10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2024
The Borneo-endemic Chestnut-crested Yuhina is a cooperative breeder – the vast majority of breeding pairs (97%) in a study conducted here at Mount Kinabalu had helpers. This laughingthrush seems to have a different taste in color, opting for a pale blue eyering rather than the orange-yellow one of the previous one.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
You see, in German we have three distinct words for different groups of owls. But no, there is another reason for this surprisingly creative way of describing the gruesome killing of a creature: the characteristics of hunting in Germany. You know, cavity breeders. The eagle-owls of the genus Bubo are all called “Uhu“.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” (Note to those readers who do not know Wham!: ” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. If anything, falconry birds like the above red-tailed hawk are a hunting partner, especially wild caught birds. Many get their birds from breeders.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Apparently, this woodpecker has a somewhat unusual roosting behavior, with stable groups of three and four woodpeckers roosting individually in nearby cavities, with many more cavities at the roosting site than woodpeckers. And it also comes as a video and yet another video. And now for something completely different.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
I’m sure regular visitors to this area could tell you more about how the winds and tides affect the migrating birds and when the breeders start to nest. ” Meanwhile, a birder from Ohio was leading a small group down a nearby trail, looking down–“Hooded! Anahuac NWR–Skillern Tract. Another Hooded!
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