10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As I write this note, probably hundreds if not thousands of shorebirds are heading south to the wintering grounds. Some make stopovers along Florida’s coast, others fly straight from stopovers in the northern states to the coast of South America. I am an associate with this NGO and follow the progress of the banding program.

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Peru South America Delaware New Jersey 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

It is apparently uncommon across most of its wide range in the shrublands of South America, little noticed and little noted, and sources are pretty thin, as they are for many birds in places like South America. ” I can’t just put this into Wikipedia – it’s original research.

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Science Argentina South America Uruguay 107

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy.

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Chile Birds South America North America 199

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2021

A quick study as I researched this post revealed that fully 37 Arizonan “specialties” are common birds right here where I live. So the only Patagonia I would choose to visit in the future, is the Patagonia to be found at the southern end of South America. Consider the striking Berylline Hummingbird.

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Arizona Mexico Los Angeles Dallas 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Birds Mexico rare birds Sinaloa Martin swallows'

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South America San Diego Mexico America 183

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2014

Scientists who attached tracking devices to 10 of the birds in 2012 were shocked to discover that one had flown west across the Atlantic Ocean, and eventually settled down on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in South America. Along the wayward route, the Phalarope made stops in Iceland, Greenland, the continental U.S.,

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Iceland South America Ecuador Stray 185

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The HBW entry for the Downy Woodpecker (Reno, USA) illustrates a common phenomenon – apparently, the more a species is known, the more subjects for further research pop up. Piculets are a subfamily of woodpeckers – most of its 25 species live in South America.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 230

10,000 Birds

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.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Very few birds – or animals for that matter – would plunge head-first into the churning cauldrons of some of South America’s most treacherous rivers. Red-ruffed Fruitcrows are a highly sought-after species and are tough to find elsewhere in South America.

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Ducks Colombia South America Squirrels 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish. This is not something I needed to tell you but there is some new research. Since then the deaths haven’t stopped.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation. These are the words that define so much of our conversations about the natural world today. ” And within these chapters are three marvelous stories told by Sophie A. (pp.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 176

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

I have a bachelor’s degree in Ecology and after I graduated from university, I became a researcher in nature and cultural affairs, working with renowned experts and contributing to their projects. Now the project has grown and we have been operating for more than 10 years.

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Colombia Industry Birds 2000 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2013

It was on the island of Trinidad, at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, where all of these photographs were taken. Trinidad is the northern limit of the range of the Red-breasted Blackbird , though it is unclear if the occasional birds that show up in Tobago are wanderers from Trinidad or northern South America or are breeding there.

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Blackbirds Trinidad Costa Rica Nicaragua 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

Whatever the reason may be, we do know that Las Brisas provides a lot of food and shelter for Cerulean Warblers as they migrate south. How will you help Cerulean Warblers and other migrants flying to and from South America? — Feature image of Cerulean Warbler and researchers at Las Brisas Reserve by Paz Irola.

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Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 180

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.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 248

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. One field guide, seven countries. It’s unique in two major ways.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited. How could I, the librarian, end up with an outdated field guide?

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 194

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

I am thinking of a relatively stable/prosperous bird-paradise where one may be able to find a job in ecotourism or wildlife research… or, to begin with, as a resident environmental scientist / nature blogger in some wildlife lodge?

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Most of what is known of the Horned Guan ’s natural history is due to his research and observations.

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Guatemala Mexico San Diego South America 163

10,000 Birds

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. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

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 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

The SACC will have to determine whether they believe there’s strong enough evidence to make these changes now, or whether to wait for additional published research before making such significant sequence changes. I think this proposal has a good shot at passing, at least in South America. What do you think?

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. Color markings on the legs and head are to identify individuals for research purposes). You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 268

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos. Robert Ridgway wrote over 500 articles and 23 books, illustrating many of them himself. Let’s share the digital wealth and make it easy for people to read the early literature of our tribe!

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 148

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

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. A book about all the frogs and toads of the world is an ambitious undertaking.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Originally from India and the vicinity, it is believed that they had already undergone two major expansions – through Asia Minor in the 1600s, and then across Europe in the 1900s – when they first appeared in North America. Renato Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:36 am Nice post, the Collared Doves also make it to South America.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 134

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders.

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Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

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 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

The Desolation Islands are more than 2,000 miles from the nearest permanent human habitation (besides research stations) and can only be reached by a long ship journey. 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.

Birds 203

Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Lovich and Whit Gibbons bring decades of research and experience to this book. Dr. Lovich is a government scientist, Research Ecologist and Co-Deputy Chief, Terrestrial Ecosystems Drylands Branch, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Press, 2006) or Ernst and Lovich’s text on turtles of North America, cited above.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 196

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South America (1994), Africa (1995), Asia (1996), Europe & Russia (2000) and Central America & the Caribbean (2001). I was always curious, but never had a chance to study any of them.

Africa 169

Africa Botswana Nigeria Namibia 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true. I look forward to more research being done in this field.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N. In this book, rare birds are species “for which, on average, only 5 or fewer individuals have been found annually in North America since around 1950.” And, not very often.

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North America America Birds United States 252

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2021

Further on, the Introduction deals with history of ornithological research in Colombia (including those aforementioned shipments), climate, topographic regions (7, from the Caribbean to white-sand soils), vegetation zones (11, from desert scrub to paramo) and habitats (29, from terra firme forest to ranchland and cultivated areas).

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Colombia South America 2000 Birds 264