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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. There are three principle reasons for my choice: First of all, it’s a cuckoo, one of the great families that rival owls and rails in my affection.

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Consider that Paulson’s Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East (2012) covers 336 odonate species and think about the difference in geographic size and you get a sense of the concentrated diversity in Costa Rica (though the authors note that the rate of diversity is still less than the increase in diversity for butterflies and orchids).

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APRIL 8, 2012

The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Say’s Phoebe – A self-found rarity at Edgemere while accompanied by my family made my day back on 05 October 2014. Golden Eagle – Two weeks to the day after the Say’s Phoebe I was once again at Edgemere with my family and picked up a Golden Eagle flying past , a surprise bird for sure!

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APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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JULY 19, 2012

Speaking of July, every year around this time an assemblage of my family and friends gather in a remote part of Pennsylvania for food, fun, and flaming chickens. Corey will be spending the weekend with family in NYC and doubts he’ll get much birding in. Is this too heady for a lazy July?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

On Saturday, he only found one out there but with his folks visiting he made another trip out with the whole family and spotted both owls, one of them a gorgeous adult male. Regardless, seeing Snowy Owls with the family and getting a new bird for the Queens list was great!

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DECEMBER 25, 2012

Tropical Kingbird is likely to be one of the last birds I see in 2012 and first I see in 2013. December 25th is possibly the worst day of the year to be posting a blog, because lets face it, even the dispensing of wisdom from the world’s leading birder (past, present, and future) can compete with family duties.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Some families will travel, while others might prefer to hunker down and hibernate. My family is driving up from NYC for a long Rochester weekend. Schools across the United States are closing for Mid-Winter Break, which means the nation will be abuzz with energetic kids fighting boredom. How about you?

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JULY 29, 2012

My family and I have taken our show to the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. The month of July is drawing to a close, so prepare yourself for the inevitable chorus expressing surprise, chagrin, and dismay at the imminent end of summer. Do folks on the southern side of the globe, I wonder, do the same thing around the end of January?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2014

On October 29 th 2012, “superstorm” Sandy devastated the east coast of the USA, affecting states from Florida to Maine, with severe damage in New Jersey and New York. We know that Corey and his family came through the ordeal safely, but what of the warblers?

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MAY 20, 2012

Hope you made the most of a precious May weekend… I took my kids down to the family gravel pit for some fishing. 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! Save your fears for another day, since May is as magical a month as there is.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week. The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common. No kid should be stuck in school in early August!

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JUNE 28, 2012

I’m taking my kids down to NYC to get in touch with their Bronx roots and family. The Fireside Poet James Russell Lowell had some thoughts on the matter , but I recommend that you get out there and decide for yourself. You’ve only got a few more days in the month, so make the most of this weekend!

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JUNE 7, 2012

North of the equator, schools will be letting out for the summer and families will be packing up for adventure. Obviously, that means a lot of things in a lot of contexts, but here, of course, I’m talking about birding. Exotic locales make for exotic birding and even the most mundane territory can astound the first time visitor.

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Botswana 2012 Birds Fish 161

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

El Dia de los Muertos is a splendid Mexican holiday that should be celebrated by remembering friends and family who have died, eating delicious food, and admiring Mexican warblers. Don’t panic… this is not the first day of the inexplicably-trendy Zombie Apocalypse.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

My family and many others are looking forward to veritable feasts to honor the fall harvest, for which I am also thankful. Most Americans are enjoying an early Thanksgiving weekend, for which I’m thankful. I also give thanks today for 10,000 Birds, our awesome writers, and our awesome readers… love you guys!

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APRIL 30, 2017

Since 2012, I was fortunate to spend a considerable amount of time birding through southern Borneo almost each year, and this new book meant that I now have four field guides for Borneo at my service. The figures show the order of bird families in the four field guides mentioned above. Order of bird families, non-songbirds.

