10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

With enough observation and experience, we notice slight variations and how those aberrations sometimes ripple throughout ecosystems. For example, here in western New York, our warm winter and dry spring dramatically impacted many of our fruit crops. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2012 New York Birds Suffering 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2012

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Osprey in New York State this year, seen perched on a nesting platform at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in early morning fog on Saturday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2012 Jamaica New York Birds 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

Owl Woods and Short-eared Owls from New York to the Galapagos Islands. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. 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?)

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Barn Owls 2012 Owls New York 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

David Ringer , who recently moved to New York City, spotted it and was immediately confused by the jubilation this common bird caused in the Queens birders with whom he was birding. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New York City 2012 Michigan New York 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any one of the five Iceland Gulls spotted at the Beacon Train Station where a massive-by-New-York-standards twitch for a Slaty-backed Gull seen the day before failed to turn up the guest of honor. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2012 Iceland New York Birds 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Corey, on the other hand, had an absurdly good weekend of birding, adding six birds to his year list, accidentally breaking 300 species in New York State this year, adding a new bird to his New York State life list, and seeing Pine Grosbeaks in three different counties. His Best Bird of the Weekend? How about you?

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2012 New York Malaysia Singapore 111

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

The New York Football Giants have won the Super Bowl for the second time in 4 years. The only thing that marred the gorgeous experience with the owls was a coterie of photographers who had decided that their images were more important than anything else and were out in the dunes trying to get better pictures. Not too shabby!

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2012 Owls New York Birds 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Wood-warblers are back (at least in some parts of New York!) If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Lamb 2012 Louisiana New York 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

Corey didn’t get out birding at all this weekend because he instead was squiring his nieces around New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A visit to the South Street Seaport did enable to see a few birds on the East River, among them a Common Tern.

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New York City 2012 Chickens New York 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

©2012 Donna L. Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 254

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Corey’s BBOTW was a Brown Pelican at Montauk Inlet, a good bird in New York State, especially in December! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2012 Pelicans Japan New York 114

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Though Corey had a host of good birds to choose from (again) he has decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the one he found because he took the time to scope through a ginormous flock of Canada Geese : a diminutive Cackling Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County, New York.

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Polar Bears 2012 New York Geese 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

Happy New Year! I’m feeling pretty good about 2012 so far. Corey, of course, carried his phenomenal bird-finding fortune into the New Year with an improbable to the point of being unprecedented Grace’s Warbler in New York. How about you? Ugh, right? What was your best bird of the weekend (and the year?)

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2011 2012 New York Birds 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

But on his boat ride around lower New York Harbor and Jamaica Bay on Sunday he found himself appreciating the Herring Gulls more than any other species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Is he becoming a larophile?

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2012 Birds Jamaica New York 155

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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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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

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JANUARY 8, 2012

Just two weekends into 2012, I already love this year. Plus my New York Football Giants just advanced in the first round of the NFL playoffs. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Debeaking Atlanta 2011 United States 164

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain. Kristof describes “happy” cows that are loved “like children” by an organic dairy farmer. NEWKIRK President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va.,

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New York Times New York Ethical Treatment Cows 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Conclusion Birds of Belize and Birds of Costa Rica are both impressive, informative, well-organized field guides, distinguished by the expertise, experience, and talents of their authors. 4 (July 2013), pp.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 149

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Articles on the Bermuda petrel have appeared in scientific journals and popular birding magazines, and Wingate has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and has received the Linnaean Society’s of New York prestigious Eisenmann medal. These are magical experiences. Beacon Press, 2012.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 167

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

According to Corey Finger (author of the soon-to-be-published ABA Field Guide to Birds of New York , and we’re all very excited about it), selection of species is one of the more challenging parts of writing an ABA field guide and I was happy to see my favorite Pennsylvania bird, Henslow’s Sparrow amongst the 15 sparrow species covered here.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. of New Mexico Press, 2005). The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Cornell Univ. And, if you are part of an ongoing atlas project in your state, tell us about your experiences.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 228

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Check out this graph adapted from eBird that shows the frequency of sightings in the United States in 2012 – Red-breasted Nuthatches are showing up on birders’ checklists just over sixteen percent of the time! And because cones were abundant nearly everywhere in their range, they had plenty to eat.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 266

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

I spotted my first Common Redpolls way back in February of 2006, when I had been birding for less than a year and was still living in Albany, New York. Though the Kazakhstan sightings are up there in terms of my favorite birding experiences my favorite pink finch sighting is a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch.

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Kazakhstan New York United States 2006 153

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The scientific literature does not seek creativity or levity in titles — academic journals are not the New York Post. The “introduction” is a readable summary of translocating birds to establish new populations to reduce extinction risk, with extensive citations to literature. and Antony W. ” The Auk 128.2

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Transported 2011 Research 2012 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2011

May 2012 bring you even better best birds and lots of them! Kirby Adams had a magical experience with his Best Bird of the Year and he blogged about it on his blog, Sharp Tern. I have been looking for one at my northern New York feeder since I moved here a decade ago. … a.

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2011 Birds Ohio North Dakota 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2012

Yet if you roasted this weekend like we did in western New York, you’re probably a little scared of what July and August will look like! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Here in the U.S., What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2012 New York Fish Birds 158

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Our experience on the ground confirms your reporting that this trade is increasingly tied to organized crime. This holds true whether it is in the Democratic Republic of Congo or right here in New York City, where Cyrus R. 4, 2012 The writer is vice president for species conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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New York Times New York South Korea New York City 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

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? Painted Redstart. 500 would make me an amazing baseball star so I can’t complain too much.

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