Blackbirds Eggs Family Species 
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
There are 154 species of cuckoos in the world, and they’re all a fascinating bunch. I have encountered a few of the more quirky members of the family, including the brilliant and aptly-named African Emerald Cuckoo, India’s ultra-shy Sirkeer Malkoha, and the fascinating Lesser Ground Cuckoo in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) And of birds courting and mating.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. A juvenile Chinese Blackbird. A happier shrike. ” Hm. .”
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2018
Three members of the family Ramphastidae : a versatile mascot for everything from Irish dry stout to fruit-flavored breakfast cereals. Sacrilege perhaps, but unless we’re talking invasive species, snake extirpation doesn’t cut it here at 10,000 Birds. Saint Kevin and the blackbirds. So why a blackbird? Sorry, Patrick.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2014
I spent this past weekend in Saugerties at my folks’ house in order to look for Easter eggs, let Desi enjoy time with his cousins, and generally have a good ol’ time with family. I had no luck with the rails or bitterns but I did manage to see quite a few species, including some that were very cooperative.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2016
I used the family summer cottage as a base camp, placed in an old orchard where no branches are ever cut off, even when old or rotten – only supported from below. As a result, I had 15 species in the first hour. And now I am about to explore a dam, not far from the village where my mother was born.
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