10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2016
Ring-necked Pheasants are native to Asia, brought over in the 1880’s. Partners in Flight estimates that the global breeding population is around 50 million; 30% of which can be found in North America and Canada. South Dakota went a different way, designating the Ring-necked Pheasant as the state bird in 1943.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Like the Adjutants in Asia and Jabiru of the Americas, the Marabou is our bare-headed scavenging stork. Only slightly shorter, but more elegantly built than the Marabou, the Saddle-billed also has a sister species in Asia, the Black-necked Stork. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2016
The birds usually remote habitat makes it difficult to gain a full picture of range and population status, but it appears to have suffered a drastic decline in its former breeding areas as grassland is overtaken by agriculture. An article in Birding Asia from 2010 put forward that the bunting could be the next east Asia species to go extinct.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2014
You’ll get much more in the way of numbers in the lowlands, but you’ll pick up many more endemics up high, and with that probably many more lifers if you’ve birders SE Asia much in the past. It wasn’t breeding season when I was there, so I felt particularly lucky to see them. A terrible shot of a great bird.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. They can soar for hours, or plunge and twist after another bird with spectacular power and flair.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2011
Gulls in Larnaca, taken 22/02/2010 by ©Stavros Christodoulides Recognizing that gull identification is confusing doesn’t help your average birdwatcher however. It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
There are a lot of other large Galliforme birds around the world, and before the Spanish were busy conquering the New World, one of these, from Central Asia most likely, was already being imported as a food product and as live birds into Europe. This is where they got their name. 78(1):61–78. literature citation therein Bradford, William.
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