10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

We gamely hit a bunch of spots, had to completely bail on others, as it was getting close to 50 degrees and that nasty wind just would not let up. In the end, I ended up with 9 species, 4 of which were new to the list, the Black-crowned Sparrow Lark, White-checked Bulbo, House Crow , and the Indian Silverbill.

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Qatar Sparrows South Africa Africa 118

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 224

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

In the outfield, I was entertained by the mechanical song and flight antics of a choice meadow bird, I can still recall my best friend’s mom telling me, “Patrick, don’t go watching those Bobolinks during the game!” Snowcap and White-tipped Sicklebill – Choice hummingbirds in a speciose, fantastic family of birds.

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Costa Rica Species Birds New York 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

Madikwe may have been farmland once upon a time but these days it has been fully restored as an astonishing game reserve. It was here I managed to finally find my Brown Hyaena, making that family the first family of mammals of which I have seen every species (Spotted, Brown, Striped Hyaenas and Aardwolf)). Purple Roller.

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South Africa Leopards Giraffes Africa 156

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

It’s among a handful of species — American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee , the unholy trinity of House Sparrow – Rock Pigeon – European Starling , a few others — that have been everywhere I’ve ever lived. The Yellow Warbler is the first warbler I ever saw, and the most recent.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Say’s Phoebe – A self-found rarity at Edgemere while accompanied by my family made my day back on 05 October 2014. Golden Eagle – Two weeks to the day after the Say’s Phoebe I was once again at Edgemere with my family and picked up a Golden Eagle flying past , a surprise bird for sure!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2011

I then flew south to Sydney to have the weekend with my sister and family. We played a game where we thought of a number and then looked it up in the bird book to see what it was. I have been walking around the city since I arrived and the most common bird would appear to be sparrows! Broome and Busan marked on a Google map!

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South Korea Penguins Sharks Singapore 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The bird, which looked like a Barn Owl , was the mascot for the opposing team and died from its injuries.

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Owls 2011 Barn Owls Deer 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. But if I can get a Henslow’s Sparrow in Queens why not a Sedge Wren ? And are you as excited as I am to play this game again? I must stare at the ocean a lot.

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2018 2015 Birds 2019 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Let’s take a look at how I’ve done over the last four times I played this game. We had a family picnic at Fort Tilden less than two weeks after my last set of predictions and a single Purple Martin was flying low over the fields with Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows. The only downside is that it was a female.

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2012 2013 New York City Jamaica 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. Taxonomic tweakings and reshufflings of birds on the Family and Genus levels are too many to count. Hello my birding sons and daughters. This post is meant to serve as a flashback to 1998, 15 years ago.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

That’s what you do with other game, right? Share Your Thoughts « World Sparrow Day 2011 Autumn colours » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Why not just shoot the biggest one? The biggest gobbler, the biggest buck… And this? I think not!

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243