10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

So, while waiting for evolution to produce new birds for our life lists is inadvisable, we sometimes catch a break and every few years get a new species or two when some genetic research or study of breeding distribution presents enough evidence to split what was once considered a single species into a few new ones.

Ohio 113

Ohio India Hawaii United States 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Image by Adam Riley Johan Wahlberg, a Swedish naturalist and collector, arrived in 1839 in the company of Frenchman Adulphe Delegorgue. This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590.

Mozambique 191

Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. Like most maps, colors are used to indicate seasonal status (breeding resident, Austral migrant/visitor, Boreal migrant, etc.). Distribution maps are also different from other field guides.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. The Latin species name of the Penan Bulbul is ruficrissus.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 231

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Foxes that slunk back in fear and snapped their teeth didn’t get to breed. Once dogs became comfortable in our company, humans began to speed up dogs’ social evolution.

Wolves 100

Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

If they can spare a glance upward, the busy grape-pickers might also be treated to another portent of the changing seasons in the Iberian skies overhead: the sight of flocks of White Storks ( Ciconia ciconia ) heading south from their summer breeding grounds in Europe to Africa, where they spend the winter on the warm savannas.

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2017 Spain California Condor California 114

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2021

White-browed Tit Warblers breed in high-altitude scrub, with a preference for junipers. Unfortunately for them, this is what raising chicks requires. Note: This trip was made with Alpinebirding , a Chinese tour company with very knowledgeable, English-speaking, and friendly guides – highly recommended to overseas birders.

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China Birds Species Raised 264

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. Records showed them to have been presented to the museum by the rubber-trading Kasai Company in 1914.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

Owls 219

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 219

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

We see indirect but very compelling evidence of this when insurance companies, government agencies, and other big players act as though they considered climate change to be real. Migratory birds are at particular risk, requiring multiple and specialized habitats to breed, raise their young, migrate and overwinter.

Maryland 228

Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 228

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. The lake is a private property, run by the Mika Alas fish farm company and visitors must ask for permission in advance ( management contacts ). At the southeast part of the lake is a breeding colony of Black-crowned Night , Purple and Squacco Herons.

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Birds 2017 Eagles Otters 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

It is at the breeding season, however, that the Western Gull accomplishes real mischief. While he effects a passable truce with his own kind at that season, it is that he may the better combine with his fellows and terrorize all other breeding sea-birds.” Did I say firm? I meant squishy. Warm, damp and squishy.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

By the way, if you google “Black Kite”, the very first result you get even before the Wikipedia entry on the bird is a company named Black Kite. It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Turtle Dove Turtle Doves are a protected species in Britain, in fact the status of Turtle Doves has become of so much concern there is a special project called Operation Turtle Dove created to look at how the huge declines in our British breeding populations might be halted. This was a little win perhaps, but hopefully the first of many.

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Morocco Turtles Protest Protesting 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

About a month before departure my clients asked me if we were going to the same sites in Ghana as the offerings of another, rather upmarket, birding tour company. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

Ghana 196

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 196

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The following section encapsulates a chapter of biological facts into one dense paragraph–breeding location, breeding time of year, nesting notes, timing of fledging, migratory routes to and from breeding areas, staging locations, foraging locations, and more. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

A pair has been nesting by the roadside for some years, but they are not so predictable outside of the breeding season. It is possible to gain access to the forest during the week in the company of a guide employed by the forest authority. The forest floor is home to tinamous, Dusky-legged Guan and Spot-winged Wood-quail. on a weekday.

Brazil 160

Brazil Birds Transported Game 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). The Little Grebe is of course a very common bird that can still surprise by its beauty in its breeding plumage.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147