10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 makes interesting reading. Originally confined to the Arctic, breeding [of Barnacle Geese] is now confirmed throughout much of the Baltic coast S North Sea. The Atlas was published in 2020, so these numbers may have been grown since then.

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Netherlands Geese Denmark Birds 212

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MARCH 1, 2024

I photographed the Black-tailed Godwit in my photograph ( above ) on 18 September 2020. 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.

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Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

It was the month of March, 2017, when I went to Lake Cuitzeo to check up on our migratory waterfowl and shorebirds one last time before they travelled north to breed. I knew that the 2020-2021 winter would be worse for the lake than the 2016-2017 winter. Kind of shows how we have all felt in 2020, doesn’t it?

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Rights 2017 2020 Blackbirds 262

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

Non-breeding Pied Oystercatchers join flocks either to the north or south of Gantheaume Point. They do not attempt to breed for about seven years. We are very pleased that at least one Pied Oystercatcher chick has survived this year when there has not been much good news for 2020.

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2020 Family Eggs Breeding 232

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JANUARY 6, 2021

2020 was the worst of years, through and through. I did, however, manage one work trip to Acapulco, back in January, when we thought the wildest thing about 2020 would be the U.S. Indigo/Lazuli/Varied Buntings: As the 2020-2021 winter season began, I began seeing Indigo Buntings everywhere! presidential elections.

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Mexico 2020 2019 Turkey 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Now, I am holding the 5th edition (2020) in my hands – what has changed in the meantime, especially in the 9 years since the 4th edition? This region is so far from the northern breeding grounds that there are no migratory corridors to show. uncommon), as well as when it breeds in the region.

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Africa South Africa Swaziland Lesotho 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Other important breeding species include Black and White Stork , Lesser Spotted , White-tailed , and Booted Eagle. Also Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans are resident species, breeding successfully on artificial platforms (close to 300 pairs). In 2020, due to Covid19, your presence was missing.

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Greece Wildlife Boars Otters 263

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JANUARY 25, 2020

I haven’t seen any kind of breeding activity from my bird, but my observations are few, far between and for short periods of time. Despite the breeding activity bit, it appears that both birds have habits in common. He also noted that nesting behaviour was observed later that year and during subsequent years. Concalves Jr.

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2005 South America Brazil 2018 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2021

I go there every year around this time, because in 2016 I saw Sinaloa Martins migrating north to breed. As I have mentioned in passing before, for Mexican birders Cedar Waxwings are THE story for the 2020-2021 winter. I recently traveled down to Paso Ancho, my go-to site in Michoacán’s Tierra Caliente (Hot Country).

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2016 2020 Mexico California 274

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Some birds with populations on different breeding grounds move not to the same winter quarter but to far-distant ones – such as the Red-necked Phalarope.

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Alaska Breeding Kenya Africa 206

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APRIL 29, 2020

So, on April 13th, I chose to go back to the same site I visited on my first outing of 2020, Lake Cuitzeo. But it was the Long-billed Dowitchers who were really rocking their breeding plumage. How on earth do they breed so quickly up north?) Most of our winter Common Yellowthroats breed up north, but some are residents.

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Mexico Breeding Ducks North America 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. banding station, 2020. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J.

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 187

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AUGUST 1, 2023

2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. The material on Boreal Owl is a wonderfully condensed account about the species’ sexual dimorphism and its relationship to breeding plus the link between the species’ cyclical abundance and the red-backed vole. Bohemian Waxwing, p.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 210

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost.

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2020

A Chinese Pond Heron in its full breeding plumage glory. And cheating again, here is a bird I saw at Nanhui in the first few days of 2020, a Common Kestrel. Bluethroats can already be seen from early April. The female is less colorful but arguably looks more stylish. How many legs? Little Ringed Plover with chicks).

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2019 China Industry Birds 146

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MAY 21, 2020

Among travel guides, due to its coverage of nature and birding, recommendation goes to Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide (6th edition, 2020). Serbia – the big picture. Birding overview. So far Serbia has 326 eBirded species or 90% of the 362 birds in its official checklist. The country has one eBird hotspot with 200+ and 62 more with 100+ birds.

