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And, in South America, there is at least one species that is being heavily preyed on by North American Minks which are not supposed to be in South America. Their natural range is in a smallish region of southern South America. Which brings us to the Hooded Grebe Podiceps gallardoi.

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One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Andean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus andinus ) is one of the three flamingos occurring in the high Andes of South America. Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. They nearly disappeared from North America between the late 1950s and early 1970s because of pesticides entering the food chain. Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage.

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Pelicans North America Peru Fish 157

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AUGUST 27, 2015

This results in all eggs and chicks being taken by the water and a failed nesting attempt. During the wet or flooded season most Amazonian shorebirds congregates on the eastern coast of South America in coastal mangroves, estuaries, coastal lagoons, river mouths, and even rice fields. Photo Credits: Kenneth Cole Schneider.

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JULY 31, 2014

Young Least Terns , some still begging for food, begin to appear on Florida beaches and will soon continue their flight south eastern South America. By early May most terns have laid eggs. There were a lot more terns incubating eggs than what we had estimated.

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Florida Raccoons South America Eggs 164

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APRIL 18, 2017

Though they weight less than two ounces, Least Terns migrate from South America to the West, East, and Gulf Coast to breed on dunes or flat gravel roofs (there are also populations in the middle of the United States). It’s mid-April, and soon they will begin laying eggs. There is no mistaking a Least Tern: they were back!

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South America United States Protection Pelicans 102

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JANUARY 22, 2012

Typically there are four eggs in a brood especially on good year. Once the eggs hatch the family begins the long walk down to the shoreline. Some of these birds, breeding up here at 73 degrees north will winter at the tip of South America, Tierra Del Fuego, 54 degrees south or so. This was a later nest.

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South America Eggs Family Raised 159

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MARCH 7, 2012

Green Iguanas range from southern Mexico and the Caribbean islands to South America and are relatively common. The female of the species lays ten to thirty eggs in a burrow she digs about 65 days after mating.

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New York Reptiles Eggs South America 165

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APRIL 2, 2024

I hope they consider this idea for future books Sophie Osborn has a long history of observing, surveying, and studying birds in North, Central and South America as field biologist, research biologist, field manager, and wildlife program director.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 169

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JUNE 20, 2012

Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit.

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

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JUNE 21, 2011

If you were an Eskimo Curlew (and boy, do we wish you were) somewhere in Newfoundland ready to head south across the sea to South America, eating an extra bit of food before take-off will certainly be easier than going down for a quick drink of fresh water somewhere over the Atlantic. Drinking and peeing through the egg shell?

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Mammals Birds Eggs Fish 236

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MARCH 25, 2020

And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest. They fly at night and end up in places you wouldn’t expect them.”. It breaks, attracting flies, which result in maggots that eventually feed the other chicks.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 152

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Illustrations are from Restall’s Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide , and, according to the book’s publicity material, many have been “re-worked” and repainted for the new edition. The artwork in my edition of Birds of Northern South America is much more intense in color.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

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MARCH 31, 2014

As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. Birds were everywhere, soaring through the air, walking on the beach, and landing in the low level of vegetation. Sooty Terns are incredibly birds. Trips bird banding dry tortugas Florida'

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 174

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And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. Amplexus can last from a few seconds to a few hours to a few months.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos.

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 145

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MARCH 11, 2011

With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. Renato Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:36 am Nice post, the Collared Doves also make it to South America.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Male Phalaropes, Jacanas, Tinamous, and Rheas build nests, incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. Perhaps the most complicated and bizarre mating system is that of the Rheas of South America. They live in flocks in the open country shrubland of Southern South America. Photo: Liam Quinn.

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Eggs South America Raised America 152

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area of penguin population: (1) Antarctica, (2) South Georgia, (3) Falkland Islands, (4) South Africa and Tristan de Cunha, (5) New Zealand and Australia, (6) South America and Galapagos. © Otto Plantema, used with permission. © Otto Plantema, used with permission.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Saint Helena Island, situated in the south Atlantic ocean between the continents of Africa and South America, is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world. Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 198

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Press, 2006) or Ernst and Lovich’s text on turtles of North America, cited above. Lovich and Whit Gibbons.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 189

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MAY 18, 2013

This tiny village was very quiet and we enjoyed some local bread with scrambled eggs and coffee while birds like Varialble Hawks, Southern Lapwings, Austral Thrush, House Sparrows flew nearby. To be continued… Trips Argentina Santiago de Chile South America' Austral Thrush.

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Chile Argentina Nevada South America 159

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I think most of us in North America have come to the somewhat disappointing conclusion that fall migration is pretty much finished for the year. Foraging in the willows with the Palm Warblers was true-blue neotropic migrant still slumming it in North America, a Blackpoll Warbler. You’re done. Look at those bright legs!

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North America North Carolina South America Tennessee 188

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JULY 6, 2019

Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). A bird of lowland and foothill rainforest, the Yellow-throated Toucan can be seen in most parts of the Caribbean slope and from the Carara area south to Panama. Yes, this bird acts like a jay.

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Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 167

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APRIL 30, 2011

Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. After mating, a single egg is laid and incubation duties are shared by both parents. While one bird sits, its mate feeds out at sea for a week or so.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 159

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JULY 2, 2019

A distribution map shows areas in South America where the species has been found, with letters and dotted lines indicating subspecies areas, red dots showing where the type specimen was found, and X’s denoting questionable sightings. They are, of course, of antpittas building or incubating eggs on a nest. Organization.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 136

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Typically, at least here in North America, we think of migration as a north-south affair. As summer ends these same birds (and the new year’s broods) then escape the snow and ice and head south for the austral summer, finding warmth, long days and abundant insect life. A male Northern Wheatear. Sexes are highly dimorphic.

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Africa Somalia North America Nigeria 192

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MAY 15, 2011

It made us reach for our field guide for North America, but that really does not compare to the real thing. I did not get to appreciate all that America had to offer for the birder until I returned with my husband, Grant, in 1989. I then had a year in Florida – beware the alligators and hurricanes!

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South Africa United States Austin Alligators 158

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I also enjoyed the breeding photo series, showing Downy Woodpecker eggs and then hatchlings within a breeding chamber in a tree, with only a few wood chips to support them. Each Species Account is numbered, and introduced with a gray title box presenting common name, scientific name, and dimensions (in centimeters).

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