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Breeding Examples Raised 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Black Drongos must be breeding here – this juvenile was terrorizing his parents with constant calls for food. Presumably, the parents of black drongo chicks sometimes meet with Red-billed Starlings to sympathize with each other about the challenges of raising chicks these days. Black-tailed Gulls , I think.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2023
We were in the remote Amazonian forests and not a sound was to be heard except for the rhythmical dripping of water from the raised paddles. For example nothing is known of its breeding habits, any accounts of its diet (it is assumed to feed on insects and other arthropods), ways of foraging and movement (presumed resident) are wanting.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Others, like the petrels and some of the auks, will lay a single egg per breeding attempt. The investment placed in each clutch bur seabirds is so great that only one breeding attempt can be seen to completion each year. They are cavity nesters, breeding in natural cavities or holes dug into the soil. So why do it?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2013
Their remarkable survival skills, evolved over thousands of years, rely on a chain of stopover feeding grounds and habitats for breeding and raising young – but break any one link and the survival of the entire species is threatened. Climate change is the biggest threat to migratory birds this century.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Counting the Birds I was in my teens when I undertook my first bird-survey: it was field work for the British Trust for Ornithology’s The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. I didn’t, for example, see a single Fieldfare anywhere.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2012
Pied Oystercatchers nest along our coastline from late June and they will continue to attempt to raise chicks over the following months. You often come across these scenarios accidentally and many people probably have no idea why they are getting abused by an adult bird!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2021
For example, the panel (see below) included three members of the pro-change Bird Names for Birds group (more representation than the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and the U.S. For example, Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark Expedition fame, has been honored with the names of multiple U.S.
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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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2015
Though it took you until 1970 to designate your state bird – the last in the United States to do so – the Eastern Bluebird is beautiful, has a distinctive song, and is a great example of an environmental success story. Today, there are over 22 million breeding Eastern Bluebirds, and they are an IUCN species of Least Concern!
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Director Gen.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Many of these (like Plumbeous Kites and Swallow Tanagers ) are here to breed, and they do so alongside a host of resident species. I was saddened when I saw a White-lined Tanager feeding a Shiny Cowbird , but felt relieved a few weeks later when I saw her raising young of her own species. Hook-billed Kite.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. Take Hawaii, for example. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).
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10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
The Asian Koel is a cuckoo species and thus freed from the obligation to raise its own chicks (though the birds like to refer to themselves as brood parasites, which sounds a bit less obviously selfish). It is small and light – about 80 to 100 grams – which allows it to perform some amazing acrobatics in and on reeds. (1)
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Fortunately, the very abundant 2018 rains raised the water level to heights I had never seen, and so far, that seems to be making up for this year’s poor rains. Oddly, I saw no Snowy Plovers, even though these apparently breed by the lakeshore. The west half of the lake is never more than a few feet deep.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2015
My walk on one particular Thursday provides the perfect example. The first shorebird I saw was a Willet , already transitioning out of its breeding plumage and feeding with the gulls along the surf. If I approached too closely they scurried away, so I raised my lens to take identification photos.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2023
By raising awareness and advocating for responsible tourism practices, we can ensure that future generations will continue to marvel at the avian treasures that call Shanghai home. Many native bird species have been displaced or lost their breeding grounds, leading to a significant decline in their numbers. Green Spaces?
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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. Information is often highly detailed. And another when that egg is removed.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
For example, a feeding flock in a small suburban hardwood hammock such as at A.D. Rarities such as Blue-winged Warbler , Hooded Warbler , and Nashville Warbler have all been recorded multiple times, and these records raise a lot of questions as to which species spend the winter regularly in the comparatively underbirded Caribbean islands.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
I found it interesting, for example, to learn that t**s movements differ from warblers, that they “have a bolder, more stop-start or leaping progress through trees or across spaces.”. The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group. The latter will be useful, I think, to novices and visitors to Great Britain.
