10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2024
Because, although these flycatcher groups don’t have the sexy, challenging reputation of Empidonax flycatchers, they can be confusing–ask any East coast birder trying to figure out if a vagrant bird with worn tail feathers is a Western Kingbird or a Cassin’s Kingbird.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) The bird illustrations in the third edition are brand new, updated by a group of eight artists working under the direction of John P.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2019
The alarming decline of grassland species like the Upland Sandpiper ( Bartramia longicauda ) and Eastern Meadowlark ( Sturnella magna ) has been the most precipitous and extensive of any group of North American birds, and much of this decline results from changes in agricultural land management.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? For a breath of air? Breathing takes place every 30 to 110 seconds. metres (7.6
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Like the Southern Bald Ibis, its range just extends into Lesotho and Swaziland and family groups occur in rocky and mountainous areas from the Cape Peninsula northwards into eastern South Africa.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.
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