10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2023

European Robin The start of the pier immediately produced two of Ijmuiden’s typical species, Purple Sandpiper and Rock Pipit. Ruddy Turnstone To conclude the visit, I checked out the area around the Kennemermeer , were several duck species can sometimes be seen.

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Netherlands Birds Ducks Breeding 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2021

It is quite content running about in quite deep water up to its body. Our sub species is Egretta garzetta immaculata. However, we do occasionally observe the vagrant sub species Egretta garzetta garzetta and that does have yellow feet. There is only ever one Little Egret and it runs around in the shallows of the Indian Ocean.

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Fish Australia Breeding Species 218

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2021

This species is easier to find in Derby than Broome and the Derby wharf is a good place to go and observe them. The Kimberley Flycatcher had previously been a sub-species of the Lemon-bellied Flycatcher , but is now a species in its own right as of August 2019. It is even better if they are content to be photographed!

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Australia 2014 2019 Species 166

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The header photo is the new Great Bowerbirds ‘ bower and the photos below show the contents. Cygnet Park continues to be a good location for observing Olive-backed Orioles and many other bird species. These Great Bowerbirds really do like nails and screws! Great Bowerbird bower and stolen nails and screws.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Humane 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Some of the commonest species found throughout Trinidad and Tobago are American Redstart , Yellow Warbler , and Northern Waterthrush. Finding any warblers besides these and the three resident species requires considerable good fortune. Somehow, I couldn’t peg it to any of my familiar yard species.

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Trinidad 2015 Suffering Cats 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When you mention “Africa” to a birder, it is likely that at least two thirds will instantly think “Kenya”, and for a good reason: it is home to over 1,060 bird species and boasts many globally important birding areas. Each site gets from 2 to 5 pages (but mostly 3-4). Endemics are indicated with a bracket “(E)”.

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Kenya Africa South Africa Penguins 259

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2021

For a second time in a month, we have a new double India Pale Ale featuring a species of bird famous for its appearance on the classic vintage Guinness advertisements drawn by artist John Gilroy in the 1930s and ‘40s. Two weeks ago, it was a pantless thunder goose – er, ostrich. Good birding and happy drinking!

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India Ostriches Illinois Neglecting 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2022

They belong to either the Pipilo or Melozone genera, or perhaps both, as their taxonomy is still a point of contention. The first was strange only on a personal level, as I had never before seen a juvenile of the species. Towhees are large, ground-hugging sparrows that occur only in North America.

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Mexico North America 2015 Sparrows 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We were quite content to sit and watch the Black-breasted Buzzards , Australasian Grebes , Black-fronted Dotterels , and the many other birds that came for water. A Wood Sandpiper was quite content walking in front of us. Hopefully it would recover and had another of its species nearby. Wood Sandpiper.

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Rescue Zebras Birds Species 256

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While these birds are very much liked by Chinese birders, the species could unfortunately not be named the National Bird of China as the Latin species name of the bird is Grus Japonicus. From my home in Shanghai, it is about a four-hour drive to the North to Yancheng, a place to look for Red-crowned Cranes in winter.

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Birds Eggs Bald Eagle Owls 195

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2021

We share seven resident species with different parts of the United States: the Rock , Canyon , Cactus , (Brown-throated) House , Marsh , Sedge , and Bewick’s Wren can all be seen within a half hour of Morelia. (I When it comes to wrens, central Mexico has it pretty good. First, they answered “my” song.

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ALA United States Mexico Family 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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South Africa Malaysia Africa China 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2020

Typical of the species. Both species seemed content to observe each other though. While our house is located more in the middle of the development, Jason’s is on the outskirts, bordered by wild growth and peppered with medium-large trees. The last time I had seen a Summer Tanager was during a Christmas Bird Count in 2012.

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Trinidad Birds Squirrels 2012 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication. Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. Why are these issues?

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. Bonus birding content: On June 9th, Google celebrated the birthday of birding legend Phoebe Snetsinger with a heart-rending Doodle ! Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.

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Eggs Louisiana Breeding Asia 190

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s Macaulay Library contains a wealth of photos and audio recordings for approximately 10,000 species. Contributors to the Lab also receive Living Bird magazine, which features excellent content and photography, primarily about bird biology and conservation. Much of that content is freely available online as well.).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

. … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week. We use the term “Invasive Species” in the broadest sense, to encompass those invasive species that have expanded beyond their historical ranges under their own power, by deliberate introduction, or by unintentional introduction.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Science Chicago 273

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The book covers all of China, which given the large number of species (1484 are covered in the guide), the relatively low level of bird knowledge and also the limited market for such a book in English language (MacKinnon claims in one interview that the Chinese edition sold ten times more than the English one) is quite an achievement.

