10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Not likely, right? I brought my bins expecting nothing more interesting than a Bonaparte’s Gull , but was pleasantly astonished when a Purple Sandpiper flew right in front of me to forage the slush-scummed surface of the lake. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Polar Bears 2012 New York Geese 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

But in 2020 I personally saw thousands of Waxwings in a dozen or so sites, and every one of my birder friends across the country had a similar experience. And, gee, I do hope I am right. Most years, there are no more than a few dozen reports of this species across the region. This year, the sightings are less, so far. (I

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Mexico 2020 2012 Parrots 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Nature lovers who love to travel know that few experiences are more enjoyable than preparation for a big trip. Sunrise at Kaikoura in New Zealand (If you visit at the right time, you might see what Duncan saw here: albatrosses !). Your theoretical trip list will always be so much more extensive and exotic than your actual list.

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New Zealand 2012 Singapore Japan 135

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

I’m feeling pretty good about 2012 so far. Ugh, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Also be sure to share your First Bird of 2012 … in another day, nobody will want to hear about it! Happy New Year! How about you?

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2011 2012 New York Birds 168

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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North America Birds Owls America 220

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. This was remedied in 2012, when I reviewed the second edition.

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2011 North America 2005 Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2013

Chasing the mystery elaenia which showed up in Chicago in 2012—where my girls at? appreciating birding for more than just the bragging rights of one’s latest tick). That’s the question asked by this very detailed and thoughtful post to the ABA blog.

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Chicago Birds 2012 Experience 164

10,000 Birds

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! Thank a pine cone. Or a spruce cone. Or a larch cone.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 270

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

Back in October of 2012, the USFWS published a document pertaining to recommendations 17 and 18 of their vision document titled “ Hunting, Fishing, & Outdoor Recreation: National Wildlife Refuge System.” Philatelists, after seventy-nine years, are already tuned in to the advantages they enjoy from collecting the stamps.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Two issues came to mind immediately when I examined my reviewer copies.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

Will it come back in 2012? Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. Wood-Warbler Week is finally over for 2011.

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United States South America 2011 2012 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2012

My experience would have it that the pre-Christmas period is filled with an urgency to try get everything done at work that desperately needs to be taken care of, attend a million Christmas get-togethers, and racing about through crowded shopping districts. This is pure legend and folklore. Happy birding, Dale Forbes a.

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2011 Mongoose Thailand Birds 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. He has earned his tip. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. A passion for one bird family is also very useful.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We see a closer shot of the river itself, hawks flying across the span, and then we see that brown line again, close up, a wall of brown panels filling the right side of the screen, continuing into the distance, no end in sight, while a white pick-up truck drives parallel to it at the far left of the screen.

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Advocacy Mexico United States Texas 268

10,000 Birds

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 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. The authors set June/July 2011 as the cut-off date, and were able to add noteworthy records up to November 2012, the date the manuscript was sent to the publisher. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices.

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North America America Birds United States 258

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. Susan Kailholz-Williams had raptors as her BBOTY: My best and thrilling bird of 2011: First confirmed nest of Mississippi Kites right here in Ohio.

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2011 Birds Ohio North Dakota 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In June 2012, I had the great fortune to visit Trinidad and Tobago in a group that included birder and artist Matthew Dodder. But for non-artist birders as well, stopping to notice this feature in a bird enriches our birding experience whether we plan on drawing or not.

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Laws Birds California Nevada 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2012

Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences in North America. Now before any of you think that I must be really old or dying to have a bucket-list I must assure you that before April 9th 2012 I was still in my thirties. That means I used to be very young.

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Florida Kentucky France North America 247

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Jackson, 2012. Those of us who contemplate the trip need to know how to do it right. The University of Michigan Press, 2012. photo by Lynn C.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 236

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. The chapter “Vagrants” promotes the joys and difficulties of finding that mega-rarity on your own, giving Lovitch’s own experiences using habitat, geography, and weather to make rarity predictions that unfortunately don’t come true.

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New Jersey Science United States Birds 242

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. I find that a little surprising since it is our national bird. 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647. Newbold, Bradley, et.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 207

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. Nevertheless, it necessary to combine field experience with museum experience to create a vivid and accurate image of a species. Images on the same plate are drawn to scale, and the scale percentage is indicated on the upper right-hand corner. The picture gets complicated.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). These “vignettes” are sadly limited due to space considerations.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 108

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

In the past two years, our bookshelves have welcomed Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance (2011), the second edition of the classic Hawks in Flight (Dunne, Sutton, Sibley; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), and Chris Earley’s updated edition of the excellent regional guide, Hawks and Owls of Eastern North America (2012).

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North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 218

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In the cartoon diagram to the left you see the person behind the wall poking at the feeding box with the stick, and in the diagram to the right, you see the stick menacing the feeding box rather mysteriously. Taylor, Alex, Miller, Rachael, & Gray, Russell (2012). The following graph shows the experimental setup and results.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Research 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” Care has been taken to align the photographs and photo plates so the birds always face right, allowing for a consistency of view that makes comparative examination easier.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago? Illustrations.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 131

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

From our experience the greatest risk is when the shorebirds take off in a panic flight and clip each other’s wings and several fall into the sea. Red Knot stand out and even a Silver Gull head on the right! Rocks covered in shorebirds. A closer look at the rocks. An even closer look!

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Taiwan Breeding Japan 2017 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? . I was confused.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

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. It was easily one of the best birding experiences I’ve ever had, even impressing my nonbirder fiance. You can read more about his experience here.

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. I found this material overwhelming, but was encouraged by Howell’s advice: don’t rush it and learn it in conjunction with field experience. Princeton University Press, 2012, 520 pp. Here’s Alan’s review. )

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North America Albatross America Species 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

JOHOR, MALAYSIA, DECEMBER 2012 – If you’re traveling to Singapore for birding, you might want to think outside the box or, in this case, the island. All in all, a memorable Malaysian experience. Some of the best birding in the area is just 90 minutes or so north in peninsular Malaysia, home of the infamous Panti Forest.

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Malaysia Singapore Monkeys Birds 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

A friend of 10,000 Birds, he talked to Corey about his mission to create this guide in 2012 and wrote about his goal to create a Spanish-language version of the guide in 2017. Illustrations are old school, in a separate section, with images of the right and brief descriptions of the left–73 plates offering 1,000 images.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 196