10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2023

While the P-a-P Wildfowl Trust’s main thrust is the breeding and release of five duck species, the habitat encourages a number of native wetland birds to inhabit and proliferate the area. From Yellow-hooded Blackbirds to Purple and Common Gallinules , there are almost too many birds to focus on!

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Trinidad Birds Ducks Fish 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. Wait, the study was not done with people but with Eurasian Siskins.

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Blackbirds Birds Indonesia Bhutan 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

The Red-shouldered Hawks , the quick flapping Accipiters and the legions of blackbirds and ducks moved through the cool airs of March and April but the orioles, grosbeaks, and wood-warblers wouldn’t show up until the trees had their buds and many had their leaves. Wilson’s Plovers are in Breeding Plumage.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2020

Alas, these gentle rains may not always speed spring migrants on their way to breeding grounds far from the equator. We got out to Lucien Morin during a break in the rain and saw nothing more seasonal than Red-winged Blackbirds claiming their individual patches of marshland. Any luck this weekend?

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2020 ALA Blackbirds Birds 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2019

But the way it is, familiarity breeds (relative) contempt. The Chinese Blackbird was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Common Blackbird, and does not really look or behave much different. The Chinese Pond Heron is another attractive bird, particularly in its breeding plumage. A thoroughly modern bird.

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Germany Cattle Blackbirds Birds 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2020

And then there are those startling bright red eyes, which distinguish them from all other blackbirds in my region, and make them look quite capable of peering into your soul and taking over your will. I’m not particularly proud of these photos. A cool, slightly spooky blackbird versus a muddy-looking blackbird?

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Blackbirds Mexico Cattle Birds 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2020

Lady Helen’s thundering progress kicked up the turf and brought opportunities for our resident Eurasian Blackbirds. Outside of the breeding season the birds are reasonably tolerant of each other, often feeding in close proximity, but as spring moves on they are likely to become far more territorial and defensive.

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Birds Blackbirds Game Eagles 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2021

Yellow-hooded Blackbirds and Yellow-chinned Spinetails were ubiquitous as expected, along with a few shorebirds in some isolated ponds. The area is known for being a breeding area of the enigmatic Rufous Crab-Hawk and it was the first place I saw the species, many years ago. As always, an adult Scarlet Ibis shines like a beacon.

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Sea Turtles Bats Turtles Trinidad 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

Interestingly, the molt of the males takes about 20 days longer than that of the females – the authors speculate that this is because of the different peak time efforts in breeding, with the males being involved earlier (singing, establishing territory) than the females (incubating, nestling care).

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 200

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

and had the pleasure of finding myself in the middle of a foraging party of Eurasian Blue , Great and Long-tailed T**s , Eurasian Blackbirds , European Robins , Hawfinches , European Greenfinches and no less than 20 Eurasian Siskins at 2 to 3 metres around my car. On my way back, a Merlin flies from one to the other side of a clearance.

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Otters Croatia Eagles Protection 260

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2024

Wren, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Chiffchaff were all noted by 4.30, and we soon managed to add two more tricky species: Stonechat and Willow Warbler. This fen has breeding Marsh Harriers, and we saw at least three different birds, while Cuckoos called close by.

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Kenya Birds Barn Owls Owls 133

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

A Eurasian Blackbird is checking for the remaining maize seeds. A Common Chaffinch is singing, while one male Blackbird chases the other from his precious maize seeds. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. The longer I sit, the more focused I become.

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Bears Serbia Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2020

A Pinnated Bittern gets escorted to another hiding place by a squadron of Yellow-hooded Blackbirds. Many of these were still in their breeding plumage, a special treat for us here in the tropics as they would soon shed their richly patterned exterior for a drab and more mundane outfit. For my eBird list , I estimated 150 birds.

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Trinidad South America Blackbirds Game 183

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. A juvenile Chinese Blackbird. Presumably, potential predators will assume they have not taken a shower for weeks, and consequently stay away. ” Hm. .”

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LACS Birds France Japan 235

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2018

Flock after flock of blackbirds, ducks, geese, raptors flapping their way north. The birds also need it because this is when they build nests and breed. If you already know the songs of American Robin and Eurasian Blackbird , then you already know what the national bird is doing. But that’s up in the temperate north.

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Costa Rica Blackbirds Texas Geese 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

So, to cut things short, there is sickness all around me, and I have thus decided to have my February post whistle to that tune as well and give an update to the mysterious die-off amongst our Eurasian Blackbirds that occurred around my home turf in Heidelberg last summer – blogged about here.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

Striated Heron in breeding plumage – extra plumes and blue lores. Red-breasted Meadowlarks controlled the drier sections while Yellow-hooded Blackbirds occupied the more flooded areas. Even though I had seen these cryptic austral migrants before, there was no way I was going to pass up an opportunity that was this close to home.

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Livestock ALA Ducks illegal 219

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

But something happened, and it happened many times: Something has been killing our Blackbirds. We interrupt this blog post for an important message: This is the kind of Blackbird I am talking about, the Eurasian thrush that is Turdus merula, and not the American group of iconic Icterids you might have had in mind.

