10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

I was high and happy, not from “420” drugs but from the altitude and the anticipation of seeing woodpeckers and owls I had never seen before. Large groups of Hooded Merganser , Redhead , Franklin’s Gull , and other floaters were easily spotted. What is 100% true is the flight number I took into Denver: 420.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Recognizing its value for eco-tourism and biogeographical research, it is essential to conserve this magnificent bird. Some research topics seem a bit bizarre to me. This photo explains the scientific species name haemacephalus (bloodheaded).

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Myanmar Sri Lanka Nepal Birds 186

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.) A group (maybe 4-5 ex.) At the Pacuare river bank there was a group of rafters getting ready to tackle the noisy waves.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Each family section begins with a Group Account, an overall section giving the number of species in the family and nesting commonalities and differences. The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Sometimes there’s even more than text! This happens a lot in the shorebird sections.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 265

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

Birdathons are typically used by state programs and chapters to raise critical funding for conservation and research programs. To make sure our staff, volunteers, and members stayed safe, we asked birders to stick to their backyards, and we aggregated tallies across groups: staff vs. members. The Red-bellied Woodpecker.

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Florida 2020 Mexico Raised 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

I’d love to have known where and when the Great Spotted Woodpecker in my photograph below was ringed, but though the ring is clearly visible, the number stamped on it isn’t. Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting.

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Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. 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. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.). Not at all.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 270

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Then a group of birders appeared from the forest. “At Manakin also has an agreement with WWF regarding conservation, environmental education and research programs. Ten days ago, I was sitting in a boat in the Colombian Amazonia, listening to the chatter of numerous Large-billed Terns along a vast sandbank in the Rio Guaviare.

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Colombia Birds Fish Venezuela 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I did a little research, and came across good birding reports on Gulf Park, so to Gulf Park I went. It’s actually a really great demonstration of the power of these trails to get people outside; in the three hours we were walking, we saw countless bicyclists, boy scout groups, dog walkers, joggers, and more.

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Alabama Bald Eagle North Carolina Woodpeckers 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. The Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (if indeed this is one) is one of many bird species about which not that much is known.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 189

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. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

You could add Middle Spotted and Grey-headed Woodpeckers to the list. Syrian Woodpecker is a species of forest edges or open woodland and parks; it doesn’t go into closed canopy forest. In the city, it avoids deeper and larger forests (a domain of the next two species), but visits small groups of trees or tree-lined streets.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 250

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I guess most scientists would love to see their original research become the basis for a vast field of further studies. The Golden-tailed Woodpecker shares something with the German flag – it is called golden-tailed even though to me the color of its tail is yellow, not golden. No doubt the woodpecker has similar considerations.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. Shame on the researchers. Unfortunately, due to the fog in the morning I photographed this Bay Woodpecker , the flame color indicated in the Latin species name pyrrhotis was not that visible.

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Eggs China Birds Mammals 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker in particular is a species I would like to get much better photos of. Well, they live in groups, something I would never survive. O course, this particular photo would also be good to illustrate why the name of the species might be Half-hidden-behind-an-annoying-branch Sunbird.

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China Birds Breeders Species 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In my case, I had one easy and three more difficult ( Syrian Woodpecker , Imperial Eagle , Great Bustard and Saker Falcon ). I usually go through this phase for each species listed in phase 1, with more effort on the first two groups (endemic and target). research papers). Search for my target species (i.e.

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Serbia Switzerland Farming Birds 141

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

convergent aquatic adaptations of loons and grebes on the morphological side and certain molecular sequences on the DNA side) and that by synthesizing all available information, we can both achieve greater confidence in hypothesized relationships and expose areas needing further research. Mayr names an assemblage of waterbirds Aequornithes.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

Second, they are usually organized by species groups, and thus point out holes in one’s birding strategy. After contemplating the page, I realized I really do want to see these incredible seabirds, and have been researching pelagic voyages for the near-future. “Or an American Three-toed Woodpecker ?

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Florida Fish 2013 Turkey 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which. ” The book in question is Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide , edited and written by Sebastian K.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting here on my futon and breathing, I have killed several birds. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas , noting a need for further research on the subject. The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Ringer Suh et al.

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Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 193

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We made several stops along the way, hoping our eBird research would give us local hotspots that might turn up a few gems. What did find right off the bat, was an amazing group of people, all willing to help out in so many ways. Another local bird, the Golden-fronted Woodpecker was on my target list. Golden-fronted Woodpecker.

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Texas Tucson San Antonio Owls 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? Dawn, you are looking coy in you profile photo. Any reason?

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 217

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Like the red in Red-bellied Woodpecker and the ring in Ring-necked Duck , this part of the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet’s name describes a feature that is not obvious to the casual observer or from a great distance. The tyrant name is now inseperable from flycatchers. Next: Beardless. Please do not yell at me.

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Costa Rica 2014 Family Collecting 103

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting here on my futon and breathing, I have killed several birds. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A Ladder-backed Woodpecker and then Lesser Goldfinches flew onto the tree next to me as I observed the Roadrunner feeding in an empty lot and a Cactus Wren called from the other side of the lot. My goal was Lucifer Hummingbird , but I didn’t do enough research to know that the best time to see the hummingbird is in the early evening.

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Arizona Lovebirds Phoenix New Jersey 103

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Most of the time, I know enough about an area, or have done some research into what is found there, that I am pleasantly surprised at best. This nice little group of shorebirds, including a Killdeer, three Long-billed Dowitchers and a Spotted Sandpipers all got together for a photo. A couple of wrens were early morning visitors.

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New Mexico Mexico Tucson Costa Rica 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Each spread presents two birds of a color–Red (Scarlet Tanager and Northern Cardinal), Pink (Greater Flamingo and Roseate Spoonbill), and so one, with the last spread presenting two colors–Black and White (Downy Woodpecker and Black-and-White Warbler). Cornell Lab Publishing Group, Wundermill Books, March 2019.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

I never researched the resort, imagining that it lacked the amenities my family wanted, but visiting for dinner allowed us to rent its grandeur without forking over the considerable room rates. Panama inflicts usurious car insurance policies on visitors, so do your research. Red-crowned Woodpecker. Lineated Woodpecker.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

So we don’t get lost in the new re-arrangements, species covered in the book are listed in the Introduction in taxonomic sequence, grouped together by genus, accompanied by explanations of changes. So, there are separate descriptions for birds normally grouped in the Savannah Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, and Dark-eyed Junco complexes.

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North America Sparrows America United States 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month woodpeckers, this month penguins. Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. An interesting way of presenting images resulting from a group project; one that makes us think about the subject rather than the creator.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

White-headed Woodpecker. Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group. Three papers coming out of the study are in peer review, and the research continues, with citizen science opportunities and additional data partnerships anticipated in the near future.

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Species Science Los Angeles Birds 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

We are looking up in the sky, trying to identify the small group of swifts that are circling over head, when we are joined by a young man with his camera and tripod. On our last day in Bijagua, we got to see a small group of White-throated Magpie-jays. per person) and head back outside to look around the area. That story is here.

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Costa Rica Falcons Mexico Groups 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. 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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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 150