10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. Its mostly found on the ground in thickets or the edges of dense vegetation and usually in small family parties. There are certainly some stunners involved.

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Africa Somalia Mozambique Pelicans 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

There are few families of birds as bewitching as the birds-of-paradise. They are feathered jewels with extraordinary breeding dances almost unrivalled in the bird world. There are, however, two species that are more accesible than the rest of the family. Of course, now I want to see the rest of them. …

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Indonesia Guinea Australia Cooking 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2021

Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. All sightings southeast of the species’ Puerto Vallarta-to-Los Mochis breeding area are of migrating birds. Not that I measured him, of course. But I never, ever miss a February and July in Paso Ancho.

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Nicaragua 2015 2016 Mexico 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. Carmine bee-eaters occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, and many populations migrate widely post breeding.

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Africa Gabon Uganda South Africa 266

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. The clutch hatches out very asynchronously due to the female’s constant incubation over the course of laying.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2023

Before I was born, it used to be a rare breeding species in mountainous areas south of Belgrade, but became extinct after the 1960s due to intensive poisoning of wolves. Stopping for a large cappuccino at a drive-in McDonalds en route, soon I entered a hamlet of a dozen family homes mixed with a dozen small apartment buildings.

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Bulgaria McDonalds Eagles Wolves 264

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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Eggs 2006 Family New York 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Citrine Wagtails are rare in Shanghai but apparently quite common around Chaka, though unfortunately most of the ones we saw were not in breeding plumage. The Brown Accento r certainly ranks among the less attractive accentors, though of course, some species in this family set a rather high bar. I blame this on covid-19.

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China Austria Birds ALA 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

They migrate down from alpine and arctic tundra to lower latitudes in the non-breeding season (click on photos for full sized images). I shot this video this last Thanksgiving weekend from the Sacramento NWR on my way back from visiting the family. They walk briskly while foraging and are known to bob their tails. I hope you enjoy it!

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Sacramento Wildlife California Sparrows 193

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. In fact, the family name Lanius derives from a Latin word for “butcher”, though the “butcherbird” was a butcher long before humans even developed the language to describe these activities.

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2019 Butcher Livestock 2006 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Horned Larks breed widely over North America, including up here in the High Arctic. Horned Lark fledglings seem impossibly big to me, like they are larger than the adults (which of course they are not). Here they are a common breeding bird, one of our two species that migrate from here to Europe and then south. Calling for mom.

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Eggs North America Breeding Europe 233

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do. ” Hm.

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LACS Birds France Japan 264

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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Cuba Columbus Parrots DC 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

Of course, being a proud German, I prefer this thrush as its Latin species name is heinei for the German Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (time was not precious in the olden days, and there were fewer forms to fill out, so people could afford to have much longer names). Female below.

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2011

But the new second edition of Watching Sparrows * by Michael Male and Judy Fieth, who have a whole series of bird films already produced or in production , not only kept me staring at the screen but drew in family members to see what I was watching, to say nothing of my cats, who were enthralled by the sparrows singing on screen.

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Sparrows North America United States America 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

The ABA currently lumps the Mangrove Warbler and Golden Warbler with the Yellow Warbler (the IOC lumps Mangrove and Golden Warbler together but splits them from the Yellow Warbler that breeds in North America.)

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

Birds, of course! ( Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. An Eared Grebe in breeding plumage should be enough to get you to the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve all by itself. As Clare well knows! ) Get out of the casinos and into nature!

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

While reading the book I kept muttering, “Of course”; indeed, there was little to surprise or disagree with. The latter figure very significant when you remember that many breeding passerines depend on the humble caterpillar to feed themselves and their offspring. POST SCRIPT.

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North America Wildlife Mammals Breeding 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2022

Wood-Wrens , birds of the family Henicorhina , are very small wrens of Central and South America that like to live very close to the ground, in dense forest underbrush or elfin forests. But, of course, the Wood-Wren was not one of them, as I had already seen it in El Temazcal. So eventually, the pilgrimage must be made.

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Mexico South America America Species 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Readers with a pornographic mindset will enjoy the following information about the Dusky Moorhen: “Simultaneously promiscuous, forming breeding groups of 2–7 apparently unrelated birds; individuals sometimes switch groups between seasons. Honeyeaters are a large bird family (190 species) with a strong presence in Australia.

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 258

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2020

A more perceptive idea might have been the call of Nutting’s Flycatchers , but, of course, that species would never congregate in such numbers. In case you are wondering, Blue-throated Mountain-Gem and Rivoli’s Hummingbird have been known to occasionally breed in the southwestern U.S., just north of the Mexican border.

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Mexico Species Breeding Family 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

Hey, in 1959 Walt Disney set up a studio on the island and filmed Swiss Family Robinson there! The seabirds are of course, the main attraction. Both Brown and Red-footed Boobies actively breed on Little Tobago as well as Saint Giles. The island of Tobago in the southern Caribbean is much wilder than one could imagine.

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Fish Rights Breeding Species 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2012

It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the west coast of northern South America, and in winter is found across the rest of Central America. They are cosmopolitan, nesting even in urban areas, but also in golf courses and parking lots.

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Eggs South America America North America 200

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fortunately, other spots in the same area offer similar birds, which of course I would not have known without our guides. Similarly, the Alpine Leaf Warbler is one of the more attractive species in an otherwise almost indistinguishable family of identical leaf warblers. (“But the difference in wing bars, Kai!”).

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North Korea Birds China Woodpeckers 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Most famous for the great wildebeest migration, a phenomenon of 2 million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and eland seasonally moving across the plains and woodlands following an ancient course charted by seasonal rainfall. And of course the big game is an added bonus.

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2024

The Sinaloa Martin is a large swallow, which seems to breed only along a narrow band of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, and Jalisco. Of course, Paso Ancho is also a hotspot for many other beautiful species and endemics. Western Mexico offers only one, the endemic Russet-crowned Motmot.

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Mexico South America 2020 America 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. And of course, I would have been wrong. 36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump. This post shows some of them.

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 270

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Twelve family accounts have been added. It is 72 pages longer than the first edition. An undisclosed number of family and species accounts have been updated. Nine photographers contributed most of the photographs used to illustrate the family sections, including Richard Crossley, Kevin T. Over 70 range maps were updated.

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North America America Family Falcons 189

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. A number of families exist on Trinidad but not Tobago. Most notably the family of New World Vultures. No bitterns have ever been seen on Tobago, but Trinidad has three.

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Trinidad Turkey Squirrels Cows 279

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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Congo Africa Madagascar Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. 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.

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New York Cooking Chipmunks Whales 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They are the only dabbling duck that regularly breeds in the marshes of the south and while they are a Species of Least Concern because of their large range and population, according to BirdLife International, there is concern that they will be genetically swamped by Mallards , with whom they readily hybridize. What a bird!

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Ducks Illinois Florida Mississippi 202

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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Breeding Australia Hunting Family 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Each family group starts with a description of what traits are common to the species within the family, its representation in Northern Central America, and other interesting, relevant facts. Of course, this is an identification guide, not a coffee table book. Range maps accompany each species account—small but specific.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 235

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

Of course it involved subterfuge, and bribery, and Jonathan Franzen at a crossroads at midnight. ” Glancing at the man who’d interrupted, I remembered exactly how his family first made their money and decided to move ahead quickly. But the details must remain nebulous. “I’ve never even heard of this McCown jerk.

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Branding Falcons California Condor Broker 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea California 178