10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Out of my total of 15 observations ever, this is only the third within Serbia (the rest were half in India, the other half in Greece). published in the US as “Birds of Europe”), shows only a male in breeding plumage. This is an uncommon species here – only about a dozen birds overwinter in the country annually.

Serbia 298

Serbia Birds Ducks Cyprus 298

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the non-breeding season, Common Merganser all look pretty much like females. Not a bad look though – more attractive than the male breeding plumage, I think. He was from the area but had apparently been traveling to India to see the Dalai Lama. Carrion Crows like to think of themselves as very modern birds.

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Birds Germany India 2018 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77 Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77 Trips Great Indian Bustard India'

India 252

India Gazelles Endangered Species Pakistan 252

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

According to the McMurray hatchery , the “Silver Pheasant is considered a good ‘starter’ breed for people who want to learn more about raising pheasants” Hm. But then, would a lady pheasant be pleased to be described as “large”? What a weird world. Better watch them in the wild.

Italy 247

Italy Birds China France 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Distributed across a broad swath of territory that includes India’s Himalayan foothills, Thailand, Indochina, peninsular Malaysia and western Indonesia, this species occurs in moist or semi-evergreen forests that may include secondary growth and degraded habitats in its native range. Common Hill Myna’s range in South Florida.

Miami 243

Miami Asia Florida Malaysia 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2020

But India has the capacity to frustrate and fascinate at the same time. They stay until May before heading north to the Rann of Kutch to breed. .” cried one of the group, “We had brilliant views of the Long-billed Dowitcher.” Greater Spotted Eagle. All was forgiven. The flamingos start arriving from October.

Eagles 263

Eagles Groups India Ducks 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The other part of its attractiveness may be coming from the fact that it breeds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – countries seldom visited by foreign birders. That is why the village of Fulay – the only place in India where this bird is regularly seen – is as famous among birders as the Taj Mahal is among the uninitiated.

India 252

India Iran Pakistan Afghanistan 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Readers with a pornographic mindset will enjoy the following information about the Dusky Moorhen: “Simultaneously promiscuous, forming breeding groups of 2–7 apparently unrelated birds; individuals sometimes switch groups between seasons. If you are thinking of having kids, let this photo be a warning to you. ” (HBW).

Australia 254

Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Common throughout India with a range that covers much of South-east Asia, it can often be seen around habitation where it catches small rodents, insects and invertebrates. Among many similarities to their close relation, the Little Owl, Athene Noctua , they are also the owl most likely to be seen by day in this part of the world.

Owls 215

Owls Rodents Transported India 215

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. India (1180 / 1171). Map by BirdLife International.

Sri Lanka 257

Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2015

This is my first visit to this area, known as the Madz Brod, where two new breeding species for the country were discovered a decade ago. They are common winter visitors, but this is my first observation of them in the breeding season. Madz Brod by Slobodan Puzovic. Still, it’s a new bird for my country list. We wait again.

Europe 250

Europe Serbia Russia Breeding 250

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.

Germany 202

Germany Russia Iceland India 202

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

Sudan 252

Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 252

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones.

Birds 244

Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This was only my second time ever to observe this subspecies (the first time was here as well), two other subspecies I have observed in India. These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters.

Serbia 246

Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

They mostly winter in Africa just south of the Sahara and in southern Asia (from India to southern China), and there is – very curiously – an isolated resident population in southern Africa. Due to its large range and population size, it is rated by the IUCN as being a species of Least Concern.

Germany 156

Germany Asia China Russia 156

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

Such is the case with the Pink-headed Duck , Rhodonessa caryophyllacea , a native of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. No, this is a bird that, in the male breeding plumage, shows off a robust pinkness of head that is all the more vivid in contrast with the bird’s dark body. Is it extinct? The debate has raged since the 1950s.

Myanmar 229

Myanmar Bangladesh Ducks Wisconsin 229

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos. It is one of the largest flying birds in the world and seems to be capable of social learning ( source ).

South Africa 147

South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

The Rose-ringed Parakeet naturally occurs in two isolated areas: a thin strip across Africa just south of the Sahara, and south Asia where it is mostly found in India with smaller ranges in adjacent countries. and the White Storks are also wild and countable despite breeding at the zoo.

Germany 255

Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

An enigmatic line of text emblazoned across the can of this week’s featured beer – the Sherwood Double New England India Pale Ale from Connecticut Valley Brewing Company – implores us to “Rise and Rise Again”. Connecticut Valley Brewing Company: Sherwood Double New England Style India Pale Ale. Stay safe and healthy, everyone.

