10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2020

That still leaves 11 Warblers that breed in Michoacán. Like the Common Yellowthroat , the Yellow Warbler breeds no further south than the central Mexican highlands. I must admit that I had the idea the Grace’s Warbler , common in our pine forests, were also at the southern edge of their breeding range here.

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Honduras Mexico South America America 359

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

The boreal forest belt that runs from Scandinavia right across to the Pacific and beyond holds some resilient bird species, which are able to survive the harsh and dark winters. I am familiar with the western end… Source

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2024

The Gulf of Cadiz, from Cadiz itself, right along the coasts of Huelva and the Algarve to Cape St Vincent in Portugal, is a favourite hunting ground of mine and the operators willing to take you out have been on the increase in recent years. We’re fast approaching a preferred time of mine for going out on boats in search of seabirds.

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Portugal Breeding Hunting Species 289

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2024

Adult Audouin’s Gulls now passing show heavily abraded plumage after breeding I covered the main species in my 23rd June article “When the sea becomes a desert”. If I really want to see these elegant gulls, then I can always drive up to the Atlantic coast and the estuary of the Guadalquivir River where they breed.

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Falcons Breeding Family Groups 312

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APRIL 24, 2022

It won’t be long before they have all set off on their northward migration to breed, but for now they are feeding up. The stations have a firebreak along the fence-line and there is a higher area of ground right against the fence and it is still flooded on both sides of the fence.

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Australia Breeding Rights Species 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The muted colors of Blackburnians, Black-throated Greens, and Blackpolls fit right in with the dull greens and golden highlights of the early fall vegetation. Bank and Barn Swallows also migrate through in huge numbers, maybe even the majority of the individuals of these common species that breed in North America.

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Costa Rica West Virginia New York South America 338

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2017

Strictly speaking, they were always forbidden for driving, but there is a difference between me, driving along the very top of the dyke and collecting scientific data for the first national breeding birds atlas and someone exploring the possibilities of his flashy new 4×4 while driving figures of eight along the embankment slopes.

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Rights Serbia Abandonment Abandon 149

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting in every month of the year. This bit of trivia was given in an article in my local bird club’s monthly newsletter about the ongoing breeding bird atlas in New York State.

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Barn Owls 2017 Rodents Owls 277

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

They got the message right. For example, the White-headed Duck is nowadays a rarity in Europe (okay, excluding Spain, I know… that Spain …), but until some 50 years ago, it used to breed in Serbia. The hide overlooking the breeding colony of Red-footed Falcons. More or less, a proper picnic site. And so did I.

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Serbia Spain Birds Hungary 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2024

The Black-winged Cuckooshrike is breeding in several Shanghai locations – I suspect that some trees near the Nanhui hotel might be another one, given the vigorous singing of this bird. The Amur Paradise Flycatcher is another species breeding in Shanghai. Yellow-rumped Flycatchers are breeding in the same park.

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Giraffes Rabbits Birds Breeding 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

What we don’t get to hear is them singing, as they seem to only sing once they reach their breeding grounds. I feel like they never get their due as beautiful in their own right. And having another breeding wood-warbler would certainly be nice, wouldn’t it?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The fully fledged Pied Oystercatcher chick is the bird on the right. Non-breeding Pied Oystercatchers join flocks either to the north or south of Gantheaume Point. They do not attempt to breed for about seven years. They moved around a bit to get comfortable on the rocky outcrop. Pied Oystercatcher family at roost.

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2020 Eggs Family Breeding 276

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2023

You can see there were several occasions where they literally “sank” and then managed to right themselves. The adult Comb-crested Jacanas have the brighter red comb and the younger birds are still yet to attain their full colour.

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Breeding Australia Eggs Rights 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Both photos by the WWT).

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Louisiana Eggs Breeding Asia 190

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

In Africa, our bee-eaters occur from the southern tip of the continent right through to the far north, occupying an incredible range of habitats and niches, from the interior of the deepest rainforests of the Congo to the arid steppes of the Sahel. Two populations exist, the westernmost breeds in the western Sahara (e.g.

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Africa Gabon Uganda South Africa 266

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

There is a thing parents know very well – how important it is to choose the right name for a child. The text deals with Related Families, Similar Birds, Description, Habitat, Food, Breeding, Conservation and Relationships. Or Fleming – he has chosen “Bond”. Most families are depicted in two pages of text and illustrations.

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Family Birds South America Breeding 299

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

Instead of hovering, some gulls have set up territories within breeding colonies of Humboldt seabirds. Gulls will harvest/steal food from breeding birds within their territories and chase away other gulls ensuring that birds within their territories are not swarmed by multiple food thieves. It is going to get rough here….

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 232

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Right now, though, we can watch and listen and enjoy. What I enjoy–almost more than any other moment of my birding year–is that special spring day when White-Crowned Sparrows deign to visit my humble home en route to their boreal breeding grounds.

