10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2019
With shorebirds on my mind, the other day, we opted for birding at Punta Morales. We reached the salt pans at Morales around six and were greeted by several White-fronted Parrots feeding on fruiting trees. Other dry forest species made appearances, Stripe-headed Sparrows being especially common.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2020
Black-bellied Plover – Pluvialis squatarola; Punta Morales, 10-Jan. Wilson’s Plover – Charadrius wilsonia; Punta Morales, 10-Jan. Semipalmated Plover – Charadrius semipalmatus; Punta Morales, 10-Jan. Long-billed Curlew – Numenius americanus; Punta Morales, 10-Jan. Northern Jacana –Jacana spinosus; Curu, 4-Jan.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2023
Because this is New Guinea, it does not attract t**s, finches, and sparrows, but parrots and birds-of-paradise… as soon as a fresh load of papayas and bananas is brought out and thrown on the table, the forest comes alive.” “This lodge owes its fame to a 3-yards-long, moss-covered bird feeder table.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2017
After starting the morning with an unsuccessful search for Rusty Sparrow in Orotina, we hit three main shorebird sites. These were the Guacalillo lagoons (basically part of the Tarcoles River estuary), the Chomes area, and the salt ponds at Punta Morales (Cocorocas). No sparrow but the dawn chorus was a treat.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2015
The other, more irritating issue was a tendency for the narration to get a bit thick with the breezy anthropomorphism – ‘bad’ brood parasites, ‘henpecked’ male White-throated Sparrows , and the like. Tales of Remarkable Birds is available now from Bloomsbury Publishing.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2019
That is because Lago de Cuitzeo receives a huge number of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds, with smaller numbers of sparrows, buntings, and other migratory birds in the areas around the lake’s shore. Not only are the species numbers good, but the spectacle of so, so many individual birds can be thrilling.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
He is a Bird of bad moral Character. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. From France he wrote to his daughter expressing his displeasure: For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country.
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