10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For most avian migrants heading south towards Mexico, Central and South America, crossing thru the Arizona desert areas can provide very few water, food and resting areas. Gila Woodpeckers and Ladder-backed Woodpeckers are seen in the Cottonwood trees, especially near the boat dock.

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Mexico Tucson Arizona Ducks 136

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Some names are clearly descriptive and thus make one feel good about saying them; woodpecker and grosbeak come to mind. Millions of pewees fly over and stop in Costa Rica on their way to and from South America. Sunbittern also works because what else could that bizarre and ancient bird be called? Rail-Heron? Heron-Rail?

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Costa Rica Pennsylvania South America Panama 272

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Woodpeckers are phenomenally well-represented in Colombia and the country holds anything from 42 to 44 of the world’s woodpecker species, depending on which list you follow. That’s over 20 % of all the woodpeckers found worldwide. Like the true woodpeckers, piculets share several traits common to the family.

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Colombia Woodpeckers South America Family 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. And a Hairy Woodpecker and Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo , also FOYs, insisted on giving me good photos. They may even fear you. This one was a typical Greater Pewee. What could I do?

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Mexico Guatemala South America United States 193

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

Watching Humboldt seabirds on the cold waters off the coast of South America , I noticed that of them dive for their fish/food. Seeing this amazing feat by these Boobies makes me think of Piliated Woodpeckers, which generate such loud sound by hammering their bills against a tree trunk.

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Lifestyle South America Woodpeckers Fish 197

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

Cuba (twice), South America (twice), Europe and Morocco (once) and Bali (once). And the birds along the walk to the estuary weren’t bad, either: Looks like nesting time has arrived for this Golden-cheeked Woodpecker. During the period from 1994 through 2006, I mostly dedicated myself to itinerant ministry.

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Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2016

But as I stood stock-still to listen, the giggling of Carolina Chickadees filtered down to me, then the cackle of a Red-bellied Woodpecker. This tiny species breeds north of Florida but returns to spend the winter here as well as in Central and South America. At first, the wind in the air made it difficult to hear any birdsong.

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Florida South America Birds Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2012

It certainly looks good on birds from the Americas ( Elaenia , Flatbill , Greenlet , Piculet , Piha , Siskin , Thornbill ) to Africa ( Flycatcher , Thrush ). North America’s most famous olivaceous avian, Vireo olivaceus is better known for the color of its eyes than that of its plumage.

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Cameroon Comoros Africa Woodpeckers 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

This is where Gila Woodpecker and Yellow-breasted Chat meet Squirrel Cuckoo , Bat Falcon , and Black-throated Magpie-Jay. I really wanted to see Gray-crowned Woodpecker and Military Macaw , and I managed to succeed on both counts. Think Arizona meets Costa Rica with a Mexican twist.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 202

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Maggie Rufo, who works with Veronica at NSCC in Sebastopol, remembers a juvenile Pileated Woodpecker she agreed to release where it had been found in Mendocino. “I

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 233

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Be on the lookout for toucans, woodpeckers, trogons, among many other species. You will ascend the first tower and walk through the treetops of the giant Amazon Basin, across hanging bridges. Views unimaginable from below and possible only from the air are revealed on this network of towers, bridges and platforms.

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Peru Endangered Species Woodpeckers Species 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Manky Muscovy Ducks Manky Muscovy Ducks By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 6 comments Tweet Share The Muscovy Duck ( Cairina moschata ) attracts more attention than most ducks, at least in North America.

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 226

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

He worked back when you could still have a reasonable hope of seeing the now-probably-extinct Imperial Woodpecker, which he did, five times, though never in Michoacán.). They breed in northernmost Canada and Alaska, and winter in Patagonia in southernmost South America. And I don’t… much.

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Mexico Birds 2013 Lamb 134

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America are often cheaper than going to places like Arizona, Colorado, or California.

