10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

I am puzzled as to why Gulls and Terns are almost passed over, with less than two pages of text devoted to a family description and only six species accounts (four gulls, two terns). Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2021

The family Furnariidae consists of ovenbirds and woodcreepers, but the actual Ovenbird belongs to the family of New World Warblers – Parulidae. This is not the most confusing aspect of birds by any means, after all there are tanagers which belong in the cardinal family and cardinals that are tanagers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

I have shown you a few times over the years various families of Tawny Frogmouths. There is also the family of Tawny Frogmouths at Cygnet Park. The family at Cygnet Park still roost in the park and I see them every day, but they prefer the Poinciana trees nowadays. Tawny Frogmouth on a nest.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2020

The header photo above shows where the family rested shortly after the two chicks left the nest on Tuesday. The following day we returned to see if the family of Pied Oystercatchers had moved away from the nest site yet. The family had not moved far and the footprints were clearly visible in the soft sand.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2020

On a rising tide the Pied Oystercatcher family soon found a good position to watch and wait until the reef was exposed once again. Pied Oystercatcher family at roost. The Pied Oystercatcher family will remain together for some time yet. They moved around a bit to get comfortable on the rocky outcrop. Oriental Plover.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

There are five families: Stilts & Avocets (Family Recurvirostridae), Oystercatchers (Family Haem), Plovers (Family Charadriidae), Sandpipers and Allies (Family Scolopacidae), and Jacanas (Jacanidae), with Family Scolopacidae representing the bulk of species (as it does worldwide).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

The eggs hatched out around 20th June after 28 days of incubation and the Pied Oystercatcher family were soon on the move. This moves the family closer to a reef that gets exposed on low tides and better feeding opportunities. Usually the first thing we look for when we visit Pied Oystercatcher families is look for footprints.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2021

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many birders couldn’t help but notice the coincidental similarity between that abbreviation and name of one of the most familiar of all passerine families – Corvidae.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The birds that live here are tough and belong mainly to particular families of birds. Hours of available hunting are low and temperatures are extremely low. It’s a miracle that anything can find sustenance and survive here. Owls do particularly well here, the long nights actually working in their favour by increasing hunting time.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2024

To make things even better, a family member I had not yet met (after close to four decades of marriage) joined us. Just the other day we had an extensive lunch with my Mozambican in-laws. The reminiscing started.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

These endearing birds are almost always found in pairs or small family groups, and I often have difficulty deciding which bird to photograph as both males and females are equally beautiful. As with most members of this family, males and females are rarely found far from each other. Three species of antshrikes are resident in T&T.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Too tough to choose a species but if I could choose a family it’d be a tight finish between shorebirds and vultures. What is your favorite bird species? The bird that I’m seeing or hearing at the present moment. Trinidad Motmot What is your name, and where do you live?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

On the way up, a large family of Willow T**s… Source The last segment of our hiking trip (and correspondingly the last post of this mini-series) took us to the Soierngruppe, a relatively free-standing group of mountains forming a circular barrier arround two small picturesque lakes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For the purpose of this post being of a reasonable length, I’m only going to touch on members of the Tyrannidae family of New World Flycatchers which can be found in the cocoa estates of Trinidad and Tobago. Even though they belong to the same family, many flycatchers have different habits. Yellow-breasted Flycatcher.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2024

Not just the Common Cuckoo or the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, you must love the whole family Cuculidae, all 32 general and 148 species of them, from Anis to Roadrunners to Coucals to Lizard Cuckoos to Koels to Malkohas to Drongo-Cuckoos to Hawk-Cuckoos.* You gotta love Cuckoos.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2021

In addition to working with family to create a new cocktail (the “Christmas in July” which is the liquid that drains from ceviche mixed with vodka, preferably with a chunk of whitefish in it) he got some good birds. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Corey went for a walk at Jamaica Bay with his family on Saturday evening, after the rain had stopped in New York City and went out again, alone, on Sunday morning before the rain picked back up. He and his family were delighted by displaying American Woodcocks once it got dark out.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

So my birding buddy who is a botany professor lives on his family’s seven hectares (17 acres), a mere ten minutes’ drive from my house. It’s a wonderful piece of property, with a waterway running east-west down the middle.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

Trogons and quetzals are an ancient, colorful bird family that occurs in forests and other wooded habitats from the American tropics to Africa to Southeast Asia. Bright and sociable, Green Jays are a joy to watch as they move around wooded habitats in tight family flocks in search of large insects, seed, and fruit.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2020

