10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Africa’s pelicans can be a bit confusing on the identification front as Great White does show an overall pink blush in its plumage during breeding season whereas the pinkest part of Pink-backed Pelican is its lower back, which is only seen in flight! Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Africa Somalia Mozambique Pelicans 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. Officials reported 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphins, and 87 dead sea turtles during the first two months alone.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Many different species of shorebirds travel the East-Asian Australasian Flyway to spend the non-breeding cycle of their lives here in Broome. Normally there is four-wheel drive access along a section of Cable Beach, but the Shire in recent years acknowledged that the flatback turtles needed help to survive.

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Turtles Alaska Breeding Species 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2013

This time it was stood amongst the Greater Sand Plovers and one Lesser Sand Plover that still had breeding plumage and several Red-necked Stint. Oriental Plover with Greater Sand Plovers , a Lesser Sand Plover in breeding plumage and Red-necked Stint. My bicycle beside the Flatback Turtle tracks. Flatback Turtle nest.

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Turtles Sea Turtles Japan Australia 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2020

When to visit: best during winter and migration season, but also breeding season. When to visit: best in breeding and migration seasons (April to June and late August-September). The turn-off is about 1 km / 0.6 Stick to the existing track and do not damage the sensitive vegetation by creating new sets of tracks! Dupljaja area.

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Mali Serbia Eagles Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2015

The Pied Oystercatcher pairs are all in their breeding territories and we can expect to find eggs laid in the first week of July along the coast here. We are looking forward to hopefully seeing some successful Pied Oystercatcher parenting again this breeding season. The Hawksbill Turtle was well camouflaged, but its shape gave it away!

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Turtles Fish Eggs Breeding 171

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Walking north I soon encountered a fresh Flatback Turtle nest from the previous night’s high tide and that should hatch out in about 2 months all going well. The nests have been monitored for some years now so there is now some baseline data on how often the Flatback Turtles nest on Cable Beach and how successful they are.

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Turtles Taiwan Raised Breeding 162

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 251

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

The northern half of the lake added Corn Bunting , European Turtle Dove , Dalmatian Pelican , Purple Heron , Eurasian Hobby , Eurasian Golden Oriole , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , and only the first of the several Masked Shrikes of the tour (cover photo by Kostas Papadopoulos).

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Greece Pelicans Stray Dog Tortoises 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2011

I often cover 45 kilometres in a day whilst I monitor the Pied Oystercatchers breeding, but I do need to plan carefully around large tides. The risk of bird or turtle nests being crushed by vehicles above the high tide mark is a possibility, but of course it is hard to police these rules.

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Whales Whaling Turtles Birds 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2020

European Turtle Doves , European Bee-eaters , Red-backed Shrikes , Eurasian Hoopoes , Sand Martins and Great Reed Warblers breed here and are conspicuous in spring. Dubovacki Rit; photos (3) by Slobodan Puzovic. Dubovacki Rit , Labudovo okno. Getting there: From Belgrade through Pancevo, Kovin and Gaj.

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Turtles 2002 Serbia Eagles 200

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Our guide through the woods and towns of Indiana is one Nathan Lochmueller, who looks back to tell the tale of a coming of age that involves a lot of crawling through the woods on breeding-bird surveys, a lot of beer, and a few scrapes with implacable forces like the law, armed KKK members, and snapping turtles.

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Turtles Indiana New York Ethics 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2020

Characteristic birds of these dry and sunny areas are Eurasian Hoopoe , European Turtle-Dove and European Bee-eater ; Lesser Grey and Red-backed Shrikes (in winter replaced by the Great Grey Shrike ), Woodlark , Skylark and Crested Lark , Sand Martin , Barred Warbler , Northern Wheatear , Tawny and Tree Pipits. To be continued.

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Europe Serbia Turtles Woodpeckers 261

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The reservoir is surrounded by traditional farming landscape, adding the European Turtle Dove and the Ortolan Bunting to the scene. Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule. eBird bar chart. #4 eBird bar chart. #2

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Serbia Bulgaria Farming Turtles 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2011

Migration is really starting now and each evening shorebirds take to the air to head north to breed. A friend who volunteers each year to monitor Flatback Turtles breeding along the coast was invited and also two young Dutch shorebird research students. Octopus-presumed to be female as the larger of two after a mating session.

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Sharks Turtles Breeding Research 150

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2018

Depending on your particular interest, opt for March/April (spring migration), May/June (breeding season), August to October (autumn migration), or November/December when waterbird migration reaches its peak. Breeding season May – June , 261 eBirded species (yet, only about 242 breed in the country).

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Serbia Macedonia Geese Owls 184

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

On top of that, they occur in breeding and non-breeding plumage! The top photo shows a first winter California Gull ( Larus californicus ) on the right and a non-breeding adult on the left. Below is the same first winter California Gull with the smaller non-breeding adult Ring-billed Gull ( Larus delawarensis ) on the left.

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California Sacramento Turtles Breeding 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2014

It is important to drive slowly due to the crossing of the road of Eastern Long-necked Turtles ! We encountered one crossing the road in 2012, but with the cooler weather this year there was less turtle activity. Eastern Long-necked Turtle. There are 70 species that are known to breed in the park.

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Turtles Australia 2012 Litter 165

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. This section also offered a European Turtle Dove. From Beljarica, go back to the Kovilovo turn off, turn left/north onto Zrenjanin road for some 9 km / 5.5 mi, to the Vrbovski turnoff.

