10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2020

The first, A Guide to the Birdsong of South America , was released in 2015 and helped raise nearly $15,000 for a pair of non-profit environmental organizations in South America; Aves Argentinas and the Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco in Ecuador.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Brazil has the largest number of endemics of South America. And, with you it will be the same, a wonderful combination of fun and birding by coming to Brazil, once it gets safe to travel again. Surely it will be a very wise decision! Here are the reasons: -Brazil is safe to travel. The food is fantastic.

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Brazil South America Industry America 262

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

It is a common bird of humid, lowland forest in Central and South America where it is usually found in the lower storey. cabanisi group is found in southwest South America and the birds seen in Central America will be from the B.c.cucillivorus group. This is a Golden-crowned Warbler , Basileuterus cucilivorus.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ridiculously common in its home range of northern South America, no-one had ever seen a Glittering-throated Emerald here before, and I was determined to be among those who laid eyes on it. Then, in late 2019, my world was rocked again by yet another new hummingbird.

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Trinidad South America Venezuela 2019 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2022

The Red-crowned Woodpecker is one of several species that are found throughout northern South America and Tobago but are absent from Trinidad. Nectar may be the main driver for this behaviour, but they will certainly not pass on the opportunity to nab any insects attracted to the feeder. Red-crowned Woodpecker.

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Woodpeckers Trinidad South America Hunting 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2024

link] , via Wikimedia Commons Ovenbirds are native to South America, particularly in countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, where they inhabit open fields and forest edges. Long-tailed T**s are widely distributed across Europe and Asia, inhabiting woodlands, gardens, and hedgerows. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2024

It breeds on the shores of the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic, then gathers around the southern arm of Hudson Bay, to fly non-stop all the way to the southern tip of South America. (But I will still provide one.)

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Squirrels Mexico Kansas South America 229

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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Guyana Parrots Trinidad South America 196

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This striking bird is a strange character and supposedly confused ornithologists for many years even though it was a common sight throughout marshes and open areas in much of South America. I could hardly imagine the frustration, initially it was thought to be a type of mockingbird.

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Farming Guyana Birds Trinidad 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2015

Growing up in South America, I distinctly recall the arrival of “the swallow with a deeply forked tail”. They fly from extreme northern North America to the southern tip of South America and are seldom seen perched during migration. I later learned about the Barn Swallow’s amazing annual migration.

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South Dakota South America North America Wyoming 169

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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Costa Rica Species South America America 216

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Two weekends ago I was scheduled to take part in a live birding video, one of twenty birders from across North and South America who were out and about looking for good birds to share with the world through Swarovski Optik Birding’s Facebook page.

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South America Sparrows Birds America 273

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2024

And Chilean Flamingos should be found, well, in Chile, as well as much of southwestern South America. American Flamingos do occur naturally in Mexico, but only on the Yucatán peninsula in the country’s extreme southwest. So both birds are assumed by many to be escapees from a zoo or a private collection somewhere.

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Mexico Cuba Chile South America 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Plus, this cow, which was apparently going to be lunch at the military base atop Montezuma Peak, was one of those lean, long-horned Criollo types so common in Central and South America. Trips Colombia cows danger South America' Big mistake! What’s the most memorable hazard you’ve faced on the birding trail?

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Cows Colombia South America Livestock 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The presence of this tanager in the Caribbean is a rare aspect of South American flair, as its closest relative is the similarly plumaged Scrub Tanager of northern South America. Interestingly, this species has been split into two distinct subspecies, one for each of the islands on which it is found.

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Puerto Rico Grenada Barbados Trinidad 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

This photo could have been taken in Florida’s Treasure Coast during the winter months or in South America during the same period. In South America, the small resident gull is the Gray Gull , the two species of large gulls are the Kelp and Band-tailed , and the abundant gull is the Franklin Gull. Photo: Alastair Rae.

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Chile Peru South America Florida 192

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2020

But the highly social Rufous-crowned Warbler , found from Western Mexico all the way down to northern South America, is one Warbler that really knows how to warble. Its insect-like buzz reminds me most of the Grasshopper’s Sparrow’s song. I love to hear its song in our dry canyons.

