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Experience Experiments South America 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
I’ve been learning to band birds at the South Florida Bird Observatory. But hands-on bird experience has been a major gap in my knowledge to date and I’m astounded at how much more I’m discovering about birds. I hope to have another experience with ole Bucket Mouth when I’m next out at the nets.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
These thirty-eight years of experience went fast but that is what happens when you have fun, right? Brazil has the largest number of endemics of South America. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February. My name is Paulo Boute. The food is fantastic.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2012
Three similar subspecies are distributed regionally from the Caribbean to South America and the Galápagos Islands. Paradise Island in the Bahamas is, in my experience, a perfect place to spy these pintails.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience, able to be seen consistently across varied habitats throughout nearly all of North America and much of South America. The Pied-billed Grebe , a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2020
But my experience suggests there is a fair amount of geographical overlap between the two ranges in my area. Like the Common Yellowthroat , the Yellow Warbler breeds no further south than the central Mexican highlands. swee swee-swee-swee-sweeziweet. Its insect-like buzz reminds me most of the Grasshopper’s Sparrow’s song.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2011
They are species that breed in the US and then spend the winter in Central and South America, eating what’s avialable–especially fruit. Nyjer (aka Thistle) for goldfinches was introduced from Nigeria–someone had to experiment with that. Grape jelly for orioles was an experiment too.
252 10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2013
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Very little is known about this enigmatic species.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2023
He happily commented: “I am now well ahead of Noah’s pace, while I haven’t even started my journey through Africa and, last but not least, the most bird-rich continent of all, South America. My Big Year is such a succession of new experiences that there is simply no time to think of other things.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
The many islands of the Caribbean Sea are as unique a place to experience the amazing potential for speciation and diversity as the more famous Galapagos and Hawaiian islands are. As a hanger-on of my wife’s family I find myself this week in Aruba, one of the ABC islands just off the coast of northern South America.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2014
completed the experience. The experience, as magical as it was, feels far from complete. Trips Cerro Montezuma Choco Region Colombia South America' The illustrious 89 Butterfly ( Diaethria euclides phlogea ). Actually, that last statement was misleading. On top of Cerro Montezuma… oh, what a feeling!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2015
Taxa that could end up being split into one species occurring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and one south of the isthmus. (2). A species that lives in both Costa Rica and South America but might be two separate species. (3). One of the South American songs of Tawny-throated Leaftosser.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2011
Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. You won’t regret it! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— a.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2024
As I have mentioned repeatedly over the past months, life this spring has gone topsy-turvy in central Mexico, as we experience what has certainly been one of our driest years in history. Unlike the Purple Martin , however, it has a bright white belly, with males showing a sharp and elegant division between the two colors.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area of penguin population: (1) Antarctica, (2) South Georgia, (3) Falkland Islands, (4) South Africa and Tristan de Cunha, (5) New Zealand and Australia, (6) South America and Galapagos. © Otto Plantema, used with permission. © Otto Plantema, used with permission.
279 10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. The region is also especially rich in trogons and motmots, two decidedly tropical families with a longer evolutionary history in North America than South America. Trips Honduran birding La Tigra motmot'
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Grant McCreary of The Birder’s Library , who shared the experience with me, probably has pretty much the same problem. Purple Gallinules live in marshes in the southeastern United States, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. What do you do with hundreds of picture of Purple Gallinules ?
