10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

non-birders) envision when they hear the word “bird” – but it bears a passing resemblance to the American Robin. I can’t claim that the playful bird image that accompanies this release is an obvious likeness of any particular species – it’s more of a generic songbird that most people (i.e.,

Belgium 100

Belgium New York United States Skunks 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. And not just deep in the bush, either, but at the beach, in urban parks – even in the country’s suburban homes.

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2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

An American showed up in Australia recently. In Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, about 100 km south of where I reside, several American migratory waders lost their bearings and turned up on the wrong side of the Pacific. Pecs are a rare bird in Australia but they do turn up annually. Well several really.

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Australia Medical Bears Eagles 356

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2022

Tropical Cyclone Anika became a rain bearing depression over the past week. Thankfully the predictions of the amount of rain to expect here were overestimated, but sadly there are many parts of Australia on the east coast where they have had record-breaking rainfall and it has cost many lives and homes.

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Australia Eagles Bears Breeding 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2021

As my opening word suggests; the Sunshine Coast is located in Australia as the attached Google map illustrates. As in North America this tattler loves the rockier outcrops down here in Australia too. Sadly the swan is uncommon on the river that bears its name… Luckily it can be seen nearby though.

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Australia North America Cooking Fish 261

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

They’re not, but their connection through geography (the corner of the universe that encompasses New Guinea and Australia) and complex, cinematic courtship behavior makes their combination in this book rational, even brilliant. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2019

These are the numbers acheived by 10 (we have a new contributor, Paul, from Mexico) beats during May; We visited 8 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, Australia, Serbia, Greece, Kuwait and Mexico) and noted 776 birds from 160 checklists. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia.

2019 113

2019 Australia Ghana Woodpeckers 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2019

April was a busy time for the beats with 10 of them contributing 164 lists to accumulate 744 species from 7 countries; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Serbia, UK, Brazil and Barbados. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia.

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2019 Australia Ghana Woodpeckers 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2019

9 countries were visited during March by your tireless beats ( 11 of them); India, UK, USA, Serbia, Costa Rica, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia. Western Australia.

2019 113

2019 Ghana Australia Woodpeckers 113

Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: australia India sun bears dancing bears bears.

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Bears India Australia Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2013

Very little is known about this species, and only a few skins survive to bear testament to its lost existence. White-faced Herons are attractive medium sized herons, originally from Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Caledonia. Of all these species the White-faced Heron is the most common species in New Zealand.

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New Zealand Indonesia Cattle Guinea 149

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

And should there be a lump, maybe only the crossword-puzzle nerds and birders in Australia, where you can find the Hoary-headed Grebe. Cinereous Tit, Cinereous Bunting, and Cinereous Vulture all bear this standard, but perhaps the most popular cinereous bird on the internet is the Cinereous Mourner , with its clever and adorable chicks.

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Blackbirds Owls Sparrows Ducks 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Black-faced Pitta is found only on one of the Solomon Islands (northwest of Australia). And sun bears. (That’s Pitta, people, not Antpitta, which is what I foolishly first envisioned, having never birded beyond the Americas.) The endangered Gurney’s Pitta is losing habitat due to deforestation. And mosquitos. And leeches. And leeches.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!) In 2001, Trevor Worthy described a set of bones from Fiji as a new species of very large, flightless pigeon: the Viti Levu Giant Pigeon ( Natunaornis gigoura ). crowned-pigeons and is thought to have been a close relative.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Later in the year we were able to travel around the north of Western Australia. Our 2020 year list stands at 324 for Victoria and the north of Western Australia combined, so we are more than happy with that under current circumstances. It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality.

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 247

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Once you reach Coconut Wells the road bears to your right and just as the bitumen ends you take a left turn towards the beach. It is approximately 21 kilometres from town on the bitumen rather than worry about the tides by heading off up the beach on your bicycle.

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Eggs Birds Investigation Bears 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2018

Late last year we decided to meet up with my sister and her family in Western Australia and we reached an agreement that they would fly to Perth from Sydney during the school holidays in January. I wrote the post about the Chiming Wedgebills in the south of Western Australia when we realised we would not be getting home any time soon!

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Australia 2018 Family Industry 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2018

Bear in mind, this boat is 80 feet long, and carries 240 people! Next week we will wrap up out time in New Zealand, and then it is off to Australia!! This trip includes a chance to ride the boat thru the hole in the rock if the weather and sea state are an agreeable condition. It was, and we did go thru.

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New Zealand Blackbirds Bears Australia 100