10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? Expect to see many of South Africa’s endemic and special species, and a total trip list well in excess of 400 species! Gorgeous Bushshrike What is your name, and where do you live? René Rossouw, I live in Nelspruit, South Africa. 5 years How did you get into bird guiding?

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South Africa Africa Eagles Fish 198

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2020

He modeled likely future suitable habitats in a climate change scenario for a number of bird species of conservation concern. For example, palms are generally more resistant to storms and over the long term, they may predominate, deferentially impacting many bird species. Dr. Tom White of the U.S.

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Puerto Rico Parrots Ecuador Protection 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2022

They can’t provide the same ecosystem value as natural forest and woodland but in places intensely modifed by people, hedges are vital sanctuaries for birds and other wildlife. In pastures of the hot lowlands, they tend to be lines of stunted Gumbo-Limbo trees or some other heavily pruned species. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker.

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Costa Rica Birds Sparrows Squirrels 245

Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2009

They are dying them to look like Amazonian species which are more valuable on the black market. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime wildlife trafficking latin america.

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Trafficking Parrots Wildlife America 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. Part of it is because they are parrots, and most people really like parrots.

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New Zealand Parrots Sanctuary Sheep 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. What follows are the responses that readers offered, a veritable aviary of sought after species.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Penguins 193

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

One day my wildlife rehabilitator friend Marilyn brought me a black shoebox decorated with 6 or 8 quarter-sized holes. Two, he was a starling, an aggressive, overly plentiful invasive species that are edging out our more gentle native songbirds. He’d always come back inside, and spend the night in his parrot cage.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Parrots Game Eggs 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

However, as with many other places throughout the globe, this small country also has its fair share of urban wildlife. As is typical of urban birding in Costa Rica, we had small flocks of this species fly over and good looks at the White-crowned Parrot , the other most common parrot in the valley. Lesson’s Motmot.

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Costa Rica Parrots Birds Blackbirds 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America covers 827 species, including resident, migratory, and common vagrant birds. The end result is that the whole “biographic” area (NCA plus southern Mexico and northern Nicaragua) is home to 41 endemic bird species.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 226

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species. Both Drone World and Parrot have sections in their safety agreements and user guides advising pilots to avoid domestic pets and wildlife.

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Idaho Bears Protection Birds 179

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. Noisy Yellow-crowned Parrots indicated that it was time to stop the car and get out. Great Kiskadee.

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Trinidad Birds Parrots Falcons 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. That’s what we call it when you try to get a hold of wildlife that the idiot in possession thinks they can take care of better than you.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Rodents 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

There is a population of large green and red parrots in New York City? JFK Airport was a major hub for the importation of wildlife for the pet trade, and it is likely that birds escaped from quarantine during this period. They are a temperate zone species, found at high elevations, so they are somewhat cold-adapted.

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New York City Los Angeles New York South America 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

.* So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. Navarro’s exceptional drawings illustrate the species accounts. Forty-eight species.

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Cuba Birds 2000 United States 219

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2024

Black-tailed Trogon ( Trogon melanurus) Mainly a species of the Amazonian lowlands (two other disjunct populations exist from central Panama to northern Colombia and in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru) they are heard more often than seen as they tend to remain well above the ground, favoring the forest canopy to subcanopy.

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Ecuador Colombia Panama Peru 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

Among birders, wildlife photographers, and nature enthusiasts, it is renowned for its incredible concentrations of birds at the end of the dry season. During this time, the fish trapped in the shrinking pools of water attract hordes of herons, egrets, storks, and other wetland species. I must mention one thing.

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Brazil Paraguay Blackbirds Birds 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Mark Carter is an independent professional birding guide and wildlife surveyor living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. Today Mark owns and operates the wildlife guiding and biodiversity survey company Desertlife.com.au. My first Princess Parrot ? Here Mark shares the story of his Loo List. Some birders go further.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Last Saturday we were able to visit Berry Springs Nature Reserve late in the afternoon, which is located to the south of Darwin and alongside the Territory Wildlife Park. The wildlife park is actually going to be 25 years old next month and will have free entry to celebrate. Or I could rename this post… CROCODILES and SNAKES!

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Litter Pelicans Wildlife Australia 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

I was surprised that this species is named for its vocalization – which sounds like laughter. For example, the Diamond Dove is the world’s second-smallest species of the columbidae order ( source ). The Red-rumped Parrot is a ground-feeding parrot – one of its other names is grass parrot.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Fortunately, there are some people working to protect the Scarlet Macaws of Honduras.

