10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2024

I have encountered a few of the more quirky members of the family, including the brilliant and aptly-named African Emerald Cuckoo, India’s ultra-shy Sirkeer Malkoha, and the fascinating Lesser Ground Cuckoo in Costa Rica. It reminded me of a Roadrunner, which is, of course, also a member of the cuckoo family.

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Cyprus Africa Europe Asia 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

Then there were a few Hawfinches and two young Black Storks , Little Bittern , Great White Egret , Glossy Ibis , Common Kingfisher , Syrian Woodpecker , Peregrine Falcon , Red-backed Shrike , Lesser Grey Shrike , Collared Flycatcher and a family of Western Yellow Wagtails.

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Greece Pelicans Birds Stray Dog 228

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

But I took an opportunity to go down to Manitoba with Travis to see my family. Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons. Better times: Pacific Loon family from two seasons ago. To start off I was away for a couple of weeks. A different Glaucous Gull.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Eggs 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. The featured image above is a Creative Commons (CC) photo from Rich Hoeg. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.

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2017 New Mexico Groups Abandon 152

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. There is not a slightest trace of asphalt, nor the promised sewage ponds, which may be good for the two Little Ringed Plover families incubating their eggs at the site as we speak, but is far from good for the people living there.

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2016 Eagles Birds Otters 170

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber. Some even go as far as to rebuild the nest or make a platform beneath the nest and place the chick on that.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For the purpose of this post being of a reasonable length, I’m only going to touch on members of the Tyrannidae family of New World Flycatchers which can be found in the cocoa estates of Trinidad and Tobago. Even though they belong to the same family, many flycatchers have different habits. Yellow-breasted Flycatcher.

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Trinidad Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 212