10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2013

In addition to having a communal nesting strategy, anis also spend a significant amount of time allopreening, huddling together, and sunning themselves together on exposed branches. Smooth-billed Anis were relative newcomers as breeders to Florida, having only begun nesting since the 1930s. Diet is composed mostly of large insects.

Florida 188

Florida Virgin Islands Miami Breeders 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2012

What strategies are you using? It really depends on where the strays and vagrants show up in the second half of the year. then eventually you’re going to see most of the residents, spring migrants, wintering species and regular breeders. Good reasons to stay local regardless of records and the like. Lots of pelagics?

New York 172

New York Stray Vermont Marine Life 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding.

2020 228

2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 228