10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively).

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Its members occur primarily north of the Tropic of Cancer , though in the Western Hemisphere, Ruby-crowned Kinglets winter into southern Mexico, and Golden-crowned Kinglets have isolated breeding populations in the mountains of southern Mexico and Guatemala.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

For the most part the Black-footed Albatross is an all-American bird, with 97% of their population breeding in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (in the District of Hawaii), and a few others breeding in islands owned by Mexico and Japan. The Black-footed Albatross.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Christmas Shearwaters Much less common that their larger relatives, but at the same time their habit of surface breeding means they are always around to find in certain spots. These attractive petrels should have been around Japan when this shot was taken! You can see more shots of Christmas Shearwaters here. Pretty neat bird though.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

The seafaring Portuguese were also depicted with their falcons abroad as they began building an overseas empire in the 15th century, even in lands as distant as Japan (a nation with its own ancient falconry traditions). The estate is also a stud farm for puro sangue Lusitano horses, considered one of the world’s oldest breeds.

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

We have recorded shorebirds in Broome that have been marked in this way in Hong Kong, Bohai Bay in China, a nature reserve near Shanghai, Japan and various other locations. This time it was stood amongst the Greater Sand Plovers and one Lesser Sand Plover that still had breeding plumage and several Red-necked Stint.

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JUNE 10, 2021

It is on its way to breeding grounds mainly in Japan and thus only briefly stays here. In contrast, the Amur Paradise Flycatcher regularly breeds in China, even in Shanghai. The female is optimized for inconspicuous breeding, not for pop stardom. The female is less impressive but still a nice bird to see.

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JUNE 26, 2023

The Japanese Paradise Flycatcher usually arrives in Shanghai a bit earlier than the Amur one, as it still has to travel on to Japan. Of course, for countries with mostly moderate climates such as the US, China, Japan, or Germany, it is always easier to claim that the winter range is the problem (i.e., not their own).

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APRIL 3, 2016

You are then able to position yourself behind the shorebirds and enjoy their magnificent breeding plumage! In fact we are still observing our Grey-tailed Tattler that was flagged in Taiwan on 4th August 2012 and returns to Broome each year in the non-breeding season! Standing behind shorebirds an hour after the tide has turned.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Given that many Chinese do not hold Japan in very high regard, it makes sense that the Chinese name of the Japanese Thrush is Wuhuidong, “Black Grey Thrush” Though this does not quite seem to capture the beauty of this species, making it sound rather bland. Great Cormorants are also very good at just loafing around.

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MAY 27, 2024

One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.

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JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. End of side note. To female readers then: the Pheasant-tailed Jacana.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2016

Along Broome’s coastline we encounter literally hundreds of Red-necked Stint among all the flocks of migratory shorebirds that make Australia their home during the non-breeding season. This individual was more intent on feeding than worrying about our proximity and already had good breeding plumage.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Population, excluding Japan, numbers less than 10,000–25,000 birds, and probably decreasing” Grey Herons flaunt their beauty quite openly (I am still thinking of Gustav Klimt when seeing the patterns on the wings) … … while other birds like Black-crowned Night Herons show their beauty a bit more carefully.

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MAY 10, 2017

They are perhaps known for being the dangerous food sensation of Japan, an odd choice of food given how dangerous it is but that is apparently the appeal. I can’t explain it, maybe some kind of breeding aggregation? Pufferfish are not particularly rare or common fish that one sees when diving. Thats a puffer and behind?

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APRIL 10, 2016

Both the grey morph and white morph of the Eastern Reef Egret were present and also ten Sooty Oystercatchers and our pair of Pied Oystercatchers that breed a few kilometres to the north of Gantheaume Point each year from July. Most of the Red Knot are in very good breeding plumage now and they do stand out very well on the grey rocks.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. She’s described conservation successes in detail–the Bald Eagle, the Short-tailed Albatross, now protected in Japan.

