10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2018
We rarely encounter family groups of Sooty Oystercatchers Haemotopus fulginosus ophthalmicus at home in Broome, but more commonly we encounter a flock of approximately thirty non-breeding Sooty Oystercatchers at the northern end of Cable Beach. Family of Sooty Oystercatchers. Sooty Oystercatcher adults.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
Having found my large Pied Oystercatcher family last week I have spent a lot of time with them this week. The Pied Oystercatcher family, which almost looks like a small flock, have remained in the same place at high tide all week. Once the tide dropped they moved forward as a family and wandered along the exposed sand looking for food.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2013
Above is a beautiful member of this group, the Painted Redstart ( Myioborus pictus ), a warbler. Because this group is so rich in species, so readily able to exploit a wide range of environments and food sources, debates about how to classify these birds have smouldered for decades. Summer Tanager ( Piranga rubra ) by David J.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2013
So naturally, I got to thinking about kinglets, and their Palearctic kin, the “crests,” and where they belong in the avian family tree. The family Regulidae comprises six small, hyperactive species that range through the great boreal and temperate forests North and Middle America, North Africa, and Eurasia.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
A recent proposal ( 555 ) to the AOU’s South American Classification Committee deals with newly published information about relationships within the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae, and what it means for the classification of these wonderful, fascinating birds. Ruddy Turnstones , Sanderling , and Purple Sandpiper © David J.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2014
Instead, it appears to be the sole member of a very old family ( Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds , Alström et al.). The Spotted Wren-Babbler had been classified with a handful of other wren-babbler species in the genus Spelaeornis , in the babbler family Timaliidae. An ancient lineage.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
Ringer Hummingbirds are one of the most distinctive and immediately recognizable groups of birds on earth. Hummingbirds have long been classified as most closely related to the widespread, well-known swifts and the treeswifts , a small, predominantly Indomalayan family. In any case, this is a small but spectacular group of birds.
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