10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. I list mammals as well, at the end, where I have been able to identify them.

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2014 New Zealand Singapore Rhinoceros 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2014

While I saw some pretty special species this weekend, the most special was the Gray Catbird because my sweet 7-year niece totally got into finding one; I think I’ve found the next generation birder in the family! Corey’s BBOTW was one that he hadn’t seen in a couple of years.

2014 203

2014 Birds Experience Experiments 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. Does your family celebrate a lot of April birthdays? My son’s birthday ushering in spring and my daughter’s showing it out serve as bookends to a seemingly endless parade of parties.

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New Jersey 2014 Louisiana Bears 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

So many people devoted serious time this weekend to acquiring gifts for family, friends, and strategic acquaintances. Hopefully, each of you found time to give yourselves the gift of a decent bird sighting or two. I tried to rustle up some Short-eared Owls down at Nations Road, a notorious haunt for these magnificent beasts.

2014 167

2014 Virginia Owls Birds 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a total surprise while on a family outing to Edgemere Landfill in Queens. Around this time of year, I keep an eye out for White-throated Sparrows landing around my home… they were right on time! Instead, they ended up watching a Say’s Phoebe enjoying those same insects.

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2014 Birds Sparrows Experience 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

Corey enjoyed his Easter weekend upstate with his family, though he did sneak out in the early mornings to look for birds. 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.

2014 187

2014 Birds Rights Experience 187

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend, on the other hand, was one of the many species of shorebird he during a weekend full of birding opportunities what with his whole family being in California. Based on my tale of woe, consider me lucky to have walked away with a couple of ratty Common Yellowthroats this weekend.

2014 168

2014 New York Birds Experience 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2014

But while one a whale-watching trip with his family on Saturday and seeing only Herring Gulls at the back of the boat for a good half-hour, he heard Desi, his four-and-a-half-year-old son, pipe up with “There’s a Laughing Gull !

2014 162

2014 Whales Whaling New York 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Mack (Cassowary Conservation and Publishing, 2014) for Birding. Press, 2014) by Tui De roy, Mark Jones and Julie Cornthwaite, a gift you can give anyone. This is the time to fill in any glaring holes, like the second edition of the Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf, 2014). You bird hard all year and you deserve them.

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Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2014

Corey will be birding Greene County with family and friends. If you’re fretting the end of summer, don’t forget that you still have plenty of time left to enjoy it! I just returned from a brief but exciting trip to Colombia and will take this weekend to catch my breath. How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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Colombia Psychology 2014 Birds 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

The family has about 37 species, but that includes several fulvettas – only 21 of the species have “parrotbill” in their names (and frankly, the bills of fulvettas do not look like those of parrots at all). At least until the next reorganization of the avian family tree. Never fails to startle them.

Pandas 203

Pandas Birds Eggs China 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

© 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. And, if you have family and friends in Los Angeles County who aren’t birders, then you know that many of them have no idea what riches surround them, except maybe P-22, the well-known urban mountain lion.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 264

10,000 Birds

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. It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. Don’t worry.

Birds 259

Birds Compassion Eagles Science 259

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2023

I could observe where the family had come down to the ocean at night on the big tides. Pied Oystercatcher family footprints in the soft sand and down to the high tide mark The two Pied Oystercatcher chicks were obedient and hid when they were told by their parents. One large Pied Oystercatcher family !

Eggs 130

Eggs Australia Protection Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2017

In early 2014 the rainfall was good and flooded the main highway south from Broome and made for some excellent birding from your car. The area remained flooded for several months in 2014 and there was significant road damage, but over the months the birding improved as more and more birds arrived in the area.

Geese 100

Geese Breeding 2014 Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. First page (p. 131) and last page (p. 141) of the Firetails section. © 2021 by Dennis R. .”

Costa Rica 260

Costa Rica North America Family America 260

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

Phillipps: Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan, Third Edition (2014): I couldn’t find anything in the introduction, but it appears to be generally a combination of traditional (1993) and newer (2009) taxonomy, review here. Order of bird families, non-songbirds. Phillipps, Q. &

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Brunei 2009 2016 2014 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since I saw my first in February of 2014 at Breezy Point I have had two more encounters, both in February of 2015, both at Jacob Riis Park. This pair of birds on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond had been around for several days by the time that I got to see them in early September 2014. Lapland Longspur, 31 Oct 2010, 17 Feb 2014.

