10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1
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. Peregrine Falcon nests. Brown-headed Cowbird itself gets its own section in the Blackbirds and Orioles chapter.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2013
Yellow-headed Blackbirds singing in the reeds allowed us to get an arm’s length away. Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. Yellow-headed Blackbird was another lifer for me, and omnipresent.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2015
The real Gung-Ho, Kung-Fu birders would have drove to this site at midnight and just slept in the car or looked for owls until the dawn chorus in excellent middle elevation rainforest but since we have families, and I hate being exhausted and zombie-eyed from lack of sleep, more leisurely birding was just peachy.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2019
Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives. Amur Falcon – Falco amurensis. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. European Starling – Sturnus vulgaris.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2011
Peregrine Falcon is certainly more elegant than Duck Hawk. Outside of the Cinclus , Ouzel is also a common name sometimes applied to a variety of Turdus thrushes including the Common Blackbird of Europe, so the literal meaning of the name is “Water Thrush&#. But it sounds so much more sophisticated to say Ouzel.
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