10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Then rumors leaked out that at this same site the mythical Red Owl could easily be seen, Madagascar Serpent Eagle was breeding and other rare birds and lemurs abounded. As you can imagine, I was champing at the bit to get to this lost paradise and when I finally obtained the necessary permissions in 2008, it didn’t fail to astonish!

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 255

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorants were a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade… until the wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the whole of Serbia. And that is where the problem arose: it is their job to clear all the sediments collecting against the embankment.

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 235

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

A few dead birds were collected by authorities and sent to a laboratory for investigation. and species breeding in cavities are less affected. It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009).

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

The male Bar-tailed Godwit are the first to show us breeding plumage and then the Red Knot and Curlew Sandpipers have two beautiful reds-red wine rather than cranberry juice! Breeding colour becomes rather obvious! These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008? I am a man.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

They can be found all over the book–some interspersed with resident and migratory species, some collected together in the back of the chapter, some in the last chapter on North American vagrant landbirds. The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group. as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011).

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 240

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JULY 16, 2013

The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. The only other significant mainland breeding colony is based about an hour out of Cape Town on the east coast at a place called Betty’s Bay.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 249

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

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JANUARY 4, 2015

The adult Pied Oystercatchers were still at their non-breeding site at Gantheaume Point and will no doubt lay their first eggs for 2015 in the first week of July. In fact one pair has collected mud from recent rains and they have built a nest on the bottom of the ladder of the pylon in the car-park! Magpie-lark nest on a ladder!

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2015 2014 Ducks Ponies 227

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APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 242

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

.” It is a relief to eventually reach the chapter on The Life of Waterfowl, written in a much more conversational style and unashamedly fascinated with waterfowl’s unique breeding behaviors. A mid-book extension of the introductory section on Aging and Sexing Waterfowl, this is a unique tool that advanced birders will love.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 157