10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2014

Scientists who attached tracking devices to 10 of the birds in 2012 were shocked to discover that one had flown west across the Atlantic Ocean, and eventually settled down on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in South America. In either case, they’ve got a travel history that would leave most humans’ passports in the dust.

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Iceland South America Ecuador Stray 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

Cuba (twice), South America (twice), Europe and Morocco (once) and Bali (once). I had never birded this way before, and can confirm that what I had heard is true: Birds are much more tolerant of human presence when those humans are on a boat! In other words, I travelled, sometimes every weekend.

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Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 160

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 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

There are also 14 species of New World Barbets and 2 species of Toucan-Barbets (all in South America). Unfortunately, I have so far seen only a few of them, and none of the ones in the Americas … but here are ten that I have seen and got halfway decent photos of.

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South Africa Africa India China 204

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For most avian migrants heading south towards Mexico, Central and South America, crossing thru the Arizona desert areas can provide very few water, food and resting areas. If they are passing thru Pima County, and the Tucson area, Arivaca Lake is the last stop for water before crossing the US/Mexico border.

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Mexico Tucson Arizona Ducks 132

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The Buff-necked Woodpecker (Taman Negara, Malaysia) is classified as Near Threatened, with the usual rationale of “habitat loss” (which sounds nicer than “evil humans destroying anything that does not immediately bring in money). Piculets are a subfamily of woodpeckers – most of its 25 species live in South America.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants! Because of this, the city is in flux, with city streets adding new buildings and restaurants all the time.

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Austin Texas Birds Non Human 110

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

Clapper Rails , as currently defined by the AOU, occur along the coasts of North and South America and Caribbean islands, and inland in southern California and Arizona. King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba. The photo above, one of mine, shows a Clapper Rail in Louisiana.

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Species North America Cuba Louisiana 218

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2017

Though they weight less than two ounces, Least Terns migrate from South America to the West, East, and Gulf Coast to breed on dunes or flat gravel roofs (there are also populations in the middle of the United States).

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South America United States Protection Pelicans 102

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2015

Later, it was brought up that the now famous ducks appear not to mind the presence of humans. White-faced Whistling Ducks are widespread in hot and humid habitats of eastern South America. Is this the first record of this species in the region in over a 100 years?, or these are escaped birds.

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Ducks South America Peru Adoptable 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

I hope they consider this idea for future books Sophie Osborn has a long history of observing, surveying, and studying birds in North, Central and South America as field biologist, research biologist, field manager, and wildlife program director.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. Eighty hours of flying.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. The species has been recorded as far north as Alaska and as far south as some of the islands off Antartica. A few other intentional releases in other areas were not successful.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. I knew a guy who studied depression in a group of people living in the Andes, where periods of depression appeared to come on when the humans detected infrasound caused by distant thunderstorms.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2012

It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the west coast of northern South America, and in winter is found across the rest of Central America. The Killdeer is a wide-ranging plover. Beyond that they don’t seem to need much.

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Eggs America South America North America 176

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Illustrations are from Restall’s Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide , and, according to the book’s publicity material, many have been “re-worked” and repainted for the new edition.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 194

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. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”. Finally, it was just Sophie left. But oh, how she’d talk to me when I’d go sit with her.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

That seems like an abnormally high risk for a seabird that makes its living picking up small fish from the water’s surface, but Sooty Terns are some of the most abundant seabirds in the world and spend most of their lives on the open ocean between South America and Africa, so it seems to be working for them.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). Adam’s BBOTY – Lammergeier.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The presence of this tanager in the Caribbean is a rare aspect of South American flair, as its closest relative is the similarly plumaged Scrub Tanager of northern South America. Interestingly, this species has been split into two distinct subspecies, one for each of the islands on which it is found.

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Puerto Rico Grenada Barbados Trinidad 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2023

Available, due to the sun’s varying alignment and the birds’ migrations, for a limited number of days only, it caused the hummers’ wings to be filled “with a wash of rainbows,” like this one, which he titles “Sundance”: and this, “Opal Wings”: The images (these two, of South America’s Black jacobins) are exquisite, and (..)

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Birds South America Brazil 2011 206

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Some rain-forests could rightfully be termed remote but again, human habitation is actually relatively closer than what one might think. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Perhaps the most complicated and bizarre mating system is that of the Rheas of South America. They live in flocks in the open country shrubland of Southern South America. Male Phalaropes, Jacanas, Tinamous, and Rheas build nests, incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. Featured Photo: Cody Hinchliff.

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Eggs South America Raised America 153

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

This is where the fact that German birders are humans comes into play (and they sure aren’t the only ones ). Birding Birds Germany Invasive Species Week South America' They know where New Zealand is, have heard of Emeral Ash Borers and are aware who is wreaking havoc on island sea bird colonies and elsewhere.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

.” Panama hosts the largest breeding population of Harpy Eagles, though they were once “found from southern Mexico through Central and South America all the way down to northern Argentina.” Unfortunately, they are not afraid of humans, so are easy to kill.’”. ”

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. placopedetes occurred since the arrival of people and presumably was due to human impact.”

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2020

This pervasive pandemic we’re currently experiencing has squashed everyone’s travel plans – humans that is. Pectoral Sandpipers pass through en route to southern South America, some going as far as Tierra del Fuego. Migration (in particular bird migration) is well underway, however. Greater Yellowlegs.

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Trinidad South America Blackbirds Industry 179

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. In late summer, wild swifts will congregate in large numbers in a single roost as they begin staging for their coming migration all the way to the Amazon Basin in South America.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Canada Wildlife South America 206

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements. There is a third subspecies that occurs from southeastern Mexico through South America which I have yet to see.). Like the above species, these varieties differ in appearance, vocalizations, habitat, and migration patterns.

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San Diego San Francisco Mexico Baltimore 175

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

It seems, in fact, that the moa’s closest relatives are the tinamous , familiar to birders that have been to South America. The kiwi, on the other hand, seem to be closer to emu. This species hasn’t even been formally named yet, but like its penguin counterpart it was replaced by its Auckland Island relative.

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New Zealand Penguins Sea Lions Lions 161

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. Let’s cover the basics. But I digress.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Humans don’t share merely a similar capacity for vocal learning with hummingbirds, we share share similar brain machinery , and that brain machinery is regulated by similar genes , genes not shared by hummingbirds’ closest relatives, nor by ours.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

A distribution map shows areas in South America where the species has been found, with letters and dotted lines indicating subspecies areas, red dots showing where the type specimen was found, and X’s denoting questionable sightings. At this point we’re getting into the more detailed sections. Antpittas and Gnateaters.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

For native people, living in South America meant living with hummingbirds, and for Europeans, discovering South American meant discovering hummingbirds (and, tragically, exploiting South America meant exploiting hummingbirds, destroying hundreds of thousands for stuffed specimens and in futile attempts to keep them alive in captivity.)

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South America New York Alaska America 156

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Approximately 2,300 bird species inhabit Africa, however as impressive as that sounds, much smaller South America boasts nearly 1,000 species more. I cannot but admit that South America is the “bird continent” but as Peter Kaestner, one of the world’s top listers, so eloquently put it, Africa is nevertheless the “birding continent”.

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 219