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There is a regular birding route in Costa Rica that hits every major habitat in the country and makes an easy, logistical friendly loop. The sites on that loop are visited by most tours and include hot spots like the Dota Valley (think Savegre), the Golfo Dulce lowlands, Carara, and La Selva among other places commonly featured on trip reports. Those time honored sites are always good and result in fantastic, birdy trips but they aren’t the only places in Costa Rica for birding.
¡Hola! ?? #quokka#instaquokka A photo posted by @instaquokka on Apr 5, 2016 at 10:18am PDT Don’t you just love the adorable quokka? Sadly these little guys are decreasing in the wild. They aren’t fearful of humans, and often can be … Continue reading → The post Quokkas are adorable. appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
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I love a coffee in the morning. I live in Wellington, a city with more coffee shops and restaurants per capita than any other city in the world. But I won’t be having my usual coffee, (flat white, large, no sugar, thanks) tomorrow. I’ll be tipping my cash to a worthwhile project in Peru, and I hope you will too. You see, it isn’t the easiest thing in the world being a flightless grebe.
For those who happen to be faithful followers of posts about birding in Costa Rica, no, you haven’t accidentally browsed to the wrong place. Today, I am writing about another very birdy place and an event that I was very fortunate to have experienced, the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel. It might not be Costa Rica, but it is one of the most important, birdiest events on the planet, and checking it out was a dream come true.
Jason A. Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon. Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System. How many birders are there in America? As it turns out, there are very few estimates. Indeed, there appears to be just one. In 2013, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.
Jason A. Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon. Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System. How many birders are there in America? As it turns out, there are very few estimates. Indeed, there appears to be just one. In 2013, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.
You may have heard of nursing homes or assisted living facilities bringing in dogs and cats to give their residents a little “pet therapy.” But what about birds? One enterprising New Orleans-area bird rescuer is doing just that. As reported by the fine folks at The Dodo , after Hurricane Katrina forced Katrina “Kasia” Perkowska to evacuate, she started bringing her pet Wood Duck , Scooter, to her mother-in-law’s nursing home in Mississippi.
Even before I turn the engine off, I hear the frog-like song of the Great Reed-Warblers. In a cold morning after a rainy night, some 200 Barn Swallows are hawking for insects low over the pond, while almost a thousand newly-arrived Sand Martins (Bank Swallows) are doing the same higher, above the tree tops. A Common Cuckoo is singing from the reeds, while another rufous morph female flies from one bank to another.
I have been fortunate to bird Florida many times, and over the years I’ve seen most of the specialty birds that people travel from all over to see. I’ve walked among Wood Storks , looked at Limpkins , scrutinized dozens of Snail Kites , even managed to come across a White-crowned Pigeon or two. Florida has revealed a great many of its birding secrets to me, but it has yet to provide me with the dainty little neotropic Buteo I have sought since my first trip way back in 1993.
Reddell Beach or Riddell Beach, depending on your source of information is a very picturesque beach in Broome between the port of Broome and Gantheaume Point. It varies from Cable Beach , because rather than white sand and white sand dunes it offers pindan red cliffs and the dirt does stain! The beach is in fact named after Captain John Alfred Reddell, who was murdered on 20th October 1899 on board the “Ethel” when he was returning to New Zealand on one of his journeys to transport s
You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades. Apropos the Presidential election season, we note that in life the critical choice is not always the best among near bests, but the least worse among bad choices.
It sometimes feels like being a conservationist is like being a punching bag, blow after blow of bad news after bad news hits us day after day. So let’s celebrate some good news today; Kakapo are having one of their best ever breeding seasons since European settlement. . Kakapo are strange birds. The world’s largest parrot is also a flightless inhabitant of the night, because of course it is.
As I said last week , I’ve decided to try and knock off a few of the New Zealand endemics and specialities that I haven’t seen before over the coming year, and the first place that sprung to mind was pretty close, just across the Cook Strait in the Marlborough Sounds. I’ve been to the Sounds before, but I had never visited them specifically to bird, which means I hadn’t seen the specialities there.
Tomtits are not a species I have ever talked much about on this blog. This isn’t because I don’t like them, on the contrary, they rate as one of New Zealand’s cutest birds, and I’m a big fan of cute. No, it’s simply a case of not seeing them very often. This isn’t because they are particularly rare; I’ll see them fairly easily in suitable habitat.
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Blogging is a peculiar activity. It initiates an internal monologue when one is alone in the field and keeps up the chatter all day, even when nothing is happening. But something must happen otherwise, God forbid, there will be nothing to blog about. So when, during a quiet morning on Key Biscayne, an Indian Peafowl rustled his train in preparation for his display, the inner voices cheered and pointed with relief.
