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Into the Clouds
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2021
Trinidad’s cloud forests typically aren’t birded much. After all, the habitat is restricted to the highest and mostly inaccessible reaches of the mountain range across the north of the island.
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A Survey of U.S. Birders
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2021
Comprehensive surveys of U.S. birders are rare, so the recent release of a “ National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons ” is notable. Although the results are largely unsurprising, empirical confirmation of impressions or anecdotes is always useful.
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
Ask any birder–migration is joy. It’s endless frustration that suddenly erupts into wild excitement, a reason to get up in the morning, a goal for the mind and a bandage for the soul as we muddle through winter and pandemic.
Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
Of all the living things in our world to be passionate about, mushrooms may rate as the most unlikely.
GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2021
Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning “land of many waters” but it could just as easily mean “land of many birds”.
Signs of Spring Migration in Costa Rica
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2021
Spring in western New York was and is a time of melting snow, of ice chunks being rushed along the Niagara River, of when you wondered if this year, would it maybe stay warm in April and not snow again?
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Birds from Britannia by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2021
With the sad passing of Prince Philip this week I thought I should share with you a book that we own that he wrote. This book was gifted by my father, Philip, to his father, Harry, for his birthday on 4th October 1962.
Packing for a birding trip
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2021
When was the last time you travelled for birding? Since the Covid-19 era, I have become a patch birder. On rare occasions I do visit some other areas, but when I hang binoculars around my neck, even without a second thought I head for Beljarica backwaters.
The most important book about European birds in this century
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2021
The adventure of the second European Breeding Bird Atlas, or EBBA2, was the topic of one of my first posts here at 10,000 Birds: In a warm Catalonian March, Barcelona is filled with sunlight and full of Rose-ringed and Monk Parakeets.
Japanese Night Heron in Shanghai
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2021
Last Sunday, it was raining hard, but I went out to Chongming Island, a part of Shanghai, anyway. Mostly I went because some farmers there keep a lovely dog in a cage, and I have started taking him for long walks around the fields.
High Elevation Birding in Costa Rica at Providencia
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Costa Rica is a tropical country but it doesn’t have to be hot. Crunched and uplifted by plate tectonics, its also a mountainous, volcanic nation with land heading thousands of feet into the near atmosphere.
Keeping the Faith
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2021
You may have heard the news that resonated throughout the international birding circuit some months ago – in case you missed it you can read my gloss-over here.
Visit the Manu Road with InkaNatura Travel
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.
More Birds Than Bullets: a book review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school. He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” .
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Wrapping Up Birding Tourism February
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2021
We here at 10,000 Birds dedicated the month of February to highlighting a variety of birding tourism companies, destinations, and guides. We did this to help our favorite industry come back, to some small degree, from the ravages of COVID.
Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2021)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2021
No matter how obsessed with birding you may be, you’ll have those weekends where other concerns dominate your thoughts. But enough about the New York Giants’ free agency activity. this is just my way of explaining why I plain forgot to post BBOTW at the usual time!
Paradise Regained
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2021
Among all the birding locations I have found, Pino Real was my first love. I was just getting back into birding, and had only gone to some urban sites, during 2012 and 2013. I had tried out Lake Cuitzeo, and Laurelito, a wonderful town outside of Morelia that another birder had recommended.
First Phoebe of 2021
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2021
I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2021 this morning at Idlewild Park in my home borough of Queens. My birding buddy Meryl actually spotted it first and she might have been mildly taken aback by the enthusiasm I showed for my first phoebe of the year.
Visit the Macaw Lodge in Costa Rica
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.
Habitat Mash-up
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2021
The southwest peninsula of Trinidad is unfortunately rarely birded by visiting birders. Most tourists historically spent their time at the northern end of the island and although it may seem like a small place – getting around can be a bit tricky.
Ovenbirds (but not the Ovenbird)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2021
As ambiguous as the title of this piece sounds, a foray into the ornithological literature may lead to even more confusion. The family Furnariidae consists of ovenbirds and woodcreepers, but the actual Ovenbird belongs to the family of New World Warblers – Parulidae.
Take me to Church
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2021
Last week, I took you to the La Mesa reservoir, the higher-altitude of the two thorn-forest sites on my regular birding rotation.
Domaines Paul Mas ‘Vignes de Nicole’ Cabernet Sauvignon – Syrah (2018)
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2021
When I picked up a bottle of this week’s featured wine last March at a shop in southern Quebec (on my last trip out of the United States before the pandemic), I assumed the European heron on the label of the 2018 Domaines Paul Mas ‘Vignes de Nicole’ Cabernet – Syrah blend was a Gray Heron ( Ardea cinerea ).
Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2021)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2021
The last weekend of winter/summer looks a whole lot like the first weekend of spring/fall. That doesn’t mean, however, that winds of change aren’t blowing birds hither and yon. Some of the banner birds of your next season may have already arrived, but more will come every week. Be ready!
Pycnonotidae: A Critical Review
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2021
The reception of bulbuls in the ornithological world is decidedly mixed.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2021)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2021
The last weekend of March offers much, both in terms of new additions to your current suite of avifauna and the promise of more to come. Even better, April means more of the same.
Guamúchil Mania
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2021
Pithecellobium dulce is a tree with many English names. The most common one, Manila tamarind, is wildly inaccurate, since the tree is native to southwestern Mexico, not Manila, and its only connection to tamarind trees is that both are in different subfamilies of the huge legume family.
The Warbler Brewery – Warbler Ale
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2021
I didn’t plan on taking such a long break away from the Birds and Booze beat, but life got in the way the last several weeks, mostly on account of moving into a new home. After so much time away, I knew I’d need to come back with a really good find.
Birding Led Me to Wildflowers
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2021
In many ways, birding has led me straight to my new interest in wildflowers. Looking for birds naturally makes you more aware of your surroundings, from an urban park, to a suburban greenway, to a rural wilderness.
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