10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate. In the summer, they are the highest altitude breeding songbird in North America. So let’s look at this sampler, shall we?

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Importantly, the paper offers support for the hypothesis that the ancestor of the entire clade came to North America by way of Beringia — the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska exposed at various times through Earth’s history.

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APRIL 12, 2012

The family has representatives throughout the forests North America, Eurasia (including North Africa), and Indomalaya. In North America, we have, traditionally at least, four species, the most familiar of which is the White-breasted Nuthatch ( Sitta carolinensis ).

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APRIL 21, 2013

elegans ) are the largest rails in the Americas. Their taxonomic status long has been unclear due to their overall similarity and the fact that in eastern North America and Cuba, they hybridize. King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba.

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APRIL 21, 2021

The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.) Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer.

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MAY 12, 2013

This is called the “Head Immersion Method”, according to Birds of North America (BNA), a feeding process in which the bird dips its head in the water and mud to feast on aquatic invertebrates. (I National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 6th ed. Random House, 2003. Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

million bird observations in North America alone. It is this last feature that I personally find the most exciting - the ability for me to find birds anywhere I travel in North America. Consider the fact that in January 2010 eBird participants logged more than 1.5

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JANUARY 28, 2015

Although it was formerly abundant and geographically widespread, Trumpeter Swan numbers and distribution were greatly reduced during the early fur trade and European settlement of North America (1600’s to 1800’s), when it was prized for its skins and primary feathers 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1bx7Ic2FY. v=kq1bx7Ic2FY.

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” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. They’re just like us–they talk with their hands (er, wings) and their feet and some are even crafty!” And, that’s it.

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MARCH 20, 2012

Though they are an invasive species here in North America they can still be pretty darn cute, though not as cute as baby raccoons ! This post was first published in June 2008, but we’re sharing this tender moment to celebrate World Sparrow Day !)

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Pygmy Nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea ) is a non-migratory bird that lives primarily in Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pine forests in western North America. They are one of the few cooperatively breeding passerines in North America and a third of the breeding pairs have 1–3 male helpers, usually progeny or other relatives.

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MAY 9, 2012

Here in Northern California I am fortunate to have at least three of the western hummingbirds of North America visiting my yard. The male is the only hummingbird in North America with a rufous back. The least common species of hummingbird I see here is the Calliope Hummingbird ( Stellula calliope ). www.youtube.com/watch?v=hARzx_fuFKA

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Common Merganser female by John Borg There are six living species of mergansers, three of which are commonly spotted in North America: The Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser ) ranges widely throughout the northern hemisphere. Anyway, the hoodie is the only merganser endemic to North America. Notice the sawbill?

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MAY 2, 2017

This time the tome that three lucky readers will receive is Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne. The first and easiest way to win a copy of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list.

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The Bank Swallow ( Riparia riparia ) is North America’s smallest swallow. Historically, all Bank Swallow colonies in North America were found in natural sites such as banks along rivers, streams, lakes, and coasts; today, many colonies are in human-made sites like sand and gravel pits and road cuts.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Nearly every species of heron and egret in North America forage only feet away, some of them in their dazzling breeding displays. This is a bird that is becoming increasingly hard to see anywhere in North America so we passed over the dozens of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks to get a look at this pretty rarity.

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MARCH 9, 2012

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of most fair, and the Harlequin Duck is just too much of a trollop to really compete.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

These are the largest nightjars in North America, significantly larger than Whip-poor-will or any of the nighthawks. Of course I’ve seen these birds in Florida many times but I never really appreciated just how big these nocturnal bucket mouths are.

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While writers from all locations are welcome, we are currently particularly looking for writers from North America and Singapore, as we have many readers there yet few writers. If neither that nor that we do not pay anything does not put you off, please get in touch. The post Want to be a Writer for 10,000 Birds?

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MAY 27, 2021

By the time the Terra ships we expect the automated ID to work very well in North America and Northern Mexico, and we will expand it throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, and then across the globe.” ” Wow, right? But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter?

