10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Of the four new year birds for him the best was one of several Nelson’s Sparrows at Big Egg Marsh, always a great bird to see, and Corey saw several very well as the high tide forced them out of the marsh. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2021

You might have been able to guess that from the photo up top, of a House Sparrow , Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. It is a very nice House Sparrow, I guess. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

eBird) had it that the best place to find Clay-colored Sparrow is a particular conifer plantation on a particular farm road in the rural western portion of the county. The rumors were delightfully true, as that buzzy call from a spruce bough drew my attention to what must be the most boring sparrow on the planet. Rumor (i.e.

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Sparrows Birds Farming Experience 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2021

Hope Cemetery was much improved by a number of Chipping Sparrows and a single errant baby Snapping Turtle. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. As grumpy as these daily 30-degree temperature swings are making me, you have to wonder how the birds are reacting.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A late Northern Parula was nice, his first Canvasback of the season was pleasant, and sweeping the scoters is always fun, but his favorite bird of the weekend was an Ipswich Sparrow. Yes, the pale subspecies of Savannah Sparrow is always a cool treat and Corey greatly enjoyed finding one at Breezy Point. What is 10,000 Birds coming to?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2021

But, of them all, his Best Bird of the Weekend was a new one for him for Ulster County, a Lincoln’s Sparrow. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Blackbirds Birds Sparrows Wildlife 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

The first bird I saw in Saigon was less exotic though – a Eurasian Tree Sparrow. It seems a bit sad to me that a paper on the Eurasian Tree Sparrow and the House Sparrow has to justify the need for research on these species by arguing this benefits humans: “Sparrow species … live in a close association with people.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A mundane weekend makes for mundane birds, so I had to settle for watching House Sparrows chew through my feeders. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Songs of turtledoves and swans a’swimming are not far off, but we in the U.S. have our minds on turkeys right about now.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a rush any new birder experiences: that of every species being a lifer. Once you’ve been around the birding block a few years, your appreciation for the lifer experience deepens greatly. Which is why we all eventually turn to the one way to combine old-birder experience with new-birder opportunities: travel.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2021

White-throated Sparrows don’t generally stand out unless they turn up at my feeder in sharp plumage, which they did on Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. At least my summers are mild. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Birds Sparrows Experience Experiments 227

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Corey added two year birds to his list this weekend, a Dickcissel and Clay-colored Sparrow. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The latter is his Best Bird of the Weekend both because he photographed it and because the Dickcissel was a heard only flyover. How about you?

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New York Birds Sparrows Experience 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

Because this is New Guinea, it does not attract t**s, finches, and sparrows, but parrots and birds-of-paradise… as soon as a fresh load of papayas and bananas is brought out and thrown on the table, the forest comes alive.” My Big Year is such a succession of new experiences that there is simply no time to think of other things.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

On Friday morning he unsuccessfully chased a LeConte’s Sparrow and a Connecticut Warbler in Queens but had his second ever encounter with Virginia Rail in Queens as well as a Yellow-breasted Chat. 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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2020

While appreciating the action at my feeder, I happily noted one White-throated Sparrow adjacent to but not mixed in with the basic House Sparrows. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2021

He added several goodies over the weekend, but none were better than a self-found Lark Sparrow at Fort Tilden, which was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Birds Sparrows Experience Experiments 197

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a surprise Swamp Sparrow at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve in Nevada. Sure, he saw lots of other great birds more typical of the desert Southwest that he rarely gets to see but the Swamp Sparrow was the only one that set of the sirens at eBird headquarters! How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2020

Was it the Seaside Sparrow that bizarrely popped up on a rock jetty? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Best of the prosaic bunch was a Black-and-White Warbler looking extra sharp against the drab gray and brown of bare branches at Firehouse Woods. No, it was neither of those.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Of all the species he spotted nothing pleased him more than finally connecting with his first Field Sparrow of the year: in fact, he saw four of them! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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United States Birds Sparrows Humane 152

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2019

Corey joined our 10,000 Birds Beat Writer Carrie on a twitch upstate to see a Golden-crowned Sparrow , a new state bird for both of them. While the giant flock of Evening Grosbeaks they found later in the day was impressive, they weren’t impressive enough to overcome the sparrow’s status as Best Bird of the Weekend.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds).

