10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2021

Interestingly, now that pinot gris-pinot grigio has spread to South America, Australia, and South America, among other places, it’s still only the Germans who call the grape Grauburgunder. Lett began experimenting with pinot gris in 1979 with the very first plantings of this varietal in the New World.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Bird Uganda Safaris is one of the leading ground handler of the International birding companies in the USA, Australia, South American and Europe. Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well.

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DECEMBER 8, 2013

If you have any experience with these birds then it makes perfect sense. These are the largest Babblers in Australia and inhabit the area from the north-west of Western Australia right down the east coast. In the southern areas of Australia you may also encounter White-browed Babblers , which are smaller and duller.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

What made the story better (and a worse experience for him) was the fact that the cops had seen the Dogs of War. Out of all those truly magnificent African birds, he asks for something that lives mostly in Eurasia, but also Australia and the very southern tip of Africa. And they knew that “birders” were highly suspicious characters.

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Belize Birds Africa Dogs 241

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

This is a remote part of Australia and distances can soon be covered, though on this journey north on 29th January we did encounter eleven sections of the main highway that had gone under water at creeks between Broome and Fitzroy Crossing. Tawny Frogmouth family.

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OCTOBER 23, 2011

The Masked Lapwing does however have two subspecies nowadays and is the Vanellus novahollandiae in south-east Australia. Masked and Banded Lapwing on the Golf Course Banded Lapwing From our experience we would not recommend camping near either of the two subspecies of Masked Lapwing … they are NOISY!!

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JULY 14, 2013

If you experience either of these behaviours then please treasure the moment and observe from a distance. Birding Australia Broome plovers' The feature photo at the top does contain all three birds, with one chick each side of the female Red-capped Plover!

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Eggs Protection Australia Breeding 157

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JULY 9, 2012

For all I know, Australia is in the midst of a Little Ice Age. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The mid-week Independence Day celebration definitely discombobulated me, but even more disorienting is this gorgeous summer weather. Other Americans may be sweltering.

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2012 Sparrows Birds Australia 156

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. and from Australia. What was the response to your Birding article in 2018? I got about 50 email responses.

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2018 Agenda Science Eggs 264

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FEBRUARY 2, 2014

That really is flooding rain and quite an experience. Birding Australia Broome Common Sandpiper dotterels lapwings' The land was already saturated and everywhere is looking very lush and it is far from over yet. In fact we got home just in time because the skies really did open and we had 46mm in 20 minutes at home!

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AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia. Judging by my experiences with the species, the Black-tailed Godwit’s behaviour is restricted to two aspects.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Of course if you are in Australia or New Zealand you probably won’t be reading this until Boxing Day, because it goes up late in the day here! The same experience was to be had at Rutland Water, so watch out for the sneaky upside down ducks! Finally it turned itself the right way up and was a Pintail Duck ! Pintail Duck.

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2016 Geese Birds Ducks 155

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AUGUST 22, 2022

There is a man who left this country with the character of a first rate naturalist (though with many eccentricities) and of a very first-rate Natural History artist and he goes to Australia and takes up the subject of Botany, of which he is as ignorant as a goose.” They exercised this activity in part-time (96.5%).

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. By contrast, Australia, often considered to be the land of parrots, has approximately 54 species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2018

Conventional wisdom upholding the uniformly white coloration of the genus Cygnus persisted for many centuries after Juvenal, until 1697, when the Dutch captain Willem de Vlamingh made a startling discovery in Australia: black swans. Oh – and as for those Black Swans I saw somewhere, sometime, long ago? Easy come, easy go.

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DECEMBER 6, 2015

The Australian Painted Snipe – Rostratula australis is one of the hardest shorebirds/waders to find in Australia and very little is known about them at all. It is such a distinct bird you could not mistake it for anything else and I hope that you all one day have a chance to experience your own Australian Painted Snipe !

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

The discovery of a bower is always a rewarding experience and once you have established the location of a bower it would appear you can watch the building and dismantling of bowers in the same area for many years to come. It was within close proximity to a barbeque area, which explained the unnatural items within it. Bower at Lake Argyle.

