10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

This tiny and colorful bird formerly of the Thaupidae (Tanager) family now has its own family the Fingillidae and it deserves it due to its uniqueness and beauty. This photographic bird session was shot near the already famous Refugio Paz de las Aves on the Northwest Slopes of Ecuador.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

But the sleekest of the sulids may be found in the family Sulidae. However, Sula nebouxii is most closely associated with Ecuador’s evocative Galápagos Islands. The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

In other words, millions of people got together with family and friends for a cozy day of mashed potatoes, gravy, apple pie, naps, football, and some serious turkeyliciousness. The turkeys I’m talking about up in here are three of the five members of the Cracidae family that occur in Costa Rica. Ain’t I great?

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Costa Rica Turkey Ecuador Hunting 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The two families of New World barbets, the Capitonidae and the Semnornithidae, are actually more related to toucans. The Prong-billed Barbet is in the Semnornithidae, a family shared with the Toucan Barbet of western Colombia and Ecuador. The female Red-headed Barbet is beautiful in her own subtle way. .

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

of January 2019, which resulted in 10,711 species, 40 orders, 246 families and 2,313 genera. Voice is a sharp, piercing phrase of a double note and a harsh single note; and it inhabits undergrowth at borders of forest, woodland and riverine belts, while its range stretches from W Ecuador to NW Peru. Subspecies are not included.

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Botswana Africa Birds Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

This last trait can be attributed both to the terrific verticality of this humid cloud forest and also to its location in the Chocó bioregion , an Endemic Bird Area that encompasses much of western Colombia and Ecuador. My group came to Montezuma to spy tasty Chocó endemic tanagers, hummingbirds, and anything else we could lay eyes on.

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Colombia South America Birds America 268

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

We saw a smaller member of the potoo family, Northern Potoo , Nyctibius jamaicensis , at Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, boating and birding the Salado River. I had seen Thick-Knees in South Africa, but I was very excited to see this species, which is the only member of its family found in Central America.

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Honduras Birds Costa Rica South Africa 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

They are Ecuador for the Galapagos, Gabon for the bais, Madagascar, New Guinea and New Caledonia for everything. Given that they are a family of obscure deepwater whales that are very hard to see, I would imagine this is a contender for one that will never leave my list. And they have been pretty stable for quite a while for me.

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Sharks Leopards Whales Whaling 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. Tags: features , kiwi , national bird , new zealand • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Corey was lucky enough to meet Carlos while birding in Ecuador , where Carlos was dragooned into accompanying the horde of Queens birders for the day, an encounter that somehow didn’t turn him off of all things New York. Carlos Sanchez is an excellent birder, a Miami resident, and a polyglot. What does this mean for the visitor?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

And, as a bonus, your spouse/partner will probably want to go birding with you more often… Tags: Portugal , Worldwide Birding Adventures • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Oh, Yeah, I’m Going to Ecuador! These Blasts From The Past Sometimes you just have to smile!

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Portugal 2011 Deer Africa 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

This big, happy family of Neotropical birds is high on the list of any birder on their way to Ecuador, Brazil, Costa Rica, and other places where literally dozens of glittering tanagers brighten the pages of the field guide.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. For some of us, like that version of myself that traveled to Ecuador eight years ago, the Neotropics are simply a place to visit. It was my first trip to the Neotropics, and I had no idea what I was getting into.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea California 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families. This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 228

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

Corey was lucky enough to meet Carlos while birding in Ecuador , where Carlos was dragooned into accompanying the horde of Queens birders for the day, an encounter that somehow didn’t turn him off of all things New York. Carlos Sanchez is an excellent birder, a Miami resident, and a polyglot.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

This former aberrant wood-warbler is so weird, it has been given its own family. This northernmost representative of the Bangsia genus (like the Moss-backed Tanager of Ecuador) is locally common in mossy mature middle elevation rainforest of Costa Rica and western Panama. Wrenthrush. Flame-throated Warbler. Blue-and-Gold Tanager.

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Nicaragua 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Folks want to know what they can see, if it’s worth traveling to Trinidad and Tobago, if they should to to Ecuador for three days or three weeks, or if one should drive to Wisconsin to look for a vireo with white eyes or a blue head. Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust.

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Costa Rica Owls South America Panama 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2011

All of the forest in these areas has been cleared many years ago to give way to food production and housing for small towns that continually expand as the local families grow and require more resources for food, housing and employment. We found this little Red-cheeked Woodpecker family surviving on a dead tree near the road to Canande.

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Monkeys Birds Farming Woodpeckers 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Mauritius: birding some less well-known spots Pinch Me… I’m Going to Ecuador! Dan is an active member of BirdLife Cyprus and goes birding whenever his career and family allow. Many Happy Returns to the Owl Research Institute Prepping For Spring Spring in East Harbour Regional Park.Or

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Hummingbirds have long been classified as most closely related to the widespread, well-known swifts and the treeswifts , a small, predominantly Indomalayan family. As for the hummingbirds themselves, distinctive as the group is, the relationships within the large hummingbird family have been quite difficult to unravel. And this one.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. But these tropical ecosystems also harbor families that remind us by their very presence just how close we’ve come to the Equator and how far we are from the poles.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2024

Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship is to highlight other bird families that pollinate. But there are, Ollerton thinks, 1,380 bird species that may be pollinators (and some 20,000 bird-pollinated flowers), and part of the purpose of his new book, the impressive (and delightful!)

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Denmark Pythons Europe Birds 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

Famous ornithologist Ted Parker crashed into a mountain in Ecuador while surveying birds. In my family, we have a tradition (in place since 1347 when we survived the Black Death) of “ wait over the weekend and see what happens ”. She died in a car accident during a birding trip. And so forth.

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Mozambique Ghana Namibia Birds 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

These high-flyers from the montane grasslands of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia should not be missed on a trip to these countries. Found in the foothills of northern Ecuador and Colombia, these stunning hummingbirds hold down the no. Common or not, these little stunners are not to be missed on a trip to Ecuador, Peru or Colombia.

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Colombia Bolivia Ecuador Peru 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

My Best Bird of the Year isn’t that spectacular … just my lifer Violet-chinned Hummingbird at my husband’s family’s house in CO. Well, I waited until nearly the last minute but on 27 December while hiking with my family and in-laws in Zion National Park I spotted a round brown ball across the Virgin River from us.

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Who can forget Mike and Corey’s stories about Maria, the Giant Antpitta at Refugio Paz de Las Aves, Ecuador, or James Currie ‘s quest to see the Scaled Antpitta at Tandayapa Lodge? Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I Patrick has had his share of sightings in Costa Rica as well.

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Eggs Research South America Costa Rica 188

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Several, like the mocker and the hummer, were members of families I hadn’t encountered before, either. If, instead of seven trips to Kenya, I’d done just one, and gone instead to Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Japan, China and New Guinea, it would almost certainly have passed the 6,000 mark. Fantastic!

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