10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2022
While preparing an article this week for a local newspaper on the nighttime denizens of Tobago, it crossed my mind that I never considered owls as a group, far less target species for any particular outing (except for a select few, upon which I shall expound here). Owls have always held a special place in my heart – and I’m certain that many of you can say the same.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2022
After last Sunday’s post featuring a few of the birds that use the streetlights around Broome I thought I really should show you a few more! We had a surprise early morning storm on Good Friday, so that brought some clouds for a change and a welcome 10mm of rain. We had thought we had possibly seen the last of the rain for about six or seven months, so any extra is a bonus.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2022
Birding can be a real challenge. For some, it can involve hiking into a furnace of a canyon to look for a small yellowish bird much easier to see in other countries. Birding can be spending the night on a boat in the Atlantic so you can wake up to White-faced Storm-Petrels and other pelagic treats. It can involve everything from braving freezing cold temperatures to picking off leeches in India, gazing into the dark corners of humid rainforest, and requisite self experimentation with low oxygen
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall coniferous tree across Boothbay Harbor, having arrived at the harbor area seven minutes earlier (I know! Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* My inner self felt stuck in an area between disbelief and total joy and the voices near me were echoing this state of mind: “Oh My God,” “I never thought I would see this bird,” “Look at that bill!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2022
All birding is essentially good. Time spent watching any birds is time spent connecting with our natural surroundings, a time that can act as a relaxed escape as well as one of meditative focus. It’s all good and yet at the same time, there are still birding moments made special by seeing life birds, seeing and hearing birds do things we had never imagined, or losing oneself in the fantastic noise made by a flock of parakeets, geese, or migrating thrushes.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , aptly sets forth her thesis – though the “wonder” it refers to could equally well be used to describe animal (not just human) senses, as she shows in fascinating detail. By senses, Higgins means more than the standard five (touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing) identified by Aristotle.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
The American Birding Association has not had a leader since November 2021. The Board of Directors has been searching for a candidate since that time, but it does not appear to have found one. This is not surprising, as the next Executive Director will take the helm of an organization that is in debt, experiencing a long-term revenue decline, and regularly runs operating deficits.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2022
One of the easiest shorebirds to observe along the edge of the highway across Roebuck Plains at the moment is the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper – Calidris acuminata. It won’t be long before they have all set off on their northward migration to breed, but for now they are feeding up. Sharp-tailed Sandpipers are the “red heads” of the shorebirds and they are also quite well camouflaged amongst the grasses and mud.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2022
Apparently, Mauritius has one of the lowest tax rates in the world. Offshore businesses located in Mauritius that do not do business with Mauritians nor use Mauritian currency are exempt from Mauritian taxes. Bird-wise, Mauritius is probably primarily known for a bird that no longer exists, the dodo. Kind of a weird claim to fame from an ornithological point of view.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2022
One of the old jokes I always hear at Christmas Bird Count dinners pops up we get to the ducks, which is now pretty early in the compilation thanks to the current taxonomic order. Invariably, when we get to Wood Duck ( Aix sponsa ) – a species rarely seen in winter here in eastern Upstate New York – someone will smirk and ask, “Do wooden ducks count?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2022
I would not normally choose driving to two of my furthest regular sites back-to-back. But when April came around, and I had not yet gone to see the birds that are specific to my highest site (3,000 m/10,000 ft), I drove one hour each way for a very successful visit there. And then, during the following week… It rained! And after four days of rains, a very unusual occurence here for April, I knew this was my best time for a spring visit to my lowest site (1,000 m/3,300 ft), as the suddenly
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2022
As is my self-declared tradition of speaking of groups of birds within the species gamut of Trinidad & Tobago, allow me to introduce you to yet another group of three. While the entire Tyrannidae family of Tyrant Flycatchers is massive, the Myiarchus group of those recorded on these two islands comprises just three species. Simple and straightforward enough, right?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2022
If I was a location spotter for movies, I would certainly put an exclamation mark next to my notes on the Yinggehai Salt Flats on Hainan. Even in January, the place is hot, humid, smelly (with dead fish being the dominant flavor, though there are also subtle undertones of other rotting things as well as chemicals), cramped, muddy, and full of plastic trash.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2022
Once again last weekend we ventured out to drive very slowly across Roebuck Plains on the Great Northern Highway. Although the land is still very flooded there has been some easing of water flowing across the highway and it is open with caution to all traffic. Some of the potholes have been repaired now, but others remain until the water level drops a few more centimetres.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2022
This week marks only the second time the Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ) has been featured here at Birds and Booze. Given its cosmopolitan range, we would hope to see this spectacular fish-eating raptor gracing bottles of wine and beer more often, but for all the infrequency of its presence in the world of booze, at least it always presents a striking image when it does appear.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2022
In March 2022, the Collaborative submitted 184 checklists from 4 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , and the United Kingdom ) and they included 637 species. The 2022 year list stands at 949 and the life list is now at 4,113. The only new addition to the life list was a the Tropical Gnatcatcher , in Costa Rica. Mexico ranks sixth on the Collaborative’s country list with 425 species observed.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2022
Wood-Wrens , birds of the family Henicorhina , are very small wrens of Central and South America that like to live very close to the ground, in dense forest underbrush or elfin forests. The only one that occurs in western Mexico, where I live, is the Gray-breasted Wood-Wren. It is one of those birds that is much easier to hear than to see — even though hearing it is not all that easy.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2022
A recent episode of the American Birding Podcast featured an interview with Virginia Rose (Founder and President) and Freya McGregor (Coordinator) of the non-profit Birdability. The mission of Birdability is to “share the joys of birding with people who have disabilities, and to ensure that birding is accessible to everybody.” They spoke passionately and effectively about making birding accessible to everyone.
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. However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment. So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2022
Well, it finally happened. The week on the cusp between March and April was the first week in which failed to pick up any FOY species for the year 2022. I believe that is because, after a rather grueling outing the previous week, I chose to go to a site with less promise, but greater proximity. (This following week, in which I did take a longer trip, I again picked up four FOY species.).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2022
Birds of Egypt and the Middle East by Richard Hoath does a good job at giving you the idea which birds to expect and how common they may be. For example, if you are using Collins Bird Guide by Svensson and Grant (covering the whole Western Palearctic) or, perhaps the best regional field guide, Birds of the Middle East by Aspinall and Porter, you will end up swarmed by many species that can be spotted on migration only and do not spend much time in the region.
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