10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2024
Tucked away at the extreme eastern end of the Mediterranean, Cyprus is regarded politically as part of Europe, but when it comes to birds it’s very much Middle Eastern in flavour, with a number of species that are hard or even impossible to find in Europe, plus a trio of endemics. It was strange to hear it here in Cyprus.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. Once again the bird disappeared, or at least wasn’t reported, until it was noted at Titchwell RSPB Reserve on the North Norfolk coast on 10 July 2018. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Why are these issues? © 2023 by Steve N. Not every bird.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2019
By 2013, I was the #1 eBirder there — out of a total fo 24! The year was 2013, and I was just rediscovering a passion for birds after a 30-year hiatus. I also presented this site and species in my first two posts on 10,000 Birds.) The Ocellated Thrasher is another of Mexico’s little-known species.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
I had just a split-second glimpse of this species – my only second ever – yet immediately knew what is it, but I was driving through a snowbound countryside and had another car behind me, therefore I stopped a good 50 metres later to eBird it. My January 2018 list (4 birds in bold are globally threatened): 1. Fortunately, B.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
There are 35 raptor species that have a presence in the United States and Canada, 56 (more or less) if you count by subspecies, and they are all covered in admirable, exhausting, unbelievable detail in B irds of Prey of the East: A Field Guide and Birds of Prey of the West: A Field Guide by Brian K. Species Accounts.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2018
“The Purpose of Field Guides: Taxonomy vs. Utility,” co-authored with Brian Sullivan, Michael O’Brien, Chris Wood, Ian Lewington, and Richard Crossley ( Birding , November 2009) proposed a standard avian species order for field guides, apart from the ever-changing AOS taxonomic order. Species are useful handles (p. 16, below).”
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