10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2020

One of the ways I could describe the unique mix of birds I can see here in southwestern Mexico, would be to divide our species into five categories. We also have many species that we share with the rest of Mexico, Central America, and/or the southwest of the United States. You have to know where to look for them.

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Mexico Birds Honduras United States 201

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2020

Iberian Green Woodpecker, Madrid, Spain. Mexico has a good number of greenish or rusty Woodpeckers. All my Woodpeckers have been among the black and white jobs with small patches of red, orange, or yellow. But the Great Swallow-tailed Swift is one of the largest Swifts in North America. I live in Mexico!

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Austria Spain 2019 Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

After nearly a week of traveling through Arizona’s very dry southeastern corner, I decided to make a detour to Flagstaff for a change of pace, a change of scenery, and a chance at seeing an assortment of birds more typical of the Great Basin than the Sierra Madre of Mexico. Lewis’s Woodpecker, flycatcher or woodpecker?

Arizona 140

Arizona Woodpeckers Phoenix Birds 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Acorn Woodpecker. They support such a diversity of habitats that the ecosystems are comparable to traveling from Mexico to Canada (National Forest Foundation). Photo by © Mark Schraad. Rufous Hummingbird. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Phainopepla. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Calliope Hummingbird. Photo by © Mark Schraad.

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Arizona Tucson Birds North America 148

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2012

As soon as Sharon , Nate , Laura , and I convened at the airport, we coreced Clay Taylor, Naturalist Market Manager for Swarovski Optik North America, into an afternoon of birding, 100-degree heat be damned. Brown-capped Flycatcher and Gila Woodpecker are southeastern birds, but not that tough to find outside the area.

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Tucson Arizona North America Sparrows 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Titmice really are everywhere throughout North America and many points north and south, but a person has to be looking to notice them. bicolor ), like the Red-bellied Woodpecker and Turkey Vulture , has expanded its range dramatically to penetrate northern reaches. Birders, because they look, notice them everywhere.

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Arizona Oklahoma Texas Mexico 266

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2012

The Old World’s Olivaceous Warbler is a dapper example of how drab this shade can be, while the Olivaceous Woodcreeper of Mexico and Central and South America dazzles in silvery green and flaming rufous. How about the Bronze-olive Pygmy-Tyrant , Golden-olive Woodpecker , Pale-olive Greenbul , or Grey-olive Greenbul ?

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Cameroon Comoros Africa Woodpeckers 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The authors’ goals are (1) to provide information that will help readers identify a bird nest; (2) to explore the broader ecology of bird nests of North America, “an ecological study of how hundreds of species have adapted nests and nesting behavior to environs that range from tropical deciduous forest to Arctic tundra” (p.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2013

References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 California Bird Species of Special Concern : A ranked assessment of species, subspecies, and distinct populations of birds of immediate conservation concern in California. Photo from Wikipedia Commons taken by Terry Gray.

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California North America Costa Rica Niger 217

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Before finally connecting to the South American continent about three million years ago, Central America consisted of a series of volcanic islands. One of these islands may have been the present day Northern Central American Highlands which includes Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of extreme southern Mexico (Chiapas).

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 222

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Eskimo Curlew, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Bachman’s Warbler, Carolina Parakeet—these are names that echo mightily through birding histories and even some recent field guides.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 269

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2012

They nest in cavities, created by woodpeckers, in large trees and snags. They are listed as sensitive in Oregon and Utah; a candidate for listing in Washington and a species of high concern by New Mexico Partners in Flight. v=V1bFr2SWP1I References: 1 Birds of North America Online a. i Kamakawiwo?ole’s

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Washington Eggs California 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids. Pileated Woodpecker, for example. Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 236

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This post is old news to those who pay attention to what I say on Facebook but I am still pleased as punch to point out that I have finally reached the 500-bird milestone in the American Birding Association area (basically North America north of Mexico). How did I finally reach this lofty peak?

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San Marino Los Angeles Birds Laws 106

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). It will be interesting to see how well it survives now that it has been dropped from the Sibley Guide.

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North America Birds Species America 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. Not a minute later, I’d scooped up my kid and sprinted back into the house for my binoculars and camera. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Further, the crane take in Mexico is a free-for-all: neither regulated nor recorded.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252