10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2024

Back in 2016 one very unexpected bird appeared in the Mexican highlands: an American Flamingo. Ever since then, the two birds would show up during the winter months in the Metropolitan Park, always together. And Chilean Flamingos should be found, well, in Chile, as well as much of southwestern South America. Flamingos !”

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Mexico Cuba Chile South America 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Birds of Belize by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. Dale Dyer put in years working on his paintings for Birds of Central America , both in the field and in the museum. Howell utilizes the IOC World Bird List (v.11.2, Why are these issues? © 2023 by Steve N.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 227

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2015

There are lots of great birding sites in Costa Rica. In fact, go anywhere with a good amount of natural forest and the birding is gonna be good. Visiting those out of the way spots is necessary if you want to add these and other choice “bonus birds” to the three or four hundred species ticked at the usual sites.

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Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. It illustrates the bird richness per country. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. Focus on the wider triple border area – the birding top of the world.).

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 207

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

Here are the results: 3 per cent of respondents (in no particular order): Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Tanzania, Madagascar. Interestingly, the respondents felt no need to further elaborate why, presuming that everyone knows why they should bird Costa Rica. 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya.

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2013

Birding outside my home country is expensive but the current black-market for the dollar exchange rate to the Argentinean Peso help us save money. Also we found some cheaper flights going to Santiago de Chile and leaving from Buenos Aires so we decided to put together a birding trip to take advantage of all of these savings.

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Argentina Chile Birds Ecuador 183

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2014

The Hornby’s storm-petrel ( Oceanodroma Hornbyi ) is a fairly common bird along the coast of Peru and Chile. Most, if not all pelagic birding trips in the region record this species, often by the hundreds. There is no doubt they nest somewhere along the cost of Peru and Chile. Featured photo: Alfredo Fernandez.

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Peru Chile Rescue Groups 269

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2013

Continued from: Birdwatching Santidago de Chile Part 2. A great way to travel in Chile and Argentina is by bus. We took two overnight buses to get us from Santiago de Chile to San Miguel de Tucuman in northern Argentina. First we stopped at La Angostura Reservoir where we picked up some new birds for the trip.

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Argentina Chile Birds Farming 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Alfredo, an experienced birder in Peru and well-rounded naturalist, founded a birding and nature eco-travel company , known as Surbound Expeditions (Sur=Spanish for south). He recently introduced 10,000 Birds readers to the birds of Peru’s coastal desert and the challenges of photographing Great Grebes.

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Chile Peru South America Florida 195

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2013

Look up, at least if you are birding coastal Chile like Renato was ! Birding and parenting don’t always go together well. Many dads (but interestingly few moms) have documented their successes in simultaneously birding and parenting on this blog and others. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Chile 2013 Birds 158

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2015

On the series “North American birds with Neotropical Counterparts”, this time I introduce the Andean Gull. This gull inhabits the high Andean plateau of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina at elevations ranging from 3300 to 4400 m (10827 to 14436 feet). A few vagrant birds are reported at coastal lagoons and estuaries.

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Chile Bolivia Peru Argentina 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2013

The Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival in Arcata and Eureka on the north coast of California was fabulous! I added several birds to my 2013 year list during my four day stay, including the Surfbird ( Aphriza virgata ). References: 1 Audubon Watch List , Birds Black Turnstone Humbolt Bay surfbird West Coast'

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Alaska Chile 2013 Breeding 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

Continued from: Calilegua National Park Birding Trip Report. This is a very hot and dry region known as El Chaco where many interesting bird species can be found. Gonzales the greater the size of soybean farming fields and our expectations to see birds on this road trip had quickly died and turned into a boring flat-land ride.

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Argentina Farming Chile Birds 195

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Controversies about federal public lands, including the 2016 occupation of Malheur NWR in Oregon and proposed bills in Congress to dispose of certain land, has focused attention on the value of federal lands to birds and birders. But if one focuses on specific types of birds, the results can be both illuminating and surprising.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Having grown up and spent the majority of my birding life in the Pacific Northwest, it was not uncommon for me to see Black Oystercatchers , wandering the rocky shores of the Pacific Ocean. Their solid black bodies, and reddish orange bills, have always been one of the highlights of coastal birding up north.

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Mexico Chile Florida California 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Not having any cooperative birds in the garden at the moment, I opted to follow a train of ants. In the afternoon, I went birding the Paljuvi Dam, south of Belgrade. With just about every other bird I had one of those “wow” moments. The post Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Chile Argentina Raised Serbia 306

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

I just read on the news that about 20 Andean Condors (Vultur gryphus) were poisoned in Chile. The birds were observed crashing into the rocks high in the Andean mountains near a hydroelectric power plant. Other birds were seen crash landing. It is estimated that only a few thousand birds remain in the wild.

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Livestock Chile Colombia Ecuador 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2011

The next time a bird poops on your car, think carefully before you act. Historic claims to bird poop have led to conflict in the past and when the commodity is in such high demand, strategic and economic factors can escalate that conflict into war! The poorly defined borders of the region were disputed by Chile and Bolivia.

