10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

The chick is just to the right of the adult bird in the photo below in the shade. Over the next few days we expect the Pied Oystercatcher family to make the trek two kilometres down the beach to Gantheaume Point. Last year they were successful at raising one chick, so we just have to hope they are this year too.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

As Watson has put it in the Chapter 1, “while the focus of this book is on families of African birds, there are a few individual species that have somehow come to epitomise Africa, even though they have relatives elsewhere, and commentaries on these appear too. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

This year one pair of Pied Oystercatchers has once again proven to be able to raise young. They are one of the older pairs and they have raised several young over the years, but only ever one has been fledged each year. Family of five Pied Oystercatchers- quite well disguised-also in the header photo!

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2019

Tom, really raising the discourse of the blog, decided that we need to rename boobies. Carrie came up with a genius way to both rename pretty much everything and raise money for conservation. Joshua, another guest writer, gave us a dialogue about a particularly poorly-named woodpecker. Kai tackled color issues with bird names in China.

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Birds Raised China Woodpeckers 114

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. But these tropical ecosystems also harbor families that remind us by their very presence just how close we’ve come to the Equator and how far we are from the poles.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 208

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They were simply sent to Family Court. Gutierrez was 18.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

The male Pheasant-tailed Jacana stood atop a female The female bird was rhythmically moving her body from left to right, while at the same time the male on her back tracked her movements. This is the opposite of polygamous; the females hold and actively defend territories containing several males with whom they have mating rights.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. On large islands shaded with multiple trees, a family of orangutans and another of gorillas lounged in the green grass. The Canada Geese (on the right side) show no fear. Had they merely hatched? Where were the babies?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. At least one Boat-billed Heron awaited us in the thickets. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 223

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

There had been a grader along the fence-line many years ago leaving a lower area that was very flooded and the raised dirt it had left behind was the perfect location for a pair of nesting Australian Painted Snipe. Two Australian Painted Snipe were on the right and one on the left of the base of the tree with their bills facing the water.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Whilst observing the Southern Emu-wrens a White-fronted Chat flew into view and landed on some raised vegetation! It was a beautiful day and there is a camping ground right on the foreshore. All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! Two new birds for 2019 just like that! Gang-gang Cockatoos.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

One particular family of owls had particularly evaded me. Brian had been completely right – a real owl had answered the one on my smartphone! Even better, when I raised my binoculars to the pine tree branch, I saw the owl close up, filling the circular frame. Almost the entire family had us surrounded.

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Owls Florida Family Raised 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

On a recent day trip to Derby from Broome we took the road into the Derby airport to get views of the end of the mudflats and encountered a Masked Lapwing sitting on eggs and chicks right beside the main road at the airport. It should be noted that this is not a busy airport! Masked Lapwing protecting a nest.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

Groups them by family too and by their shape” His extra long arm extended and passed me that precious book. Competing with well adapted tinamous would have always been tough, the same goes for a related yet separate family of very grouse-like birds; the New World Quails. “Check it out!”

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Australasian Grebes will take advantage of good conditions and raise up to three clutches of eggs and by the numbers of birds currently around the Broome area now it does appear that they took advantage of the big rain even early this year. Adult Australasian Grebe.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

We have a simple solution to raise more money for the National Wildlife Refuge System. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. If only 11% of wildlife watchers bought the Wildlife Conservation Stamp at the same price of $15, it would raise over $117 million a year. .

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 173

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2013

There were snakes everywhere, they must have eaten his family!”. Once a week I hike into the woods and leave them for the multi-generational family of Common Crows I’ve raised and released over the years. Despite the rings, the happy couple pictured above are not married – they’re just friends. More on this later. Eyes closed.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2017

I happen to think the Crested Cara cara is one of the most beautiful birds in the falcon family. They stay here in Mexico despite the heat, and raise their families. This male hoped right up on the side of my hide. It hurts for food right in the crashing surf, where no other birds really go.

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Seattle Mexico 2017 Falcons 106

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump. Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. This post shows some of them.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

My impression is that it is a fairly safe area and families are a common sight on weekends, as are school groups. That’s the hashed-out area to the right of the top space in the photo below.) The visitor center is the building on the left and the FWS refuge headquarters is on the right. An observation deck is between them.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

It seems strange that I’ll miss the return of the Sun this year, as I leave this week for a trade show and then a short trip out west to see my family. Right now we’re pretty much a three species town, Ravens with a chance of Hoary Redpolls and a sprinkling of Rock Ptarmigan. “Do you mind? This was a later nest.

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South America Eggs Family Raised 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Once I am moderately successful, I often find such photos quite pleasing. One puzzle solved. I can see their point.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2012

MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them. Eight of every 10 dogs sold in Mexico end up in the streets, with most of them having been family pets at some point, official figures show. Late on this story.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those who only raise binoculars within their own backyards might also decide one day to venture further afield to look for the ones in the field guides that aren’t making it into their limited sphere of birding. If a birder in Costa Rica plays the birding cards right, heck, he or she might even hit 300 in a day.

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Three page spreads have a different format.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. Reading to your kids before they go to bed is an easy and simple way to subtly put birding right into their sub-conscious. What kid does not love games?

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 276

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Variegated Fairy-wren ( Malurus lamberti ), a vivid flash of blue in the grey bushes of Sydeny’s heathland Fairy-wrens are part of the Australian family Maluridae, which also contains the slightly drabber emu-wrens and the desert specialist grasswrens. It was in such a way that I managed to get these shots of the Variegated Fairy-wren.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. The bird family that got his attention was originally the herons, egrets and other wading birds, but as time went on New World warblers, woodpeckers and ducks fueled the passion further. punch line to a bad birding joke, right?

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

After receiving the advice, “Try looking from the lock bridge below the weir” I was expecting a scene with mill races and canal boats being raised against flow and gravity. White-throated Dippers are typical of their family in that they like fast flowing rivers with protruding rocks.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

That’s what you do with other game, right? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

So perhaps it is more right to say that the tropics are hummingbird-looking. Or like so many representatives of all lands and climes, might they someday make a home in the city and raise a family? Like most tourists, are they destined to liven up the holiday season and head home when their season is over?

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South America New York Alaska America 156

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

According to his writings, the Cuban Macaw’s behavior was typical of the genus, living in pairs or family parties that kept in contact with loud, raucous calls. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror! What a disaster!

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 237

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2009

According to information gathered by Best Friends Animal Society , the charity beneficiary of funds raised by ITo, “cities around the country are passing bills to round up and kill family pets, who simply look like the kind of dog who might attack someone.” The goal is to raise funds to stop the proliferation of BSL.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. Clip – Big Horn Bash: A young male big horned sheep challenges an older male to a fight.

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