10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
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?
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
JUNE 5, 2016
June in the Northern Hemisphere brings birds on their breeding grounds, some still frisky and others settled down taking care of their chicks. I experienced some of my best birding in a long time as I explored some new trails at my mother-in-law’s rural Pennsylvania home. What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2015
It was that way for my first Indigo Bunting (a male that absorbed all light and sang in morning wet forests of northeastern Pennsylvania in 1979), and my first Brown Noddy seen from a ferry in Costa Rica earlier this year. That’s how important the lifer experience is and I suspect most other birders who started out young feel the same.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2011
It breeds across Canada’s boreal forest and most winter in the Caribbean, though some spend the cold months in Central America. The shot below is of a first-fall female Cape May Warbler taken in Potter County, Pennsylvania, by Mike Bergin in September of 2009. Read about them here but also get out and experience them.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2016
Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Green boxes offer Natural History and Taxonomic Notes.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647. Crawford, R.D.
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