10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2016
The blackbird wasn’t Audubon’s only venture into naming things for the guy; there was also a Brewer’s Duck, but that proved to be a hybrid resulting from the notoriously incontinent habits of Mallards , and it fell by the wayside. He described the Brewer’s Blackbird for science more than a decade before Audubon.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2016
Birders will also enjoy such moments as Audubon’s first encounter with the Lincoln’s Sparrow and his observations of the mysterious Washington’s Eagle.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2018
Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. Rebecca did a beautiful job, not only discussing the birds on the area, but blending in some environmental science, and the issues that can affect the local bird species. Here is one of them standing in the kelp.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Zamorano University may be regarded as one of the crown jewels of Latin American higher education, particularly in the areas of agriculture, environmental management, and food science, but this idyllic campus excels for more reasons than simply academics. Zamorano happens to be incredibly birdy.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2013
Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.),
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2019
Blue-billed Duck – Oxyura australis. Musk Duck – Biziura lobata. White-browed Sparrow-Weaver – Plocepasser mahali. Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow – Passer shelleyi. Falcated Duck – Mareca falcata. Golden-crowned Sparrow – Zonotrichia atricapilla. Alphabetic Taxonomic.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .
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