Breeding Collecting Groups Investigation 
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. Geological Survey.
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. It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner. You can see why here.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? We found Black-collared Swallows breeding in cracks among the lower riverside rocks.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
DNA evidence then indicated that they are an ancient group mostly closely related to the bizarre and wildly different rockfowls and they were therefore contentiously placed in the Picathartes family, before finally finding a contented home in their own family, Chaetopidae. A dancing Blue Crane , South Africa’s national bird.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2023
Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). This species might indeed merit a bit more research – the only paper I found on its breeding looked at only 7 nests (of which 3 failed).
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