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OCTOBER 2, 2012

This contest is open to those in the USA only and will end on November 1, 2012. We will be posting the entries on this post as they come in so everyone can enjoy them. The winner will be chosen on November 2 and contacted by email.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Want to know what’s in store for the winter of 2011-2012? Check out the Winter Finch Forecast 2011-2012 !

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JANUARY 6, 2012

Dog Whisperer and Philly Undercover have their season premieres tomorrow, January 7, 2012 on NatGeo Wild! Premieres Saturday, January 7, 2012, at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Once again, Cesar Millan works with dogs and their owners to help dogs suffering from phobias and obsessions!

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

The last weekend of December 2012 is the last weekend of the entire year. Since I didn’t keep a year list in 2012, I feel no pressure to beat the bushes for final ticks. How many of you plan, before turning the page on this eventful year, to try to pad your year list? How will you do it?

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Birds 2012 California 74

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JANUARY 15, 2013

In early December of 2012 we had the opportunity to cover this hard-core rally in the south of Peru. 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.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s time for the Santa Paws Drive ! The mission of the Santa Paws Drive is to bring holiday cheer to shelter animals around the world. How do they do it? With your help of course! The Santa Paws Drive is an online toy drive dedicated to shelter pets to bring them a little joy and fun while they await their forever homes.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

On this final day of 2012 it is time, just like it was on the final days of 2010 and 2011 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2012, in no particular order. I think my official Best Bird of 2012, though, was (finally, finally seeing) the Burrowing Owl. Happy New Year!

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Back in January of last year I said in my list for the year that I’d be happy if I hit 300 birds in 2012. My final number for last year was 402 as it turns out. So I guess the question is “am I happy?” ” Well yes, I guess. But perhaps a better question would be “is that why I am happy?”

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2012 Birds New Zealand Thailand 63

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

As 2012 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 and 2011 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Felonious Jive really likes a ravishing returning rarity – a Falcated Duck. Adam Riley chose a bird that is near and dear to Mike Bergin’s heart.

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Birds 2012 Woodpeckers Guatemala 82

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DECEMBER 30, 2012

You are undoubtedly reviewing the best and worst of everything you experienced in 2012 as we prepare to ring in the New Year. Time to put another year in the books!

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Birds 2012 Experience Experiments 66

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JULY 14, 2012

Hi, Birdie here! I have a complaint. The human beans left me a few weeks ago to go to BlogPaws. I don’t know what that is, but it meant that instead of being on MamaBean’s knee, I was stuck with Grandma and Grandpa bean instead. I can’t believe they didn’t take me with them! I even heard that pets got to go!

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APRIL 5, 2012

Perhaps I’ll even see my First Phoebe of 2012. As is my wont, we’ll be celebrating a secular Easter replete with colored eggs, chocolate bunnies, and a fun family hike. Corey will be visiting his folks in upstate New York. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday.

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Birds Albatross 2012 Eggs 81

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

Assuming you survived the calendar craziness of 12/12/12, it’s time to come to grips with the truth you may have been denying: the 2012 holiday season has now started. So how’s that holiday shopping coming?

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Birds 2012 Singapore Malaysia 76

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DECEMBER 16, 2012

Stick with 2012 until the New Year comes rocking in! December is drawing towards its grand finale as we all work furiously in advance of seemingly endless celebration. Contemplation of one’s Best Bird of the Year seems more appropriate than attention to just one weekend, but December isn’t over yet.

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Birds 2012 Sparrows Owls 68

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JULY 26, 2012

The Jackson Pollack-inspired effigy of the Chicken Inferno 2012! Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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Birds 2012 Chickens Michigan 74

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Like some of the other beat writers around here I’ve been roped into keeping a year list this year , and inspired by the other lists I looked at I thought about what I wanted to achieve this year in birding. As opposed to my usual position of seeing whatever I see. It is a scary line of thought, let me assure you.

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Birds 2012 New Zealand Species 75

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JUNE 16, 2022

The year was 2012, January 2012, and in the entire Kutch District, it was estimated that there were only about two dozen birds left. In the entire world, the Red List was saying, there were fewer than 250 mature individuals remaining.

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Species Endangered Species Birds Gazelles 105

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Catherine Hamilton has been the first to get all three species correct in the last two diabolical wood-warbler quizzes. If she gets three in a row it will show she is the best birder in the world and Felonious Jive will suffer the sad misfortune of dropping to second place.

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2012 Birds Species Suffering 83

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JUNE 25, 2012

An interesting–or perhaps enervating–aspect of this time of year is how birding tends to run feast or famine. That is to say that, at least in the temperate regions, those of us who aren’t traveling somewhere special have to make do with the same old same old. Corey and I both pondered birds that are extremely ordinary for us.

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Birds 2012 Species Experience 94

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APRIL 8, 2012

Early April is a special time for most, especially those of us in the Northern Hemisphere that love each emerging sign of spring. The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way!

