10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Three live and breed here, two migrate through the country in large numbers (one of those also breeds here in small numbers), and another migrates through and winters in Costa Rica. They won’t build a nest or look for a mate but other than that, their behavior in Costa Rica is pretty similar to that of their breeding grounds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland. In breeding plumage islandica godwits develop a deeper red plumage than their limosa cousins. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell.

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Blackbirds Birds Indonesia Bhutan 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. Of course, I can’t bat a thousand on the bad photo rankings.

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Mexico Guatemala South America United States 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.

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Iran Germany Research Humane 171

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Me, as a management consultant, I sometimes have to pretend to like challenges but of course, I would rather have some easy tasks. My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. In the non-breeding season, Common Merganser all look pretty much like females.

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Birds Germany India 2018 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2017

Of course, snow and cold still dominate upstate New York, but beautiful, belligerent Blue Jays don’t much care; some have lingered throughout the dark months, but fresh reinforcements have arrived to stake out territory. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

And, of course, there was a group of youngsters barbecuing. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. The hide overlooking the breeding colony of Red-footed Falcons. More or less, a proper picnic site. They got the message right. And so did I.

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Serbia Spain Birds Hungary 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

I did however manage to be in the right place at the right time to experience a gang of Magnificent Frigatebirds that had a Red-footed Booby surrounded. The seabirds are of course, the main attraction. Both Brown and Red-footed Boobies actively breed on Little Tobago as well as Saint Giles.

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Fish Rights Breeding Species 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. End of side note. How efficient.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. On Trinidad it took me some more time until I saw my first snipe.

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Trinidad Welfare North America Emotional 265

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Technically, it was a possibility, but if that was the case, he would never defend a PhD thesis on birds breeding along the high voltage powerlines in a treeless agricultural landscape. What made the story better (and a worse experience for him) was the fact that the cops had seen the Dogs of War. Well… she didn’t buy my tale.).

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Belize Africa Birds Serbia 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2017

By “believe,” of course, I mean you desire them and seek them out to commemorate another year of life. He had a lot to choose from with displaying Clark’s Grebes , hordes of western hummingbirds, breeding plumaged American Avocets and all the other goodies that can be found in the diverse habitats of SoCal.

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Los Angeles Coyotes 2017 Owls 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2022

Over the course of the next ten days we visited many locations with which those who have already visited Trinidad for birding would already be familiar. Eclipsing all that was seen previously on the trip (for me at least) was this breeding plumage Stripe-backed Bittern. No bitterns have ever been seen on Tobago, but Trinidad has three.

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Trinidad Turkey Squirrels Cows 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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North Dakota Sparrows Birds Blackbirds 137

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever. ” ( source ).

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Mountain Goats Singapore Giraffes Birds 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

This is, of course the Lesser Roadrunner. You truly cannot experience the Gray-barred Wren without hearing the raucous calls shared among group members of this highly-social species. Slate-throated Redstart : This lovely little bird is our most common resident (breeding) warbler, and in certain places you will hear it EVERYWHERE.

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Trinidad Transported Emotional Mexico 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lesser White-fronted Geese, of course. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. With one Black Stork near them, some 80 LWfG were foraging in the distance, where the sun was just now clearing the mist.

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2018 Serbia Greece Falcons 117

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2013

Rochester, NY is often called the Flour City in honor of the mills that once thrived along the faster courses of the Genessee River. He heard another on breeding territory in Sullivan County on Sunday and wondered if the bird he saw Friday had made its way north. Lilacs are kind of a big deal in Rochester. How about you?

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New York City 2013 New York Birds 153

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

The birds are not allowed to breed on the runway, but many loaf around on it. Around 100,000 of these terns breed on almost every available space on the island, and walking through groups of them is a deafening and quite painful experience. This species doesn’t breed on Tern Island itself, but does sometimes turn up there.

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Hawaii Breeding Wildlife Eggs 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Splits were once a much more subjective determination, based on differences in appearance, vocalizations, habits, and breeding preferences. Its vocalization and coloration are, of course, quite different from those of the northern subspecies. Now, splits are more likely to result from objective genetic studies.

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San Diego San Francisco Baltimore Mexico 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. Let’s hope it can find some relatively unfragmented habitat for breeding – studies show that the failure rate of nests is much higher in fragmented habitats. The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Gabon 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

” But, of course, I am. There is satisfaction in seeing well-loved migrants again, familiar birds in unfamiliar places, and, of course, Life Birds, each beautiful or exceptional in its own way. This is a male bird, of course. I like to add, “But I’m not a lister!” 3) Greater Adjutant. 4) Small Pratincole.

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2016 India Ducks Costa Rica 109

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2018

Fourth, not seeing a Kirtland’s Warbler in Central Park would mean that eventually I would have to make a trip to Michigan, the only place where they breed in any numbers, just to see a Kirtland’s Warbler some day. Third, Kirtland’s Warbler has only recently made the New York State checklist with two sightings in 2014. (

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New York New York City Michigan United States 109

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

It is this season we experience vast musical repertoires, green canopies, hot air, and bustling energy. These birds capitalize on a quick breeding season and usually have young out by mid-July in most cases. Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico.

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Colorado Breeders Wyoming United States 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. No, that was not a typo, the Sooty Terns fly non-stop for an average of five years before they return to the Dry Tortugas to breed.

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Florida Birds Groups North Carolina 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Now it is a book from a swank New York publishing house, with a fantastic jacket design and a significant marketing push (I ran across a quote from it in Outside magazine yesterday, and of course it is being reviewed on the premeire birding blog on the entire Internet.) “A man” here means Nathan Lochmueller. Which is fine.

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Turtles Indiana New York Ethics 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. Though they breed on the tundra, Pomarine Jaegers spend most of their lives at sea.

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North America San Francisco Suffering California 213

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

So I did… When you’re offering reasons to pursue a particular course of action, more is often better. Once it comes time to actually explain how to pursue that course of action, however, your design imperative changes. Push every button you can find and hope that some of them stick. Get serious… birds are everywhere.

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United States Birds 2006 Breeders 198

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

And one that I have written about before when I was pleased to find Blackburnian Warblers like the one above breeding.). And, of course, as I do sometimes, I managed to sneak in a bit of birding. In other words, it is an awesome place. It was amazing and one of those moments that even the completely non-birders appreciated.

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New York Cooking Chipmunks Whales 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

That assumes, of course, that he or she stays at Asa Wright Nature Centre. And then there are the birds… Green-backed or Amazonian White-tailed Trogon Asa Wright Nature Centre is most renowned for its resident breeding colony of unearthly Oilbirds. And English is the national language!

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Trinidad South America America Ecuador 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This is particularly poignant if the bird has disappeared during the course of my birding days or “on my watch” as I like to think of it. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!).

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Some of our most iconic, beautiful birds are located in Central America: Resplendent Quetzal, Turquoise-browed Motmot, Fiery-billed Aracari, Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher, and, of course, hummingbirds—Snowcap, Fiery-throated Hummingbird, Honduran Emerald, White-belled Mountain-gem—a long list of jeweled creatures.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds.

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