10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This group — dubbed the bombycillids , from the waxwing genus and family name — appears to fall near kinglets and a large group containing thrushes and muscicapids (Old World flycatchers and chats) in the passerine tree. Spellman et al. Cedar Waxwings are pictured above in a lovely image by Minette Layne.). Hypocolius.

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Saudi Arabia 2008 Indonesia Colombia 244

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APRIL 30, 2020

Winter is not the greatest time for birding in Shanghai, and this year, there was no escaping to Southeast Asia due to Covid-19. Others have wintered here and are now in the process of leaving for the summer, such as the Black-faced Spoonbill – already in breeding plumage so as to not waste any time once arriving in Northern China.

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2020 China Asia Owls 218

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Lakshmi rides an owl as her Vahana (a spirititual being or animal that transports a God) and the Spotted Owlet has been chosen to represent the family. Common throughout India with a range that covers much of South-east Asia, it can often be seen around habitation where it catches small rodents, insects and invertebrates.

Owls 199

Owls Rodents Transported India 199

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox.

Africa 189

Africa Wolves Goats Sheep 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. It is very likely that the white morph was directly promoted in captive breeding and favoured in releases to establish feral populations. Now, enjoy the pictures.

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Feral Europe Asia North America 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity.

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Brunei Asia Birds China 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

The family Picathartidae consists of two very unusual birds; White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes , endemic to the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa; and Gray-necked or Red-headed , restricted to Lower Guinea forests of Central Africa. They are also believed to be related to the Rail-Babbler of Tropical Asia.

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Sierra Leone Ghana Equatorial Guinea Cameroon 274

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The HBW even mentions the importance of Ruoergai for this species: “Key sites for migrants include the Ruoergai Plateau (China), which is also an important breeding area” Common Mergansers also seem to use these wetlands as breeding area.

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China Mongolia Russia Birds 202

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

The Edwards’s Pheasant is a rather smart blue-black member of the pheasant family and it may be on the edge of extinction. Leading scientists, conservationists and aviculturalists from Europe and South-east Asia met at Walsrode in Germany recently to formulate a rescue plan.

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Vietnam 2000 Germany Asia 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. It’s actually a pretty classic example of convergent evolution, wherein two unrelated families of lifeforms evolve to fill the same niche independently. millions years ago.

California Condor 209

California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. ” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo. This post shows some of them.

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

When all of you are settling in inside away from the snow for family, food and arguments, we’re all getting our travel on. A lot of Asia’s storks are threatened by human activities. The adults don’t look as crisp as you’d expect, or as you’d get in an adult White Stork or Saddlebilled Stork.

2013 192

2013 Rhinoceros Thailand Birds 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Another member of the stork family, the African Openbill , looks like it is could benefit from a good orthodontist. Ostriches originated in Asia.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago describes all 1,456 bird species (39 species more than in the first edition) within 107 bird families known to occur in the region, including 628 endemics (27 endemics more than in the 1st edition) and 10 species yet to be formally described (down from 18 in the 1st edition). The first author, James A.

Indonesia 264

Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2014

You’ll get much more in the way of numbers in the lowlands, but you’ll pick up many more endemics up high, and with that probably many more lifers if you’ve birders SE Asia much in the past. It wasn’t breeding season when I was there, so I felt particularly lucky to see them.

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Eagles Asia Birds Parrots 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea California 163

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AUGUST 6, 2022

Bird in southern Asia and there are mynas and magpie-robins. Watch the buildings, keep an eye on tall trees, this species has become adapted to breeding on ledges and living in cities. You’ll probably hear them first, like so many others of their family, they aren’t shy about making some noise.

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Costa Rica San Jose Asia Geese 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Co-author Frank E. The maps on the inside front and back covers help a lot.

Indonesia 153

Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 153

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2016

The world is still turning, the blog didn’t crash, no anonymous threats against my family on social media … I guess my small series on gulls may continue with part 2 of 3, which will focus on the Herring Gull ‘s second side-kick: Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans.

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Kazakhstan Germany Ukraine Asia 132

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Three helpful sections precede the Introduction: Photo and silhouette comparisons of gulls that breed in North America (see illustration above), Basic Anatomical Terms illustrated with four diagrams, and a very selective Glossary. A larophile is a gull enthusiast, taken from the genus name Larus and/or the family name Laridae.

