10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

There really is no clear definition. When I explained that to some of my new coworkers, one responded with, “By your definition, I’m an ornithologist, but you know way more about birds than I do.” Most dictionaries describe ornithology as a branch of zoology dealing with birds. ” So how does this happen?

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Arkansas Science Farming Research 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

” They appear on all the continents except Antarctica and migrate anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 miles from breeding grounds on the tundra to temperate and tropical beaches. I was hoping to find a host of sparrows, and did see some, but the Sanderlings definitely stole the show. They are far and away my favorite shorebird.

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North America 2008 Birds Sparrows 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2021

Whiskered Terns will breed in this area if the conditions are right. The bird-life has definitely benefitted by the recent outbreak of locusts. It is hard to make it possible for you to appreciate the huge numbers of both Whiskered Terns and locusts that have been flying around in recent weeks. Whiskered Terns feeding.

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Cattle Breeding Family Rights 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You know that classical definition of what separates men from boys? The Lake Neusiedl National Park is Europe’s westernmost steppe lake and an important breeding and wintering area, as well as a migratory stopover site. The next day we had an outdoor workshop and a chance to test the toys. Merely the price of their toys.

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 299

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

Even better, many of them, adorned in fresh breeding plumage, are at peak pulchritude. This issue most definitely merits further inspection! Obviously, you will be birding. Corey and I are covering different parts of New York State. The NYC area may already be awash with migrant songbirds, but Western NY seems behind schedule.

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2014 New York Birds Breeding 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2022

We know that Yellow-billed Spoonbills breed further south and no doubt start to roam around once they leave the breeding colony. The stand-out bird species for the day was definitely the large flock of Royal Spoonbills , though.

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Breeding Ducks Species Birds 228

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Never trust a field guide publisher’s claim of a definitive text, because each new edition is certain to bring more a definitive text than that from the previous edition! Forget occasional escapees, there is an established feral population successfully breeding in the north of Germany, which was 131 birds strong last year.

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2022

I assume this is because so many of them breed in the Arctic and tundra regions, so their summer is much briefer than that of other birds. Still, most of the birds were locals, including Fulvous Whistling-Ducks , Black-necked Stilts , and a lone American Avocet (still with a bit of breeding color). Definitely an adult.

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Mexico Breeding California Groups 217

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Definitely my personal favorite of Africa’s pink birds is the delicate Pink-throated Twinspot. 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. Pink-throated Twinspot.

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Africa Somalia Mozambique Pelicans 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2011

I often cover 45 kilometres in a day whilst I monitor the Pied Oystercatchers breeding, but I do need to plan carefully around large tides. I would definitely recommend birding by bicycle along the beach-but BE PREPARED!!! I quickly took a couple of photos and retreated. What a lovely surprise on another perfect day!

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Whales Whaling Turtles Birds 260

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. Gujarat, December 2010.

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Sudan India Ukraine Camels 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2011

When the orioles arrive at my feeder, they definitely have a preference for the grape jelly to the orange–who doesn’t love to chow down on that high fructose corn syrup? They are species that breed in the US and then spend the winter in Central and South America, eating what’s avialable–especially fruit.

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Nigeria Belize Birds South America 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2022

Part of the flock of Laughing Gulls , all in fresh breeding plumage. I must admit that I nearly tossed my food when I saw a bird fly across one of the ponds that was definitely a gull – but also definitely not a Laughing Gull. Within the frenzy of activity there were a few Royal Terns as well as the smaller Roseate Tern.

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Trinidad Woodpeckers Ducks Abandon 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2012

The small community out there is lucky to have a large Common Tern colony that also hosts breeding Black Skimmers and Least Terns , to say nothing of the Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers that breed out on the barrier beaches as well. Some are already in high breeding plumage while others are mired in drab near-basic.

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Birds Breeding Rights Species 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

The burgeoning number of waders in the fall reminds locals that many herons and egrets disperse northward during the late spring and early summer to breed and feed, returning in the late summer and fall to seek refuge from the oncoming cold and lack of food.

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Florida Miami Falcons Birds 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2021

On the other hand, in April, some other species start breeding here in Shanghai. Nearby, two Grey-headed Lapwings have apparently decided to stay in Shanghai and start preparations for breeding. Definitely not soulmates of mine. Still, it makes you wonder whether staying in Shanghai all year really is the best decision.

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Birds Farming Alaska Breeding 215

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

On top of that, they occur in breeding and non-breeding plumage! The top photo shows a first winter California Gull ( Larus californicus ) on the right and a non-breeding adult on the left. Below is the same first winter California Gull with the smaller non-breeding adult Ring-billed Gull ( Larus delawarensis ) on the left.