203 10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2017
Each Species Account includes one to three drawings of the bird, a range map, common and scientific names, and a one to three sentence description of the bird, which may or may not include its migratory and breeding habits, feeding behavior, plumage, habitat, and demographic status—whatever helps identify the bird quickly.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. It looked like a family of parrots were trying to kill each other” The Black-backed Puffback has what eBird describes as “a fiery red eye” eBird also explains the name: “When excited, males can raise fluffy white feathers on the rump to resemble a puffball.”
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The song of the Amazonian Antshrike, for example, is “an even pitched, fast (9-11 noes/sec), slightly accelerating series of hollow, popping notes that get louder; occ.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 9, 2012
Smaller breeds can live comfortably in an apartment but larger dogs need lots of space and preferably a back yard. So for example, if you had cat allergies when you were younger so you opted for a dog instead, that doesn’t mean that you’ll never grow an allergy to dogs—especially if you haven’t been around dogs for several years.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Three helpful sections precede the Introduction: Photo and silhouette comparisons of gulls that breed in North America (see illustration above), Basic Anatomical Terms illustrated with four diagrams, and a very selective Glossary. The top Herring Gull page, for examples, balances two horizontal photo series.
214 10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2016
It was organized to boost eBird use, raise funds for bird conservation, and just get more people out birding. How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ?
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10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. We’ve all seen guilty dogs slinking away with lowered tails, for example. Foxes that slunk back in fear and snapped their teeth didn’t get to breed. Ones that came up to the scientists did.
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 8, 2009
The last example suggests the difficulty of making a clear distinction between an animal part and an animal product. For example, if one could pick up shed animal legs in a pasture in which animals roam freely among their own kind, there might be no moral objection to eating the legs. What Is an Animal Part? KBJ: Ditto.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives. The full text of the amendment is available here.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 17, 2022
In terms of breeding behavior, starlings are a diversified group – some use helpers, others do not. Superb Starlings avoid this when using helpers, much like rich people presumably reducing the stress of raising kids by hiring a couple of nannies. But that is the environment they survive in, get grants, get professorships, etc.
259 10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2012
This week at 10,000 Birds, it’s all about how birds get around to bumping uglies (I’m talking about cloacas here), who they do it with, and how this actually leads to raising chicks…the birds and the bees of birds, you might say. Believe it or not, this is what “fidelity” looks like.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
I would encourage the KDFW to take Tennessee’s example as an indication that offering sandhill cranes for hunting will create far more public relations trouble than it’s worth. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. A good example is the function of beauty in male birds. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone. I raised 4 of the cranes shot this year– chicks that still had much of their brown plumage.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2011
Mallards , of course, bring new meaning to the term dabbling duck , what with all those wild mallard hybrids and domestic cross-breeds running around. However, Blue-winged x Cinnamon crosses have been spotted before by, for example, Bill Schmoker , Greg Lasley , and still others. Consider the teals. What about the rest?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. In some cases, for example Jabiru, the information is tucked away at the end and can’t even be discerned from the range map. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38
279 10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. But in the vast in between where most birds exist there are all sorts of contradictory examples. Little tiny birds with their little tiny wings and high daily energetic demands fly zillions of miles, while larger birds migrate shorter distances, for example.
249 10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
For example , fallen figs do not seem to mind catching a ride with Oriental Pied Hornbills. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. There are some reports of the species having bred in captivity, for example, in a British Wild Life Park.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2012
We all get a kick from seeing a fine example of a male bird, adorned in his breeding finery, singing his own praises from on high, but spare a thought for the reserved and retiring birds for whom such self-promotion and self-adulation would be inconceivable.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
James Wakelin is prime example of modern ornithologist and conservator. This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590. Hugh was recently awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to ornithology.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2023
Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. One page is dedicated to the Long-tailed Shrike.
246 10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2013
I knew I would not be seeing the bird in its rosy-breasted breeding plumage, but somehow seeing the bird in all its forms helped crystallize its appearance in my head. And, I had a good example of the usefulness of the Crossley method with which to begin this review. Sadly, I still did not see the bird.
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