10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Because, let’s face it, when you get off that plane and look at those severe volcanic landscapes and then find yourself face to face with one of the islands’ four mockingbird species, you’re not going to think, “Oh, look, lava and a mockingbird.” The updating of the text is very important.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. This species qualifies as Critically Endangered because extensive habitat destruction and capture for the cagebird trade are causing extremely rapid and continuing population declines.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 236

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2022

There are also quite a few orange traffic cones to collect at some stage, which have floated away from the highway. This section of the Great Northern Highway has an impressive list on eBird of 191 species along the length of highway that crosses Roebuck Plains. Different times of day or night show different bird species.

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2013 Collecting Hunting Species 208

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From the border check station, you can turn to the right and go to the “Highest Bar in Africa” or continue into the unknown. A Black-headed Canary was calling from the bushes, a Black Stork was overhead, and a smattering of other species popped up to see what we were doing.

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Lesotho Sheep South Africa Africa 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2019

The Yellowthroat group is an odd collection of bird species. The one migratory species, aptly named the Common Yellowthroat , can be seen almost anywhere in North America. Both are marsh-dwelling species. But the remaining Yellowthroat species, all marsh-dwellers, live in extremely small ranges. See the difference?

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Mexico Bahamas South America Panama 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Global Big Day has become an annual collective event in May that encourages thousands of people to watch birds on the same date. and ended later that eveing with a final total of 154 species. As far as promoting birding goes, the only thing better might be October Gobal Big Day ! Speckled Tanager was one of those birds.

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Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Owls 268

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

White-tailed Kite in action- a classic airport species in Costa Rica. Turf farms in wooded regions are wide open oases for grasspipers and other species adapted to natural lawns. These are the three main species that urge us to scan a grassy field with puddles in September and October. Odd habitats attract odd birds.

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Costa Rica Ecuador North America Peru 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Which is why the past two weeks’ outings have been more about native plant propagation than finding new species. Last Monday, I collected Jamaican Nettletree seeds. I only saw 32 species for the day, which is quite a low number for me down here, even on a short outing. I feel brilliant! appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Owls Investigation Mexico Collecting 167

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 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

I don’t know whether head brewer Chris Schell – a Delmar native with a decade of craft brewing experience – is a birder or not, but each beer is adorned with trippy, vaguely sci-fi depictions of birds by Boston artist Ian Tartasky , some of which seem to be identifiable to species.

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New York Boston 2019 Collecting 263

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MARCH 2, 2021

This second edition covers 685 species found in the continental U.S. and Canada, including some species as far north as Alaska, an increase over the 500 species covered in the first edition. To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi.

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North America America Species 2018 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

.” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds. Beagle had an enormous impact on Darwin’s thinking about ‘On the Origin of Species’. Order names are according to (36, 37) (SM6).

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Birds Research Groups Investigation 230

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Although I had earlier seen my first Gadwalls for the season, my real finds for the day were two species which supposedly should not visit the Mexican highlands: one Black-bellied Plover , and several Dunlins. Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. Wet mudflats are the muddiest mudflats. and Canada).

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Blackbirds Shelters Ducks Mexico 221

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2020

Just as your conationals up north are rejoicing over the return of hundreds of migratory species, you sadly say goodbye to the same. I have still seen each of these species out in the forest between two days and three weeks after they abandoned my yard. That is a garden first!

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Nashville ALA Louisiana Mexico 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 220

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Few if any species are as emblematic of the Neotropics as Ramphastidae, the family that includes the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. On the trip to Costa Rica that I just returned from I was pleased to see both of those species as well as Black-mandibled Toucan and Keel-billed Toucan. Yeah, it was a heck of a trip. Disturbing, no?

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Costa Rica Horses Farming Collecting 233

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

These breeding colonies included other species of flamingos, but it was only the Andean Flamingo that appeared to have been the most affected, if indeed the egg extraction was one of the causes that led to the Andean Flamingo’s population decline. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I am shocked to be writing this post already, and doubly shocked that I’ve seen six new species for Queens since I guessed what my next five Queens birds would be just eight months ago, back in March. Eastern Whip-Poor-Will : It’s kind of amazing how rarely this species is reported in Queens. I’ll make it three!