2013 160

2013 2010 2012 2011 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. His wildlife photographs have been published in birding and mountaineering magazines and his devotion to his very favorite bird family, the Albatross, have been documented in his book, Around the World for Albatrosses (2019). Press, 2011).

Penguins 278

Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide is an identification guide to seabirds of the world, all of them.

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Albatross Penguins Groups Family 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

One would think that a bird named Grey Butcherbird is a shrike or at least related to shrikes (which are commonly called butcherbirds), but one would be wrong, as Duncan already explained in a 2014 post for 10,000 Birds. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow. Female below.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

By the beginning of September the family had decided to move north and over two nights they moved through the area on Cable Beach that is the busiest during the day. Although it would seem a risky move it was to get the family to a reef that is exposed on low tide to the north.

2007 169

2007 Eggs 2014 2002 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2015

On March 16, 2014, I saw and heard a raven flying overhead in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The family has continued hanging around Chelsea since, and it’s a lot of fun watching (and hearing!) In 2010, Common Ravens nested in Queens. They’ve also recently nested in the Bronx and nearby in New Jersey.

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New York City New York 2015 New Jersey 249

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. Whether it is birding tourism or simply spreading awareness about biodiversity, it is always with the aim of getting us humanoids to treat nature a little (ideally, a lot) better.

Opossums 264

Opossums Barn Owls Hunting Reptiles 264

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 4, 2014

On April 15th, 2014, Skittles required emergency surgery due to an intestinal obstruction. So far, Bridget has raised over 50% from friends, family, and animal lovers from all over, which is amazing! Reader Bridget needs our help! Thank goodness, he is out of surgery and healing now.

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Massachusetts Medical No Kill 2014 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the Eponym Dictionary of Birds (Helm, 2014), “James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was an Irish hunter, explorer, and naturalist. Retz’s Helmetshrike is one of the 8 helmetshrikes within the larger family of Vangidae – apparently, a family that evolved from a single Madagascar-based species.

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2023

Way back in 2014, when I saw my first Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo near the little town of Pino Real, and shared the sighting on a birders’ chat group, it took just over a month for the first biologist/ornithologist to visit me. But he regularly visits family in Morelia. It seems he had looked long and wide for this species.

Mexico 207

Mexico Cuba Species 2014 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family. Tanagers are listed in the table of contents as members of the Tanager, Thraupidae , family, not members of the cardinal and grosbeak, Cardinalidae , family. Cool Springs Press, March 2014, 224 pages, 8.2 by Noble Proctor.

2006 196

2006 2014 Connecticut North America 196

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Once you eliminate the risque jokes (I know, I know, but it’s a family blog) the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet might have the most comical name in American birding. The tyrant flycatchers, in turn, derive their name from the first member of the family to land a Latin name, the Eastern Kingbird.

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Costa Rica 2014 Family Collecting 102

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). Market prices have tracked demand: in 1987 birds retailed for $ 14, rising to $ 44 in 2014 and $ 99 in 2016.”

Los Angeles 185

Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 185

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to Honduras in 2014, I was advised to use The Birds of Costa Rica by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (2014) and The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N.G. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries. Howell and Sophie Webb (a classic, but big and published in 1995).

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 232

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). ’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*. .

Dissection 219

Dissection Birds Research Europe 219

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I didn’t travel much this year, with a June family trip to California and Nevada and a four-day trip in July to Trinidad and Tobago being my only opportunities to get birds not in the northeastern United States. Hopefully I will see at least that many species in 2014! And what do you think they will be in 2014?

2013 173

2013 New York City New York Trinidad 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. The topics range from basic concepts like “Molt” to essays on specific species and bird families: “Plunge-Diving Behavior in Seabirds” to “Corvid Intelligence.”

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2014

There were also families of Red-kneed Dotterels and Masked Lapwings. A family of Purple Swamphens crossed in front of a slow moving vehicle and they are not a common species to see in the area, though do reside at another ephemeral lake to the north of Broome. Glossy Ibis and Black-winged Stilt. Juvenile Nankeen Night-Heron.

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Birds Geese Falcons 2014 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

Of course I then had to continue and so once again in 2013 I joined others in listing for the year and have just completed the third year in 2014. Firstly I would like to just do a little update on the Pied Oystercatcher family that were a large part of my life for the last few weeks of 2014.

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2015 2014 Ducks Ponies 182