10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Pelagic birding off the Atlantic coast of Florida can be a frustrating experience, usually involving long waits of up to an hour or more interspersed with brief flurries of activity — a far cry from pelagic birding off of coasts blessed with cold water currents and nutrient rich upwelling such as California, southeast Australia, and Peru.

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Florida United States Fish 2005 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It was published in 2005, and I guess was a great success because I can’t find a trace of it online.) Its purpose, chief editor Mickey Long tells us, “is to provide useful information for birders of all skill and experience levels” (p. I didn’t know there was a first edition!

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. And a dead end. And each time I learn the same things.

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Geese Ducks Feral Cats Vermont 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&#

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. It was there where the first glimpse of his future began.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine. This is what got me, the incongruity.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 111

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 212

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

of New Mexico Press, 2005). And, if you are part of an ongoing atlas project in your state, tell us about your experiences. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience. The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Cornell Univ. Images courtesy of Pennsylvania State University Press.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 239

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. hours driving on the 13th and 14th September 2005. That most dreaded of disappointments. For those that might not fully comprehend, the birding slang-term to “dip” or to “dip out on” a bird is to go looking for a particular species and not find it.

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Norway Delaware Pennsylvania Philadelphia 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

” This lengthy essay was originally published in The New Yorker (“in somewhat different form,” as the “Credits” section says) in 2005 and can also be found in Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (FSG, 2010). Press, 2011).

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 259

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. So, the interest expressed here in watching with me is a great compliment.

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2011 North America 2005 Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

He contributes to several birding and conservation projects on the web, but his home online is Search and Serendipity , a birding blog he started in 2005. The experience also inspired my column this month at 10,000 Birds, so check that out when you’re done: Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds.) [.]

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 155

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? In December 2005 a 50-foot, 50-ton, female humpback whale got tangled in crab lines and was in danger of drowning. by Marc Bekoff. A Grateful Whale.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 216

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

It spent its visit at the Golf Course with the Masked Lapwings Vanellus miles and the previous visit by the species had been in February 2008 and prior to that September 2005. There have been a lot of different birds around this year for various reasons, which mainly involve the climatic changes we experience from year to year.

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2014 Zebras 2005 2008 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

The research, although widely accepted, was greeted with some skepticism early on (Sutton 1966), and eventually followup attempts to replicate his research and experiments near Clyde River Nunavut by Richard Schnell found that the data could not have been have been collected as Smith’s publications had indicated.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

Its only decent competition is the National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: New Jersey (2005); a good guide, but one that contains far fewer species accounts (about half of the ABA book’s coverage) and outdated taxonomic information. In fact, any birder planning to bird New Jersey will benefit from using this book.

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New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 251

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 8, 2012

Smoky was destined to experience all the “benefits” of military service accompanying her master. On Veteran’s Day 2005 the Smoky memorial was opened in a shape of life-size bronze sculpture – Smoky sits in a soldier’s helmet on top of the two-ton granite pedestal. Wynne from Cleveland.

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Guinea Cleveland Pets 2005 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. But after repeated good experiences with birders as individuals, Mr Jordan has consented to allow the bird to be made public before it leaves.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Thanks for visiting!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

He is also the author of my current favorite hawk book, Hawks From Every Angle: How To Identify Raptors In Flight (PUP, 2005). ” I’m curious about your experiences with these guides or other hawk books (or apps) in the field. Liguori has conducted raptor migration counts at major U.S. Which guide worked best for you?

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Eagles 2011 North America Utah 196

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

I’d never heard of them until 2005 when I saw some in the Botanical Gardens of Canberra in Australia. Where numbers of lerp eaters drop due to increased numbers of aggressive Noisy and Bell Miners (both honeyeaters), eucalypt forests can experience dieback as the lerp bug infestations spread unchecked. What a treat!

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Australia Fiji Hunters Family 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Again, Poe provides the anwer: Regarding, then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of its highest manifestation- and all experience has shown that this tone is one of sadness. Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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2011 Fowl Deer Cats 249

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

Add to that Liguori’s earlier Hawks From Every Angle (2005), the entry from the Peterson Field Guide series, Hawks of North America, second edition , by William S. Some of these, such as a birder’s experience finding White-tailed Hawks by driving towards the smoke plumes of a local fire, are charming. Clark and Brian K.

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North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. If you haven’t been to Costa Rica, or if you’ve birded Costa Rica but somehow missed their damselflies and dragonflies (not a problem!

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Costa Rica North America Family America 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

His career began just before the extinctions and translocations at Big South Cape Island , when I have previously mentioned the modern age of conservation in New Zealand began, and continued beyond his retirement in 2005. To describe his life as one filled with achievement is a major understatement, and what I present is a brief summary.

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