10,000 Birds
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. Rogers can.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. Freshly collected and en route to some R&R.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2021
Slate-throated Redstart : This lovely little bird is our most common resident (breeding) warbler, and in certain places you will hear it EVERYWHERE. That emotional connection earned it my #2 spot. If I ever moved away from Morelia, this ringing call would instantly transport me back here. The site is much-degraded now.)
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. We found Black-collared Swallows breeding in cracks among the lower riverside rocks. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Peregrine Falcon nests.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan.
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