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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
I truly do hope I am not tiring 10,000 Birds’ readers too much with my obsession with Michoacán’s ongoing drought, the disappearance of Lake Cuitzeo (Mexico’s 2nd largest lake, in normal years), and our own micro-endemic Black-polled Yellowthroat. But obsessed I am. And it brought friends.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2021
It is also fascinating to see how similar Old World trogons look to their New World relatives, right down to the same flamboyant color patterns. Here in the highlands of central Mexico, we can see (rather easily, as I mentioned above) two trogons: the Mountain Trogon , and the Elegant Trogon. Wikipedia has been used.).
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2018
In a little less than two weeks my family and I will be enjoying a long weekend on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Having never birded in Mexico at all I was initially concerned about identifying the myriad species that can be seen. Hopefully, I’ll do better than 85% correct when I’m in Mexico.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. A checklist from Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C. was good for 11 lifers. Virgin Islands ( St.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2023
July is the month when some of Mexico’s best birders (and I don’t use that term lightly) ask me to take them to the tiny town of Paso Ancho, in the hopes of seeing the ever-so-scarce and little-studied Sinaloa Martin. This female Streak-backed Oriole is the rightful nest owner. Well, it is July again.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2023
.” They conclude that many non-vocalizing Empidonax flycatchers can be identified in the field, but only “when several field characters are used in combination–and after one has gained experience in looking at these characters on singing/calling and captive birds (i.e., known-identity).”**
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2023
Those readers with slightly morbid interests might want to seek out a paper in the Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences describing the case of heavy mixed infection of Golden Pheasants by Heterakis isolonche and H. ” Sounds more sophisticated, right? ” Sounds more sophisticated, right?
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