North America 213

North America El Salvador America Nicaragua 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Finally, deciding that a duck that required 250 acres of land to breed probably did not welcome intruders, we tiptoed out of the swamp.

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2016 India Ducks Costa Rica 123

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

Also known as the Flyeater, this tiny bird is the only representative of the Australasian warbler family found in mainland Asia, and very similar to my own Grey Warblers in New Zealand, even their songs. A target bird was next, the Pheasant-tailed Jacana, which was sadly not in breeding plumage but was still attractive.

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Thailand New Zealand Bats Family 107

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Yellow-Legged Gull These gulls breed around the Mediterranean and have yellow, rather than flesh-coloured legs. Get yours today!

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Deer Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Oriental Pied Hornbills are common enough and probably the most likely hornbill to be seen in many parts of SE Asia, but seeing them at such close quarters and seemingly so relaxed is unusual. Oriental Pied Hornbills by Redgannet. Though Clare K. no longer regularly blogs here on 10,000 Birds he shared his Best Bird of the Year anyway!

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2013 Costa Rica Birds India 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction.

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Guinea Papua New Guinea Birds Family 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

These large seedeaters (belonging to the weaver family) are so named for the generally black plumage of the adult male, resembling a widow in mourning. The 9 species of whydah are brood-parasitic seedeaters belonging to the Indigobird family. Africa’s impressive Long-tailed Widowbird by Adam Riley. Widowbirds. Sugarbirds.

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Papua New Guinea South Africa Africa Zimbabwe 258

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2024

Handsome but never flashy, the Old World Buntings are a fascinating family of birds. To get the set I would have to travel extensively in Asia, for several have a decidedly eastern distribution. There are no fewer than 45 of them, of which I’ve been lucky enough to have seen 25. It’s easy to explain its upturn in fortunes.

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Bulgaria Greece Breeders India 220

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2024

Research required to determine its feeding ecology and breeding biology.” ” “Breeding Mar–Jun. Here is the answer: Sunbirds and spiderhunters are both part of the Nectariniidae family, but they have distinct differences in terms of their morphology, behavior, and habitat preferences. ” And why not.

Vietnam 243

Vietnam Birds Woodpeckers Bangladesh 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I must confess I didn’t fully appreciate it at the time, as the related Australian White Ibis is something of a trash bird in Sydney, but this species is extremely rare in Thailand or for that matter South East Asia. Both are common, really common, and both are essentially indistinguishable in non-breeding plumage.

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Thailand New Zealand Terrapins Asia 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Orange-headed Thrush Orange-headed Thrush By Redgannet • March 6, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share The Orange-headed Thrush , Zoothera citrinus, is common across much of India and south-east Asia.

2011 211

2011 Deer India New York 211

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2012

As they grow and the creases and wrinkles start to flatten out, it is possible,… just… to appreciate the beauty in other peoples’ children, but imagine how socially awkward it must be for new mothers of members of the Gruiformes family whose offspring, even once they have matured slightly, are surely the ugliest of all.

India 187

India Asia Africa Mexico 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

The lake was filled with families of Dusky Moorhens and Purple Swamphens (or Pukeko as we call them in New Zealand), all tending small groups of black chicks. Magpie-larks are neither magpies nor larks but are the largest of the monarch-flycatchers, and the most terrestrial of the family.

New Zealand 178

New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

There is a Linnet at Kissena Corridor Park in Queens, and though I bird this park regularly, the Linnet, a bird regularly found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and also named in a sweet song by Stephen Sondheim (Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeny Todd) has eluded me. I needed a book showing a Linnet. I studied it.

Ireland 178

Ireland 2013 Breeders United Kingdom 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide is an identification guide to seabirds of the world, all of them.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. This section also includes range maps, indicating range by breeding season, wintering season, and residence year-round. So much simpler than pinning down those warblers! There are the females, so many so brown. And, that thing called plumage.

North America 179

North America Asia Europe America 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. The chapters on courtship and breeding and roosting and migration are the longest, which isn’t surprising. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them.

Owls 241

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 241

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). I suppose this works with such a small family, but it made my librarian brain ache just a little bit. Browsing through this book is tough.

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2004 North America America Europe 179