10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Some names are clearly descriptive and thus make one feel good about saying them; woodpecker and grosbeak come to mind. This is how these charming flycatchers roll in southern Central America. Millions of pewees fly over and stop in Costa Rica on their way to and from South America. Rail-Heron? Heron-Rail? Painted Water Stalker?

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AUGUST 7, 2021

Plumaged like various other small female hummingbirds from North America, the lady Snowcap is pale gray below, pale glittering green above, and with a tail that flashes bits of white. The female isn’t quite so unreal but is still a cool little bird in her own right. Snowcaps were there too, we had four or five, and most at close range.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

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. I really wanted to see Gray-crowned Woodpecker and Military Macaw , and I managed to succeed on both counts.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. 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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. Before finally connecting to the South American continent about three million years ago, Central America consisted of a series of volcanic islands. In short, the mountain birding in Honduras promised a slew of cool new birds.

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JULY 5, 2022

This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. The window silhouettes were gone.

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JUNE 6, 2023

In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.

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JULY 23, 2012

After all, North America has no native hedgehogs and seeing something so outside of our normal experience was pretty exciting, even if the little guy quickly headed for cover and refused to show itself for Clay Taylor, who came upon the scene a minute too late. Fine, my best bird was a White-backed Woodpecker , alright? …

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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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JUNE 18, 2014

Violet-green Swallows will nest solitarily or in colonies and in my experience seem much more mellow than other swallow species. 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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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Tody Motmot is perhaps one of the most charismatic bird species in all of Central America, and Honduras is perhaps one of the best places to see it. I would also like to give a big thank you to Pico Bonito Lodge for their hospitality and providing such a great birding experience for the second half of our trip in Honduras.

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MAY 6, 2015

Western Bluebirds ( Sialia mexicana ) like the male shown above, as well as Eastern Bluebirds ( Sialis sialis ) and Mountain Bluebirds ( Sialis currucoides ) have all benefited from 90 years of nest boxes and bluebird trails, monitored by thousands of bluebird enthusiasts across North America.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

According to eBird, the chronology of my life list includes White-Headed Woodpecker at No. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. .” A direct flight from Portland is also a plus, as is seeing new parts of America. 10, Mountain Quail at No.

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MARCH 11, 2013

The variety of habitat within a tiny area is what makes San Blas one of the best birding locations in the Americas. Some of the more common endemics and specialty species include Golden-cheeked Woodpecker, Yellow-winged Cacique and Sinaloa Wren. A female Golden-cheeked Woodpecker at Tecuitata.

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JULY 7, 2020

The emphasis is on everyday birds seen in North America, though some of the more exotic and local species are thrown in for the color and romance of it all–Atlantic Puffin, Roseate Spoonbill, the poor extinct Heath Hen. Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Most of the photos in this post are of a single bird in an orchard that was very cooperative when we were hoping to find Syrian Woodpeckers. The woodpeckers never showed but I did enjoy photographing the nuthatch. Nuthatches are all very similar. And, hey, did you ever wonder why they are called nuthatches?

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JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. Jim Carpenter is the founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, the popular bird feeder and seed franchise. The latter appear to be suburban apartments.

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MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers. is remarkable.

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MAY 8, 2017

Any dedicated birder visiting Panama City should first consider the Canopy Tower , one of the most important and beloved birding lodges in the Americas. The food was better than decent, which exceeds our experience of Panamanian cuisine at most other locations. Red-crowned Woodpecker. Lineated Woodpecker. BIRDING NOTES.

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APRIL 2, 2013

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. Pileated Woodpecker, for example. Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!

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JUNE 3, 2014

Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Eskimo Curlew, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Bachman’s Warbler, Carolina Parakeet—these are names that echo mightily through birding histories and even some recent field guides.

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AUGUST 3, 2019

Rufous-winged Woodpecker. Endangered and awesome, it’s pretty easy to experience this big parrot in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica from Tarcoles north to near Nicaragua. Not as fancy as some of the other birds, this range restricted woodie is nonetheless much easier to connect with in Costa Rica. Great Green Macaw.

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MARCH 11, 2011

I have encountered this situation only one time in my birding experience. North America 2. North America 3. North America 4. North America(?) North America 6. North America(?) North America 8. It is not a new book, about 6 years old. elevation)?

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MAY 7, 2013

Families do not hike up mountains to sit all day on pointy rocks to watch woodpeckers. Add to that Liguori’s earlier Hawks From Every Angle (2005), the entry from the Peterson Field Guide series, Hawks of North America, second edition , by William S. Those cameras are aimed at hawks. It’s hawks they pant and wait to see.

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MARCH 17, 2011

Birding opened up Central America for me in a way that nothing else did. Perhaps you’ve had the same experience. Once you understand the mind-boggling biodiversity of the area beyond toucans and parrots, you realize how special Central America is. Everyone is welcome to participate, especially people outside North America.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The most commonly cited example is “Darwin’s Finch,” which filled the woodpecker niche by adopting the practice of acquiring a cactus thorn, and using this to access grubs hidden beneath the bark of trees. We think that the original stock from which the Galapagos Finches evolved came from nearby South America.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. White-headed Woodpecker. It was the first of many that day, and I was totally enamored of their gaudy plumage and beautiful, meadowlark-like songs, often delivered in a kind of hovering display flight above the prairie grasses where they live. Black Rosy-Finch.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Consider Estero Lagoon for example… In North America there are nine regular plover species, ten if you include the more vagrant Common Ringed Plover. This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

The Hoatzin, which may have reached South America by raft , has resisted placement in basically every study ever done. shocked everyone with a suggestion that passerines were most closely related not to woodpeckers and kingfishers but to parrots, falcons, and seriemas. Jarvis et al. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin. Hackett et al.

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MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Sill has illustrated 44 plates–herons, shorebirds, pigeons and doves, raptors, swifts, and hummingbirds, woodpeckers, cotingas & manakins, and jays & crows. Flycatchers II by Ian Griffiths. Conclusion. I was relieved and happy to discover that Robert J.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Fernandina’s Flicker, a tongue-twisting alliterative name for one of the most endangered woodpeckers in the world! Bee Hummingbird, the smallest hummingbird in the world! Cuban Black Hawk, split in 2007 from Common Black Hawk! Cuban Trogon, the national bird who wears the colors of the Cuban flag!

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience. Having never been to Brazil I can’t possibly speak as an expert in terms of what birds are covered or how well species that I have never seen are depicted.

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MARCH 1, 2011

This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

3 Responses to “Spring is for Wheatears&# Duncan Mar 18th, 2011 at 3:36 pm I got to experience a wheatear-palooza on my one day birding around Dubai last year. Migratory Isabelline, Pied and Red-tailed Wheatears along with a non-migrating Hume’s Wheaterar! Corey Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:52 pm Great post, Dan.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Jochen Mar 7th, 2011 at 5:51 pm Redgannet, almost all song birds at least in North America (and the Orange Thrush sure won’t be the only old world bird to have them, too) have these filamental plumes on their nape. Great shots!

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