Breeding Cattle Family Protection 
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
The population of parrotlets they studied was located on one of the many huge hatos (cattle ranches) in the Venezuelan llanos, a vast swath of flat flooded savannah in the central third of the country that drains into the Rio Orinoco. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. The Auk 108: 863-871.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Over 80 percent of North Dakota’s prairie has vanished, but there are still millions of acres in North Dakota, under both government protection and private ownership. Since 1966, when the Breeding Bird Survey first began monitoring, numbers have declined 79 percent. back to the birds.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. It’s actually a pretty classic example of convergent evolution, wherein two unrelated families of lifeforms evolve to fill the same niche independently. millions years ago.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.
10,000 Birds
JULY 29, 2021
In June 2021, the Mayor of Belgrade announced that Beljarica will finally become officially protected. For most species, the breeding season ends by the end of June and the majority of songbirds are silent and invisible now. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi, to the Vrbovski turnoff.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2011
Kentish Plover / Credit: Jane Stylianou It’s just the thing that I thought birders from outside of Cyprus would want to hear that I had to share it in full: BirdLife Cyprus conducts yearly waterbird breeding counts. One pair of Little Egrets along with two pairs of Night Herons nested at Kanli dam.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!
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