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Breeding Collecting Family 
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2020
It seems to me that Lynx Edicions must know Vedran, too, and it was with him in mind that their authors, David W Winkler, Shawn M Billerman and Irby J Lovette, chose the “Bird Families of the World: A Guide to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds” as the full title of their new edition. Families perhaps? It weighs 3.7
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2021
The Australian Hobby have been collecting the cicadas and taking them back to the nest. Australian Hobby family at the nest. We have enjoyed watching the development of the Australian Hobby family over recent weeks. The post Australian Hobby breeding in Broome appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
This is not due to its breeding habits, which it shares with the other hornbills – though those habits could well be described as appalling. On a positive note, it makes it easier for those male hornbills that do not like kids to focus on what they are good at (collecting fruit and handing them to the wife through a slit in the hole).
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
I have encountered a few of the more quirky members of the family, including the brilliant and aptly-named African Emerald Cuckoo, India’s ultra-shy Sirkeer Malkoha, and the fascinating Lesser Ground Cuckoo in Costa Rica. I wonder whether birds that breed in Europe ever meet up with those nest in southern Africa?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
According to his writings, the Cuban Macaw’s behavior was typical of the genus, living in pairs or family parties that kept in contact with loud, raucous calls. Several European zoos had this species in their collections at the time, but they either made no effort to breed it or it did not breed well in captivity.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).
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10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2013
Its mostly found on the ground in thickets or the edges of dense vegetation and usually in small family parties. Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. They are nomadic, especially in the non-breeding season and flocks are most easily found at waterholes when they appear to quench their thirst.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling. But special. Familiar is not necessarily common.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2013
They are one of the few cooperatively breeding passerines in North America and a third of the breeding pairs have 1–3 male helpers, usually progeny or other relatives. Pairs roost together; juveniles roost with parents, and collectives of several flocks roost together. What a nice, close knit family!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2012
The Edwards’s Pheasant is a rather smart blue-black member of the pheasant family and it may be on the edge of extinction. Aviculturalists may provide another way to help bring Edwards’s Pheasant back from the brink; birds they already hold in captive collections could serve a vital role.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2014
Earlier this afternoon my small family made a drive out to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected. He brought with him Snow, his stuffed Snowy Owl , so Snow could see his “real owl friends.” ” Desi with Snow.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. Contrary to alleged preferences among humans, the golden-headed cisticola has a shorter tail during the breeding season ( source ). It breeds in tree holes, presumably explaining the more commonly used name for it.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2012
But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. .” This is the 3rd year for these most northerly known breeding pair of loons. In breeding plumage! Sanderlings!
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2012
It is at the same time of year that the migratory shorebirds that spend part of each year in Broome are also breeding, but in the Arctic. There was little movement by the family during the heat of the day except to fly to the shoreline for a drink and to cool their feet. I jumped and the adults let out an alarm call and one went flat.
208 10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. I ran back to grab Andrew, and we were soon watching this large jay busily going about its routine of collecting food and flying off (presumably to a nearby nest).
247 10,000 Birds
AUGUST 25, 2019
It has been a few years since I could share some good news about the Pied Oystercatchers breeding along the coast near Broome. Hopefully you won’t mind me writing a bit more this year about Pied Oystercatchers during the breeding season! I introduced you to this Pied Oystercatcher family four weeks ago.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Some Thai researchers looked at the breeding ecology of the Buff-breasted Babbler and published their findings in the somewhat unsuitable-sounding journal “Agriculture and Natural Resources”.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2013
In the new world all meadowlarks and blackbirds, along with grackles, cowbirds, orioles, oropendulas, and some others, are members of the family Icteridae , the New World Blackbirds. … If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds check out 10,000 Clicks , our huge (and growing) collection of galleries! ….