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China Brazil 2000 Birds 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In recent months, we’ve produced trailers for each episode to give prospective subscribers a better idea of the specific content of the series. The programming is diverse, and capitalizes on the particular passions of each our guides. We hope you’ll come on over and check out Outbirding with Field Guides for yourself!

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Rattlesnake 2020 Connecticut Industry 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cocoa Woodcreepers are the largest species of woodcreeper in T&T, and they have a proportionately massive bill. As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance. And so, we continued. Definitely a hawk-eagle, but which?

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Trinidad Eagles Bears Litter 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Sadly, the bird had flown the coop late yesterday afternoon so I had to content myself with less yellow birds. I did see one species of wood-warbler that’s yellow: in fact I saw four Common Yellowthroats ! My sixtieth species for Bryant Park was a young White-crowned Sparrow , and it made my morning.

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New York City Birds Sparrows New York 120

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

The Majestic Wetlands: Within Shanghai’s boundaries lie several pristine wetland habitats that serve as vital sanctuaries for a plethora of bird species. This expansive marshland is home to rare and endangered species such as the charismatic Black-faced Spoonbill, Saunders’s Gull, and the elegant Oriental Stork.

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

By the time you have walked this far you will have been listening to the variety of mimicry calls that the Great Bowerbird makes and be careful you don’t write down a species that you heard and did not see, because it may well have been a Great Bowerbird teasing you! Great Bowerbird bower and contents.

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Collecting Shelters Australia Species 125

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

While I harbor mixed feelings about zoos in general, this facility seems to make the best effort possible to keep animals in interesting enclosures, move them to different areas of the zoo to maintain novel surroundings, and invest money and space into a 30 acre mixed species enclosure, where the animals can move freely.

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Geese Zoos Canada Rhinos 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2015

Despite a life White-fronted Parrot being in contention, the title for my BBOTW this week was taken by the Cordilleran Flycatcher Empidonax occidentalis. The Cordilleran Flycatcher used to share the species with the Pacific Slope Flycatcher.

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Parrots Collecting Species Birds 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list. By contrast, the wild Rock Pigeon, Columba livia livia , is an ill-numbered species that I have seen only a few times, in mountain gorges or Mediterranean islands, further away from villages. New Year’s Day 2014.

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Feral Meat Species Serbia 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

In the late nineteenth century, Eugene Schieffelin, a wealthy New York drug manufacturer, resolved to introduce to North America every species of bird mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare. … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week. It’s one of the stories every birder knows.

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New York City New York North America Species 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

The northwestern spread of this non-native species made it to my yard a few years ago. The lightest shade of lavender coincides with a 0 – 2% frequency of sightings, the next darker shade 2 – 10%, the next 10 – 25%, the next 25 – 40% and the darkest (almost black) shade is a 40 – 100% occurrence of the species.

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Uganda boasts a checklist of well over one thousand species of birds and host of mammals, reptiles, and interesting insects. While we’re gone we’re just hoping the beat writers don’t run amok too much, but if you see a rapid increase in the quality of our blog content while Mike and I are away don’t be surprised.

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Uganda Africa Gorillas Reptiles 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. There are 461 species on the Maine checklist. This field guide covers 265 species, the ones most likely to be seen–residential and migratory, almost all nesting birds, many wintering birds.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

They are, I think, the most numerous species of seabird in the tropical Pacific I haven’t done a post on yet. Their name in Hawaiian is ewa ewa, literally “cacophony”, and another name for the species is wideawake tern, which is how they’ll leave you at first. If not, then certainly the loudest.

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Hawaii Albatross Breeding Species 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico.

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North America Sparrows America United States 143

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

And reading the table of contents (trust me, most people do not read the table of contents). As Heiman points out herself, there are many migratory species we still know very little about. But there are no indications that these notes exist in the text itself. I do not think we have solved the mystery of bird migration.

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Usually you are content with the sound of them and if you are lucky you are actually able to find them in the mangroves or paperbark trees. Other times you are able to get something like below… you are happy… you saw the “red eye-ring” and the species is truly confirmed.

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Australia Species Birds 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion. 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.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner. But Warner Brothers cartoons aside, Greater Roadrunner is a much more adaptable species that we give it credit for. But Warner Brothers cartoons aside, Greater Roadrunner is a much more adaptable species that we give it credit for.

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Missouri Mississippi Agenda Rodents 199