10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

The Rufous-collared Sparrow is apparently a common bird in Central and South America, but in Mexico it only occurs in the southernmost state of Chiapas. To appreciate this most recent photo from this collection, you only need to pay close attention to what had caught the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher’s attention.

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Mexico Sparrows South America Collecting 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2019

Robin Restall is an acclaimed bird artist, whose works include the Helm’s Birds of Northern South America (2006). Restall painted all these birds diligently over many years from museum skins (mostly at the Phelps Collection in Venezuela), so all the details on his illustrations are actually present on a bird.

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Ecuador South America 2006 Birds 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

It is apparently uncommon across most of its wide range in the shrublands of South America, little noticed and little noted, and sources are pretty thin, as they are for many birds in places like South America. From a three line stub it now has a full article. One mystery was its movements. Nothing wrong with that.

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Science Argentina South America Uruguay 110

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Very little is known about this enigmatic species.

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South America San Diego Mexico America 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

Maybe you are a lucky kid whose parents took you birding South America as a toddler, a rich heir with an inheritance to burn, a lucky diplomat choosing your tropical posts, an international bird guide or a bird tour agency owner? That gamble is rigged, so the house always wins. I take my hat off. Winkler, Shawn M.

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Family Birds South America Breeding 296

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. 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? 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

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

These ponds and the larger Cedar Lake and collection pond hold Tufted Duck , Greylag Goose and Eurasian Moorhen. Until the turn of the century, a wildfowl collection and extensive aviaries were kept at the castle. The exotics have now mostly been dispersed to other collections, but a few remain.

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Collecting South America Blackbirds Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America. Actually, they are all the same, single rock, the westernmost piece of the Guyana Shield geological formation, carved into two by the river and further rounded by rains.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Andean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus andinus ) is one of the three flamingos occurring in the high Andes of South America. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. It is the largest and easiest to identify in all age stages. It is also the rarest of the flamingos of living in the high Andean.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 155

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2014

In the forests of South America, a birder is likely to cross the path of a feeding flock of brown birds represented by Woodcreepers, Spinetails, Foliage-gleaners and Xenops. Collectively these birds revel in the name, Funariidae.

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Brazil South America Collecting America 167

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. Birding Brazilian birds Canastra cerrado'

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Brazil South America Collecting America 168

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2013

Though the Large-billed Tern is a bird of freshwater rivers, lakes, and marshes of South America it does wander to North America on very rare occasions. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds check out 10,000 Clicks , our huge (and growing) collection of galleries! ….

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Trinidad New Jersey Nevada Illinois 176

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.

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Costa Rica Colombia Owls South America 124

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds.

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San Diego Mexico South America Costa Rica 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2013

Trinidad is the northern limit of the range of the Red-breasted Blackbird , though it is unclear if the occasional birds that show up in Tobago are wanderers from Trinidad or northern South America or are breeding there. You can also find Red-breasted Blackbirds in Costa Rica and Panama and south to Peru and Brazil.

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Blackbirds Trinidad Costa Rica Nicaragua 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

They weren’t hard to find, but I would have appreciated, if publishing them in the book is too costly, a small collection on the publisher’s web site.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have had a series of guest posts on 10,000 Birds.

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San Diego South America Costa Rica America 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Recently a Fork-tailed Flycatcher was reported from a park in San Francisco, a long ways away from its home in Central and South America. This bird was photographed a few years ago in Connecticut, by Corey Finger. This is not only a MEGAVAGRANT, it is also an absolute CRIPPLER and hard to misidentify on top of that.

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San Francisco San Diego Connecticut South America 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The resident Peregrine Falcons have been fattening up on them, piles of feathers mark their collective demise on my favourite birding spot. It is not a good time to be a first year gull hanging about the outflow of the water lake.

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Tethering Neglecting South America Dogs 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

This is more than a collection of species accounts. Large and colorful, they include Mexico, Central America and sometimes South America, showing the full migration route. ” This builds and expands on a classic series of articles by Bret Whitney and Kenn Kaufman that appeared Birding magazine between 1985 and 1987.*

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Los Angeles North America America Species 220

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I ran back to grab Andrew, and we were soon watching this large jay busily going about its routine of collecting food and flying off (presumably to a nearby nest). We all wandered off to different points along the road at this point, and I walked for about half a mile before literally bumping into a vocalizing Purplish-backed Jay.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 198

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. The back of the book material consists of the “Species Checklist for Trinidad and Tobago, with Locations of Collected Specimens,” a Bibliography, and two indexes, one of Scientific Names and one of Common Names. The Bibliography is extensive (14 pages) and scholarly.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

If you know a bit more than that about Darwin, you know that he totally messed up his collection of birds from the Galapagos Islands, and didn’t really think up Evolution until much later in time. We think that the original stock from which the Galapagos Finches evolved came from nearby South America.

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Tortoises South America Panama Culling 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds. Their second is here.

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Guatemala Mexico San Diego South America 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The bird today is documented physically by only a single specimen (a second was lost), but where the specimens were collected — and therefore where this species actually lived before its extinction — is unknown. Specimens were collected in 1904, and the bird has not been recorded with certainty since.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. Ridgway spent the rest of his career in the Castle, the Smithsonian building that then housed the National Museum’s bird collection.

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 151

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. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

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. It has been hypothesized that their common ancestor inhabited the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, of which both New Caledonia and South America are fragments.

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Parrots Falcons South America 2008 142

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. One field guide, seven countries. ” It does not, as I noted above, include bird anatomy terms.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. If you liked this post, why not check out the large and growing collection of galleries at 10,000 Clicks.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 161

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. Can you imagine doing this when you are a couple of months old? Let’s cover the basics. But I digress.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample!

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 230

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. Hopefully, future editions of the Audubon guide will do the same. But this is not the purpose of a guide about North American birds. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. Over the course of three months of field work I monitored dozens of parrotlet nests from start to finish, taking care to snap some pictures now and again.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World is meant to cover more geographic area (add South America, Australia and the Arctic and any other parts of the world not covered in the first book) and less detail. And, it’s all photographs—6 to 38 for each species, depending, of course, on identification difficulty.

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2004 North America America Europe 157