10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2020
Especially as we were at the time about to experience a rapidly advancing tropical storm. Striated Heron in breeding plumage – extra plumes and blue lores. Even though I had seen these cryptic austral migrants before, there was no way I was going to pass up an opportunity that was this close to home.
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.” It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. End of side note.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. A First Christmas Bird Count Experience » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Thanks for visiting!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation. Piping plovers are always a treat to see, whether at their coastal or inland breeding grounds or whether at their southern wintering grounds. Thanks for visiting!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. They can soar for hours, or plunge and twist after another bird with spectacular power and flair.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2011
If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I had a beautifull view on 5 horned grebe here (one in breeding plumage), in Ann Arbor Michigan, for the 3 seconds it lasted, until I heard a huge “CRRACK&# , and I fell through the ice. What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2022
Eclipsing all that was seen previously on the trip (for me at least) was this breeding plumage Stripe-backed Bittern. In case you are wondering if I mistook an out of focus cow for a bittern, look just below and left of center. No bitterns have ever been seen on Tobago, but Trinidad has three. American Flamingo.
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