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Honduras 2011 Deer Denmark 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

To that end please enjoy this quick guide of where to go birding and wildlife watching when based at any of the many World Cup locations. Don’t forget you can also see some wildlife on the road as you go ! North of Dunedin is Orokonui , a wildlife Sanctuary modeled on Karori with a fence to keep introduced mammals out.

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Fur 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This is a bit of a rabbit hole, however, and you may find yourself, as I did, spending the day watching videos of Superb Lyrebirds singing and Kea Parrots making snowballs. It’s fascinating stuff. Most of the chapters in The Bird Way focus on one or two scientists who has done extensive research on ‘outlier behavior.’

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Science Costa Rica Birds Research 206

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I didn’t realize how many new species I would see within the city itself! Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. Given how far west I found myself, I was hoping for at least a handful of new birds.

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Austin Texas Mississippi Non Human 107

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

In 2016, the Shanghai Wildlife Protection Management Station started the search for one, though progress has been slow. The Light-vented Bulbul is one of the three or four most common bird species in Shanghai. It is one of the 19 species of parrotbills. I would like to introduce two candidates, a bulbul and a parrotbill.

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China Protection Factory Birds 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

There has been one for the last couple winters at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, but I don’t think anyone has gotten as close to it as I got to the one at the Queens Zoo. Diabolical A to Z Quiz in Queens Quiz Pic 2 Answer: Thick-billed Parrot So who wins? DIABOLICAL!!!

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Deer 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Urban environments are expanding rapidly, and with urbanization come both challenges and opportunities for wildlife. Because these “extra” neurons are predominantly located in the forebrain, large parrots and corvids have the same or greater forebrain neuron counts as monkeys with much larger brains.

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Zebras Mammals Primates Birds 107

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Over 3,200 photographs have been used, most showing species in their habitats. There is also text, distribution maps, a dark red bar “warning” about similar looking rare species, and conservation symbols. So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?

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Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 138

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

H is for Hawk was a hit for Helen Macdonald a few years back; and Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien, The Parrot Who Owns Me by Joanna Burger; and Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg are, each of them, delightful books as well. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.

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Ohio Adoptable Emotional 2019 133

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

You may have birding from the window of your home, you may have been counting birds at a local wildlife refuge, you may have been counting birds on a feverish run from one end of a state to the next. In Costa Rica, we did our part and were elated to finish with more than 640 species. Pre-dawn in the Lowlands.

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Costa Rica 2017 Owls West Virginia 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2023

I would advise allowing as much time as possible if you hope to walk all of the trails and to be able to explore the different environments and the many species of birds. Many visitors appear to do the short walks, so you can enjoy the area mostly alone other than the wildlife. The sanctuary is open from 8am-4pm daily.

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Sanctuary Kangaroos Geese Transported 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s been a while since I observed a parrot in a palm tree above my head. Knowing that there are reserves with long lists of 600 or more species, I set my threshold at more than 600 birds… and found only a few such hotspots. In early November 2020, there were 15 countries with more than 1000 species eBirded so far.

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Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

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Chicago New York City Illinois New York 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

beats have still managed to share 82 checklists and accounted for 737 species. Brown-hooded Parrot – Pyrilia haematotis. White-crowned Parrot – Pionus senilis. Red-lored Parrot – Amazona autumnalis. Mealy Parrot – Amazona farinosa. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Laguna Lagarto Lodge.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 118

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

On my first day in Florida for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I landed at Orlando International Airport at about 9 AM, deplaned, waited for my luggage, got my rental car, and drove west. Two out-of-place parrots and a lost shorebird. But, what do I know of introduced parrot species? Wait, west? The answer?

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Florida Parrots Tampa 2004 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

The Lodge at Pico Bonito is an inviting, idyllic place for relaxation as well as for enjoying wildlife. There was definitely always the temptation to just sit at the restaurant, sip a warm cup of coffee or tea, and watch the constant antics of parrots, toucans, hummingbirds, and more going about their daily routine.

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Honduras Monkeys America Birds 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. ” The Australasian Swamphen used to think of itself as a subspecies of the Purple Swamphen but then started a self-improvement program and ended up as a full species.

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Australia Birds Mountain Goats Ducks 211