10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

When all of you are settling in inside away from the snow for family, food and arguments, we’re all getting our travel on. That’s why I went for an albatross, because it wasn’t my BBOY, but it would at least tweak Corey. Honestly, I love albies and all, but they aren’t exactly rare down here.

2013 172

2013 Birds Rhinoceros Thailand 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years. The Quick Index of bird families (Albatrosses, Ani, Auklets, etc.) This means that loons are no longer first!

North America 155

North America 2003 Birds America 155

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.” But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. The full-length species accounts are not repeated.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”. Many individual species get an entry too, though they are generally not capitalized.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. Others, like the petrels and some of the auks, will lay a single egg per breeding attempt. The investment placed in each clutch bur seabirds is so great that only one breeding attempt can be seen to completion each year.

Eggs 164

Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2013

To celebrate, here are some shots of something not remotely albatross related, Arthur’s Pass. Common forest birds that we saw included the diminutive and adorable Rifleman , a member of the New Zealand wren family, an ancient line of passerine birds that fall between the oscines and suboscines.

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New Zealand Albatross Family Australia 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

but I really feel I should nominate an albatross, if only because I love taunting Corey about them. I’ll go for the Black-browed Albatross , in celebration of the fact that conservation efforts have resulted in this species being downgraded from endangered to near threatened this year. He wrote about it in more detail here.

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Finally, deciding that a duck that required 250 acres of land to breed probably did not welcome intruders, we tiptoed out of the swamp.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 108

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies.

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Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters. Each family chapter begins with a brief, bold-printed description of the common traits of the species in the family and an enumeration of the number of species worldwide and the number of species in North America.

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North America America 2017 Birds 179

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The big book (2017 edition, let’s call it the ABG ) covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species (I’m assuming the revised edition includes a few birds that were missed because of the cutoff point, I don’t have it in hand).

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Australia Birds 2017 Groups 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

.” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels. Coverage of all families is not comprehensive.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Our North American bird field guides stopped offering this information decades ago, so it’s handy to have it all collected in one handy volume, especially if you’re doing a state breeding bird survey like some 10,000 Birds writers. Donna). ==.

Birds 240

Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

On the other hand, I quite enjoyed an array of Long-tailed Ducks at Irondequoit Bay, including one male in breeding plumage. Long-tailed Duck by Mike Bergin Tags: best bird , weekend • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Patrick ODonnell Mar 21st, 2011 at 5:35 pm Beautiful Long-tailed Duck!

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2011 Deer Birds Costa Rica 140

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

In Sibley Two, the in-flight images literally fly across the page in slight diagonals, with the full-bodied images are presented below in a parallel order (meaning we see the same bird–fresh juvenile, worn juvenile, 1st year, Adult breeding, Adult nonbreeding–in the same part of the page for each species).

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North America Birds Species America 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 193