10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Pygmy Nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea ) is a non-migratory bird that lives primarily in Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pine forests in western North America. They are one of the few cooperatively breeding passerines in North America and a third of the breeding pairs have 1–3 male helpers, usually progeny or other relatives.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The latter figure very significant when you remember that many breeding passerines depend on the humble caterpillar to feed themselves and their offspring. Native trees, unsurprisingly, had a far higher insect biodiversity and a far higher biomass of insect life. Black capped Chickadee. POST SCRIPT.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2015

They fly from extreme northern North America to the southern tip of South America and are seldom seen perched during migration. Another cool fact was learning that the Barn Swallows has started to breed in South America since the 80s. What prompted this amazing change is still unknown. Photo: Alfredo Begazo.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and breeding, often in large colonies, on coastlines and islands. Alcids form a distinctive family within the shorebird order Charadriiformes. © David J. See Cairns et al.

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Penguins Puffins 2008 Sharks 224

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years. This means that loons are no longer first!

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North America 2003 Birds America 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2012

One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving waterfowl in Merginae , the seaduck subfamily of Anatidae. Anyway, the hoodie is the only merganser endemic to North America. Notice the sawbill?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2016

One of the most impressive birds in North America is the Golden Eagle. It is found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, taking its place as one of Mexico’s official symbols. Golden Eagles have a global breeding population of around 300,000 birds, 3% of which spend at least part of the year in Mexico.

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Albania Mexico Eagles Kazakhstan 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

I’m focusing on Turkey Vultures here because they are undoubtedly the species most birders in North America (the home of 10kB) are most familiar with, but the name vulture applies to birds found around the globe. Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 182

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JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling. But special. Familiar is not necessarily common.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

According to Reedman , murre is the old Cornish world for a Razorbill , and eventually became a vernacular term for alcids more broadly; murrelet, then, makes simple sense as a name for the smaller members of the family. Some murrelets are named for their styling. Except now there is no more Xantus’s Murrelet. So there you have it.

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North America Science Collecting Fish 115

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

In North America, that is. The ABA currently lumps the Mangrove Warbler and Golden Warbler with the Yellow Warbler (the IOC lumps Mangrove and Golden Warbler together but splits them from the Yellow Warbler that breeds in North America.) As you travel south, everything gets all higgledy-piggledy.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 176

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This group — dubbed the bombycillids , from the waxwing genus and family name — appears to fall near kinglets and a large group containing thrushes and muscicapids (Old World flycatchers and chats) in the passerine tree. Spellman et al. Cedar Waxwings are pictured above in a lovely image by Minette Layne.). ” Spellman et al.

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Saudi Arabia 2008 Indonesia Groups 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2011

Anyone who has gone bird watching in North America, however, knows another kind of phoebe, a bold little genus that turns up with remarkable frequency from the arctic circle to the equator. Phoebes are proud members (at least they seem so) of the Family Tyrannidae , the tyrant flycatchers. with its eastern cousin.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Still, they’re neither endangered nor threatened, either in North America as a whole or in New York State. Their breeding population stands at about 8 million, according to Partners in Flight. are developed or otherwise lost. A 65% loss of population between 1966 and 2015 is no joke.

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Bald Eagle New York Eagles North America 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2011

But the new second edition of Watching Sparrows * by Michael Male and Judy Fieth, who have a whole series of bird films already produced or in production , not only kept me staring at the screen but drew in family members to see what I was watching, to say nothing of my cats, who were enthralled by the sparrows singing on screen.

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Sparrows North America United States America 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

Now you know why the most numerous and widespread of the two swan species in North America used to be known as the Whistling Swan.

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California South Dakota Sacramento North America 107

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In North America, everyone recognizes hawks on the wing, even the ones that aren’t Red-tailed Hawks. Even outside of Atlanta , Peregrine Falcons spend their breeding seasons smiling for the ( web ) camera from atop edifices all across the country. Kestrels may be the coolest raptors nobody knows of.

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2011 Bald Eagle Atlanta Falcons 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The Durango Highway is arguably one of North America’s great birding roads due to the great variety of habitats, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the numerous Mexican endemics one can target. This poorly documented swallow is a breeding endemic to these high mountains.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 193

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Most Acorn Woodpeckers are cooperative breeders and live in family groups of up to a dozen or more individuals. Groups may also contain up to 10 male and female non-breeding helpers, usually offspring of the group produced in prior years 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a.

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Woodpeckers Breeders Groups North America 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2012

It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the west coast of northern South America, and in winter is found across the rest of Central America. By the next day, when I returned, the entire Killdeer family had vacated the premises.

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Eggs America South America North America 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The paleness of “immutabilis” is caused by a lack of melanin and is most commonly found in eastern Europe (hence its alternative name “Polish morph”) and in Mute Swans that were introduced to North America. A happy family of Mute Swans at Waghäusel in south-western Germany, post-trading era.

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Feral Europe Asia North America 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Horned Larks breed widely over North America, including up here in the High Arctic. For many North American bird enthusiasts, Common Ringed Plover ‘s are a bird they rarely, if ever, get to see. Here they are a common breeding bird, one of our two species that migrate from here to Europe and then south.

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Eggs North America Breeding Europe 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume.

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North America America Birds Family 177

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JUNE 7, 2012

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Deserts. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. But I took an opportunity to go down to Manitoba with Travis to see my family. This pair first appeared four years ago, and are amongst the most northerly known breeding Pacific Loons in North America.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Eggs 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America, present in many parts of the United States even through the winter months, when the birds feed on small fruits and other foods, including sap.

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United States 2011 Guatemala North America 236

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Species Accounts in both titles are arranged loosely in ABA Checklist order, with some flipping around of order within each family. So, each guide has an individual personality. inches, the books can be easily carried in a large pocket or small backpack. This is clearly done to allow readers to view similar species opposite each other.

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Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 238

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Many Neotropical families and genera have some of their northernmost members here, such as the spinetails ( Rufous-breasted Spinetail ), Tangara tanagers ( Azure-rumped Tanager ), and guans ( Horned Guan ). This is a fascinating area of transition. In short, the mountain birding in Honduras promised a slew of cool new birds.

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 216

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2011

Whether you like learning about bird breeding and behavior, adore baby birds, or just think that big wading birds are cool, this film is for you! Footage of them foraging, flying, and having family-time at their nests is included with narration from the two filmmakers that clearly explains what the viewer is seeing without becoming obtrusive.

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United States North America Fish Breeding 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since 1966, when the Breeding Bird Survey first began monitoring, numbers have declined 79 percent. Birds of North America , the Cornell Lab of O data base, cites many studies on this topic and they don’t all agree on results and best practices. back to the birds.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America is divided into three main sections: Introduction, Species Accounts, and Index to Bird Sounds (also called the Visual Index).

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North America America Birds New York 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Filming the plovers of Estero Lagoon Plovers are a significant part of the shorebird family, comprising 66 species worldwide. Consider Estero Lagoon for example… In North America there are nine regular plover species, ten if you include the more vagrant Common Ringed Plover.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. Like most maps, colors are used to indicate seasonal status (breeding resident, Austral migrant/visitor, Boreal migrant, etc.). Distribution maps are also different from other field guides.

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