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Serbia Sanctuary Birds Bosnia 317

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JUNE 1, 2021

It does seem like the order is concurrent with the 61st Supplement, which came out in 2020, but Northwestern Crow is included as a full species. Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2023

There are a pair of Pied Oystercatchers that reside at Gantheaume Point throughout the year and they last successfully bred in 2020. All of the Grey-tailed Tattlers are now in good breeding plumage as they get ready to migrate to the Northern hemisphere and breed. The Whimbrel were relaxed after the high tide too.

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2020 Breeding Rights Birds 26

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

The best season for the north-west circuit is February to May, during the rains when most birds breed. The best timing is during the rains, April-May and October-November, when birds breed. Just one more thing, bird book of choice is the “Birds of East Africa” by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe, second edition (2020).

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Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania 198

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos. My understanding is that since March 2020, the HBW is integrated into eBird ( source ). “I am big, and I am small.

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

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JULY 7, 2020

copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. The book roughly follows American Ornithological Society taxonomic order; a version date or number isn’t given, but it’s probably the 2020 version, before the Big Reshuffle of New World Warblers.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 195

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2021

On Lady Elliot Island in our southern Barrier Reef, where I visited in late 2020, the Black Noddies began breeding recently in 1985. Lady Elliot Island (LEI) was clearly a wonderful seabird breeding island as attested by the huge reserve of guano. The reason for their initial absence also explains their return.

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Sea Turtles Birds Marine Life Fish 249

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MAY 5, 2020

Small images accompany many of the larger bird images–the bird in flight, juvenile form, breeding plumage–and there are separate plates for first-year and second-year gulls and for hawks as they look in flight, from below. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; April 2020. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 208

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Pallas’s Gull also breeds at Qinghai Lake, though the numbers are sadly much reduced: “The numbers breeding at L Qinghai, China, has apparently fallen from > 87,000 in 1970s to c. The Tibetan plateau also has a crane species breeding here, the Black-necked Crane. 15,000 in 2006” (HBW).

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China Birds Fish 2006 218

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. by Otto Plantema.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

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JANUARY 27, 2022

And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is “Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.

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Malaysia Singapore Asia Birds 239

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

And yet, less than halfway through our 2020-2021 winter dry season, Lake Cuitzeo had essentially dried up. While numbers were low, our first migratory Baird’s Sandpipers and Wilson’s Phalaropes had arrived from their breeding grounds up north, right on time. Each of the dark marks in this photo from August, 2018 was a duck.

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San Francisco 2018 Mexico Ducks 264

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MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. Like most maps, colors are used to indicate seasonal status (breeding resident, Austral migrant/visitor, Boreal migrant, etc.). Distribution maps are also different from other field guides.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 172

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They breed in colonies scattered around the Antarctic continent (the number ranges from 60 to 70, and as Kooyman points out, the colonies can drastically change in size from year to year) on the ice (and one of the things I learned from this book is how many different kinds of ice there is in the Antarctic) in the darkest months of winter.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 156

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2021

The first words describing this species in Wikipedia are “poorly-documented” Before 2015, when I first saw it in Paso Ancho, it had only been reported twice on eBird outside of its Sierra Madre Occidental breeding range: once from Taxco, Mexico, and another report from Nicaragua.

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2016 2015 Nicaragua Mexico 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Greeney, also part of the Helm Identification series, it focuses on two avian families, combining the information necessary for identification with the latest research on taxonomy and behavior, particularly breeding behavior, and the latest conservation news and status. I love reading the descriptions of these birds’ breeding behavior.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

I have not left the state of Michoacán since January of 2020. This is the only migratory warbler to live entirely within Mexico, breeding in the northeast and wintering in the southwest. Corey, I can do you one better. And while I cannot, perhaps, match Corey’s 2021 achievements, I had many high points of my own. In my garden!

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Mexico Birds Virginia Barn Owls 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 210

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

” But Gorman points out that we really don’t know much about the species outside of Europe and that the usual explanations for population decline–loss of habitat, trapping, climate change–don’t explain startling changes predating these trends, such as their extirpation as breeding birds in Great Britain.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 233

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Slaght’s goals are simple: learn how to find Blakiston’s Fish Owls, find them, attach transmitters, track them, collect data, use the data to map out which parts of Primorye are most important to their feeding and breeding, develop a conservation plan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020, 368 pages. by Jonathan C.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 135