10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

As we ascend to the height of the season, we become more likely to encounter extreme weather coupled with extremely mundane birding. This is not to say that you won’t find great birds where you are, but only that they will likely be the resident breeders or wintering species you’ve already grown accustomed to.

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2020 Breeders New York Birds 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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North America Birds Owls America 231

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

This leaves Shanghai in June with basically just the year-round species and the summer breeders, maybe with a few added ultra-lazy individuals of migratory species. That includes breeding birds, as indicated by the presence of some rather cute chicks ( video ). Also as video.

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Birds Eggs Breeders Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2020

But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we? Corey got out and about birding on both Saturday and Sunday morning, before joining a Black Live Matter march on Sunday. What was your best bird of the weekend? Hopefully, you’re still finding surprises. Saturday night, a surprise found me.

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2020 Breeders Birds Owls 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

Though we may not be able to enjoy our normal Memorial Day gatherings one thing is constant whether there is a pandemic, a war, or any other calamity: there are birds. Perhaps for those of us in the northeastern United States the number of birds this weekend has been a bit of a disappoint though. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 United States Breeders Birds 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2022

In the previous period I wrote mostly book reviews (but of some really great books ), yet I cannot remember when the last time was that I wrote of birding itself? Perhaps in my December posts on birding Colombian Amazonia ? Driving with open windows (to hear the birds) becomes unbearable and I am heading out of this fish farm.

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Breeders Mules Farming Fish 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Are these, I ask gesturing figuratively around me, all the winter visitors or resident breeders we’ll be observing for the next few months? Don’t give up on the next season of birding just yet. So it was a pleasure to see one and the gallinule was Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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2019 Breeders Jamaica Birds 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them. I guess it is a bird though. Sounds familiar, American Robin?

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 206

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of technology, development, and globalization, but which still shines bright, fewer in number but brilliant in quality, thanks to birders and birding organizations that believe in knowing your patch and your state.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 218

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It is not particularly big but has a reported 430 bird species including migrants, though during my short stay it seems I missed most of the key attractions among them. It goes like this: While fishing, the bird tucks its head down and uses its wings to create a shady area. Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you?

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South Africa Africa Birds Fish 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2019

Spotting Blackpoll Warblers around here breaks bittersweet; obviously, anyone would enjoy spotting one of these monochromatic songbirds, but with this late migrant comes the promise of months of little more than resident breeders. Though he’s seen some decor birds he hasn’t been actively birding very much. How about you?

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2019 Pelicans Breeders Virginia 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Birding in Mexico is not like birding in the United States… especially when it comes to interpreting unusual sightings. Quite a bit of birding has been done here since your publication in 1995!). The post The Importance of Citizen Science in Mexico appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Mexico Science Breeders United States 299

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2011

I found this cluster of Yellow-headed Blackbirds in Sierra Valley, California, on a bird outing with the local Audubon Society after installing some artificial Burrowing Owl habitat earlier that day. You can hear the Yellow-headed Blackbird call by clicking on the sound link courtesy of Xeno-Canto.org.

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Blackbirds Breeders United States Canada 177

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

With fall migration well underway everywhere, it’s a good time to see what’s flying in bird news. Prothonotary Warblers (like the dapper bird above captured for posterity by Corey) should carry frequent-flier cards—a recent Audubon-led study found that one geolocator-toting individual racked up more than 5,000 miles in eight months.

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California Condor San Diego San Francisco Ghana 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2015

Midsummer birding can become boring if you focus solely on species counts. The general lack of longitudinal movement among birds limits most areas to the same restricted pool of resident breeders every year. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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2015 Breeders Geese Canada 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

Anyone who knows me knows my favorite kind of birding: vacation birding. Enjoy your patches and your resident breeders. I’ll take new birds in new habitat any day. The reason I mention vacation birding is that I’m headed down to Virginia Beach this weekend for sun, sand, and who knows what else.

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2014 United States Breeders Virginia 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

His song, “C hanges in latitude, changes in birding attitude” really rings true when you’re on the road. Traveling really rejuvenates the passion when local breeders become banal. Most people don’t expect birding wisdom from Buffet, but he is, after all, the Chief Parrothead! Birding best bird weekend'

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New York City 2014 Breeders Virginia 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Being a resident in an ecosystem certainly has its advantages, as does being a breeder (sometimes), but, every once in a while, you should visit someplace where you’re considered an exotic! Thanks to my new best friends at Proexport Colombia, I’ll be birding this weekend in the birdiest country on Earth. How about you?

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Colombia 2014 Breeders Birds 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2015

Few birds are as ubiquitous in the United States as the American Robin. Found in all fifty states except for Hawaii, the robin is also the state bird of not just Connecticut, but Michigan and Wisconsin as well. Robins are prolific breeders, capable of producing not one, not two, but three broods in one summer season.

