10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2015

Most birds use these ephemeral beaches as breeding grounds. They have adapted to breed during the dry season when sand bars are exposed and food is plenty. This results in all eggs and chicks being taken by the water and a failed nesting attempt. Pied Lapwing. Photo Credits: Amy McAndrews. Photo Credits: Kenneth Cole Schneider.

South America 168

South America Fish Breeding Eggs 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

While the native apple snail continued declining, another species of apple snail native to South America began to appear in canals and ponds in South Florida. The baseball-sized “Island apple snail”, as this exotic snail is known, spreaded through South Florida. Native snails lay 20-50 eggs at a time during the spring.

Florida 223

Florida South America Bolivia Eggs 223

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage. The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds. Peruvian Pelican in non-breeding plumage. Brown Pelican in Breeding Plumage.

Pelicans 157

Pelicans North America Peru Chile 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

She explains complex and sometimes controversial topics including captive breeding, environmental toxins, feral cats and other invasive predators, Hawaiian avian extinction, avian disease, California Condor distribution and history, legal loopholes, and lead poisoning.

California Condor 181

California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2017

Though they weight less than two ounces, Least Terns migrate from South America to the West, East, and Gulf Coast to breed on dunes or flat gravel roofs (there are also populations in the middle of the United States). It’s mid-April, and soon they will begin laying eggs.

South America 103

South America United States Protection Pelicans 103

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. Under suitable conditions, a nest is quite durable and can be used in successive years.

San Diego 165

San Diego illegal California South America 165

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. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. Lots and lots of birds.

Florida 179

Florida Birds Groups North Carolina 179

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. The hard-checking, tough-as-nails Yellow-rumped Warblers , who will be here until the last northbound migrants chase them back to the boreal forests in May.

North America 198

North America North Carolina Tennessee South America 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. The world’s largest Manx Shearwater colony is on Skomer, an island off the south-west coast of Wales, UK.

United Kingdom 160

United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Illustrations are from Restall’s Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide , and, according to the book’s publicity material, many have been “re-worked” and repainted for the new edition.

Trinidad 198

Trinidad South America Birds 2011 198

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

Typically there are four eggs in a brood especially on good year. Once the eggs hatch the family begins the long walk down to the shoreline. Some of these birds, breeding up here at 73 degrees north will winter at the tip of South America, Tierra Del Fuego, 54 degrees south or so. This was a later nest.

South America 161

South America Eggs Family Raised 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Hopefully, future editions of the Audubon guide will do the same. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

North America 279

North America America California Condor Birds 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

Endangered Species 160

Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

A distribution map shows areas in South America where the species has been found, with letters and dotted lines indicating subspecies areas, red dots showing where the type specimen was found, and X’s denoting questionable sightings. They are, of course, of antpittas building or incubating eggs on a nest. Organization.

Eggs 143

Eggs Research South America Costa Rica 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Chapters on taxonomy, distribution, anatomy and morphology, habitat, behavior, breeding, plumage and moult, food and foraging, flight, calls, drumming, and conservation follow. They are curiously linked to both fertility and destruction, associated with the reveler Pan and the god of war, Mars.

Woodpeckers 245

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Philippines 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As summer ends these same birds (and the new year’s broods) then escape the snow and ice and head south for the austral summer, finding warmth, long days and abundant insect life. Anywhere from 3-8 very pale blue eggs are laid, incubated by both parents. In the High Arctic we find several migrating species that break that mould.

Somalia 198

Somalia Africa Nigeria North America 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

It is from the Jan Smuts airport restaurant and offers (in two languages) chilled fruit juice, rolled oats, corn flakes, rice krispies, smoked cod, calfs liver, broiled bacon, eggs, corned beef, ham, polony, tea, toast, coffee, marmalade, jam and honey!

South Africa 158

South Africa United States Alligators Austin 158