10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

The birds are not allowed to breed on the runway, but many loaf around on it. Around 100,000 of these terns breed on almost every available space on the island, and walking through groups of them is a deafening and quite painful experience. This species doesn’t breed on Tern Island itself, but does sometimes turn up there.

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Hawaii Breeding Wildlife Eggs 192

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? You would certainly not see an American Avocet in the middle of the desert without water being present. Birds, of course! ( As Clare well knows! ) Get out of the casinos and into nature!

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Cyprus Slaughtered Slaughter Research 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

Especially as we were at the time about to experience a rapidly advancing tropical storm. Striated Heron in breeding plumage – extra plumes and blue lores. Two species of icterids populated the area, the presence of either was a direct indicator of the degree of water present. Great Blue Heron.

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Livestock ALA Ducks illegal 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

The sight, the sound and the smell, coupled with the sheer spectacle of seeing so many birds at once, makes viewing a big seabird colony an avian experience that can’t be compared with any other. Nobody knows whether the single pair bred successfully – it seems unlikely that they did – but they were present throughout the summer.

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Puffins Eggs Fish Culling 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Every season presents its specialty species in the full flower of their availability, diversity, and beauty. Unless you’re a big fan of your local breeding birds, you’ll find that this is the most boring time of the birding year. Bird watching has a surprisingly steep learning curve.

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United States Birds 2006 Breeders 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. Some specimens in the hand also presented difficulties.

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Trinidad Welfare North America Emotional 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

For over 70 years, ANWR has been a refuge for migrating and breeding birds – most notably serving as the winter home for the only wild flock of whooping cranes. Take advantage of the guided tours, presentations, and lectures; maybe even volunteer for projects while you’re there. So let’s plan that trip, shall we?

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Texas Alaska North America America 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 13, 2019

We’re a special breed: difficult, stubborn and completely consumed by our own goals and results. To motivate and unite your sales team, you must create lasting, memorable and influential experiences that encourage them to believe in the goals you set before them. Experience is the most underrated problem-solving asset in business.

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Experience Experiments Fort Worth Branding 87

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

His main purpose here is presenting the way he looks at birds, “the whole bird and more” approach to birding. The chapter “Vagrants” promotes the joys and difficulties of finding that mega-rarity on your own, giving Lovitch’s own experiences using habitat, geography, and weather to make rarity predictions that unfortunately don’t come true.

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New Jersey Science United States 2012 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2015

And, not surprisingly, the breeding birds present were largely the same species as last year which was not a problem at all! It was a great experience for a second year in a row and we can’t wait to get back next year! Not because of the species but because he knew the species! That’s my boy!

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Birds New York Family Sparrows 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Presently I find the sit-and-wait approach much more gratifying. Many of these (like Plumbeous Kites and Swallow Tanagers ) are here to breed, and they do so alongside a host of resident species. There is an unquantifiable joy one experiences when genuinely surprised. Yup, that’s it. Let me explain. Hook-billed Kite.

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Birds Falcons Raised Species 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Firstly, shorebirds present a significant ID challenge. Its a great place for novice and more experienced birders to enjoy and get to grips with a good variety of North American plovers, most of which are present on any given day, especially in winter. For me, there’s a few things that drive this fascination.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 234

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Tara Tanaka described the experience of digiscoping this spoonbill as such: Tara Tanaka : Merritt Island NWR was the last stop on a 10-day Florida birding trip last winter. We got there mid-afternoon and I had a great time photographing Reddish Egrets and Tri-colored Herons feeding—my main reason for going there.

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2011 Eagles Bald Eagle Owls 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. In another experiment, other species of Darwin Finches were kept next to Woodpecker Finches that used tools. The behavior was inherent. All they need is time to master the technique.

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Fish Ostriches Woodpeckers Breeders 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

A few Brown Noddies were also present, an occasional Pomarine Jaeger lumbered past the edge of the flock, and we got onto a distant yet definite adult Masked Booby ! Also known as the Fairy Tern, this species breeds on Cocos Island and is very rarely seen from pelagic trips in Costa Rica. Including this one perched on a sea turtle.

