10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

Because this is New Guinea, it does not attract t**s, finches, and sparrows, but parrots and birds-of-paradise… as soon as a fresh load of papayas and bananas is brought out and thrown on the table, the forest comes alive.” “This lodge owes its fame to a 3-yards-long, moss-covered bird feeder table. Perhaps this is because we can afford to.”

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Papua New Guinea Guinea Suriname South America 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

At the same location it was possible to watch Spotted Shags collecting nesting material and try and get airborne. The highlight of the weekend was seeing a pair foraging on a beach, searching the sand and tide strands for various morsels like a turnstone, and approaching the dozing New Zealand Fur Seal without the slightest sign of fear.

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Penguins Parrots New Zealand Seals 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. Parrots Over Puerto Rico is a wonderland of colors and shapes. The parrots called as they looked for deep nesting holes in the tall trees.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2015

Despite a life White-fronted Parrot being in contention, the title for my BBOTW this week was taken by the Cordilleran Flycatcher Empidonax occidentalis. I am not sure why the flycatcher got the nod, perhaps it was the oxygen starvation, maybe it was in reparation for simply turning away in the past.

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Parrots Collecting Species Birds 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2013

After we had collected the mangos that we could reach and brought them into the house to ripen we then started to enjoy a variety of birds eating the remaining mangoes that are too high to reach. Red-winged Parrot enjoying mango. Birding Australia bowerbirds Broome deformities Friarbirds parrots'

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Parrots Birds Australia Bats 163

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Red-rumped Parrot is a ground-feeding parrot – one of its other names is grass parrot. The bird mostly feeds on nectar … … and only collect sufficient insects to satisfy its protein requirements ( source ). That sounds pretty cool. Maybe it is a younger bird.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Now that there are 7 billi0n of us on this planet, it seems appropriate to look at and appreciate other great big collections of creatures. v=8adjITtMazA and don’t forget this collection of various beautiful parrots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCM-eXPlEpM and incredibly impressive.

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Bahrain Austria Oregon Collecting 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Scarlet Macaw Ara macao. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The text is divided, not taxonomically or chronologically, but with a weirdly visual bent – one section is devoted to what birders do, while roughly twice as many pages go to matters like decorating with a bird theme or collecting bird memorabilia and art. As I read, I realized that I had encountered books very much like this before.

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Collecting Science Hunters Parrots 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of names to collective nouns for groups of birds. The site also seemed to suggest a few that seemed flat out wrong; parrotlets aren’t baby parrots, they are a type of small parrot, same with owlets and peeps.

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New Zealand Parrots Rats Bats 103

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. As I had cause to observe last weekend, the great divide between birders and nonbirders is best expressed through gulls.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. Today, if you want to see parrots in the USA you need look no further than Miami. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2014

Sure, we still get excited to see Resplendent Quetzals , dozens of hummingbirds, and chances at literally hundreds of other resident species (one would have to be more jaded than a collection of Ming Dynasty artwork to not be excited), but now is migration time and as every birder knows, migration equals a chance at the unexpected.

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Costa Rica Parrots Collecting Species 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2015

However, the owners’ collective commitment to certified organic biodynamic agriculture not only produces incredibly fresh and delicious ingredients for the kitchen but ensures that birds will find the property irresistable. Want tropical stunners like toucans, trogons, parrots, and motmots? Are there hummingbirds?

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Costa Rica Birds Farming 2014 247

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Most of these birds are escaped/freed pets who have established breeding populations, and many of these populations are growing; others could be falconer’s birds, or part of a zoo or private collection. This is not a situation you want to find yourself in.

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San Francisco San Diego Connecticut South America 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

These aggressive, boisterous yet attractive geese have begun building a population in Florida from a few accidental escapes from waterfowl collections (Crandon Gardens in Miami-Dade being the most famous). The Yellow-chevroned Parakeet makes a good contender for becoming countable for another reason as well.

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Florida Miami Bolivia Parrots 187

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The latest of these, “ A phylogeny of birds based on over 1,500 loci collected by target enrichment and high-throughput sequencing ” by John E. the relationship between songbirds, parrots, and falcons) and proposes with some surprising new hypotheses of its own. McCormack et al., McCormack et al.,

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Parrots Falcons South America 2008 136

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

Despite the last group, this is not merely a collection of just-so stories. Rather, it is much in the nature of a cabinet of curiosities — everything is assembled in the hopes that it may all, however improbably, be of some use in the search after truth and wisdom.

