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MARCH 8, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage By Corey • March 8, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share It should come as no surprise to readers of 10,000 Birds that I do not love gulls.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Even outside of Atlanta , Peregrine Falcons spend their breeding seasons smiling for the ( web ) camera from atop edifices all across the country. Be sure to send pictures, stories, and video clips of your celebration of The Great Kestrel Count 2011 to Robert , who will post them at www.BirdingIsFun.com to share with the world.

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It is only a short drive out of town to go to the Roebuck Roadhouse, where the Hoopoe showed up in 2011. Already many birds have arrived and no doubt many are thinking of breeding. Hopefully they will consider breeding in the area like they did in 2017 when the land was also flooded for an extended period of time.

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MARCH 14, 2011

By Julie • March 14, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway?

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JUNE 15, 2016

It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! 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. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

They breed on a number of basaltic lakes in southwestern Argentina, and it is not entirely clear where they all winter, but some wintering Hooded Grebes have been found outside their breeding range (and a few none-breeding birds have been found year round at two locations on the Atlantic, apparently).

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MARCH 6, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2011? Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of March 2011?

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The results of the Swarovski Optik Digiscoper of the Year 2011 have just been published and once again, they show just what is possible with a telescope and everything from a cheap compact camera to a semi-pro DSLR. and content (not just what the bird IS, but what it is DOING).

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JULY 1, 2011

3 rd word, second syllable: A bird that breeds in Florida, the northern limits of its breeding range. You could be hearing this too if you are in eastern US, as far west as, say, parts of Texas and going north to approximately the Canadian border. It is a bird not often seen, it is a bird of swamps and marshes.

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JULY 4, 2011

3 rd word, 2 nd syllable … Florida breeding one-word named bird, the northern limits of its breeding range, swamps, marshes, last three letters of the name … Limpkin … “kin”. 3 rd word, 1 st syllable … what do Kirtland’s Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm Warbler, American Pipit (and maybe others) ­­­­­have in common? …

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost.

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MARCH 21, 2011

On the other hand, I quite enjoyed an array of Long-tailed Ducks at Irondequoit Bay, including one male in breeding plumage. • Explore These Related Posts Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2011?

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JUNE 7, 2022

” But Gorman points out that we really don’t know much about the species outside of Europe and that the usual explanations for population decline–loss of habitat, trapping, climate change–don’t explain startling changes predating these trends, such as their extirpation as breeding birds in Great Britain.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. Press, 2011).

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The guide covers over 650 species, most of the breeding birds in the United States (minus Hawaii) and Canada (like most guides with ‘North America’ in its title, it does not include Mexico or the Caribbean). Acorn Woodpeckers use both communal and cooperative breeding strategies which vary widely among family groups.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

2011 is about to become 2012 and birders the world over are taking a look at their year lists and reminiscing about the awesome sightings and devastating dips that they have experienced. This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species.

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MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Corey was most pleased with a host of Bobolinks at the same place he suspected them of attempting to breed this spring (though he ended up short of evidence). My best birds of the weekend were a bevy of Eastern Bluebirds in adult azure and immature mottled brown, beauteous birds any time of year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2014

There are two Painted Bunting populations, one that breeds along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Florida and one that breeds in the interior United States and northern Mexico from southeastern New Mexico to western Mississippi. The Atlantic Coast population lingers on the breeding grounds after nesting to molt.

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JULY 4, 2011

I enjoyed a few fancy summer breeding birds this weekend, but if I have to choose, my favorites were the Eastern Bluebirds. I don’t think we’re going to get to the heart of this baffling paradox today though… after all, for some of us, this is still the weekend!

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

The last time I visited Portola was in the summer of 2011 when the Swainson’s Hawks ( Buteo swainsoni ) were nesting there. Each autumn, nearly the entire breeding population of the Swainson’s Hawk migrates from the temperate zone of North America to wintering areas in South America. Click on photos for full sized images.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay welcomed a new baby female reticulated giraffe on Tuesday, December 27, 2011. The breeding program has been a great success. At 5 foot, 7 inches tall and weighing approximately 127 pounds! That’s a big baby!

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APRIL 9, 2013

Since at least 2009 there has been at least one hypopigmented, or piebald, American Robin living in Alley Pond Park in my home borough of Queens, at least for the breeding season. It (or they?*) is assumed (confirmed?) to be nesting there each year but all I had ever managed were fleeting glimpses and couple of lousy photos.

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APRIL 10, 2011

Which domestic breeds do you think are represented below? We don’t have any photos of our weekend birds to share, so instead I’ll offer an ID quiz using a photo graciously submitted by Jay Richmond of NYC. Have you been brushing up on your manky mallards ? Share your guesses while you share your best bird of the weekend!

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APRIL 3, 2011

Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a male Long-tailed Duck in breeding plumage off the coast of Queens. April is a most mercurial month; hopefully, you found a an opportunity to get out this weekend and seized it! Mine was a waterfowl as well, but a goose instead of a duck.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Some bird species are regulars at the Golf Course, but we have also had rare birds how up over the years such as the Banded Lapwing in 2011. Dollarbirds can be observed in the area when they are breeding here in the tropical summer months and often perch up high on the trees. Golf Course birds! Plumed Whistling-Ducks.

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MAY 22, 2011

By their unexpected numbers and activity, I wouldn’t be surprised if they we’re planning on breeding here. While waiting for the fumes in my kitchen to vent, I could enjoy lots of Bay-breasted Warblers from my yard. Wouldn’t that be something?

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APRIL 6, 2014

I have followed the breeding activity of the Pied Oystercatchers in Broome along Cable Beach since July 2000 when I found the first nest site and the birds have continued to use the same territories, though there have been some partner changes. I can also monitor any movement along the coast during the year when they are no longer breeding.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The collection features sixteen proprietary designs, each with an artist-created, one-of-a-kind image of the world’s most beloved dog breeds. Fetch Product Designs was founded in Spring 2011 to create unique, quality, high-end pillows and home décor featuring “man’s best friend”. A bout Fetch! Product Designs.

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JULY 17, 2011

The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011. One was “Superdad,” one of the few successful breeding whooping cranes in the entire eastern population. Could Ohio lose its entire pioneer breeding population? The proposal now goes to the U.S. Please act now. What if they’re shot?

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MARCH 17, 2011

The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage.

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MARCH 9, 2011

The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. Corey Mar 10th, 2011 at 6:59 pm Ruddy Ducks are great little ducks, wherever they show up. Thanks, Corey!

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APRIL 4, 2023

The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions. This is followed by a page or four of Andy Birch’s lovely, detailed illustrations. Large and colorful, they include Mexico, Central America and sometimes South America, showing the full migration route. (I

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OCTOBER 8, 2011

Every spring the wood-warblers come north bedecked in breeding finery and every autumn they head back south again in more muted colors. All of these shots were taken in the late summer and fall of 2011. I hope you enjoy these images and that you managed to see some wood-warblers heading south as well!

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APRIL 10, 2013

About 3 billion of North America’s landbirds, 26 million of its waterfowl, and 7 million of its shorebirds breed here. There are nearly 100 species of which 50% or more of the entire population breeds in the Boreal Forest. This is a photograph of the same area in 2011. – depend on the Boreal Forest.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice. The California population estimate derived from the Survey was 145,000 birds. www.youtube.com/watch?

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APRIL 5, 2013

The Osprey is one of the true cosmopolitans of the avian world, found on six continents and breeding on five. It’s not that they’re some special, rare endemic that would readily symbolize our own unique little mountain valley. Because the stadium is by the river. And Osprey love them some nest platforms.

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