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MARCH 28, 2015

2015 – 28 March. Great, I’m your first phoebe of 2015. If you are interested, here are the dates of my first phoebe from each of the last ten years. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2009 – 15 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

The 2015 Valravn Old Vine Zinfandel is a dark, blood-red wine showing incarnadine flashes in the glass. Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015). The post Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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MARCH 18, 2015

Birding 2015 year list Year List 2015' Purple Roller ( Coracias naevius ); Madikwe, South Africa, 18 February. Broad-billed Roller, or Cinnamon Roller ( Eurystomus glaucurus ); Chobe NP, Botswana, 4 January.

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MAY 21, 2015

This places Peru as a Global Big Day Champion for the year of 2015!!! On the competitive front, there is already talk among Peruvian birders on preparing to defend the 2015 title. Final count by country. Extracted from www.ebird.org). Cusco Teams, within-country champions reported Hooded Mountain-Tanagers.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

As 2015 comes to a close and birders the world over start thinking about what 2016 will bring we here at 10,000 Birds would like to take a moment to celebrate our best birds of 2015. Each Beat Writer was given the opportunity to share their Best Bird of the Year for 2015 and, as usual, we had some pretty solid birds.

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JANUARY 4, 2015

The adult Pied Oystercatchers were still at their non-breeding site at Gantheaume Point and will no doubt lay their first eggs for 2015 in the first week of July. Birding 2015 listing year list' I hope they are as successful this year as they were last year. Pied Oystercatcher family together for the last time in 2014.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

To celebrate this minor listing milestone, I chose a 2015 Cabernet by Sand Point Family Vineyards of Acampo, California, whose logo is an adorable California Quail sitting on a swing (we can presumably eliminate the similar Gambel’s Quail by range here). Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (Lodi Appellation).

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JANUARY 4, 2015

One weekend down for 2015 and only 51 to go. Hope your year is off to a ripping start! I hit Lake Ontario for winter birds this weekend and walked away with a trio of Red-throated Loons. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an adorable Northern Saw-whet Owl at an undisclosed location in Queens.

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JANUARY 31, 2015

For his part, Redgannet has committed to a trial period through January and will try to stick to a more socially responsible regimen of birds then beer for the rest of 2015. In a similar way, birds will be admitted to Redgannet’s Year List 2015 by finding 2 birds with a matching prefix. Birding Year List 2015'

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated by birders across the northeastern United States and eastern Canada because it takes into account a vast array of data to figure out which irruptive species might show up where.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

How is your 2015 year list looking so far? Wow, those are a lot of Oriental Pratincoles ! If you’re around 300 species, you’ve been keeping pace nicely with Noah Stryker. Only halfway through the first month of the year, and he’s already left most of us in the dust!

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015! Who knows what great birds 2015 will bring? Oh, and I’ll make sure to harass Jeff Gordon about why Green Heron wasn’t chosen as the 2015 American Birding Association Bird of the Year. I had a great time back in 2012 and even more fun in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Destinations Costa Rica Year List 2015' I could say that I also hope to see a Masked Duck but that nemesis is so nefarious, I need to not want to see it to eventually scope one. Maybe I can check one out at next year’s Space Coast Birding Festival.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

My lobbying must be more effective than I thought because the Green Heron has been named as the American Birding Association Bird of the Year for 2015 ! More than ready for its close up, this Green Heron is very pleased to be the 2015 ABA Bird of the Year! I certainly can’t think of a better pick. You know how I know that?

