10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2020

However, even if songs of the avian kind are more your musical thing, you will still find them in ten innovative, unique tracks that pay homage to endangered birds from Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, and seven other countries.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This incredibly widespread species ranges around the Northern Hemisphere (and much of the Southern as well), and is found in locations as disparate as the Arctic tundra, Hawaii, Cuba, and the Galapagos – as well as many places in between.

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Owls Birds New York Species 105

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. His only birding regret was not starting sooner while he was still in Cuba and his final goal is to be able to bird at least once on every continent of the world, although he is mostly a Florida birder.

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Canada Birds Sparrows Species 97

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MAY 24, 2020

These colorful songbirds occur in two populations, a western one which winters in Mexico and Central America and an eastern one which winters in South Florida and Cuba. Only in their second fall do the males achieve their spectacular plumage. In winter, they occur in rank thickets and woodland edges where they feed mostly on seeds.

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MARCH 3, 2015

detente with Cuba perhaps a mixed blessing for the birds. The discovery raises hopes that more can be learned about this Critically Endangered rail, and that efforts to restore it can be launched. Which makes the new U.S. Image above from Birdlife). News critically threatened species Cuban birding rails zapata rail'

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Birds Cuba Species Raised 93

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AUGUST 15, 2019

As an homage, a contemporary edition of the Bond’s field guide Birds of the West Indies was featured in the twentieth 007 film, Die Another Day (2002), where Bond (Pierce Brosnan) in Cuba poses as an ornithologist. The name of the author was carefully scratched off the front cover of the book. Anthony Levesque arrived in Guadeloupe in 1998.

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APRIL 21, 2013

Their taxonomic status long has been unclear due to their overall similarity and the fact that in eastern North America and Cuba, they hybridize. King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba. Clapper and King rails ( Rallus longirostris and R. The Pacific Coast populations are endangered.

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Species North America Birds Cuba 106

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Similar observation have been made in Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico where up to 47,000 migrating Mississippi Kites are counted every season as they fly south. Kites generally fly to Cuba and then over the ocean to arrive in the Yucatan Peninsula or areas further south.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Cuba (twice), South America (twice), Europe and Morocco (once) and Bali (once). During the period from 1994 through 2006, I mostly dedicated myself to itinerant ministry. In other words, I travelled, sometimes every weekend. Most of this travel was in Mexico, but I also visited different regions of the U.S.,

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2015

They breed in Canada and Alaska, but in the summer they can be found across the United States, as far south as Florida, Cuba, and into Mexico, and as far north as the Pacific coast of Alaska and the Atlantic coast of Maine. Bufflehead are black and white ducks, the male sporting a large white patch on an otherwise black head.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

Our first outing, back in August, we saw 54 species — a number that JL said would be impossibly high in Cuba. I’ll just call my friend JL, as Cubans tend to be nervous about having much of an online footprint. But I can say that it has been a blast showing him around. And 50 were lifers for him!

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

As the storm was pulled northward across Cuba and the Bahamas, it began to temporarily weaken, lose convection, and suffer from dry air intrusion before it began interacting with an incoming trough. Perhaps more due to being underbirded, there have been no reports of Razorbills from Cuba or the Bahamas (both would be first national records).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It’s not known for sure whether the entirety of the population of the species always wintered on the island of Cuba but by the time people cared enough to find out that’s where they were going. By about 1940, reports began to come saddled with the depressing qualification “last certain” From Cuba in 1940.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Populations in the eastern part of its range, including the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles are resident while those in the western part of its range such as Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamas are migratory. Its wintering range includes most of northern South America.

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JUNE 18, 2015

The Florida Bonneted was initially regarded as a subspecies of the widespread Bonneted Bat ( Eumops glaucinus glaucinus ), which ranges in Cuba, Jamaica, and Peninsular Florida. The Florida Bonneted Bat is the largest of Florida’s bats weighing 1.2 ounces, a body length of 6.5 inches, and a wingspan of 21 inches.

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JUNE 17, 2011

Savannah Sparrows breed across the northern United States and most of Canada and Alaska and winter as far south as northern Central America and Cuba. It was nice, very nice, as the photos below hopefully demonstrate.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Some of those “statistical errors” came as surprises to me, e.g. Cuba, Bolivia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Thailand (this is also a clear message to their tourism boards to invest more into promoting avitourism).

