10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
The obvious choice was the Mallard , that plucky familiar northern hemisphere species that is the father of the even more familiar domesticated duck. In fact, as the species was quickly identified as as creating hybrids with Grey Ducks, the opinion was by the 1920s that the species shouldn’t be released further.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2024
My main interest lies in the endemic species and subspecies, trying to understand why some species got there and others didn’t. When we look at the breeding birds, they are all Palaearctic, either mainland species or endemics that evolved from mainland species. On the eastern Canaries they are Palaearctic species.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2016
As with any birding locales, there are similarities and there are differences and in this transcontinental case, the differences are obviously much more pronounced but I can’t help but think about comparisons. Here are some: Mega migration : We bear witness to some serious migration in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
Beach Stone-curlew prints with a Brolga print for comparison. There are not many bird species that you can almost guarantee to be in a pair on Valentine’s Day. The Brolga that sometimes walk the area display the same shape print as the Pied Oystercatchers and Sooty Oystercatchers , but the Brolga prints are substantially larger.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
It was also great to finally travel overseas again, meet a lot of people I did not know (and some I did), to be in a new country… and not just the new country, but its best birding area, where almost all local hotspots are yellow (150+ species) and several are ochre (200+ sp.), impressive for Central Europe.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2020
While the 480-odd species recorded within T&T may outstrip our fellow Caribbean islands by leaps and bounds, it pales in comparison to the massive lists of mainland South and Central America. There is simply not enough real estate for multiple species of toucans for example. T&T has three resident species of manakins.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
As albies go they seem to be doing better than most species, and are only listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN. For size comparison, a scrum of albies. Most breed in the Chatham Islands or in the islands to the south of South Island, but a few breed on the Three Kings Islands at the tip of North Island as well.
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