10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

The lure of an staggering number of species at a particular location is a draw for many people. In fact, the number of “heard only” annotations next to a species names is more frequent in bird list resulting from rainforest birding than birding in any other habitat type. Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons.

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Peru United Kingdom Birds South Africa 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

The 1,500 km route included a great diversity of habitat types, elevations along the west and east facing slopes of the Andes, jaw dropping landscapes, contrasting microclimates, cultural diversity and a potential list of well over 1,000 species. The competition turned tight and every species counted. Photo: Jorge Novoa.

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Peru South Africa United Kingdom Birds 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2014

Four teams with renowned birders from United States, South Africa and United Kingdom will travel through the diverse and endemic bird rich region of Northern Peru, from May 12 thought May 20, 2014. Gray-hooded Gull. Photo Credit: Diego Garcia Olaechea.

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Peru United Kingdom South Africa 2013 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2011

It was back in July of 2009 , the day that I saw more species of tern than any other day of my life, and I have no pictures of my first Thalasseus sandvicensis because I had managed to forget my digiscoping adapter that day. No, Sandwich Terns are rather boringly named after their type locality, Sandwich, Kent, United Kingdom.

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New York United Kingdom Hawaii Abandon 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Publisher Little Toller Books, United Kingdom. …hundreds of working man and boys would take advantage of the free hour at dinner time to visit the bridges and embankments, and give the scraps left from their meal to the birds.” Book details. Hardback | 178mm x 128mm | 240 pages. Jacket and illustration by Greg Poole.

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Angola United Kingdom Mozambique Botswana 219

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom. Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species. Research to determine the ability to understand the HCA vs. UCA distinction has shown this to be rare as well. Here’s the idea.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment United Kingdom 261

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2016

We have several of the cuckoo species around the Broome area and all cuckoos are more likely to be heard than seen, but every now and again you get lucky! The Pallid Cuckoo favours the nests of honeyeaters, woodswallows, whistlers and the Willie Wagtail and all of those species are present at Ellendale. Pallid Cuckoo.

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United Kingdom Raised 2013 Africa 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

The second was a pair of Great Cormorants flying far overhead – another new species for the house! This species used to be rare but regular, but of late has become something of a rarity unfortunately. And finally was series of fleeting glimpses of a very shy bird; a Marsh Tit !

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Blackbirds Sparrows Australia Woodpeckers 121

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The simple answer is monetary gain, there is a global black market for these items, regardless of the species’ vulnerability for extinction. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. Lendrum is charismatic and obsessed. Back to Lendrum–McWilliam interviews him.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2013

But another race of Red Knot make the High Arctic their home, the species that winters in the United Kingdom and coast of France, ssp islandica. Radio tags only stay with the bird until molt at which time they’re dropped with the feathers they’re attached to, thus they had to have been tagged that year.

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Breeding United Kingdom France Virginia 195

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. 2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama.

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2012 Guatemala Birds Florida 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has documented 596 bird species in the wild as at 1 January 2013; 265 are listed as Accidental, 59 as Scarce Visitor, and 2 as Extinct. Species Accounts are organized into seven chapters based on two major habitats: - Waterbirds—Swimming Waterbirds, Flying Waterbirds, Walking Waterbirds.

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Ireland 2013 Breeders United Kingdom 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2020

465 species have been recorded and the list keeps growing. There are 34 endemic species and the best season to pursue them is November to April when it is dry in the southwest where the remaining rainforests are, plus, this period has the added bonus of wintering migrants. Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Sri Lanka Leopards Whaling Whales 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

To the birder, this begs the question: what species of birds appear in the Twelve Days of Christmas ? The Greylag Goose is a large, bulky native of the United Kingdom. Of particular note is the song’s emphasis on avifauna. No Christmas carol features birds as prominently as this one.

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Turtles United Kingdom 2004 Geese 279