10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Whilst observing the Southern Emu-wrens a White-fronted Chat flew into view and landed on some raised vegetation! Two new birds for 2019 just like that! All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! It was a beautiful day and there is a camping ground right on the foreshore.

Portland 149

Portland Tigers 2020 2019 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

Bolivia 187

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 187

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.

Owls 231

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As the story goes, the family that first planted the vineyard that became Dancing Crow were working their land in the shadow of Mount Konecti in the 1850s, painstakingly marking the spacing and orientation of their future vine rows using straws stuck into the earth. Birds and Booze News.

2017 165

2017 Nevada California Italy 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. 2020 yielded a single sighting; 2019, two; 2018, four. These images may not be a big deal to many of our readers. But they kind of are, down here.

Mexico 242

Mexico 2018 Ducks Breeding 242