Breeders Breeding Course 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2014
As always, the woods around the marsh were busy with breeders setting up shop. I said good-bye to Wurtsboro and headed east and then north, making my way to the Town of Wallkill in Ulster County, in particular, to Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge where I hoped to see Grasshopper Sparrows and other grassland breeders.
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.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2013
Sure, the expected wood-warblers that overshoot their breeding range are showing up and even the occasional rarity has appeared, but this spring has largely been dreadful for we northeasterners. And, of course, we always have our resident birds as well as the long-staying winter visitors, so it is not as if there is no birding to be done.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2013
Probably one of the most interesting things about these little birds is that they are cooperative breeders. That is to say they have what are known as supernumeraries, individuals above and beyond the primary breeding pair that help with nest building and feeding young 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
So I did… When you’re offering reasons to pursue a particular course of action, more is often better. Once it comes time to actually explain how to pursue that course of action, however, your design imperative changes. Push every button you can find and hope that some of them stick.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2024
The species is a cooperative breeder – chicks from previous breeding attempts help bringing up the next batch of chicks, like baby-sitting teenagers, though the latter are not related to the kids they babysit and also mainly do it for money, so I guess these two things are not really comparable at all.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.
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