10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

I am so happy to be back on 10,000 birds – I have missed Mike and Corey and my fellow Beat Writers! Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

I’m not quite sure where I was at the time, probably working, and it was six more years till I got my state Henslow’s Sparrow at Shawangunk NWR (a shorter drive and a more cooperative bird). She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?)

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MAY 2, 2021

This is what happens to countless birds each year when they land the wrong way on power distribution lines and poles. But occasionally people see it – especially when it’s a hard-to-miss bird like this Bald Eagle. You can find a whole page of information on bird electrocutions on the US Fish and Wildlife Service website.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

As devoted readers of 10,000 Birds know , the writers contribute checklists to a joint eBird account called the “ 10,000 Birds Collaborative.”. Many of the states with more than 200 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally.

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APRIL 10, 2020

I don’t have a proper post ready for you today, meaning there’s no customary Birds and Booze story and review for now. Northern Parulas will be returning both to Connecticut and near my home in New York in just a few short weeks, so I found Slothman’s artwork especially cheering. The beer is a New England-style IPA at 6.6%

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AUGUST 16, 2020

I didn’t expect to see any birds. I am also from the Northeast, and seeing architecture that reminded me of New York and Connecticut and even my home state of Maine beneath southern Live Oaks and Magnolias felt a bit odd. With plans to order an annual pass, I also imagine that more birding visits to Pebble Hill are in my future!

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Bryant Park, that marvelous magnet for migrant birds in midtown Manhattan, has come through with another cooperative stunner. Check this out !

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since 2016, writers at 10,000 Birds have been contributing checklists to a joint eBird account called the “10,000 Birds Collaborative.” The writers at 10,000 Birds span the globe, but I am particularly interested in the lists for the United States, as that is my “beat.” For the United States, there is also a state list.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Eager to Share is an American pale ale from Marlowe Artisanal Ales of North Haven, Connecticut. Gulls steal from people, they steal from other birds, and they steal from each other. Good birding and happy drinking! The post Marlowe Artisanal Ales: Eager to Share American Pale Ale appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Birders know that some of the finest birding locations in the country are on federal land , which include national parks , wildlife refuges , forests , monuments , and seashores , among others. These lands support countless birds, either year-round, as migratory stopovers, or as breeding grounds. But what else should birders know?

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JANUARY 21, 2022

It’s a brew with unapologetically loud flavors and a bold, lurid can to match featuring Connecticut artist Edgar Allan Slothman’s lively, Day-Glo interpretation of John James Audubon’s portrait of a caracara pair from The Birds of America. Good birding and happy drinking! Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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JULY 5, 2013

Chuk makes his quip about the Black-winged Yellow Bird; my friend Molly insists that everything is a duck, a pigeon, or an owl. Birds Mangrove Warbler names Yellow Warbler' Philosophically, arbitrary names divorce average people from nature, creating the same effect as any system of jargon — keeping insiders in and outsiders out.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Guiding birding tours is a remarkably rewarding profession.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

You’ll find 10,000 Birds a pleasingly merchandise-light site, at least for the time being. What we’re selling right now are memories of brilliant birds gone by. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend™ was, in typical hyperbolic fashion, a lovely, rare male Painted Bunting in Connecticut of all places!

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MAY 21, 2013

It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like to mention one that we all know about but has been recently studied more closely. You know that birds carry various parasites in their blood, and often, these parasites are transmitted to and from the birds via ticks or other ectoparasites.

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MAY 9, 2015

Does not mean that this bird is. From Connecticut. Having an eye-ring.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003. Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team. I think there’s a number of reasons: 1.

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MAY 15, 2012

Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. My latest addition, a Parasitic Jaeger off the coast, finally got me to my 289th bird, well over a year since I got my 279th. The first time I did this I accidentally added twelve birds to my list before reviewing it.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Connecticut. Amendment 2 changed the process for passing conveyance legislation in Connecticut. The post Parks and Public Lands Win at the Polls appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Election Results = PASSED with 59%+ voter support. Northern Harrier. Photo by © Robin Edwards.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Finally getting out to look at some birds at the start of the season may just herald an auspicious autumn! I got out to the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory banding station to observe some masters at work. A BTBW in the hand is worth two in the bush… What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JUNE 25, 2019

