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North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate. In the summer, they are the highest altitude breeding songbird in North America. The post Some of America’s Avian Treasures appeared first on 10,000 Birds. So let’s look at this sampler, shall we?
My feelings about shorebirds came back to me a few days later, as I observed a mixed group of peeps and Dowitchers at Mecox Inlet, eastern Long Island, not far from where Peter Matthiessen once observed the shorebirds of Sagaponack, the stars of the first pages of his classic The Shorebirds of North America (1967). Pete Dunne and Kevin T.
It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. It is the first bird field guide to every country of Central America (plus the islands governed by those countries).
The Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America by Jesse Fagan and Oliver Komar, illustrated by Robert Dean and Peter Burke, does just that. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America covers 827 species, including resident, migratory, and common vagrant birds.
Not surprisingly, ten of these 19 countries are in the Americas, but what does surprise me, there are just 4 in Africa and just 1 in Asia (2 if you count Indonesia). The post Where America dreams of/goes birding? If I were answering those same questions, my answers would probably be Ecuador, Uganda and Thailand. Cover photo by Jason A.
Raptors of Mexico and Central America by William S. This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. The colors are rich, much deeper and beautiful than the muted inks in my copy of Hawks of North America.
For me, selecting a list, even a short one, of favorite birds as a birdwatcher, bird photographer, is an endeavor both enchanting and daunting. The avian world offers an astonishing variety of species, each with unique beauty, behaviors and songs, every bird sighting brings a new thrill and discovery, favourites change almost daily.
Summary: Mid America Pet Food has expanded its October 30 voluntary recall to include additional pet food products, with a best by date before October 31, 2024, made at its Mount Pleasant, Texas, facility, due to the products’ potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
The lack of veterinary services in parts of rural America and for food animal producers has prompted veterinary colleges to be more deliberate in their efforts to recruit students eager to work in these areas of veterinary practice.
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The Fall 2024 AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, also known as AWJAC, recently brought together hundreds of competitors from across North America and Europe to apply science-based methods and ethical standards to assess the welfare of animals in a variety of settings.
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southwest, but it is a permanent resident in western Mexico and parts of Central America. But the highly social Rufous-crowned Warbler , found from Western Mexico all the way down to northern South America, is one Warbler that really knows how to warble. It does breed in the U.S. chi-chi chi-chi-chit chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chu.
Importantly, the paper offers support for the hypothesis that the ancestor of the entire clade came to North America by way of Beringia — the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska exposed at various times through Earth’s history. The paper is by leading researchers F.
Whether you happen to be more interested in music or birds, you may love “A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean” Since this is a music project rather than an actual guide of bird vocalizations, there won’t be a catalog of antbird trills and toucan yelps.
The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.) Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer.
Next to me was a copy of “Birds of Central America” with a somewhat longish subtitle “Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama” by Vallely and Dyer from 2018. In a way, “Birds of Central America” was the prequel of this new edition. Howell, published earlier this year.
Before I delve into some of these avian treasures let me give you a few non-birding reasons to visit this gem of South America. If your Spanish or Portuguese is at the level of a 2-year-old bonobo like mine is, then you’ll probably be pleased to know that Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America.
A species that lives in both Costa Rica and South America but might be two separate species. (3). However, the paper didn’t deal with birds from southern Central America. Check out recordings of Clapper Rail from North America and Costa Rica. Two subspecies of the same species that differ within Costa Rica. (4).
It is even a retirement haven in Central America for those who want to enjoy the pura vida lifestyle. Tasty food, incredible birding, hot springs, beaches, historic sites – Costa Rica does not miss a beat when it comes to a good vacation. The only problem with Costa Rica is that… Source
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The Salvia mexicana is sold in North America with the varietal name “Limelight” But this one was wild, native, and beautiful. While not my quite my first sighting of an Olive-sided Flycatcher for 2020, this difficult species is always a welcome find as it makes it way through Mexico to reach Central and South America.
