10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2016

Pileated Woodpeckers take BBOTW honors quite often around here, but who can resist the captivating sight of an adult teaching two big, gangly juveniles the finer points of extracting nutrients from decaying logs? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

An expanse of habitat as vast as Murchison Falls NP in Uganda, as excessively generous in beauty and biodiversity, permits endless ways to experience both its birds and animals. Mike and Corey attended the 2019 African Birding Expo in the company of African birding legend Herbert Byaruhanga and a slew of international birding professionals.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Unfortunately only 63% of this oil is produced by state owned companies, and the 37% left is still fattening the profits of other companies that are not a direct benefit to our economy. This money pumping basin is also a very important area for ecotourism which benefits our economy.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

As the company has been introducing me to the rest of the staff and clients, a description of my talents caught my attention. Remember the whole Cornell Ivory-billed Woodpecker search and how you literally had to apply for a volunteer position to pay your own way down to Arkansas for 2 weeks to try and look for that bird?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Chris Lotz, the owner of the international bird tour company Birding Ecotours , invited me to join him on a familiarization trip that included several highland sites as well as Pico Bonito Lodge. In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

This Birding Rally’s competitors were companies that specialize in birding and nature tours. Adam and Tim are experienced Florida birders with varying degrees of experience when birding the Tropical Rainforests. For birders, observation towers add a whole new dimension to a birding experience in the Tropical Rainforest.

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Peru Birds United Kingdom South Africa 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

’ They are challenging to find, frustrating to photograph, and the antbird experience often includes heat and humidity, mud and bugs. Favorite Woodpecker: This is a toughie. It was one of those magic experiences when you are so absorbed you forget you have a camera.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

That one or two or a few might still exist somewhere “incognito,” perhaps in the company of doves or rock pigeons, maybe even somewhere deep within the Olympic Rain Forest of Washington State. So touched by the experience that I cried, I’ve only seen one since, his body preserved in some formal likeness of what he once had been.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

After wrapping up our time in the highlands of Honduras, Chris Lotz (owner of international bird tour company Birding Ecotours ) and I arrived at the deservedly famous Pico Bonito Lodge. Trips Central America cotinga Honduras Pico Bonito'

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Each spread presents two birds of a color–Red (Scarlet Tanager and Northern Cardinal), Pink (Greater Flamingo and Roseate Spoonbill), and so one, with the last spread presenting two colors–Black and White (Downy Woodpecker and Black-and-White Warbler). Author Mya Thompson has a Ph.D.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The company offered 10,000 Birds a choice from its product line of six feeders, and for some reason, Corey told them to send me their Finch feeder. So, I can tell you about my experiences with all three products. Brome is a company that goes the full mile when it comes to supporting its feeders. At least, feeder birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. Although Ford Times was a company magazine, distributed free to Ford customers, it had a wide circulation, claiming up to 8 million subscribers, and published notable writers and artists.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 226

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The woods were quiet, so we focused on geocaching beneath the silent trees with only a single Hairy Woodpecker for company. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2011 Birds Woodpeckers Experience 151

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JUNE 18, 2011

Our visit had two main purposes, one was to experience the exotic biodiversity of the lowland Choco forest and its birds, and the other was to gauge the state of conservation in this area that has been highly criticized due to the deforestation caused by a the logging company Botrosa.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2012

And while I can still remember the first time I saw one in 2007, in the company of Jochen and Hendrik in a pine forest on the coast of the Baltic Sea, it took until this year’s trip to Hungary before I managed to get a decent image of one. We visited Hortobágy National Park, the Bükk Hills and places in between.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

In A Feathered River Across the Sky , Joel Greenberg quotes the experience of the residents of Columbus, Ohio in 1855: “Now everyone was out of the houses and stores, looking apprehensively at the growing cloud, which was blotting out the rays of the sun. Is this the type of avian experience we want? Well, except maybe you.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

selling original art plates, and sponsorships and donations from birding and conservation companies and agencies from the U.S., Sill has illustrated 44 plates–herons, shorebirds, pigeons and doves, raptors, swifts, and hummingbirds, woodpeckers, cotingas & manakins, and jays & crows. Europe, and Honduras itself.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2016

Some of us, present company included, are still enjoying a three-day holiday weekend. Corey’s Beat Bird of the Weekend was a fly-by Pileated Woodpecker that gave great looks in the early morning light, a wonderful sight for a Queens birder that misses those wonderful woodpeckers. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2016 Woodpeckers Birds Experience 103

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2012

Chris Townend is an ace birder, keen conservationist, and proprietor of Wise Birding Holidays , a UK company that leads tours to places most of us dream of visiting. The aptly named Fire-bellied Woodpecker drummed above our heads and a Blue Cuckooshrike sang out the loudest as its beautiful song echoed around the forest.

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