10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. Well, cats are just as successful breeders as mice and soon there were thousands of cats that sought out prey bigger than mice and began to wipe out the native seabird population. Just get rid of the mice.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2016
We have to figure out when the highest numbers of migrants coincide with resident breeders to increase the probabilities of breaking the previous record, or to at least hit your Big Day birding goal. However, it also has to give a reasonable chance at identifying all of those birds and that means enough time in the right spots.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2013
In addition to having a communal nesting strategy, anis also spend a significant amount of time allopreening, huddling together, and sunning themselves together on exposed branches. Smooth-billed Anis were relative newcomers as breeders to Florida, having only begun nesting since the 1930s. Diet is composed mostly of large insects.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
They often become slower breeders, and most importantly, they lose their ability to disperse, meaning they get stranded on the island they live on. In a few places mammals and humans may endure, but even there, rails will become island species, albeit ones that retain some anti-predator strategies. What a horror! What a disaster!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Swarovski ATM scope & Canon A590 Now Alpine Accentors have a much more interesting strategy: 3-5 males defend a single breeding territory, containing 2-3 spatially separated female Accentors. Alpine Accentors, on the other hand, are not cooperative breeders and females typically have very little to do with each other.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2012
What strategies are you using? then eventually you’re going to see most of the residents, spring migrants, wintering species and regular breeders. Right now I’m thinking I’d love to see (or just hear) Yellow Rail , or perhaps Black Rail. Good reasons to stay local regardless of records and the like. Lots of pelagics?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive. I also put it to a worthy first field test on December 29th during a successful twitch of an Arctic Diver that had turned up at a small lake right next to Heidleberg.
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