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Collecting Branding Australia Humane 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2018

When we were planning this trip, New Zealand, Australia, and most certainly South Africa got all my attention. It was an all around quality experience. Australia Species 242. I want to start this posting with an official appology: you see I feel it is owed to Scotland, Wales, and England, or more appropriately, the “UK”.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

In October 2014, during a meeting in Hobart, Australia, the protection of this important region was once again blocked by China and Russia. There are five species of seal that have been recorded in the Ross Sea – Crabeater , Weddell , Leopard , Ross (first described during the James Clark Ross’s expedition) and Southern Elephant Seal.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2016

Many birds make an alarm call if they are uncomfortable about what is close by and only time and experience will enable you to understand the change in call. Common Tree Snakes are one of the few snakes in Australia that are not venomous, which may be a bit boring for some of you! This specimen was easily 120cm long and very agile.

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JUNE 23, 2013

We await the tide dropping as eagerly as the Pied Oystercatchers , but whilst they go looking for food we are exploring just for the experience of the amazing creatures that are present. Birding Australia Broome oystercatchers' One of the highlights for us on this section of the beach is the reef and the fast dropping tides.

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Eggs Breeding Australia Raised 178

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AUGUST 21, 2022

We are really enjoying the experience of observing another bird species that is black, white and red breed in our local patch. The raising of these young chicks is not over yet! They can fly short distances, but then again they only have short tails! Mistletoebird chicks out of the nest.

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Family Breeding Raised Experience 147

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JULY 17, 2011

I made one brief trip to the nest site to get a GPS reading to be reported to Birds Australia Nest Record Scheme and then the parent returned to the nest. There has been a lot of experimenting this week while they decide which is the ideal spot. I walk along the high tide mark and then follow the footprints up to find their scrapes.

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Eggs Turtles Australia Breeding 172

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Cape Petrel in flight, showing the distinctive wing pattern Cape Petrels disperse widely during the Austral winter, making them a possibility for anyone birding such waters as Brazil, South Africa or Australia during this time. But perhaps they are not a species you are ever likely to see on it’s own! …

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New Zealand Albatross South Africa Brazil 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

The sunsets in Broome are especially good when there are clouds about and we experience them around 5:30pm in winter and 6:30pm in summer. Birding Australia Broome' The moon rise to the east. The sunset over the sea to the west. This walk took approximately two and a half hours and offers a great variety of birds at any time of year.

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Long Beach Australia Falcons Collecting 140

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

One of the most camouflaged birds in Australia is the Tawny Frogmouth and we often hear them at night when we are camping in the bush, but the chance of seeing them is less likely. It was nothing like the experience in September with literally hundreds of each species looking for water.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Some suggest they are related to the Plains Wanderer of Australia. To adequately experience the environment it is important to bird both the wet and dry paramo (grassland) of the upper Andes. The upper Andes is stupendously beautiful Seedsnipes are some of the world’s oddest birds. Their exact taxonomy is uncertain.

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Ecuador Florida Australia Birds 217

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Now that the World Big Year record has been broken by Noah Stryker , with more than three months and much of Asia and Australia to go, I guess a blog post on Big Years is in order. Big Years are an inheritantly unfair competition for a variety of reasons. Which is fair enough.

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Feral Species Asia Rights 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Pelagic birding off the Atlantic coast of Florida can be a frustrating experience, usually involving long waits of up to an hour or more interspersed with brief flurries of activity — a far cry from pelagic birding off of coasts blessed with cold water currents and nutrient rich upwelling such as California, southeast Australia, and Peru.

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Florida United States Fish 2005 166

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

The Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), often touted as the most dangerous in the world due to its powerful kick when provoked, is a large, flightless bird native to the tropical rainforests of northeastern Australia, New Guinea, and a handful of islands in the Moluccas.

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Guinea Meat Australia Pets 140

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JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway).

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JULY 6, 2011

One of only two species in the plover genus Thinornis , the other being Australia’s Hooded Plover , this species is another New Zealand endemic. What more do you need to know? Actually, there is a great deal more that could be said about the small Shore Plover.

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New Zealand Penguins Endangered Species Species 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

7 Responses to “Duck Migration&# Clare and Grant-Broome Western Australia Mar 14th, 2011 at 7:57 pm Migration is just great! I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# It was a great experience.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 174

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

On our recent camping and birding trip to the north of Broome we had an odd experience.

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Experience Experiments Rights Birds 160

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APRIL 29, 2012

The Blue-tongued Lizard that was also having the same experience was definitely not as excited and was trying its hardest to protect itself. On Wednesday this week we had a very close encounter with a Wedge-tailed Eagle on the edge of the road.

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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. Phil Gregory brings years of field experience to this project. and Sicklebill Safaris.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264