10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. © 2023 by Steve N.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 238

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DECEMBER 24, 2015

It is estimated that the total European population is 28,000 to 39,000 breeding pairs. They are choosing specific locations with willow trees located right by the water. The study was prepared in 2012, but no protection has been declared to date. Between 900 and 1,600 pairs of this species breed in Serbia, mainly in the north.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 189

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AUGUST 17, 2014

On the first trip in 2012 we used public transport to get there and the train conveniently gets you to Macarthur Square shopping centre and you can then get a bus that drops you right at the entrance to the park. We encountered one crossing the road in 2012, but with the cooler weather this year there was less turtle activity.

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Turtles Australia 2012 Litter 165

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

When to bird: The best period birdwise is from November to February, because the Danube in Serbia seldom freezes; although it did so recently, in February 2012, when the 1000 m / 3300 ft wide river was frozen solid from bank to bank, causing a large mortality among waterbirds. In March and November, Common Cranes are a possibility.

Serbia 250

Serbia Birds Ducks Eagles 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

Will it come back in 2012? Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Wood-Warbler Week is finally over for 2011. Below is the logo. What species is shown?

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United States South America 2011 2012 156

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

This land is currently very green from the recent rains and in very wet years it floods and becomes a great breeding area for terns. The first bird we came across was the Brown Songlark and this was my 143rd bird for 2012. Wedge-tailed Eagle So you have now seen a few of our “brown” birds!

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Birds Falcons 2012 Eagles 163

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

The first of the series premiers June 10th, 2012. Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. We are so excited about this new mini-series from National Geographic! Untamed Americas: Deserts. Premieres Sunday, June 10, 10 p.m.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

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MAY 28, 2017

Here is a map of all Black Woodpecker observations in Germany and Luxembourg during the breeding season 2012 – 2017, generated with the best data base in the world, ornitho.de (ignore the colours, they do not show concentration but denote “proof of breeding”, “likely breeding” etc.).

Germany 100

Germany Woodpeckers Luxembourg North America 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And asking yourself the right question is more than half the way towards the answer. Large windows and unobstructed views of the river are a criterion for the right observation point. Their mortality was huge, but I realised how huge only when we did the December 2012 census to find only 1300 PCs. Four fifths were gone!

Serbia 210

Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 210

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

Both the grey morph and white morph of the Eastern Reef Egret were present and also ten Sooty Oystercatchers and our pair of Pied Oystercatchers that breed a few kilometres to the north of Gantheaume Point each year from July. Most of the Red Knot are in very good breeding plumage now and they do stand out very well on the grey rocks.

Taiwan 100

Taiwan Breeding Japan 2017 100

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Since then, we have seen a marvellous recovery, with an estimate of 123 in 2012, 145 in 2013, 165 in 2014, 197 in 2015 and now in 2016, around 232 Great Bustards roam the wilds of Germany, nearly doubling their number within just a handful of years! Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right.

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Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 102

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MARCH 27, 2016

It is the only member of the roller family to come to Australia and migrates right down the east coast of Australia, but does not travel much further south than Broome on the west coast. Dollarbirds arrive in Australia from the north each year to breed and use hollow trees to nest. When did you last observe a Dollarbird this year?

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Australia 2012 Parrots Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Egyptian Goose sightings submitted to eBird in 2011-2012. They were right! Outside of the parakeets, the colorful Northern Red Bishop ( Euplectes franciscanus ) from Africa is a widespread resident of Los Angeles and Orange County in California with a large breeding population that has been around since the 1970s.

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Los Angeles Miami San Francisco Florida 154

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid. 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 221

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AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. It is at the same time of year that the migratory shorebirds that spend part of each year in Broome are also breeding, but in the Arctic.

Eggs 179

Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

From one side, the reserve is under the attack of spreading arable fields, from another by numerous wind generators and it is no easy task to support the surviving breeding birds within its borders. My guide, Chirag Solanki, told me he had once been searching here for five days, before he managed to locate the birds.

