10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2021

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many birders couldn’t help but notice the coincidental similarity between that abbreviation and name of one of the most familiar of all passerine families – Corvidae.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

“In the 1960s, Efraín Chacón constructed a dirt trail [from San Gerardo de Dota] to the Pan-American Highway, and brought his family to build a house, to farm and fish for trout. They became accustomed to feeding the visiting fishermen, and in 1971 they built a small cabin for guests.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Description and drawing (from Ridgway) of a Broad-billed Hummingbird nest from Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley by Florence Merriam Bailey, 1902. The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know? Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. Open Jarvis et al.’s Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few places boast so many different bird species in such a small area — over 900 species (more than Europe, or all of the United States and Canada combined), including 75 different families, like 51 species of hummingbirds, 48 warblers, and 45 tanagers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2022

If you are plugged into the birding community, you’ve probably seen photos of this errant eagle, normally found in Russia and Asia but now be-bopping around the United States and Canada. Birding has become a family affair for my relatives. My mom worked at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology during college.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The Hawaii vote made it clear that that the ABA Area is about political borders, not geographical or ecological ones, and the two Caribbean territories have long been part of the United States. Both Puerto Rico and the USVI have active birding communities that are currently excluded from full membership in the ABA family.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are among our North American readers, there is a very good chance you are acquainted with the Yellow-breasted Chat , because its range extends across most of the United States, and parts of Canada. They were also believed to be part of the Wood Warbler family.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

You’d think that a long weekend launched by Turkey Day would prove popular for birding in the United States. I’m traveling down to NYC for some family fun, just as Corey is vacating the city for parts north. Plus, birding is never all that popular in these parts. How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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MAY 10, 2015

The second Sunday in May is the day many countries around the world, including the United States, set aside for the celebration of mothers. So, even if your mother was a brood parasite who left you to be raised by another bird family, she probably did it out of love. Take a moment to tell her that you love her back.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

While Americans gear up for the face-stuffing family time that is Thanksgiving the rest of the world looks on in horror as the Trump administration starts to take shape. Will you survive Thanksgiving with your politically opposite family? Will 2016 never end? Will anything survive four years of Trump?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2021

We share seven resident species with different parts of the United States: the Rock , Canyon , Cactus , (Brown-throated) House , Marsh , Sedge , and Bewick’s Wren can all be seen within a half hour of Morelia. (I The raucous Spotted and Gray-barred Wrens are in the Cactus Wren family.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

Not without reason, this was taken as an insult by the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. Les animaux sont presque tous sans défense, sans corne et sans queue. Skeins of Greylag Geese completed the picture.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

A thrill to see, especially to see well, the Cape May Warbler is most commonly spotted as a passage migrant or as a winter resident, considering that its breeding area is the spruce-fir forests of Canada and some of the northernmost parts of the United States. Well, no more!

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APRIL 8, 2018

If the cold weather across much of the United States is any indication than T.S. Eliot was correct when he stated that “April is the cruellest month.” Western Bluebirds are another marvelous bird, and he saw his at Malibu Creek State Park. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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JULY 14, 2021

This elegant bird is part of a small family, unrelated to other birds called “flycatchers”, but including the Phainopepla of the American southwest. Those who live in the western United States would be acquainted with the abundant Black-headed Grosbeaks. This time, they seemed to be everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California.

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AUGUST 4, 2013

I know that families in the United States are already fretting/anticipating September’s arrival. Now that we’re later in the season, they are grouping either in family clusters or anticipation of migration. Another long, lovely summer weekend has slipped into history. How do you feel about it? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

I had a very nice visit with his family — so nice that I didn’t get to do all that much birding. The family can be found from Mexico to South America, but even this species, while the northernmost of all, does not make it to the United States. I did visit my new friend’s home shortly after our meeting.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2018

” OK, we don’t really shout “Yee-haw” in New York, but our profane exclamations are not fit for a family-friendly blog. Suffice to say that our experience echoes across the United States and Northern Hemisphere. .” “Yee-haw, fall migration is starting soon!”

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

of January 2019, which resulted in 10,711 species, 40 orders, 246 families and 2,313 genera. 656 pages, 301 colour plates with 25,000 illustrations HarperCollins Publishers, London, September 2021 (in United States: Princeton University Press, 2021) ISBN 9780008173999. The author’s decision was the IOC list, version 8.2

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MAY 7, 2011

It may seem like cruel and unusual punishment for we denizens of the New World to spend an entire week celebrating what is surely the coolest family of birds in the world, a family that is sadly absent from the Old World, but it can’t be helped.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. William Haber is from the United States, receiving his Ph.D. Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. First page (p. 131) and last page (p. © 2021 by Dennis R. .”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

The Warbler Guide covers 48 warblers commonly seen in the United States, arranged in alphabetical order. Magnolia Warblers are found in the central and eastern United States. But, I don’t think there is a bird identification guide around, on warblers or any other bird family, that has invented its own analytic system.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

In the United States, that means that kids (and teachers) are freaking out about the first day of school, even if that date is still nearly a month away. Corey and his family are absorbing as much of the American West as they can fit in as they drive from Colorado to the West Coast. Expect plenty of photos! How about you?

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

I’m hardly attuned to the specific interests of residents of the other continents, but I know my North Americans pretty well and the United States has much to appreciate right now. I’ll be driving down to NYC with my kids for a family fun weekend. So what will you be doing this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

Duck hunting is big business in the United States. Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) A mockup of what a Wildlife Conservation Stamp might look like.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

Though wood-warblers, the mostly brightly colored birds of the family Parulidae, are only found in the New World we felt that birders the world over would be pleased to see a plethora of posts about these striking and sought after species.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Schools across the United States are closing for Mid-Winter Break, which means the nation will be abuzz with energetic kids fighting boredom. Some families will travel, while others might prefer to hunker down and hibernate. My family is driving up from NYC for a long Rochester weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

True, they are the oldest continuous professional American football club in the United States, running hard since 1898. The male bird’s scarlet plumage and pert crest was reminiscent enough of a Roman Catholic cardinal’s colored robes to earn it, its family, and its genus the name they all share.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

Behold my (heavily edited) photo, and be astonished: This species is only ten years “old”, previously being considered a single species with the Eastern Whip-poor-will of the United States. His family’s 7 hectares (17 acres) of wooded land includes a lovely grassy marsh.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At the time, Dreher’s family owned the greatest brewing empire in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in the 1830s, young Anton embarked on a “Grand Tour” of sorts befitting a promising young brewery heir.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, because his name was so firmly a part of birding culture, I also didn’t realize how recently he had lived and birded the United States, nor how relatively new was the concept of a field guide. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. What Is In This Field Guide?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. It is weird and wonderful.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2012

The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common. Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week.

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