article thumbnail

Business Birding Basics – part II

10,000 Birds

His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. He did know all the little roads in the area and as he wasn’t a trapper but a breeder we asked him to show us the way. We were introduced to a local specialist, but this gentleman turned out to be interested in caged birds.

article thumbnail

Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” (Note to those readers who do not know Wham!: ” ( source ).

Burma 205
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

There goes the neighborhood

10,000 Birds

Fortunately, my own garden is currently being visited by a nice collection of resident species. So go ahead and take your summer breeders back. But I am sure I have seen my last examples of these species until the fall; especially since a total lockdown was just decreed for my state of Michoacán. They will return to me soon enough.

Nashville 132
article thumbnail

Anna’s, Rufous and Calliope: Hummingbirds of the West

10,000 Birds

She is the latest of our local breeders, not nesting usually until mid-May. The female is the earliest breeder of all these species, arriving on breeding grounds shortly after the males in November. Here you can see the female collecting nesting material. She will begin breeding in April.

Breeders 214
article thumbnail

Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

The Indochinese Green Magpie is one of four species of green magpie (it used to be only three, but one of the subspecies collected enough frequent flier miles to get an upgrade to full species). Altruism, fortunately not of the Sam Bankman-Fried variety, though probably not very effective either.

China 234
article thumbnail

15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

10,000 Birds

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.

Australia 191
article thumbnail

Best Birds of the Back Yard

10,000 Birds

One has a large yard in the jungle along the same flyway, and can see as many as 100 species during migration, including a fantastic collection of eastern Wood Warblers. These birds, like their Brown-headed cousins, are parasitic breeders. I do not like these friends right now.).

Birds 164