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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 206

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

For the sake of family peace, I left my bins at home, which meant that the tastiest species I could put a name to was Dark-eyed Junco , which I’ll be seeing a ton of over the coming months. This thought came to mind as I wondered how many of the people whose circles overlap mine put up their Christmas trees this weekend like we did.

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2016 Birds Owls Experience 124

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

I’m heading down to NYC for family festivities, though you won’t find me in Times Square rocking in the New Year. Will there be more in 2017–more birds, more places, more friends? As you take stock of your last 365 days, consider what would have made that span richer, then resolve to have more of that this year.

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2016 2017 Birds Family 110

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

I have lots of family visiting this weekend, which will likely curtail avian observation. Give to those organizations and work for those organizations. Last but not least, get out and enjoy nature… you never know who you’ll run into on the trail. How about you?

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2016 Birds America Protection 124

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JULY 7, 2016

This weekend, I’ll be heading out to Lake Michigan to really soak in summer moods with extended family. Corey will be enjoying immediate family in the Capitol Region, so look for him at the Vly. Right glad to meet the evenings dewy veil. & & see the light fade into glooms around. How about you?

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2016 Michigan Birds Family 100

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JULY 24, 2016

Corey spent the weekend camping in the northern Catskills Mountains and was extremely pleased to have a family of fledged Eastern Kingbirds in and around the campsite. But if I have to pick a living bird, American Kestrels hunting along farm roads always work for me. Tyrannus tyrannus is an exemplary Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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2016 Birds Farming Hunting 100

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MARCH 6, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was either of a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers that he saw at the Ramshorn Livingston Sanctuary in Catskill, New York, while he was on a walk with his family.

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2016 Sanctuary New York Woodpeckers 100

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

My family and I indulged this weekend in the kind of deep-fried treats you can only find at the New York State Fair… bacon-wrapped corn dog, anyone? And while this scorching season may technically be rolling on until the equinox, today serves as the official unofficial last day of summer in the U.S.

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New York City 2016 New York Birds 100

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APRIL 29, 2016

I have family visiting this weekend, which means my chances of getting out into the field seem slim. The last weekend of April may as well be May, which we know is a major month of migration. Don’t miss it! Wish me luck!

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2016 Birds Family 100

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Corey and his family are absorbing as much of the American West as they can fit in as they drive from Colorado to the West Coast. I’ve been engaged in a series of home improvement projects that have kept me out of the field. However, I’m really hoping to get into nature this weekend. Expect plenty of photos! How about you?

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Colorado 2016 United States Birds 100

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MARCH 4, 2016

Corey and family will be visiting central New York and enjoying what avifauna the Capital Region has to offer. March forth, my friends, to birds and greatness! March marks the time when raptors and owls begin to migrate through western New York; with hope, I’ll find a few this weekend. How about you?

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New York 2016 Birds Owls 100

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

For the last several years, I have produced a small run of calendars for my fiends and family. While I am not going to post all twelve, here are my favorite 6 images ( including the feature image above) from the first 10 months of 2016. The best 12 images of the previous year. Least Grebe. Varied Bunting. Mangrove Warbler.

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2017 Culling 2016 Birds 121

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APRIL 30, 2017

Rheindt: Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago (2016): based on current taxonomy (see above). The figures show the order of bird families in the four field guides mentioned above. Order of bird families, non-songbirds. Order of bird families, songbirds. van Balen, N. Brickle & F. Do you see a problem? I see a problem.

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Brunei 2009 2016 2014 151

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

She started guiding at Rancho in 2016, only to embark upon a Costa Rica Big Year in the next, 2017. My other guide, Mercedes Alpizar, grew up near the Rancho in the Turrialba area, graduated in Ecological Tourism and studied English at the University of Costa Rica. Why go that far?

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Costa Rica Rats Parrots Raccoons 241

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JUNE 7, 2018

Before (May 2016, by Zeljko Stanimirovic)…. There is not a slightest trace of asphalt, nor the promised sewage ponds, which may be good for the two Little Ringed Plover families incubating their eggs at the site as we speak, but is far from good for the people living there. Only the future of that picture worries me.

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2016 Eagles Birds Otters 167

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JANUARY 1, 2017

The year 2016 is done and gone and 2017 beckons us onward, bright and new and shiny, hopefully full of birds. I had a bunch of birds to choose from this weekend as I spent the afternoon hiking upstate with the family and all morning on Sunday building up my new year list.

