10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

In Costa Rica, the sole tropical breeding albatross is a rare visitor to pelagic waters of the Pacific. A more surefire way to witness this long-winged bird is by visiting breeding grounds on the Galapago Islands. Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata). Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Formerly described in 1811 by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, the Cuban Macaw was a primarily red, long-tailed parrot with beautiful orange feathering around the nape and blue feathering on the wings and tail. … Birds Cuba Extinction Week parrots' Painting by Jacques Barraband, ca. Come back, click through, read, learn.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

This article is about the parrots we have, not the ones we wish we had. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise. and the White Storks are also wild and countable despite breeding at the zoo. A Birdy New Year! Here in Germany, we don’t wish we had. Because we never have had.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

There is a population of large green and red parrots in New York City? Are they breeding? But the greatest mystery of the Mitred Parakeets of New York is where they go during the breeding season, and whether they are breeding. I have been observing them there and at few other lucky locations for the past few years.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

At night we had planned to go out looking for Blue Penguins , around 600 of which make the island their breeding home. I’ll work on that. Red-crowned Parakeet foraging near a New Zealand Fur Seal.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

However, the typical birding experience for someone down here also includes a large menagerie of other species such as Orange-winged Parrot , Mitred Parakeet , Egyptian Goose and Nutmeg Mannikin. Common Hill Mynas are easy to locate due to their loud, shrill calls.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

When I read the description of the Mulga Parrot on a pet website, I first thought it was an advertisement for Thai mail-order brides: “The exotic appearance of the Mulga Parrot might be what attracts you first, but it’s their personality that will win you over” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2024

Our main goal here was the Maroon-fronted Parrot. These parrots breed inside cavities in cliffs and they are very particular about the cliff. We now know what real estate agents reincarnate into in their next life… but unlike realtors, these parrots are rare, Nuevo Leon endemics and in need of conservation support.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2012

Falcons split from hawks to join parrots and songbirds Unanimously, the committee voted to remove falcons (Falconiformes) and parrots (Psittaciformes) from their current positions in the list and place them before the songbirds (Passeriformes), more closely to reflect the relationships between these three great orders.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. Available from SORA: [link] Waltman, JR, and SR Beissinger (1992) Breeding behavior of the Green-rumped Parrotlet.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2019

And some Falcon , most likely mixed breed, because it belonged to falconry, not the skies. In the 70+ episodes, I noticed only the homing Ravens (caged/domesticated) and Pigeons (domestic – in pie). Yes, there were Chicken , too (I remember the chicken soup, not the birds). Why would any birder ever want to visit Westeros? Partridges.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Other endangered and vulnerable species we observed at this preserve included Red-browed Parrot , Ochre-marked Parakeet , and White-necked Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Noisy Yellow-crowned Parrots indicated that it was time to stop the car and get out. These large parrots are popular in the pet trade, and that’s a likely source of the population of this species on Trinidad. The subtle white edging to the gape of this bird indicates it is near breeding time. Yellow-crowned Parrot.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

These lands support countless birds, either year-round, as migratory stopovers, or as breeding grounds. Many refuges are strategically located along major flyways, allowing ducks and geese to hopscotch their way up the continent to northern breeding grounds and back down again. But what else should birders know?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

And I liked toucans, so clearly hornbills were on to a winning look, in fact, as a child it was hornbills, toucans and parrots that I associated the tropics with. Birds behaviour Borneo breeding hornbills Singapore' That, and they looked kind of like toucans, but they weren’t. Oriental Pied Hornbill. We can hope!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2012

The Antipodes, one of New Zealand’s subantarctic island possessions, are home to two endemic parrots, a subspecies of the Subantarctic Snipe, and a whole range of breeding seabirds, including albatrosses and penguins. If the money is raised he will match it to get the work underway.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2016

So let’s celebrate some good news today; Kakapo are having one of their best ever breeding seasons since European settlement. . The world’s largest parrot is also a flightless inhabitant of the night, because of course it is. Kakapo are a lot of things, and in particular they are sulkily disinclined to breed.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. Today, if you want to see parrots in the USA you need look no further than Miami. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Well, maybe behind Gurney’s Pitta, Cape Parrot and Spoonbilled Sandpiper , but you get what I mean. Being a shy and skulking bird of the reedbeds, the Black Bittern is evidently rather a tough one to find, especially out of the breeding season. Javan Pond Heron on a pole. But I guess you guessed that.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2022

