10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. The Borneo-endemic Chestnut-crested Yuhina is a cooperative breeder – the vast majority of breeding pairs (97%) in a study conducted here at Mount Kinabalu had helpers.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2015

But I cannot notice the breeder #2! Eurasian Griffon Vultures are flying towards the restaurant (occasionally visited by Brown Bear , too). My friend Puza comes back from a short walk… and shows me the photos of the more elusive #2: the not-so-common Common Rosefinch , a female. It is somewhere in those willows.

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Europe Serbia Russia Breeding 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The forest grows on the new lakeshore and it, too, is a mere 15 years old, but already provides an important corridor for large mammals such as Roe Deer and even Brown Bears , which sometimes come down to feed on beans. For longest lists, go there in May when migrants are still passing while the local breeders are active and visible.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive. It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality. I saw the Cuckoo the second day of its visit.

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2016

Here are some: Mega migration : We bear witness to some serious migration in Costa Rica. This is a serious issue around Eilat and seems to affect local resident breeders more than migrants. Literally millions of swallows, Chimney Swifts , and raptors take the migrant express through the skies over the Caribbean slope.

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Costa Rica Birds Jordan 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? In the case of Acorn Woodpeckers, they are cooperative breeders (as with many other polygynandrous species), which seems to predispose species to polygynandry. In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Of course, this fanciful story had been devised to explain the absence of nests in Europe by this Arctic breeder, but Frederick dismissed it as nonsense. Instead, he surmised that Barnacle Geese merely breed in far-off lands and return south in winter – perhaps one of the earliest explanations of migration in history.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113