10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2024
Given how far Hokkaido is from Europe, it seems a bit surprising how many bird species wintering on this Japanese island have a name starting with “Eurasian” Or how many of these species I have also seen in my parents’ garden in Germany. It seems extra-pair paternity is very frequent in this species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2019
I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. They give short shrift to New Zealand’s birds, lumping them with odd names no one here uses because the names are shared elsewhere and God knows America isn’t going to take a hit for us. But the name… oh god the name.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2018
Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left. At home, I may find a new bird, perhaps two, but four? Reaching that threshold, birding become less tense.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
…so here’s a post about some birds at a spring. The spring the birds I’ll show you today is far from the seat of New Zealand’s government where I now work. The species used to be lumped with the commensal House Bunting, but the two are now treated as separate species. I’m sorry.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
Grey Hypocolius is a Holy Grail of Middle Eastern birding. Part of its attraction lies in it being a monotypic bird in the family Hypocoliidae – there are no other bird species in its genus and family. No, birds are way too smart for that stupid trick. But I have never seen any bird with anything like it!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
9 beats, birded 9 countries this month; Belize , Guatamala , Costa Rica, UK, Iran, USA, Greece, Australia and Mexico. They submitted 144 checklists, noting 628 species adding 72 to the year’s running total bringing it to 1890. Those are the numbers, here come the birds; Alphabetic Taxonomic. Green Island.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Electric storms closed the new walkway there and he amassed a total list of just 3 birds! Contributions this month have come from; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Mexico, Serbia, South Africa, UK, Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards.
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