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JULY 2, 2015

This is partly because it leaves at such high elevations (11,811 – 15,090 feet above sea level) along the high Andes of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. American Avocet in breeding plumage. The Andean Avocet breeds in small groups in loose colonies scattered along the shallow saline lagoons at high elevation.

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Bolivia Chile Argentina North America 165

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The first shorebird arrivals are apparently birds that failed at a breeding attempt and don’t have time to re-attempt; they might as well head south early. Later in October, Cerulean and Blackburnian Warbler from the Eastern humid Andes of Peru began to show up in Facebook posts. Shorebirds flagged in Peru. Cerulean Warbler.

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South America Colombia Peru Chile 162

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Let’s say you’re a bird wrapping up your breeding season in the north of Scotland—where do your thoughts turn when winter beckons? the Caribbean islands, and Ecuador and Peru. If you’re like most, you head southeast, meeting up with your continental cousins near the Mediterranean or Arabian Seas.

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Iceland South America Ecuador Stray 186

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JUNE 10, 2016

But when you can’t get to Peru, sometimes you just have to make do closer to home — for instance, at the Muttontown Preserve. Today the Muttontown Preserve is a combination of tangled second-growth forest and open fields, suitable breeding habitat for a wide variety of beloved bird species.

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Albania Birds Kentucky Baltimore 100

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APRIL 23, 2015

Three White-faced Whistling Ducks showed up in Villa Marshes in Lima-Peru. Villa Marshes is an Ebird hot spot and popular site among Peru’s fast growing birding community. The hype about these unusual birds grew fast to judge by the number of posts and photos on Facebook.

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Ducks South America Peru Adoptable 157

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AUGUST 20, 2015

This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. Peru (1807 / 1761). It makes me think what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? Why am I here? And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International. South Africa (755 / 842).

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2013

Trinidad is the northern limit of the range of the Red-breasted Blackbird , though it is unclear if the occasional birds that show up in Tobago are wanderers from Trinidad or northern South America or are breeding there. You can also find Red-breasted Blackbirds in Costa Rica and Panama and south to Peru and Brazil.

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Blackbirds Trinidad Costa Rica Nicaragua 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

As is often the case in birds, teenagers, and other living creatures, these charismatic colors play a prominent role in the booby’s breeding rituals. Blue-footed Booby by Toni Darton One may find Blue-footed Boobies at various locations along the eastern Pacific Coast from California south to Peru. sula ) and Nazca Booby ( S.

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Ecuador Peru Hunters Pelicans 183

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant. I love the writing here.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 213

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APRIL 10, 2015

Red-masked Parakeet, a near-threatened endemic of southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, has sizeable population clusters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale. These are the famous parakeets of the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill , which is based on the population in San Francisco.

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Los Angeles Miami San Francisco Florida 154

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Male and female Blue-black Grassquits ( Volatinia jacarina ) in Peru © David J. They include the seedeaters ; the grassquits and other “quits”; the yellow-finches, warbling-finches , and mountain-finches ; and the wonderful assemblage of Galápagos finches (“Darwin’s finches”)!

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2003 Sparrows Family South America 211

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. Fossils of a giant extinct penguin, Inkayacu paracasensis were found a while back in Peru. They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. Salas-Gismondi, R.,

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 192

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JUNE 25, 2011

Undisturbed through thousands of generations by man or land predators, the birds accumulated piles of poop several meters thick and sat atop them with a proprietorial pride in huge colonies, breeding, feeding and creating even more guano. That’s when the strain was felt and Chile began to push.

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Bolivia Chile America Spain 189

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Pelagic birding off the Atlantic coast of Florida can be a frustrating experience, usually involving long waits of up to an hour or more interspersed with brief flurries of activity — a far cry from pelagic birding off of coasts blessed with cold water currents and nutrient rich upwelling such as California, southeast Australia, and Peru.

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Florida United States Fish 2005 164

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MARCH 15, 2011

These Blasts From The Past American Seabirds Thrown a Lifeline Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Breeding Site of Large-billed Reed-Warbler Found Queens Christmas Bird Count IATB #137 Deadline About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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Deer 2011 New York New York Times 124

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MARCH 6, 2011

Like manky mallards, ganky geese display remarkable variety due to both the methodical manipulations of breeders and the variable volatility of the more natural kind of breeding. Feral geese run the gamut from pure white to almost entirely gray or brown. We certainly see enough of them, don’t we?

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

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MARCH 9, 2011

The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. I can see why you thought you had found a new breed with this one. Do you think it is the female?