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Bolivia Chile America Spain 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2018

They get you where it counts, right in the birding heart. Or, they are just lifers or birds rarely seen. Whatever the case, there are some serious quality birds lurking in the wetlands and woodlands of Cano Negro, Costa Rica. “Cotinga”, a beautiful name for some of the most beautiful birds. The seed-finch.

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Costa Rica Birds Chile Owls 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There’s a King Penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) on the label, a very first appearance for the Spheniscidae family here at Birds and Booze. This is somewhat surprising, given the perennial popularity of these birds in culture and advertising. Good birding and happy drinking! Except birders. We know better.

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2017 Penguins Argentina Chile 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2015

I am starting a series of posts where I introduce little known birds we can relate. These would be mostly Neotropical birds that have a North American counterpart most are familiar with. The Andean Avocet is not a rare bird, but not a lot of folks have seen it. Today I introduce the cool Andean Avocet. Andean Avocet.

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Bolivia Chile Argentina North America 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2013

Alfredo, an experienced birder in Peru and well-rounded naturalist, founded a birding and nature eco-travel company , known as Surbound Expeditions (Sur=Spanish for south). Like the color of the soil on which they live: The birds of Peru’s coastal Desert. When thinking of birding overseas, Peru is in almost everyone’s to-do list.

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Peru Birds Parrots Chile 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The largest of the Andean flamingos is native to the wetlands and shallow alkaline lakes of the high Andes mountain range, from southern Perú to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile. Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Are seabirds the last frontier of bird identification? They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” Which makes the publication of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide a significant and happy event.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. The post The Falcon Thief: A Book Review appeared first on 10,000 Birds. ” [loc.3014,

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2012

Spotted Sandpipers are cool little birds, easily identified by a host of field marks and behaviors. When they are not getting ready to breed they are a pretty bland brown-and-white bird. They are, of course, spotted, but only in alternate plumage.

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New Jersey North America Chile South America 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

Two reactions on hearing that Steve Howell and Brian Sullivan have written a guide entitled Peterson Guide to Bird Identification–in 12 Steps : (1) What? In other words, you don’t even observe the bird closely until Step 7, and that is to observe behavior. Another identification guide?, (2) Howell and Brian L.

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Birds North America 2012 America 154

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

If you know only a little bit about Charles Darwin, you know that he figured out Evolution via his study of the finches (and other birds) of the Galapagos. Today we view the Galapagos birds, including some finches and some mocking birds, as a great example of evolution. This included some birds as well as a fox.

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Tortoises South America Panama Culling 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I am familiar with the shorebird banding program in Peru, as the programs is run by CORBIDI, a small non-government organization (NGO) dedicated to the study and conservation of birds, other wildlife, and their habitats. This method of marking largely relies on recapturing the bird in order to read and record the band data.

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Peru South America Delaware New Jersey 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2014

Despite having only revealed 6 pictures on my Kylie Minogue calender so far, I may already have a candidate for Best Bird of the Year. The Great Grebe , Podiceps major , is a bird of South America where it frequents large waters and coastline on both sides of the continent. Birds Argentina Great Grebe grebes'

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Argentina Uruguay Chile South America 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Entrada Los Chiles (El Parque) hasta Caño Negro. Bare-faced Go-away-bird – Corythaixoides personatus. Steigerwald Lake NWR. 05 Dec 2019. 05 Dec 2019.

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2019 Chile Texas Sanctuary 179

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The first shorebird arrivals are apparently birds that failed at a breeding attempt and don’t have time to re-attempt; they might as well head south early. After the shorebirds, gulls, tern, and land birds follow suite and soon the winter resident mark the end of another Fall migration. The fall migration is underway. Cerulean Warbler.

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South America Colombia Peru Chile 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Klepstoparasitism seems to be more prevalent among birds associated with water; those unable to dive often take food from those able to catch their food underwater. Some birds are opportunistic thieves, and others make a living at it.

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 199

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

What do all these birds have in common? Speaking of birds in nests, five Chilean Flamingo chicks who were raised by a human “surrogate dad” at a British wildlife center have now graduated to joining the adults in the center’s colony. You can keep up with the latest on this case through the Michigan Birding Network.).

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Michigan Chile Tennessee North America 148

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

After getting to spend some time with a few of these birds recently, I decided to feature them in my story this week. Like many birders, ever since I was a child, these wonderful, shy birds have been known as the Common Moorhen. That and the fact that I have barely been able to get out in the field for the last three weeks.

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Chile Breeders Asia Mexico 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

Birds, like this Great Shearwater , are attracted to the chum slick set out by the ship’s crew. For those who have been on pelagic trips in places such as California, Chile, or Australia, keep in mind that pelagic trips in Florida almost always feature long birdless stretches interspersed with brief spurts of activity.

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Sea Turtles Florida Chile Dolphins 166