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Egyptian Goose sightings submitted to eBird in 2011-2012. In 2013, California voted to add this tiny estrildid finch to the California state list, and the ABA Checklist Committee also followed suit. Red-masked Parakeet is found in several major cities in California and Florida. They were right!

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This past weekend I took a trip to the small town of Portola in Plumas county for a Northern California Audubon Council meeting hosted by Plumas Audubon Society. The last time I visited Portola was in the summer of 2011 when the Swainson’s Hawks ( Buteo swainsoni ) were nesting there. Click on photos for full sized images.

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On New Year’s Day 2016, our last day in California before heading back to New York, I was pleased for the chance to get out for a few hours in the morning to jump start the year list. It’s a good thing that Scaly-breasted Munia , aka Nutmeg Mannikin , are on the checklist in California. San Joaquin was the perfect choice!

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Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ), Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. A pair of Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ) tends a chick on Middle Rock, Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. Corey Mar 12th, 2011 at 11:45 am Excellent post, as usual, David. And, the birds are awesome. Good day sir.

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I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. For fifteen years, ever since I started visiting California as a birder, I’ve been hoping to see a Mountain Plover.

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By Corey • March 11, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share No, of course not, but what a picture ! A Fascinating Blog Post Three Brave Boys Save Secretary Bird Black-backed Woodpecker to Get Protection in California? david Mar 11th, 2011 at 11:02 pm Totally adorable. Renato Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:38 am Wow! Wicked, right?

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Cinnamon Teal ( Anas cyanoptera ) pair by Larry Jordan (click on photos for full sized images) Winter is the time to visit the National Wildlife Refuges in California. As I quoted in my previous post on promoting a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp , by 2011 the number of hunters had grown to 13.7 million, according to the U.S.

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Petrel Paradise Petrel Paradise By Duncan • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share I’ve mentioned before that New Zealand is a great place for enjoying petrels. That is all. Wicked, right?

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In 2011, my wife and I sailed into a beautiful little anchorage here in the Sea of Cortez, on Isla Espritu Santos. Now with several years of exploring the California Baja Sur, I have come to expect to see shrikes on nearly every of my routes and guided trips. Sometimes reality is so unfair!

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July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization. .

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The Northern California-based In Defense of Animals called for the Department of Agriculture, which does inspections of zoos, to investigate Umoya's death. iego Zoo over death of elephant November 19, 2011 | 8:28 am 6116. The Safari Park has 18 elephants, including Umoya's two offspring.

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Proposal 2013-A-5 would remove the Hawaiian honeycreepers out of their own subfamily (Drepanidinae) and place them in the subfamily Carduelinae near the rosefinches, which a 2011 study showed to be their closest relatives. nevadensis ) and California Sage Sparrow ( A. Shearwater split. Sage Sparrow split. Let the hyphen wars begin!)

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.* It is found from northern California to British Columbia though it formerly ranged must further east before it was hunted out of its eastern haunts. Because Daisy and I had seen Mule Deer in southern California before our sighting was therefore not of a new species for us.

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Blue-footed Booby by Toni Darton One may find Blue-footed Boobies at various locations along the eastern Pacific Coast from California south to Peru. Blue-footed Booby Day 2011 will be celebrated on Friday, June 17. Anyone who has observed gannets or boobies in action can attest to how impressive their acrobatics can be.

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Fetch Product Designs was founded in Spring 2011 to create unique, quality, high-end pillows and home décor featuring “man’s best friend”. Product Designs is based in Hacienda Heights, California. We simply love our pillows, and think that any dog lover will feel the same way! A bout Fetch! Product Designs. Every Fetch!

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As I write (26th Sept 2011), one is being watched on the logbooms of Commencement Bay, Tacoma, Washington (is that close to where you were recently Corey?). In case of confusion with a California Gull , which is likely to be its closest match, the pale eye is visible from a good way off.

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July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S. Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for rescued farm animals. Similar legislation, on hold as a result of today’s agreement, was planned in Washington State and Oregon.