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MAY 25, 2023

During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. Still, the ability to identify a leaf warbler by song is a worrying development on the road to becoming a very nerdy birder. It is probably all downhill from here. What’s next?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Soon people from South Africa to Japan heard about what was happening, and wrote to share their stories, their challenges, and their curiosity about what Henry was learning. Born with only two legs as a result of irresponsible breeding, Tink’s spirit is irrepressible as she races about on a custom set of wheels.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s the festive season and I am holding the new Lynx Edicions’s Birds of Japan, thinking what a perfect gift to any international birder this book represents. Birds of Japan is a lavishly illustrated field guide with maps neatly packed among the paintings, and QR codes packed into text. What I don’t like? What I like about the book?

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JUNE 19, 2024

Status In Alaska: Breeding resident. Range: Steller’s sea eagles are endemic to coastal northeastern Asia, inhabiting regions in Russia, Korea, Japan, mainland China, and Taiwan. Status in Alaska: In Alaska, Steller’s sea eagles are considered vagrants, meaning they are occasional visitors rather than resident breeding birds.

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MAY 26, 2024

Although his back garden is Gibraltar and the Strait of Gibraltar, Clive has an intimate knowledge of Iberian birds but his work also takes him much further afield, from Canada to Japan to Australia. Griffon Vultures have a long breeding season. Isn’t it a bit late to breed? He is the Director of the Gibraltar National Museum.

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JULY 8, 2024

An interesting paper compares two different strategies, habitat management (as done in the US for the Whooping Crane) and artificial feeding in the leanest periods (as done in Japan for the Red-crowned Crane ). The most likely reason is that it is just not that attractive to watch – clumsy rather than graceful, labored rather than sexy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

The falcon breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China but winters in Southern and East Africa. Its success rate when attacking prey was 27% (157 of 581 attacks on prey successful in Honshu, Japan; HBW), and thus slightly higher than the success rate of my jokes in this blog. Still as impressed as before?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Because most of these birds nest on islands and travel enormous distances across open ocean, their breeding habits are in some cases poorly known. And some groups of species or possible species look so similar that they are virtually impossible to separate in the field, which obscures knowledge of their ranges and breeding behaviors.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These are extremely large stick structures (some articles compare the largest ones to the size of a car) that are usually populated by multiple breeding pairs in separate chambers. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. Not many survive, and very few flourish. The answer lies in the nests.

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JULY 22, 2014

They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. The following decades continued the great expansion, and it was recorded breeding in Canada in 1962 and Chile by 1970. There are two main subspecies, the nominate B. coromandus.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). And the research also had implications for fish owl research in general, which has been applied to research projects in Japan. I just need to get me to Japan. by Jonathan C.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With regard to the Grey-backed Thrush , “further research should focus on identification of nest predators, implications of nest exposure and begging calls on nesting success, and breeding habitat requirements at different spatial and temporal scales of Grey-backed Thrush in fragmented landscapes of northeast China.”

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JANUARY 24, 2016

Great Knot and Red Knot will all intermingle together and the Red Knot are easily overlooked when not in their breeding plumage when every bird appears “grey”! It was only a week later that we discovered our first Terek Sandpiper that had been flagged at Torinumi in Japan.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

This striking black and white bird is a common sight in the city, even in the central business district, but it is especially common in the park and breeds on the islands in the lakes here. The large ponds were home to great numbers of waterbirds of several kinds, many of which, like the ibis, breed on the islands in the lakes.

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MAY 1, 2016

By plumage and distribution, they can very roughly be divided into 2 groups (probably not reflecting taxonomic relations): One group inhabits central Asia ( personata ), the mountains of southern Asia ( alboides ), central East Asia ( leucopsis ) and the Pacific coast from the southern half of Kamchatka to Japan ( lugens ).

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DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Grey-headed Lapwing- Vanellus cinereus breeds in north-east China and Japan between April and June and then migrate to spend the winter in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia and southern Japan. We don’t “twitch” birds, but it would be a bird to look out for during our visit.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2020

Latham’s Snipe are visitors to Australia and go north to Japan to breed. In the process of looking for Dusky Moorhens he saw a Latham’s Snipe stood right out in the open with the sun on it! In Broome we have Swinhoe’s Snipe visiting the area at this time of year, but you don’t always find them!

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Fish Australia Ducks Japan 149

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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.

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JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

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