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Blackbirds Germany Shelters Rodents 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2014

According to locals the bird has overwintered near Klamath Falls for the last 5 years…I wonder where it’s breeding? A few turns around a farm field and the bird was found just hanging with some Brewer’s Blackbirds.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Oregon Blackbirds 198

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

The juvenile Chinese Blackbirds get older but still look kind of stupid. But the stars of the month were some breeding Eurasian Tree Sparrows. Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat.

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Sparrows China Birds Tigers 147

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MAY 30, 2012

The other thing that baffled me is that birds are the most colorful in the summer–all that crazy breeding plumage. Another time to consider taking your feeders down for a limited time is if you get a blackbird takeover when their young leave the nest. Most bird species cannot live by black oil sunflower seed alone.

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Blackbirds Baltimore Birds Breeding 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

When they turn into fledglings feather color plays a part, although the feathers of fledglings differ markedly from those of their parents, which differ from those of their species a year old, two years old, in non-breeding plumage, in winter/summer plumage, etc. “You don’t have many breeding warblers down there, do you?

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Georgia Birds Kentucky 227

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MAY 12, 2017

Species #75 for Socrates Sculpture Park is Red-winged Blackbird. In order for introduced birds to become countable in the high-stakes world of official bird-counting, they must establish a self-sustaining breeding population (think everybody’s favorites, the European Starling and the House Sparrow ). And I’m getting close!

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JUNE 8, 2017

Shallows provide an ideal spawning ground for almost 50 fish species and submerged islands breeding ground for more than 100 bird species. Beside several well-showing Red-backed Shrikes , the highlight was one uncommon Lesser Grey Shrike (highly localized ** , with only 700 to 1000 breeding pairs in Serbia). I like driving.

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Romania Serbia Turtles Blackbirds 123

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Brewer’s Blackbirds often joined the hordes of Red-winged Blackbirds flitting in and out of the taller grasses and few shrubs. Since 1966, when the Breeding Bird Survey first began monitoring, numbers have declined 79 percent. Yes, it takes a village to locate a Sprague’s Pipit.

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North Dakota Sparrows Birds Blackbirds 142

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2019

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay.”. No, they weren’t in raspberry fields.)”. Sombre Tit by Ivan Medenica/Wikimedia Commons.

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2018 Serbia Greece Falcons 117

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2015

An American Redstart sang half-heartedly, a Ring-necked Pheasant ran from me, and Gray Catbirds , Red-winged Blackbirds , and American Robins were everywhere. I saw a Willow Flycatcher , several Northern Mockingbirds , and a bunch of Yellow Warblers.

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New York City Blackbirds New York Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

Eagle Lake, Lake Almanor and Clear Lake have all been identified as Audubon California Important Bird Areas (IBA), meaning that they provide essential habitat for breeding, wintering, and migrating birds. The boat trip also offered some good looks at the Yellow-headed Blackbirds nesting along the shores.

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California Eagles North America Blackbirds 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Flocks of Bushtits made their noisy way through the bushes and a large number of Yellow-headed Blackbirds , which easily increased by ten-fold the number of Yellow-headed Blackbirds I had ever seen, flushed from one reed-bed to another.

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 206

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular. Curassows are such stately birds.

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California Condor Brazil Parrots Texas 218

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular.

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California Condor Ecuador Blackbirds Parrots 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2012

The lush pastures of the Aripo Livestock Station sustained herds of happy Buffalypso , a special breed of T&T beef cattle named for their Water Buffalo heritage and Calypso-happy country. Last but not least were not one but TWO new species of blackbird for me, both Yellow-hooded and Red-breasted ! In fact, it was.

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Trinidad Fast Food Cattle Blackbirds 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Chinese Blackbird is among the most common birds in our compound. The Olive-backed Pipit is a small songbird that in Shanghai can only be seen in winter – in summer, it breeds further north. The Red-flanked Bluetail is only in Shanghai in winter, as it breeds far further North – even further than Beijing.

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Birds Fish Germany China 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

The unpaved road winds up the hill, through a traditional farming landscape of small gardens, meadows and raspberry fields with thickets of the Oriental hornbeam, Turkey and Italian oak, black pine and prickly juniper, where Common Whitethroats (above) and Eurasian Blackcaps sing and Eurasian Blackbirds chase each other.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

The western half of the continent sees a lot of Brewer’s Blackbirds mixed in. And when you’re in the middle of your post-breeding molt, you need to do that a lot. But there’s still some regional biases for those who pay attention. And in parts of the Rockies, Clark’s Nutcracker reigns supreme.

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North Carolina Fast Food Sparrows Birds 187

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

. … Nest dismantling by the Hair-crested Drongo may be an adaptive behavior to increase fitness by reducing risk of future predation and competition for nest sites in the following breeding season” ( source ). The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. ” ( source ).

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Mountain Goats Singapore Giraffes Birds 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^ The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 219