10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

The Habitat, Distribution, and Seasonal Status section gives essential information on habitat preferences, nest description (for species that breed in North America), breeding range, migration patterns and when migration takes place, tendency for vagrancy and where vagrancy usually occurs. Armistead and Brian L.

Los Angeles 186

Los Angeles North America Species America 186

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When they surface, the tips of the snout, biosonar “melon” and dorsal fins appear simultaneously, the tail rarely showing before diving. Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? Photo by Paul Maury.

Dolphins 263

Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Though in terms of aesthetics, their nests are not much to look at – a paper (in Thai, but with an English summary) describes the nest as “a bulky, untidy ball hanging from the tip of a branch of stick with an average height of 1.39 You can see why here.

Birds 222

Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 222

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

These falcons mostly feed on insects, but in the breeding season they catch migrating passerines – they even time their breeding to coincide with Autumn migration of passerines in late summer! It appears similar, but smaller with narrow black stripes at wing-tips and, I believe, dark beak. A black or white world indeed.)

Greece 232

Greece Falcons Madagascar Africa 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2016

We were very concerned about the state of the reef just off the northern end of Cable Beach and due to the fact that there was a suitable low tide this week we could investigate if this issue also presented itself there. Sooty Oystercatchers breed on offshore islands rather than the mainland in this part of Western Australia.

Australia 101

Australia Breeding Investigation Shelters 101