10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

The Red-shouldered Hawks , the quick flapping Accipiters and the legions of blackbirds and ducks moved through the cool airs of March and April but the orioles, grosbeaks, and wood-warblers wouldn’t show up until the trees had their buds and many had their leaves. Wilson’s Plovers are in Breeding Plumage.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Alas, these gentle rains may not always speed spring migrants on their way to breeding grounds far from the equator. We got out to Lucien Morin during a break in the rain and saw nothing more seasonal than Red-winged Blackbirds claiming their individual patches of marshland. Any luck this weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2019

But the way it is, familiarity breeds (relative) contempt. The Chinese Blackbird was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Common Blackbird, and does not really look or behave much different. The Chinese Pond Heron is another attractive bird, particularly in its breeding plumage. A thoroughly modern bird.

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APRIL 18, 2020

Lady Helen’s thundering progress kicked up the turf and brought opportunities for our resident Eurasian Blackbirds. Outside of the breeding season the birds are reasonably tolerant of each other, often feeding in close proximity, but as spring moves on they are likely to become far more territorial and defensive.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2021

Yellow-hooded Blackbirds and Yellow-chinned Spinetails were ubiquitous as expected, along with a few shorebirds in some isolated ponds. The area is known for being a breeding area of the enigmatic Rufous Crab-Hawk and it was the first place I saw the species, many years ago. As always, an adult Scarlet Ibis shines like a beacon.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

and had the pleasure of finding myself in the middle of a foraging party of Eurasian Blue , Great and Long-tailed T**s , Eurasian Blackbirds , European Robins , Hawfinches , European Greenfinches and no less than 20 Eurasian Siskins at 2 to 3 metres around my car. On my way back, a Merlin flies from one to the other side of a clearance.

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JULY 2, 2020

A Eurasian Blackbird is checking for the remaining maize seeds. A Common Chaffinch is singing, while one male Blackbird chases the other from his precious maize seeds. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. The longer I sit, the more focused I become.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. A juvenile Chinese Blackbird. Presumably, potential predators will assume they have not taken a shower for weeks, and consequently stay away. ” Hm. .”

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JUNE 12, 2019

Just from the two roads (one toll, one free) that cross the lake, and a small part of its total shore, on a good day in December or January you can count on seeing thousands of Northern Shovelers , Northern Pintails , and Yellow-headed Blackbirds. Which can also be said for the Yellow-headed Blackbirds.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

So, to cut things short, there is sickness all around me, and I have thus decided to have my February post whistle to that tune as well and give an update to the mysterious die-off amongst our Eurasian Blackbirds that occurred around my home turf in Heidelberg last summer – blogged about here.

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APRIL 14, 2018

Flock after flock of blackbirds, ducks, geese, raptors flapping their way north. The birds also need it because this is when they build nests and breed. If you already know the songs of American Robin and Eurasian Blackbird , then you already know what the national bird is doing. But that’s up in the temperate north.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

But something happened, and it happened many times: Something has been killing our Blackbirds. We interrupt this blog post for an important message: This is the kind of Blackbird I am talking about, the Eurasian thrush that is Turdus merula, and not the American group of iconic Icterids you might have had in mind.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Striated Heron in breeding plumage – extra plumes and blue lores. Red-breasted Meadowlarks controlled the drier sections while Yellow-hooded Blackbirds occupied the more flooded areas. Even though I had seen these cryptic austral migrants before, there was no way I was going to pass up an opportunity that was this close to home.

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MARCH 19, 2014

According to locals the bird has overwintered near Klamath Falls for the last 5 years…I wonder where it’s breeding? A few turns around a farm field and the bird was found just hanging with some Brewer’s Blackbirds.

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MARCH 25, 2015

Blue-winged Teal breed over a large portion of North America but occur irregularly or at low densities in many portions of their range. The highest breeding densities occur in mixed-grass prairie and parklands of north-central U.S. and the prairie provinces of Canada, where the species is often the most abundant breeding duck 1.

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MAY 30, 2012

The other thing that baffled me is that birds are the most colorful in the summer–all that crazy breeding plumage. Another time to consider taking your feeders down for a limited time is if you get a blackbird takeover when their young leave the nest. Most bird species cannot live by black oil sunflower seed alone.

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JULY 18, 2014

When they turn into fledglings feather color plays a part, although the feathers of fledglings differ markedly from those of their parents, which differ from those of their species a year old, two years old, in non-breeding plumage, in winter/summer plumage, etc. “You don’t have many breeding warblers down there, do you?

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MAY 12, 2017

Species #75 for Socrates Sculpture Park is Red-winged Blackbird. In order for introduced birds to become countable in the high-stakes world of official bird-counting, they must establish a self-sustaining breeding population (think everybody’s favorites, the European Starling and the House Sparrow ). And I’m getting close!

