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2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. Every species account (well, most every account) includes information on habitat and talk briefly about range and distribution (there are no range maps in this guide); it is usually noted if the species breeds in Ontario, and often noted if it is migratory or residential year-round.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. A Golden-fronted Woodpecker , or Velazquez’s Woodpecker , depending on your preferred taxonomy. Then, around 4:00 p.m.,

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A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 239

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Those extra pages (32 more than #2) allowed for more space and completely or partly new plates of grouse, divers (loons), several groups of raptors, terns, owls (birds shown from several angles now, new vignettes, too), swifts (additional three rarities added into main plates), woodpeckers (have you ever seen an overweight woodpecker?),

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 261

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APRIL 2, 2019

So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area. They’re all birds of North America! Mexico border.

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North America Sparrows America United States 157

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MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. So you can imagine our disappointment when we crawled out of the car after our trip to find out that Mike was in fact relaxing in the warm kitchen and had no idea where the woodpecker was!

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 204

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JULY 18, 2012

Current well-intentioned environmental pressures to emphasize harvesting large dead or dying trees, if realized, would have further adverse effects on such ecologically and esthetically important species as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, nuthatches, and owls – to name a few 1.” Notice the chick in the upper left corner.

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 225

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

The point is, the field guide I grabbed without hesitation was the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition by Jon L. North America is defined as from north of the Mexican border to the far north, plus “adjacent islands and seas within 200 nautical miles off the coast or offshore islands.”

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North America America 2017 Birds 187

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MARCH 19, 2022

Some names are clearly descriptive and thus make one feel good about saying them; woodpecker and grosbeak come to mind. Three live and breed here, two migrate through the country in large numbers (one of those also breeds here in small numbers), and another migrates through and winters in Costa Rica. Rail-Heron? Heron-Rail?

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Costa Rica Pennsylvania South America Panama 272

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Johann Georg Wagner has seven birds named after him, from a chachalaca to a woodpecker, but would he have found more if hadn’t accidentally shot himself while out collecting? So, too, did Captain Meriwether Lewis, (he of woodpecker fame), but to this day nobody knows whether he was shot or committed suicide.

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 234

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APRIL 17, 2023

The Speckled Piculet is a budget version of a woodpecker, measuring only about 9 to 10.5 eBird describes the Speckled Piculet as a “tiny” woodpecker while Marco Rubio once stated that Donald Trump has “small hands” The photo below presumably shows a male bird given its rufous-orange to yellow forehead.

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Birds Asia Battery Woodpeckers 147

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JUNE 6, 2017

The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America is divided into three main sections: Introduction, Species Accounts, and Index to Bird Sounds (also called the Visual Index). Chandler S.

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North America America Birds New York 178

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JULY 31, 2020

Starlings, they’ll dutifully explain, are ruthless invasives that have been responsible for the serious declines of several beloved native species, like the Red-headed Woodpecker ( Melanerpes erythrocephalus ) and the Eastern Bluebird ( Sialia sialis ).

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Farming New York Breeding Unwanted 197

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We also have many species that we share with the rest of Mexico, Central America, and/or the southwest of the United States. Fourth, a significant number of migratory species visit us in the winter, most from western North America, but a few from the continent’s eastern side. You have to know where to look for them.

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Mexico Birds Honduras United States 206

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The authors’ goals are (1) to provide information that will help readers identify a bird nest; (2) to explore the broader ecology of bird nests of North America, “an ecological study of how hundreds of species have adapted nests and nesting behavior to environs that range from tropical deciduous forest to Arctic tundra” (p.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

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The Durango Highway is arguably one of North America’s great birding roads due to the great variety of habitats, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the numerous Mexican endemics one can target. This poorly documented swallow is a breeding endemic to these high mountains. Photo by Andrew Spencer.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 201

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. And a Hairy Woodpecker and Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo , also FOYs, insisted on giving me good photos. They may even fear you. What could I do?

