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Woodpeckers and finches The top of the city would be the highest peak of the Avala Mountain Reserve (511 m / 1700 ft above sea level), with the Memorial to the Unknown Hero and overgrown with firs and pines. In Belgrade, Serbia, winter months offer surprisingly good birding possibilities. Photo Snezana Panjkovic.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Still, the outing did not produce any new species for the year, or enough good photos for a post here. Instead, I have chosen to write about an idea I’ve had percolating for a while: to tell you what the most common species are down here. I’ll take the most common native species in taxonomic order.

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APRIL 3, 2014

The three of us were waiting for about an hour at only 2°C, having Great , Eurasian Blue and Coal T**s , Eurasian Nuthatch , Common Blackbird , Goldcrest and Middle Spotted Woodpecker. Birding Black Woodpecker Europe Serbia woodpeckers' Photos (c) Nena & Slobodan Panjkovic.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2014

It is in this habitat that birders seek out goodies like Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Bachmann’s Sparrow. In 2012 I was successful, with the help of Doug Gochfeld, in finding all of those species in and around Three Lakes , and I hoped for a repeat performance but with better views of Bachmann’s Sparrow. Click to embiggen.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

How many species have I observed this year? Arctic Loon), Lesser Black-backed Gull , Middle Spotted Woodpecker and Goldcrest should easily make 190, although the pecker is a bit uncertain. And immediately, I hear a woodpecker looking for food. The largest of European peckers – the uncommon Black Woodpecker !

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APRIL 14, 2021

A Hairy Woodpecker ? I soon added Common Mergansers , Hooded Mergansers , Mallards, Hairy and Downy and Pileated and Red-bellied Woodpeckers , both White and Red-breasted Nuthatches , and American Crows. By the time I left the state at the end of January to head back south, I had added 26 species to my 2021 list. But still!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Old beech forests are inhabited by Grey-headed Woodpecker , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , Black Woodpecker , White-backed Woodpecker (rare), Stock Dove (uncommon), Collared Flycatcher , Red-breasted Flycatcher (rare), Marsh Tit and Coal Tit. About 120 species have been recorded so far.

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JUNE 27, 2024

She enjoys seeing all species of birds, but her favorites are hummingbirds. The usual, friendly types are chickadees, nuthatches, and some woodpeckers. A female Pileated Woodpecker We saw a few more birds along the boardwalk. A Pileated Woodpecker slipped through the trees. We traveled along Alligator Alley.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

They help me start the day, make a beautiful new beginning to each morning and even if many are the same species as the previous day, I am thankful for their presence. Hoffmann’s Woodpeckers are a common, everyday sight, similar to the Golden-fronted Woodpecker , they use the same snags as a larger species, the Lineated Woodpecker.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Though the diversity of species in the deep freeze of winter is low it is always a pleasure to visit the feeder array at the waterhole which attracts most of the species that are present in the park, even some that are pretty unexpected. Red-bellied Woodpeckers are more traditional consumers of suet. What else did I see?

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JANUARY 3, 2023

It covers 403 species: 172 nonpasserine species and 231 passerine species in the Species Accounts, 198 species beautifully illustrated by the author in the Plates section. The scarcity of information on the young of some avian species is astounding. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated.

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JUNE 11, 2023

If you have much interest in birds, you may well have seen videos of the very comical mating dance of male Red-capped Manakins , a species whose range stretches from southeast Mexico to South America. For example, highland Michoacán has two gorgeous trogon species. This tree’s roots can be pretty cool, too.

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JULY 23, 2022

In pastures of the hot lowlands, they tend to be lines of stunted Gumbo-Limbo trees or some other heavily pruned species. In addition to those birds and the Squirrel Cuckoo pictured above, the following are some of the more common hedgerow species of Costa Rica. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker. Yellow-bellied Elaenia.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

One always wants to see as many species as possible in a single day, whether on an ocean island with few species, or in Suffolk, England. It was in this latter region that he reports seeing 60 species on his first outing of this year. But how many species can one see over a few hours in the highlands of central Mexico?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Today the reserve contains mature forests, secondary forests, rivers, lagoons, small waterfalls, agroforestry productive areas, and functional gardens; which are the habitat of more than 350 species of birds.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There was one odd reprint in 2018, when the Subalpine Warbler was split into the Eastern and Western species, but the changes in the guide weren’t sufficient to call it a 3rd edition, so it remained the updated reprint of the 2nd edition. Another difference, an odd one, some woodpeckers gained weight, could it be a time to consider a diet?

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

Sure, I didn’t like it in 2007 when I was doing a (not very) big year in New York and Black-backed Woodpecker would not cooperate for me. But I had seen one in 2006 and I have since seen them twice more so the species never rose to the level of nemesis bird for me. Below I share my five nemesis birds to be.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Working man that I still am, I can not yet spend every day of January trying to build my year list of species. But in winter, one of its major species is a migrant with a wonderfully quirky name: the Lucifer Hummingbird. The second photo below is the best I’ve ever managed of this rather drab species. And I do mean showy.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

During cold winters, the hunters retreated to the south, intent on quail and other game species. Red-headed Woodpeckers chattered to each other as they flew from tree to tree, and I marveled at just how many I spotted. Setting off across a wide field, I made a slow circle around a glass-calm pond.

