10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Both of these species show gregarious flocking behavior except when nesting. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. The orange beak on the female American Goldfinch and its white undertail coverts distinguish it from the female Lesser Goldfinch below, which has yellow undertail coverts and a darker beak.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Recently, while guiding on the slopes of Poas, without too much effort, we had more than a hundred species. Such a birdy day and yet, one that still lacked quite a few species. Poas itself seems to be pretty straightforward but I wondered how far down both sides of the mountain should be included in my species list. Two hundred?

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 100

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Because, let’s face it, when you get off that plane and look at those severe volcanic landscapes and then find yourself face to face with one of the islands’ four mockingbird species, you’re not going to think, “Oh, look, lava and a mockingbird.” The updating of the text is very important.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 251

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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 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

These and several other species might end up being armchair ticks if and when we take a closer look at their evolutionary history. Taxa that could end up being split into one species occurring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and one south of the isthmus. (2). Two subspecies of the same species that differ within Costa Rica. (4).

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Costa Rica Species South America America 213

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Honeyeaters are a large bird family (190 species) with a strong presence in Australia. Their name refers to their habit of eating nectar and pollen, though most of them also eat insects and/or fruit. The name Miner is not actually a reference to the mining of minerals or coal, which are of limited use to birds. ” (HBW).

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 197

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I pointed at the bird shown below but he insisted it could not be that species – no long tail … For people of a certain age, gender and background, at some point The Smiths were the most important band in the world. Other species, such as this juvenile Light-vented Bulbul , seem to have more ambiguous feelings about molting.

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Birds LACS France Japan 231

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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 203

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With 500 pages, this guide is a bit on the heavy side, but still not too much, having in mind that half of the region falls into the tropics and the edition is dealing with almost a thousand species (989 to be exact). The next page contains an alphabetical Quick Reference. association with other species and similar).

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Africa South Africa Swaziland Lesotho 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2023

With my recent relocation to the central forests of Trinidad, I have been afforded the incredible opportunity of observing three oft-confused species in close proximity to one another. In reality these species are rarely in the same place at the same time, however! All the more reason to keep birding!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). “Odd, me?”

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Singapore Birds Zebras Feral 222

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JUNE 11, 2023

Rolando told me this tree was commonly referred to, by the locals, as the Palo de Gringo , or the Gringo Tree. If you have much interest in birds, you may well have seen videos of the very comical mating dance of male Red-capped Manakins , a species whose range stretches from southeast Mexico to South America.

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Mexico Woodpeckers South America Species 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2023

Several migratory species were around – I’ll touch on these in a subsequent post – but all was quiet and calm nevertheless. Perhaps the bird was trying to get a closer view, so as to reference the images of possible threats it learned as a young bird? And closer. Was it going to waltz into becoming breakfast?

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Ducks Fish Humane Species 147

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. The guide ends with a glossary, references, and separate indexes to scientific and common bird names.

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Kenya Africa South Africa Penguins 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. The Hainan version is sometimes considered a separate species, in which case it is classified as Near Threatened. 36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump.

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 208

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Species formerly referred to as P. One recent study found that this species was sister to P. perdix , and also that race przewalskii (sometimes subsumed within suschkini , but generally paler) was basal to other taxa included within the present species. barbata , but present name has priority.

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China Birds Austria ALA 249

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JUNE 14, 2023

Mentions of Trinidad being the “land of the hummingbird” served to further irk me later on, and the fact that the airline selected this logo to reference that makes me bring up a little bit of breakfast.

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Trinidad Experience Experiments Rights 130

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JULY 1, 2020

Their Latin genus name refers to their thick bills. There are 17 species of Becard. Just one species of Becard spills across the border into the U.S., This species, the Rose-throated Becard , is also a fairly common resident of the pine-oak forests of southwestern Mexico, where I live. Species seen? Not quite yet.

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South America Mexico America United States 264

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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 279

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Also, I had found my first viable acorns for 2022 on a previous outing, and hoped to find acorns from other species in this particular oak-rich forest. (I As a point of reference, this adult Spotted Wren has developed a full set of spots. I love this species’ comical look, so I’ll indulge myself with several photos.