Connecticut 162

Connecticut India Lamb Lions 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. ibis and the eastern B. coromandus.

Cattle 175

Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 175

10,000 Birds

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 ).

Singapore 147

Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Note the long legs and red bill of the breeding-ready Black-headed Gull below. In India and the Far East, they are winter visitors from China and Russia. They breed noisily and colonially at large lakes with reed beds and marshy areas. Bonaparte’s Gull, shows a smaller, dark bill and shorter legs.

Philadelphia 215

Philadelphia Russia Europe North America 215

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Rubbish dumps are another favorite, and just like the most reliable stake-out for the endangered Greater Adjutant is Guwahati’s stenching rubbish-dump in Assam, India; so can Marabous be found at many rubbish dumps in Africa, slowly picking their way through the rotten mess looking for anything edible.

Africa 250

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2012

In India and Southeast Asia, White-breasted Waterhens produce gangly, vacant-eyed horrors that would do well as a prop in any of the darker Harry Potter films. Its parents lavish love and attention upon it, when in truth they should keep it under a big leaf to spare the embarrassment of passersby.

India 203

India Asia Africa Mexico 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

Another oft-quoted account is that of Lopo Vaz de Sampayo, governor of the Portuguese possessions in India. The era during which the Ottoman Empire was wealthiest is called the Tulip era, or Lale Devri in Turkish. We here at 10,000 Birds salute Swarovski Optik ‘s commitment to conservation.

Sri Lanka 241

Sri Lanka Kazakhstan 2009 Portugal 241

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Of course, reading field guides breeds jealousy. Pelican’s Hazy Rock India Pale Ale is named for Haystack Rock, a well-known intertidal seastack (and seabird nesting site) just a few hundred feet offshore from the Cannon Beach brewery. Pelican Brewing Company: Hazy Rock India Pale Ale. Cheers again, Jason!

Pelicans 113

Pelicans India Vermont San Diego 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Flocks of cheerful birds frequent caves and cliffs where they breed. Gelada lip flare My favorite Ethiopian animal, the Gelada used to be considered a baboon but is actually the last survivor of an ancient group of grass-eating monkeys that used to occur throughout Africa, the Mediterranean and India.

Ethiopia 275

Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 275

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India! The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. .”

Bolivia 225

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 225

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. I was thrilled to see many of these gorgeous birds at the fort at Ranthambore NP, India. It was a good birding year. 6) Garganey.

2016 137

2016 India Ducks Birds 137

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The bulk of the population (approximately 80%) belong to the Zulu tribe, but significant numbers of Xhosa and Afrikaans, as well as immigrants from India and Britain call this beautiful patch of land on Africa’s eastern seaboard their home. This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal.

Mozambique 231

Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2023

Sarah Amherst, Countess Amherst (1762–1838) was a British naturalist and botanist who lived in India. She was responsible for sending the first of these birds to Britain in 1828. She was also the first wife of William Pitt Amherst 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan, Governor-General of Bengal.

China 264

China Research India Zoos 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. for decorating the headgear and house interiors by the local tribals, at least in parts of India ( source ). Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”. Unfortunately, the other hornbill species are not nearly as adaptable.

Rhinoceros 159

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

I’ve seen Eurasian Wrynecks two times, once in India, not a very good look, and once in northern Thailand, a memorable encounter involving a chance glance from my third-floor hotel window down to a neighboring field, an unusual movement and silhouette, and a grab for my bins and camera. .”

Woodpeckers 264

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

Carmine bee-eaters occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, and many populations migrate widely post breeding. After breeding they also disperse over the rainforests and savannas of West and Central Africa, where they hunt for aerial insects. Two populations exist, the westernmost breeds in the western Sahara (e.g.

Africa 266

Africa South Africa Gabon Uganda 266

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Jerdon’s Courser , a small nocturnal wader from India, wasn’t seen between 1900 and 1986. Where does it breed? Efforts are underway to try and find where they breed. It would be hard, however, to beat the record of the Bermuda Petrel , which prior to its rediscovery in 1951 had been thought extinct for 330 years!

New Zealand 232

New Zealand India 2003 Collecting 232

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Nate’s best was also a rarity in India. Second, I was in India, which, had you told me even one month prior that I’d be going to India, I would have said you were crazy. Forest Owlet by Dragan Simic. What are the odds? Sociable Lapwing. For starters, there’s the rarity factor.

2013 170

2013 Birds Costa Rica India 170