10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2020

This means that every year, millions of birds fly by the city on their way between their breeding grounds in Northern Asia and their wintering spots in Southeast Asia and Australia. In addition, some vulnerable bird species such as the Reed Parrotbill live in Shanghai year-round and rely on the reedbeds for survival.

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Wildlife Reserve Asia China Factory 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

10%: Australia, Papua New Guinea. Australia is understandable: good infrastructure, moderate prices and easiness of finding birds, combined with 350 endemics. Yet, the fact that tiny Panama is as popular as huge Brazil, with twice as many bird species, speaks volume for Brazil’s stage of ecotourism development. 21%: Costa Rica.

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

In July 2013, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources held a meeting in Bremerhaven in Germany, to decide whether to turn the Ross Sea into a marine protected area. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Back to the Future – the Case for Protection. And the Mammals.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Colorful bills and heads seem quite popular among Letaba’s bird species – see the African Jacana (blue and black) … … the Striated Heron (yellow and blue) … … and the Yellow-billed Stork (yellow and red). The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Birds 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

The urge to breed is obviously strong enough for them to keep attempting it and thankfully due to the longevity of the species they are able to replace themselves during their lifetime. The male of this pair of Pied Oystercatchers always appears to take on more of the protecting duties, but we also know he is an old bird.

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Breeding Eggs Protection Family 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2013

They are present in the north of Australia, but interestingly there is a gap on the map right over Broome! Spikes in bushes protect Star Finch from predators. Birding Australia finches Starfish' They also have a shriller note than other finches and although I can pick it up others cannot always do so.

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Australia Fish Protection Rights 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

The Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae is Australia’s largest bird standing at up to 2 metres (6 foot 6 inches) tall. In actual fact we saw one take on an electric fence over 20 years ago in the Murchison area of Western Australia and it persisted until it got through. Emu assessing the fence. Emu family on the other side of the fence.

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Australia Investigation Family Eggs 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species. The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2014

So, on seeing my lifer Bassian Thrush in Sydney, I was glad to have a) finally seen that species and b) finally glad to tick that arbitrary odometer up to a meaningless milestone. We seem to live in an age of splitting, only last week it was announced that another 460 odd species have been split. An armchair split, no less.

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Tonga Fiji Samoa Vanuatu 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

Australia is a dry continent and as such all bird-life needs to take advantage of any fresh water that is available. This may be a simple dripping tap, but one of the biggest attractions in Australia is the Poo Ponds. Here are some views from the air-thanks to Google Earth-so you can see how easy it is to find a Poo Pond in Australia!

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Feral Animals Australia Feral Ducks 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

We have had over 110 species either enter or fly over our garden since we have lived here. We provide water and have native trees to provide food for some of the species and our block backs into the natural bush, so there is constant movement throughout the day. Our list…our rules! Blue-winged Kookaburra 23.Straw-necked

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Birds Australia Protection Species 164

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

This cyclone has been named Cyclone Iggy and is a dominant circle on our satellite image of Western Australia. They will be seeking protection where they can and they will return as soon as the rain eases. We have had a wet week in Broome with a tropical low to our north and further down the coast there is a cyclone.

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Taiwan China Australia Investigation 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2020

Gantheaume Point offers both food and protection for a young Pied Oystercatcher chick, which is very important when they are unable to fly. Pied Oystercatchers are not a species that we observe flying very often at all. The family of Pied Oystercatchers soon made their move to Gantheaume Point.

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Eggs Breeding Family Protection 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2012

For example on my trip to Australia earlier this year I borrowed the car one day to drive to Ku-Ring-Gai National Park, a location that proved fruitful for Clare later in the year. I only saw a few species I could get in the small park near where I was staying, and not even as many as I could have gotten there.

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Seals New Zealand Fur Marine Life 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

The grass is green, the wildflowers are spectacular and now we have numerous species of dragonfly to enjoy as the season starts to change. The Masked Lapwing is one of the noisiest shorebirds in the north, especially when they are protecting a nest or young. Masked Lapwing protecting a nest.

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Breeding Eggs Protection Cows 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Our observations recently have shown that the adult Pied Oystercatchers are roosting amongst the shorebirds where possible and it may well protect the juvenile Pied Oystercatchers. Two of the most popular beaches for shorebirds roosting have also been the nest sites for two pairs of Pied Oystercatchers this breeding season.

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Breeding Family Hunting Eagles 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2018

Our next stop, Havelock was one I had been looking forward to, as it has a huge estuary, with a large number of species that could be found here. I added the Australasian Shoveler finally, along with 22 other species that have already made the list. Despite that, things did pan out pretty well on the tidal flats formed by the estuary.

