10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2021

It shows how many people are into watching birds, how many use eBird, and the incredible wealth of bird life found on our one and only home planet. On October GBD, 2021, a team from the lodge including birder and owner Jose Alvarez, identified 233 species by just birding at and near the lodge.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

When the pandemic forced Field Guides to temporarily pause our tour operations in March 2020, we began to think about other ways we could put our skills to work in connecting people through the world of birds. The programming is diverse, and capitalizes on the particular passions of each our guides.

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Rattlesnake 2020 Connecticut Industry 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2019

It’s par for the course in December, Costa Rica, and unfortunately, often coincides with our annual bird counts. For the past few years, we have lucked out with some of the counts in northern Costa Rica, this year though, our luck ran out, at least in terms of weather. Photo taken by Alberto Palma.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

Although we don’t really have a chance to top the numbers of birds identified in mega birdy places like Peru, Colombia, or even Mexico, we still do our best to make it into the top ten and at least see if we can beat the record from the previous year. Not even doing our entire route. Costa Rica is one of those places.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

Typically, team members fan out across their region, counting as many species as they possibly can from 12:00 a.m. At Audubon Florida, we opted to change a typical Birdathon to bring not only our staff together, but our whole Florida birding community. Our 24 hours coincided with Earth Day – the perfect way to celebrate!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Here, four teams of bird guides— Field Guides , Surbound Expeditions , Sunbird/Wings , and Birding Ecotours —set out each morning at 5 a.m. I kept up the pace pretty well for the first two hours on the first day, when I rode along with the Birding Ecotours team. On the third day I drove with the Field Guides team to 3,200 meters.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Yes, it was the Queens County Bird Club Big Sit, our seventh iteration of the sedentary birding classic. It is a birding challenge where a team of birders stays in one spot for the entire day to see how many species they can record for their location. In the meantime, our bird list kept growing. What is a Big Sit?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Fortunately, the folks at eBird knew about our concerns and not being people that forego Big Days or any other birding endeavors, they decided to promote another Global Big Day, this one in October! In terms of avian diversity, some other months are better, especially the ones when the bulk of wintering birds are present. And why not?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

After dinner, some teams walked around hoping for some more birds. My team, the Redstart Wranglers, was still on the veranda when our guide Abelardo Benavides called us out: There’s a potoo calling! That’s another team playing potoo calls from a smartphone. Just imagine how handsome they can be… Well, this one tops that!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

International teams compete for 6 days and 5 nights with the express purpose of recording the most bird species, by sight or by call, while the clock ticks down. The six international teams were as follows: The Zululanders – South Africa. The E-Birders – Cornell, USA. The Ararajubas – Brazil.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 227

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Well, it’s official… no MLB team named for a bird is going to the World Series. The Blue Jays gave their all, but we now need to turn our avian-inspired athletic interest to the NFL, where at least a couple of football teams with bird totems are worth watching!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2014

I thought I would talk about our team’s performance in the World Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru and the side attractions along the route. Some of my team member have varying degrees of birding experience in Peru and were visiting the endemic rich northern Peru for the first time. Surbound Team. Photo: Pia Oberg.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2019

Those 700 species also need to be identified by my partner Mary (the other half of Team Tyto) because the road to 700 species is one that we are walking together. This morning, we opted for a bit of birding near home after dropping our respective daughters off at their schools.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

A: The birding community has been really excited about our work. And many would-be allies tell us they feel inspired by our work to empower a more welcoming and inclusive birding community. That is definitely not our aim. But… that’s entirely up to the team who constructed it, and whoever manages it. It’s so awesome!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Remember way back to last year when a team named for a bird won the Super Bowl? I’m not saying we suffered like our friends in the Upper Midwest, but taking off my glove to quickly snap the photo above induced pain I felt for hours. With no avian-themed organizations representing, the Patriots won yet again.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2020

In our neck of the woods, marking Common Pauraque as the first species of the day, attempting to identify shorebirds in the dark of the night (not easy.), Restrictions in Costa Rica keep us from driving on Saturday and that’s why we are doing all of our birding from home. and listening for owls just before dawn. Migrant birds.

