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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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Even if we couldn’t find time to raise the bins at a favorite patch, it only takes momentary glances into the sky and hearing chip notes from the trees to remind us that birds are on the move. This one was moving in a quick glide, clearly on the move to parts further south. Migration is happening. Every birder knows it.

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. The ability of knots to successfully raise their chicks is very sensitive to snow conditions, the availability of insects as food, and the presence of predators, all of which are affected by climate change. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Where are the birds?” An odd omission as they were easily the most obvious bird in the courtyard café. A few other remnants of the former collections might raise eyebrows in some circles. Since her death in 1974, the castle has been run by a trust and has been opened to the public. I hear you cry. King of the Castle.

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Collecting South America Blackbirds Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Gaines, notwithstanding that the story (1) takes place in the Uruguay of 1999, with plenty of commentary on the Uruguayan political scene of that time, (2) is narrated by a bird illustrator who identifies the birds he sees only by their common Spanish names, and (3) flashes back to the use of torture by South American juntas in the 1970’s.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

I smashed the High Arctic Christmas Bird Count record this January 2nd by managing to find all three species here in town. Okay that made it sound more like skill than blind luck, but luckily blundering into birds you don’t expect counts.) I’ve family to raise and no time for modeling.” “Do you mind?

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South America Eggs Family Raised 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Here in the southeast, we get to watch as the flocks of sickle-winged midge tyrants funnel back south again every fall, pausing to congregate most evenings in the old smokestacks that tower above the empty tobacco factories in downtown Durham, North Carolina. And the next day they’re gone, coursing over the skies of South America.

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North Carolina Nashville South America Tennessee 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2011

Rufous Hornero , Furnarius rufus is an ovenbird from South America. It is one of the most common birds seen in the parks and even on the pavements of the cities. With its exaggerated gait it is easily recognisable from a distance and its bright rufous tail makes it an easy bird to identify even if it is flying away from you.

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Argentina South America Brazil Chickens 150

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And where all those birds are? This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? I am talking 600 or 700+ bird species.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Sophie had serious doubts about whether she was really a bird. August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Sophie the Scissortail was the most difficult but the most satisfying bird of the season.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 230

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The presence of this tanager in the Caribbean is a rare aspect of South American flair, as its closest relative is the similarly plumaged Scrub Tanager of northern South America. Even though it is fairly ubiquitous on almost every island, they are beautiful, enjoyable little birds. A photo for the second edition, perhaps?

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Puerto Rico Grenada Barbados Trinidad 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? Some are incredibly rare and hard to find.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Mating systems and parental care patterns can be odd among birds. Male-female role reversal, happens in some familiar birds, but is rare. Perhaps the most complicated and bizarre mating system is that of the Rheas of South America. They live in flocks in the open country shrubland of Southern South America.

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Eggs South America Raised America 153

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. Pilots ‘n Paws Canada stepped up to the plate and volunteered to fly the little birds to Quebec. Timing is everything when it comes to releasing Chimney Swifts.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Canada Wildlife South America 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. One of the central papers, Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds (Jarvis et al. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

A profound and deep understanding of birds is hard to complain about. Despite the vacant look in the eye of a Rock Pigeon , birds are not stupid…they cannot afford to be, or else they wouldn’t be here now. crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? Many birds display a strong sense of curiousty.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

More than a few groups of birds around the world have been given names with wren in it, almost as if the sight of a very small and active bird automatically associates with the small Winter Wren of England where most of the namers originated. Better yet, the correct habitat is usually not hard to find.

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Australia New Zealand South America Asia 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

All of the birds within Raphini are highly specialized for island life. It’s a spectacular pigeon with long neck plumes and blue, green, and copper iridescence in its feathers (I mean, look at this bird ), and it lives on islands from the western Indian Ocean all the way out through northern Melanesia. ” Beehler et al.’s

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. The world’s largest Manx Shearwater colony is on Skomer, an island off the south-west coast of Wales, UK.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 161

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Adam Riley, owner and managing director of Rockjumper Birding Tours , is a world birder if ever there was one, but has a special place in his heart for his home continent. Adam will be leading 10,000 Birds readers on an amazing odyssey into Africa starting… now! And Africa is the ONLY continent without an extinct bird to boot!

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 227

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

After a long hiatus that included a new cat, a new apartment, and enough time with the in-laws to last me quite awhile, here’s a rundown of April’s bird news: Funny, sad, and thought-provoking … an African-American ornithologist’s video tips for birding while black. Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I No, you didn’t.

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Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 187

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Any hummingbird in December in stoney Manhattan is a remarkable sight — after all, hummingbirds are such tropical-looking birds… Wait. Or like so many representatives of all lands and climes, might they someday make a home in the city and raise a family? What does that even mean, tropical-looking?

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South America New York Alaska America 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Birds fascinate us for many reasons. The migration stories of many of those birds is another. Or at stories of a bird like Red Knot B95, twenty-one years old and logging miles that could take it to the moon, and half way back. Typically, at least here in North America, we think of migration as a north-south affair.

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Africa Somalia North America Nigeria 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

I came back from a Monday birding trip and told my wife, prior to reviewing my photos, that I saw a bird that was either 1) interesting, or 2) historic. And the bird in question even allowed me some great photos! The Marbled Godwit is, by Godwit standards, an unambitious bird, mostly limiting itself to a single continent.

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Mexico 2018 Ducks Breeding 230