10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2020
For those of us with the great good fortune to bird in Latin America, or other less-studied biological regions, my experience suggests that we are much more likely to benefit from the new species created by such splits. I continue to hope that history will someday repeat itself with the House Wren group. A Transvolcanic Jay.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2013
This month I was in San Diego, helping out with and participating in the American Birding Association’s San Diego rally. Where the skilled spotter finds needles in haystacks and picks out rarities from more plentiful species. The day ended with multiple lifers for many, as well any good pelagic should.
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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. Spending days searching for an elusive bird you finally get to see, a bird that few others have seen, a bird about which very little is even known, and then seeing it is a tremendous and unforgettable experience.
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. Today it is placed in its own monotypic genus, Oreophasis , and loosely grouped with the present day curassows and chachalacas. Horned Guan (Click for a bigger version.). But at last we were in El Triunfo!
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. A bite from an army ant can really pack a punch; I speak from experience. Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).
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