10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them. The parrot is multicolored, providing a simple explanation for the Latin species name of varius.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Instead of going on about zip lines and other modern, adventure tourism attractions, the birding crowd talks about taking photos of Resplendent Quetzals , seeing dozens of hummingbird species, and the seemingly odd absence of raptors in Costa Rica but nope, we don’t really talk about extinction. Resplendence.

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Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 224

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The antwren had been elevated to species level and Hilton is just a sucker for anything Paulista, and besides, who needs a reason to go birding? His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. 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 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Her teacher is assumed to have been a very young Edgar Lear, who learned the art because he wanted to produce his own book on parrots and who also did illustrations for John Gould. Elizabeth’s watercolor of the Australian Mulga Parrot, for example, was used as the basis for H.C. And I’m so happy I did.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 197

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

The Great Bowerbirds only collect white and green, but they have mostly collected white rocks at this location. Whilst we were there we had Rainbow Bee-eaters , Willie Wagtails , Paperbark Flycatcher , Pied Butcherbirds , Red-winged Parrots and a White-faced Heron use it. Great Bowerbird bower. A good variety of birds drop by.

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Collecting Zebras Parrots Groups 151

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

I was surprised that this species is named for its vocalization – which sounds like laughter. For example, the Diamond Dove is the world’s second-smallest species of the columbidae order ( source ). The Red-rumped Parrot is a ground-feeding parrot – one of its other names is grass parrot.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular.

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Brazil California Condor 2013 Collecting 216

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 220

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. The Cordilleran Flycatcher used to share the species with the Pacific Slope Flycatcher.

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Parrots Collecting Species Birds 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From there, we entered a side tributary full of Ringed and Amazon Kingfishers , with Chestnut-fronted and Scarlet Macaws in flight… and then the noise: groans, croaks and grunts… and the smell… of this 65 million years old species, so old that the last dinosaurs must have fed on them! Nor will there be, as our skipper has assured us. –

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 263

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.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

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 105

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 138

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 169

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. Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 228

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2012

Falcons split from hawks to join parrots and songbirds Unanimously, the committee voted to remove falcons (Falconiformes) and parrots (Psittaciformes) from their current positions in the list and place them before the songbirds (Passeriformes), more closely to reflect the relationships between these three great orders.

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Falcons Parrots California Breeding 173

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

The current situation with exotic bird species in Florida is in a state of flux, particularly southeast Florida where the bulk of exotic bird diversity in the United States resides — and much of it “uncountable.” Egyptian Goose, looking for handouts at Kendall-Baptist Hospital, by Carlos Sanchez.

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Florida Miami Bolivia Parrots 202

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? Yes, there are sloths. Iguanas too!

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Costa Rica Birds Farming 2014 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Superficially similar to Fork-tailed Flycatcher, especially if you don’t know that this species exists! 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.

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San Francisco San Diego Connecticut South America 172

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. There are approximately 10,000 plant species in the Cerrado. It was a day to remember in so many ways!

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Brazil South America Collecting America 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

If you are looking for something more colourful then you can’t go wrong with Australian King Parrots and Satin Bowerbirds and their bowers ! Great Bowerbirds collecting blue items. More than three hundred bird species have been recorded in Broome and there is plenty of variety. A Partridge Pigeon after too many years.

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Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2016

Burra Rock area-two rock walls to collect water. Granite wall to collect water. We had hoped to encounter this species on our trip and although it was not the first encounter we did get much better views of the pair of birds than we had at Niagara Dam near Kookynie a few days earlier. Granite wall with supports.

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Collecting Australia Horses Parrots 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 218

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. It’s fascinating stuff.

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

The genus is Cyanoramphus , and they are sometimes known collectively as the kakariki (literally little kaka). Picking up a bargain copy of the latest edition of the Parrots of the World by Joseph Forshaw. Joseph has forgotten more than I will ever know when it comes to parrots. Yellow-crowned Parakeet , Cyanoramphus auriceps.

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New Zealand Fiji Parrots Tonga 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

The lure of an staggering number of species at a particular location is a draw for many people. In fact, the number of “heard only” annotations next to a species names is more frequent in bird list resulting from rainforest birding than birding in any other habitat type. Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons.

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Peru Birds United Kingdom South Africa 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

During this time, the fish trapped in the shrinking pools of water attract hordes of herons, egrets, storks, and other wetland species. 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.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

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

JULY 22, 2017

Birds with white on them are much more likely to take the form of goodies like the Snowy Cotinga , or two species of tityras. The Caribbean slope of Costa Rica also differs from the islands in having a lot more bird species. To make up for our collective absence, we did a trip there last weekend.

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Costa Rica San Jose Birds Bats 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Neoaves contains the great bulk of the diversity and the species of living birds, from songbirds to storks and owls to hummingbirds. 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. That much we know. McCormack et al.,

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Parrots Falcons South America 2008 142

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2012

In the parking area I immediately encountered a pair of Australian Brush-turkeys as well as a new species for me, a Grey-headed Robin. This huge member of the Australian robin family is really tame in this carpark, making it probably the easiest place n the world to see the species (other than the Tableland it is only found in New Guinea).

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Kangaroos Guinea Pigs Turkey Guinea 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

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. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2015

The big bonus was that there were several flocks of Musk Parrots , which was a first for my year list. They are a different species to those that we have at home in Broome and have a lot more black colouring on their breast. It represents a captain bringing live birds to add to the bird collection at the Botanical Garden!

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Rabbits Bats Pelicans 2003 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species. The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150