10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2021

In the breeding grounds for many migratory species, I look forward to warblers, flycatchers, and more. Even without a binoculars or camera, the bright purple/red breeding plumage of a gorgeous Purple Finch jumped out at me. The post Spotting My Florida Birds on their Maine Breeding Grounds appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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AVMA News

JULY 24, 2024

A company that bred Beagles for research will pay more than $35 million after pleading guilty last month to violating the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) by neglecting thousands of dogs at its Cumberland, Virginia, breeding facility. The payment includes the largest ever fine in an animal welfare case.

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JUNE 23, 2024

They breed early and now it’s time to move out into the Atlantic. It’s only with the return of the low pressure systems in October that the Balearic Shearwaters come back and get ready to make the most of the winter and early spring productivity to breed. They are now finishing the breeding season and leave the breeding colonies.

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JUNE 16, 2024

The White-rumped Swift Apus caffer , a tropical African breeding species, was only discovered breeding in Europe in the 1960s. Little Swifts breed in Tangier, just a few kilometres on the other side of the Strait so it would have been logical to expect these to have made the short sea crossing into Europe.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2021

The adventure of the second European Breeding Bird Atlas, or EBBA2, was the topic of one of my first posts here at 10,000 Birds: In a warm Catalonian March, Barcelona is filled with sunlight and full of Rose-ringed and Monk Parakeets. In a very short time, we get two responses, two birds calling from opposite directions.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2020

That still leaves 11 Warblers that breed in Michoacán. Like the Common Yellowthroat , the Yellow Warbler breeds no further south than the central Mexican highlands. I must admit that I had the idea the Grace’s Warbler , common in our pine forests, were also at the southern edge of their breeding range here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2024

They begin to show up in August and peak in September as they make their way south to their Antarctic breeding grounds. European Storm Petrel The European Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus is the other species of storm petrel that’s around in the summer months and these are birds from local breeding colonies.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2024

When we look at the breeding birds, they are all Palaearctic, either mainland species or endemics that evolved from mainland species. Had this been the case we would expect the breeding birds of these islands to be dominated by trans-Saharan migrants. In fact, the breeding birds are overwhelmingly dominated by pre-Saharan migrants.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2024

Adult Audouin’s Gulls now passing show heavily abraded plumage after breeding I covered the main species in my 23rd June article “When the sea becomes a desert”. If I really want to see these elegant gulls, then I can always drive up to the Atlantic coast and the estuary of the Guadalquivir River where they breed.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2024

The most recent estimates suggest that some 1,500 pairs breed in Spain. That’s about half of the entire European breeding population. Look further back, to the first census undertaken and the number of breeding pairs had been estimated at 94 in 1987. Its stronghold is the Iberian Peninsula.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2021

As the boreal migrants head north, breeding season for the residents and austral migrants is beginning to pick up. There are other austral migrants breeding here, however – I’ve found two separate nesting sites of the incredulous looking Swallow Tanager thus far. Common Black Hawks , adult and juvenile. Sounds like a party.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2024

This indicates peak breeding condition, but by May their pouches are back to pale yellow again. Both species of pelicans breed on the lake, with the Dalmatians the more numerous. Take a boat trip on Kerkini in May and you should see Black and possibly Whiskered Terns, but few now breed.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2024

When the days lengthen and the snow gradually starts to melt, some of these birds get into breeding plumage and nest in the deep forest while others migrate even further north to breed. I am familiar with the western end… Source

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2024

The vast majority of Palaearctic birds have now finished breeding and are either heading south, dispersing locally or going into moult. Many of the birds now heading south are in a terrible state, ready to drop the old feathers and replace them with new ones.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2024

True, most of our migrant breeding birds start to return in April, but in May even the late arrivals – Turtle Doves, Swifts, Spotted Flycatchers and Nightjars – finally appear. Perhaps most spectacular of all were two fine Grey Plovers in full breeding finery, living up to their American name of Black-bellied Plover.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2024

Perhaps the most curious thing about the Great Spotted Cuckoo is its distribution, for it is both a non-breeding Palearctic migrant to Africa, and a trans-Africa migrant. According to The Birds of Africa Volume III , “In much of the tropics present throughout the year, with breeding and non-breeding birds usually indistinguishable”.

