10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice. See Birdchick’s post here. No one knows how many of those numbers were actually Tricolored Blackbirds.

Blackbirds 187

Blackbirds California 2014 2013 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. I photographed the first of only two Northern Parulas ever reported in my state, way back in 2013. But obviously, I haven’t seen one since then.

Mexico 193

Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 193

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. Baicich and Colin J.

Eggs 228

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 228

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The organization is the same as The Crossley Guide: Raptors (PUP, 2013): photographic plates and brief text in the first half and extensive “Written Accounts” in the second half. Sullivan, 2013, PUP). She also grew up in upstate New York, which makes me wonder if she had a hand in that Buffalo mystery bird page?). Barker and Carrol L.

Ducks 117

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 117