10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

A Yellow-crowned Parrot digs in. The provision of housing and food is most gratifying, I have successfully spread this joy to one of my three neighbors, who now gleefully sends me pictures of the Cocoa Thrush family on his front porch, and Green Iguanas lounging in his avocado tree.

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Opossums Barn Owls Hunting Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

Identifying White-eyes in Australia is easier than here in China, as the Silvereye is the only family member present in most parts of the country. The Red-rumped Parrot is a ground-feeding parrot – one of its other names is grass parrot. That sounds pretty cool. Maybe it is a younger bird.

Australia 147

Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

Which tours saw the most roosting owls? This odd nocturnal creature is around the same size as a Barred Owl. Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. Did Cope have another site for nesting Great Potoo ? How about sites for Snowcap ?

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Costa Rica Birds Thailand Family 227

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

Likely a Tropical Screech-Owl , but nothing definitive. A Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl that was fervently vocalizing however, was the first for the list. By this time, the rest of the group had arrived and we were busy counting Silver-beaked Tanagers darting across the roadway as well as a family group of Smooth-billed Anis.

Trinidad 264

Trinidad Livestock Groups Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Since many of these exceptions are common birds (Wood Duck, Red-tailed Hawk, Great-horned Owl), I assume Lund saw the additional space as opportunities to teach people how to absolutely positively identify these birds, adding more text and featuring images of the species in flight or in gender-specific, nonbreeding or juvenile plumage.

Los Angeles 210

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The next day saw us making our way to El Tapir for close views of the Snowcap , a surreal fairy of a creature that stands out in an already surreal family. A few other birds also showed, highlights including a tree full of screeching Mealy Parrots but other birding experiences par excellence were waiting in the wings.

Costa Rica 194

Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

We can say with much certainty that the majority of people admire and are fascinated with the resplendent colors of macaws, parrots, toucans and hummingbirds. Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat.

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Honduras illegal Parrots Birds 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The trip was to visit a handful of sites across North Sydney, which was great for me as they were places I could stand to know better and were close to where my family live (and I was staying). These are enormous parrots, and very striking in their black plumage. was a Powerful Owl. Trips owls Pittas Sydney'

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Owls Birds Neglecting Hawaii 182

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

I know you all want to see Powerful Owls like the one below, so it is always worth a look! Tom saw a Powerful Owl on his visit and so did we, so go and look! Powerful Owl. Powerful Owl in the Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney. Pied Oystercatcher family. Birding Olympic Park Sydney.

Australia 147

Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. At this hour I am a reluctant, under-caffeinated sherpa – and concentration must be given to the dangers of the footpath ahead.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2011

This ruled out some excellent species like Cape Eagle Owl, Violet Wood-hoopoe, African Finfoot and Half-collared Kingfisher and I was still left with 36 species. I then had a list of 20 or so favorites and decided that, in order to get down to 10 birds, each bird needs to be in a different family. So I decided to impose a few rules.

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South Africa Africa Parrots Swaziland 243

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2018

Emus roam the open areas, and surprisingly, various parrots, lorikeets or cockatoos can be found in most any major grove of trees. I really only had one full day to bird, as I had some family obligations to fulfill, so I chose to see how much I could find at the Sydney Royal Botanical Garden.

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Australia Camels Kangaroos Hunting 117

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

A two-page portrait of Cuban Trogon is next, its blue, green, red, and white plumage shining, then a two-page depiction of three Ruffs in male summer, male winter, and female plumage, and finally the Galapagos Short-eared Owl on the alert, facing the title page. and died 15 August 1841. This is NOT an image from the book.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

Another native bird that quickly showed itself to me in the capital was the Polynesian Triller , a member of the cuckoo-shrike family. One particularly nice sighting one evening involved one of the Pacific’s other widespread self-introductions, the Barn Owl , which floated across the golden sky at susnset.

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Tonga Fiji New Zealand Parrots 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

White-bellied Parrot was one of many target species at either of the canopy towers. ” At first light, many of the larger canopy species commute and call from the canopy: parrots, cotingas, guans, and toucans. The high pitched screech of White-bellied Parrot ? 4:30AM: It is time to wake up!

