10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2020

When you live by the ocean it is always nice to go camp by a river and we missed that experience whilst the restricted movements prevented us from going too far from home. Some sticky experiences in the mud the week before! A variety of bird species appeared to have bred in recent weeks. Two young Black-necked Storks in a nest.

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MAY 8, 2022

Examples are the fairywren species and the Varied Sittella. Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss in humans, but I have also discovered that birds, fish and amphibians do not experience presbycusis due to the fact that they can regenerate their cochlear sensory cells. It turns out there is a word for this condition-presbycusis.

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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. Introduction. It is, he says, “probably the most extreme examples of sexual dimorphism” (p.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I’ve been fortunate to see two Penguin species in the wild (African and Galapagos) and have dreamed of seeing more–maybe even all!–especially The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Are there birders out there who do not dream of birding Australia? Possibly birders who have already birded Australia (but, wouldn’t you want to go back?) The guide covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Couas and koels are both cuckoos, saw-wings are swallows and logrunners are an odd unique thing from Australia who’s only relative is the charmingly named Chowchilla). I’d never heard of them until 2005 when I saw some in the Botanical Gardens of Canberra in Australia. What, exactly, is a pardalote? A Spotted Pardalote !

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

Will the threatened species make it through if there are no birding tourists to make those birds and their habitats valuable to local people just the way they are (as opposed to tropical timber)? What will be left of birding tourism? I was trying to find that answer for a while and it turned into a very annoying experience.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

10%: Australia, Papua New Guinea. Australia is understandable: good infrastructure, moderate prices and easiness of finding birds, combined with 350 endemics. Yet, the fact that tiny Panama is as popular as huge Brazil, with twice as many bird species, speaks volume for Brazil’s stage of ecotourism development. 21%: Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Colorful bills and heads seem quite popular among Letaba’s bird species – see the African Jacana (blue and black) … … the Striated Heron (yellow and blue) … … and the Yellow-billed Stork (yellow and red). The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

are up next, with a wonderful Australian species: It is very hard to choose a Best Bird of the Year any year. Later in the year we were able to travel around the north of Western Australia. This weird little skulking waterfowl is a species I had hoped to chance upon in various places for quite some time. Clare (and Grant!)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2014

There appears to be no shortage of places where we can walk and bird and it is off-peak season, so we won’t need to worry too much about crowds of people disturbing our birding experience. We should be able to add quite a few species to our year list there. Birding Australia parrots rockwarbler' Crimson Rosella.

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Kangaroos Australia Parrots Experience 145

10,000 Birds

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. It’s fascinating stuff.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Every section is excellent, Going from back to front, the Species Natural History section is where to go for answers to all your questions about penguins and then some. The introductory Penguin Who’s Who introduces each species visually. And that’s just the top section!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

With an obvious hint of disapproval, the HBW remarks that for this species, the “nest [is] a small or bulky but always untidy pad” I suspect the author of these lines lives with teenage children and uses the description of the magpie-robin to vent some frustration with them. But it is all for science, I hear them say.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

For one, they are remarkably diverse with a little over 380 species spread over every continent except Europe (only introduced) and Antarctica. Brazil, in particular, is the country with the largest number of parrot species in the world with approximately 84 species. What other secrets does the Amazon still hold? Most do not.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

Or else I’d be tempted to mention that the cold rainy weather has given way to a massive heat wave and drought, or that the summer doldrums this year are more boring than ever, or that it is so unfair that Corey is more than 100 species ahead of me in his year list, or that I really would enjoy some nice birds for a change!

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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. We were busy adding birds to the Year List as we travelled and had left home with 155 species and the number was soon increasing.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

Catbirds are not the unfortunate result of unwise experiments with radioactivity. Catbirds are a group of rather distantly related species all named for the fact that they make sounds that remind some of a cat meowing. They are both found in Australia, though the Spotted Catbird is also found in New Guinea.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2018

On that visit we paddled from Lake Argyle back to Kununurra over three days and that was a magnificent experience. Common Sandpipers are one of the shorebirds that can be found both on the coast and at fresh water locations in Australia once they return from their northern migration each year. Common Sandpiper. Warning sign.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2011

The Masked Lapwing does however have two subspecies nowadays and is the Vanellus novahollandiae in south-east Australia. The yellow wattles are larger as well, but there are hybrids between the two species with varying amounts of black plumage.

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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. This trip, all the way around the world, has been a whirl-wind of amazing stops, fantastic people, and bird species that I never imagined to see in my life time! US Species 101.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2018

Except for one species: I have a clear childhood memory of seeing black swans. 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. Easy come, easy go.

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10,000 Birds

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. They would know the local streams, lakes, and marshes. I got about 50 email responses.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

So close to the pole only a handful of bird species can survive, and even so, death toll is very high, hence their populations must be huge (millions). There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Finally – the Seabirds. As a consequence, the Ross Sea has one of the highest concentrations of seabirds in the world.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

Thankfully it did not last long and then brought some surprising birding opportunities that we normally only experience in our Wet Season. There was a small flock of Brolga on the far side of the plains and there were numerous martin species flitting amongst the birds. Brolga and martin species. Birding Australia Broome'

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10,000 Birds

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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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. One of the best aspects of this post is that it is not about a specific bird species. Frustration all around. Which is fair enough.

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10,000 Birds

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. So many questions can be asked of this mystery species. The Painted Snipe Project was established in 2001 to address the lack of knowledge on the species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

So I thought I could give fair warning about one of the more dangerous birds out there, even more dangerous than the Lesser Goldfinch , and one of the more common and familiar birds of Australia and New Zealand, the Australian Magpie. Australian Magpies, like every other animal in Australia, are also dangerous. Australian Magpie!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Cape Petrels, also known as Pintados (Spanish for painted) or in the vernacular Cape Petrels, are a common species of fulmarine petrel from the Southern Ocean. Indeed their name reflects where the species was first collected; the Cape of Good Hope, even though none breed anywhere close to there!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Due to the longevity of this species it appears that they are able to maintain their population. There was only one Sooty Oystercatcher amongst the other twenty Pied Oystercatchers and it had obviously decided there was ”safety in numbers” of a similar species! Birding Australia Broome oystercatchers'

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

You wonder how some species even know the water is present, but we would never complain… especially when such great birds as Buff-banded Rails drop by! Birding Australia Broome Brown Goshawk Pratincole Spotted Harrier' Spotted Harrier drinking in our garden. Let’s hope we get a few more surprises in the coming weeks!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2013

And in the forty minute drive from the airport to the park the skies held and I even managed to add a bunch of birds to my year list; easy species like Australian Ravens, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos , Nosiy Miners and Magpie-larks. They are mimics par excellence , capable of mimicking over twenty species. It was large. On the ground.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2018

5 new species in the first hour, with a Olive-backed Sunbird, Helmeted Friarbird , a Varied Triller, White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike and the Australasian Figbird, and we hadn’t even got out of the park yet! At the end of the day, 38 species were found, of which 19 species were new to the year list as well as lifers!

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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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