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 151

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FEBRUARY 23, 2013

” Some exotic bird species such as Red-whiskered Bulbul and Spot-breasted Oriole have been ABA-countable for decades, managing to maintain very small breeding populations despite the impacts of hurricanes and changes in landscaping. Mitred Parakeets raiding a feeder, by Larry Manfredi.

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Florida Miami Bolivia Parrots 195

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MARCH 3, 2011

Though breeding grounds for neotropical migrants get the bulk of attention in North America wintering grounds are just as critical, and any news about land being preserved as wintering habitat for the Cerulean Warbler is wonderful. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The map template shows the political boundaries of each country, and are color and shape coded to show permanent residents, nonbreeding visitors, breeding visitors, transients, vagrants, breeding colonies, local wintering sites, locally resident year-round sites, and suspected sites. He currently lives in Peru.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 232

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MARCH 2, 2011

Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. On the way out I spotted a lone White-faced Ibis ( Plegadis chihi ) engaged in behavior I had not seen before. It was foraging in breast deep water.

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Wildlife 2011 Sacramento Jordan 155

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MARCH 20, 2011

The male Bar-tailed Godwit are the first to show us breeding plumage and then the Red Knot and Curlew Sandpipers have two beautiful reds-red wine rather than cranberry juice! Breeding colour becomes rather obvious! She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

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MARCH 8, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. The crows pick the ripe nuts off the top branches, drop them in the street, then chow down after the cars break them open.

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2011 Deer New York Owls 151

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MARCH 16, 2011

By March though Scandinavian Rock Pipit begins to show some changes into breeding plumage and outs itself as a migrant rather than a resident. By the way: at the Baltic coast we had large flocks of spinoletta migrating through in late March/April, and due to them moulting from non-breeding to breeding plumage, many had seemingly pale lores.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 152

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MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. They can soar for hours, or plunge and twist after another bird with spectacular power and flair.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 152

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

During my trip to Peru (where I almost got lost in the jungle trying to locate a rumoured Andean C**k-of-the-rock lek), my rambles in South-east Asia and also this last trip to Ecuador, I realised that this is more than possible because compared to the forests in these regions our European ones seem like a walk in the park.

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Solomon Islands Ecuador Colombia Brazil 217

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MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Yellow-Legged Gull These gulls breed around the Mediterranean and have yellow, rather than flesh-coloured legs. Get yours today! I am clearly not.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

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MARCH 8, 2011

This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation. Piping plovers are always a treat to see, whether at their coastal or inland breeding grounds or whether at their southern wintering grounds.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 189

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MARCH 2, 2011

Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet !

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 175

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MARCH 8, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Jochen Mar 8th, 2011 at 6:53 pm Haaaaa! That is so absolutely incredible!! Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

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MARCH 13, 2011

They breed across Canada and Alaska’s boreal forest near ponds and lakes, using nest holes made by woodpeckers, almost exclusively flickers. Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks. In winter most head to the coasts though some stay inland on open water. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

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MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. Like most maps, colors are used to indicate seasonal status (breeding resident, Austral migrant/visitor, Boreal migrant, etc.). Distribution maps are also different from other field guides.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

I had a beautifull view on 5 horned grebe here (one in breeding plumage), in Ann Arbor Michigan, for the 3 seconds it lasted, until I heard a huge “CRRACK&# , and I fell through the ice. And my first Killdeer of year! Laurent Fournier Mar 7th, 2011 at 1:09 pm Maybe not the best bird here, but the most exciting!

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2011 New York Deer Birds 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. Instead I saw a flash of orange. Not a minute later, I’d scooped up my kid and sprinted back into the house for my binoculars and camera.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

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JULY 26, 2019

So, it just might be that pisco – the beloved South American grape brandy contentiously claimed by both Peru and Chile – is the only spirit named after birds. The name of the liquor is likely borrowed from the city of Pisco on Peru’s central coast, an important port for the pisco trade in the early days of the Spanish viceroyalty.

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Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 122

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot. She is actively involved in fieldwork and maintaining the database. This involves the sighting of these birds both here and overseas resulting in some incredible life stories.

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 151

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Voice is a sharp, piercing phrase of a double note and a harsh single note; and it inhabits undergrowth at borders of forest, woodland and riverine belts, while its range stretches from W Ecuador to NW Peru. In the book, it is a short, 3-line paragraph. The additional illustrators were Gustavo Carrizo, Aldo A. Chiappe, Luis Huber and Jorge R.

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Birds Botswana Africa Ecuador 245