10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2020
A Eurasian Blackbird is checking for the remaining maize seeds. A Common Chaffinch is singing, while one male Blackbird chases the other from his precious maize seeds. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. The longer I sit, the more focused I become.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2019
They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay.”. No, they weren’t in raspberry fields.)”. Sombre Tit by Ivan Medenica/Wikimedia Commons.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
For oceanic birds he uses the taxonomy that he and Kirk Zufelt developed in Oceanic Birds of the World: A Photo Guide (PUP, 2019). It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^ Howell utilizes the IOC World Bird List (v.11.2, Not every bird. I love the writing here.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2019
High overhead, swallows are going over and in the fields, blackbirds move in undulating flocks. However, even now, the ancient movements of birds between summer breeding grounds and tropical wintering places have been taking place in Costa Rica. We see fall-plumaged wood-warblers busy in the maples. It can and does work !
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.” That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2019, 448p. Range and Geographic Variation. Just to be sure, read the section on “Ruling Our the Non-Sparrow.”
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