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New York City Birds New York Blackbirds 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Anyway, it is winter and the snakes should be hibernating.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 238

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2017

The folks at eBird (those would be the ones behind this mass birding and data collection initiative) have sent three teams to count birds in the Yucatan, one for each country that shares this region of avian importance. As for myself, if all goes well, I am counting some sweet hundreds of target species in three to four distinct habitats.

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Costa Rica Colombia Owls South America 124

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

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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. You’ll find multiple species of each on the property. Yes, there are sloths. Iguanas too!

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Costa Rica Birds Farming 2014 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But the minute you bring up your fantasy team, a collection of paper players with no relationship outside of your computer screen, you can see the shock register on your companion’s face as they rapidly seek out the nearest exit. I had missed a few vagrants, but seen most of the reasonably expected unexpected species.

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Birds Suffering Collecting Hunting 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

There were once two species of goose, a merganser, and a pair of raven species. The species was likely large enough to pose a threat to people, and given its predisposition to attacking two legged creatures, namely moa, it is likely that it may well have prior to its extinction. This massive eagle, with a wingspan on up to 2.6

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Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 102

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2014

On the first trip in 2012 we used public transport to get there and the train conveniently gets you to Macarthur Square shopping centre and you can then get a bus that drops you right at the entrance to the park. It was interesting to see how few blue items it had been able to collect in that environment. Satin Bowerbird -female.

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Turtles Australia 2012 Litter 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status. My first instinct was that the rarest gull would rank high on the ‘most interesting’ scale, but that’s a lister’s instinct – a sort of stamp-collecting bias, at best.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

You know the captain’s name already: the Ross’s Gull was named after Ross who collected the type specimen in 1823 on Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2019

Instead, he led a life of leisure: playing billiards and golf (he competed in the 1904 Olympics as a golfer but somehow didn’t finish the course), traveling, and amassing a massive collection of dead birds, over 19,000 all told. Well, no more! Or, at least, pointing out some names that suck.)

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Boston Killing Protection Collecting 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

I mean you have two year gulls, three year gulls and even gulls that take four years to mature, and the plumage of all these species changes as they mature. The top photo shows a first winter California Gull ( Larus californicus ) on the right and a non-breeding adult on the left. You definitely want to click on this photo!

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California Sacramento Breeding Turtles 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

As Heiman points out herself, there are many migratory species we still know very little about. Knowing the history of how that came about enriches our appreciation for our birding colleagues, our collective history, and our birds. And reading the table of contents (trust me, most people do not read the table of contents).

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

Immediately I began looking for new species, spotting right away a dark, crow-like bird with a grey mantle and belly. I couldn’t help but connect them with mob bosses of the city, watching over and taking food from all of the other bird species throughout the city. It flew right over to get a closer look.

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Russia Iceland Birds Europe 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2018

It is a fascinating world of swampy forests of willow and poplar, inhabited by Black Storks , White-tailed Eagles , Eastern Olivaceous and Icterine Warblers (above), among more than 200 other species. Locations, dates, species and numbers, right? Nevertheless, Nagy was right. Backwaters are a hard place to explore.

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Beavers Serbia Eagles Hungary 120

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

On a recent family trip to Jones Beach, on New York’s Long Island, I had the opportunity to observe a small flock of gulls bathing, resting, and preening in some shallow brackish water that had collected behind the beach. Ugly, right? But also interesting in terms of what they can teach the careful observer about molt and aging.

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New York Collecting Sparrows Experience 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2017

The latest from his pen is Birds of Prey , a hybrid between an identification guide and an essay collection, a book of lore that provides a comprehensive overview of the raptors of North America.

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North America Falcons America Eagles 102

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story. For one example, a dispute over the old rights to a Motown dance act (of all things) is the cause of the murder at the heart of the book.). In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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Humane 2018 Laws Science 133

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

Data were collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Pan-European Common Birds Monitoring Scheme. From the Abstract and summary: Changes in climate can cause populations of species to decline, to increase, or to remain steady. looked across species of common birds in Europe and the United States.

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North America Europe America United States 116

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

These arid hills, cloaked in a mosaic of deciduous scrub and desert vegetation, form a northern outpost for several Neotropical species while also harboring several key endemics and southwestern Nearctic species. The birds we observed were nesting right into the cliff face. Think Arizona meets Costa Rica with a Mexican twist.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 192