10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

It was soon obvious that one of the trees right on the edge of the road was not empty and we pulled up just before it. 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. Occupied tree. Tawny Frogmouth on a nest.

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Family Rights Birds Australia 232

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. The fully fledged Pied Oystercatcher chick is the bird on the right. Pied Oystercatcher family at roost. The Pied Oystercatcher family will remain together for some time yet. Oriental Plover.

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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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Wildlife Rehabilitation Family Birds Collecting 252

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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2020 Chile Bald Eagle Europe 232

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. They are sized variably, often filling both pages with a series of story-telling images like the Southern Rockhoppers walking right, then left, then a single individual jumping down, or taking our breath away in a single image spread out over two pages.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. They are usually found in small family groups perched atop bushes or short trees, from whence they sally out to catch their prey.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

One such star avian family is the Setophagidae, the birds known as wood-warblers. No, not a warbler but big enough to be one and a star in its own right. Yes, you read that right. Despite being a bird that lacks bright colors commonly found in other members of this famed family, the “Wormer” is one of my favorites.

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Costa Rica Nashville Tennessee Turtles 274

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Where a birder goes in the Caribbean determines which birds are seen including toy-like todies, Carib hummingbirds, cool pigeons, quail-doves, unique avian families and outrageous woodpeckers. One such special place is the Centro Manu, a small family run reserve that features several star bird species of Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands.

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 263

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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Breeding Australia Eggs Family 193

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. The medieval flint churches of Norfolk stand right in the center of the most exciting birding in England, and our Black Sea cruises from port to historic port feature Dalmatian Pelicans and Audouin Gulls.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

We are very lucky that here in Broome we have Tawny Frogmouths right in town. I didn’t hang around, but took a few photos to capture the Tawny Frogmouth family that has once again bred close to home. One of the adult Tawny Frogmouths appears to be blind in its right eye. Tawny Frogmouth with an odd right eye.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2021

The Pheasant Coucal family have moved on from the last place that we observed them. Whiskered Terns will breed in this area if the conditions are right. There have been literally thousands of Whiskered Terns feeding close to the highway as you can see by all of the tiny dots in the header photos. Whiskered Terns feeding.

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Cattle Breeding Family Rights 258

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2024

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. 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.

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New Zealand Rabbits Adoptable Family 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

So best of luck to any and all creatures striving towards a distant horizon right now. But Corey also hit up the Forest Park bird feeders with his family Saturday afternoon and Desi, his five-year-old, was so taken with a Red-bellied Woodpecker (the one above) that Corey had to choose it as his favorite bird of the weekend too.

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2015 Birds Woodpeckers Family 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

They are one of the most famous families of birds, and for good reason. Extremely visible White-necked Jacobins and Black-throated Mangos tussle over canopy feeding rights, both species also frequent artificial feeders quite regularly during the right time of year.

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Trinidad South America Venezuela 2019 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Whether you are traveling with your family, in a small group, or alone, our tours are customizable to suit your every need and wish. We work closely with Mayan communities where local expert birders are permanently monitoring the forest to know the right time and place to spot our unique birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2024

These also show up, often in family groups, from the east and steadily approach the point before turning south-west towards the Atlantic. Eleonora’s Falcon is always a possibility at Europa Point in the summer Sea-watching from the coast is great fun right now and it keeps me cool. Next week I’ll take a step further.

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Falcons Breeding Family Groups 296

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

While I was on a call with Corey, what should fly into the tree right outside my window but a Yellow-throated Warbler ? This species is quite rare during migration in my area and this bird was, in one sense, way too early but, for my purposes, right on time.

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2014 Birds Family Rights 186

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Few if any species are as emblematic of the Neotropics as Ramphastidae, the family that includes the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. In addition to the serrated bill, Collared Aracaris have a barbed tongue, which you can see in the bird on the right. Even non-birders can appreciate the huge-billed and colorful birds. Disturbing, no?

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Costa Rica Horses Farming Collecting 230

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

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. Having a family of endangered Red-billed Curassow willingly approach me to within such a short distance is definitely one of them!

