10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

The vast majority of this area (about 85%) is in Alaska. Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

Other warblers such as Chestnut-sided and Black-throated Green are still around but based on their breeding plumage, they will be quick to leave for the north any day now. All the way to Alaska maybe? Wilson’s Plovers are in Breeding Plumage. More Birds are Singing. Where will they go?

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Costa Rica West Virginia Baltimore Virginia 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2024

It’s a bird that rarely occurs inland, and outside the breeding season it spends its time far out to sea. In March, as the days start to lengthen, so the wandering birds return to their breeding cliffs. Adult pairs are very site faithful, and if their breeding is successful, they will return to the same colony year after year.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and breeding, often in large colonies, on coastlines and islands. Least Auklet ( Aethia pusilla ) and a Crested Auklet ( Aethia cristatella ) in Alaska © Don Henise.

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Penguins Puffins 2008 Sharks 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

They apparently meet the criteria for inclusion in that they are regular migrants or annual visitors to specific areas of Alaska. It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

First of all, the species only occurs semi regularly in North America in a small patch of Alaska where it occasionally breeds. Most of its range is actually in the Old World so if you want to see one in North America you have to arrange a trip to western Alaska in breeding season, not exactly an easy proposition logistically.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2015

My wife and I had the chance to visit Alaska! The Alaska wilderness lives up to the visions we had. Although they were not there in late September, I now know where Whimbrels, Surfbirds, and Wandering Tatlers breed. These are birds I regularly see in tropical regions as non-breeding visitors. Alaska was incredible.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Its breeding range on this continent is confined to northwestern portions, but it has a nearly circumpolar distribution, occurring across a substantial stretch of Eurasia, where it is also called the Common Gull. If I make it up to the Canadian coast or Alaska I will most likely find a breeding adult to photograph.

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California Alaska North America Breeding 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. For over 70 years, ANWR has been a refuge for migrating and breeding birds – most notably serving as the winter home for the only wild flock of whooping cranes. Angela Minor has lived, traveled, and birded from the southern U.S.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Many different species of shorebirds travel the East-Asian Australasian Flyway to spend the non-breeding cycle of their lives here in Broome. Only this week the extraordinary journey of a Bar-tailed Godwit travelling from Alaska to Tasmania in just eleven days has shown us all just how incredible these shorebirds are.

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Turtles Alaska Breeding Species 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

In North America, the Greater White-fronted Goose breeds in open tundra areas of the low Arctic from Point Barrow, Alaska to northeastern Keewatin, Northwest Territories, and it winters south to Chiapas, Mexico, thus having the broadest latitudinal range of any arctic-nesting goose 1.

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Geese Wildlife Sacramento South Dakota 177

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2021

On the other hand, in April, some other species start breeding here in Shanghai. Nearby, two Grey-headed Lapwings have apparently decided to stay in Shanghai and start preparations for breeding. Still, it makes you wonder whether staying in Shanghai all year really is the best decision. Maybe the birds know something.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. Presumably, potential predators will assume they have not taken a shower for weeks, and consequently stay away. Possibly my favorite Nanhui bird this September was the Chestnut-cheeked Starling.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For us, it’s all about birds moving north during the warm season to breed, and south to escape the winter cold. I may have come all the way from Alaska for these Salvias. I suspect that for hummingbirds, temperature is not the only factor. The sudden flash they produce throws the camera’s light settings off.)

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Mexico Alaska Falcons Raised 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2024

Secondly, much of the appeal is that this is a bird we don’t see in the UK very often, for Waxwings are an irruptive species, and in most years only a few ever reach our shores from their breeding grounds in the boreal forests of Scandinavia. I’ve managed to see them, too, on their breeding grounds in Finland in summer.

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Finland Estonia Bears Ireland 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2012

Are you in Alaska? The second-to-last North American bird to have its nest discovered, they split their time between a tiny chunk of Alaska and a smattering of Pacific Islands. Once you accept this basic fact, you will be surprised at the ease in which you will find yourself identifying peeps and plovers, left and right. A rocky shore?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

It has an enormous range, occurring in such far-flung locales as New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Alaska, Greenland, and Brazil, to name just a few. Here’s hoping you spot a Calico Bird this spring while they are still in their breeding plumage! Ruddy Turnstone is a Species of Least Concern according to BirdLife International.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

There was a bounty on them in Alaska from 1917 until 1952—up to $2 a head! In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. Bald Eagles were nearly exterminated from the Lower 48 by the mid 1970’s. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. Soon, they may overrun available habitat.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. How is birding like rock climbing?