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2017 2016 New York Birds 124

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 .

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 215

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APRIL 25, 2022

All photos were taken in Australia in December 2016 – locations included Brisbane and surroundings, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Melbourne, and the coast near Melbourne. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow. When there are no streetlights around, they grudgingly accept trees as well.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 181

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FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Having added the new additions to my 2016 year list I noted we had not yet seen a member of the Fantail or Robin family as yet. Our first encounter of a Northern Fantail for 2016! Our return visit to Kununurra had added a Fantail and a Robin to our 2016 year list!

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2016 Shelters Fish Australia 100

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MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

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MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 169

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 212

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APRIL 3, 2020

A pair of Pestvogelen : Bohemian Waxwings ( Bombycilla garrulus ) from Nederlandsche vogelen (“ Dutch Birds” ) by naturalist and illustrator Cornelius Nozeman (1720-1786) and Christiaan Andreas Sepp (1700-1775) and Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739-1811) of the famous Amsterdam publishing family.

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Farming New York Humane Europe 163

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MAY 3, 2016

And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years. The Quick Index of bird families (Albatrosses, Ani, Auklets, etc.) Knopf; March 2016, 464 pages. Knopf; March 2016, 504 pages.

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North America 2003 Birds America 155

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MARCH 1, 2016

India was not on my list of places to go in 2016. I had not planned on birding India in 2016, but I’m very happy I did. So, I birded India, land of Indian Peafowl , Saag Paneer (my favorite Indian dish) and Tigers. And, I need to wave hello to my fellow and sister birders, with whom I had so much fun.

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India Tigers Birds Owls 187

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

A fourth Appendix chapter, “Future Splits and Taxonomic Changes” explains which 2016 American Ornithologists Union taxonomic order changes the authors were able to incorporate, and not incorporate into the guide, which was on its way to publication. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2016, 448 pages, 4.5

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 230

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JUNE 27, 2017

The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They were simply sent to Family Court. Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks. Gutierrez was 18.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

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MARCH 7, 2017

Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. Eagle hunting is a family tradition that goes back at least 12 generations, part of the larger nomadic Kazakh culture.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 101

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good. I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. I think this might be my best bird of 2016.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 108

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

The year 2016 has been a pretty good year. The end of July and beginning of August featured an amazing trip across the American west with my family. Here’s hoping your 2016 was as full of great birds as mine was. Winter birding around New York City was just so-so but I did add one species to my Queens list. Or something.

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2016 Puerto Rico New York City New York 126

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Both men lead trips for tour company Tropical Birding (Barnes is a founder), and they have also co-authored Wildlife of Madagascar (another WildGuide volume, 2016), Birding Ethiopia (with Christian Boix, 2010) and Wild Rwanda (with Christian Boix, 2015). Warbler Rainfrog is one of the few rainfrogs that prefers disturbed habitats.

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 166

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Unfortunately the Bar-tailed Godwit was too distant on an outgoing tide to be able to read any writing on the yellow flag, so although we know it was marked in Norway since 2016 we are not able to find out the individual birds history. Another exciting find on October 27th was a family of Whooper Swans at the Killingholme Haven Pits.

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Norway Iceland Family 2016 100

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MARCH 23, 2020

Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. 313 – Greater White-fronted Goose , 21 February 2016: I don’t know how I didn’t see this one coming. I must stare at the ocean a lot. Sooty Shearwater – Ditto.

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2018 2015 Birds 2019 158

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Clearly, members of the birding community and their families–thanked in the opening Acknowledgments section–played a strong role in getting this project done. . An identification guide for an overlooked bird family? And for good reason. Or, at least, the life of our local park or neighborhood. More field guides?

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 147

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. WildGuides, Princeton University Press, summer 2016. by Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop & David Tipling.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 141

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January 2016. Pennsylvania is one of the most heavily birded states in the U.S., American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania. American Birding Association State Field Guide series). by George L. Armistead and Brian E. Small (photographer). Scott & Nix, Inc., ISBN-10: 1935622528; ISBN-13: 978-1935622529.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 160

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JULY 21, 2021

I have now seen and photographed this species there in February of 2016, early August of 2020, and in July of 2015, 2016, 2018, and now, 2021. (In And we do, in fact, have some scrawny members of the family here in Morelia, but they hardly deserve the name. You might think that down here in Mexico we see tarantulas all the time.

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2016 2015 Nicaragua Mexico 260