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California Condor Brazil Parrots Texas 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

Right now, The Warbler Brewery’s beers are only available for sale at their taproom. Their offerings include two IPAs, both in the popular New England style: Dissimulation IPA and Wolfjaw Double IPA.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm. Check it out: Juvenile Tiny Hawk Show in Sarapiqui. Las Arrieras Nature Reserve.

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Costa Rica Birds Thailand Farming 209

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2020

The birds have to be correctly drawn, show the right colors, postures, and be painted with care but when it all comes together, beautiful bird art is in a category of its own. Not only is this the right way to go about using paper, but it also adds a touch of old-school class.

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Costa Rica Birds Woodpeckers Species 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2015

We saw ravens in southern Manhattan through the winter and spring of 2015 (I even saw one with a bagel , confirming that they are right at home here in New York). The family has continued hanging around Chelsea since, and it’s a lot of fun watching (and hearing!)

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New York City New York 2015 New Jersey 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

And wouldn’t you know it, I was right. One could dwell on how convoluted its family tree is… the Butorides complex, as it’s called, is surprisingly complex. The Green Heron ( Butorides virescens ) is a spectacular species familiar to anyone who pays attention to the places where water meets land.

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Jamaica Fish Adoptable Ducks 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

Now you can check the fish farm lakes on your left (but here you have to ask for permission in the management building, the last one on the right hand side) or you can drive on until the first, very slight band in the road. Before that, on a rather sharp right bend, 1.8 We continued on to Sakule.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2024

A Collared Puffbird perched on a horizontal branch high over the trail, while we were trying to position ourselves properly to view this adorable creature a pair of dark, shadowy figures flew right past us and into the trees above. Had I not seen them when they flew in I am certain they would have gone undetected.

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Guyana Parrots Family Groups 234

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Twelve family accounts have been added. It is 72 pages longer than the first edition. An undisclosed number of family and species accounts have been updated. Nine photographers contributed most of the photographs used to illustrate the family sections, including Richard Crossley, Kevin T. Over 70 range maps were updated.

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North America America Family Falcons 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

The difference, of course, is that at the end of a ball game your opposing team, their family, and all their friends are not lying in pools of blood while you stand over them, feeling really good. The higher the score the better you feel.”.

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Killing Hunting Possums Hunters 257

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. And truth told, over the years they’ve been something of a square peg for ornithologists too, not fitting precisely into any of the known families of birds. A Family of Little Grebes – YC Lee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Not enough for you?

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Jordan Guatemala South America Birds 190

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

As Watson has put it in the Chapter 1, “while the focus of this book is on families of African birds, there are a few individual species that have somehow come to epitomise Africa, even though they have relatives elsewhere, and commentaries on these appear too. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Around this time of year, I keep an eye out for White-throated Sparrows landing around my home… they were right on time! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a total surprise while on a family outing to Edgemere Landfill in Queens. Did you enjoy your weekend?

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2014 Sparrows Birds Family 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2022

While the entire Tyrannidae family of Tyrant Flycatchers is massive, the Myiarchus group of those recorded on these two islands comprises just three species. Simple and straightforward enough, right? Notorious for being difficult to identify, the ideal situation would be to have no possible overlap of species.

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Trinidad ALA Groups Family 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2020

We moved back and sat on the sand and watched the Pied Oystercatcher family. As we sat observing the Pied Oystercatcher family the adult with the chicks moved down onto the sand below us and the other one stood guard. Pied Oystercatcher family. Pied Oystercatcher chicks with right feet up! Pied Oystercatcher family.

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Eggs Family 2008 2020 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

When you travel north along the highway from Broome towards Willare and Derby you come to a wide bridge with a sign that says “Cockatoo Creek” I would highly recommend that you pull up on the right after you have crossed the bridge and park where the plaque is for the official opening of it. There was also a Black-necked Stork.

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Cattle Ducks Zebras Australia 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

It devotes two pages to each bird, a full-page drawing of the bird on the left, a description of the bird, including singing and nesting behavior, on the right. Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family. North American Songbirds is clearly oriented towards beginning or backyard birders.

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MARCH 4, 2020

Hey, in 1959 Walt Disney set up a studio on the island and filmed Swiss Family Robinson there! I did however manage to be in the right place at the right time to experience a gang of Magnificent Frigatebirds that had a Red-footed Booby surrounded. Today, it very much retains its wild side.

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