10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

The most flamboyant of all hummers, the Marvelous Spatuletail will be one of the many endemic bird highlights along the route of the Second International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. I can’t convey how thrilled I am about the upcoming International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. Photo: Inkaterra.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

How would you like to see a lot of bird species in a day? Well, a team from Louisiana State University managed to pull that off on 14 October, seeing an astounding 354 species in one day in Peru. Birding big day Peru' Like, more species than anyone else anywhere has ever seen in a day?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Conservation / Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? One way volunteers help is by participating in a bird banding workshop called Bird Ringing Forever.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2021

Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning “land of many waters” but it could just as easily mean “land of many birds”. Before I delve into some of these avian treasures let me give you a few non-birding reasons to visit this gem of South America. Not a great look for a middle-aged birding dude. Wilderness. Guyana is WILD.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The newest location to habituate rare antpittas to hand feeding is the Owlet Lodge in Peru’s Abra Patricia-Alto Nieva Private Conservation Area. Hat tip to the American Bird Conservancy ) a. The results are so spectacular that it should come as no surprise that this practice has spread.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. The post Visit the Manu Road with InkaNatura Travel appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Birding Experiences is a Costa Rican company owned and run by enthusiastic birdwatchers from Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said. Golden-tailed Sapphire by Alfredo Fernandez.

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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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MAY 8, 2014

I was incredibly lucky to be invited –again- to participate on the second edition of the World Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru. It is an improvement in ranks, but it comes with new responsibilities and obligations that at the end of the day take away from having fun birding along this amazing route. Gray-hooded Gull.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2013

Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. 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).

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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2015

I participated in another fantastic Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru. Birded the famous Manu Road and Manu National Park. Valenzuela Trujillo, started a Facebook group “Aves Del Peru – “Birds of Peru”. Valenzuela Trujillo, started a Facebook group “Aves Del Peru – “Birds of Peru”.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Some birders like to see just birds, while others like birds, but don’t mind stopping or even taking detours to see other creatures along the trail. I like to see birds for a long time and hear their vocalization; even if these are common species. A couple of months ago I took a true pelagic trip off the coast of Peru.

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JULY 18, 2020

In Costa Rica, our July birding news usually consists of interesting sightings during the mid-summer tours. These and other important birding related questions come to mind and during a normal July, I would be personally and actively helping answer them. Which tours saw the most roosting owls?

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JANUARY 1, 2014

Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons. However, rainforest birds live in specific microhabitats and are often much easier to hear than to see in the dense multilayered rainforest. This Birding Rally’s competitors were companies that specialize in birding and nature tours.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. 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).

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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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JANUARY 24, 2022

At some point, my stock of memories of birds seen outside of China will be used up, I am afraid. While I write this, the vessel is on a trip from Shekou, China to Callao, Peru, presumably to pick up some ore, most likely copper ore. Even more than the African Grey Hornbill, they are forest birds. They are not much into flying.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Now that Winter Olympic fever has gripped the global imagination, I can’t help but wonder why we don’t have more international birding competitions like the International Birding Rally in Peru. The bird in the picture above, with a Common Merganser , is surely part of that exodus. Birding best bird weekend'

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JUNE 5, 2013

Maybe the name of this blog should be 10,015 birds. The ornithologists considered plumage, voice, and genetics in making their determinations; birds had to differ from known species in in at least two of those qualities to be considered new. ” The Rapazinho-estriado-do-oeste is the only non-passerine among the 15 new birds. .

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

According to the unwritten ancient rules of birding, whether your pelagic trip gets cancelled or not, as long as you go birding, there will always be highlights. While birding the dry forest and open country hotspot of Ceiba, Orotina , we spotted a Yellow-billed Cuckoo perched on a roadside grass stalk. A cancelled trip?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2014

What makes this or that bird one we want to see on our next birding trip? I for instance, asked which birds would be on the wish list of someone visiting Peru, and what criteria birders use to generate such wish list. The more showy and colorful a bird is, the more likely to make it to the trip’s wish list.

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MARCH 17, 2018

Some birds are too cool for just one name. Others have names that give us pause because they don’t seem to describe, to convey, what that bird is really all about. And then there are the names that are just too damn long, especially for the size of the bird. Diminutive? More like maybe-an-insect. Nope, an F Bug.

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MAY 5, 2012

If you are thinking about visiting the Amazon, and enjoying great birds, a bit of luxury, relaxation, and good food, then you should consider coming to Ecuador and gliding over the Napo River on the Manatee Amazon Explorer. They offer multiple packages and we took a five day trip that took us right down to the border with Peru.

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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. Shorebirds flagged in Peru.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Odd habitats attract odd birds. Or rather, I should say that out of place habitats attract lost birds. Although Costa Rica is noted for tropical forests and their subsequent wealth of birds and biodiversity, us local birders also have our own, out of the way habitat hotspots. Birds that Would Have Flown Over and Kept on Going.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2021

It’s always fun to go back and look at one’s earliest birding records and sometimes all it takes is the appearance of a bird on a bottle of wine or can of beer to prompt some nostalgic recollections. Good birding and happy drinking! The post The Warbler Brewery – Parula Pilsner appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

You don’t have to participate in Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru the to enjoy epic skies over the Andean rainforest, but if you do, you’re likely to also see millions of epic birds like Alfredo did! Just the prospect of new birds gets the adrenaline going, doesn’t it? Birding July weekend'

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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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JUNE 10, 2016

But when you can’t get to Peru, sometimes you just have to make do closer to home — for instance, at the Muttontown Preserve. While this was a pretty dismal episode in the annals of capitalist excess, it did turn out to be an ok outcome for the birds. Isn’t it cool?”

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JUNE 26, 2021

If the avian realm had self-conscious, talking ambassadors, “spokebirds”, which species would partake in birding conferences? ” Would C**k-of-the Rocks and condors represent Peru with flashy dances and incredible feats of flight? At the largest of conferences, logistical and cultural issues could be a real problem.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2014

It has been awhile since we here at 10,000 Birds announced a new Beat Writer. But we are pleased as punch to share the news that Patrick O’Donnell is going to be writing here on 10,000 Birds. Patrick became a birder at the age of seven after seeing books about birds in the Niagara Falls, New York public library.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2013

Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. 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).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Bolivia doesn’t come up much in discussions of birding travel.

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