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Sparrows California Woodpeckers Species 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the many things I love about Mexico is the quality of its “trash birds” You may have heard that phrase among birders; it refers to whatever species is so common at a given site that you become tired of seeing them. When I go up to Cerro de Garnica, at an altitude of 10,000 ft. 3,000 m.),

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Birds Mexico Species Sparrows 142

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2022

Instead, they usually just describe species seen at a specific location, with the vague notion that these descriptions might be interesting to other birders. It looks quite distinct compared to some of the other recently discovered species. I guess my sympathy is more with the Plain Bunting, if such a species existed.

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China Birds Vietnam Asia 208

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate. The word Trogon, from the Greek meaning “gnawer,” refers to their hooked, serrated bills used to eat large insects and fruit – as well as gnaw on the rotting wood of old woodpecker cavities to reuse as nesting sites.

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America Arizona North America Texas 263

Reddit Animals

MARCH 3, 2024

"The Lazy Naturalist" is a game about identifying animals whose common names reference other animals. Points are awarded as follows: +1 point for each animal in the name that does NOT describe the one to which it refers. +1 1 bonus point if NONE of the words comprising the animal describe the one to which it refers.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2022

This reserve, known as los Filtros Viejos (the Old Filters, a reference to its role in centuries past supplying water to Morelia) is a nice place for seeing many of the common Michoacán specialties. I managed to see 38 species that day, a pretty average number for a summer outing in my area.

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Mexico California Squirrels Woodpeckers 147

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JUNE 20, 2022

Or would be, had I encountered more of them – so far, I have seen only a very small share of the approximately 233 woodpecker species, and got decent photos of an even smaller number – not much more than 10% of all of them. So, writing a post about them is easy.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 233

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Go to Hispaniola and a birder has the pleasure of admiring two species of tody for the price of one, checking out the odd, mono familiar Palmchat , and listening to the parrotish calls of the White-necked Crow. In birding circles, we refer to the northern and eastern part of Costa Rica as the Caribbean Slope.

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 210

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APRIL 5, 2022

per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. The accounts cover vagrancy patterns for the family as a whole, reasons for vagrancy, documented examples of vagrancy for specific species and reasons that might account for those incidents.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

Wikipedia seems not too impressed with the species, stating that “the brown honeyeater is a medium-small, plain grey-brown honeyeater” The Latin species name indistincta (indistinct, obscure) sounds similarly underwhelming. The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2022

They refer to the depression some people experience with shorter hours of daylight, and they are not welcome. Canyon Wrens are another resident species that appears more often in the spring, even though they don’t visit the birdbath. This Rufous-backed Robin showed up again, just in time to be included in this article.

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Nashville Virginia Sparrows Species 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2018

As for “forest” and “football”, that pertains to where this species lives and its shape, in this case “football” referring to the sport celebtated on Monday night in the USA, typically accompanied by parking lot shenanigans. ” We could just as well refer to it by its genus, Neomorphus.

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Costa Rica Chickens Birds Soreing 161

Reddit Animals

AUGUST 20, 2023

No idea what species. Beer shown for reference. Caught (and released) local frodge on my pool deck before a bbq. Was pretty big tho. Please drink responsibly) submitted by /u/RedditMcReddiface [link] [comments]

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Species Animal 52

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

(No, this is not a reference to my personal worst birder joke ever, that One good tern deserves another. With 85 species in 6 hours, I’d like to think it was well repaid. Although that joke does apply to Faraaz Abdool’s latest post.). I consider myself exceedingly fortunate to have several birder friends who are biologists.

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San Diego Turtles Mexico Sparrows 252

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Western” refers to a two-species complex, the Cordilleran Flycatcher and the Pacific-slope Flycatcher. But we – and by we I mean the crowd of birders that had swelled quite a bit from the lonely three birders looking early in the morning – still had the issue of not knowing what species we were actually looking at!

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Birds Collecting 2015 Species 237

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

On account of it being the dry season, the locals refer to this month as part of “summer” and pay tribute by heading to the beaches, going cycling, and taking part in other outdoor activities that would be affected by rain. One of six toucan species in Costa Rica, fairly common at sites with rainforest. Red-headed Barbet.

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Costa Rica Birds Panama Woodpeckers 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Wikipedia grudgingly admits that the species “has dramatic coloration unlike any other member of its genus”. To be called Lesser Racquet-tailed Drongo – what does this do to the morale of a species? So, I am afraid a proper The National reference has to wait for another time. Blue Nuthatch. A Long-tailed Sibia.

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Birds Malaysia Morals Asia 206