10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2013
Seeing 525 species was nice, as was the fact that I birded in four countries, nine of the fifty states in the United States, and fifty-one counties. I had some goals for this year as well, goals which I laid out in the introduction to my 2012 year list. Finally, my 2012 Year List easily exceeded the 500 species I had hoped to see.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2012
My weekend was devoted to a seemingly endless celebration of my son’s 8th birthday, which meant that my best bird was bound to be a backyard species. I had a large, half-rotten tree taken down last summer, but chose not to have the stump ground down.
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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. From Orange-crowned Warbler to Razorbill , from Lapland Longspur to Red-necked Grebe , from Northern Shrike to Gray Catbird , Corey had a heck of a weekend. Is he becoming a larophile?
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2017
Here’s a map showing all the Saltmarsh Sparrow nests counted between 2012 and 2015, right in this one spot, by a biologist working with this population. This species is in too much trouble to throw away a breeding ground. The Department of Environmental Conservation has been alerted.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 2, 2012
seconds on June 20, 2012. Her run was photographed for a November 2012 National Geographic magazine article that will include never-before-seen high speed photographs and video of cheetah movement. Compare that to the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, whose fastest time for the same distance is 9.58
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
I had a great time back in 2012 and even more fun in 2014. Florida is a great place to bird in January because in addition to the year-round species there are a host of birds that winter in the relatively balmy climate that Florida has in winter. Get my Florida list to 180 species. Who knows what great birds 2015 will bring?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Way back on 16 May I managed to see my 312 bird species in Queens to add to my Queens list. Somehow I forgot that the last time I predicted what the next ten species I would see in Queens would be was back on 30 December 2013, when my list was sitting at 302. The godwit was my forty-first shorebird species in Queens.).
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