For many North American birders, wood warblers represent everything exciting, compelling, and immediate about birding. Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. In Jamaica , this winter resident is sometimes called Butterfly Bird or Fire Lantern. Even worse, such sobriquets obscure insight into the birds themselves.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Not having to work until the afternoon on a Wednesday, I took advantage and decided to go birding yesterday. On my way out I ran into Keir Randall, who had just posted an email letting folks know the bird was still present. The bird worked its way up and down the beach, staying near the dune line.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

No, this isn’t a birding-related insight, but a life lesson to be sure. The best birds of my weekend were Double-crested Cormorants winging over New Jersey’s Meadowlands as I left Sunday’s Giants game. Corey’s BBOTW was an Orange-crowned Warbler at the Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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JULY 17, 2020

It’s not our first encounter with juniper at Birds and Booze, but this is our first gin, surprisingly. Of course, we had to wait until I found a gin decorated with a bird, rather than, say, a portrait of Queen Victoria (as found on bottles of Bombay Sapphire) or one of those burly Beefeaters that guard the Crown Jewels.

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JULY 15, 2016

You rush over to investigate, and there are birds in your fireplace. Chimney Swifts are remarkable birds who are having a harder and harder time finding brick chimneys in which to nest and raise their families. These fabulous birds fly all the way to South America for the winter, then return in the spring.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Apparently, there is a traditional Chinese saying that seeing one pheasant in the wild is better than seeing ten other birds. Of course, this is nonsense – pheasants are probably among the most overrated of all birds. The name of the bird apparently comes from the color of its tail feathers. Connecticut. Nebraska.

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JULY 28, 2011

The Mountain Lion struck and killed by a car in Connecticut in June has been confirmed as a wild animal. The last confirmed sighting of a cougar in Connecticut was in the late 1800s. Its journey originated in South Dakota, 1,500 miles to the west!

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JANUARY 18, 2019

It’s impossible to pick up a can of The Raven – a chocolate raspberry porter by the Fat Orange Cat Brew Company of East Hampton, Connecticut – and not think of that most famous supernatural poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Good birding and happy drinking! The post Fat Orange Cat Brew Company: The Raven appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations. If you want to keep up with what is going on up there you can do worse than The Bruce Mactavish Newfoundland Birding Blog. … Birds irruption owls Snowy Owl'

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MAY 17, 2011

Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. But not me.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If birders say they love birds ostensibly because they can fly and we cannot, then there must be no more beloved group of birds than the swallows. These aerial acrobats are among the most impressive flyers in the bird world, darting this way and that over open country in pursuit of flying insects. Til next year.

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MARCH 30, 2016

Which, in the bird world, means babies. And who doesn’t love cute baby birds? OspreyCam … no offspring yet, but you can be the first to spot them, at this cam run by the Connecticut Audubon Society. And, of course, no list of bird cams would be complete without Audubon’s Puffin Loafing Ledge. Which means spring fever.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

Two-thousand-and-eleven was a pretty darn good year for me, birding-wise. Sure, I didn’t leave the United States but my first trip to the Pacific Northwest allowed me to see lots of new birds and spending the beginning of the year in southern California didn’t hurt the ol’ year list either. Those birds are big!

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Thanks to a kindhearted man who found it, an able and willing wildlife rehabilitator named Linda Bowen who nursed it back to strength, a helpful pilot who got it to Florida, and a host of others, a White-tailed Tropicbird that was found on the ground and exhausted in Connecticut in the wake of Hurricane Irene will be released tomorrow.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Way back on 16 May I managed to see my 312 bird species in Queens to add to my Queens list. Whimbrel – Undoubtedly this is the easiest bird left for me to find in Queens. Sedge Wren – This is a bird that rarely shows up on the coast in fall migration. Sooty Shearwater – This will take some more dedicated seawatching.

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MAY 18, 2015

On a recent afternoon’s visit to Forest Park’s famed waterhole the birds were coming in frequently and in abundance. Unfortunately, this has been a very dry spring in New York City so, as you can see in the photos above, intrepid Queens birders have made makeshift bird baths to take the place of what is normally a vernal pool.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Having never visited the Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch in nearby Greenwich, Connecticut, I was pleased to make its acquaintance on an outing with the Queens County Bird Club yesterday. The habitat was great and the birds were abundant which is a great recipe for a fun morning.

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