10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2020

This means that every year, millions of birds fly by the city on their way between their breeding grounds in Northern Asia and their wintering spots in Southeast Asia and Australia. A former World Wildlife reserve in Nanhui was simply turned into agricultural land.

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Wildlife Reserve Asia China Birds 177

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

A few breed on the main Hawaiian islands, including Kilauea Point NWR on Kauai. Black-footed Albatross : The most common albatross off the west coast, virtually all of the world’s Black-footed Albatross also breed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, on the same islands as the Laysan Albatross on Hawaiian Islands NWR and Midway Atoll NWR.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 142

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2015

The tidal range in Broome is one of the largest in Australia and offers excellent reef walking at low tide. The Pied Oystercatcher pairs are all in their breeding territories and we can expect to find eggs laid in the first week of July along the coast here.

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Turtles Fish Eggs Breeding 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2011

There is a lot of bird movement around Australia at the moment due to the weather, so time to go and investigate! It actually looked like the station owner was breeding birds rather than cattle! This will be a “Wet&# season that all of the wildlife will remember.

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Investigation Birds Cattle Ducks 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

What events transpire miles away that make a certain destination attractive to birds and wildlife in one way or another? This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 206

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This makes it a particularly exciting time in New Zealand as the Rugby World Cup begins in two days, and the competition is being held right here in New Zealand (I would imagine they might be more excited if they hadn’t just lost two matches to Australia and South Africa, their big rivals in the Tri-Nations).

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Birds 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet ! The proposal from U.S.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. Australasian Darter ( Anhinga novaehollandiae ), Kakadu National Park, Australia © David J.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Yellow-Legged Gull These gulls breed around the Mediterranean and have yellow, rather than flesh-coloured legs. Get yours today!

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth. When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths. ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 248

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In my younger days I always kept year lists: my best ever year was 1986, when I topped the 1,000 mark thanks to trips to Australia, Kenya and various European destinations. These birds (usually juveniles) are clearly linked to the growing breeding population in the region. These are Dunlins.

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Estonia Portugal Greece Barn Owls 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. In September 2015 a group of eight intrepid bird watchers linked up with the African Wildlife Foundation and arranged for a 10-day stay in Yemi [DRC].

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

–especially when reviewing books like A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia or Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.”

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2022

Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. After completing his PhD in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Queensland, Australia, the first author, Chong Leong Puan, continues his research on Malaysian birds.

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Malaysia Singapore Asia Birds 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Owls live and migrate from Arctic circumpolar to Colorado prairie to South American rainforest to Southeast Asian islands, Galapagos islands, Canary islands–many many islands–to coastal Australia and onward. The chapters on courtship and breeding and roosting and migration are the longest, which isn’t surprising. (p.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Little Egret was showing some breeding plumage and it is the time of year for many birds to breed. However, it is a popular place for Masked Lapwings to breed. With current travel restrictions around Australia and internationally we are grateful we live in an area that is so rich with birds and other wildlife.

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Breeding 2014 Cattle Australia 254

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. Not to mention, its brilliantly bulbous crimson throat, bloated during breeding season must be a sight! Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Australia has a lot of birds. 4 ,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016 birds, but that includes subspecies (add extinct, domestic, failed introduced & non-confirmed birds and you have 2,106). Australia has also been blessed with many excellent bird identification and field guides.

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Australia Birds 2017 Groups 260

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

One advantage of Grant’s work being unpredictable is that occasionally he has to go to Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. There were three Wood Sandpipers present on this visit, due to the fact that it is summer here and they reside here during the summer months and then head north to breed in coming months.

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Ducks Birds Australia Pelicans 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The city of Cairns is a gateway for a lot of the top end of Queensland, both for those seeking the delights to be found in the Great barrier Reef and those looking to explore the patchwork of forest and savana that is tropical Australia. Early in the morning the trees were also filled with Torresian Imperial-pigeons.

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Alligators Guinea 2012 Australia 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. In both cases the situation actually got worse before it got better, particularly in the case of the Black Robin, which declined to single figures and a single breeding female, the indomitable Old Blue. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves.

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Species New Zealand Rats Endangered Species 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Outside of the tropics, nesting would usually take place in the spring (in the southern hemisphere, spring and the height of the breeding season occurs before Christmas); these pictures were taken in March as the weather in Cape Town is beginning to cool. During the day, thick-knees will often be seen standing singly or in pairs.

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2011 Deer Africa Peru 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2020

Australia has now been closed to anybody who is not an Australian citizen. You can’t come and see us or our wildlife at the moment. Over coming weeks the majority of the shorebirds along our coast will head north to breed. However, nothing else is normal. I am sorry. Great Knot rushing to feed before migration.

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Australia Wildlife Breeding Birds 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2011

Many a birding trip starts with a longish drive from the airport to the first birding site with these common roadside birds being the first taste you get of a country’s wildlife, and I feel that many bird trip reports, interested mostly in mega-rarities, gloss over the amazing experience this first drive can give.

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New Zealand Birds Thailand Falcons 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 215