10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The HBW accurately hints at the difficulties of getting a photo of this bird: “Generally hiding deep in shrubbery, where it forages in small groups for seeds on and near the ground, and revealing itself only when singing from the top of a bush, this is not an easy bird to study.” The raptors of Ruoergai deserve a separate post.

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China Mongolia Birds Russia 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Where a birder goes in the Caribbean determines which birds are seen including toy-like todies, Carib hummingbirds, cool pigeons, quail-doves, unique avian families and outrageous woodpeckers. One such special place is the Centro Manu, a small family run reserve that features several star bird species of Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands.

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

There had been good rains the previous year and as a result of that there were numerous family groups. Barely a few minutes would go by before we saw another family group as we travelled along and they were quite happy to wander into small towns and take advantage of the grass on the town sports field.

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Australia Investigation Family Groups 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although a few other North American birds are capable of controlled hypothermia, only the Pygmy Nuthatch links hypothermia with protected roost sites and communalism. What a nice, close knit family! They sure are cute when you see a group of them fluttering around. References: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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North America America Collecting California 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Red-billed Curassow ( Crax blumenbachii ), a large, ground-dwelling bird belonging to the same family as the more familiar Plain Chachalaca of southern Texas, was never a very widespread species. Having a family of endangered Red-billed Curassow willingly approach me to within such a short distance is definitely one of them!

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Brazil California Condor Parrots Texas 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

As for the pseudo-warblers, I’m not actually against them so much, they are after all a family that, while wanting for a name that is descriptive and not derived from a misapplication of European names, are easy to identify and pleasant enough on the eye (with a few exceptions).

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Africa Feral Ethiopia Tanzania 174

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 15, 2012

The money will help to protect chimpanzees and their habitats, now and into the future. CHIMPANZEE is a story of family bonds, individual triumph, and extraordinary personalities of the intelligent chimps. “We We are very excited to bring the story of Oscar and his chimpanzee family to the big screen.

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Congo 2012 North America Africa 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

“Gamebirds” to some, cool, cryptic understory birds to the birding people, grouse crouch protected as unfettered winds sway the top of the tall prairie grass. Groups them by family too and by their shape” His extra long arm extended and passed me that precious book. “Check it out!”

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2014

This tree is of the coniferous family and this bird has made its life around the southern temperate forest where this tree has been constantly destroyed to clear for farmland development. On the way back to the car we could hear a group of parakeets that circled the forest and landed near the park entrance. Planalto Woodcreeper.

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Argentina Parrots Birds Groups 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2013

Since 1776 it has been protected land and the biodiversity there speaks volumes to what nearly 250 years of conservation can do. But I think that UNESCO explains things better than I can : The Tobago Main Ridge Forest Reserve is on record as the oldest legally protected forest reserve geared specifically towards a conservation purpose.

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Trinidad Birds Venezuela Protection 183

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

My family and I were staying at the edge of a sand beach, facing a wide flat in a house charmingly named “Bone Ami.” The land sits atop limestone, beaches protected by the third largest barrier reef in the world. As I walked, I noticed another group of peeps with different silhouettes, altered markings.

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Bahamas South Carolina United States Florida 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

Since its inception that $800 million has helped to protect over 6 million acres of habitat for wildlife and future generations. Eighty years of Duck Stamp sales, $800 million and 6 million acres protected? In terms of losing Refuge support from hunters, our intent is not to divide the two groups. This is wonderful news right?

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Over the years some pairs of Pied Oystercatchers appear to learn how to protect the eggs and their young much more effectively and are therefore successful where other pairs may fail. They are still grouped together with their parents and there is a short “peep” as I approach. Three 3 month old Pied Oystercatchers.

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection. While hoopoes are in their own family, DNA studies suggest that the hoopoe diverged from hornbills, and the wood-hoopoes and scimitarbills from the hoopoe. ” ( source ) . Not a very appealing thought.

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Over a dozen distinctive ethnic groups exist here, many of whom live lives little touched by the modern world. Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This is a protected area that includes the Los Cusingos Bird refuge, where we were guided by Andres Chinchilla, a young man who as a child ran around the farm where his family worked, and was to become this incredible bird refuge. His years of experience in this area were quite obvious as we found 62 species in one morning.

