10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

While the native apple snail continued declining, another species of apple snail native to South America began to appear in canals and ponds in South Florida. The baseball-sized “Island apple snail”, as this exotic snail is known, spreaded through South Florida. Snail Kites now favor these ponds and breed around them.

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Florida South America Eggs Bolivia 230

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot. This poorly documented swallow is a breeding endemic to these high mountains. The birds we observed were nesting right into the cliff face. Photo by Andrew Spencer.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2011

Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada.

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United States South America Cooking Family 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. Under suitable conditions, a nest is quite durable and can be used in successive years.

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains. Untamed Americas: Deserts.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

Right now we’re pretty much a three species town, Ravens with a chance of Hoary Redpolls and a sprinkling of Rock Ptarmigan. (I The peak of this activity is over in about a week, and the birds head upland to nest (for the most part, as some have nested right at the edge of the water. This was a later nest.

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South America Eggs Family Raised 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

The dichotomous republic of Trinidad and Tobago may be something of a cipher to anyone unfamiliar with the point where the Caribbean ends and South America begins. I’ve been privileged to travel somewhat extensively through the Americas, but I still pulled a ton of lifers from the veranda before my first breakfast.

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Trinidad South America America Ecuador 249

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. Lots and lots of birds.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2011

It breeds across Canada’s boreal forest and most winter in the Caribbean, though some spend the cold months in Central America. Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada.

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Tigers United States Jamaica Pennsylvania 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

In Costa Rica, it’s also happening, not as in full force mode as the temperate north but that will change in a month when we see thousands of Eastern Wood-pewees , flocks of Eastern Kingbirds , and other species hurrying their way to South America. It can and does work !

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. The eyes are still not developed enough to open, and the feet are just strong enough to help right a toppled chick.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The region is also especially rich in trogons and motmots, two decidedly tropical families with a longer evolutionary history in North America than South America. In short, the mountain birding in Honduras promised a slew of cool new birds. the species suffering most from deforestation).

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 226

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. Which leaves me with quite a few choices – practically the entire tropical belt, right? It makes me think what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? Why am I here?

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Their population is in serious decline, so their breeding colonies are monitored by biologists. Finally, it was just Sophie left. So gorgeous!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 233

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In the Peterson field guide tradition, text and range maps are on the left and illustrations are on the right (though, unlike the tradition Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America there are no arrows pointing to field marks). These are listed in a table, which also specifies slope and geographic region (but not country).

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2011

Consider who the rightful owner of this rich resource might be and weigh the consequences of hasty action. Now a car manufacturer might suggest that you remove the caustic substance immediately with a soft cloth, but are they really the right people to be giving advice on such a sensitive issue?

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Bolivia Chile America Spain 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

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. Below are our Best Birds of the Year. What was yours? Let us know in the comments…see you there!

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 197

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.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

There is a thing parents know very well – how important it is to choose the right name for a child. Maybe you are a lucky kid whose parents took you birding South America as a toddler, a rich heir with an inheritance to burn, a lucky diplomat choosing your tropical posts, an international bird guide or a bird tour agency owner?

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Family Birds South America Breeding 297

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” When we come to Gentoo Penguin again in the South Georgia chapter, for example, we’re referred back to its first appearance in Antarctica, utilizing the outline numbers.).

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

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. Wicked, right? Not a minute later, I’d scooped up my kid and sprinted back into the house for my binoculars and camera. Hat-tip to Stella.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2014

The Great Grebe , Podiceps major , is a bird of South America where it frequents large waters and coastline on both sides of the continent. It prefers large waters and coasts during the non-breeding season, but seeks out wooded, well vegetated lakes and marshes for breeding. And did I mention that it was big?

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Argentina Uruguay Chile South America 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Perhaps the most complicated and bizarre mating system is that of the Rheas of South America. They live in flocks in the open country shrubland of Southern South America. Whether males or females decide what is the right harem size is unknown.

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Eggs South America Raised America 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem?

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2020

Many of these were still in their breeding plumage, a special treat for us here in the tropics as they would soon shed their richly patterned exterior for a drab and more mundane outfit. I happened to look up at just the right time to catch a small flock of Scarlet Ibis. There were more Lesser Yellowlegs than we could count.

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Trinidad South America Blackbirds Industry 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 254

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2014

It also supports the greatest variety of large mammals in all of South America, including such iconic species as Maned Wolf and Giant Anteater. It was a poignant and ironic sight to see them in the process of breeding right next to that barn at the edge of the park.

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Brazil South America Collecting America 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

Consider their plumage, waterproof and dense like all aquatic birds, but each feather attached to their skin at a right angle with a curl to the tip which traps air against the body. Pied-billed Grebe , photo by Steve Tucker. Not enough for you?

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Jordan Guatemala Birds South America 200

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

There are also two pages illustrating the “Holistic Approach,” silhouettes of each species (Western birds on the left, Eastern birds on the right), that allow for comparison of structure, size, and shape. The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions.

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Los Angeles North America America Species 225

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Males of this species are more brightly colored in their non-breeding winter plumage. It occurs in forest edge in eastern South Africa, and in Fynbos , and even into arid areas, in the southern parts of the country. Greater Double-collared Sunbird (right) is less common and more localized than its smaller cousin.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 234

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

We get to see a lot of them around here, and familiarity breeds, not contempt certainly, but perhaps apathy. It’s funny, given how common Palms are at the right time of the year, that I almost never see the two populations together. Clearly they have no such compunction about heading south together.

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North America North Carolina South America America 206

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

bought the rights to Noah Webster’s famous American Dictionary of the English Language , though it later lost exclusive rights to the “Webster” name.). to South America that has brown shoulders and conspicuous white markings on the rump and tail”) notes that it was named for the American naturalist Edward Harris.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 106