10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 makes interesting reading. Originally confined to the Arctic, breeding [of Barnacle Geese] is now confirmed throughout much of the Baltic coast S North Sea. A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find).
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. I love American Avocets and I rarely see them in such marvelous breeding plumage, so I was in heaven. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. But, getting the nest set up, amorous acitivites, the laying and hatching of the egg, all that, happens earlier. “Many long-distance migrants arrive so late on the breeding grounds that they have little opportunity to respond to warming conditions by nesting earlier.”
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2011
Most of the breeding birds returning here will arrive within the next 10 days to two weeks. Late this week I sorted through three hundred trying, unsuccessfully, to find the odd Iceland Gulls that turn up each year. My favourite spot will be frantic with shorebirds soon, arriving, displaying, breeding and disappearing to nest.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. William Rapai (pictured left) is a newspaper reporter and editor who is clearly also a birder.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2012
Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. Stood high on a sea wall, north wind blowing strong in my face, scouring the dark sea, the occasional cries of Iceland, Glaucous and Herring Gulls as they dive past along with the unmistakeable smell of salt and fish locate me even with eyes closed.
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