10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Back in June, I wrote about the birds of the Macaronesian islands – Azores, Madeira, the Canaries and Cape Verde. Today I’m going to zoom into the desert islands in the east of the Canaries archipelago – Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. These islands lie close to the western edge of the continental Sahara Desert.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2024

“Islands in the Sun” is about Macaronesia, the collective term used to define the Atlantic Islands of the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries and Cape Verde. Only on Cape Verde do we find a component of Afro-tropical breeding birds. On the eastern Canaries they are Palaearctic species.

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Cape Verde Europe Breeding Africa 244

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Out into the Atlantic Ocean, 400 miles from the coast of Senegal, lies an archipelago of islands known as Cape Verde. The Hoopoe Lark’s former range in Cape Verde included the island of Boa Vista from which the third part of the latin trinomial is taken.

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Cape Verde Pakistan Afghanistan Senegal 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2012

Expect lots of excruciating details, but for now drool over his potential Cape Verde Shearwater sighting, which will be both a lifer and a rare New York sighting assuming NYARC accepts it. No bird says summer to me like those flying cigars. Corey experienced what he described as one of the best sea watches he ever experienced.

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Cape Verde 2012 New York Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2012

I don’t remember who the first person was that said the words “ Cape Verde Shearwater ” but those words were uttered. Now Cape Verde Shearwater was described as a species in the 1890′s and later lumped in with Cory’s Shearwater. horrifically bad digiscoped images of a possible (probable?)

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Cape Verde New York New York City North America 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

There are few areas of the world where they have been introduced and not survived (Greenland and Cape Verde are examples of this bird’s local demise). That is why they are called “House” Sparrows and not “Wild” Sparrows, I suppose. House Sparrows were introduced to New York City in 1852 and later in other areas.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Other people – ornithologists, perhaps – ask whether Cape Verde kites exist ( probably not ). Serves the bird right for not living close to European ornithologists. Some people wonder whether god exists. They do, however, believe in the existence of the Yellow-billed Kite.

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