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MAY 3, 2011

They are found in the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Turks and Caicos, Antigua, Barbuda and Jamaica. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. They are also the rarest.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Flamingos represented Vegas and Miami and pre-Castro Cuba. Flamingos represented tropical beaches — even though the various species have habitats ranging from alkaline lakes to Andean plateaus. They were dyed a vivid hue that annoyed Tom Wolfe.

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Ducks Birds Species Cuba 79

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MARCH 5, 2011

Photographed in Cuba , the bird appears to be a melanistic Green Heron though it might perhaps be a dark form or even stained by algae. The jury is still out but what a cool bird! Hat-tip to Shawn.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The Lost Macaw of Cuba. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming. Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years. Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific. Bachman’s Lost Warbler. Hey, What About the Great Auk? Carolina Parakeet: Mystery of the Incas. Which Bird Species Have Gone Extinct in Costa Rica?

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APRIL 26, 2013

One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America are often cheaper than going to places like Arizona, Colorado, or California.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The storm, which spawned more than 80 tornadoes across the US and killed 35 people, was 900km away when the birds, apparently acting independently of one another, fled south, with one bird embarking on a 1,500km flight to Cuba before making the return trip once the storm had passed. Amazing, if confirmed.

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JULY 24, 2012

Black-and-white Warbler by Carlos Sanchez With the northern Bahamas just to the east and Cuba just to the south, southeast Florida biogeographically sits on the northern edge of the Caribbean and so the wintering wood-warbler species are mostly those typically found further south in the islands.

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Florida Species Birds Miami 72

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JULY 6, 2021

Dunn starts in Alaska with the goal of seeing Rufous Hummingbird at the northern extreme of its migration (which he does with some effort and a few bear sightings) and ends in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, “the end of the world,” with the sighting of a Green-backed Firecrown feeding at a firetree in cold drizzly rain.

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Costa Rica Birds Species Ecuador 105

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Cuban Vireo is a bird I would never have expected to see unless I went to Cuba and I went and got one on the cheap! Am I ever glad that I had witnesses to see me seeing the bird, especially considering I failed to get a picture. Garganey , 11 June, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, New York.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Ringer Bees Bees are small to very small hummingbirds, including Cuba’s Bee Hummingbird , the smallest bird in the world at about 2 inches long and weighing less than a dime (!). Magnificent Hummingbird ( Eugenes fulgens ) in Costa Rica © David J.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and other islands that make up the Greater and Lesser Antilles. .’ Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean covers 39 species found in, as the titles says, North America and the Caribbean islands. It includes owls found in Canada, the U.S.,

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Owls North America America Species 102

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Sadly, as we drove to Maricao I started getting a pretty bad sinus headache that, by the time we reached the picnic area that Kirwin, Kirkconnel, and Flieg recommend as the best spot to find Elfin-woods Warbler in their great book, A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and the Caymans , was causing me serious pain.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Bachman’s Warblers were seen so infrequently that they are probably known more for being extinct than as an integral part of the ecology of the southern United States and Cuba, but it would be interesting to still have them around.

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JUNE 7, 2012

I say this not only because he is president of the Grosse Pointe Audubon Society and because his official bio says he “has traveled across North America and to Cuba, Iceland, and Thailand to view and research birds”. William Rapai (pictured left) is a newspaper reporter and editor who is clearly also a birder.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Indeed, Puerto Rico is second only to the much larger Cuba in terms of bird species in the West Indies. (Herbert Rafaelle includes 284 species in his field guide , which covers both territories.) Both are situated at the convergence of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and have species from each region.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

Lists from nine countries have been shared this month with Cuba appearing for the first time. Hotel Nacional de Cuba. With Corey’s February jollies to The Bahamas (when he should have been at home looking for GGOs), Lichtenstein, Austria and Switzerland our country/province/principality/kingdom/territory list has swollen to 37.

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JULY 4, 2016

My holiday weekend festivities included pointing out common yet charismatic Cedar Waxwings all weekend to friends in Cuba, NY; everyone loves those little charmers. So whether you’ve been celebrating your nation’s birthday or the freedom to chase your own bliss, live that independence up!

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

In the interests of disclosure, I had the pleasure of being part of a Wings tour to Cuba led by Jon Dunn earlier this year, which gave me the advantage of hearing about the work he put into this and past volumes and about how the timing of this volume was just missing final decisions on the newest AOU taxonomic supplement.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Found only in Cuba and weighing in at a whopping 1.8 Giant Hummingbird by Arthur Grossett NUMBER 7 Not to be outdone by its larger relative at no.8, 8, the insect-sized Bee Hummingbird leaps one spot up due to the fact that this bird is the smallest bird in the world.

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