India 251

India Gazelles Endangered Species Pakistan 251

10,000 Birds

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.

2011 205

2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Jackson, 2012. Those of us who contemplate the trip need to know how to do it right.

Michigan 250

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 250

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APRIL 5, 2012

That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. How to Be a Better Birder by Derek Lovitch Princeton University Press, 2012, 208p. The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. 53 color illus.

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New Jersey Science United States Birds 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? . I was confused.

Trinidad 218

Trinidad Birds South America Research 218

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JULY 16, 2012

Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right? I have decided that the bird is an Alpine Chough, a red-billed blackbird that breeds in the Swiss Alps. Enchanted Lion Books, 2012. There is nothing as deadly as 15 bored 4-year olds.

Birds 236

Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 236

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can Text is on the left, plates are on the right.

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Check out this graph adapted from eBird that shows the frequency of sightings in the United States in 2012 – Red-breasted Nuthatches are showing up on birders’ checklists just over sixteen percent of the time! Remember that friend of mine that saw 17 breeding pairs of Snowy Owls in a single valley? Thank a pine cone.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 274

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JANUARY 24, 2016

Great Knot and Red Knot will all intermingle together and the Red Knot are easily overlooked when not in their breeding plumage when every bird appears “grey”! I suddenly observed a Grey-tailed Tattler wearing a metal band on its right tibia and a plain white flag and a blue engraved leg flag on the left tibia.

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Taiwan 2012 2015 2014 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. That is a big difference compared to the 2,000+ singing males detected in 2012, well above the recovery goal for this species set by the U.S. this species breeds. this species breeds.

Albatross 228

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 228

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JUNE 18, 2013

The timing of seasonal changes is shifting, so that some birds are at risk of showing up at the right place at the wrong time (see: Birds migrating at wrong time for warmer climate ). Migratory birds are at particular risk, requiring multiple and specialized habitats to breed, raise their young, migrate and overwinter. And penguins.

Maryland 245

Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 245

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JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

Endangered Species 213

Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise.

Germany 260

Germany Birds 2000 South America 260

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And, there is A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia: Second Edition by Morten Strange (2012). Two-columned text is on the left and illustrations and range maps on the right. There are more than 1,300 distribution maps, indicating resident birds, breeding visitors, and migrants. Illustrations.

Indonesia 146

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 146

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The guide covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species. Only one species of penguin breeds on the Australian mainland; five additional species breed on sub-Antarctic islands. Species are separated by thin but visible lines.

Australia 114

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly.

2011 260

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 260

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AUGUST 7, 2018

A friend of 10,000 Birds, he talked to Corey about his mission to create this guide in 2012 and wrote about his goal to create a Spanish-language version of the guide in 2017. Illustrations are old school, in a separate section, with images of the right and brief descriptions of the left–73 plates offering 1,000 images.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 108

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

As 2012 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 and 2011 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. Felonious Jive really likes a ravishing returning rarity – a Falcated Duck.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

A minor item, but I like to get these things right.) The “Colour Plates” section is a quick identification guide, presenting text on the left and meticulous drawings on the right. (I This section also includes range maps, indicating range by breeding season, wintering season, and residence year-round.

North America 173

North America Asia Europe America 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Tragic, right? Not only did I survive unscathed but the trip also produced my undisputed BBOTY – and a lifer to boot, almost in my own backyard!!!

2013 168

2013 Birds Costa Rica India 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

In the past two years, our bookshelves have welcomed Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance (2011), the second edition of the classic Hawks in Flight (Dunne, Sutton, Sibley; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), and Chris Earley’s updated edition of the excellent regional guide, Hawks and Owls of Eastern North America (2012).

North America 235

North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

But the best place to observe them is from a boat or, if you are lucky, on their breeding grounds, which tend to be isolated islands. Princeton University Press, 2012, 520 pp. You can sometimes see tubenoses from land (especially after a storm, as eastern birders found out after Hurricane Irene). 975 photos and figures, 66 maps.

North America 160

North America Albatross America Species 160