10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2017
The Species Accounts tell us the birds’ stories, and a lot of information is packed into these paragraphs: appearance; age and gender differences in appearance; how the species differs from similar birds; interesting behavior or nesting notes; whether it is common or uncommon or rare; migratory or resident, breeding or nonbreeding in Kruger N.P.;
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Currently endemic to a single valley system in the Andes of Ecuador, this species escaped detection from researchers for thirty years until the rediscovery of a few pairs in November 1998 by Dr. Neils Krabbe. In November 2010, I backpacked for fifty days via the reasonably good bus system in Ecuador.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2023
During my trip to Peru (where I almost got lost in the jungle trying to locate a rumoured Andean C**k-of-the-rock lek), my rambles in South-east Asia and also this last trip to Ecuador, I realised that this is more than possible because compared to the forests in these regions our European ones seem like a walk in the park.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2014
Let’s say you’re a bird wrapping up your breeding season in the north of Scotland—where do your thoughts turn when winter beckons? the Caribbean islands, and Ecuador and Peru. If you’re like most, you head southeast, meeting up with your continental cousins near the Mediterranean or Arabian Seas.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2011
Its population actually fluctuates in response to the availability of Spruce Budworm and though it nests on the ground it is entirely inseparable from the forests of the north during breeding season. The bird in the images in this post was spotted in fall so it in mostly basic plumage, not surprisingly.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Some birds with populations on different breeding grounds move not to the same winter quarter but to far-distant ones – such as the Red-necked Phalarope.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2011
As is often the case in birds, teenagers, and other living creatures, these charismatic colors play a prominent role in the booby’s breeding rituals. However, Sula nebouxii is most closely associated with Ecuador’s evocative Galápagos Islands. Basically, lady boobies love knocking the brightest blue boots.
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