10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. This echoes their behavior in their native South America, where they are known as agricultural pests who will eat and destroy crops.

Chicago 195

Chicago New York City New York Illinois 195

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

In Costa Rica, it’s also happening, not as in full force mode as the temperate north but that will change in a month when we see thousands of Eastern Wood-pewees , flocks of Eastern Kingbirds , and other species hurrying their way to South America.

Costa Rica 142

Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 142

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer. Although the birds had just completed a migration of more than 2,500km, they still had the energy to evade the danger.

Science 151

Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Zero Gravity brews Bobolink Saison with organic malt and jasmine rice, the latter being a sly nod to one of the many old folk nicknames for the Bobolink – “ricebird”, given for the blackbird’s fondness for feeding on cultivated grains on their annual autumn journey to South America.

Vermont 118

Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles.

Reptiles 182

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”

Panama 100

Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming. I wrote about the Hoatzin here a couple of years ago when Gerald Mayr published a paper hypothesizing that Hoatzins invaded South America from Africa by raft. The story just keeps getting better.

Madagascar 274

Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 274

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Saint Helena Island, situated in the south Atlantic ocean between the continents of Africa and South America, is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world. Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

Birds 198

Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 198

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Instead of competitively killing birds each Christmas season, Chapman proposed counting birds instead. His broad travels made him an expert of the birds of both North and South America. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. The tradition has grown and spread ever since the first count in 1900.

Costa Rica 170

Costa Rica Colombia Colorado South America 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The Hoatzin, which may have reached South America by raft , has resisted placement in basically every study ever done. OK, if you’re still following along on the tree , the next branch we reach is a novel proposal: Hoatzin as sister to Charadriiformes and Gruiformes. Jarvis et al.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279