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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Birds of Belize by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. Dale Dyer put in years working on his paintings for Birds of Central America , both in the field and in the museum. Howell utilizes the IOC World Bird List (v.11.2, Why are these issues? © 2023 by Steve N.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2014

The year 2014 is approaching its imminent end, which means different things for different people. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was easy to decide upon because he found a new bird for him in Queens, only the second White-winged Dove ever recorded in his home borough. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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AUGUST 29, 2014

Ready to close the books on the summer of 2014, northerners? I’ll be taking a break from my labors to explore remote parts of Pennsylvania for anything resembling a migratory bird. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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JANUARY 12, 2014

Less than two weeks into the new year and I’m already used to writing 2014 instead of 2013. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend came down to a choice between either his first Eastern Meadowlark of the year of his first Rusty Blackbird of the year. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions.

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MARCH 13, 2014

Even if you snapped enough Snowy Owl photos to make a bird-a-day calendar, you’ve got to be sick of the excessively frigid temperatures and relentless precipitation. The calendar says that this is the last weekend of the winter of 2014. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Birding March weekend'

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Up until now, though, I’ve never put my year list on 10,000 Birds. On a larger scale, I have no particular plans to get outside the ABA area in 2014, but I would like to time a trip back east with the spring migration this time around, and it’s been far, far too long since the west coast has seen hide or hair of me.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Matt reports that Type 10s have been moving around the Great Lakes and Northeast for a few months and Pascal Cote of the Tadoussac Bird Observatory in Quebec reports a small movement of Type 3s. At bird feeders redpolls prefer nyger seeds in silo feeders.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. The idea is to portray one bird for each hour of the day in words and art, presenting the diversity, beauty, and wonder of avian life. Angell’s black-and-white illustrations bring sparks of energy and visual clarity to the fascinating bird behaviors described by Huber.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

What was your first bird of 2015? Hopefully it was as cool as the Short-eared Owl above, which was my first bird of 2014! Let us know in the comments…and, if you wrote a blog post or have a picture of your first bird of the year online somewhere, well, leave a link in the comments too.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will take place from the twenty-second of January until the twenty-seventh of January in 2014. What’s not to like about amazingly cooperative birds , fascinating bird behavior , and a bird that is impossible to find outside of Florida ?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

If you look closely you will see a few birds too, small and large. The little birds are called juncos, and they love to come eat our walnuts. The post First snow of 2014, a time lapse appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. We also get a few woodpeckers, and pigeons. You will see both juncos and pigeons in the video.

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JULY 5, 2022

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. There were no dead birds for weeks. I hoped it was an anomaly.

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APRIL 25, 2022

It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them. I guess it is a bird though. Admittedly, it is mostly grey.

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MAY 4, 2014

The birds seem to be dragging their proverbial heels this year, but migration still rewards those who would brave the bitter May chill! Although I arrived with warblers on my mind, my favorite bird had to be a beauteous Blue-headed Vireo. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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MARCH 13, 2021

My birding buddy Meryl actually spotted it first and she might have been mildly taken aback by the enthusiasm I showed for my first phoebe of the year. The bird was relatively distant but I did manage to poorly digiscope a few shots, the best of which is above. 2014 – 29 March. For me, it is now officially spring! Enjoy spring!

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APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* My inner self felt stuck in an area between disbelief and total joy and the voices near me were echoing this state of mind: “Oh My God,” “I never thought I would see this bird,” “Look at that bill!” “How did that bird get here?”

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

Camping and birding both fall under the category of “nature” activities, yet the two seem only tangentially related. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Birding best bird weekend' How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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MAY 18, 2014

Most North American birders I know would definitely represent the month of May with a bright and sprightly wood-warbler, though the argument about which bird would best serve would be epic indeed. What birds, I wonder, would you select to fill out your birding calendar? What is your bird of the moment? How about you?

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MAY 26, 2014

We’re a little slow to discuss this weekend’s birding because many of us in the U.S. But if you’re eager to share the spoils of your recent avian adventures, let the bird bragging commence! What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend' How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

My best birds this weekend were American Goldfinches on purple coneflowers, which is where I like them best. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a surprise Marsh Wren which popped up out of the reeds while Corey was busy counting Chimney Swifts feeding low over Willow Lake in Queens on Saturday morning. How about you?

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MAY 11, 2014

Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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MARCH 2, 2014

Seriously, if this continues into migration, the birds are all going to fly back south. He wanted to tell me all about it, which earns the robin Best Bird of the Weekend honors. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

How does a person even find time to look at birds? Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was either of the two amazingly cooperative Eastern Bluebirds he came across on Saturday morning in Kissena Corridor Park in Queens. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend' How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Birding best bird weekend' My BBOTW was a weird Dunlin while Corey was most partial to the Pectoral Sandpiper pictured above. How about you?

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

My first visit there, in June of 2014, was short and apparently just good enough to make me want to go back again, with a mere 12 species seen. I went back to Cerro de Garnica last week, to see these birds that have since become dear friends. Like many birds, this sea-level bird in California is a very high-altitude bird down here.

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JULY 20, 2014

This is an interesting time of year when people are coming and going while birds mostly sit still. Except, of course, that some birds are also coming and going too. The trick is to make sure your path crosses those of the right birds at the right time. How do you like my odds of finding a different blue bird next weekend?

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APRIL 20, 2014

Perhaps the weekend’s pleasure proceeded from the arrival of birds not seen here for months. The Best Bird of my weekend was a real find. This species is quite rare during migration in my area and this bird was, in one sense, way too early but, for my purposes, right on time. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JANUARY 2, 2015

No matter how many phenomenal birds you spotted or how many glorious ecosystems you explored in 2014, your year list is now reset to zero (though most of you probably rectified that matter on New Year’s Day!) Make your mark and see some birds. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? How about you?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2014

With this weekend consumed by Halloween excitement, bats were more easily encountered than birds. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a relatively common species though it was uncommonly cooperative. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend' How did you fare? How about you?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

As much as I love hearing about and sharing Best Birds of the Weekend, sometimes I have cause to ponder just what that term means. Obviously, the birds themselves are not jockeying for recognition. Rather, we designate best birds according to our priorities and perceptions of value. BBOTW speaks volumes about birders, not birds.

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JUNE 1, 2014

Can the best bird of your weekend be one you didn’t see? Obviously, not seeing a desired bird can place the offender in the Worst Bird of the Weekend category. Only the second known to grace New York State, this bird has all the state birders abuzz, particularly the ones too distant to chase it. How about you?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Now that Winter Olympic fever has gripped the global imagination, I can’t help but wonder why we don’t have more international birding competitions like the International Birding Rally in Peru. The bird in the picture above, with a Common Merganser , is surely part of that exodus. Birding best bird weekend'

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one that he unfortunately failed to photograph, a Dickcissel at Jacob Riis Park in Queens. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Birding best bird weekend' How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

September migration is a fine time to appreciate birds on the wing, so fine that many of you may have missed many of our Extinction Week posts. My Best Bird of the Weekend was a turkey, actually several Wild Turkeys. While I see turkeys intermittently all year long, these birds really look best in autumn sunlight. How about you?

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AUGUST 24, 2014

Corey had a bunch of birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Weekend after having a marvelous time birding Jamaica Bay’s East Pond on Sunday morning with David. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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