10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2020
2020 is almost over… finally. Rather than belabor the obvious, I’ll just point out that the global pandemic may have spawned a new wave of birders, but collectively we’ve seen far fewer species of birds. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The Atlas was published in 2020, so these numbers may have been grown since then. Barnacles are attractive geese that have long been popular in wildfowl collections According to the Atlas , the combined population for the Russian, Baltic, Netherlands population is around 770,000 individuals, which is an awful lot of geese.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2024
So both birds are assumed by many to be escapees from a zoo or a private collection somewhere. I should also mention that the male American Flamingo and female Chilean Flamingo were briefly joined by an equally improbable male Chilean Flamingo in the fall of 2020 and the spring of 2021, but the male has not appeared since then.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
Species Accounts are organized by family according to the 61st Supplement (2020) of the AOS Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (the 62nd Supplement came out while the book was in production, which is to be expected). A birder or rehabber looking for a comprehensive collection should consider having both books in their collection.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
banding station, 2020. Knowing the history of how that came about enriches our appreciation for our birding colleagues, our collective history, and our birds. Warblers caught in mist nets and placed in net bags, waiting, some impatiently, to be weighed and banded. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J. NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2010.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Aïthurus polytmus , a family of Red-billed Streamerbirds depicted in a print dated between 1820 and 1860 from the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam. I can think of no higher honor. It’s uncertain how the endemic Red-billed Streamerbird acquired its unusual colloquial sobriquet.
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