10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

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. All chicks never know their mothers, most are raised by their father, but some never know neither and are raised by an unrelated foster father.

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Eggs South America Raised America 154

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The 1st edition from 1999 was a complete revolution in just about everything, but predominantly the quality and realism of illustrations, showing what a field guide could be and seriously raising the threshold for other publishers. That made everyone happy (with the possible exception of other publishers).

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 261

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

I just flew nonstop from Canada to South America and boy, are my arms tired.” Indiana teacher raises the bar for newbie birders everywhere by finding the state’s first record of a Black-tailed Godwit. Even more thought-provoking is the original article from which it sprang.) Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I

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Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

For native people, living in South America meant living with hummingbirds, and for Europeans, discovering South American meant discovering hummingbirds (and, tragically, exploiting South America meant exploiting hummingbirds, destroying hundreds of thousands for stuffed specimens and in futile attempts to keep them alive in captivity.)

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South America New York Alaska America 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

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. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Typically, at least here in North America, we think of migration as a north-south affair. We are familiar with the story, birds flying north in the boreal summer, taking advantage of the warmth, long days, and abundant insect life, to raise their young. Female Northern Wheatear. And for the most part it is.

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Africa Somalia North America Nigeria 204

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. For the next two and a half weeks Sue continued to raise them, along with four other swifts she had in care. Timing is everything when it comes to releasing Chimney Swifts.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Canada Wildlife South America 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

For 13 years, this organization has carried out a bird-a-thon to raise funds for such projects as reforestation in Ecuador and protecting nests of the Harpy Eagle in Brazil. How will you help Cerulean Warblers and other migrants flying to and from South America? Ernesto and his team in the field. How You Can Help.

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Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

A lot of destinations were mentioned, with Central and South America leading the way, New Guinea, Indonesia and Australia appearing only at the middle of the list, and African countries (South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar) lagging at the end of the list.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2016

Chimney Swifts are remarkable birds who are having a harder and harder time finding brick chimneys in which to nest and raise their families. They are among the most difficult birds for wildlife rehabilitators to raise, so if any fall down your chimney their best chance of survival is to put them back up there again.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary Birds Connecticut 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There are antwrens of South America, wren-babblers of South East Asia, the New Zealand wrens and the multitude of scrubwrens, heathwrens and fernwrens of Australia. On the whole they tend to be as generally drab when it comes to plumage as the true wrens of the Americas and Eurasia.

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Australia New Zealand South America Asia 177

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Africa, and although I have traveled extensively around the world, it remains my home and in my blood. Approximately 2,300 bird species inhabit Africa, however as impressive as that sounds, much smaller South America boasts nearly 1,000 species more.

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 231

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

A few other remnants of the former collections might raise eyebrows in some circles. A Ringed Teal (more likely to be seen in South America than Kent) caused a stir when it followed the river downstream and showed up in Mote Park.

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Collecting South America Blackbirds Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I always thought it was funny even before I really got what a stoagie was, because there’s something inherently joyful about the chittering, chattering Chimney Swifts that circle just about every neighborhood in eastern North America. And the next day they’re gone, coursing over the skies of South America.

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North Carolina Nashville South America Tennessee 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Even if we couldn’t find time to raise the bins at a favorite patch, it only takes momentary glances into the sky and hearing chip notes from the trees to remind us that birds are on the move. Migration is happening. Every birder knows it. The old neighborhood standbys are quiet or maybe gone.

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

I’ve family to raise and no time for modeling.” 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. “Do you mind? ” The Baird’s Sandpiper is by far our most numerous shorebird here in Arctic Bay.

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South America Eggs Family Raised 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2011

Rufous Hornero , Furnarius rufus is an ovenbird from South America. A pair may stay together for many years if they manage to successfully raise young together, but they will commonly build a new nest for each season. It is one of the most common birds seen in the parks and even on the pavements of the cities.

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Argentina South America Brazil Chickens 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. In Gaines’ first novel Carbon Dreams (2001) the science (there, geology) tended to overwhelm the story, but in Accidentals, she incorporates ornithology and microbiology skillfully into a well-woven whole.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 156

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

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. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. Finally, it was just Sophie left.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 233

10,000 Birds

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. As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. While one bird sits, its mate feeds out at sea for a week or so.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 161

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 216

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The Henderson Archaic Pigeon ( Bountyphaps obsoleta ) is another recent discovery, this one discovered in the 1990s and described in 2008 ( Worthy and Wragg 2008 ) from remains found on Henderson Island, which is roughly halfway between Australia and South America.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

10,000 Birds

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. That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The Hoatzin, which may have reached South America by raft , has resisted placement in basically every study ever done. Some of our longstanding questions now have really fascinating answers, and if others are still open or if new ones have been raised, we now have greater knowledge and freer imaginations with which to pursue them.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279