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APRIL 29, 2020

The last time I had seen a Summer Tanager was during a Christmas Bird Count in 2012. The only harassment came from the resident Red-tailed Squirrel family – which seemed to be more curiosity than anything else, as their nest was just about two feet away. Typical of the species.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 13, 2012

There is only one way to find out, head over to the Dearfoams Facebook page and enter your adorable dog photo (now through April 16th), then be sure to have your family and friends vote for your pooch (voting is open now and you may vote once daily). PHASE ONE: Submit an image of your dog between February 13th, 2012 and April 16th, 2012!

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Dogs 2012 Pets Family 100

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AUGUST 19, 2012

Here in the United States, students and their families are no more than two weeks from the beginning of school, notwithstanding those poor kids who have already commenced their academic year. Many potential reasons spring to mind, but one possibility might be the same end-of-summer mania that seems to have infected me and everyone around me.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

In fact, the last one was back on 15 May 2012 when my Queens list stood at 289 and I guessed what my next eleven birds would be that would get me to 300. 3 July 2010 31 October 2010 11 April 2011 15 May 2012. John’s the Divine Cemetery.

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MARCH 10, 2017

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) In some ways his story is familiar to a lot of birders: the outdoors was both recreation and refuge for him, his family imbued him with a love of learning and an appreciation for the earth.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 17, 2012

Starting on June 28, 2012, anyone can nominate at purina.maker.good.is. Nominations are accepted now through July 30, 2012. 6, 2012 through Aug. 20, 2012 with the winner revealed after Aug. And, the Shine a Light on a Shelter is a perfect start to help combat this misperception.”. Voting runs Aug.

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JUNE 10, 2012

One of our watering points in the garden had a family of Black-chinned Honeyeaters at it. They generally acknowledge their arrival with a distinctive shrill sound, but they were silent on this occasion and it was the first “family” visit. They are distant photographs and it shows how well they can hide in the foliage.

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JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I

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JANUARY 15, 2014

It was July of 2012. I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. In October of 2012, the Institute for Bird Populations released “ A Conservation Strategy for the Black-Backed Woodpecker in California 3.”

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 15, 2012

Celebrate Earth Day, April 20, 2012, by seeing the latest Disneynature film, True-Life Adventure, CHIMPANZEE! CHIMPANZEE is a story of family bonds, individual triumph, and extraordinary personalities of the intelligent chimps. We are very excited to bring the story of Oscar and his chimpanzee family to the big screen.

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MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Its holiness may not be in question, but from the label drawing, I’m not quite sure which species of the family Columbidae the Sainte-Colombe pigeon belongs to. The Château de Colombe estate was purchased in 2012 by Henry Lathwaite, scion of the famed English wine merchant family and a trained winemaker in his own right.

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JANUARY 8, 2012

Just two weekends into 2012, I already love this year. Sure, I’m likely omitting some other far more important factors involving family, friends, and professional success, but the little things mean a lot. Plus my New York Football Giants just advanced in the first round of the NFL playoffs. Don’t you agree?

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MAY 1, 2018

Looking through this compact yet extensive guide, I realized that I have been amiss in not reviewing the first book of this series, the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America by David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie (same authors, order reversed), published in 2012. Photographic Illustrations.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The end of 2012 – and the holidays – are coming fast. But on the other hand, there was so much more I wanted to do in 2012 … and wow, I really need to start buying gifts for my family and friends. I looked over at the calendar the other day and literally almost jumped halfway across the room. Y to the ikes.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. A map of Ontario is reproduced on the inside front covers and the Quick Index, a one-page listing of bird families, is on the back inside cover. 2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. by 1 by 7.5

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JANUARY 1, 2012

We have recently come across several Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles families around Broome. Looks like it’s coming to us in 2012 now!! They generally lay four eggs, but we have only seen a maximum of three surviving chicks after a few days. A good indication that they have eggs or young is the extreme noise that they make.

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Breeding Cows Eggs 2012 144

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MAY 15, 2011

Will it come back in 2012? Though wood-warblers, the mostly brightly colored birds of the family Parulidae, are only found in the New World we felt that birders the world over would be pleased to see a plethora of posts about these striking and sought after species. Wood-Warbler Week is finally over for 2011. Below is the logo.

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