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Honduras Mexico South America America 342

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2021

They’ve not wasted any time, having drifted northward from mainland South America only a few weeks ago. A friend of mine has been begging me to come over to document a nesting pair of Plumbeous Kites in her property but life has gotten in the way thus far.

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Raised Breeding South America Family 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to the distribution map , their migration takes them as far south as Argentina, but decidedly less common in central and eastern South America. I’ve seen them many times on Trinidad but they are much rarer on Tobago.

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Trinidad Argentina South America Bears 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2019

Robin Restall is an acclaimed bird artist, whose works include the Helm’s Birds of Northern South America (2006). The majority of these illustrations were originally painted for the Birds of Northern South America (2006). I haven’t birded South America yet.

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Ecuador South America 2006 Venezuela 152

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

The authors argue that most major groups, including the sparrows, wood-warblers, blackbirds, and cardinals then diversified in North America and subsequently colonized South America in a series of overwater (before the Isthmus of Panama had formed) or overland dispersal events.

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Sparrows North America South America Blackbirds 257

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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Costa Rica Owls Panama Argentina 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Baird’sSandpipers can only be seen here in August and September, as they stop on their way from the Arctic Circle to southern South America; they do not normally visit central Mexico on its way back north.

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South America Ducks 2020 Mexico 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

By checking my Facebook feed on a daily basis, I had a broad idea about birds arriving into different countries in Central and South America. I have Facebook friends and belong to multiple bird related Facebook groups throughout South America. Black-throated Blue Warbler. This is by no means an exact science.

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South America Colombia Peru Chile 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

Some of those migrants don’t have far to go but the majority of species are winging their way in from Mexico, Central America, and South America. While our winter residents bulk up to head north, they are joined by other species coming from South America.

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Costa Rica Tennessee South America Philadelphia 141

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.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 278

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2021

It seems to really like the Poro tree, an Erythrina species native to northern South America that has become well established in Costa Rica and used by many native and migrant birds. In the Central Valley, this bird might be somewhat seasonal, or, maybe it just wanders from one area of flowering trees to another.

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Costa Rica South America Arizona Species 263

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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South America San Diego Mexico America 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2022

Wood-Wrens , birds of the family Henicorhina , are very small wrens of Central and South America that like to live very close to the ground, in dense forest underbrush or elfin forests. The only one that occurs in western Mexico, where I live, is the Gray-breasted Wood-Wren.

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Mexico South America America Species 196

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2020

Another search revealed that South America’s ubiquitous Turdus can live for 25 – 30 years in the wild. If it were the same bird it would be at least 16 (assuming that evidence of breeding behaviour indicates a maturity of at least one season) years old during 2020. So, how long do Rufous-bellied Thrushes live for?

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2005 Brazil South America 2018 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

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. Presuming I am an absolute beginner, who has no clue about habitats of Costa Rica, let me see what the Habitats of the World has to say about those areas.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2023

For a few, only a few, species actually winter in Central and South America, and summer up here in Mexico. Several Empidonax flycatcher species also leave for the north… But I can’t get too sad about that. And there is some sweetness in these bittersweet months. They are our summer consolation prizes.

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South America Pigs Mexico Species 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

It is apparently uncommon across most of its wide range in the shrublands of South America, little noticed and little noted, and sources are pretty thin, as they are for many birds in places like South America. From a three line stub it now has a full article. One mystery was its movements.

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Science Argentina South America Uruguay 109

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2019

The best season in the north is July to March, while in the south it is January to March. With its 810 birds, Guyana is located at the northern coast of South America.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

While not my quite my first sighting of an Olive-sided Flycatcher for 2020, this difficult species is always a welcome find as it makes it way through Mexico to reach Central and South America. Of course, not everything interesting is a bird.

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2020 Reptiles South America Birds 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2016

Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States. However, they have suffered habitat loss not only in the United States, but also in Central and South America. Suddenly, we catch a flash of bright orange: a Baltimore Oriole.

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Maryland Baltimore United States Legislature 104

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Millions of pewees fly over and stop in Costa Rica on their way to and from South America. Eastern Wood-Pewee. The original pewee is one of the migrants that passes through in large numbers. We do hear them say their name and that helps because if not, they can be super tough to separate from the Western Wood-Pewee.

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