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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
We can, of course, count wild, native, species. We can count vagrant species that made it to the area we are in under their own power. We can count introduced species that have met the criteria of the “Bird Police” for the area to which they are introduced. When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2013
Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. This kind of detailed genetic and developmental work has traditionally relied on model species in the lab (aka chickens).
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2012
As the reigning birder of the world, I feel it is only right to look a little deeper into the lives of birds here, and talk about something beyond the mundane nuances of plumage variations of freshly-molted Empidonax flycatchers and if migrant Warbling Vireos arrived 3 days earlier this year than last.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
In the marshes of the estancia , he discovers what he comes to believe is a new species of rail – one of the “accidentals” of the title. And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The title of the one just mentioned starts with “Intimacy across species boundaries” … The Spot-necked Babbler is “shy and social”, according to eBird, which sounds a bit like a contradiction to me. ”, in which the Red-whiskered Bulbul is named as one of the two most heavily targeted bird species.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2021
The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! Colombia is one of those countries that Dragan’s dreams are made of: it has 1,965 bird species – more than any other country in the world. Each image is accompanied by a page of prose detail on the bird (e.g.,
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