10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

For birders heading off the coast of the eastern United States and attempting to tackle the mess that is the Band-rumped Storm-Petrel complex, a group of up to four cryptic species, this is a very real possibility. It still does so with me, but bear with me here. Breeding, migration (twice a year), and molting. The four actions?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears.

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Polar Bears Zoos Walruses Extremist 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Consequently, the Ross Sea has become a focus of numerous environmental groups who have campaigned for a world marine reserve. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. The region is also a major habitat for petrels.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense. Tennessee Warblers may be fairly drab by the prismatic standards of this group, but they certainly get around. NAMED FOR PLACES.

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Rights Connecticut Tennessee Nashville 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2024

Secondly, much of the appeal is that this is a bird we don’t see in the UK very often, for Waxwings are an irruptive species, and in most years only a few ever reach our shores from their breeding grounds in the boreal forests of Scandinavia. I’ve managed to see them, too, on their breeding grounds in Finland in summer.

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Finland Estonia Bears Ireland 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2011

So when a group of friends invited me to join them in a float on the Blackfoot River, I agreed, although with some trepidation; though this spring’s flooding is over, water levels are still high and the rivers more challenging than usual. Unlike what you may have read, real rivers bear us ceaselessly into the future.

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Bald Eagle Rescue Dogs Cooking 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? It gets very confusing when I’m trying to look at subspecies descriptions in multiple field guides (“Slate-Colored Fox Sparrow” in Sibley West, for example, is “Western Slate-colored Group” in Stokes West).

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North America 2003 Birds America 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear.

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Kazakhstan Europe Russia Asia 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

By March though Scandinavian Rock Pipit begins to show some changes into breeding plumage and outs itself as a migrant rather than a resident. Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! The two images were taken a few minutes apart on the same day in the same location.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 152

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. Must have been a camera fault.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

A juvenile, if I am correct – and a rather rare bird in Shanghai, this being rather at the southern end of the wintering breeding range. While they will spend the summer here, the Rustic Bunting (listed as Vulnerable) will leave for its breeding grounds in Siberia soon. Not sure about his/her sexual orientation.

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Greeney, also part of the Helm Identification series, it focuses on two avian families, combining the information necessary for identification with the latest research on taxonomy and behavior, particularly breeding behavior, and the latest conservation news and status. I love reading the descriptions of these birds’ breeding behavior.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For example, the definition of Laysan Albatross , mentioned above, reads: “an albatross ( Diomedea immutabilis ) that is white with dark back and wings and is found on Laysan and adjacent islands of the Pacific ocean.” However, this bird spends most of its life on the vast North Pacific Ocean, returning to land only to breed.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 104

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. This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys. And, this was badly needed. ” There are amazing stories here.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The IOC world birdlist recognizes 90 species that bear the name “weaver” or “malimbe” Not all of these are true weavers as we will discuss below. Dinemellia – White-headed Buffalo Weaver The White-headed Buffalo Weaver’s plumage is unique within the weaver group and the sexes are alike.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 220