10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

The graveyard shift is on duty: several bats are chasing insects through the evening coolness. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. Distribution of the European Crested Tit in the Tara NP in the breeding season (Rajkovic and Pantovic).

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Add more than 350 pairs of White Pelicans to that picture, numerous herons and up to 700 pairs of Pygmy Cormorants breeding in the same reedbeds (cover photo)… It must be bursting with activity in spring, but I was there in mid-September. Have you heard of it? Can you pinpoint it on a map? Other taxa. Maps and guides.

Greece 252

Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles , which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country. Wigeons are only migrants and not a breeding species in Serbia and August is a bit too early for any longer distance duck movements. Photographed by Szekeres Levente. and one ad.).

Serbia 159

Serbia Protection Eagles Ducks 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant. I love the writing here.

Costa Rica 203

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 203

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

They are all in non-breeding plumage to add to the challenge, though some male Bar-tailed Godwit are still carrying a trace of colour. We also have the smaller race Affinis and they are a smaller Gull-billed Tern and migrate into Asia during their breeding season. This race is the Macrotarsa , which does not migrate into Asia.

Asia 145

Asia Australia Bats Breeding 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2013

Though I have been unable to prove it, I am convinced that these Northern Harriers are breeding at Edgemere Landfill. You can’t count a Red Bat for a big day but they are worth watching nonetheless. As if Scarlet Tanagers aren’t compelling enough, this one was freakishly-colored. This one was at Edgemere Landfill.

Jamaica 149

Jamaica New York City Oakland Bats 149

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2011

There was plenty of time to observe the scores of Spotted Sandpipers that seemed to be everywhere along the bank, peeping and flitting and bobbing in a post-breeding season riot of abundance. By the time we pulled up on shore, the Common Nighthawks and the bats were out.

Bald Eagle 167

Bald Eagle Rescue Dogs Cooking 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Shearwaters and Fulmar are “like stiff-winged gulls, with tubular nostrils, often in flocks, glide easily”, Storm-Petrels are “tiny birds, like bats or swallows” that “fly low over the sea” and Phalaropes are “small sandpipers that swim, often in flocks.” The idea is that the observer can drill down to the correct identification.

Dolphins 162

Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Birds came fast during the first few hours, including a wide array of classic Neotropical species such as Keel-billed Toucan , Bat Falcon , Bright-rumped Attila , Buff-throated Saltator , and Boat-billed Flycatcher. The following morning, we explored an area of secondary growth and edge near a recently tilled field.

Honduras 207

Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 207

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

And then there are the birds… Green-backed or Amazonian White-tailed Trogon Asa Wright Nature Centre is most renowned for its resident breeding colony of unearthly Oilbirds. The food is delicious, the company delightful, and the accomodations extremely comfortable.

Trinidad 242

Trinidad South America America Ecuador 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). the scene where Jochen’s saw his BBOTY – a Bat Hawk.

2014 183

2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

2011 151

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

Straight off the bat we found a Little Grebe and a small flock of distant Cotton Pygmy-geese ! A target bird was next, the Pheasant-tailed Jacana, which was sadly not in breeding plumage but was still attractive. The final location of the long day was the nearby fishponds of Muang Boran.

Thailand 102

Thailand New Zealand Family Bats 102

Animal Ethics

MARCH 29, 2008

And bird watchers across the United States and Canada face the prospect of a quieter, less colorful spring as a combination of climate change, tropical deforestation, mountaintop mining in the Appalachians and other activities destroys key wintering, breeding and stopover habitats. The loss of migration is of more than aesthetic importance.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York United States illegal 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). We also got great views of a very small mammal, Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat, at Satara.

South Africa 251

South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Presumably, the species also not only eats fruit but also mammals and possibly birds –the HBW specifically mentions the species catching bats emerging from caves at dusk, and feeding them to juveniles.

Rhinoceros 124

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2019

At a parking lot, Steve hears the song of a Sardinian Warbler (a species that I have rarely observed, often after the breeding/singing season, and as a rule, half-hidden in the foliage) and plays it back from his phone, so the warbler might be tempted to check which other male dares to enter his territory. Steve answers: Bonelli’s Eagle !

Terrapins 174

Terrapins Eagles Europe Rats 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

At a parking lot, Steve hears the song of a Sardinian Warbler (a species that I have rarely observed, often after the breeding/singing season, and as a rule, half-hidden in the foliage) and plays it back from his phone, so the warbler might be tempted to check which other male dares to enter his territory. Enough is enough.

Spain 210

Spain Terrapins Eagles Europe 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

However, you can’t come to this small Central American country to see the following birds because they are gone: White-faced Whistling-duck : Yes, this cool looking duck used to build nests, breed, and dabble around the wetlands of Costa Rica and this is why you will see it illustrated in Stiles and Skutch.

Costa Rica 212

Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

The clifftop habitats along rocky shores of the North Atlantic (on both sides of the pond) abound in bird biomass during breeding bouts, for instance. Those mammals consist of the previously mentioned fossorial members of Insectivora, Rodents, and bats. When Albatross alight in temporal alignment anything else is swamped out.

Mammals 172

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years.

Animal Rights 257

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

This striking black and white bird is a common sight in the city, even in the central business district, but it is especially common in the park and breeds on the islands in the lakes here. The large ponds were home to great numbers of waterbirds of several kinds, many of which, like the ibis, breed on the islands in the lakes.

New Zealand 170

New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2011

They breed from July to March in Southern Australia and from September to June in the north. They often call with a whooping bugle trumpet sound in flight and the sound is similar to a Channel-billed Cuckoo , which are returning to the Broome area from Asia to breed. Our house smells lovely at the moment!

Bats 170

Bats Asia Australia Groups 170