10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? Some are incredibly rare and hard to find.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

There are hordes of fowl here (fowl of the water) in winter, with geese having the most prominent presence. Along with Snows, Greater White-fronted Goose are one of the most abundant species here. We were just minding our own business, completely innocently, when this group of birds came along. Do you see?

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Geese Fowl Ducks Mississippi 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. The 39 owls include five endemic Caribbean species.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Back in 2009, Tai Haku sent us a fascinating post exploring a question that ecologists worldwide grapple with: can the translocation of rare species into niches left empty by extinction be successful or justified? It is extinct. It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 195