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!

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Eggs 2000 Family Breeding 134

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MAY 11, 2021

For example, Danny Bystrak (Breeding Bird Survey) and Dave Ziolkowski (Bird Banding Lab) of the USGS indicated that changes would not have a substantial negative impact on their programs, and would be just a “minor annoyance.” Was there confusion that impacted data collection or research or birding? Did the process work?)

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Birds Russia Hawaii Woodpeckers 264

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected. So they are raising money to buy more. And, oddly, it seems that no one knows too much about what these visitors from the north are up to while they are down here. Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow. That is not cheap.

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Owls Science Research Raised 213

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

As the growing season wanes and summer gives way to autumn, winemakers in Spain – and across the Northern Hemisphere – will be watchful for that perfect moment when the fruit is at its absolute peak – a sign that the hectic work to collect a year’s worth of product in just a few days can finally begin.

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2017 Spain California Condor Zoos 114

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JULY 26, 2012

But as I and others have said before, it does raise a very practical question about what field guides, which have for the most part been slavishly devoted to taxonomic order, are going to do. waters every year after breeding. The split is based on evidence of very limited gene flow between the populations despite geographic overlap.

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Falcons Parrots California Hawaii 173

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MARCH 13, 2012

Delegorgue’s main ornithological contribution was collecting Delegorgue’s Pigeon in the now vanished forests of Durban, but besides this he had little significant input. Wahlberg travelled even more extensively and amassed a huge bird collection. Sundevall named Wahlberg’s Eagle and Wahlberg’s Honeyguide in his memory.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 191

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

However, you can’t come to this small Central American country to see the following birds because they are gone: White-faced Whistling-duck : Yes, this cool looking duck used to build nests, breed, and dabble around the wetlands of Costa Rica and this is why you will see it illustrated in Stiles and Skutch.

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Costa Rica Species Panama Falcons 223

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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. As the tide dropped the birds started to take it in turns to collect food from a nearby reef and it took about 8 minutes for each trip.

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Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 177

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Then rumors leaked out that at this same site the mythical Red Owl could easily be seen, Madagascar Serpent Eagle was breeding and other rare birds and lemurs abounded. As you can imagine, I was champing at the bit to get to this lost paradise and when I finally obtained the necessary permissions in 2008, it didn’t fail to astonish!

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 243

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JULY 7, 2020

So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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2020 Birds North America Sparrows 264

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APRIL 30, 2011

Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape. The long shifts before swapping duties reduce the number of times that the birds have to run the gauntlet of the gulls and increase their chances of succesfully raising the chick to the age of abandonment.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 160

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

They can be found all over the book–some interspersed with resident and migratory species, some collected together in the back of the chapter, some in the last chapter on North American vagrant landbirds. The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group. Is the bird pictured what the caption says it is?

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Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 147

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Counting the Birds I was in my teens when I undertook my first bird-survey: it was field work for the British Trust for Ornithology’s The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. Published in 1976, The Atlas was, I believe, the very first work of its kind.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 225

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JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 181

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In Intriguingly, there are far more Bald Ibises in captivity than there are in the wild, for this is a bird that breeds readily in confinement. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 230

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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!

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Bald Eagle Breeding Whales Whaling 172

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JANUARY 22, 2024

When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. The Borneo-endemic Chestnut-crested Yuhina is a cooperative breeder – the vast majority of breeding pairs (97%) in a study conducted here at Mount Kinabalu had helpers. The Latin species name of the Penan Bulbul is ruficrissus.

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Indonesia Birds Charlotte Breeding 231

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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. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring.

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Breeders Breeding Science Raised 205

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Mt Bruce, since you ask, is the Department of Conservation’s premier endangered bird breeding centre. Long-finned Eels swam in the rivers, and in their pens the breeding Blue Ducks where whistling away. And on this visit, we were there in time to see feeding for the kiwi chicks the centre was raising. A Kaka at Mt Bruce.

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New Zealand Rats Raised Endangered Species 161

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FEBRUARY 27, 2016

These ponds and the larger Cedar Lake and collection pond hold Tufted Duck , Greylag Goose and Eurasian Moorhen. Until the turn of the century, a wildfowl collection and extensive aviaries were kept at the castle. The exotics have now mostly been dispersed to other collections, but a few remain.

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Collecting South America Blackbirds Adoptable 100

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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. Peregrine Falcon nests. Northern Flicker eggs in nest and nestlings.

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Eggs 2006 Family New York 263

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MAY 30, 2013

Curiously, some eagles were also observed by the Ada Ciganlija Island, within Belgrade – in the breeding season! These large birds need secluded spots to raise their young, and Serbia seems to be lacking such places. The biggest number of these birds ever seen at once was nine, in the spring of 1910. We must be doing something wrong?

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Serbia Eagles Hungary Cooking 210

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JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books.

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! The population decline is generally blamed on habitat destruction and introduced predators, but inter-breeding may also be to blame.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 175

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

It is at the breeding season, however, that the Western Gull accomplishes real mischief. While he effects a passable truce with his own kind at that season, it is that he may the better combine with his fellows and terrorize all other breeding sea-birds.” Some of the more interesting items found by foraging gulls are collected.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 176

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JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 218

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 242

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

In terms of breeding behavior, starlings are a diversified group – some use helpers, others do not. Superb Starlings avoid this when using helpers, much like rich people presumably reducing the stress of raising kids by hiring a couple of nannies. But that is the environment they survive in, get grants, get professorships, etc.

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South Africa Africa Cape Verde Birds 191

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JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day. You should try it too. Not going for the obvious either. Sometimes it works.

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Birds Sparrows Mountain Goats Protection 191

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APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Only, we didn’t shoot them and collect specimens at the end of the day.) It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant. John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. ” [[link]. ” [[link]. Which pretty much describes our adventures finding these birds.

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2018 Michigan North Dakota New Jersey 161