10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. Off the coast of northern California, Sooty Shearwater are common and are seen on virtually all pelagic birding trips. I just happened to be there to experience it. Sometimes they can be seen with a scope from shore.
10,000 Birds
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. I should mention that I can’t believe I’m picking something other than California’s first Common Cuckoo for Bird Of The Year.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2012
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the three lifers he tracked down in the company of Felonious Jive on Saturday, the California-endemic Yellow-billed Magpie. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Yellow-billed Magpie, a California endemic.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
It was apparently all the way back in 2012, when I was first getting back into birding after a 30 year hiatus, that I took a sad little picture, with my sad little camera, of a cute little bird that seemed to not show up anywhere at all in my field guide. It’s a good thing the piece I had written doesn’t depend on images.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Back in December I was in Orange County, California, enjoying the holidays with my in-laws. In 2012 I got my 500th bird in the ABA area when I twitched a Painted Redstart at Lacy Park in San Marino, California. It was an enjoyable experience and the better views desired were definitely achieved. What more could I want?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
A very rare find in Northern California. For the past several years I have been taking advantage of our many National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) here in Northern California. This leads me to my third twitch for the celebrated Falcated Duck ( Anas falcata ) at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in January of 2012.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2021
In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%).
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