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Farming Fish Birds Boars 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

a couple sea turtles, and a jumping sailfish but no birds. Including this one perched on a sea turtle. Also known as the Fairy Tern, this species breeds on Cocos Island and is very rarely seen from pelagic trips in Costa Rica. Unexpected, sudden moments of excitement came in the form of a few leaping Thresher Sharks (!),

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Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Birds of the Iron Gates: While the best birding season here is the breeding period (May to June), the Iron Gates is also an important migratory stopover and wintering area. The Forgotten Road does not exist on the GPS screen either. The Woodchat Shrike, Boljetin, June 2014.

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Serbia Turtles Romania Eagles 222

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Several Ferruginous Duck and one surprising male Goosander , four Glossy Ibises , Common Kingfishers , Eurasian Hopooes , a high note of a Penduline Tit somewhere from the willows along the canal, Eurasian Spoonbills , European Turtle Doves gently purrring …. Five years ago, I observed Dalmatian Pelicans breeding on purpose-built platforms.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

This is the time of year when the Pied Oystercatchers breed and already three of the sixteen pairs along this stretch of beach have successfully laid eggs. I normally park my bicycle up and walk this section as there are either three or four pairs of Pied Oystercatchers breeding in this territory.

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Eggs Turtles Australia Breeding 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2016

July is that boring period after the breeding and prior to migration season. Turtle-Doves and Red-backed Shrikes were showing particularly well, in the air were both Barn Swallows and, more numerous, Sand Martins (Bank Swallows), junipers were decorated by numerous Bee-eaters, plus European Stonechat and a Corn Bunting.

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Sheep Turtles Squirrels Europe 153

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2018

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay. A pair of European Turtle Doves on a wire, followed by two soaring Common Buzzards ….

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Serbia Eagles Falcons Breeders 153

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. We didn’t see the crocodile, but there was a Flatback Turtle in the creek. As we approached the spot where the pair of Beach Stone-curlews were seen in previous years we heard them call.

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Senegal Singapore Litter Farming 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

You walk out onto the point, into the little gazebo to keep the chilly drizzle off, up by the castle to look down on the turtle pond from above. I had discovered a new breeding species — or a new breeding species had discovered me. You never see a Cliff Swallow. Other people do, but you don’t.

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New York City Turtles Jamaica New York 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2016

Besides their piratical nature, they skim the surface of the water and use their strongly hooked bill to grab small fish, squid, baby turtles and in some locations, sea iguanas. They will also fly thru the large breeding areas of many different shorebirds, and pluck an unattended baby right out of the nest.

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Turtles Mexico Rescue Eggs 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2017

Shallows provide an ideal spawning ground for almost 50 fish species and submerged islands breeding ground for more than 100 bird species. Beside several well-showing Red-backed Shrikes , the highlight was one uncommon Lesser Grey Shrike (highly localized ** , with only 700 to 1000 breeding pairs in Serbia). I like driving.

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Romania Serbia Turtles Blackbirds 148

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2016

All of these are reasonably common breeding species, yet, while Great Crested Grebes and Mallards do nest at the dam, only Grey Herons are known to nest some 15 miles from here. The biggest surprise are two Whiskered Terns, common lowland breeding birds that require ponds to lay their eggs on floating leaves of waterlilies.

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Turtles Serbia Breeders Breeding 133

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

Although quite a few species will have a second brood ( European Starlings among them), in the lowlands, mid-June is the end of the breeding season for many small passerines. They normally breed inside roof spaces of tall buildings and neither of us has observed them using clay cliffs.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Serbia 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Marshes are the habitats with the greatest species richness in moderate zones, also significant as breeding, wintering and migratory stopover sites for birds; it therefore comes as no surprise that this one is among the 10,000 Important Bird Areas of the World (one per each bird species?). Circaetus gallicus. Short-toed Snake-eagle.

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Greece Serbia Hunters Cows 224

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. In 1951, there were 18 breeding pairs of cahows discovered on three tiny islands. This is a good read, informative and engaging.

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Rats Breeding Birds 2012 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

But your reason to check the canyon is a White-throated Dipper that breeds there and with some luck, you may even encounter a Rock Bunting. Easy species here are Corn Bunting , Hawfinch , Spotted Flycatcher , Red-backed Shrike , Woodlark , Eurasian Golden Oriole , European Turtle Dove. Other species include Grey Wagtail and Marsh Tit.

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Serbia Woodpeckers Birds Romania 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2011

Of our migrant breeders the Hoopoe Upupa epops along with the Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur , European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus , Olivaceous Warbler Hippolais pallida , Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus and Cretzschmar’s Bunting Emberiza caesia fill our forests with their melodious chorus during spring and summer.

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Cyprus Breeders 2000 Protection 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Most likely, the researchers have indicated, the hatched birds would be viable and not too different from regular chickens, possibly less different than some of the odd breeds generated by more traditional methods. The chickens were done in before hatching. Here’s the thing. Expression of facial patterning genes across amniotes.

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Alligators Chickens Reptiles Birds 248

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2018

There are 240+ breeding birds in Serbia, but the colonial breeders and raptors were treated separately, and for a few dozen uncommon species there wasn’t enough data for computer modeling software. Cannot wait to see it published, but it will take a few more years.

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Serbia Breeders Turtles Breeding 103