10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2013

Here, as I kept my ears and eyes open for my target species for the day – Gilded Flicker — I noticed that many of these large columnar plants were blooming, attracting a wide range of birds that included White-winged Dove , Curve-billed Thrasher , and Gila Woodpecker.

Arizona 163

Arizona Tucson Miami Shelters 163

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

It doesn’t seem to offer food or shelter for birds; but, being the tallest tree on the block, is an important stopover for lots of species. Golden-fronted Woodpeckers apparently like blackberries, too. This year, that pair of Golden-fronted Woodpeckers are big customers as well. Mostly, we don’t let them.

Birds 154

Birds Woodpeckers Madagascar Nashville 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

I stitched away as I watched the Red-bellied Woodpecker scatter the smaller Chipping Sparrows and Carolina Chickadees as it glided down for a few seed morsels. The feeder dangles from a clothesline between two pine trees, beckoning a range of bird varieties. Nothing was on my agenda for that afternoon. The emphasis was on discovery.

Agenda 138

Agenda Birds Louisiana North America 138

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2019

There are plenty of lookouts and shelters, but there is no drinking water available at the toilet facilities, so you need to carry plenty of water. It was mostly easy walking all over the island, but due to a very high tide with sea water covering the trail we were unable to walk the loop trail from the Mamam Campsite.

Singapore 133

Singapore Birds illegal Eagles 133

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Lacking the benefit of heated shelters, birds must heed that warning or perish. It might not look frightening to a birder but if we could ask pigeons, woodpeckers, and other birds how they felt abut the Bicolored Hawk, we would see their eyes go wide with fear and their feathers tremble. It’s delicious to the eye is what it is!

Costa Rica 155

Costa Rica Bats Birds Falcons 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2013

climate, vegetation, food, shelter, competitors, predators) to the species’ natural habitat, or to other successful introductions, that permanent establishment seems likely. In particular, subsection iii seems to be the hurdle that most species can’t clear.

Parrots 213

Parrots California Los Angeles San Diego 213

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2016

It is a sheltered area with numerous picnic tables for the people visiting and bird feeders for the feathered variety of visitors. Walking fast in the drizzle we accidentally flushed a Green Woodpecker and it was rather vocal as it took off. Incidentally I don’t have any photographs of Green Woodpeckers !

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Geese Wildlife 2001 Woodpeckers 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Some of the birds were astonishingly confiding, including a Rufous -capped Babbler foraging for insects, a tiny Rufous Piculet ( a diminutive type of woodpecker) and a very bold Black-and-yellow Broadbill. Then we flushed a hidden Diard’s Trogon , a flash of grey and crimson as it took off.

Lemurs 158

Lemurs Family Rhinoceros Fish 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Those conditions shape entire ecological communities, which we birders tend to think of broadly as “habitat,” including the plants that birds need for shelter, nesting substrates, and food, and the other species that interact with birds in their environments, from predators to competitors to food sources like insects or fish.

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Species Science Los Angeles 2000 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Women gathered their long skirts and hurried for the shelter of stores. I would dearly love to see an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and I think our Carrie deserves to observe a Great Auk. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. Horses bolted.

Mauritius 101

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2017

Reeds attract Meadow Buntings and Reed Buntings and provide shelter for little fish which, in their turn attract Great Egrets , Little Egrets and Grey Herons. Dusky Thrushes and a single Pale Thrush bathed by the water’s edge whilst Japanese Whiteyes and Japanese Pygmy Woodpeckers kept to the trees.

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Birds Ducks Shelters Falcons 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Filling the niche of the woodpecker here they use their small and long bills to explore and hammer through rotting wood and bark for insects. The sheltered bays of the Coromandel are home to another endemic, the Southern Merganser. We’ll also be on the lookout for the melodious North Island Piopio.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 196