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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. Plus, the food, service, and accommodations meet the highest standards. Mind boggling, I answer! Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle … wow!!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2018

In between ice storms, I visited Brighton’s Brickyard Trail, a nice little walk that can be excellent for sparrows. What do you know, I spotted my FOY Swamp Sparrow in song, along with about a hundred Song Sparrows , also in song. Migrants are on the move, if you can bear to be out looking for them!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

If you read my weekly posts bookending theweekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and flow of each season impacts out experience of the natural world must inform our efforts to observe avifauna if we want to optimize our experience. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I love sparrows, so seeing a feather-worn Vesper Sparrow this past July filled my heart with joy. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state. We saw sparrows–a total of 14 species–and we saw many other great prairie birds, and we often saw them perched on posts.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Though it is still September and not really proper sparrow season yet, Corey still managed to turn up a nice Lincoln’s Sparrow at Kissena Corridor Park on Sunday morning, his first of the fall. Such a pleasant little sparrow, and easily Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

While this is a very charismatic bird, the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow emphatically is not. On Quora , one question asked (presumably not by a sparrow) is “What does he mean by I have a beautiful soul?” ” This sparrow does not want to hear it has a beautiful soul. USD) net profit per month.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2023

Indeed, even though I just celebrated 40 years of living in Mexico, we have never been to Cabo San Lucas, and our only experience with Cancún was going though immigration in that city’s airport. Two Olive Sparrows , endemic to Mexico’s coasts, foraged in the shady brush.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2015

Seeing the radio show in CMAC’s splendid open air venue made the experience even more genteel, but the performers had a hard time competing with very vocal American Robins greeting the dusk with song. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2024

I have seen few species with the word “House” in their English names ( House Sparrow , Wren , and Finch ), as well as a couple of “Barn” birds ( Barn Swallows and Owls ). It would take video to really show the experience, so you’ll have to take my word for it.) What the heck are you doing here?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

There are black-and-white drawings by Aaron Hargrove illustrating some of the birds Marybeth writes about– a Red-shouldered Hawk on a wire eating a garter snake, a Grasshopper Sparrow in a chainlink fence, a staring Burrowing Owl inside a drainage pipe, and a few more.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

But of all the species he spotted he felt either of the two Grasshopper Sparrows at Kissena Park in Queens was his Best Bird of the Weekend. After all, the two birds doubled his total number of Grasshopper Sparrow sightings in his home borough! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2020

But my experience suggests there is a fair amount of geographical overlap between the two ranges in my area. Its insect-like buzz reminds me most of the Grasshopper’s Sparrow’s song. Yellow Warblers are altitudinal migrants within the state of Michoacán, wintering in the lowlands and summering in the highlands.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Backlighting showed off the rusty crown of this Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow. Oddly enough, it is the Western Bluebird that bears the taxonomic name of Sialia mexicana ; but in my experience, the Eastern Bluebird ( Sialia sialia ) is much more common in most of Mexico. The Hepatic Tanager is perhaps our most common resident tanager.

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South America Sparrows Mexico Bears 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In addition to providing many people with wonderful life experiences, these birding visits have helped increase our understanding of local bird distribution. In addition to discovering more vagrant sparrows and warblers, I hope we can also get more coverage for such regions and situations as these: Long Range Pelagic Trips in the Pacific.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2015

Instead, the Seaside Sparrows at Gardiner County Park, one of which is above, is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend because cooperative Ammodramus sparrows are awesome. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2015 Pennsylvania Sparrows Birds 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Corey decided on a mission this weekend: he would get his Nelson’s Sparrow for the year. Nelson’s Sparrows are only reliably found in Queens in mid-to-late October, when they migrate south: they are usually found in saltmarshes. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2015

I enjoyed a nice selection of sparrows and raptors in Pennsylvania farm country, with a pair of bold and noisy Red-shouldered Hawks taking the prize. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A beautiful weekend for watching birds demands beautiful people watching birds.

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