10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In Conservation efforts have been sufficiently successful for the bird’s status to be downlisted, in 2018, from Critically Endangered to Endangered. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2019
My first criterion was that I observed it only once during the year 2018. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. The post The top-5 birds of 2018 appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland. In breeding plumage islandica godwits develop a deeper red plumage than their limosa cousins. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2018
Cliff Swallows breeding in Queens are still new enough to be novel and that is more than enough to be Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. © 2003 text H.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. In the non-breeding season, Common Merganser all look pretty much like females. Not a bad look though – more attractive than the male breeding plumage, I think. It is indeed rufous-ish.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. Publication date 2018. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.” At one moment I even realised where I’d like to be while reading it: deep in rural Norfolk.
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