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JUNE 25, 2012
The dichotomous republic of Trinidad and Tobago may be something of a cipher to anyone unfamiliar with the point where the Caribbean ends and South America begins. Now I’ve finally spent time at Asa Wright, I understand why. I’m sure you’ll be as glad as I was.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
It was eventually accepted as a separate species after genetic studies also revealed large differences (over 8%) between birds from central Panama to northern South America and birds from western Panama north to Mexico. Check out the proposal and votes for this split at the AOS classification comittee site.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
These striking and inquisitive jays were perhaps the bird of the trip for me, and we took our time to soak in the experience of encountering these wonderful birds. It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2023
And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. Page 101, chapter Habitats of the Neotropics, lovely photos of a Cougar and a Resplendent Quetzal , and a bit of a smallish map of biomes of Central and South America.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Guianan Cock-of-the-rock by David Shackelford Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking country in South America, part of the Amazonian basin and geographically one of the southernmost members of the Caribbean Community. We had a fantastic experience watching these little toucanets.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Approximately 2,300 bird species inhabit Africa, however as impressive as that sounds, much smaller South America boasts nearly 1,000 species more. I cannot but admit that South America is the “bird continent” but as Peter Kaestner, one of the world’s top listers, so eloquently put it, Africa is nevertheless the “birding continent”.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
and Canada, and winter in Mexico, or breed in Mexico, and winter in Central and South America. Just a week later, I had a similar experience with an Olive-sided Flycatcher. This species mostly winters in South America, but migrates through all of Mexico, and a small population winters on Mexico’s west coast.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2011
Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. You won’t regret it! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— a.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2015
I guess our early March time-frame is a tad on the early side for them to return from South America, so you can imagine I was pretty stoked to see this one. There are few birds in North America that can elicit a subconscious smile in every single birder regardless of experience or skill, but this one has to be it.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2011
A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift. Odd little grassquits singing from power lines in South America’s great cities.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Oddly enough, it is the Western Bluebird that bears the taxonomic name of Sialia mexicana ; but in my experience, the Eastern Bluebird ( Sialia sialia ) is much more common in most of Mexico. While Michoacán doesn’t offer the spectacular tropical tanagers of Central and South America, those we have are also very colorful.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. What an amazing experience! Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. The Greater Pewee is guaranteed to turn up in our pine/oak forests here.
257 10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2014
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. A bite from an army ant can really pack a punch; I speak from experience. If you are lucky, you will find an ant swarm before they find you, which is a preferable method for sure.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2019
Perhaps just once in a decade, the UK experiences an invasion of Painted Ladies , Vanessa ( Cynthia) cardui. The Painted Lady is thought to be one of the world’s most succesful butterflies with a range covering the globe apart from Antactica and South America. Painted Ladies are part of the Aristocrat group of butterflies.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
These birds had much smaller bills and were clearly a different species: Rusty-margined Flycatcher I couldn’t even think of going birding anywhere in South America and not see a Roadside Hawk. Lesser Kiskadee A pair of very similar looking birds flew in to confuse things even more.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2022
Millions of pewees fly over and stop in Costa Rica on their way to and from South America. In my experience, it seems to sing more during the spring months and this of course is a great help in locating this unobtrusive bird. Eastern Wood-Pewee. The original pewee is one of the migrants that passes through in large numbers.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. He’s also Professor Emeritus of Biology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. They complement Kricher’s text.,
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2020
For those of us with the great good fortune to bird in Latin America, or other less-studied biological regions, my experience suggests that we are much more likely to benefit from the new species created by such splits. There is a third subspecies that occurs from southeastern Mexico through South America which I have yet to see.).
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
It’s been my experience that for every 1 person I know who thinks a certain way, at least 12 others in my circle agree. If Starling has been to Central and South America to watch birds, what kind of vibe has been put out by this person when they interact with the guides and hosts down there.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2011
Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. You won’t regret it! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— a.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
The only thing that could have made the experience with Tryngites subruficollis better would have been some sunlight. Buff-breasted Sandpipers are hardy little birds, migrating yearly between their grassland wintering grounds in South America and their tundra breeding grounds in the high Arctic.
171 10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
It’s a strange experience looking up from a city street to gaze at birds native to South America; even more ironic considering humans drove the only native parrot/parakeet species, the Carolina Parakeet , to extinction. Austin had one more life bird in store for me.
167 10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2014
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds. But at last we were in El Triunfo!
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
However, if out of courtesy one of the other woodpeckers switches the talk to another favorite topic, ants, the Ground Woodpecker is happy to share its experience. Piculets are a subfamily of woodpeckers – most of its 25 species live in South America.
264 10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
That seems like an abnormally high risk for a seabird that makes its living picking up small fish from the water’s surface, but Sooty Terns are some of the most abundant seabirds in the world and spend most of their lives on the open ocean between South America and Africa, so it seems to be working for them.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 25, 2012
National Geographic’s “Digital Nomad”, Andrew Evans, is on a trans-Atlantic journey from South America’s Cape Horn to Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Along his journey (as with most of his adventures) he stops to hang with local animals, and to share his experience in his blog.
100 10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.
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