10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Sometimes you gain armchair big ticks, like the White-tailed Blue-flycatcher I saw in Uganda in 2005 which later turned out to be in the Stenostiridae, a recently erected family. Sometimes you may even lose them, like the aforementioned woodswallows which are probably no longer a family.

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Family Wombats Uganda Fiji 164

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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. Duck MigrationSandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!Avian Share Your Thoughts « Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:18 pm [.]

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

But, for those owls who are more well-known and easier to find, we have the delight of seeing them in full-body portraits, perched in their habitat, with mates, as nestlings, hunting and flying, in concealment postures and eating prey.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 233

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AUGUST 4, 2015

I was surprised, however, that there is no mention of one of the dark spots in bird feeding history, the highly publicized application of toxic insecticides to Scott’s Miracle-Gro bird seed from 2005 to 2008 and the accompanying falsification of documents to hide it. Scott’s was fined $12.5 Fish and Wildlife Service.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 239

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JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, on Black-crowned Night-Heron, a steadily declining breeding species, they say, “…even though they were recorded in 5 block in the Bronx during NYSBBA II in 2000-2005, we believe most did not involve breeding birds” (p. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 156

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Press, 2000) and the earlier The Birds of Hong Kong and South China (co-authored with Clive Viney and Lam Chiu Ying, Hong Kong Information Office, 2005). She currently lives in the Algarve, Portugal and Quentin splits his time between London and Sabah, according to the brief biographies in the back of the book.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 179

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APRIL 6, 2021

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. Pause while we all try to imagine what our lives would be like if we could do that.) birding tour company.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 259

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JANUARY 28, 2015

The 2010 continental estimate of trumpeter swan abundance was 46,225, an increase of 33% since 2005 and the highest recorded since the surveys began in 1968 3. The good news is that these majestic birds have been increasing in numbers every year!

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North America Iowa Wisconsin America 176

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

I’d never heard of them until 2005 when I saw some in the Botanical Gardens of Canberra in Australia. Their stubby bills make them efficient at this, and unlike their insect hunting thornbill relatives, they are fairly sedentary hunters, content to take insects off leaves without chasing after them. What a treat!

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Australia Fiji Hunters Family 173

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MARCH 14, 2011

The book is from 2005 called “Identify Yourself, The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges”. Share Your Thoughts « Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011) Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Recapping the quiz … I recently purchased a new book on birds and used it as the single source for this week’s quiz.

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MARCH 21, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Armchair Birdwatch: Get Your Raptor Eyes On Birds Eating Suet Guan-emala Magpie Mania Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Hunting: You may have noticed that the Written Species Accounts include a section on hunting. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. I was really taken aback when I saw this.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124