Breeding Peru Research 
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? the Caribbean islands, and Ecuador and Peru. The researchers theorize that these birds might not be strays from the Scandinavian Phalarope population, but instead perhaps originally from North America.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. This flock is composed of about 54 birds including nine breeding pair.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. One part of this question can be answered with some very interesting recent research. Fossils of a giant extinct penguin, Inkayacu paracasensis were found a while back in Peru. Altamirano, A.,
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2013
It was on the island of Trinidad, at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, where all of these photographs were taken. Trinidad is the northern limit of the range of the Red-breasted Blackbird , though it is unclear if the occasional birds that show up in Tobago are wanderers from Trinidad or northern South America or are breeding there.
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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
But research has shown that some plovers even use the super-sensitive soles of their feet to detect movement beneath the substrate. This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?
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