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Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Their population is currently stable among the arctic regions where they breed. It’s not that the sharp-tails are particularly rare to the refuge, but they were far more numerous than most years and present within sight of the road in a number of spots on Black Point Wildlife Drive. Check out some of these other wigeon shots.

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South Dakota Florida Sparrows Wildlife 191

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. It’s faster than committee work, more direct than bureaucracy, and it presents a clearer and more complete portrait of the range and value of the biodiversity of these countries. I love the writing here.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

Finally, of the at least 20 species of mammals present here, the otter, the jackal, and the wildcat certainly deserve a mention. The best birding season here is the winter when waterbirds come to overwinter in those lagoons, followed by migratory seasons and, to a lesser extent, breeding season. Now, I am done.

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Greece Pelicans Otters Birds 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2018

It’s just too much of an amazingly far cry from my present “winter”, one where my thickest jacket is a long sleeve shirt, where the dark of the night is filled with the constant hum of biomass, and where we can always see birds. A bit of a mild Niagara winter. Golden-hooded Tanager- winter bird, Costa Rica style. Sound nice?

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Species 183

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. Sadly, it did not stick around to breed though I thought that it might. After the sheer number of birds that vagrated to the northeast last year I have to think that I will find a post-breeding juvenile wandering, probably at Jamaica Bay.

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Connecticut 2011 Jamaica 2012 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Composite group photographs and brief text descriptions present the core information, the species accounts. The descriptions are all similar: a graceful black-capped shearwater with clean white underparts and patterned upperparts that breeds in New Zealand and which is uncommon in U.S. western waters in the fall.

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Dolphins Porpoises Whaling Whales 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

From our experience the greatest risk is when the shorebirds take off in a panic flight and clip each other’s wings and several fall into the sea. The shorebirds are heavily camouflaged on the rocks at Gantheaume Point and it is easy for people to wander across the rocks and have no idea that they are present.

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Taiwan Breeding Japan 2017 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whaling 223

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. There were several there, plus Lesser Adjutants.

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2016 India Ducks Costa Rica 137

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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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

We started out as a team with enthusiasm and knowledge, but little experience in book-making. reduce traffic casualties amongst Badgers , get the White-tailed Eagle back as a breeding bird, increase the number of protected plant species etc.). As for the books, that is a different matter. so far you have focussed on European nature.

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 13, 2020

Connection breeds trust. In our experience training and coaching thousands of sales professionals all over the world – this is an obvious skill that is often overlooked. He will be presenting a free webinar with colleague Jeff Cochran at 2 p.m. The need for connection is great and simple. Provide a focused agenda.

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Agenda Emotional Adoptable Game 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

It was the first seabird colony to be restored and when Atlantic Puffins starting breeding on the island again in 1977 it was the first time since 1885 that puffins had bred on Eastern Egg Rock. Hordes of these delightful black-and-white beauties were present and I did not get tired of photographing them.

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Puffins Eggs Hunters United States 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I had a beautifull view on 5 horned grebe here (one in breeding plumage), in Ann Arbor Michigan, for the 3 seconds it lasted, until I heard a huge “CRRACK&# , and I fell through the ice. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2011 New York Deer Philadelphia 169

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I attended a talk by Mark Anderson, Birdlife South Africa’s CEO, on the organization’s successes, one of six optional evening presentations, and was impressed by the specificity and diversity of their projects. The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). Technology to the rescue!

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 116

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. He clearly loves feeders and presents colorful photographs of seemingly every type sold in the U.S.,

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New York City Birds Squirrels Woodpeckers 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But, these numbers don’t adequately convey the work that went into this guide, which aims to “present the most up-to-date state of knowledge on the region’s birds for the first time as a whole in a single volume” (Introduction). So, this is no ordinary bird guide. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

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Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

They breed after rain events and this was exactly the situation once again. The dam was very full and there were numerous species of birds present. It was nothing like the experience in September with literally hundreds of each species looking for water. Tawny Frogmouth nest with chick.

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Shelters Geese Australia 2010 100