10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland. In breeding plumage islandica godwits develop a deeper red plumage than their limosa cousins. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Three live and breed here, two migrate through the country in large numbers (one of those also breeds here in small numbers), and another migrates through and winters in Costa Rica. They won’t build a nest or look for a mate but other than that, their behavior in Costa Rica is pretty similar to that of their breeding grounds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. Of course, I can’t bat a thousand on the bad photo rankings.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2017

Of course, snow and cold still dominate upstate New York, but beautiful, belligerent Blue Jays don’t much care; some have lingered throughout the dark months, but fresh reinforcements have arrived to stake out territory. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Me, as a management consultant, I sometimes have to pretend to like challenges but of course, I would rather have some easy tasks. My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. In the non-breeding season, Common Merganser all look pretty much like females.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

And, of course, there was a group of youngsters barbecuing. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. The hide overlooking the breeding colony of Red-footed Falcons. More or less, a proper picnic site. They got the message right. And so did I.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

I did however manage to be in the right place at the right time to experience a gang of Magnificent Frigatebirds that had a Red-footed Booby surrounded. The seabirds are of course, the main attraction. Both Brown and Red-footed Boobies actively breed on Little Tobago as well as Saint Giles.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2017

By “believe,” of course, I mean you desire them and seek them out to commemorate another year of life. He had a lot to choose from with displaying Clark’s Grebes , hordes of western hummingbirds, breeding plumaged American Avocets and all the other goodies that can be found in the diverse habitats of SoCal.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Technically, it was a possibility, but if that was the case, he would never defend a PhD thesis on birds breeding along the high voltage powerlines in a treeless agricultural landscape. What made the story better (and a worse experience for him) was the fact that the cops had seen the Dogs of War. Well… she didn’t buy my tale.).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2013

Rochester, NY is often called the Flour City in honor of the mills that once thrived along the faster courses of the Genessee River. He heard another on breeding territory in Sullivan County on Sunday and wondered if the bird he saw Friday had made its way north. Lilacs are kind of a big deal in Rochester. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. End of side note. How efficient.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

This is, of course the Lesser Roadrunner. You truly cannot experience the Gray-barred Wren without hearing the raucous calls shared among group members of this highly-social species. Slate-throated Redstart : This lovely little bird is our most common resident (breeding) warbler, and in certain places you will hear it EVERYWHERE.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. Let’s hope it can find some relatively unfragmented habitat for breeding – studies show that the failure rate of nests is much higher in fragmented habitats. The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lesser White-fronted Geese, of course. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. With one Black Stork near them, some 80 LWfG were foraging in the distance, where the sun was just now clearing the mist.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

The birds are not allowed to breed on the runway, but many loaf around on it. Around 100,000 of these terns breed on almost every available space on the island, and walking through groups of them is a deafening and quite painful experience. This species doesn’t breed on Tern Island itself, but does sometimes turn up there.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever. ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2018

Fourth, not seeing a Kirtland’s Warbler in Central Park would mean that eventually I would have to make a trip to Michigan, the only place where they breed in any numbers, just to see a Kirtland’s Warbler some day. Third, Kirtland’s Warbler has only recently made the New York State checklist with two sightings in 2014. (

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

It is this season we experience vast musical repertoires, green canopies, hot air, and bustling energy. These birds capitalize on a quick breeding season and usually have young out by mid-July in most cases. Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

So I did… When you’re offering reasons to pursue a particular course of action, more is often better. Once it comes time to actually explain how to pursue that course of action, however, your design imperative changes. Push every button you can find and hope that some of them stick. Get serious… birds are everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

That assumes, of course, that he or she stays at Asa Wright Nature Centre. And then there are the birds… Green-backed or Amazonian White-tailed Trogon Asa Wright Nature Centre is most renowned for its resident breeding colony of unearthly Oilbirds. And English is the national language!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Now it is a book from a swank New York publishing house, with a fantastic jacket design and a significant marketing push (I ran across a quote from it in Outside magazine yesterday, and of course it is being reviewed on the premeire birding blog on the entire Internet.) “A man” here means Nathan Lochmueller. Which is fine.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

And one that I have written about before when I was pleased to find Blackburnian Warblers like the one above breeding.). And, of course, as I do sometimes, I managed to sneak in a bit of birding. In other words, it is an awesome place. It was amazing and one of those moments that even the completely non-birders appreciated.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. No, that was not a typo, the Sooty Terns fly non-stop for an average of five years before they return to the Dry Tortugas to breed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

about his experiences with Harris’ Hawks ( Parabuteo unicinctus ) as falconry birds in the Sonoran Desert in which he discusses various pros and cons of falconry. But this gets me back to my original question, something that has been bouncing about within me for a good few years: “is falconry a good thing?&#

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This is particularly poignant if the bird has disappeared during the course of my birding days or “on my watch” as I like to think of it. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Of course, that is just my perspective and I have been known to think that birds that don’t show up until May are late if they aren’t here by mid-April. Though I will grudgingly admit that a few of the birds we saw were alright, like the Northern Gannets in the bay and the Horned Grebes in breeding plumage.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. Though they breed on the tundra, Pomarine Jaegers spend most of their lives at sea.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The composite photographs show each species swimming and flying; flying viewpoints are from underside, below, close-up, far-out, alone and in flocks; in-photo comments give important identification points and, as needed, indicate breeding and non-breeding plumage, dark and light morphs and, for sea lions, male and female/immature images.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? And of course, the reality that all of this involves using sentient nonhumans when that's unnecessary isn't even considered. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? Birds, of course! ( Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. As Clare well knows! )

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But I have now visited Magee Marsh in autumn, or, technically, the very tail end of summer, but whatever the season might actually have been the birds were not in their breeding finery and they were heading south. Of course, not everything was a wood-warbler. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses.

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