10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For the nature lovers and birders who participate in breeding bird surveys, the atlas represents hours, often hundreds of hours, of volunteer time spent within a community of citizen scientists doing what they love, observing birds. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2020
But it has paid dividends with as many as a dozen bird species breeding or attempting to breed in my overgrown wasteland. As it waited for a parent to return with some food, it picked through the leaf litter to see if it could find something for itself. Lady Helen teased me for being so puffed up about my breeding sucess.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2012
My spring has been pretty amazing so far with 146 species spotted since April 1 and Cerulean , Worm-eating , and Yellow-throated Warblers and a host of other species spotted before May even arrived, but the first couple of days in May have been even better.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2011
They breed up here, and spend their winters (usually) in the lower reaches of the Arctic and near polynyas (year round ice free waters) such as the North Water Polynya between Ellesmere Island and Groenland. Lemmings can have four or five litters a year of as many eight young. So this was a good summer for lemmings, a very good year.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2012
Predators that rely on lemmings, like the Snowy Owl , took advantage of the bounty and had great breeding success, raising large broods which, after the lemming population crashes, dispersed far and wide. And while I haven’t made it over their yet I hope to before they disperse into breeding territories.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2012
The first creek to the north is Willie Creek and we often visit it on the south side when we monitor the breeding pairs of Pied Oystercatchers. Beach Stone-curlews Although the majority of shorebirds have ventured north to breed in the northern hemisphere we do still have birds here. There were some rather nice specimens.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
They moved around a lot, but I would say there were at least thirty and maybe up to fifty individuals, in a variety of plumages that seemed to speak of a successful breeding season. The husks of box elder seeds littered the ground, neatly stripped and devoured. When I went back the next day, they were still there.
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