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New Zealand Opossums Charlotte South Africa 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

When you monitor a species of birds over many years you learn a lot from your observations and you soon become aware of the fact that some birds are just better at parenting than others. Birding Australia Broome Pied Oystercatcher'

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

I mean, I am in Central America, not northern Australia?!? This park protects the primary rainforest of the Tarcoles River basin, together with the one of the three remaining populations of Scarlet Macaws in the country. Beside macaws, Carara eBird hotspot has a bird list of 424 species. Anyway, I had no plans of swimming.

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Costa Rica Pelicans Owls Woodpeckers 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Cats, along with other introduced mammals, are genuinely a problem in New Zealand in a way they aren’t in most of the rest of the world (Australia has similar problems mostly with foxes and cats). Even wiping out one species, like possums, or stoats, or hedgehogs is probably beyond current methods.

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New Zealand Possums Hedgehogs SPCA 121

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the north of Australia we also have changing colours, but it is not the foliage that changes. Here is a little test-there are 6 species of shorebird in the photo-can you identify them? Clare and Grant-Broome Western Australia Mar 21st, 2011 at 5:15 am @ Jochen-thanks! Get yours today! Very well done! Beautiful post again.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

I saw Painted Wolves again, my favourite species ever. The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a critically endangered species that I came agonisingly close to seeing but didn’t. Australia: The Biogeographical Oddity of the Year. Singapore is a densely populated city-state which still manages to protect a number of species.

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United Arab Emirates Ethiopia 2016 Singapore 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This species are long living and so the population appears to be sustainable at this stage despite the predation. The Pied Oystercatchers are actually incredibly predictable when it comes to the dates that they lay eggs, the locations that they choose and the various strategies that each pair use in order to protect their young.

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Breeding Eggs Camels Shelters 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2023

Serendip Sanctuary is a 250 ha protected area that is near the You Yangs and the small town of Lara, Victoria. I would advise allowing as much time as possible if you hope to walk all of the trails and to be able to explore the different environments and the many species of birds. The sanctuary is open from 8am-4pm daily.

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Sanctuary Kangaroos Geese Transported 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press.

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Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

Thankfully with the longevity of this species it appears the population is fairly stable, but this may not always be the case if predation continues at the rate that it is. The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young.

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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 159

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. Black-faced Pitta is found only on one of the Solomon Islands (northwest of Australia). The endangered Gurney’s Pitta is losing habitat due to deforestation. And mosquitos.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Soon we were out of the protected harbour and into choppier waters, and here I have to say I suffered for about two hours from the dreaded affliction known as sea-sickness. The final large petrel species is another gadfly petrel, albeit a much larger one than the Cook’s Petrel.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This makes it a particularly exciting time in New Zealand as the Rugby World Cup begins in two days, and the competition is being held right here in New Zealand (I would imagine they might be more excited if they hadn’t just lost two matches to Australia and South Africa, their big rivals in the Tri-Nations).

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Fur 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865. Preface,p.xxiv.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. What follows are the responses that readers offered, a veritable aviary of sought after species. It is a really neat bird that I have not seen before.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Penguins 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

Following on from last week’s post about Langi Crossing and some of the larger birds species that you can expect to find I will now let you know of some of the smaller species you may encounter along the Fitzroy River at this location. On one occasion we did observe Star Finch , but they were no doubt just passing through.

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Zebras Birds Investigation Killing 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

The countryside too is full of signature European species like European Bee-eaters, European Rollers and Great-spotted Cuckoos … Within a shortish drive of the lodge is an unusual birding spot called Pulo do Lobo or The wolf’s Leap. This is worthwhile to pick up some rocky terrain species and the scenery is stunning.

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Portugal 2011 Deer Africa 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Among these white-headed/dark-winged gulls formerly lumped into the genus Larus , there were 18+ recognized species the last time I checked, sharing similarities that make telling them apart for the amateur birdwatcher very difficult. 1998), then the proper name for this species is L. fuscus – should be separated as species.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

We have previously called these birds Beach Thick-knees , but as with so many species around the world in recent years they have had their names changed. We had not seen any yet this year and inspired by the post on the Senegal Thick-knee we realised there was an opportunity to add one more bird to my year list !

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Senegal Singapore Litter Farming 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

How lucky you are to live in a country with three different species. Clare and Grant-Broome Western Australia Mar 12th, 2011 at 9:26 pm Beautiful birds! 7 Responses to “Quetzals of Ecuador&# Mike Mar 12th, 2011 at 10:33 am Awesome! Everybody loves quetzals. Pat ODonnell Mar 12th, 2011 at 12:40 pm Quetzals are such amazing birds!

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Ecuador 2011 Deer New York 199