10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2017
Seriously, cardinals are both gorgeous and interesting , but their familiarity across most of North America breeds indifference if not contempt. Brutal cold kept me locked up, which offered a perfect opportunity to appreciate the fifty shades of Northern Cardinals hanging around my house.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Howell’s A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America , which is absolutely my birder’s Bible for the region, says that Snowy Plovers are fair to uncommon summer breeders in the Lake Cuitzeo area, which they certainly are (breeders, though not uncommon). They were probably not preparing to go south.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2019
The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. It is the first bird field guide to every country of Central America (plus the islands governed by those countries).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2019
In the case of birds that breed in the Arctic, they may only spend a fourth of the year up north. So, in many cases, their survival depends at least as much on the qualities of wetlands in Latin America. But your waterfowl and shorebirds only spend half of each year in these two countries. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2021
Yellow-green Vireo: The first of 2020’s “vindication birds” I had “seen” my first Yellow-green Vireo in 2017, when I took some much-better-than-me birders to Paso Ancho, and one pointed out a bird call and some movement in the brush. The Magpie-Jays would check me out while I drank my morning coffee by the pool.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2017
Since they don’t occur in the UK and obviously not in North America, they don’t often make it onto the front page of the bird blogging world and have this aura of unattainability, of being a gap rather than a feature on one’s travel list. Well, they are big.
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