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New York Sparrows Birds Breeding 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2014

Seeing as Plumb Beach is a known stopover area for large numbers of shorebirds, a known breeding area for a variety of saltmarsh species, including Clapper Rails , and habitat for a wide variety of mammals, reptiles, insects, and other bird species, this is a long overdue move. Signs like the one above went up late last week.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Reptiles 266

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2024

Few birds sport such magnificent breeding plumage as the male ruff, but not a single bird showed more than a hint of this plumage. These ruffs still had a 1,000 or more miles to fly to reach their northern breeding grounds. They were sharing the same habitat as the resident Kentish Plovers, the only wader to breed here.

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Cyprus Tethering Breeding Cattle 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2013

Three of those — the Black-chinned , Calliope , and Rufous Hummingbirds — breed in the Missoula area. That is, in extremely precise mathematical terms, three times more species of hummingbirds than breed near the Olde Homestead. It breeds into Alaska. I’m not mad at you, Calliope Hummingbird.

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Montana Alaska Stray Cats 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2014

It prefers large waters and coasts during the non-breeding season, but seeks out wooded, well vegetated lakes and marshes for breeding. It is a common bird and easily seen if you are in the right place at the right time and they can be quite social. And did I mention that it was big?

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Argentina Uruguay Chile Brazil 206

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

For most species, the breeding season ends by the end of June and the majority of songbirds are silent and invisible now. Before that, on a rather sharp right bend, 1.8 When you reach the church, use the street to the left, right opposite to the church yard gate, and follow it till the very end. mi, to the Vrbovski turnoff.

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Farming Fish Birds Boars 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

A New York City Parks Department contractor just wiped out a breeding population of sparrows in tons of trouble already, on land owned by the parks department that was supposed to be protected as “Forever Wild.” This species is in too much trouble to throw away a breeding ground. Another is in the works. . By then it could be too late.

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New York City New York Sparrows 2016 223

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Some birds with populations on different breeding grounds move not to the same winter quarter but to far-distant ones – such as the Red-necked Phalarope.

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Alaska Kenya Georgia Russia 258

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

June is the breeding month, when New Yorkers mostly give up on migrant birds and look for birds where they nest. I was especially pleased that a Virginia Rail (pictured above) was hanging out by a puddle right at the edge of the road when I arrived. June is also the month that the bugs come out to play in earnest.

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Virginia Birds Collecting Dogs 261

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2024

First recorded breeding on the island in 2013, this dove is now both widespread and common. Once considered a distinct race of the more widespread Pied Wheatear, it is now regarded as a full species in its own right. Hoopoes are common breeding birds. It was strange to hear it here in Cyprus. The song is highly distinctive.

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Cyprus Breeders Falcons Hunters 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Still, again with the help of the guides from Alpinebirding , we managed to get to the right places to see birds. Pallas’s Gull also breeds at Qinghai Lake, though the numbers are sadly much reduced: “The numbers breeding at L Qinghai, China, has apparently fallen from > 87,000 in 1970s to c.

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China Birds 2006 Fish 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2024

They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).

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China Iceland Whaling Whales 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This year, like every year, the Pied Oystercatchers have not given up on trying to successfully breed along our coast here in Broome. The breeding season started early this year with the first eggs laid at the end of May. They are currently making nest scrapes once again, so maybe it will be third time lucky.

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Eggs Breeding Australia Family 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Green-tailed Towhee s breed in species-rich shrub communities within shrub-steppe habitats, and disturbed and open areas of montane forest, often created by forest fires 1. Click on photos for full sized images. Up in Ashland we found them on the outskirts of Howard Prairie Lake. References: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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Oregon North America Birds Owls 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Citrine Wagtails are rare in Shanghai but apparently quite common around Chaka, though unfortunately most of the ones we saw were not in breeding plumage. ” According to the HBW, the diet of the Pine Bunting during breeding season is mainly invertebrates. I blame this on covid-19.

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China Austria Birds ALA 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Eurasian Oystercatcher: Not all of them are breeding at Claire`s beach in Australia. Black-winged Kite: I could tell it was a juvenile as it was listening to rap music Common Coot: Preparing the stage for the music festival Common Kingfisher: Took a lot of effort to glue the bird right on top of the spiderweb.

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China Birds Asia Fish 305

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2021

Golden Vireos can also be seen near my home, while Rufous-backed Robins even visit my garden, when conditions are right. And breeding season allows me to notice certain details that I might miss during the rest of the year. Here are three other endemics that can be seen in Paso Ancho.

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Woodpeckers Hunters Falcons Breeding 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 260

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2023

We all hope that they were able to breed successfully in the Northern Hemisphere and that they can find food throughout the Flyway to return to our shores. Our resident shorebirds have started to breed in the last few weeks and there are numerous Pied Oystercatcher nests along our shores right now.

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Eggs 2011 Breeding Protection 229