10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. Abandoned fishing line also threatens pelicans along with many marine animals. Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage. Photo: Lance and Erin (Creative Commons – Flickr).

Pelicans 157

Pelicans North America Peru Fish 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

While the native apple snail continued declining, another species of apple snail native to South America began to appear in canals and ponds in South Florida. The baseball-sized “Island apple snail”, as this exotic snail is known, spreaded through South Florida. Snail Kites now favor these ponds and breed around them.

Florida 219

Florida South America Eggs Bolivia 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. But while their range expansion in the old world was made up of relatively short hops no one expected this species to move westward across the Atlantic Ocean to South America but it did just that!

Cattle 170

Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170