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Hedgehogs Egypt Animal Fur 117

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. If you want more detailed knowledge of parrotlet behavior and nesting, check out these two references in particular: Beissinger, SR, and JR Waltman (1991) Extraordinary clutch size and hatching asynchrony of a neotropical parrot.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade. Through the course of the paper, Mayr puts a slew of recent studies (including Hackett et al.’s

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 163

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

Parrots, macaws, parakeets, toucans, aracaries, cotingas, most tanagers jacamars and hummingbirds are largely restricted to the forest canopy. It was obvious that not only scientists found this attractive; canopy exploration has become popular among ecotourists wishing to experience the forest canopy.

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Peru Birds United Kingdom South Africa 181

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 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

The star of such huge concentrations is the massive Jabiru , towering over a diverse collection of South American waterbirds such as Sunbittern , Plumbeous Ibis , and Southern Screamer. During this time, the fish trapped in the shrinking pools of water attract hordes of herons, egrets, storks, and other wetland species.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

You will either have to leave it at the airport and collect it later (using up precious time), or carry it with you in hot, humid conditions. Check the tops of the palms for Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot and watch for White-breasted Kingfishers on any prominent feature. Taxis can usually be found quickly and easily unless it is raining.

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Singapore Woodpeckers Parrots Zebras 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

By the way, the Queens Zoo has a very nice collection of ducks that are certainly not countable for a birder’s life list but are useful in terns of studying and learning field marks. Diabolical A to Z Quiz in Queens Quiz Pic 2 Answer: Thick-billed Parrot So who wins? DIABOLICAL!!!

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2017

To make up for our collective absence, we did a trip there last weekend. Parrots also flew overhead and the nearby forest gave us a few more tanager species, a glimpse of a Slaty-breasted Tinamou , and prolonged views of a tiny, prized Pied Puffbird. The Pied Puffbird is regular in this part of Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica San Jose Bats Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

Another crested bird adding to my collection. Now the plain colored Hornero with a crest was a lot prettier than any of the previous Horneros I had seen. Crested Hornero. Got my second thumping experience with the first views of the Lark-like Bushrunner ! To top it all a cute couple posed for the photo shoot! Lark-like Bushrunner.

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Argentina Farming Chile Birds 179

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 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

Then again, try explaining to a new birder why falcons come after woodpeckers and before parrots! ” This is fascinating stuff if you collect books. I like field guides based on taxonomic systems, probably because I’ve been trained to work with obscure classificatory systems.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 199

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. Many of the names of the photographers, listed in a 21-page section at the back of the book, are familiar: Glenn Bartley, Brian E.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. I have been guided by David Letsoale and Paul Nkhumane for Cape Parrot and other difficult forest species. We were introduced to a local specialist, but this gentleman turned out to be interested in caged birds.

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Birds Mozambique Zimbabwe Mammals 213

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Birds that are not easily grouped with others are put together in what I call the fun groups: “Dippers, Wren, accentors, oriole, starlings and waxwings” and “Kingfishers, cuckoos, Hoopoe, bee-eaters, Roller and parrot” (which are actually related, the authors tell us, as they are mostly “higher landbirds”).

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Formerly described in 1811 by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, the Cuban Macaw was a primarily red, long-tailed parrot with beautiful orange feathering around the nape and blue feathering on the wings and tail. … Birds Cuba Extinction Week parrots' Painting by Jacques Barraband, ca. … Extinction is forever.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 238

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. Early morning is of course birding prime time and a pre-breakfast stroll around our lodge produced sightings of the lovely Orange-bellied Parrot , which we tracked down to a nesting hole right next to the restaurant.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

Since we collectively shared that day of birding with more than 20,000 people in more than 150 countries, there’s a pretty good chance that more people were out watching birds on May 13th than any other day in history.

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Costa Rica 2017 Owls West Virginia 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Brown-hooded Parrot – Pyrilia haematotis. White-crowned Parrot – Pionus senilis. Red-lored Parrot – Amazona autumnalis. Mealy Parrot – Amazona farinosa. White-fronted Parrot – Amazona albifrons. Yellow-naped Parrot – Amazona auropalliata. Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 01 Jun 2019.

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