10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species. Hoopoe was my Best Bird of the Year despite all the new birds I saw in Busan, South Korea. Pacific Loons by Clare Kines The other Clare, Clare Morton, chose Upupa epops.

2011 217

2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. End of side note. How efficient. How surprising.

Birds 162

Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Well, it was not one of those and it was not in full breeding plumage…I knew that much! It was just stood on the rocks and I knew it was a gull, but we only have one sort of gull in Broome… Silver Gull. I took a photo and as I clicked I realised I had something else running along behind the gull.

Killing 157

Killing Industry Fish Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

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.

Cattle 172

Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S.

2012 178

2012 Guatemala Birds Florida 178

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

While the conclusion seems fairly established now, the paper still puts it in the usual wordy and careful statement: “The shorter minimum stopover duration of both species in spring may indicate a faster migration than in autumn, suggesting a time-minimizing strategy in spring to reach the breeding grounds as fast as possible.”

Monkeys 147

Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147