10,000 Birds

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.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

It seems strange that I’ll miss the return of the Sun this year, as I leave this week for a trade show and then a short trip out west to see my family. Right now we’re pretty much a three species town, Ravens with a chance of Hoary Redpolls and a sprinkling of Rock Ptarmigan. “Do you mind? This was a later nest.

South America 162

South America Eggs Family Raised 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. My friend on the end of the line got right to the point: “What does a Kingfisher look like?” This is the 3rd year for these most northerly known breeding pair of loons. A Baird’s Sandpiper, our most common breeding shorebird.

Bald Eagle 173

Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

It is at the same time of year that the migratory shorebirds that spend part of each year in Broome are also breeding, but in the Arctic. There was little movement by the family during the heat of the day except to fly to the shoreline for a drink and to cool their feet.

Eggs 177

Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 177

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. In a rarely filmed event, see newly awakened black bears go on the hunt for newborn elk calves.

America 100

America Sheep Penguins South America 100

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. In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. More on Species Accounts.

Bolivia 181

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

. … Nest dismantling by the Hair-crested Drongo may be an adaptive behavior to increase fitness by reducing risk of future predation and competition for nest sites in the following breeding season” ( source ). The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. ” ( source ).

Singapore 147

Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Gazing at Cathy Conheim, a psychotherapist raised to hate cats because they ate birds, and Donna Brooks, a retired physician and sculptor who had never had a cat, but always reached out to heal anyone who was hurting, the kitten eyed them hopefully. Would they help? Any animal group in the world can use these materials as fundraising tools.

San Diego 100

San Diego Kittens Emotional Cats 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page.

Ireland 150

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 150

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

Congo 264

Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

The most common member of the Grebe species around Broome is the Australasian Grebe- Tachybaptus novaehollandiae and it has taken advantage of our exceptionally good Wet Season early this year and has been breeding very successfully. During breeding season the Australasian Grebe has a very distinct pale yellow patch at the base of the bill.

Breeding 100

Breeding Geese Ducks Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You could say that the right-brain, the part of the brain that is intuitive and creative, goes first, and the left-brain, where the logic resides, comes in second to refine and substantiate the initial impression. The process doesn’t totally ignore plumage. These vary according to species. Close-up of Laughing Gull Range Map.

North America 208

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 208

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

According to his writings, the Cuban Macaw’s behavior was typical of the genus, living in pairs or family parties that kept in contact with loud, raucous calls. Several European zoos had this species in their collections at the time, but they either made no effort to breed it or it did not breed well in captivity.

Cuba 252

Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 252

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2011

They breed up here, and spend their winters (usually) in the lower reaches of the Arctic and near polynyas (year round ice free waters) such as the North Water Polynya between Ellesmere Island and Groenland. They are able to breed at the age of 5-6 weeks so it is easy to see, given the right conditions how quickly their population can grow.

Owls 245

Owls Fox Oklahoma Soreing 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al.

2011 221

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. That’s what you do with other game, right? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Why not just shoot the biggest one? Nobody needs to eat them.

2011 243

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

That’s right. In addition to these widespread species, Common Yellowthroat and Northern Waterthrush are reliably seen in the right habitats. For those who live in the United States and have already seen many of these species, it offers a chance to see them behaving outside breeding and migratory periods.

Florida 159

Florida Miami Cuba Bahamas 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

2011 254

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Birders have a natural tendency to appreciate variety in form, from the bewildering range of colors displayed within a single avian family, to minute distinctions between otherwise similar birds wholly inscrutable to the untrained eye (or even to those of many birders!). Birders are generally happy when this happens.

Ohio 113

Ohio India Hawaii United States 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge.

North America 178

North America America Birds New York 178

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

Migrants will be around but their hormone driven urges to get back to the breeding grounds for procreation make them less than reliable on count day. Looking like a blend of pigeon, grouse, and feathered marble cake, this fast flying species zips to the edge of a small sewage treatment pond in Eilat right at dusk pretty much every night.

Costa Rica 181

Costa Rica Eagles Birds 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Well, you know I’m only joking about the life list. Birders are not, after all, stamp collectors.

Research 201

Research Humane Compassion New York 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide is an identification guide to seabirds of the world, all of them.

Albatross 279

Albatross Penguins Groups Family 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests.

Ghana 199

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 199

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

So perhaps it is more right to say that the tropics are hummingbird-looking. And might these turned-around individuals become equally confused about their appropriate breeding range? Or like so many representatives of all lands and climes, might they someday make a home in the city and raise a family?

South America 158

South America New York Alaska America 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

All right, I’ll admit it. I’m feeling pretty good about myself right now. And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. So yes, this appears to be a breeding population.]. It means something.

Mexico 234

Mexico 2018 Ducks Breeding 234

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). The Little Grebe is of course a very common bird that can still surprise by its beauty in its breeding plumage.

Birds 147

Birds China Eggs Breeding 147