By the time the Terra ships we expect the automated ID to work very well in North America and Northern Mexico, and we will expand it throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, and then across the globe.” ” Wow, right? But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter?
It sports the intense purple back and head of its close relative, the Purple Martin , which is found in much of North America (summer) and South America (winter). Unlike the Purple Martin , however, it has a bright white belly, with males showing a sharp and elegant division between the two colors.
What happens when you visit one of the best birdwatching sites in the region with the highest number of endemic bird species in the Americas in the world’s birdiest country? Trips Cerro Montezuma Choco Region Colombia South America' Your mind gets blown. How else can I describe two days at Cerro Montezuma in Colombia.
Interestingly, now that pinot gris-pinot grigio has spread to South America, Australia, and South America, among other places, it’s still only the Germans who call the grape Grauburgunder. But one has to wonder why this jawbreaker sobriquet wasn’t enthusiastically adopted in Oregon, a state that’s no stranger to confusing names.
While writers from all locations are welcome, we are currently particularly looking for writers from North America and Singapore, as we have many readers there yet few writers. If neither that nor that we do not pay anything does not put you off, please get in touch. The post Want to be a Writer for 10,000 Birds?
The Rusty Sparrow is a large sparrow that can only be found from western Mexico to northern Central America. Bird long enough in North America, and you will eventually meet the Empidonax flycatchers: 14 small flycatchers, most of which are very nearly identical. Nearly all have grayish-olive backs and whitish undersides.
Simply put, wilderness areas are the most protected public lands in America. But the true reward will be some of America’s most remote, spectacular, and pristine natural areas. The short answer is that wilderness areas are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System and they are protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964.
They gradually spread to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the southern coast of North America (before it was joined to South America) and gained the ability to pursue prey by diving in cool waters (see Pereira and Baker 2008 ).
Towhees are large, ground-hugging sparrows that occur only in North America. They belong to either the Pipilo or Melozone genera, or perhaps both, as their taxonomy is still a point of contention. Just to complicate things more, four members of the Melozone genus are called Ground-Sparrows rather than Towhees.).
This is when we might see the greatest variety and numbers of wood-warblers, where we can watch dizzying groups of swallows zip through the skies as kettles of Turkey Vultures , and Broad-winged and Swainson’s Hawks flow towards South America. How many Sinaloa Martins also fly this way?
May migration in many parts of eastern North America was and is an amazing natural celebration. A species restricted to Central America, this is a common bird in wet pastures and other marshy habitats in Costa Rica. but when Magnolia Warblers are flitting in the trees and Black-throated Blue Warblers are in sight, what can I say?
This time the tome that three lucky readers will receive is Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne. The first and easiest way to win a copy of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list. How do you win one?
The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Doing this work takes time!
Brazil has the largest number of endemics of South America. And, with you it will be the same, a wonderful combination of fun and birding by coming to Brazil, once it gets safe to travel again. Surely it will be a very wise decision! Here are the reasons: -Brazil is safe to travel. The food is fantastic. Brazilians are very, very friendly.
Maybe you are a lucky kid whose parents took you birding South America as a toddler, a rich heir with an inheritance to burn, a lucky diplomat choosing your tropical posts, an international bird guide or a bird tour agency owner? That gamble is rigged, so the house always wins.
Ridiculously common in its home range of northern South America, no-one had ever seen a Glittering-throated Emerald here before, and I was determined to be among those who laid eyes on it. Then, in late 2019, my world was rocked again by yet another new hummingbird.
Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy.
This immediately suggests that something about the conditions of these islands makes them suitable for Palaearctic birds but for those from the Americas. When we look at the breeding birds, they are all Palaearctic, either mainland species or endemics that evolved from mainland species.
Howell and Jon Dunn list “overall size and structure” as the fundamental first step in gull identification in their classic Gulls of the Americas (though they then go on to describe endless variations of plumage patterns). This isn’t a new idea. Species Accounts. Gulls Simplified covers 25 species. Range Maps.
” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. They’re just like us–they talk with their hands (er, wings) and their feet and some are even crafty!” And, that’s it.
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