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Costa Rica Barn Owls Farming Owls 205

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2013

You might call this an augmentation of our current booby collection. OR you can take advantage of our new I and the Bird Facebook page , where you can share links and photos with me or the other 10,000 Birds team. We need some more images and, particularly, blog posts on the subject of Boobies and Gannets. Thanks everybody!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2019

After our two-week-long familiarity trip across Uganda, we ten visiting birders were tired. So we made our way to the grounds of the Uganda Wildlife Education Center , a former zoo that now rehabilitates injured animals. An African Thrush finds a worm, just like an American Robin or, really, any Turdus thrush, would.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

These included Sunbird (United Kingdom), Birding Ecotours (South Africa), Aviatur (Colombia), and two teams from the USA; FieldGuides and Surbound Expeditions. Our team was composed of Adam Kent, Tim Towles, a local guide, and myself. This Birding Rally’s competitors were companies that specialize in birding and nature tours.

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Peru Birds United Kingdom South Africa 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Most of all, I was surprised my consistently underperforming football team actually transcended its limitations and played big. As mentioned, our exquisite autumn weekend had me out enjoying the warmth and sun, not to mention the birds. I was surprised lots of birds that might have left weeks ago were still hanging around.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Not only will we finally know if our nation loves dogs or cats the most, but for every vote, Purina will donate $1, up to $100,000 , to Pet Partners’ Veteran Programs. We love our veterans, and this is a great program that helps provide pet therapy teams! The donation will help fund Pet Partners pet therapy teams for U.S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Even sitting around watching birds can be charged with adrenaline when team pride is on the line. The species list for this rich expanse of avifauna represents nearly 75% of the Lone Star state’s 600 birds, with some teams spotting over 300 in a very intense 5 days!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Our team, which is going to be comprised of whoever shows up for any part of the day, is probably mostly going to be members of the Queens County Bird Club. The team is named “Sit in the City” and we need YOU to come out and join in the fun! Fortunately, the hawk watch platform at Fort Tilden fits within that circle.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way. calling Horned Guan (Click to make it bigger.).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

My team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are in the game, after finishing in the cellar of the league last year. The CFL only has one bird named team, the perennial playoff bound Montreal Alouettes. Again I’ve got that Arctic beat thing to consider, and our Thanksgiving was last month. And my team in the Grey Cup.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

We are all entitled to our illusions about ourselves, but the truth will out on Saturday and Sunday! The good news for those of us who like both birds and sports is that a team with an avian avatar looks likely to make it to the Super Bowl again. That’s right… NFL football is back, baby!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

In early December we had the privilege of filming the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , a six day, five night event where teams from around the world compete to see the most species of birds. The bears hung around the next day too and some of the birding teams risked losing a few species to enjoy the sighting. Holy mackerel!

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Bears Mammals Peru South America 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

It’s not that they’re some special, rare endemic that would readily symbolize our own unique little mountain valley. Ogren Park Allegiance Field is the home of the Missoula Osprey*, a farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Time enough, I suppose, for our newcomers to figure out that those aren’t eagles.

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Bald Eagle Idaho Eagles Primates 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2011

Huge news reported by our buddy Tai Haku: the sports media behemoth ESPN is launching an American Big Day Team Birding League. Bloggerhead Kingbirds , start your engines!

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Birds 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2016

Obviously, both Corey and I–and probably everyone else on the 10,000 Birds team–will be birding this weekend in our adjacent areas. Check out the dedicated eBird page for specifics and be sure to broadcast your Global Big Day birding on social media using the hashtag #GBD2016. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2011

The Seattle Seahawks are, of course, a professional (American) football team, known as much for the inability to win it all as for anything else. And though seeing the nest was nice it was even more of a treat to have one of the birds do a fly-by nearly right over our heads! … a.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

As their driver for the Fabulous EL Fifties’ phenomenal first 48 hours, I was well poised to report on the team’s Big First Day on the Upper Coast and share choice Scenes from the Upper Rio Grande Valley. At the speed the team was moving, I could barely raise my bins before everyone was back in the van.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

In this instance, a team of crack experts assembled to move with precision timing in the face of bad weather, magnificently hostile terrain, and primitive facilities, all in order to give the collected eggs the absolute best chance to become healthy, breeding Spoon-billed Sandpipers in their own right.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

How new insights would an “integrative” research framework bring to our knowledge of sexual selection and avian social networks? So, I’m not sure if this is a Donna problem or a more universal problem, but I hope the design team reconsiders what fonts they select for their next title.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

Who would have thought that a far-flung group of photographers sharing inspiring images of our ever-changing atmosphere would coalesce into a site that aggregates hundreds of sky shots every week? Congratulations to the entire Skywatch Friday team as well as its founder for creating and cultivating such a cool site.

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