10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Doing this work takes time!

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 212

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Guyana South America Washington DC 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This added layer elevates Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery from a book of fun birding and travel adventures to a more complex memoir about the ways in which birding spurs self-reflection, motivates life change, feeds a need for wonder, and creates community. The absolute craziness of it all?

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2013-2014. Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “types” in North America. Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast.

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2013 2014 Alaska Canada 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2014

The end of July is when shorebird migration truly picks up, at least in eastern North America. It is also when a huge number of people are hitting the beach, which often serves as habitat for those migrating shorebirds. If we could only find good ways to get beach-goers interested in birds instead of irritated by them. Ideas anyone?

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2014 North America Jamaica Birds 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend, on the other hand, was a relatively common diving duck in the Americas. I can’t say the same for Gray Treepie , so let’s go with that. He was pretty pleased with a small flock of very cooperative Redhead at World’s Fair Marina. One of those ravishing Redheads is pictured above.

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2014 Feral Asia China 186

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The Bank Swallow ( Riparia riparia ) is North America’s smallest swallow. The recently released 2014 State of the Birds Report lists the Bank Swallow as one of the common birds in steep decline. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Conservation 2014 State of the Birds Report Bank Swallow swallows'

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North America 2014 California Birds 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2014

After all, I’m sure North America has suffered under the tyrannical grip of a polar vortex before, even though the term seems new to me, just as we survived last year’s Snowpocalypse and Sharknado. In Bierce’s view, “There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.” Who could disagree?

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2014 North America Birds Suffering 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Its buffy face and chest identified it as an immature bird (thank you, 7th edition of the National Geographic Guide to Birds of North America, soon to be reviewed here). There has been some discussion about the history of Corn Crakes in North America, and I expect there will be more if the bird sticks. America but going undetected.”

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New York North America France Feral Cats 155

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

The Results of the 2014 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey confirm that this species is in rapid decline. A summary of the 2013 California statewide reportstates: The 2014 Statewide Survey was held from April 18-20, 2014. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Blackbirds California 2014 2013 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. It is the first bird field guide to every country of Central America (plus the islands governed by those countries).

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The scope is worldwide; of the 24 birds depicted, five are from the Americas; five from Eurasia; three from New Zealand; two from Australasia; three from Africa; one from Africa and Asia; one from Antarctica; two worldwide, and two from Asia, introduced worldwide. of Chicago Press, 2014). I do wish he had included Fairywrens!

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

A pair of Great Horned Owls ( Bubo virginianus ) painted by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Para Maria de los Tecolates is a California red wine blend from Stolpman Vineyards of Santa Barbara County, released every year since 2014.

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2017 Owls Game California 137

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

A little more than halfway through 2014, a year Marybeth had decided would be devoted to finishing in the top fifty eBirders in Louisiana AND Alabama, there is a terrible accident and time must be put aside for Lynn’s healing and recovery. ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014. In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

The question is why these natives of rural areas in southern South America (east of the Andes) have been so spectacularly successful in establishing their colonies. This echoes their behavior in their native South America, where they are known as agricultural pests who will eat and destroy crops. The answer lies in the nests.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 199

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

I reviewed the New Jersey volume in May 2014 and, being in Florida at the moment, I thought this was a good time to take a closer look at both the Florida volume, published just last month, and the Colorado volume, published in June 2014. (I December 2014. So, each guide has an individual personality. Scott & Nix, Inc.,

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Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics. 266-67). .

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 218

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas. In 2014, FWS completed a five-year status review , concluding that continuing urbanization and associated habitat destruction and fragmentation still threatened the warbler.

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Austin Texas Endangered Species Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These bark-burrowing beetles, which apparently hitched a ride in cargo shipments from their native Asia, have been starving the ash trees of eastern and midwestern North America to death for a dozen years now. With all due respect to Maria von Trapp, combating the greatest infestation that U.S. Enter the woodpecker.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Science Chicago 273

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

And, then there are the pick-up-dead-birds initiatives in major cities in North America–New York City’s Project Safe Flight, Chicago’s Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, Toronto’s Bird Collision Monitoring Patrols, Washington, D.C.’s with a median estimate of 599 million.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 253

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

It is one of those interesting few species that winter in South America, but only migrate as far north as Mexico to breed. I saw the movement, I swear I did, but it wasn’t until June of this year that I really saw this bird. And then saw it again, a month later. But in 2020 I got my vengeance, with four quality sightings with photos.

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Mexico 2020 2019 Turkey 164

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2015

” Without diminishing the importance of any local Big Days, although Big Day birding has been popular and reaching new heights in North America for more than a decade, major attempts at truly breaking the world record have only taken place the past few years. My Big Day has been a huge deal for the past thirty years!”

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Costa Rica South Africa Kenya Ecuador 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

Noble Proctor has written two previous books about 100 songbirds, and I was able to get a hold of the more recent title, The Songbirds Bible: A Visual Directory of 100 of the Most Popular Songbirds in North America (Sellers Publishing, 2006). Cool Springs Press, March 2014, 224 pages, 8.2 The drawings are exactly the same.

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2006 2014 Connecticut North America 196

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Little did I know that between 1994 and 2014, I would see dozens of quetzals and Wrenthrushes in Costa Rica, and large eagles, Amazonian Parrotlet , and hundreds of other fine birds in South America, but another Maroon-chested Ground-Dove? Not a chance! At least, not a chance until last Sunday.

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Costa Rica Bolivia South America Rats 176

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Sam Adams has been brewing Cold Snap as a late winter seasonal since 2014, but a packaging redesign of this year’s version places a ski-masked owl on the label. Sure, it’s an easy drinking wheat beer, from one of America’s best-known breweries, fine for knocking back a few on the couch while watching the big game.

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Boston Branding Owls United States 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

2014 was a great year for birding! Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m Here’s hoping 2015 is as full of highlights as 2014 was!

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2014 Costa Rica New York New Jersey 241

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Center for Biological Diversity , 3 Bond, M. 4 Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project (2014). Siegel and, D. Craig, editors. A Conservation Strategy for the Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) in California. Version 1.0. Point Reyes Station, California.

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Woodpeckers California South Dakota Chad 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America, present in many parts of the United States even through the winter months, when the birds feed on small fruits and other foods, including sap.

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United States 2011 Guatemala North America 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

Of course, it’s tricky for birders to reconcile popular associations about robins and spring with our own observations: over much of North America, most of us will get our first glimpse of a robin for the year on a first day walk on New Year’s Day, or at least within a few days after that.

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Farming New York St. Louis Belgium 151

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

The National Wildlife Refuge system is one of America’s greatest treasures. On March 5, 2014, the U.S. It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. and provides diverse nature experiences for visitors from around the world. According to the latest (2013) report by the U.S. Case in point.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunting Fish 218

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. ; and a bird that I didn’t see but feel I know well, the Plain-capped Starthroat that spent a summer in my friends’ Portal, Arizona backyard. Don’t worry.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. Birding bird race Birding Rally Peru South America' Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Photo by Hugh Powell.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 254

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APRIL 4, 2017

Cervera on April 30th, 1927, and a recent sighting (no photographs or video) in November 2014 by ornithologist Andy Mitchell and naturalist Angel Martinez. There is one historical record in eBird, representing a specimen collected by Fermin Z.

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Cuba Birds 2015 Bahamas 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume.

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North America America Birds Family 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 172