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. On a positive note, it makes it easier for those male hornbills that do not like kids to focus on what they are good at (collecting fruit and handing them to the wife through a slit in the hole).

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Myanmar Singapore China Collecting 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

June is the breeding month, when New Yorkers mostly give up on migrant birds and look for birds where they nest. We’re sending a team to collect his recently revoked birder card posthaste. June is also the month that the bugs come out to play in earnest. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Virginia Birds Collecting Dogs 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. Johann Georg Wagner has seven birds named after him, from a chachalaca to a woodpecker, but would he have found more if hadn’t accidentally shot himself while out collecting? Eleonora’s Falcons still breed on Sardinia today. However, most of us still call it a Bewick’s.

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The nest in the header photo in a Poinciana tree belongs to a Little Friarbird and they have been breeding recently and there are many juvenile birds about. The Magpie-larks have also been breeding recently and also using the Poinciana trees for nesting. They also offer an excellent opportunity for birds to nest. Magpie-lark nest.

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Breeding Australia Family Collecting 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I’ve seen some weird-looking hybrids in duck collections. Many years ago a friend of mine kept a small but varied collection of ducks and geese. One year he was very excited when his female Hawaiian Goose hatched four healthy goslings, the first time he had managed to breed this species.

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Geese Ducks Falcons Latvia 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. You can see why here.

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 212

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

.'” Indeed, there is one distinctly birding connection to this country: a famous birder Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond, visited the Seychelles in 1958 looking for inspiration for his then-latest collection of stories, For Your Eyes Only. On the other hand, the isolation makes for those huge seabird colonies.

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Seychelles Wildlife Tortoises Fish 232

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JANUARY 24, 2022

It is listed as vulnerable, though its rather rigorous treatment of the second, smaller chick in a clutch (it starves to death within 1 week, rarely a month, according to the HBW) offers the potential for collecting second-hatched chicks for reintroduction programs. When breeding, the female finds a cavity in a tree and seals the entrance.

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South Africa Africa China Seals 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2020

When to visit: best during winter and migration season, but also breeding season. Since no-one lives here, there is no organised rubbish collecting. When to visit: best in breeding and migration seasons (April to June and late August-September). Avoid windy days – the birds will be looking for cover. Dupljaja area.

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Mali Serbia Eagles Birds 264

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost.

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Heermann’s Gulls form large breeding colonies on arid islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico, from March through July. The largest colony exists on Isla Raza, where an estimated 90–95% of the total world population breeds 1. This photo by Basar from Wikipedia Commons shows the adult in breeding plumage.

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San Francisco North America Seals Sanctuary 158

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. I came with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. And I was blessed with several superb sightings, totaling to 8% of their Costa Rican and 2% of their global population!!

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. Contrary to alleged preferences among humans, the golden-headed cisticola has a shorter tail during the breeding season ( source ). It breeds in tree holes, presumably explaining the more commonly used name for it.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Instead of hovering, some gulls have set up territories within breeding colonies of Humboldt seabirds. The gulls breed their young and the cormorants raise their young successfully as shown by the size of the two young birds in the photos.

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 191

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

On top of that, they occur in breeding and non-breeding plumage! The top photo shows a first winter California Gull ( Larus californicus ) on the right and a non-breeding adult on the left. Below is the same first winter California Gull with the smaller non-breeding adult Ring-billed Gull ( Larus delawarensis ) on the left.

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California Sacramento Breeding Turtles 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Alongside mining activities, unregulated tourism has placed and additional toll on the flamingoes’ habitat.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

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APRIL 2, 2024

She explains complex and sometimes controversial topics including captive breeding, environmental toxins, feral cats and other invasive predators, Hawaiian avian extinction, avian disease, California Condor distribution and history, legal loopholes, and lead poisoning.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 176

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MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Geological Survey.

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

A few breed on the main Hawaiian islands, including Kilauea Point NWR on Kauai. Black-footed Albatross : The most common albatross off the west coast, virtually all of the world’s Black-footed Albatross also breed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, on the same islands as the Laysan Albatross on Hawaiian Islands NWR and Midway Atoll NWR.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 138

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2012

So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager today at Jamaica Bay. Now Scarlet Tanagers are always a gorgeous bird, and if you walk by a breeding-plumaged male without looking not only are your credentials as a birder at stake but so are your credentials as a human being. And, well, wow. Go check them out!