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Mexico Guatemala South America United States 193

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JUNE 21, 2013

Lewis’s Woodpecker, flycatcher or woodpecker? Perhaps the main target for any birder visiting in the summer is the uniquely beautiful Lewis’s Woodpecker , the most bizarre woodpecker species I have yet to encounter. Truly, a must see species in North America. Birding Trips Flagstaff woodpecker'

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Arizona Woodpeckers Phoenix Birds 140

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

But as I stood stock-still to listen, the giggling of Carolina Chickadees filtered down to me, then the cackle of a Red-bellied Woodpecker. This tiny species breeds north of Florida but returns to spend the winter here as well as in Central and South America. A small songbird flitted to a trunk in front of me.

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Florida South America Birds Woodpeckers 100

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JUNE 19, 2013

Even though the overall breeding range remains largely unchanged from that in the 1940′s, the entire coastal population has been in recent severe decline. The ecological requirements for Black Swifts to breed restrict them to a very limited supply of nesting locations. Photo from Wikipedia Commons taken by Terry Gray.

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California North America Costa Rica Niger 220

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JULY 24, 2014

Then of course, we have amazing birds such as Wallcreeper , Hoopoe , and Black Woodpecker. For sure we have great birds like Great Crested Grebe , Great Bustard , and Great Spotted Woodpecker. Birding Birds Germany Invasive Species Week South America' Turns out, it wasn’t.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 254

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Before finally connecting to the South American continent about three million years ago, Central America consisted of a series of volcanic islands. The region is also especially rich in trogons and motmots, two decidedly tropical families with a longer evolutionary history in North America than South America.

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 226

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

But a fundamental difference between eye color in birds and humans is that for quite a number of birds, eye color actually changes according to the breeding season. For example, the iris of the Brown Pelican becomes a stunning blue color during the breeding season. It could advertise sex during the breeding season.

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Birds Humane Breeding Pelicans 265

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Males of this species are more brightly colored in their non-breeding winter plumage. It used to occur widely throughout South Africa, breeding even on Table Mountain which towers over Cape Town, but over the decades its range has contracted and is now centered around the Drakensberg Mountains and outlying rocky areas.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 234

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JUNE 18, 2014

The featured image above shows a female incubating eggs from my first resident breeding pair back in 2007. Nests are usually in hollow parts or in old woodpecker nests, between rocks in cliffs or in porous vapor holes of volcanic formations, and in nesting boxes under eaves of buildings or on trees 1.

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Eggs North America 2007 Woodpeckers 164

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JULY 5, 2013

In North America, that is. The ABA currently lumps the Mangrove Warbler and Golden Warbler with the Yellow Warbler (the IOC lumps Mangrove and Golden Warbler together but splits them from the Yellow Warbler that breeds in North America.) As you travel south, everything gets all higgledy-piggledy.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 183

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. and the White Storks are also wild and countable despite breeding at the zoo. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 251

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MAY 11, 2012

John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. When the South Dakota ferret numbers began dropping, they captured nine animals in hopes of starting a captive breeding population. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 192

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MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

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JULY 7, 2020

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. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

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MAY 3, 2016

I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. Images show the bird in flight, both underside and upperside, and in juvenile and adult plumages– breeding and nonbreeding, and, where appropriate, male and female. I sit at my desk looking at my field guides. I have a lot.

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North America 2003 Birds America 171

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Their population is in serious decline, so their breeding colonies are monitored by biologists. Finally, it was just Sophie left. She returned for two more seasons.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 233

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If enough trees are present, Blue Jay and Red-bellied Woodpecker become distinct possibilities. One native species, the White Ibis , has shown a remarkable degree of adaptability considering the fact that it is restricted to marshes and mangrove habitats throughout the vast majority of its range in the Americas.

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Miami Fast Food Florida Birds 124

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JANUARY 2, 2018

A bit beyond the basics but still fundamental are chapters on bird feeding consequences and problems (squirrels and raccoons, too many blackbirds, hawks and cats, woodpecker damage, window strikes, extreme weather, and bird feeding in special situations, including retirement centers, condos, and apartments.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 182

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MARCH 3, 2020

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. Tintaya’s woodpeckers also nicely feature tree (and cactus!)

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 181

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The Ontario breeding population of this grosbeak is stable. Red Crossbill RED CROSSBILL : Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “types” in North America. Major southward irruptions occur when cone crops fail across most of North America. Highest breeding densities are found in areas with spruce budworm outbreaks.

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2012 2013 Canada United States 221

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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 247