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2015
I was upstate again this past weekend, collecting Desi from his week with his grandparents, and took a couple of hours early Sunday morning to visit my favorite Saugerties birding spot, the Great Vly. I particularly enjoyed watching and digiscoping the Red-eyed Vireo family that was foraging low and in good light.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2022
The nest in the header photo in a Poinciana tree belongs to a Little Friarbird and they have been breeding recently and there are many juvenile birds about. The Magpie-larks have also been breeding recently and also using the Poinciana trees for nesting. We were very pleased to find the Tawny Frogmouth family had not relocated too far!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2014
Some people might have heard of the highly endangered Atlantic Rainforest (Mata Atlantica) that once stretched along large sections of the Brazilian coast — now, little more than a tattered collection of forest fragments. The wooded savanna habitat was home to a variety of widespread generalists as well as range-restricted specialists.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2015
I was pleasantly surprised at how so small a patch of habitat could harbor so many species and started to wonder if it was sink for breeding birds but then I got distracted by fledgling House Wrens and figured that if a whole family of wrens could have fledged then it probably isn’t a total sink. You won’t regret it! ….
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2011
The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage.
180 10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2011
The purpose of the trip wasn’t specifically to look for birds, it was my flatmate’s birthday, and her family had booked two of the houses on the island so that we could enjoy a weekend break away to celebrate. At the same location it was possible to watch Spotted Shags collecting nesting material and try and get airborne.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Well-represented exotic families include starlings, ducks and doves and there are also many more individual species that now thrive here. Some uncountable species, like Mitred Parakeets , are in fact way more numerous than some of the countable species and they are clearly breeding in well-established populations.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2021
It is not that close of a relative of the Northern Mockingbird , being in the same family, but a different genus. Slate-throated Redstart : This lovely little bird is our most common resident (breeding) warbler, and in certain places you will hear it EVERYWHERE. That is because it is, well, a Mockingbird.
203 10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?
214 10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
According to Reedman , murre is the old Cornish world for a Razorbill , and eventually became a vernacular term for alcids more broadly; murrelet, then, makes simple sense as a name for the smaller members of the family. Some murrelets are named for their styling. The Japanese Murrelet , well. So there you have it.
138 10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2013
A rundown of my year is below, broken down into the integral parts which, collectively, allowed me to see what I saw. May – Migration’s Peak and Breeding Begins. We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. January 2012 started off with a bang.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
District Court in San Diego last October, complaining that the whales “were forcibly taken from their families and natural habitats, are held captive at SeaWorld San Diego and SeaWorld Orlando, denied everything that is natural to them, subjected to artificial insemination or sperm collection to breed performers for Defendants’ shows, and forced to (..)
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2011
They breed across Canada and Alaska’s boreal forest near ponds and lakes, using nest holes made by woodpeckers, almost exclusively flickers. If you liked this post featuring Bufflehead images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.
203 10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
There is also a bit of science thrown in–bird banding, remote sensing, museum collecting–not everything, but enough to give the beginner a taste of the ornithological side of the birding passion. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.
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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 bird mostly feeds on nectar … … and only collect sufficient insects to satisfy its protein requirements ( source ).
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.” Seney National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1935 as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.” 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.
185 4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
I hope to do a new one each year so they may be collected by our loyal customers. This breed and this mare seemed to be a good match for our family. I took the original photography in Jackson Hole, WY, found a printer in SC and had 12 lumbar pillows made. They’re graphic, timeless, and pieces of art, really.
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4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
I hope to do a new one each year so they may be collected by our loyal customers. This breed and this mare seemed to be a good match for our family. I took the original photography in Jackson Hole, WY, found a printer in SC and had 12 lumbar pillows made. They’re graphic, timeless, and pieces of art, really.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. …because cooperative breeding facilitates defense against brood parasites.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors. Gurney’s Sugarbird was discovered by the Verreaux family and named after wealthy English banker and amateur naturalist John Gurney from Norwich. Image by Hugh Chittenden. Image by Adam Riley.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. During breeding season, their white plumage turns a delicate pink color, a lovely sight indeed. The Saddle-billed Stork has a similar Africa-wide distribution as the Marabou.
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