What this translates to is an array of bird families that are very similar to that on the mainland – motmots, toucans, jacamars, and antpittas to name a few – but each family is limited to one or two representatives. There is simply not enough real estate for multiple species of toucans for example.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

Cutting one tree down displaced two very different wildlife families,” said Michele. Two families were split up and made homeless by the cutting of one tree. If trimming or cutting cannot wait until fall, make sure the tree is not home to a growing family. Sounds like a sitcom!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The best laid plans… Last week, I had hoped to get permission to get onto the campus of one or Morelia’s many universities, to look for a family of Wood Ducks that apparently have arrived to spend the winter in its unusual habitat of marshy forest. In fact, it was guaranteed before I got out of bed!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the 1960s, Efraín Chacón constructed a dirt trail [from San Gerardo de Dota] to the Pan-American Highway, and brought his family to build a house, to farm and fish for trout. Volcano Hummingbird male, Talamanca race There is a bit of history attached to the status of the most popular birding area in Talamanca. “In

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2023

The Crested Pigeon family remained in the tree away from danger for quite some time with both parents present. Although Crested Pigeons are quite a common bird Australia-wide you don’t always find a nest, so that you are able to observe the family grow.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2021

Perhaps his first attempt at raising a family – I’ll be checking on him in a few days! Some birds chose to sit quietly together, perhaps getting to know each other’s quirks and habits before settling down to raise a family. A young male Swallow Tanager holding a bit of nesting material.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

There was an island in the middle of the river and the tall trees held Yellow-billed Spoonbill nests and there were several families within the vicinity. One family of Yellow-billed Spoonbills all lined up together on the one branch over the river and made for an impressive group of birds. Yellow-billed Spoonbill family.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2021

Today, I’m going to look at the family Trochilidae , or hummingbirds. Typically they are drawn to the brilliantly colored flowers of the Heliconia family. Although eighteen species of hummingbirds have been recorded in T&T, within this there are three species of hermits. The smallest of the three is the Little Hermit.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2021

There’s a ( Eurasian) Blue Tit ( Cyanistes caeruleus ) flitting around some flowers and butterflies, while what is likely another European member of the family Paridae – possibly either a Willow Tit ( Poecile montanus ) or Marsh Tit ( Poecile palustris ) – seems to alight on the letter “T” in “Natura”.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I always appreciate the opportunity to see and compare multiple members of a single genus and family at the same time. They’re not orioles, but the three Chihuahuan Meadowlarks we saw are in the same Icterid family. And the orioles were certainly the belles of this particular ball. Not only that, but they all allowed photos.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2024

A Jabiru disappeared up a small stream around one corner, another corner was attended to by a small family of Amazon Kingfishers. Here, we were treated to the sight of a family of Giant River Otters that were stationed on the opposite bank. After a momentary stillness day became night, and life erupted again.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For such a small place, birders are often spoiled for choice, there seems to be a representative of almost every neotropical family making their presence felt in some corner of habitat. Honeycreepers are members of the Thraupidae family of tanagers. There are of course a few more which I intend to get to in due course.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As we walked up the “beautiful river” (which is what “Río Bello” means) Nacho pointed out trees from the dogwood, holly, and linden/basswood families. You might not guess this Lobelia is from the same family as the popular bedding flower with that name — until you see the individual flowers close-up.

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JULY 27, 2024

I experienced a perfect illustration of this many years ago when I was traveling in New Zealand with my family. My family still regularly reminds me of that sighting when I get excited about birds. Funny how sometimes you search for birds for ages and when you’re in the right area, or by chance, they are almost too easy to see.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

The losing streak of the bulbul family continues with some other species such as the … … Dark-capped Bulbul (Drakensberg area, South Africa; eBird: “a rather nondescript thrush-sized brown bird”) … … White-eared Bulbul (Mumbai, eBird: “a dull gray-brown bulbul). Thus the Cape Bulbul.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2024

I have encountered a few of the more quirky members of the family, including the brilliant and aptly-named African Emerald Cuckoo, India’s ultra-shy Sirkeer Malkoha, and the fascinating Lesser Ground Cuckoo in Costa Rica. It reminded me of a Roadrunner, which is, of course, also a member of the cuckoo family.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

But his Best Bird of the Weekend was one he saw with his family on a visit to Jamaica Bay on Saturday evening. If you were wondering, the rabbit won this encounter. Corey enjoyed some good birding on both Saturday and Sunday mornings.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2021

My family’s walk through Rochester’s historic Mt. We just endured the warmest June on record, which may well turn out to be the coolest June we’ll see in a long time. As grumpy as these daily 30-degree temperature swings are making me, you have to wonder how the birds are reacting.

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