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Northern Potoo

10,000 Birds

Sometimes called “Poor-me-ones&# on account of their haunting calls, these bizarre denizens of the night come in 7 different flavors from the family Nyctibiidae within the order Caprimulgiformes. In reality though, this is actually a pretty stellar nesting strategy. Potoos that are brooding simply look plumper than normal!

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Endangered and Unknown: Red-billed Curassow

10,000 Birds

Red-billed Curassow ( Crax blumenbachii ), a large, ground-dwelling bird belonging to the same family as the more familiar Plain Chachalaca of southern Texas, was never a very widespread species. Our strategy on each day was to be the first people on the road in the morning. Is that all we are going to get? Or so we thought.

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

10,000 Birds

I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. In October of 2012, the Institute for Bird Populations released “ A Conservation Strategy for the Black-Backed Woodpecker in California 3.” It was July of 2012.

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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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Nesting Red-capped Plovers

10,000 Birds

We have also observed pairs of Pied Oystercatchers choosing sand over rocks and each pair appears to use the same strategy year after year. The Red-capped Plover family group will move back and forth up and down the beach as the tides rise and fall and try to avoid the vehicles that use our local beaches at this time of year.

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Pied Oystercatchers breeding in Broome

10,000 Birds

The Pied Oystercatchers are actually incredibly predictable when it comes to the dates that they lay eggs, the locations that they choose and the various strategies that each pair use in order to protect their young. Pied Oystercatcher family. Pied Oystercatcher family looking for food.

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Pied Oystercatchers breeding in Roebuck Bay

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Our observations recently have shown that the adult Pied Oystercatchers are roosting amongst the shorebirds where possible and it may well protect the juvenile Pied Oystercatchers. As the tide drops the birds all move forward to bathe and feed and the Pied Oystercatcher family becomes more visible. Pied Oystercatchers on the move.

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