10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015.

Birds 214

Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The HBW even mentions the importance of Ruoergai for this species: “Key sites for migrants include the Ruoergai Plateau (China), which is also an important breeding area” Common Mergansers also seem to use these wetlands as breeding area. Understated elegance is also something the White-browed Tit is rather good at.

China 167

China Mongolia Birds Russia 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Their name is no accident – Piratic Flycatchers closely monitor the nesting activities of pendulous-nesting species like Crested Oropendolas and Yellow-rumped Caciques. Having successfully claimed ownership of the nest, the Piratic Flycatchers move in, lay and incubate their eggs, and ultimately raise their young in the pirated nest.

Trinidad 202

Trinidad Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 202

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. Also, feral Cats on islands seem to be a serious problem, causing the extirpation of some indigenous species. They are invasive species. Unless we put them there.

Feral Cats 252

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

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. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The grand total is 817 species! SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

North America 278

North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

The two dozen species are, nearly to an individual, long bodied and bicolored. Baltimore Orioles are surprisingly slight when you get a look at them, but troupials are about the size of a jay, and with the bearing to go with it. Icterus is a wide-ranging neotropical genus consisting of the technicolor blackbirds we call orioles.

Baltimore 174

Baltimore Broker North America Raised 174