10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2021

An uncommon species in Costa Rica, it was in a brushy area that reminded me of its breeding grounds. As with previous counts in Cano Negro , many thanks goes to Tatiana and Renato of Cano Negro Experience for doing a fantastic job of organizing and coordinating the count. My favorite, though, was my year Blue-winged Warble r.

Costa Rica 244

Costa Rica Wildlife Tennessee Owls 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Growing local plants and thus local insects encourages other organisms from higher in the food web, like birds, frogs and mammals to arrive and survive. The latter figure very significant when you remember that many breeding passerines depend on the humble caterpillar to feed themselves and their offspring.

Wildlife 264

Wildlife North America Mammals Breeding 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of technology, development, and globalization, but which still shines bright, fewer in number but brilliant in quality, thanks to birders and birding organizations that believe in knowing your patch and your state.

Los Angeles 218

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 218

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

You may even have donated to organizations supporting wetland preservation there. In the case of birds that breed in the Arctic, they may only spend a fourth of the year up north. To the best of my knowledge, Ducks Unlimited is the one American organization working to protect the wetlands of Lago de Cuitzeo.

Ducks 117

Ducks Blackbirds United States Pelicans 117

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest. Threatened by loss of habitat both on breeding as well as wintering grounds, a few species have even become endangered or at least on a perilous track towards that worrisome designation. Ernesto and his team in the field.

Costa Rica 195

Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 195

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. I have seen them foraging on sandy shores of rivers deep in the Amazon, enjoyed them in their raucous breeding colonies in the Everglades, flushed them out of canals during walks around my house, and perhaps more importantly contribute to their recovery. Photo: U.S.

North Carolina 212

North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 212

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. They’re also more vulnerable to attack from large cold-blooded predators like sharks. See Cairns et al.

Penguins 239

Penguins Puffins 2008 Sharks 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. It’s a very mixed chapter.

New York City 161

New York City New York Birds Breeding 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.

Research 130

Research Germany Iran Humane 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

Endangered Species 160

Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2017

A new study published in The Condor analyzed the feathers of Bobolinks to determine what they eat after they leave their North American breeding grounds and fly south for the winter. With this latest research in hand, advocacy organizations can work to reduce rice-related threats to Bobolinks wintering in South America.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy South America Research America 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. For being invited to the Global Bird Watcher’s Conference, I would like to thank the organizers: Government of Gujarat, Gujarat Tourism Corporation and the Forest Department of Gujarat. Acknowledgements.

India 251

India Sudan Ukraine Camels 251

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Coverage & Organization Birds of Belize covers 540 or so species (I counted, the press release says “over 500”) regularly found in Belize, including the islands of the barrier reef and marine waters about 30 miles out, the range of a day trip. Birds of Costa © 2023 by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer. I love the writing here.

Costa Rica 233

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 233

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies.

California Condor 199

California Condor Falcons California Birds 199

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

Unfortunately, the folk myth associating male nose size with the size of certain reproductive organs seems to be less well-known in China. According to the McMurray hatchery , the “Silver Pheasant is considered a good ‘starter’ breed for people who want to learn more about raising pheasants” Hm. What a pity.)

Italy 207

Italy Birds China France 207

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2024

For my next visit in the following summer, we decided to organize a company birding trip to La Estanzuela – another treasure spot in the Cumbres. These parrots breed inside cavities in cliffs and they are very particular about the cliff. Also, shouting out “ look on that branch ” is not helpful in a forest and he did a lot of that.

Parrots 173

Parrots Woodpeckers Industry Fast Food 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

State and Federal Agencies feared that if these two large constrictor snakes are allowed to breed they would produce a hybrid super-python. Burmese pythons either escaped from pet trade breeding facilities in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew or were released by people who no longer wanted them as pets.

Pythons 188

Pythons Florida Mammals Reptiles 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. “Many long-distance migrants arrive so late on the breeding grounds that they have little opportunity to respond to warming conditions by nesting earlier.” The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. ” GannetCam.