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Birds Woodpeckers 2012 Ducks 96

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

September slips away and October is afoot. What fresh fascinations does this month have in store? My best bird this weekend was a spry little Red-breasted Nuthatch consorting with its larger White-breasted kin.

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Birds Sparrows 2012 Experience 89

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JUNE 4, 2012

I have a feeling that this summer is going to be weird. How else to interpret the sudden arrival of April showers (and temperatures) in June after already enjoying summer weather? If you’re experiencing the same wacky weather patterns, don’t fret… maybe this means we’ll get another migration!

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JULY 1, 2012

The month of June has passed, giving way to the first full month of summer in the northern hemisphere. Summer can be boring from a birding standpoint or it can be very, very interesting. How has yours been so far? Since Corey fled NYC this weekend, I took over his Atlantic coast shore patrol.

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Birds 2012 Species Experience 92

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MARCH 25, 2012

Now that late winter has eased into early spring, it seems owls are in the air. I’m hearing all kinds of owl howls, from Saw-whets at (where else?) Owl Woods and Short-eared Owls from New York to the Galapagos Islands. One birder known to many of us even had her life Barn Owl turn up in her backyard!

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Birds Barn Owls Owls 2012 95

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MARCH 4, 2012

Some weekends are sublime and others mundane. Obviously, we cannot survive one transcendent weekend after another, but this stretch of late winter seems to require more than the usual routine.

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Birds Eagles 2012 Experience 95

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APRIL 29, 2012

April didn’t deliver many of its vaunted showers in my area this year. I’d fear for May flowers if so many weren’t already in bloom. How is the season in your corner of the world? My best bird this weekend has to be the Hermit Thrush that’s been hanging around my backyard for the last week.

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Birds 2012 Experience Experiments 92

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APRIL 15, 2012

The second weekend of April holds special meaning for citizens of the United States, and by special, I really mean dire. But like it or not, most of us have filed our tax returns. At last, we can turn to more important issues like earning enough money to pay next year’s taxes!

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Birds Owls Sparrows 2012 92

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MARCH 13, 2021

2012 – 15 March. And was it late or early? 2021 – 13 March. 2020 – 15 March. 2019 – 17 March. 2018 – 30 March. 2017 – 12 March. 2016 – 18 March. 2015 – 28 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. Enjoy spring! The post First Phoebe of 2021 appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

September, as you’ve no doubt heard time and time again, is a season of flux. No matter where you are in the world, chances are that an array of organisms are responding to climatic signals by, among other things, growing, dying, blooming, fruiting, fattening, nesting, or migrating.

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Birds 2012 Pennsylvania Farming 85

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MARCH 18, 2012

Faith and Begorrah, I’ve made it through another St. Patty’s Day without ingesting corned beef, cabbage, or green beer! My liver lingers on in the same (sorry) state in which it entered the weekend. Can you say the same?

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Birds Woodpeckers 2012 Jamaica 92

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MAY 13, 2012

This time of year, avian excitement is occurring ALL OVER THE WORLD! Let’s not waste precious time with introductions or niceties… see anything amazing this weekend? I blitzed Cobb’s Hill Park for a taste of migration, coming away with some lovely, lovely birds.

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Birds 2012 Species Experience 89

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Though no one from 10,000 Birds participated in this year’s Superbowl of Birding IX and the Bloggerhead Kingbirds did not field a team that doesn’t mean that you can’t read about what happened this year. You can read about it in The Eyrie , Birding North Central Massachusetts…and beyond , and the Maine Outdoor Journal.

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Birds 2012 Massachusetts 2013 72

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MAY 31, 2012

Tomorrow is the first day of June, yet the complaints have already started. Have you heard them yet? “Now that migration is over, all I can do is look for local breeders.” ” “I guess I’ll go to the beach… maybe I’ll see a shearwater or something.” ” “Summer (birding) sucks!”

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Birds Breeders 2012 Breeding 97

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MAY 6, 2012

For those in the northern hemisphere migration fever is upon us and employers who employ birders are wondering where everybody is. Have the birds really started moving where you live? Both Mike and I were on the road this weekend.

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Birds 2012 Florida Species 88

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APRIL 22, 2012

Yesterday marked the celebration of Earth Day, a holiday most of our readers observe every day. Here’s a question for all the proud naturalists and tree-huggers out there: Does Earth Day feel special to you or like more of the same? My Earth Day was cold and rainy, which didn’t bode well for the next migratory wave.

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Birds 2012 Species Experience 88

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Phenology is a funny thing (a funny word too, which is neither here nor there.) Every wildlife watcher, no matter how specialized, becomes attuned over time to the ebb and flow of each local plant and animal’s life cycle.

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Birds 2012 Wildlife New York 82

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JUNE 17, 2012

Happy belated Father’s Day to everyone who observed it this weekend. Just to keep that sweet paternal vibe going, I’m going to award double points to anyone whose best bird of the weekend was seen in the company of a dad or by a dad with his child. Oh, you didn’t know we were keeping score?

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Birds 2012 Trinidad Hungary 85