Although more than one parrot and parakeet can forage in hedgerows, this long-tailed green bird is the most common. Hedgerows seem to provide important breeding spots for this smart looking bird. Keep looking and you might see some other members of this glittering, fast-paced family. Crimson-fronted Parakeet. Chestnut-capped Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2024

While experiments have shown that some birds (like crows and parrots) can count, this rule unsurprisingly did not hold when subjected to testing. Incredibly, this was the first time I saw a male of this species in breeding plumage (plus the first time I heard its song, just as for the Wryneck ).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That antiquity produces a high level of endemism, e.g. 19% of 62 breeding birds are endemic to the islands! For example, the main islands are the world’s only granitic ocean islands and at 750M years of age are also the world’s oldest ocean islands. On the other hand, the isolation makes for those huge seabird colonies.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

” Some exotic bird species such as Red-whiskered Bulbul and Spot-breasted Oriole have been ABA-countable for decades, managing to maintain very small breeding populations despite the impacts of hurricanes and changes in landscaping. The Yellow-chevroned Parakeet makes a good contender for becoming countable for another reason as well.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

It was not a flycatcher at all, but an exotic (and equally bizarre) from Africa, which certainly escaped from someone’s cage or perhaps even migrated from the small breeding population of escapees in southern California. Sure enough, the bird’s true identity became known the next day.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Vincent Parrot began in the 1980s and have continued into the present. Sure enough, parrots were slowly awakening. Vincent Parrots gave us our first decent – albeit fleeting – view. Vincent Parrots are vividly plumaged, even for parrots. Vincent Parrot ! On the volcanic island of St.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Winter birding can be fun, especially when you do it in a place with palms, parrots, and weather for wearing shorts. Similar to its behavior on its breeding grounds, this warbler mostly forages in dead leaf clusters. This is where the summer birds go, where those fall warblers went sometime after October. Worm-eating Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

But birds have a certain amount of flexibility buil in as well, which is very apparent in some of the smarter birds, like crows and parrots, but can still be present in other birds too. Most birds will follow a set group of behaviours, building a nest a certain way, courting a certain way, eating a certain set of food.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2022

At the top, we rounded a corner and found not only the sun in all its glory, but Orange-winged Parrots and what seemed to be an ever-increasing number of Guianan Trogons. Both Plumbeous Kite and Fork-tailed Flycatcher are present for the southern winter, the former breeds here, the latter tends to bring their young with them.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2023

Orange-winged Parrots may be abundant elsewhere, but here their presence is wholly overshadowed by a tremendous mixed flock of Crested Oropendola and Yellow-rumped Cacique. These large raptors are actually quite rare on Trinidad but seem to be breeding nearby as one of the sightings was of a juvenile.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Furthermore, this little parrot has another aspect going for it. Although most parrot species persist only in urban and suburban areas, this small parakeet also occurs in agricultural areas of the Redlands and Homestead in southern Miami-Dade. This popular cagebird also seems to have a toehold in the Houston area.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

However, you can’t come to this small Central American country to see the following birds because they are gone: White-faced Whistling-duck : Yes, this cool looking duck used to build nests, breed, and dabble around the wetlands of Costa Rica and this is why you will see it illustrated in Stiles and Skutch.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Finally, my personal favorite is the Great Barbet (Baihualing, Yunnan) – not because of its larger size, but because of its combination of colors that somehow manages to be colorful without being gaudy (something that parrots almost never seem to manage).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

These tanagers breed only with each other, eschewing the company of parrots, warblers, and even other groups of tanagers, some of which are really, really beautiful. What this means is that one species, for example a Stripe-headed Tanager , exists at a point in time as a distinct set of interbreeding organisms.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), a director to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, whose study of bird fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France. But then, would a lady pheasant be pleased to be described as “large”? What a weird world.

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