10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). End of side note.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandonment 162

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 181

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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. April showers most assuredly bring May flowers in the more temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere. Any luck this weekend?

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2020 ALA Blackbirds Birds 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Further research revealed the Bird Hybrids blog ( [link] ) has several revealing photographs of this (and many other) hybrids. One year he was very excited when his female Hawaiian Goose hatched four healthy goslings, the first time he had managed to breed this species.

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Geese Latvia Falcons Ducks 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The latter figure very significant when you remember that many breeding passerines depend on the humble caterpillar to feed themselves and their offspring. Native trees, unsurprisingly, had a far higher insect biodiversity and a far higher biomass of insect life.

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North America Wildlife Mammals Breeding 260

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

Such an embarrassingly populist title of a blog post should obviously be followed by some dry facts. While also migratory, the Amur Paradise Flycatcher may end its journey in Shanghai and breed here, though the type of habitat it requires is getting rarer and rarer (one of the old places I knew of is just getting destroyed this year).

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Japan China Guinea Germany 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So, while I have my doubts about the complete end of our three-year drought here, the bird blog situation is looking up. Alas, our rainy season seems to be slowing down — although I heard a rumble of thunder as I wrote the sentence — fingers crossed! Also, our winter visitor species are starting to arrive.

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Colombia ALA Canada Mexico 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

While Mike was busy looking for breeding wood-warblers I spent my time scouring Queens for something new for my year list. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 United States Breeders New York 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2020

The message she relayed made me blurt out a string of words that cannot be repeated on this blog – let’s just say that my priorities immediately shifted. Bon voyage , friend, may you traverse the next two thousand miles safely, may you not encounter any glass windows and may you find a mate and breed successfully!

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Trinidad Birds Squirrels 2012 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.” It’s a blog well worth visitation.

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New Hampshire Washington Virginia Montana 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers. For some reason, the Mandarin Chinese name of the Scarlet Minivet translates as “Red Mountain Pepper Bird” I do hope a Chinese reader of this blog can explain the origin or meaning of this name.

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Myanmar Sri Lanka Nepal Niger 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2022

If you wonder how such a self-referential and obscure joke survived the editing process for this blog post, the explanation is simple: There is no editing process). It is listed as vulnerable primarily due to its small breeding range. At least, it does not have to pretend to like wine, unlike its relative, the Spotted Redshank. (If

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Birds 2017 Fish Breeding 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Heermann’s Gulls form large breeding colonies on arid islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico, from March through July. The largest colony exists on Isla Raza, where an estimated 90–95% of the total world population breeds 1. This photo by Basar from Wikipedia Commons shows the adult in breeding plumage.

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San Francisco North America Seals Sanctuary 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Why tediously write blog posts when ChatGPT can do it for me? So, I asked ChatGPT: “Please write a 500-word blog post about birding in Shanghai in the style of Kai Pflug for the website 10,000 birds” This is the result: Greetings, fellow birding enthusiasts!

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2019

The birds that most caught his eye (and the focus of his digiscoping rig) were some Ruddy Ducks coming into breeding plumage at Brookville Park in Queens. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. They are his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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2019 Birds Ducks Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2023

Numerous blog posts have been written about the birds I see every day – you can check out the fruits of our rewilding project in a residential area here and the last time we changed backyard here. These large raptors are actually quite rare on Trinidad but seem to be breeding nearby as one of the sightings was of a juvenile.

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Trinidad Barn Owls Owls Reptiles 218

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. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. Presumably, potential predators will assume they have not taken a shower for weeks, and consequently stay away.

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LACS Birds France Japan 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Gustave Axelson has a nice breakdown of a recent genetic analysis of redpolls on Cornell’s All About Birds Blog : Mason and Taylor looked beyond the plumage into strands of the birds’ DNA in the most extensive look ever at the redpoll genome. It sure looks like it!

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Species Switzerland Europe Groups 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2014

Seeing as Plumb Beach is a known stopover area for large numbers of shorebirds, a known breeding area for a variety of saltmarsh species, including Clapper Rails , and habitat for a wide variety of mammals, reptiles, insects, and other bird species, this is a long overdue move. Signs like the one above went up late last week.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Reptiles 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s been almost exactly four years since the last time I was bored enough with my local avifauna to focus exclusively on digiscoping Ring-billed Gulls for a blog post. Some birds were near high breeding plumage, others were not even a year old yet and looking very scruffy. An adult on its way into breeding plumage.

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Breeding Ducks Birds Species 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. Not an enticing subject, I think.

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Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

Seriously, cardinals are both gorgeous and interesting , but their familiarity across most of North America breeds indifference if not contempt. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose. How about you?

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New York City 2017 North America New York 127

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2017

June may be the gateway to summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but the birding still delivers the thrills of spring migration when you have access to the right birds’ breeding grounds. I visited Letchworth State Park this weekend, renowned for a ridiculous density of breeding wood warblers. How about you?

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2017 Louisiana Birds Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2022

From one side, the reserve is under the attack of spreading arable fields, from another by numerous wind generators and it is no easy task to support the surviving breeding birds within its borders. Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77

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Gazelles India Pakistan 2012 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

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South America San Diego Mexico America 178

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. ” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms.

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Australia Birds Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. Bustards are being counted in February because their breeding season starts in March.

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

From experience, these primarily frugivorous birds do show local movements that may depend on the local ripening of fruit outside the breeding season. During the 1986-1991 Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, breeding was confirmed in three quadrangles that more or less reflect its present distribution.

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Miami Asia Florida Malaysia 190

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. Of course, I also managed to take a bunch of incomplete or unfocused bird photos and turn them into a blog. The Greater Pewee is guaranteed to turn up in our pine/oak forests here.

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Mexico Guatemala South America United States 174

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

In Sydney, refuse is an important constituent of the diet during the breeding season (HBW), and a study conducted in 1970 describes a number of strategies by which these gulls steal food from Crested Terns. The now sadly retired 10,000 Birds blog writer Redgannet already covered the New Holland Honeyeater in a post published in 2013.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2018

Cliff Swallows breeding in Queens are still new enough to be novel and that is more than enough to be Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Sparrows Birds Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2017

Speaking of corvids, Corey’s Best Bird of the the Weekend was actually his best birds of the weekend, a pair of Common Ravens attempting breeding for the second year in a row on Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2017 New York Birds Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

June in the Northern Hemisphere brings birds on their breeding grounds, some still frisky and others settled down taking care of their chicks. Lots of breeding songbirds live in those gorgeous woods, including several Hooded Warblers ! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Pennsylvania 2016 Jamaica New York 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As an older Chills song is titled, “Familiarity breeds contempt” (And no, I do not think NZ band The Chills originally came up with this phrase – I can use google as well as any other person and thus know that the expression familiarity breeds contempt was first used in English in the 1300s by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Pandas Birds Mammals China 194

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A Northern Boobook showed up after I had already written my owl blog post last month. Not that easy to spot outside of the breeding season, though relatively quite common. And though I probably have shown this Oriental Scops Owl before, it is well worth showing again, in my opinion.

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2019 Japan China Owls 183

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

I understand that this is a complicated undertaking, but a new birder reading this book would have no idea that Bushtits (#92: “Breeding System: ‘It’s Complicated'”) are only found in Western states. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.

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North America Birds Prairie Dogs Barn Owls 114