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JUNE 6, 2022

The juvenile Chinese Blackbirds get older but still look kind of stupid. But the stars of the month were some breeding Eurasian Tree Sparrows. Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat.

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JULY 6, 2011

Eagle Lake, Lake Almanor and Clear Lake have all been identified as Audubon California Important Bird Areas (IBA), meaning that they provide essential habitat for breeding, wintering, and migrating birds. The boat trip also offered some good looks at the Yellow-headed Blackbirds nesting along the shores.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Brewer’s Blackbirds often joined the hordes of Red-winged Blackbirds flitting in and out of the taller grasses and few shrubs. Since 1966, when the Breeding Bird Survey first began monitoring, numbers have declined 79 percent. Yes, it takes a village to locate a Sprague’s Pipit.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay.”. No, they weren’t in raspberry fields.)”. Sombre Tit by Ivan Medenica/Wikimedia Commons.

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JULY 20, 2015

An American Redstart sang half-heartedly, a Ring-necked Pheasant ran from me, and Gray Catbirds , Red-winged Blackbirds , and American Robins were everywhere. I saw a Willow Flycatcher , several Northern Mockingbirds , and a bunch of Yellow Warblers.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Flocks of Bushtits made their noisy way through the bushes and a large number of Yellow-headed Blackbirds , which easily increased by ten-fold the number of Yellow-headed Blackbirds I had ever seen, flushed from one reed-bed to another.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular. Curassows are such stately birds.

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JULY 7, 2012

The lush pastures of the Aripo Livestock Station sustained herds of happy Buffalypso , a special breed of T&T beef cattle named for their Water Buffalo heritage and Calypso-happy country. Last but not least were not one but TWO new species of blackbird for me, both Yellow-hooded and Red-breasted ! In fact, it was.

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JULY 10, 2012

The western half of the continent sees a lot of Brewer’s Blackbirds mixed in. And when you’re in the middle of your post-breeding molt, you need to do that a lot. But there’s still some regional biases for those who pay attention. And in parts of the Rockies, Clark’s Nutcracker reigns supreme.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^ The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant.

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APRIL 26, 2018

The unpaved road winds up the hill, through a traditional farming landscape of small gardens, meadows and raspberry fields with thickets of the Oriental hornbeam, Turkey and Italian oak, black pine and prickly juniper, where Common Whitethroats (above) and Eurasian Blackcaps sing and Eurasian Blackbirds chase each other.

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MARCH 15, 2012

The Red-winged Blackbirds that were busy staking claims to breeding territory by singing from bushes, trees, and marsh plants were not groggy at all. But Red-winged Blackbirds weren’t the only birds that returned in numbers. Needless to say, I was a bit groggy when I met up with them.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

The Chinese Blackbird is among the most common birds in our compound. The Olive-backed Pipit is a small songbird that in Shanghai can only be seen in winter – in summer, it breeds further north. The Red-flanked Bluetail is only in Shanghai in winter, as it breeds far further North – even further than Beijing.

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JUNE 9, 2016

All of these are reasonably common breeding species, yet, while Great Crested Grebes and Mallards do nest at the dam, only Grey Herons are known to nest some 15 miles from here. The biggest surprise are two Whiskered Terns, common lowland breeding birds that require ponds to lay their eggs on floating leaves of waterlilies.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Leeds Castle’s most showy “blackbird” is the Jackdaw , Corvus monedula. The Black Swans were adopted to the trust’s coat of arms and breed here during the northern winter. These ponds and the larger Cedar Lake and collection pond hold Tufted Duck , Greylag Goose and Eurasian Moorhen.

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JUNE 9, 2022

. … Nest dismantling by the Hair-crested Drongo may be an adaptive behavior to increase fitness by reducing risk of future predation and competition for nest sites in the following breeding season” ( source ). The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. ” ( source ).

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AUGUST 17, 2017

In my homeland, some 800 km / 500 mi further north, these ducks are common on migration but very rare in the breeding season and I realized that these are my first young birds – ever. Spring (migrants and breeding species) and winter (wintering waterbirds). Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula 3. Practicalities.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

Red-winged Blackbirds , within arms-reach, glisten in the morning sun and puff out their red shoulder epaulettes like proud military generals. Nearly every species of heron and egret in North America forage only feet away, some of them in their dazzling breeding displays.

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MAY 4, 2011

Reason 1: Territory This is the time of year when a variety of birds are setting up breeding territories. There are several species of birds we enjoy for their songs-- American Robins, Carolina Wrens, Wood Thrushes and maybe even Red-winged Blackbirds. So, why do woodpeckers peck on human made structures?

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