10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

However, Sula nebouxii is most closely associated with Ecuador’s evocative Galápagos Islands. Perhaps that explains why the Galapagos Conservation Trust raises funds to help protect the Islands’ unique wildlife and habitat through the celebration of Blue-footed Booby Day. sula ) and Nazca Booby ( S.

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Ecuador Peru Hunters Pelicans 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We were in the remote Amazonian forests and not a sound was to be heard except for the rhythmical dripping of water from the raised paddles. I was as quiet as a church mouse, waked the camera and let the lens rest on my lap. Do you hear that song?” At first nothing. Then I heard it. Finally the species was complete.

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Solomon Islands Ecuador Colombia Brazil 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Baird’s Sparrow by Seagull Steve Julie’s was not a wild bird, well, at least not one that lived outdoors: My Best Bird of the Year, and the 22 preceding, was Charlie, a Chestnut-fronted Macaw I got as a captive-raised fledgling in 1989. She made a fool of me when I first met her, and again when she left me.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. Plate 97: Andean and partly Andean antshrikes, illustrated by Oscar Tintaya. Bolivia doesn’t come up much in discussions of birding travel.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 269

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Corey was lucky enough to meet Carlos while birding in Ecuador , where Carlos was dragooned into accompanying the horde of Queens birders for the day, an encounter that somehow didn’t turn him off of all things New York. Carlos Sanchez is an excellent birder, a Miami resident, and a polyglot.

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Florida Miami Cuba Bahamas 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I guess you cannot be too choosy while traveling, as I have learned when on trips in Ecuador and other places. Maybe it was raised by some caged birds in close proximity to humans, though I lack any proof of this theory whatsoever. Soldiers could probably learn a lot about camouflage from this species.

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Birds Tigers Humane Ecuador 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Do the same pairs return, if possible, to the same nests after their long winter migration?

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 184