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. But now that we do have, and while we may or rather should wish we had not, we might as well roll with the punches and accept that we have.

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MAY 8, 2013

I’m focusing on Turkey Vultures here because they are undoubtedly the species most birders in North America (the home of 10kB) are most familiar with, but the name vulture applies to birds found around the globe. North America’s Oldest New Bird – Rick Wright, The ABA Blog. Here’s the kicker though.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

References: 1 Birds of North America Online. At about the 2:03 mark you will notice a Ross’s Goose moving behind the dark morph goose from right to left and another following behind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYNb-0vYTE8. v=DYNb-0vYTE8. Birds geese Ross''s Goose Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Snow Goose waterfowl'

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MARCH 15, 2015

I still know my audience - this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who see the term “squirrel” as little more than a synonym for house sparrow, starling, pest and cholera. Germany, like most of Europe and very much unlike North America, is home to only one species of squirrel.

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JULY 2, 2013

Bluebird Man is about Alfred Larson, but you can be one of the film’s heroes by contributing to its production… There is something special about bluebirds, and it isn’t just because the world’s three species are only found in North America. There is something more.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The recent hubbub in the northeastern United States in terms of rare birds has been all about the Whiskered Tern at Cape May, the third record of this species for North America. All three of those records are from Cape May. You can read more about this awesome bird here.

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APRIL 8, 2015

References: 1 Birds of North America Online. If you want to see the best photograph of a male Calliope Hummingbird displaying that I have ever seen, check out this photo by Wally Rufous ! It will blow you away! Birds Anna''s Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird hummingbirds'

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JULY 2, 2014

References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Once s/he showed itself and I began taking photographs, the bird seemed to be intrigued by the sound of the camera clicking, flying up into the tree right in front of us where I took the featured image above and this one. Birds Green-tailed Towhee Mountain Bird Festival towhees'

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JULY 30, 2015

They fly from extreme northern North America to the southern tip of South America and are seldom seen perched during migration. Another cool fact was learning that the Barn Swallows has started to breed in South America since the 80s. They are still among the coolest birds on my list. Photo Alfredo Begazo.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

If you want to learn a lot about bird species, I find “Birds of North America Online” the best resource on the net. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 BirdLife International. Here’s one last look at the adult Heermann’s Gull landing on the beach in San Francisco. v=FUBX_tlHySc.

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JUNE 22, 2011

v=fHSgyxRQXvg References: 1 Birds of North America Online _ Poop Week is a week of themed posts on 10,000 Birds that cover the intersection of poop and birding, a fertile precinct if there ever was one. So I will leave you with the classic way to tell if a nesting bird is getting ready to poop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHSgyxRQXvg

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The Spotted Towhee ( Pipilo maculatus ) is probably the most common of the five western Towhees of North America. They occupy the scrubby thickets of the northern Great Plains, middle elevations of mountains and intermountain plateaus, and Pacific coastal lowlands and offshore islands.

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MARCH 23, 2011

Fruit is something that migratory birds could eat and worth trying in your yard in North America. This is a photo that my friend Larry Sirvio took in Belize. Check that out, it’s a Wood Thrush coming to a papaya feeder. Nyjer (aka Thistle) for goldfinches was introduced from Nigeria–someone had to experiment with that.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

I headed over to Cornell’s Birds of North America online to see what they had in their notes about the diet of Red-shouldered Hawks. The hawk associated her as such a reliable source of food, that she could call her name for it and the hawk would fly in and await the food.

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JULY 4, 2017

This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K. klak-klak, keeear!,

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AUGUST 29, 2013

The series, which was four years in the making, follows birds across six continents, from eagles in North America to hummingbirds in South America, cockatoos in Australia, cranes in Asia, and flamingos in Africa. And many more!).

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JANUARY 10, 2014

The researchers theorize that these birds might not be strays from the Scandinavian Phalarope population, but instead perhaps originally from North America. Now, the results may have prompted more questions than answers, and suggest that the Phalaropes could be affected by South Pacific phenomena such as El Nino.

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