10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
The only thing that could have made the experience with Tryngites subruficollis better would have been some sunlight. Buff-breasted Sandpipers are hardy little birds, migrating yearly between their grassland wintering grounds in South America and their tundra breeding grounds in the high Arctic. What great little birds!
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2011
Bigger than an Empidonax flycatcher and smaller than a Myiarchus , the Eastern Phoebe is usually only mistaken for a pewee, and even that becomes unlikely with experience. This phoebe is a fixture in the American Southwest and Central America and can be spotted all the way down to Argentina.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape. It usually waits for a few days before taking the metaphorical plunge, but once it leaves the burrow and flies for the first time, it will not stop until it reaches the waters off Brazil and Argentina.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2015
Giant tyrannosaur like dinosaurs had systems for efficient breathing that modern birds use to facilitate the aerobically demanding task of flight, but those dinosaurs did not fly (see: Aerosteon riocoloradensis : A Very Cool Dinosaur from Argentina. The chickens were done in before hatching. Here’s the thing.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Invercargill The bottom of New Zealand and you’d be forgiven for thinking the end of the world is where you’ll be heading if you’re following Argentina, Scotland, Romania or Georgia. A good place to see the enigmatic Kokako. Image by Dunedin NZ, Creative Commons.
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