10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2013
This is a Green-barred Woodpecker , common and widespread throughout South America to the south of the Amazon River and to the east of the Andes. This form is thought to be a different species and the name Golden-bellied Woodpecker has been adopted by some.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Fortunately for me, my adoptive land of Mexico is rich in, precisely, double-hyphenates. Brush-Finches are a large group of New World Sparrows that occur from Mexico to South America, but enough of them occur in Mexico that their genus name ( Atlapetes ) comes from our country’s Aztec language.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2015
They don’t even take their tucked-in heads out, a position some resting ducks adopt, when people approach them to distances of only a few meters. White-faced Whistling Ducks are widespread in hot and humid habitats of eastern South America. Is this the first record of this species in the region in over a 100 years?,
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
But while their range expansion in the old world was made up of relatively short hops no one expected this species to move westward across the Atlantic Ocean to South America but it did just that! Cattle Egret is more closely related to herons in the genus Ardea then the species termed egrets in the genus Egretta.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2021
When the variety was first planted on the West Coast of the United States in the 1970s, American winemakers might have adopted the literal translation “pinot gray” as a linguistic compromise, but perhaps that would risk sacrificing too much invaluable European cachet in those early days of domestic winemaking?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
The most commonly cited example is “Darwin’s Finch,” which filled the woodpecker niche by adopting the practice of acquiring a cactus thorn, and using this to access grubs hidden beneath the bark of trees. We think that the original stock from which the Galapagos Finches evolved came from nearby South America.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2021
“Using the Field Guide” discusses systematics and taxonomy (which mainly follows the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World with updates largely to follow the most recent molecular data adopted by eBird/Clements), terminology, map key, etc. Neither have I.) My impression?
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