In the fight against extinction, score one—actually, make that two—for Whooping Cranes. For the first time in 75 years, a pair has successfully nested in Louisiana , producing not one but two fuzzy, wild-born chicks. With the bird’s total population hovering roughly 600, every new addition counts—and counts big. Louisiana’s last wild Whoopers disappeared just after World War II.
I spent an hour or so at the feeders in Forest Park, Queens, yesterday morning and was pleased that the birds coming in were even more willing to tolerate my presence than they normally are. The year-round residents were all in attendance and I was pleased that both an Eastern Towhee and Chipping Sparrows were enjoying the spilled seed on the ground.
The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of names to collective nouns for groups of birds. One can only assume that somehow they were unaware that a perfectly good word, flock, existed, and then plundered an innocent thesaurus to find whimsical (read:idiotic) terms like an unkindness of ravens, a flamboyance of flamingos or (worst of all) an exaltation of larks.
Tom Brown grew up in the high desert area of Central Oregon. His love for birds and photography started at a young age. Thru the course of time, travel, and a lot of different occupations, he ended up living in Seattle, and met a girl with a sailboat. They’ve been traveling and bird blogging the world ever since! This is Tom’s second contribution to 10,000 Birds, following the riveting description of his great hummingbird nest heist : The Gray Thrasher , one of the endemic species of the “The Ba
I have been back from Eilat, Israel for more than a week but still find myself dreaming about birding in the desert. As I scan for the Hoopoe Lark that I dipped, I wonder what else is being seen in the sparse wadi vegetation. I eagerly search for any movement and try to wish a crouching sandgrouse into existence. Then I wake up, eventually realize that I am back in Costa Rica, and find myself thinking about birding here and birding there.
Now finally, here is the third and last part of my mini-series on the taxonomic offspring of the Herring Gull, in which I’ll cover the. European Herring Gull Larus argentatus. The European Herring Gull is essentially the rump state of what was once an empire of a species ranging throughout the northern hemisphere. Indeed, and here I am showing my age, there once was a time when all the large gulls of Eurasia and North America with a pale grey mantle and a black wing-tip were labelled as &
Here it is! The big day when you pick up your new BEST FRIEND, your dog. Everyone is excited and happy as you drive home. You get out of the car and bound up the walkway, you throw open the … Continue reading → The post 5 Essential Tips for Sharing a Living Space with Your Dog appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
These seasons of transition make for exciting birding. Best of all, your birds next weekend may be even better than what this weekend offered. I was privileged to help my mother-in-law see her first Common Loon in its summer finery, but for me, the highlight amidst the myriad ducks and grebes was a new regiment of Ruddy Ducks in the waterfowl mix at Conesus Lake.
Over the past week in Australia there has been a lot of talk in the media about coral bleaching and most of the conversation has been about the Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Australia. The science currently believes that up to twenty five percent of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef could be lost to bleaching in the next forty years.
April showers, the farmers of old maintained, bring May flowers. Whatever winds are blowing through this month also bring lots of birds. Wherever you are on Earth, you’re likely to see some species come or others go this weekend. Only, however, if you’re looking… I still haven’t given up on spotting a rare duck around Consesus Lake, so wish me luck this weekend.
That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect. And it’s not just for the free rations of birdseed. The scientists, who studied bird populations in Europe and China , speculate that urban areas may have some appeal for passerines that rural areas otherwise lack.
Here in western New York, Spring Break is giving way to Winter Storm Warnings. But no matter how wacky the weather, birds are on the move. Make sure you’re in place to see them. I overcame my aversion to cold to seek out Saw-whet Owls in nearby Owl Woods. Imagine my brief surge of excitement followed by a more lingering disappointment when I spotted the wooden totem pictured above.
The last weekend of April may as well be May, which we know is a major month of migration. Don’t miss it! I have family visiting this weekend, which means my chances of getting out into the field seem slim. Wish me luck! Corey needs some luck as well; he missed the vagrant Swainson’s Warbler in Central Park, so he’ll be looking for his own in Queens.
Late April offers so much for nature lovers. If you didn’t see something interesting or new this weekend, you must not have gotten out of your house! I enjoyed encountering a lot of first-of-year spring arrivals, but the species that most piqued my interest was White-winged Scoter , with a late flock of 17 hanging around Braddock Bay. The birds had already adopted their drab eclipse plumage, unlike the winter warrior featured in the photo above.
I mentioned last week that the lack of rain and warmer temperatures over the past few months have had a devastating effect on the reef along Broome’s coastline resulting in coral bleaching. The lack of rain has also resulted in the local ephemeral lakes not filling up and birds having to move to town for both food and water. One of the best places to observe birds in Broome apart from the Poo Ponds are any of the sport ovals.
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