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Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2013

At the very northern end of their breeding range in the Channel Islands, they are strictly a Californian bird as far as the U.S. Like several species, breeding Peregrines were extirpated during the height of the DDT era but have reclaimed their island domain in more recent years. is concerned.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Come September most of the summer seabird people had left, but there were a small number of seabirds still breeding and so I stayed behind for three years to continue their monitoring and do the migrant landbird surveys, as well as the Great White Shark surveys. The island is a migrant trap supreme, but it is quieter in early September.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Christmas Shearwaters Much less common that their larger relatives, but at the same time their habit of surface breeding means they are always around to find in certain spots. Tristam’s Storm-petrel From a tiny petrel to a fairly hefty storm-petrel, this species has a small breeding presence on Tern Island.

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Albatross Hawaii Japan New Zealand 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Crested Auklets form some of the biggest, most impressive flocks and formations that I have ever seen, on islands in Alaska. Some birds breed in flocks, at least in part to avoid predation. Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Look carefully and you can pick out some Least Auklets as well. Buldir Island, AK.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2016

When I picture state birds, I picture the gorgeous Scissor-tailed Flycatcher of Oklahoma, the pristine white feathers of Alaska’s Willow Ptarmigan , or the haunting call of Minnesota’s Common Loon. They have a global breeding population of 20 million, and are just gorgeous. I don’t picture chickens.

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Rhode Island Oklahoma Chickens Minnesota 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2017

The one bird that I had wanted to highlight here, as it will indeed have moved back to the north and its breeding ground before I am able to get back here, is the Surfbird. Most of the Surfbirds were just starting to show the rusty gold scapulars of their breeding plumage.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Some uncountable species, like Mitred Parakeets , are in fact way more numerous than some of the countable species and they are clearly breeding in well-established populations. Strangely, only a paltry eighteen exotic bird species are countable for birders, according to the American Birding Association.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2022

Around this time of the year, the first few waders are back in Shanghai from their breeding grounds far further up north. Generally, being back here early is not a very good sign – it may indicate a failed breeding attempt, as suggested for Asian Dowitchers in a paper on their presence in Lianyungang somewhat further north of Shanghai.

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Cattle Portugal Buffalo Alaska 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2016

It is found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, taking its place as one of Mexico’s official symbols. Golden Eagles have a global breeding population of around 300,000 birds, 3% of which spend at least part of the year in Mexico. One of the most impressive birds in North America is the Golden Eagle.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Their total population, from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is estimated at somewhere between 1 million and 3.5 The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer.

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Science Iraq Oregon Charlotte 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2017

We have a lot of mountainous land and it’s way cooler up in them hills than down by the coast or back in the heat-stricken states of Indiana, Virginia, and nearly every other state and province south of Alaska.

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Costa Rica Indiana Philadelphia Alaska 117

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2024

Spotting an eagle in Alaska? Let’s dive into the ultimate guide to spotting these magnificent creatures in Alaska. Note, this list is based on the eagles provided by the official list provided by the University of Alaska Museum Department of Ornithology. Status In Alaska: Breeding resident. Wingspan: 5.9

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 30, 2011

Purebred or mixed breed? Try to find out what breeds are in your dogs background to help you better understand your dog’s behavior. About Dr. Tim: Dr. Tim Hunt is a licensed veterinarian in both Michigan and Alaska. It is not necessary to pick a purebred dog for your first pet.

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Compassion Guinea Pigs Animal Purebred 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2016

There are quite a few records from Alaska, mostly in fall, and a scattering of records on the east coast, mainly in spring. I’d only ever seen Garganey once before, way back in 2009 in Kazakhstan. Its a Eurasian bird, migrating from Africa and south Asia every spring. We asked and word was the bird was seen.

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New York Bald Eagle New York City Kazakhstan 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

“I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska. ” Cade was later to comment, “1951 was when I first saw the high-flying style of hunting performed by the wilderness-inhabiting Peregrines of Alaska.”

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2011

My recent outing with Seth and Mary when we found probable breeding Bobolinks in Queens was no exception, with a couple of pairs of very confiding Savannah Sparrows singing, foraging, and generally posing for the digiscoping rig. It was nice, very nice, as the photos below hopefully demonstrate. … a.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Because these lands include a variety of different habitats and range from Alaska to Puerto Rico and Hawaii to Maine, it is difficult to make generalizations about their impact on birds. A few breed on the main Hawaiian islands, including Kilauea Point NWR on Kauai. Most of the key breeding locations in the U.S.

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