Breeders Breeding Experiments 
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2020
Weather patterns have been far from ideal for us to get our last big burst of migrating spring songbirds and the parks seemed relatively quiet this weekend, with few but local breeders there to be seen. While Mike was busy looking for breeding wood-warblers I spent my time scouring Queens for something new for my year list.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2011
It is this season we experience vast musical repertoires, green canopies, hot air, and bustling energy. The grasslands have been popping off with breeders for well over a month, but the snow is just now giving way to lush alpine meadows and rocky tundras. Thus, Colorado encapsulates most of their breeding range.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Unless you’re a big fan of your local breeding birds, you’ll find that this is the most boring time of the birding year. You’ll enjoy your earliest experiences of birding best if you allow the pros to do the heavy lifting for you: Let them find the birds and, more important, identify the birds for you.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
Being technically outside the summer tourism season, one can enjoy the somewhat less expensive travel and hotel costs, less crowded venues, great weather and nearly endless daylight—and of course many birds migrating and beginning the breeding/nesting season! I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Yellow-billed Stork portrait (note the pink flush indicating breeding status), Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania by Adam Riley The Yellow-billed Stork has a closely-related sister species in Asia known as Painted Stork. During breeding season, their white plumage turns a delicate pink color, a lovely sight indeed.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2014
Coupled with its geologic youth, this makes the southern tip of the state function as a bit of an island experiment. In fact, it was the explosive expansion of introduced Eurasian Collared-Dove which lead to the range expansion of Cooper’s Hawks in urban Miami as breeders.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. In another experiment, other species of Darwin Finches were kept next to Woodpecker Finches that used tools. The behavior was inherent. Photo: Peter Wilton.
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