10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

Unexpected, sudden moments of excitement came in the form of a few leaping Thresher Sharks (!), Also known as the Fairy Tern, this species breeds on Cocos Island and is very rarely seen from pelagic trips in Costa Rica. a couple sea turtles, and a jumping sailfish but no birds. Were there going to be any birds?

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Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Carpet Shark washed up Carpet shark being returned to the sea I hope you have enjoyed this little insight into our varied wildlife here in the north of Australia. She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot. They are relatively helpless and immobile on land.

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Here one is close to the scenically impressive Cape of Good Hope National Park as well as the Boulder’s Coastal Park, home to hundreds of breeding African Penguins.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. And, they wear tuxedos, which seem to provide camouflage while they are swimming, where leopard seals, sharks, and other creatures would like to make a meal of them.

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 189

10,000 Birds

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 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

The only other significant mainland breeding colony is based about an hour out of Cape Town on the east coast at a place called Betty’s Bay. Thanks to fencing off of the breeding area, attacks from land predators have declined and now all four of the local cormorant species can also be found breeding at the colony.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 209

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.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 204

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

you know … birds can vary, and who knows how exactly those transitional plumages between winter and breeding may look like. Comparing it to “my” bird, I can’t help but feel I’ll have to jump the shark … Therefore, I fully expect the rarities committee to play safe and reject the observation because.

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Germany Sharks Morocco Europe 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

People were doing things like that with birds, sharks, and humans. 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. The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. Image source.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). This is not really an option at Nanhui though.

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China Birds Ukraine Killing 171