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APRIL 20, 2024

I could imagine that timing the earlier emergence of insect prey at the breeding grounds is particularly problematic for insectivorous species. I spent some time sitting on the lawn and watching an Eurasian Green Woodpecker forage around me. If this wouldn’t be enough, climate change has stark effects on migration patterns.

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MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). “Odd, me?” But the joke simply does not work then).

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APRIL 8, 2020

One moment I am seeing pine-dependent Grace’s Warblers and oak-dependent Acorn Woodpeckers, and the next I see the Hot Country endemic Golden-cheeked Woodpecker. Ladder-backed Woodpeckers move freely between the two habitat zones. No photos, of course… and no second chance for years, until last week!

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MAY 19, 2021

The males can compete with Painted Buntings for their neon colors, and the females, like those of that related species, have their own subtle beauty. (It’s It is always a species they have dreamed of seeing for years.). Here in Michoacán, we have four different species from the Myiarchus genus of the Tyrant-Flycatcher family.

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APRIL 30, 2015

Picture 7: Grey-headed Woodpecker – Picus canus. This time, we were looking for woodpeckers. Habitats here include arable fields – my first Common Quail of the season was singing Wet-mi-lips from one of them, with small poplar forests – from where a characteristic call of the Eurasian Green Woodpecker came.

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MARCH 15, 2021

That’s because this fascinating part-Caribbean, part-south American country holds well over 800 species of avifauna making it without doubt one of my top three countries in all of the continent to visit. Ok, maybe not the vampire bat…but some of the more “cuddly” species are actually quite easy to see.

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APRIL 6, 2024

and I would like to take good photos of this species. The waterbirds were fun to watch, as they often are at this park, and all the standard species were there particularly Mallard , Common Pochard and Tufted Duck (you might have noticed I mention Tufted Ducks a lot in my posts – I’m not sure why but I really like this species!)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

and Canadian birders: Brown Creeper , White-breasted Nuthatch , Hairy Woodpecker , and Sharp-shinned Hawk. Since I had seen neither species on my January visit to Lake Cuitzeo, these were year-birds. Surprisingly, both were FOY (first-of-year) species. Check in next week to see which species these were!

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MARCH 14, 2019

a British expat birder who was living in Belgrade, for a suggestion: “The top species is undoubtedly White-tailed Eagle. commented further: “With a little work some species can be seen quite easily such as the divers, scaup, scoter, Goosander , Garganey and Long-eared Owl. Hence, I asked my friend B.C.,

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MARCH 3, 2021

Several tour companies and birders seeking to investigate birding in the country with the second highest bird species density in the world indicated that it may be futile to pursue a birding trip to Trinidad & Tobago given the closure of a single (and undeniably significant) lodge. Dreaming of eye-level trogons? We got you.

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APRIL 11, 2020

It’s all good, as of April 6, my yard list has more than 60 species and will certainly grow in the coming days. More likely are a suite of sparkling hummingbirds, the eye-catching Flame-colored Tanager , acrobatic Red-faced Spinetails , and various other species. Barred Antshrike. Flame-colored Tanager. The Caribbean Lowlands.

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OCTOBER 13, 2018

In the area live 15 species from Tennessee’s threatened and endangered list, as well as 11 aquatic species from the federally endangered list. I can see the western ridges of the southern Cherokee NF from my hometown; and have a long list of local favorite bird species. Downy Woodpecker. Pileated Woodpecker.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Plus a few truly difficult species. Sure, it is an introduced species in Germany. Iberian Green Woodpecker, Madrid, Spain. Mexico has a good number of greenish or rusty Woodpeckers. All my Woodpeckers have been among the black and white jobs with small patches of red, orange, or yellow. But it still is not easy.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

No question about it being a woodpecker – a most beautiful one at that! This Red-necked Woodpecker gave us a good look before gliding to a slightly further tree. No longer than a minute after we parted ways with the Red-headed Woodpecker , we heard another light tapping overhead.

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MARCH 12, 2020

eBird list of the recorded species. It was gazetted as a nature reserve in 1977. A large roadside puddle holds water through most of the year and at migration time attracts waders – Black-winged Stilt , Northern Lapwing , Green and Wood Sandpipers , Spotted and Common Redshanks , Common Greenshank , Ruff , etc. To be continued.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Other species include Grey Wagtail and Marsh Tit. Easy species here are Corn Bunting , Hawfinch , Spotted Flycatcher , Red-backed Shrike , Woodlark , Eurasian Golden Oriole , European Turtle Dove. is known as the northernmost range of holly ( Ilex aquifolium ), a relict evergreen species, in Serbia and the only site in Djerdap.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Anyway, how far do you really need to go when Red-bellied Woodpeckers hang out at your feeder mere feet from a picture window? He got out on both mornings and saw pretty much expected species. Red-bellies may appear ordinary in their usual arboreal habitat but they are hulking beauties compared to most feeder birds. How about you?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sadly, the HBW states that the species is “almost extinct in some areas in China owing to hunting and trapping for the cagebird trade and taxidermy” The Maroon Oriole looks much more interesting, though my photos do not really do it full justice. This Great Spotted Woodpecker isn’t even trying to hide its spots.

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