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We Want to Help the Birding Tourism Industry
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2021
With a worldwide pandemic still raging the tourism industry has taken a massive hit.
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Birding without a phone
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2020
If you are old enough, you will remember birding without a phone? Not too long ago, it was the norm. Then I started to carry a phone just in case my car stopped or something. Later I carried it because of a stash of bird songs I compiled in it.
Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2021
This is the second post in the Birding crème de la crème series (the first, focused on southern Asia, is here ). This time we travel to Africa, or to narrow it further, to the Afrotropical region (since the north of the continent avifaunally belongs to the Palearctic).
A Slacker’s Guide to Bird Photography (Part Two)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2021
Last week I humbly offered up a totally unprofessional, possibly misinformed guide to taking bird photos that aren’t completely embarrassing, and that might even make you proud on occasion. Those suggestions were for birders like me, who are not all about taking that one perfect photo.
Birding Laifengshan, Tengchong, Yunnan, China
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2021
Good news for those frightened by the title of my last blog post – we are now back in the safe and boring world of highly descriptive headers. You are welcome.
7 Resolutions for Birding Costa Rica in 2021
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2021
2020, one of the more memorable and infamous tear years of our lives, is finally done. It doesn’t mean that various issues and problems have disappeared, but at least a new calendar year is a fine excuse for renewal.
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Birding Serbia in the 2020
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2020
As the year is closing, I am looking back to realise, despite it being such an awful year, it’s far from the worst I had, it doesn’t even come close (it’s the mileage that’s killing me, I guess).
Laguna del Lagarto: Bird Photography in Costa Rica at its Best
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2020
Thanks to steadfast advances in optics and digital cameras, bird photography has become quite the popular way to appreciate birds. Unlike the old days of slide film and carefully managed shots, today, with the right equipment, just about anyone can take some pretty fine pictures of the avian kind.
Trogons, Trinidad and Tobago
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2021
It’s been a crazy few days here in the tropical paradise of T&T to be honest.
Farewell to 2020 – Marin Brewing Company: Albion Amber Ale
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2021
As uncertain as the future may be, I’m sure we’re all ready to bid farewell to the year 2020.
Forest Bathing
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
I’m writing this post primarily because I am currently dreaming of the subject. Having been penned in our house for the last month (and more), the last time we have been out birding seems like a distant memory.
What Was Your First Bird of 2021?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2021
It’s 2021! What was your first bird of the year? Hopefully it will start off a year with vaccines for all and a beginning of a return to normalcy. This year, 2021, has to be better than the dumpster fire that was 2020, right? Happy New Year to you from the 10,000 Birds crew!
When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
There are owls in New York City. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned Owl in Central Park’s Ramble.
CBC Shenanigans
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2020
As I gather the relevant documentation for our upcoming CBC this Sunday I caught myself daydreaming of CBCs past. The very first CBC I attended was eight whole years ago – but I remember it quite vividly.
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Birding Carska Bara Reserve in December Fog
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2020
I don’t know what those so-called meteorologists are doing: they all claim a moderately cold morning, but do not say a word about the fog! Yet, tree branches are covered in hoar frost and the fog is so thick one could cut it with a machete!
A Japanese in China
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
The Avibase China birdlist counts 7 species of minivets for China – one of which is the Ashy Minivet.
“The Pines of Florence”: Castellare di Castellina Chianti Classico (2018)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2021
One of the nice things about winter finch irruptions is that they usually take place across two calendar years, allowing ardent listers to tick the very same species in January for their new year lists as they saw in the final weeks of the previous year.
Birding Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Menglun in Xishuangbanna is less than 50 km away from the Chinese border to Laos and Myanmar, and it has a big botanical garden.
One Blustery Morning on a Desert Island
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2020
As birders, we’re all well aware of our brain whipping our body awake at some ungodly hour, no matter how tightly wrapped in the sheets we may be. Last year, I was on transit via Curaçao – twice on a single round trip.
Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of January 2021)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2021
While the fourth weekend of January finds us all mired in the depths of whatever season grips our part of the world, the light is ever so slowly changing. Another couple of months of a little more or less light at dusk every day will soon trigger that global migration of birds we all eagerly await.
Of Tree I Sing
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2020
As anyone who knows quality photography can tell, I am not the sort of birder who tends to stay in one place for long. There are no photographic hides or tripods for me.
Best Bird of the Weekend (First of 2021)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2021
So many different factors contribute to the quality and quantity of a birding adventure that one would be hard-pressed to predict the very best time to watch birds in a particular area beyond a vague three or four week window.
The Birds are All Right
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 16, 2020
It was the month of March, 2017, when I went to Lake Cuitzeo to check up on our migratory waterfowl and shorebirds one last time before they travelled north to breed. But that time, I was shocked to find that about half the birds I had expected were missing — along with half the lake.
Pat’s Costa Rica Bird List, 2021
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2021
2021 is already well underway, are you birding? I hope so because watching a flock of redpolls bound through wintery airs that echo with the calls of crows is nature connection magic. Tracking the soaring of a Bateleur in hot African skies is a lifetime gift.
Mexico Beat BBOTY
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2021
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years… Oh, who am I kidding? 2020 was the worst of years, through and through. And there were moments during the year when I thought birding was a lost cause.
A Slacker’s Guide to Bird Photography (Part One)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 13, 2021
It always surprises me when people compliment my photographs. As I have often commented on this site, I started taking photos of birds only to improve the accuracy of my IDs. And while I put more effort into taking decent photos than I used to, I still don’t do the hard stuff.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2020)
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2020
2020 is almost over… finally. Rather than belabor the obvious, I’ll just point out that the global pandemic may have spawned a new wave of birders, but collectively we’ve seen far fewer species of birds.
Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of January 2021)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2021
During the second weekend of the year, even common birds still carry their luster. Enjoy that feeling while you can, because we are still months away from migration! While I sought rarities on the western edge of Rochester this weekend, I came up with entirely common species.
The Numbers Game
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Should you ever come to bird in central Mexico, and you are only interested in our wonderful endemics, feel free to come in the summer. It’s green, and there are refreshing rains almost every afternoon.
Collaborative list December 2020 and year’s round up.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2021
The overwhelming sentiment in Christmas cards this year is that 2021 cannot come fast enough. Lock downs and restrictions have curbed our birding, so if you can summon any blessings to mind, count them instead.
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