10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Young African Penguins (like the individual Duncan photographed above) appear to be facing the same sort of threat to their diet—and their survival. I know, right?!) Bad news: The massive Common Murre die-off along the U.S. In fact, the effects of climate change—and the damage that’s already done— may be even worse than we thought.

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Penguins Chicago Zoos Game 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Geological Survey.

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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. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Donna’s BBOTY – an African Penguin. Below are our Best Birds of the Year. What was yours?

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This makes it a particularly exciting time in New Zealand as the Rugby World Cup begins in two days, and the competition is being held right here in New Zealand (I would imagine they might be more excited if they hadn’t just lost two matches to Australia and South Africa, their big rivals in the Tri-Nations).

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Birds 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 192

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

The King Shag has a small population breeding on four protected islands in the Sounds and a small number regularly roost on on Blumine Island (and have even been nesting recently, perhaps successfully), and sure enough they were there and we were able to admire them. The stage to the left and the stands to the right – the Birdbath.

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Charlotte New Zealand Seals Fur 121

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The book opens with an engaging description of a colony of Southern Rockhopper Penguins , whose plummeting numbers may be attributable to warming ocean temperatures. In addition, and in part because of the authors’ very right and necessary scrupulousness, the more poetically descriptive passages sometimes fall short for me style-wise.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

White-tailed Lapwing by Jochen Roeder Duncan made a surprising choice: While the twitchers might have gone with the lost Emperor Penguin that washed up in June , my heart belongs to another. 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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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

The timing of seasonal changes is shifting, so that some birds are at risk of showing up at the right place at the wrong time (see: Birds migrating at wrong time for warmer climate ). And penguins. Forget about penguins. The Galapagos and South African penguins may be OK but many of those living in the Antarctic are doomed.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2022

Early July is right in the middle of month-and-a-half where I have seen the Sinaloa Martin. (I Assuming that several of the observers involved had made multiple observations, that probably represents only around one hundred people having ever reported this species, even though it breeds in a country bordering the United States.

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Mexico United States Breeding Penguins 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. “The

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

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. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The guide covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species. Only one species of penguin breeds on the Australian mainland; five additional species breed on sub-Antarctic islands. Additional measurements are given for certain species, like penguins.)

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 111

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Not to mention, its brilliantly bulbous crimson throat, bloated during breeding season must be a sight! Jean Loscalzo is a penguin buff (Can you blame her?) and would love to watch Rockhopper Penguins. Wicked, right? The Magnificent Frigatebird is the bird I would want to see. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 220

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? A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. Loons hardly ever fly when they are on their breeding grounds or their winter-water, but the migration is for many loons a non-trivial distance. Well, not really.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! The guide covers terns and gulls, penguins and phalaropes, but birders will be most interested in its treatment of seabirds like shearwaters, storm-petrels, diving-petrels, albatrosses, and skuas. Donna). ==.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” Information for each species includes, at the minimal: common name, scientific name, measurements, general geographic location, breeding and distribution ranges, and abundance.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 172