10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
Being technically outside the summer tourism season, one can enjoy the somewhat less expensive travel and hotel costs, less crowded venues, great weather and nearly endless daylight—and of course many birds migrating and beginning the breeding/nesting season! In fact I don’t think the sun ever set while we were in Iceland.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2011
Iceland Gulls do not breed in Iceland. But if one detaches “Ice&# from “land&# and puts a hyphen between the two the name seems much more fitting, because while they do not breed in Iceland they are usually seen when the land is covered in ice. … a.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2023
Very occasionally though, one might stray down the eastern seaboard of the USA, but for the most part, those that breed in arctic Canada migrate towards Europe and swell numbers there during the winter. The Common Ringed Plover’s two-toned call is lower and less sophisticated than the Semi-palmated’s.
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? Along the wayward route, the Phalarope made stops in Iceland, Greenland, the continental U.S., the Caribbean islands, and Ecuador and Peru.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I posted a series of pictures of what I called “ Ratty Summer Gulls &# – gulls that are just plain ugly, especially when compared to, say, breeding plumage birds. All of the pictures were taken on a single trip to Jones Beach in June.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2012
Some individuals travel 25,000 miles per year from their breeding grounds on the tundra to wintering grounds near the bottom of the world and back. The four Pluvialis plovers are sometimes called “tundra plovers” because of their breeding range.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. “Many long-distance migrants arrive so late on the breeding grounds that they have little opportunity to respond to warming conditions by nesting earlier.” The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. ” GannetCam.
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