10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
It does occur in Hawaii, which is where I saw it, but everyone knows birding in Hawaii doesn’t count. A rather fine shot in the evening light A nesting Grey-backed Tern Adjusting the egg into a more comfortable position. The species replaces the widespread, almost pan-tropical, Bridled Tern in the western Pacific Ocean.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
This one found a ledge on one of the buildings a suitable place to lay an egg, a location which is positively decadent for the species. Along with Nihoa Island this is the only place this species occurs in Hawaii. Look at all that room!
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! She even slept with it.” How did Crystal react?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. But what about the horrific deaths of the birds?
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2014
We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs. They are incredibly cunning and not easily trapped.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The rest of Mexico is not included, nor is Hawaii (which isn’t in North America, after all, but has been accepted as part of the American Birding Association area). Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. Henshaw, a personal friend as well as colleague who spent years studying the birds of Hawaii and who was known even then for his enthusiastic shooting and collecting practices.
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