10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

Houston 222

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. The first three sections are brief, presenting a summary of the bird’s current NYC status (migrant, resident, breeder, vagrant, etc.), It’s a very mixed chapter.

New York City 155

New York City New York Birds Breeding 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population.

Falcons 207

Falcons Spain Europe 2012 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Sometimes they have to protect their catches from piratic African Fish Eagles who swoop down as soon as they that see a Saddle-bill has successfully caught a fish. Saddle-bills are more strictly restricted to wetland environments where they are adept at catching their own fish with their enormous upturned bills.

Africa 245

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 245

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2015

Habitat destruction, disease and hunting are still major problems that affect the conservation efforts, but the breeding sites and wintering grounds now have international protection. Many of these potential breeders though will not nest. Captive breeding programs have not shown much success.

Taiwan 232

Taiwan North Korea Vietnam 2003 232

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

Azure-winged Magpies are cooperative breeders, and it seems that there is a connection between having a larger repertoire of calls and being a social species (me, not being very social, I usually get by with just three different grunting sounds). for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ).

Birds 201

Birds Research Science Europe 201

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The beautiful Red-bearded Bee-eater differs from most other bee-eaters in that it is not a colonial breeder but rather nests solitary or in pairs ( source ). The Blue-throated Bee-eater is much smaller than its relative, and easier to see as it likes to hunt from open wires rather than inside the forest.

Woodpeckers 220

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 220