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DECEMBER 19, 2011

2011 is about to become 2012 and birders the world over are taking a look at their year lists and reminiscing about the awesome sightings and devastating dips that they have experienced. White-tailed Tropicbird by Nathan Swick Renato chose an impressive parrot: Birding is a wonderful experience in itself.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 181

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MAY 1, 2011

For those of you playing along at home, this gives me 17 new ABA birds for a total of 467 as of May 1, 2011. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. While pondering that, also share your best bird of the weekend!

2011 157

2011 Mississippi ALA Sparrows 157

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

He saw lots of good birds there but none better than a self-found Black-headed Gull , his first in Queens since March of 2011. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. It was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Birds Industry 2011 154

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up there at all–I was working on a chaotic project at work, the economy was in crisis (well, the economy is always in crisis, but this was the summer of 2011, as in Black Monday crisis), and the tour itself was not confirmed till two months before the start date.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 248

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The undisputed highlight was only his third Common Gallinule in Queens, and first since 2011, a young bird at Baisley Pond Park, spotted by Corey’s buddy Seth while the two of them were birding together. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 Breeders Jamaica Birds 166

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 183

2011 New York Birds Experience 183

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 174

2011 Birds Experience Experiments 174

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OCTOBER 23, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 183

2011 United States Turkey Birds 183

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 170

2011 Owls Birds Experience 170

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 169

2011 Jamaica New York Ducks 169

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OCTOBER 2, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 170

2011 Philadelphia Sparrows Birds 170

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But the birds he most appreciated were three American Golden Plovers , two of which are pictured below: What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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Bald Eagle New Jersey 2011 New York 167

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JANUARY 1, 2012

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend (and the year?) Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 168

2011 2012 New York Birds 168

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JANUARY 8, 2012

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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Debeaking Atlanta 2011 United States 164

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APRIL 17, 2011

My experience of just half of the Week Competition of this year’s gtbc utterly drained me. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey, on the other hand, found early summer in the form of a gorgeous Piping Plover … What was your best bird of the weekend?

2011 145

2011 Laws Sparrows Birds 145

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AUGUST 14, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 160

2011 Washington Birds Experience 160

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. However, he is quite pleased with this photo of a female Common Yellowthroat : What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 163

2011 Birds Experience Experiments 163

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. American Oystercatchers on the sandbar at the Jones Beach State Park Coast Guard Station What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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Costa Rica Atlanta New York City 2011 174

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OCTOBER 9, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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2011 Sparrows Birds Experience 150

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JULY 10, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. A female Yellow Warbler , exhausted from being constantly hectored by her young.

2011 162

2011 Jamaica New York Birds 162

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JUNE 12, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 157

2011 Jamaica Birds Experience 157

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JUNE 19, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 157

2011 Jamaica Birds Experience 157

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 154

2011 Birds Breeding Experience 154

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AUGUST 7, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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Puffins Baltimore 2011 Washington 163

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JUNE 26, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Send more worms!

2011 160

2011 Chickens Laws Birds 160

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A BTBW in the hand is worth two in the bush… What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 157

2011 Connecticut Sparrows Birds 157

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AUGUST 28, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 154

2011 New York Birds Experience 154

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JULY 24, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 157

2011 Breeders Suffering Birds 157

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AUGUST 21, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience (though I don’t know why you would) include a link in your comment. So let’s try something new today : What was your WORST bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the dullest, ugliest, or least interesting bird you observed. Allow me to kick off the festivities.

2011 157

2011 Birds Experience Experiments 157

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MAY 15, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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Skunks 2011 Birds Experience 154

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JUNE 5, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 160

2011 Falcons Blackbirds Game 160

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MAY 29, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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Bald Eagle 2011 Kentucky Birds 157

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JULY 31, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey dipped not once, but twice in the quest to twitch this gull, but finally made acquaintance with this mega-gull… What was your best bird of the weekend?

2011 157

2011 United States Fish Birds 157

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APRIL 10, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Share your guesses while you share your best bird of the weekend! Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 145

2011 United States Birds Breeding 145

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

But even more bitter is a birder’s envy… Jealousy makes up so much of the birding experience that I imagine the green-eyed monster derives its color from parrot plumage. Alas, we’re also intimately acquainted with darker emotions; the lust in our hearts alone (for lifers and optics, naturally) exacts a heavy emotional toll.

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Emotional 2011 Ohio ALA 160

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APRIL 3, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

2011 140

2011 Ducks Canada Birds 140

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience, able to be seen consistently across varied habitats throughout nearly all of North America and much of South America. The Pied-billed Grebe , a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane.

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Texas South America 2011 North America 190