10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two patterns that are fairly extreme that fall into this category: brood parasitism and helper-at-the-nest strategy. In the case of brood parasitism, made famous by the many species of Cuckoo as well as cow birds and some fiches, among others, one might expect the host birds to evolve anti-parasitism strategies.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The latter is half the size of the Grey, but with its stout beak and prominent eyes shows a distinct family likeness. Note the family likeness to the Grey Plover, with big head and large eyes Brancaster is always a reliable site for Black-tailed Godwits, but when I first arrived there were none to be seen. A Ringed Plover.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. Location, location, location – some practical advice for River Lapwings aiming to have a family: “ River Lapwing nests on open, unvegetated river banks achieved significantly greater nesting success than those in crop fields” ( source ).

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As mentioned in many other posts on this blog, the avifauna of Trinidad & Tobago consists of several species and family groups occurring very interestingly, in threes. After a failed attempt to find a day roost, I tried another morning with a different strategy. I wish life was always this easy.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Another member of the stork family, the African Openbill , looks like it is could benefit from a good orthodontist. And sadly, it is listed as Endangered.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

It also appears that at least one early radiation from North America into the Caribbean resulted in several relatively old island lineages, which the authors treat as four families, Nesospingidae, Spindalidae, Calyptophilidae, and Phaenicophilidae. The wood-warblers are coming into focus , and the sparrows are getting their own family.

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Sparrows North America South America Blackbirds 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2022

Family footprints. When I find these Pied Oystercatcher family footprints like above I don’t need to see the young, because that is enough evidence to know there are young hidden in the vegetation. It is a risky strategy due to the fact that there could be a tidal surge with strong winds. Constantly looking upwards.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

At mid-life crisis, the mother, Lili, decides to leave her husband (Gabe’s father) and return to take up farming on her family estancia in eastern Uruguay, far from the delights of Montevideo where most of her rambunctious, rollicking family resides, overseen, not always approvingly, by Gabe’s quirky abuela.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

The losing streak of the bulbul family continues with some other species such as the … … Dark-capped Bulbul (Drakensberg area, South Africa; eBird: “a rather nondescript thrush-sized brown bird”) … … White-eared Bulbul (Mumbai, eBird: “a dull gray-brown bulbul). Thus the Cape Bulbul.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

Over the next few days we expect the Pied Oystercatcher family to make the trek two kilometres down the beach to Gantheaume Point. They use this strategy each year and food is a lot more accessible there and there are plenty of places for a Pied Oystercatcher chick to hide until it can fly. The Pied Oystercatcher chick circled!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Species are organized by family and families are arranged in taxonomic order according to American Ornithological Society’s Checklist of North American Birds , 7th edition through the 59th Supplement (2018). The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Species Accounts.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 241

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. For New Zealand, he describes each of the Subantarctic Islands and mainland islands and beaches where its nine Penguin species are found, including endemic species like Snares, Erect-crested, and Royal, and suggests strategies for seeing them all.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. This is a book that requires attention. ” (p.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 225

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain as day, yet only a surprisingly limited number of bird species on Borneo have ventured down that evolutionary road. Interestingly, the females are more varied between the species and are far more readily identified.

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Indonesia Birds Asia Groups 172

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. Our strategy on each day was to be the first people on the road in the morning. Is that all we are going to get? Or so we thought.

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Brazil California Condor Parrots Texas 222

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. contemplating the pretty blue eggs are American Robins are soon to lay is a good coping strategy.). How big was your life list when you were nine years old?

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. In October of 2012, the Institute for Bird Populations released “ A Conservation Strategy for the Black-Backed Woodpecker in California 3.” It was July of 2012.

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Woodpeckers California South Dakota Chad 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” That was probably a great strategy for rapid reproduction … live very fast and die very young.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 143

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 16, 2013

To make it easier, we’ve assembled some great tips to help you whip your fire prevention strategy into shape! Having a fire safety strategy has many benefits and may help reduce the chances of fire, injury and home evacuation. Evacuation Strategies. Be sure to share these tips with friends and family.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The Pied Oystercatchers are actually incredibly predictable when it comes to the dates that they lay eggs, the locations that they choose and the various strategies that each pair use in order to protect their young. Pied Oystercatcher family. Pied Oystercatcher family looking for food.