Taiwan 199

Taiwan Iceland United States Humane 199

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

The 224-page book is organized by habitat and behavior, not taxonomy. Of course, this is not a formal “field guide,” but it is interesting to look at this alternative form or organization. I have to say right off that taxonomic organization is imprinted in my brain. Details vary for each species.

Ecuador 184

Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 184

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 187

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 187

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

And the book is organized seasonally, starting from the “sunny, lazy days” of late June and July, around the calendar, ending with “chasing the last of spring,” in the following June. and environs, where he lives and works, and where access to nature is, he shows, surprisingly easy.

New Hampshire 246

New Hampshire Washington Virginia United States 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Sadly it has been a poor season so far and the Pied Oystercatchers are currently on their second attempt at breeding. Most of these birds had significant breeding plumage and had most likely only recently returned to the Broome area. They are a beautiful organism and a reminder that our seasons are changing.

Wounded 160

Wounded Eggs Rescue Breeding 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2018

Moreover, Beehler – or his editors – made certain stylistic choices in terms of organization and typesetting that I found distracting. Edwin Way Teale, from whom Beehler drew the inspiration for his project, has never been my favorite of the old-school nature writers.

Meat 103

Meat United States Reptiles Canada 103

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Conservation organizations such as the Flamingo Specialist Group is actively trying to inform the public on the vulnerability of flamingos. Foraging Andean Flamingo (Photo: Emily Chin – Flickr).

Chile 155

Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

(2021) with Jacob Souva, and the forthcoming Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City (A Graphic Novel) with Binglin Hu; writer for various other nature publications and organizations, and a social media presence who always makes me smile. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness.

2018 235

2018 New York City Birds Abandon 235

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

They were different from previous guides, notably Peterson’s, utilizing photographs instead of artwork, and organizing the photographs by habitat, bird shape, and bird color rather than taxonomy. Species Accounts are organized taxonomically. It’s excess information that I think will only confuse beginning birders.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

Eagle Lake, Lake Almanor and Clear Lake have all been identified as Audubon California Important Bird Areas (IBA), meaning that they provide essential habitat for breeding, wintering, and migrating birds. Like the breeding activity of many species this spring, the grebes were late, probably due to the unseasonable weather.

California 237

California Eagles North America Breeding 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

Eggs 164

Eggs Russia Research Breeding 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

And they were the ones who, at the end of the conference, decided to get together and talk about the possibility of breeding Peregrines in captivity as a way of at least saving the species from extinction.” Again, Cade led with solid evidence acquired through his own research.

Falcons 196

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 196

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The other part of its attractiveness may be coming from the fact that it breeds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – countries seldom visited by foreign birders. For being invited to the Global Bird Watcher’s Conference , I would like to thank the organizers: Government of Gujarat and the Gujarat Tourism Corporation.

India 236

India Iran Pakistan Afghanistan 236

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The buildup of lactic acid leads to decreased heart function, then to the death of muscle cells, then the breakdown of internal organs. When a muscle is used, its metabolism changes from aerobic (uses oxygen) to anaerobic (using stored energy), which produces lactic acid. Death can occur instantaneously, or days/weeks/months later.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 209

Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Delaware 209

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.

Russia 184

Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Their are dozens of organizations that are working to not only protect the Snowy Plover , but to find a middle ground, or section of beach in this case, so that we can have a healthy population of Snowy Plovers , with out taking away access to the beach, and the ever popular sunset beach walk.

Oregon 104

Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action. Leading scientists, conservationists and aviculturalists from Europe and South-east Asia met at Walsrode in Germany recently to formulate a rescue plan.

Vietnam 157

Vietnam 2000 Germany Groups 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. Many native bird species have been displaced or lost their breeding grounds, leading to a significant decline in their numbers.

China 183

China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). Technology to the rescue!

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. The benefits are many, including the availability of anthropogenic food sources, breeding boxes and warmer temperatures. The less telomere, the more aging, independently of time.

Mammals 116

Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 116