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JULY 7, 2024

But no, my story today is about the birds that come in to breed on the heather moorland which dominates the high ground. So is that of the Common Redshank Tringa totanus , another breeding species of these moors. Never a better time to see them in full breeding dress.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2024

The Black-winged Cuckooshrike is breeding in several Shanghai locations – I suspect that some trees near the Nanhui hotel might be another one, given the vigorous singing of this bird. The Amur Paradise Flycatcher is another species breeding in Shanghai. Yellow-rumped Flycatchers are breeding in the same park.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is not due to its breeding habits, which it shares with the other hornbills – though those habits could well be described as appalling. The bird in the photo is a male, as indicated by the yellow rather than blue throat sack – and by the fact that it is outside of the hole at breeding time (the female is in the hole).

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MARCH 17, 2022

They migrate north through the Western United States, breeding in pockets all the way up through Canada. Soon they will disappear, stretching wide wings and taking to the skies in search of breeding grounds farther north. They’ve become familiar in the best way, like a person I’ve come to know and appreciate.

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APRIL 9, 2023

The shorebirds will go to the northern hemisphere to breed and return to Broome later in the year. Natural debris The migratory shorebirds are busy feeding along the coast getting ready for migration and many have started to get their breeding plumage.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting in every month of the year. This bit of trivia was given in an article in my local bird club’s monthly newsletter about the ongoing breeding bird atlas in New York State.

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APRIL 24, 2022

It won’t be long before they have all set off on their northward migration to breed, but for now they are feeding up. They will breed in the short Siberian summer between June and August and they will then return to Australia.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2024

It’s a bird that rarely occurs inland, and outside the breeding season it spends its time far out to sea. In March, as the days start to lengthen, so the wandering birds return to their breeding cliffs. Adult pairs are very site faithful, and if their breeding is successful, they will return to the same colony year after year.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2024

Few birds sport such magnificent breeding plumage as the male ruff, but not a single bird showed more than a hint of this plumage. These ruffs still had a 1,000 or more miles to fly to reach their northern breeding grounds. They were sharing the same habitat as the resident Kentish Plovers, the only wader to breed here.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Some birds with populations on different breeding grounds move not to the same winter quarter but to far-distant ones – such as the Red-necked Phalarope.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

The Pied Oystercatcher breeding season continues here in Broome along our coastline and once again the birds are not having much luck. The first pair of Pied Oystercatchers to breed this year have had a second clutch of two eggs and they had two chicks, but sadly they were lost within a few days of hatching.

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APRIL 26, 2024

First recorded breeding on the island in 2013, this dove is now both widespread and common. Today they are a Cypriot success story, for they have established themselves at many locations, and even breed in the middle of roundabouts in the bustling town of Larnaka. Hoopoes are common breeding birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2024

That trip was fun, as it reminded me of the delights of watching birds like Golden Plover and even Meadow Pipit on their breeding grounds. I see lots of Golden Plovers in the winter, but (like so many waders) they are birds transformed when in their breeding finery. Crakes are difficult to see on their breeding grounds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2024

Take a quick look at the breeding distribution of European birds and you will see that there are a surprising number of species that are restricted to the Balkans.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Then sometimes when you see these birds actively regaining their energy and getting ready for defending territories and breeding, they give the impression that their migration had just been a short jog around the block rather than a marathon across desert, mountains, and oceans.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2021

The Japanese Night Heron is classified as vulnerable, with a global estimated population of only about 600 to 1700 – it seems its breeding grounds in Japan are being destroyed. And given its phlegmatic nature, it is probably not very good at adapting its lifestyle or breeding habits to new circumstances. Bright eyes.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

Non-breeding Pied Oystercatchers join flocks either to the north or south of Gantheaume Point. They do not attempt to breed for about seven years. The Pied Oystercatcher family will remain together for some time yet. Eventually the fully fledged chick will wander beyond Gantheaume Point.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2024

That issue aside, SAVING THE SPOTTED OWL—ZALEA’S STORY is a detailed nonfiction picture book with a view expands from one specific owl, to Spotted Owls in general, to conservation efforts via breeding centers to save other endangered species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2024

The farm in question is large – 1,000 acres – and mainly arable, though a small herd of Redpolls (not birds, but a distinctive breed of cattle native to Suffolk) are a new addition. I was driving my small open-top car on a neighbour’s farm to see what I could find.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2021

Unlike so many other beloved North American bird species, their populations have been relatively stable since the mid-20th century, hovering around 44 million breeding birds. Don’t get me wrong, you can see American Goldfinches in Florida too, but usually in the winter, when their plumage has dulled without the pressure of breeding.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

Griffon Vultures have a long breeding season. Isn’t it a bit late to breed? Why bother with such a risky journey if you aren’t going to breed? We can speculate that it’s part of the learning curve to adulthood or it may simply be that the non-breeding areas in Africa become inhospitable for them at this time of the year.

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