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I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. Lower Klamath, a body of water that straddled Oregon and California, looked a great deal like Malheur, with its bulrushes and knotted channels. This was a place of sagebrush and greasewood, of rim rocks and sharp stony edges.

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The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. There are several species, such as California Condor, for which new material had to be written (California Condor is called “nearly extinct” in the older title and not included).

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Stalking a Kiwi Icon Stalking a Kiwi Icon By Duncan • March 16, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Most people, if asked, would confidently name what they thought the National Bird of New Zealand was. Wicked, right?

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There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. Struik, 2011). I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea. I am a birder, after all. There are elephants down there!”

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One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America are often cheaper than going to places like Arizona, Colorado, or California. After postponing the trip several times and ironing out the details of the trip, it was finally time to go.

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If you are on the fence, I encourage you to read one of Marie Read’s articles, for example, Caught in the Act: How to Photograph Birds in Action , originally published in Living Bird in 2011. Or, and an excerpt from chapter 1, available from the publisher. Conclusion. “Bird Photography Hotspots,” presents ten U.S.

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I doubt that would be true if I still lived in California. The Clark’s Grebe was split from the Western Grebe in 1985; our grebes here are Clark’s, but I have seen Westerns in southern California. For example, almost every year my life list is impacted directly by AOS splits and renamings.

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But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group.

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• Explore These Related Posts The other southern woodpecker Birding the East End of Long Island Another California Bird? 7 Responses to “Lewis’s Woodpecker in New York State&# Jochen Mar 22nd, 2011 at 4:18 am This bird is too good even by your standards. Corey Mar 22nd, 2011 at 5:38 am I agree. I disapprove.

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The mountains of southern California are a necessary escape from the heat, smog, and suburbia that can plague the denizens of places like Orange County and Los Angeles. It was at that ski area that I spent my last morning in southern California on Saturday, 22 June. Trips California Mount Baldy mountains'

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring By Larry • March 16, 2011 • 8 comments Tweet Share Whenever I see Tree Swallows ( Tachycineta bicolor ) I know that Spring is upon us.

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All of the shots in this post were taken on 12-13 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York. Jochen Mar 17th, 2011 at 11:11 am To me, they’ll always be the Rubbery Ducks. Jochen Mar 18th, 2011 at 10:14 am I always called them Rubber Ducks because to me their silhouette is perfect – just ask Ernie.

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They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. In 2011 their population was estimated at over 3,000 individuals, increasing steadily at 5-8% every year. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast. Half Moon Bay, CA.

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Hes previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. 4 Responses to “Tiritiri Matangi Island&# Mike Mar 9th, 2011 at 8:49 am Terrific as always, Duncan.

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I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. A Garganey showed up in Ohio in 2011 and I had a chance to chase it and I didn’t. I like to add, “But I’m not a lister!

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Press, 2011). Her editorship list includes Antarctica: Life on the Ice ( Travelers’ Tales, 2007 ), Solo: On her Own Adventure (Seal Press, 1996/revised 2005), and Two in the Wild (Vintage, 1999); she’s also written a memoir about her own kayak adventures, My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir (Cornell Univ.

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Authors Authors Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch are birders and birding writers and artists (Lee is also a very capable painter of bird images, as evidenced on his website) with roots in southern California. They have co-authored a number of articles, including several on field identification for Birding and Texas Birds Annual.

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As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Red Knot XS41059 was banded as a 1st year bird on September 11, 2011 near the town of Tain in the Scottish Highlands on the south shore of Dornoch Firth.

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3 July 2010 31 October 2010 11 April 2011 15 May 2012. I was lucky to see it as I had just gotten home from California that morning. White Ibis - Since two juveniles were spotted in 2011 there haven’t been any to see.

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Book nitpicks: I hope that subsequent editions will include John Abbott’s excellent Damselflies of Texas: A Field Guide , published in 2011, and the most recent edition of Blair Nikula’s A Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Massachusetts , 2007.) Princeton University Press, 2011. By Dennis Paulson.

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