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Breeding Eggs Camels Raised 159

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Interestingly, “Getting Close,” a fieldcraft topic, is wedged in the middle there, after image sharpness and before light, emphasizing the importance of strategy, preparation, and awareness in the midst of thinking about ISO and exposure. I found that there were surprises in each chapter.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 198

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In China, wherever there is one real tourist attraction (like the Great Wall), the local strategy seems to be to add some fake attractions – replicas of palaces or tombs, amusement parks, shopping centers – in order to maximize the income from tourists. But the starting point has to be a real attraction, not a fake one.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2012

Singularly beautiful as individuals but glared at by many a birder for their stubborn survival streak which can play havoc with the delicate nesting strategies of pre-established locals. Getting a glimpse into the workings of the world by witnessing a family of starlings foraging together is a real treat.

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Tanzania Chickens Blackbirds California 181

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Each pair has a strategy and sometimes it is successful and sometimes it is not. Once the family of Pied Oystercatchers get to the reef they are easily able to hide the chicks and it does not take you long to become familiar with the communication between the adults and young. Family of five-adult Pied Oystercatchers on the right.

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

It was during these long evening sessions that I allowed my mind to wander to far-away destinations, making plans and coming up with strategies on how to see them all with a minimum amount of trips.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2011

The worms that would have traditionally made up the thrush’s diet were baked into the soil and he needed to explore other feeding strategies. To compound his urgency, he had a new family to feed, so Mr Merula went fishing. Perhaps this wasn’t its first attempt and it was already developing this strategy.

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Blackbirds Fish Penguins Sanctuary 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Starvation and predators make it hard to grow up, and birds have evolved a lot of strategies to give (at least some of) their chicks the best chance in life. One strategy that varies among birds (and other animals) is the number of offspring. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy.

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The Shorebirds in Action begins with introduction to various families, as a framework for later discussions. The buttonquails are only briefly mentioned here, while the skuas, auks, terns and gulls are families not generally regarded as shorebirds and are therefore not covered. I haven’t read the entire book so far, only parts of it.

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Botswana 2017 Groups Europe 123

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

The researchers divided the city’s land area into seven categories: (1) open space for conservation ( e.g., forest preserves), (2) open space for recreation, (3) other open spaces ( e.g. , trails/greenways and cemeteries), (4) water, (5) single family residential, (6) multifamily residential, (7) roads, and (8) all others.

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Chicago Research Illinois Michigan 281

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2011

Sometimes called “Poor-me-ones&# on account of their haunting calls, these bizarre denizens of the night come in 7 different flavors from the family Nyctibiidae within the order Caprimulgiformes. In reality though, this is actually a pretty stellar nesting strategy.

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Costa Rica Jamaica Eggs Cooking 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

So while the rest of my family slept in I nipped out to the park this morning to see how the swallows were doing. This strategy was also fraught with danger, as several Ring-billed Gulls patrolled, constantly checking to see if any swallows had become weak or indifferent enough for a gull to get a quick meal.

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Suffering New York City United States New York 184

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He also thoughtfully and harshly critiques Big Conservations’ strategies in developing countries. This is also a good time to catch up on supplementary titles, such as guides to bird families. Let me know what birding books (or apps) you are buying for friends and families, and what books are on your wish list.

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Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Because when we look at the birds that make up the family Sulidae – not just the tropical boobies, but their burly temperate-zone cousins the gannets as well – we see a pretty incredible group of birds. And what is that foraging strategy? At least the juvenile version that persists has a sort of provocateur’s cache.

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Birds Buffalo New York Pelicans 204

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

There is also a narrative write-up for each species that recounts interesting behavior, family issues, unique biological facts, the animal’s status in Kruger, and notable conservation issues. Thankfully, as the authors note, this focus on animals to hunt has given way to visitors’ fascination with a range of creatures.).

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Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. The Black-faced Monarch is a relative in the same bird family, the Monarchidae. When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth.

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