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Jamaica Puerto Rico 2013 Birds 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The region is also especially rich in trogons and motmots, two decidedly tropical families with a longer evolutionary history in North America than South America. Acorn Woodpecker , Northern Flicker , Greater Pewee , Grace’s Warbler , and White-eared Hummingbird all commonly occur here.

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 226

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Originally founded in 1925 to test the adaptability and marketability of the plantain, it also protects 1,281 hectacres of tropical lowland forest rich in birds such as Rufous-tailed Jacamar and Pale-billed Woodpecker. Red-capped Manakin is a common bird along the forest trails at Pico Bonito. Photo by James Adams.

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Honduras Monkeys Birds America 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2011

The difference in the name is subtle and the nominate, Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus cirrocephalus is from South America, so the locally favoured title, Gray-hooded Gull, would be more acceptable to North American birding aficionados, but I maintain that a hood would continue down the nape to the top of the back, which it clearly does not.

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South Africa Pedigree Africa New York 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Bill length is given separately for Toucans and Hummingbirds, based on the reasoning that it’s an important identification feature for the first and an important identification feature for the second, but not for kingfishers or woodpeckers. Tintaya’s woodpeckers also nicely feature tree (and cactus!)

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 182

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Most notably of which was a pair of Blood-colored Woodpeckers. Blood-colored Woodpecker Another sighting that got everyone running was of a Point-tailed Palmcreeper. Yes, there were House Wrens and Great Kiskadees , but I was expectedly excited to feast my eyes upon lifer after lifer. In a palm tree, obviously.

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Farming Guyana Birds South America 232

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2015

Prefixes such as Northern , Common or American are likely to be productive, Whereas a Savannah Sparrow has only a couple of potential counterparts, the Savannah Hawk of Central and South America and the Savannah Nightjar of India and southeast Asia. Eurasian Green Woodpecker – Picus viridis.

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2015 Ghana Sanctuary Senegal 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. It was actually a very easy count since each species account is one page long except for Red-tailed Hawk and Dark-eyed Junco, which get two pages each.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

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 11, 2011

Renato Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:36 am Nice post, the Collared Doves also make it to South America. Well written article with some facts I didn’t know. Especially of all the species that had been introduced to the US. We have on here in Ecuador that is very prolific in the highlands. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 138

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Then of course, we have amazing birds such as Wallcreeper , Hoopoe , and Black Woodpecker. For sure we have great birds like Great Crested Grebe , Great Bustard , and Great Spotted Woodpecker. Birding Birds Germany Invasive Species Week South America' To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 255

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! My final bird for this post is another of my favorites, the Ground Woodpecker. This is the largest of South Africa’s woodpeckers, and in appearance and behavior it is completely different to other members of its family.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The most commonly cited example is “Darwin’s Finch,” which filled the woodpecker niche by adopting the practice of acquiring a cactus thorn, and using this to access grubs hidden beneath the bark of trees. We think that the original stock from which the Galapagos Finches evolved came from nearby South America.

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Tortoises South America Panama Culling 210

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. shocked everyone with a suggestion that passerines were most closely related not to woodpeckers and kingfishers but to parrots, falcons, and seriemas. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin. Hackett et al.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There are also entries for “ albatross ,” “ dove ,” “ eagle ,” “ egret ,” “ flycatcher ,” “ gull ,” “ grebe ,” “ hummingbird ,” “ loon ,” “ murrelet ,” “ shearwater ,” “ sparrow ,” “ swallow ,” “ tern ,” “ thrush ,” “ woodpecker ,” “ wren ,” and so forth. Many individual species get an entry too, though they are generally not capitalized.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 106

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about. Unless the woodpecker is drumming a hole into your garage, and then, well, it’s a different kind of excitement.) Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide is the first major guide to family Picidae in 20 years.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

uses the zoogeographical ecozones and denotes North, Central and South America (Nearctic and Neotropical realms) as western and the rest of the world (Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Australasian) as eastern. Puerto Rican Woodpecker – Melanerpes portoricensis. Acorn Woodpecker – Melanerpes formicivorus.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100