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Jamaica Collecting 2009 Breeding 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2013

They are one of the few cooperatively breeding passerines in North America and a third of the breeding pairs have 1–3 male helpers, usually progeny or other relatives. Pairs roost together; juveniles roost with parents, and collectives of several flocks roost together. Click on photos for full sized images.

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North America America California Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Fortunately, I had managed a collection of very bad photos before the bird flew off. The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. I had an idea as to what I was seeing, but could not be sure with the view I was afforded. And then the bird was gone.

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Mexico Guatemala South America United States 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

These ponds and the larger Cedar Lake and collection pond hold Tufted Duck , Greylag Goose and Eurasian Moorhen. Until the turn of the century, a wildfowl collection and extensive aviaries were kept at the castle. The exotics have now mostly been dispersed to other collections, but a few remain.

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Collecting South America Blackbirds Adoptable 100

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AUGUST 11, 2019

It was actually feared to be extinct until 2000, when four pairs of breeding pairs were discovered.

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2000 Eggs Collecting Breeding 126

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Global Big Day has become an annual collective event in May that encourages thousands of people to watch birds on the same date. As far as promoting birding goes, the only thing better might be October Gobal Big Day ! Rivers of raptors, aerial streams of Chimney Swifts and swallows, warblers, shorebirds, and more (oh my!).

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Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Owls 267

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

You know the captain’s name already: the Ross’s Gull was named after Ross who collected the type specimen in 1823 on Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Curiously, in 1831, McCormick was appointed a surgeon on HMS Beagle under the command of Captain FitzRoy and he expected to put together a sizeable natural history collection.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2012

In the recent past Barnacle Geese that showed up on the east coast were almost uniformly considered escapes from waterfowl collections. That started to change as banded birds showed up that were demonstrably wild birds wandering from their European homes.

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New York Geese United States Canada 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

states, 9 Canadian provinces, and 3 Canadian territories) are asked to be on the lookout for these birds as they migrate toward their northern breeding grounds. Visit it to learn how to collect and submit data, how to identify Rusty Blackbirds and their preferred habitat, when the birds will probably be in your neck of the woods, and more.

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Blackbirds Vermont Collecting Research 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2017

Strictly speaking, they were always forbidden for driving, but there is a difference between me, driving along the very top of the dyke and collecting scientific data for the first national breeding birds atlas and someone exploring the possibilities of his flashy new 4×4 while driving figures of eight along the embankment slopes.

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Rights Serbia Collecting Abandon 116

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

In Sydney, refuse is an important constituent of the diet during the breeding season (HBW), and a study conducted in 1970 describes a number of strategies by which these gulls steal food from Crested Terns. The bird mostly feeds on nectar … … and only collect sufficient insects to satisfy its protein requirements ( source ).

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2016

The data, collected from more than 500 owls over 18 years, appears to contradict the theory that southern-wandering Snowies are struggling to stay alive. ” It may be too early to speculate about how Snowy this winter may be in North America. ” It may be too early to speculate about how Snowy this winter may be in North America.

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Owls Hawaii Stray North America 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2019

It has been a few years since I could share some good news about the Pied Oystercatchers breeding along the coast near Broome. Hopefully you won’t mind me writing a bit more this year about Pied Oystercatchers during the breeding season!

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Eggs 2000 Family Breeding 130

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!

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2018 New York City Birds Abandon 215

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For For one example, a dispute over the old rights to a Motown dance act (of all things) is the cause of the murder at the heart of the book.).

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Humane 2018 Laws Science 132

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AUGUST 14, 2013

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

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South America San Diego Mexico America 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I was also notified of a study of Brant behavior that is being done collectively by wildlife agencies from New Jersey, New York, and Canada. For all I know, my report of this bird might be the first indication that the bird survived the round trip migration to and from the breeding grounds.

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New Jersey New York Science Canada 117

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2018

Since neither the Internet nor eBird were even a thought, that’s where I collected the place names of my birding bucket list. One of the highlights of birding in this Texas state park is the chance to see five owl species that breed here. In the park proper, 358 species have been recorded.

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Texas Owls Barn Owls Hunting 152