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Connecticut Wisconsin Michigan Hawaii 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2016

Mid-June has so much to offer in the temperate zones, with breeders in one half of the world and migrants in the other. Those of you in the tropical zones can enjoy your resident birds in peace for once. What was your best bird of the weekend? And to those of you in the polar zones, just why ? How about you?

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2016 Breeders Birds Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2013

Maybe you’ll get lucky and see the bird that may some day be called Pacific Fulmar ! Corey, on the other hand, will spend the weekend reveling in resident breeders all across New York State. Even he doesn’t know where he’ll end up, but there will be birds. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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2013 Breeders New York Birds 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

“Now that migration is over, all I can do is look for local breeders.” ” “Summer (birding) sucks!” Look on the bright side: before you know it, we’ll all be awash in baby birds! Corey will no doubt be looking for breeding birds or shearwaters off the coast of Queens. How about you?

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2012 Breeders Birds Breeding 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2014

On Saturday I awakened at 3:30 AM, tiptoed out of the house as quietly as I could, and headed north and west to Sullivan County, the first of three counties I planned to visit in a series of surgical birding strikes to see (or hear) the birds I had thus far missed this year as they migrated through New York City.

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Breeding New York Breeders Downers 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2013

Besides birding, I have another hobby that I like to indulge when I travel: seeking out books from small regional presses. Overlap between this hobby and my birding is sadly rare. The Birds of Eigg is such a book. Other times, they turn out to be small hidden gems of literature.

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Birds Breeders Wildlife Research 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

It is also a good description of the birding in southernmost Florida. However, few realize how unique and how good the birding can be here. A cool climate on one side and wide expanses of water on the others creates isolation as many temperate land bird species seem unable to colonize areas south of Lake Okeechobee.

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Florida Miami United States Stray 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

In the mid-1970s, a local breeder was burglarized and a few of his birds escaped, after which the breeder released his remaining stock of about 50 birds 1. This is an animated map made from Christmas Bird Count data of Eurasian Collared-Dove sightings from 1987 through 1997 2.

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

Too bad the birding is so thin. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Western New York might not boast a phenomenal diversity of resident breeders, but we have lots of fun species summering here. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! I hope to run into some!

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2011 Breeders New York Game 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2017

Newburgh is a little over an hour north of New York City so I figured I could get a visit in to a few great locations for breeding birds that I hadn’t yet seen this year. But there were even cooler birds to see! Would the birds still be there? But, despite the sun not cooperating, the birds certainly did!

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Wildlife New York Sparrows New York City 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2011

Now how about those birds… Corey has really beaten the summertime birding blues by focusing on the best of what the season of resident breeders has to offer: baby birds! What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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2011 Breeders Suffering Birds 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Presumably, in the early days of ornithology, some scientists spent most of their time transcribing bird calls. The Black-faced Laughingthrush (Longcanggou, Sichuan) is a real beauty, though this photo does not fully do the bird justice. This post shows some of them. It’s the eyes, I guess.

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 227

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2020

10,000 Birds is having trouble with our website platform. When you are an American expatriate who lives, and birds, in Mexico, it is a topsy-turvy world. One or or two of these cute birds visited me every day throughout the winter. So go ahead and take your summer breeders back. They will return to me soon enough.

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Nashville ALA Louisiana Mexico 139

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Up to that point, I’d offered Great Reasons to Become A Bird Watcher in an effort to encourage the uninitiated to try bird watching. Bird watching sounds simple, but for the beginner it’s anything but. Here are three simple steps to starting bird watching the right way: 1.

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Birds United States 2006 Breeders 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

Although both species are widespread in North America as breeders in shrubby edge habitats, that is not the case in the southern half of the sunshine state (the more northerly race of Prairie Warbler is an uncommon breeder in the panhandle). Birding Florida mangrove warbler'

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Florida Breeders Miami Tampa 199

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The Bronx also has a special place in birding history.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2019

Whilst many communal nesting birds (including cormorants, herons and ibis) use the rookery, the most obvious and spectacular are the Painted Storks , M ycteria leucocephala. There can be quite a gap between the early birds and the late brooders. It is possible that some birds were attempting a second brood after losing their first.

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2003 India Breeders Eggs 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

However, I am here to make the case for birding California. With the largest state list by a considerable margin and a mind-boggling diversity of habitats, I reckon we have some amazing birding to offer. So if you are thinking of doing some birding out this way, here is a quick run-down of some of the state’s best birding areas.

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California San Diego Birds Oakland 214

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

Yeah, I certainly won’t be shedding any tears for now ex-bird breeder LaSandra Walter , who had her birds taken from her as part of a plea deal after birds were found emaciated and in filthy conditions in her home. &# My whole life was based on my bird business,&# she whined.

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United States Breeders Breeding Birds 165