10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Some birds with populations on different breeding grounds move not to the same winter quarter but to far-distant ones – such as the Red-necked Phalarope.

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Alaska Kenya Georgia Russia 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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Los Angeles San Diego Alaska North America 204

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.

Albatross 187

Albatross Hawaii Puerto Rico Chile 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Fortunately, there were still a handful of immature birds alive at sea, and a few years later they were back on Toroshima breeding again.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are a colonial breeder, nesting only in western Alaska, on a narrow band of coastal sedge meadows 2. They leave their breeding grounds in early summer to move down the coast, some travelling as far south as the Gulf of California. Of course, all birds in these photos are in non-breeding plumage.

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Sanctuary Breeders Alaska North America 252

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 276

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.

California 198

California Alaska North America Breeding 198

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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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 190

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?

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica West Virginia Baltimore Virginia 264

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 215

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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Texas Alaska North America America 214

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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Birds Farming Alaska Breeding 254

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 285

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.)

Mexico 255

Mexico Alaska Falcons Raised 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

They both breed in Siberia, which is pretty far from Jamaica Bay. They must have taken the “Siberian Express,” which is a birding term for when birds ride the jet stream across from Siberia, over Alaska and Canada, and veer south wherever the jet stream does. A quick word about both of these birds.

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Jamaica 2008 New York Alaska 220

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2015

They breed in Canada and Alaska, but in the summer they can be found across the United States, as far south as Florida, Cuba, and into Mexico, and as far north as the Pacific coast of Alaska and the Atlantic coast of Maine. Bufflehead are black and white ducks, the male sporting a large white patch on an otherwise black head.

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Florida Alaska Cuba United States 157

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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LACS Alaska Connecticut Wildlife 244

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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LACS Birds France Japan 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2013

Even though the overall breeding range remains largely unchanged from that in the 1940′s, the entire coastal population has been in recent severe decline. The ecological requirements for Black Swifts to breed restrict them to a very limited supply of nesting locations. Photo from Wikipedia Commons taken by Terry Gray.

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California Costa Rica North America Niger 240

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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California Sea Lions Whales Whaling 223

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.

Saudi Arabia 157

Saudi Arabia New Zealand Brazil United States 157

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

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Marbled Godwit breeds in the grasslands of the northern United States and southern Canada, with small isolated nesting populations in southwestern James Bay and Alaska 1. It’s nice to have friends that are excellent wildlife photographers. Click on photos for full sized images.

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San Francisco Seals United States Alaska 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

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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South America Alaska Mexico Breeding 150

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.

Albatross 157

Albatross Hawaii Japan New Zealand 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The Ontario breeding population of this grosbeak is stable. Highest breeding densities are found in areas with spruce budworm outbreaks. The European mountain-ash and ornamental crabapple crops are poor to fair in southern Ontario so these crops won’t last long. The larvae are eaten by adults and fed to young.

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2012 2013 Canada United States 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. The following decades continued the great expansion, and it was recorded breeding in Canada in 1962 and Chile by 1970. There are two main subspecies, the nominate B. ibis and the eastern B.

Cattle 193

Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 193

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?

Connecticut 264

Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

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 Massachusetts 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. Research has also shown that migrant birds have smaller brains than resident birds but grow more neurons, which deal with spatial information, before they migrate.

Cyprus 264

Cyprus Slaughtered Slaughter Research 264

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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Miami Parrots Research Alaska 193

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

ash berry crops are very good to bumper across the boreal forest from Alaska to the island of Newfoundland. Breeding success is higher in areas with budworm outbreaks because the abundant larvae are eaten by adults and fed to young. ash berry crops are very good to bumper from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador. PINE GROSBEAK.

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2013 2014 Alaska Canada 185

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 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2016

Designated in 1967 (36 years after Idaho’s), the Mountain Bluebird can be found all year round in Nevada, though in general its range shift southward for the winter months; in the summer, this species can be found as far north as Alaska. million breeding birds.

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Nevada Idaho United States Alaska 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

They breed in northernmost Canada and Alaska, and winter in Patagonia in southernmost South America. 1st Hudsonian Godwits in central Mexico. Hudsonian Godwits are among the few extraordinary birds that fly from the Arctic almost to the Antarctic every year.

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Mexico Birds Lamb 2013 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2018

According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, “its roughly 3,900-mile movement (one-way) from Alaska to Mexico is equivalent to 78,470,000 body lengths.” Conservation of both their breeding and wintering habitats is essential to protect this bright light in the dark forest.

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Oregon United States Alaska Mexico 100