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Costa Rica San Jose Chinchillas Family 177

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 19, 2009

The internet evolved, and this site was created with a bigger, better vision, but the goal remained the same… help animals find homes through promoting rescue groups. Rescue Spotlight is going to be an ongoing feature here where we hope to highlight rescue groups to help them get more exposure online.

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Rescue United States Transported Vet 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

But the sleekest of the sulids may be found in the family Sulidae. Many avid fans even wear bracelets… But then again, boobies as a group are pretty spectacular and first among equals must be the booby with the blue feet. While this bird shares the Galápagos with two other boobies, the Red-footed Booby ( S.

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Ecuador Peru Hunters Pelicans 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 168

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

“The humanitarian needs remain overwhelming but given the important role that companion animals play in the Japanese family and the important role that livestock plays in the Japanese economy, it’s important that we address the issues immediately,” said IFAW’s Disaster Manager Dr. Dick Green. will be channeled into Japan.

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IFAW Japan International Fund For Animal Welfare Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

We have been dragging him thru every bird spot possible, so he could go to Scotland to see where his family is from. With my Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) field guide in hand, off we set to put a few Scottish birds on the list. Speaking of Bank Swallows , here is one of those family groups.

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Qatar Sparrows South Africa Africa 112

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. One might think that thanks to the Internet, all those ridiculous old wild animal myths handed down for generations would finally die a deserved death.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 172

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 29, 2010

These three groups are already operating mobile veterinary clinics and other services in Haiti, and planning to go to Chile when they’re allowed in: IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare). WSPA (World Society for Protection of Animals). They depend upon charitable contributions to keep. Offer your time. Donate Food.

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Haiti Chile International Fund For Animal Welfare Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 134

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 205

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

As I have explained before these islands are the best place for a lot of the birding here because they are more easily protected from introduced mammals which wreck such havoc on the wildlife here. The whole place itself is an island, but the main islands are themselves the mainland to a number of smaller islands. I’ll work on that.

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Penguins Parrots New Zealand Seals 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. But, within the frog group there is a tremendous range of diversity. It turns out there is no scientific difference!

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. It’s actually a pretty classic example of convergent evolution, wherein two unrelated families of lifeforms evolve to fill the same niche independently. We’ll take these two similar, yet very different groups of birds separately.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 175

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. No other characters or group of characters are described so persistently with the use of their religious, ethnic, or racial names. It is reproduced in “Mrs. Botibol” (p.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: However, no matter how one enjoys or takes in interest in the avian side of life, an official list of the birds for a given area is of vital importance. Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 196

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Our group saw over 400 birds on our 15-day tour of the Pantanal, Cerrado and the Amazon (Cristalino Lodge). They are members of the Parulidae family and Horneros are members of the Furnariidae family, a nice example of parallel evolution. 1,712 species, 12% of which are endemics. I shouldn’t have been surprised.

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Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 142

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Someone had told me a group of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers called this patch of forest home, and we were determined to find out if he was right. The Outer Banks are known for their spectacular sand beaches, and in the protected areas these sand expanses are wide and largely free of visitors during the early summer. Maritime forest.

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North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

The finches would use areas of bush that offered maximum protection and then drop down to the water’s edge to drink and bathe. The Varied Sittellas are incredibly hard to photograph, because even though there were usually six of them in the group they would bounce around the trees so fast.

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Birds Zebras Investigation Species 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

birders have been able to visit Cuba as part of survey groups and cultural exchanges for years, but those trips have been few in number and not always easy to find. He leads the Wildlife Art Working Group of BirdsCaribbean , and contributes his art to conservation organizations for fundraising. There is even room for notes.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

If you’re into family ticks, and into armchair ticks, well, I hope you’ve been to New Zealand, because the island just got another endemic bird family. That the three species of mohoua (genus Mohoua ) are New Zealand’s newest family is hardly a surprise. Say hello to the Mohouidae.

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Family New Zealand Birds Parrots 177

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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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151