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California Sacramento Turtles Breeding 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

Wood-Wrens, which like to live close to the ground in deep brush, definitely follow this rule; they are not at all colorful, but their song sure does ring. 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 Mexico Emotional 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2020

But the Hummingbirds definitely won the day! 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. White-eared Hummingbirds very rarely wander north of the same border.

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Mexico Species Breeding Family 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

Both Brown and Red-footed Boobies actively breed on Little Tobago as well as Saint Giles. It was this post right here on 10,000 Birds I ended up bookmarking as the definitive source for ID’ing these two species. Boobies come in many colour variations but one very distinctive shape.

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Fish Rights Breeding Species 256

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the non-breeding season, Common Merganser all look pretty much like females. Not a bad look though – more attractive than the male breeding plumage, I think. Carrion Crows like to think of themselves as very modern birds. To enhance this image, they very much like to pose on power lines.

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Birds Germany India 2018 254

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2024

This unusual bird is definitely one of my favourite species in Europe, so I was very happy to connect with it (and to hear its call for the first time). Incredibly, this was the first time I saw a male of this species in breeding plumage (plus the first time I heard its song, just as for the Wryneck ).

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Germany Birds Parrots Europe 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. 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. Lots and lots of birds. Oh, the lessons of bird banding.

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Florida Birds Groups North Carolina 205

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2012

And you see them in the fall migration, when they foresake their distinctive breeding habitats and ranges and migrate promiscuously, sometimes in mixed flocks, all down towards Mexico. But it definitely means that summer is ending. They’re nearly as bad as swallows, even when you’re sober.

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Mexico Dogs Breeding Birds 171

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

About 600 individuals currently live in captivity as part of a breeding program, and there are reintroduction programs underway in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. . Having a family of endangered Red-billed Curassow willingly approach me to within such a short distance is definitely one of them!

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California Condor Brazil Parrots Texas 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2022

Admittedly this has never crossed my mind as being remotely interesting, young birds are generally awkward things, not yet fitting into the sleek and streamlined expectation of the dictionary definition of “bird” Furthermore, thrushes are often underappreciated creatures on their own. Wise creatures.

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Trinidad Emotional Breeding Cats 147

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. Motmots definitely make up one of the bird world’s glamour families. The Orange-breasted Bunting is one of Mexico’s most beautiful endemics.

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Mexico South America 2020 America 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. Here are some examples of when a bird definitely needs your help and a call to a federally permitted bird rehabilitator is warranted. Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. After all, “Mother knows best.”

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

Lake Kerkini National Park in the north of Greece is the very best birding area in the Balkan Peninsula and definitely among the top ten hotspots of Europe. However, during a storm the chains that kept it anchored broke off and the raft is now stranded on the shore, accessible to stray dogs and not used for breeding.

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Greece Pelicans Stray Dog Tortoises 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively).

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Serbia Norway France Japan 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2024

Oxford Languages offers this definition: 2. (of And who knows, perhaps it might use this crisis to find a few new breeding grounds, to ensure its survival in the near future? The word “endemic” has always seemed rather vague to me. of a plant or animal) native and restricted to a certain place.

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Costa Rica Mexico Lions North America 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2024

White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) Notwithstanding the fact that nearly all of the endemics and other native species are extinct the islands of St Helena and Ascension remain very popular for birdwatchers and especially photographers because they are both major breeding sites for seabirds. BirdLife international has designated St.

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Madagascar ALA 2000 Birds 243

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

We get to see a lot of them around here, and familiarity breeds, not contempt certainly, but perhaps apathy. Also in the Palm sort-of-flock, were a couple of these fantastic “Yellow” Pam Warblers, the eastern subspecies hypochrysea , definitely the less common of the two around here.

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North America North Carolina South America Tennessee 230

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

I am definitely not an expert or a scientist or anything but from what I understand this looks like very good news for the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. After all, Shell-billed Sandpiper must be closely related so maybe we can get a captive breeding program going and then backcross the results later and save the spoonie?

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Hunters Hunting Breeding Rights 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

In Costa Rica, the sole tropical breeding albatross is a rare visitor to pelagic waters of the Pacific. A more surefire way to witness this long-winged bird is by visiting breeding grounds on the Galapago Islands. Two are pelagic species, two are resident, and the other one is a mystery. Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata).

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Costa Rica Parrots Albatross Protection 278

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. If you ever get the chance to visit the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve you should definitely go for it. An Eared Grebe in breeding plumage should be enough to get you to the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve all by itself.

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 237

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

Birds & birding were definitely the last thing on my mind. Germany currently has a population of around 500 breeding pairs, which is a significant improvement over the 50 pairs left in the early 1970s. As it won’t need many words (I have mentioned this, yes?), I’ll present it as a short picture story.

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