Breeding Eggs Mexico 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2024
Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. And the Baltimore Oriole is an iconic eastern bird, which winters along Mexico’s east coast, but never in the west. Then, around 4:00 p.m.,
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2020
Especially when I compare it with the other cowbird present in central Mexico, the Brown-headed Cowbird. Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. Both (in fact, all) cowbirds are obligate brood parasites.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For the nature lovers and birders who participate in breeding bird surveys, the atlas represents hours, often hundreds of hours, of volunteer time spent within a community of citizen scientists doing what they love, observing birds. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Heermann’s Gulls form large breeding colonies on arid islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico, from March through July. The largest colony exists on Isla Raza, where an estimated 90–95% of the total world population breeds 1. This photo by Basar from Wikipedia Commons shows the adult in breeding plumage.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2012
The spill that keeps on giving – now petroleum compounds and the chemicals used to clean up the oil from BP’s massive spill two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico are showing up in eggs of breeding birds in Minnesota.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2013
” When we think of going birding in Mexico we often think about the colorful tropical species; Russet-crowned Motmot , Eared Quetzal , Black-throated Magpie-Jay …However, searching for rare and little understood species can perhaps be even more exciting and rewarding. Very little is known about this enigmatic species.
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