10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2015

Another cool fact was learning that the Barn Swallows has started to breed in South America since the 80s. This is quite a remarkable fact if one thinks that this is the only (and first to do this) migratory bird to change its breeding and migratory habits. Chicks in nest in Wyoming. Chicks in nest in Wyoming.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

These birds capitalize on a quick breeding season and usually have young out by mid-July in most cases. Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico. Thus, Colorado encapsulates most of their breeding range. They are thicker-bodied than some common finches we know (i.e.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. I am a birder, after all.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Shawn Billerman is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming studying birds, though his degree will likely use fancier words than that. One of the more interesting aspects (in my opinion) of breeding in birds is their mating strategy. He is a New Yorker, a great birder, and a nice guy. of all bird species, is polyandry.

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