America Breeders Breeding 
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2012
Here in Northern California I am fortunate to have at least three of the western hummingbirds of North America visiting my yard. She is the latest of our local breeders, not nesting usually until mid-May. She will begin breeding in April. The male is the only hummingbird in North America with a rufous back.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
The Buller’s Mollymawk is an endemic breeder to New Zealand, although it ranges widely away from the islands to feed, and regularly goes to South America’s Humboldt Current to feed.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2013
Although both species are widespread in North America as breeders in shrubby edge habitats, that is not the case in the southern half of the sunshine state (the more northerly race of Prairie Warbler is an uncommon breeder in the panhandle). Everyone, I would like you to meet the ‘Florida’ Prairie Warbler ( S.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1. In migratory populations males usually arrive to breeding grounds a few days before the females and look for nest sites. This pair copulated several times while I was observing.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2013
Smooth-billed Anis were relative newcomers as breeders to Florida, having only begun nesting since the 1930s. According to the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, the first confirmed breeding record was in Miami in July of 1938. However, the true reason (or reasons) for their rapid decline remain a mystery.
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Howell’s A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America , which is absolutely my birder’s Bible for the region, says that Snowy Plovers are fair to uncommon summer breeders in the Lake Cuitzeo area, which they certainly are (breeders, though not uncommon). They were probably not preparing to go south.
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