10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

But genetic and morphological data both point to this conclusion, and additional evidence places tubenoses and penguins within a group recently dubbed Aequornithes, or “higher waterbirds.” Within Procellariformes, the arrangement of major groups of tubenoses is not entirely settled.

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Albatross Penguins Groups New Zealand 192

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

While I often tease Corey about how many albatrosses we have down here in New Zealand, the fact is that the United States has three species of Albatross that breed within its boundaries, albeit one of them only very rarely, and visit the western shores of North America. The dances of the albatrosses are famous.

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Albatross Hawaii New Zealand United States 182

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AUGUST 31, 2011

When it comes down to it New Zealand is all about islands. Somes, less interestingly, was a rich backer of the New Zealand Company called Joseph Somes (who never went near the place). The island represents one of only three places in North Island that has this New Zealand endemic. I’ll work on that.

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Penguins Parrots New Zealand Seals 165

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MAY 12, 2013

Africa’s pelicans can be a bit confusing on the identification front as Great White does show an overall pink blush in its plumage during breeding season whereas the pinkest part of Pink-backed Pelican is its lower back, which is only seen in flight! Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. Photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Consequently, the Ross Sea has become a focus of numerous environmental groups who have campaigned for a world marine reserve. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. The region is also a major habitat for petrels.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the group and a table of contents of subgroups that includes brief but key descriptions. Composite group photographs and brief text descriptions present the core information, the species accounts. western waters in the fall. That’s when this book would have really come in handy!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The noddies form their own little subgroup within the terns, a small tropical group (how related they are to each other I am unsure) that will be familiar to anyone birding on tropical islands, especially those far from continents. It does make them excellent subjects for photography if you ever find yourself in their colonies however.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. There are nectar feeders, dedicated frugivores, specialized seed predators and more.

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Parrots Brazil Mauritius Dominica 169

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” The organization works out quite logically if you are planning a trip to, let’s say, New Zealand. The full-length species accounts are not repeated.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 279

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JULY 11, 2012

But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand. Western Gull chick.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 268

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APRIL 11, 2018

For any of you that read my posting last week, you know that I am hanging around here on the North Island of New Zealand, and all forward progress has stalled once we arrived here at Whananaki. If there was nothing more than the large group of Brown Teal here, it would be enough to keep me around for a while.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

They represent the best of New Zealand’s birding, the astonishing rarity, the fascinating endemism, and the cheering triumph of conservation. This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. I guess New Zealanders really like flightless birds.) Kakapo are bird rock stars.

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MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

But it seems sort of appropriate in hindsight that a family so strange would end up alongside a similarly unpredictable group of birds in the flamingos. But that’s a group for a different time. A Family of Little Grebes – YC Lee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Horned Grebe , photo by Julie Gidwitz. Grebe Miscellany.

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Jordan Guatemala Birds South America 205

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

The guide covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species. Scientific names have been reviewed by the Working Group on Avian Nomenclature of the International Ornithologists’ Union. or birders who live there (but, how can you bird it all?).

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 111

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

The lake was filled with families of Dusky Moorhens and Purple Swamphens (or Pukeko as we call them in New Zealand), all tending small groups of black chicks. The large ponds were home to great numbers of waterbirds of several kinds, many of which, like the ibis, breed on the islands in the lakes.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The big book (2017 edition, let’s call it the ABG ) covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species (I’m assuming the revised edition includes a few birds that were missed because of the cutoff point, I don’t have it in hand).

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Australia Birds 2017 Groups 260

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

All species in every one of these groups is described even if not every single species lives on the ocean, a guideline continued from the earlier volume. All species in every one of these groups is described even if not every single species lives on the ocean, a guideline continued from the earlier volume.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

One of the more interesting aspects (in my opinion) of breeding in birds is their mating strategy. In this system, females mate and lay eggs with multiple males over the course of a breeding season, leaving males to incubate the eggs and raise the chicks. of all bird species, is polyandry. Polyandry is found mostly in shorebirds (e.g.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

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