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Otters Parrots Birds Brazil 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

On a quick browse, here are some facts I learned: Melanin helps to resist bacteria that attack feathers; most parrots are left-footed and this is associated with problem-solving; some birds nest in two different places in the same year. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Is a free digital download possible?)

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

Yellow-naped Parrot. Endangered and awesome, it’s pretty easy to experience this big parrot in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica from Tarcoles north to near Nicaragua. This former aberrant wood-warbler is so weird, it has been given its own family. Owls (because they merit target status everywhere). Wrenthrush.

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Eagles 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 223

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

H is for Hawk was a hit for Helen Macdonald a few years back; and Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien, The Parrot Who Owns Me by Joanna Burger; and Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg are, each of them, delightful books as well. And there may be, probably are, men affected with this sort of thing, too, not just women.

Ohio 149

Ohio Adoptable Emotional 2019 149

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. Anyway, we arrived, spotted a Great Horned Owl in flight and waited and waited and waited. So, Carlos decided to make me feel ungrateful by taking me to see another species of parrot, this one countable.

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

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2011 152

2011 Deer New York Owls 152

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means, amongst other things, that Nightjars and Potoos are still between owls and trogons and not following cuckoos, which really seems more appropriate to me.). So, we find out that that White-fronted Parrot looks similar to Yellow-lored Parrot, except that White-fronted has red lores and lacks the dark ear patch.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 234

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. 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 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2013

When visiting Sydney I have in the past tended to visit birding sites near the coast and centre, by virtue of that being where my family is. Better yet, I saw a small parrortflying overhead, and putting my bins on it managed to identify it as a Red-rumped Parrot. Straw-necked Ibis.

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Parrots Barn Owls Eagles Australia 146

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? The average (responsible) dog-owner does not think of his or her dog functioning on instinct, but as a organism with deep emotional ties to its family that seeks out pleasures and avoids pains… which, fundamentally, is how we people operate. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection.

Birds 115

Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. parrot to me, but I sure as heck can’t get it to species level. 3)Bald Eagle Seth Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:25 pm Has anyone picked this list? Mitred parakeet 3.

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 194

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

The relationships among these families have been pretty well sorted out, and the entire clade belongs in a clade of landbirds ( passerines, parrots, diurnal raptors, mousebirds, owls , etc.) whose full make-up and internal relationships are not resolved.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison. I wish the flight images for the hawks, falcons, parakeets, and parrots were larger.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Diabolical A to Z Quiz in Queens Quiz Pic 1 Answer: Barrow’s Goldeneye Finally we come to the most unfair of the three quiz pictures, that which depicted feather detail of a Thick-billed Parrot. Diabolical A to Z Quiz in Queens Quiz Pic 2 Answer: Thick-billed Parrot So who wins? DIABOLICAL!!! Wicked, right?

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Their plumage is simply amazing and the colors are astounding. Fortunately, there are some people working to protect the Scarlet Macaws of Honduras. Wicked, right?

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

Just keep an eye out for the Barred Owl perched on a Mini Cooper and that is where you will find him. Orange-winged Parrot Spring and Summer By just getting out of my car near the entrance to the park, I can usually already hear the melodic songs of Northern Cardinals and various migrant passerines at this time of year.

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Miami Florida Birds Pelicans 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

But this critically endangered and majestic blue parrot has remained elusive to most of the world and, sniffle sniffle, to me as well. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is the only Cholorceryle species I haven’t seen, so observing one would complete a genus in this fascinating family. See who won the contest here! Get yours today!

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2015

The real Gung-Ho, Kung-Fu birders would have drove to this site at midnight and just slept in the car or looked for owls until the dawn chorus in excellent middle elevation rainforest but since we have families, and I hate being exhausted and zombie-eyed from lack of sleep, more leisurely birding was just peachy.

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Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. STRIGIDAE (OWLS). STRIGOPIDAE (NEW ZEALAND PARROTS). CACATUIDAE (COCKATOOS).

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2014 New Zealand Singapore Rhinoceros 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2015

. “I hope the rain stops by dawn” : I probably said this after trying once more for owls and being treated to the same wet sound of dripping water, windy leaves, and vocalizing frogs. A nice, family-owned place, I will always recommend it. “Rufous Motmot! Talk about my kind of friendly birds!

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Costa Rica Species Owls 2015 157