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Spotting My Florida Birds on their Maine Breeding Grounds

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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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Broome’s Pied Oystercatchers are breeding again

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Well, it is that time of year again and shorebirds are breeding. Hopefully all of the migratory shorebirds that left Roebuck Bay earlier this year have been successful at breeding in the Northern Hemisphere and will soon be heading back to our shores. I have also learnt to not count my chickens before they hatch.

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Birding Ijmuiden Pier in Late October

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I’ve seen this bird many times now but I still always take my time looking at them, as even in their non-breeding plumage they look very elegant. A very elegant Arctic Tern was foraging close to the pier, the first time I saw this bird in breeding plumage.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For the nature lovers and birders who participate in breeding bird surveys, the atlas represents hours, often hundreds of hours, of volunteer time spent within a community of citizen scientists doing what they love, observing birds. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain?

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The Change in Seasons

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We typically celebrate sightings and not a change in air temperature or moisture content. The first step in preparing for the breeding season is getting ready for courtship. Bearing witness to the cyclical fluctuations of the seasons is a boon to the psyche on a level that tends to go unnoticed and unannounced.

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Little Egret in the Indian Ocean

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On our recent walks along Cable Beach checking on the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers that are currently breeding we have often observed a Little Egret. It is quite content running about in quite deep water up to its body. There is only ever one Little Egret and it runs around in the shallows of the Indian Ocean.

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Baby Boom … in Great Britain?

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It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Both photos by the WWT).

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