10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2016
So early in the morning we left Picton and headed out along Queen Charlotte Sound, getting the general tour and occasionally stopping to look at whatever we found. Marlborough Sounds has a pretty special endemic, the King Shag , a species that isn’t just endemic to New Zealand but endemic to just the Sounds.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Common Goldeneye lives up to its name around here, but this weekend found its far less-common cousin, Barrow’s Goldeneye , hanging out with Redheads and scaup at Charlotte Pier. At least that’s where I added this species to my New York list.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. In any case, our hang-ups with vultures clearly stem from our own issues rather than any inherently bizarre trait of the species themselves. Vultures famously feed on carrion. Dead things. New World Vultures.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2013
The group has a worldwide distribution; 28 species living and two additional extinct. Both extinct species were island-dwelling and flightless, suggesting a propensity of the group to disperse over long distances , a characteristic that any birder in late summer is familiar with. Scarlet Ibis , photo by Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2016
Swallow-tailed Kite is an enigmatic species in North Carolina. They are rather common in the lower coastal plain, but stake out colonies in the older neighborhoods of larger cities like Charlotte and Greensboro. Their distribution in North Carolina is strange. They don’t need a lot in the way of habitat.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. Last year, beginning about Halloween, thousands of juvenile auklets started washing ashore dead from California’s Farallon Islands to Haida Gwaii (also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) off central British Columbia.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2020
They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Thus 100 species were missed by the time he woke up and noticed that eBird had reset the counters at midnight(do you guys have nothing better to do?). Ontario Beach and Charlotte Pier. Ontario Beach and Charlotte Pier.
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