10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Last week we were in the Teton Valley, getting ready to head over to Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park. In talking to the local guides, and Rangers, they all agreed that they had not been seeing too many species around in the last couple of weeks. Our last night in Wyoming was spent at the historic Terry Bison Ranch.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species). The guide covers 265 of Maine’s 461 bird species: common nesting species, common migrants, and wintering birds.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2014
2014) — attempts to answer it by ranking species according to their “evolutionary distinctiveness,” or how distantly related they are to all other living birds. is not primarily a measure of the divergence dates of major clades of birds but rather of individual living species. ’s list.
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2015
Suddenly a group of barn swallows hatched in a barn or underpass in North America decides to stay in the wintering grounds and start a breeding colony there. Some also suggest that additional birds hatched in north America appear to continue to stay and join the group of birds nesting in South America. Chicks in nest in Wyoming.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2018
With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. In the past, seeing some of these Ring-necked Ducks would have been rather scarce, so here is a shot of the small group that were on the larger pond. The numbers are as follows: Little Big Year Species – 892.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. And then there were the Flamingos.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2011
Most REAL montane species like this finch are declining in overall population. Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico. The Alpine Tundra seems to be shrinking and that will be the demise of this species along with a few others in the historic future to come.
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