10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2023
We were in the remote Amazonian forests and not a sound was to be heard except for the rhythmical dripping of water from the raised paddles. For example nothing is known of its breeding habits, any accounts of its diet (it is assumed to feed on insects and other arthropods), ways of foraging and movement (presumed resident) are wanting.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
Frigatebirds don’t occur in the cold waters of the coast of Peru and Chile, but Band-tailed Gulls (Larus belcheri) have developed similar strategy. Instead of hovering, some gulls have set up territories within breeding colonies of Humboldt seabirds. And the story repeats itself multiple times during the day.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. It was decades later that Maria Keopcke, a German ornithologist with a long trajectory in Peru suggested to expand the search of the Guan to areas not surveyed before. This flock is composed of about 54 birds including nine breeding pair.
10,000 Birds
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. And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? Peru (1807 / 1761). It makes me think what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?
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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population.
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