10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors. Gurney’s Sugarbird was discovered by the Verreaux family and named after wealthy English banker and amateur naturalist John Gurney from Norwich. Image by Hugh Chittenden. Image by Adam Riley.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 195

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 249

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The guide presents 69 species and 1 subspecies, from “NEW WORLD VULTURES: Cathartiformes” to “OSPREY: Pandioninae” to “FAMILY: Accipitridae” (Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Hawk-Eagles), to “FALONIDS: Falconidae” (Falcons, Forest-Falcons, Caracaras, Kestrels, Merlin).

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Mexico America North America Falcons 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. And the guano from a million Wrinkle-lipped Bats.

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Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

The place was lousy with Swainson’s Hawks , and we may even have spotted a distant Golden Eagle. Wilson’s Phalaropes did their crazy spinning thing, to our collective amusement. White-faced Ibis , Great and Snowy Egrets , American Coots , and exceptionally beautiful American Avocets were everywhere. Would I return to Spring Wings?

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives. We’re about 3 days past midway through three months of 24 hour sun.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation by Mike Unwin is a collection of data about birds and their environments presented through words, graphics, and photographs. Photographs (most are from photographic stock companies) allow the maps to tell visual stories.

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Albatross Birds Campaign Protection 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Sometimes they have to protect their catches from piratic African Fish Eagles who swoop down as soon as they that see a Saddle-bill has successfully caught a fish.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

There is also a bit of science thrown in–bird banding, remote sensing, museum collecting–not everything, but enough to give the beginner a taste of the ornithological side of the birding passion. So many birding books talk only about birds, it’s fun to read about us for a change.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

In fact, the very first person to guess, Nick , managed to get the third quiz picture correct by calling it a Bald Eagle. Of course, that was the easiest of the three because though the bird in the image is captive, a bird that was injured and can’t be returned to the wild, Bald Eagles do occur regularly and naturally in Queens.

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. This is a great summer read.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows. Apparently, if exposed to sunlight, the green of the magpie plumage may turn blue.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 242

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2022

One of the most interesting aspects of watching birds in Africa is to see different members of bird families that I already know from China. An information for those Indian readers of the blog who only know “Kingfisher” as a brand of beer: It is also a bird family. Different bird families, I know.

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South Africa Africa Saint Lucia Birds 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The distance to the coast for the pair of Brahminy Kites to collect fresh fish is not far. This sandstone cliff was only a few hundred metres from where we encountered the juvenile Wedge-tailed Eagle too. Dampier Creek and Cable Beach are both around 2 1/2 kilometres from the nest site, so it is perfectly positioned in that respect.

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Fish Eagles Australia Falcons 216

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. It would be nice to be there now.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). Of course, there should be a photo of a vulture here, not of a Crested Serpent-eagle. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Bonelli’s Eagle – Aquila fasciata. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus melanoleucus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Lalbarg Botanical Gdns, Bangaluru. 02 Jun 2019. 02 Jun 2019. Nea Skioni.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 122

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2021

So, while I am lucky enough to live with my wife and family near the village of Mapleton, in the Blackall Ranges, first join me for a little journey to part of the coast. I am hoping that there is an appreciative audience here, willing to learn a little about down-under birds and wildlife. No adults were seen – only young birds.

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Australia North America Cooking Fish 260

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2014

Some people might have heard of the highly endangered Atlantic Rainforest (Mata Atlantica) that once stretched along large sections of the Brazilian coast — now, little more than a tattered collection of forest fragments. The wooded savanna habitat was home to a variety of widespread generalists as well as range-restricted specialists.

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Brazil South America Collecting America 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Dipping for fish An extinct endemic form of pelican in New Zealand would have represented another family lost, like the odd form of owlet-nightjar and New Zealand’s lost members of the hawk and eagle family. But it seems the story wasn’t so clear cut. And the fossils themselves were vanishingly rare.

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New Zealand Pelicans Solomon Islands Palau 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Lake Corella was formed in 1959 when the Clem Walton Dam was built to collect water for the mining town of Mary Kathleen and is now a popular camping area, especially in the height of tourist season in the cooler months. A family of Black-necked Storks appeared to have recently bred in the area and had not quite fledged.

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Pelicans Zebras Fish Collecting 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

Firstly I would like to just do a little update on the Pied Oystercatcher family that were a large part of my life for the last few weeks of 2014. Pied Oystercatcher family together for the last time in 2014. We had thought we had completed our year list for 2014, until we had a surprise encounter with a Little Eagle on 28th December.

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2015 2014 Ducks Ponies 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

My sister and family were not moving far, so commuting between houses was not hard and our two nephews have settled into their new schools. He is fond of nature programmes and has 10000birds in his “favourites” He is hoping for some eagle pictures in upcoming posts, as he has seen some in nature films and they impress him!

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Birds Geese 2012 Collecting 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. There are still some knotty problems to be worked out on the taxonomy of these families, but this new guide, featuring new artwork by Harrison and Larsson, works well with Steve N. Donna). ==.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2013

This scraggly collection of islands and deep long bays forms the tip of South Island closest to to North Island, but till this point my only experience of the area had been the long passage down Queen Charlotte Sound to reach the ferry terminal of Picton. Lochmara Bay with Queen Charlotte Sound in the background.

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New Zealand Charlotte Hunting Family 165