020.
If you wish to see a full list for 2020, you can find it here. . December’s beats found 609 birds after submitting 116 checklists from 8 countries (USA, UK, Costa Rica, China, Mexico, Serbia and Australia). The year list ends on a provisional 1803 species from 1608 checklists submitted by 12 beats from 16 countries.
445 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. The post Collaborative list – November 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The life list has moved forward to 4044 after a few late entries from last month and an errant Ryukyu Minivet from Kai. 1 Harris’s Hawk – Parabuteo unicinctus. 9 Scarlet Macaw – Ara macao.
102 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 102 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. The post Collaborative list – June 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The year list stands at 1514 with the life list standing still at 4009. 1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. 3 Brant – Branta bernicla.
Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. The post Collaborative list – August 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Common Sandpiper – Actitis hypoleucos. Yellow Bittern – Ixobrychus sinensis. Gray Heron – Ardea cinerea. Intermediate Egret – Ardea intermedia. Little Egret – Egretta garzetta.
646 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. In particular 272 species were noted from 14 checklists submitted on October 17th, eBird’s October Big Day. 1 Common Shelduck – Tadorna tadorna. 2 Water Rail – Rallus aquaticus. 3 European Golden-Plover – Pluvialis apricaria. 4 Common Ringed Plover – Charadrius hiaticula.
A big thank you goes out to The Management and beats for their contributions and may you all have a happy and productive 2020. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Thus 100 species were missed by the time he woke up and noticed that eBird had reset the counters at midnight(do you guys have nothing better to do?). Alphabetic Taxonomic.
The idea being that putting December and the 2020 year review in the same post may prove to be listing overload for some. This year you get two listy posts for the price of one. You lucky, lucky birders! So this is the list for the complete year and the December list can be seen here.
08 Feb 2020. 09 Feb 2020. 23 Feb 2020. 09 Feb 2020. 01 Feb 2020. 18 Feb 2020. 14 Feb 2020. 23 Feb 2020. 01 Feb 2020. 01 Feb 2020. 01 Feb 2020. 08 Feb 2020. 23 Feb 2020. 02 Feb 2020. 11 Feb 2020. 01 Feb 2020. 10 Feb 2020.
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