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Check out the 14-21 August 2015 Regional Migration Forecast. Fortunately for those of us in North America, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has gotten into the business of issues migratory forecasts. Curious about the first Birdcast of the season? I’m still too focused on summer to worry about the birds of fall.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It’s just that Birdwatch Magazine is running its Birders’ Choice Awards 2015 and we are–for the first time in our 12-year history–on the ballot for Blog of the Year. Is 10,000 Birds your favorite bird blog? We certainly hope so, not that we are insecure or anything.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

The 2015 Queens County Bird Club Big Sit at Fort Tilden on Saturday was a rousing success! In addition to having more participants, we had more bird species, 76, beating out last year’s inaugural effort by two whole species.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Whatever they may be, the image makes a handsome label for this week’s wine, the 2015 Siir from San Martino, a vineyard in the Aglianico del Vulture region of Basilicata in Italy. San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC. Good birding and happy drinking! Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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Belted Kingfisher (Reno, USA, Jan 2015). Crested Kingfisher (HongAn, China, Jun 2015). Ruddy Kingfisher (Singapore, Nov 2015). Stork-billed Kingfisher (Singapore, Nov 2015 and Taman Negara, Malaysia, Nov 2019). Black-capped Kingfisher (Nanhui, China, May 2018). Brown-hooded Kingfisher (Bateleur and Mkuze, Nov 2018).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For many in the birding community, Miami is a destination meant only for ticking off ABA-countable exotics such as Spot-breasted Oriole or Red-whiskered Bulbul. For others, it is simply a launching point to Everglades National Park or the Florida Keys.

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MARCH 29, 2015

Nearly everywhere in the world, birds are on the wing, not just traveling to and from their daily haunts but returning to their ancestral circuit. Based on the the time of year, many people I know are also on the wing. So best of luck to any and all creatures striving towards a distant horizon right now.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

So many sexy snow birds pop up this time of year: Snow Buntings , Snow Geese , Snowy Owls … But if you’re like me, you couldn’t get out to see them this weekend. Too much snow! Between work and shoveling, I had no chance to get out birding.

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APRIL 5, 2015

Signs of spring are evident everywhere winter once held sway. Actually, signs that winter won’t release its icy grip so readily are also apparent… my traditional Easter family hike was canceled on account of snow. Sure, we could have survived the blustery flurry, but I’d rather hide until the last remnants of winter blow away!

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AUGUST 8, 2015

That’s where I saw mine for 2015 but there are still plenty of other species lacking from the year list. That 600th species was a Streaked Xenops , an especially uncommon bird in Costa Rica usually seen at Tapanti National Park. Streaked Xenops.

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APRIL 19, 2015

What’s so great about April? A better question might be to ask what isn’t great about April. This month introduces change for the better, movement from one state to another, and a season that unfolds magically week after week. Also lots of birthdays in my family, which is cool. And also birds, also cool!

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MARCH 22, 2015

Here in the United States, we are gripped by March Madness. While this epic basketball tournament can make people pretty crazy, the real madness is how much this weekend felt like winter instead of the gateway to spring.

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MARCH 1, 2015

Now that we’ve gotten February out of the way, the time has come to face facts: the next mass migration is not that far off. Is it too soon to start reviewing warbler songs?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Alas, the team named for a bird fell short of the crown in Super Bowl XLIX. While many human beings felt anguish and rage at the loss, most avifauna appeared unperturbed. The non-Seahawk birds that caught my eye this weekend were Northern Cardinals , which always look their best burning crimson against a blanket of white snow.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2015

As members of an international community of nature lovers, we all experience the weekend in different parts of this wide, wide world. Consequently, only those of you who live in the northern temperate regions can appreciate how I’m feeling about this dreadful month.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Happy New Year, nature lovers! 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!) A pristine weekend lies before you like an untroubled field of freshly fallen snow.

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DECEMBER 26, 2015

Despite the misses, with a 2015 year list of 652, I won’t complain! My other main misses are three owl species I usually see or hear at some point during the year. I guess I just didn’t spend enough nocturnal time in the right places to connect with Spectacled, Crested, and Black-and-white Owls.

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JANUARY 18, 2015

Get excited, bird lovers… a team with an avian appellation is headed to the Super Bowl! For the second year in a row, the Seattle Seahawks will represent the NFC, the Pacific Northwest, and bird lovers everywhere in pursuit of the NFL championship. Congrats, bone breakers!

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MARCH 15, 2015

Patrick’s Day weekend teaches us many lessons, more than a few of which concern parades, alcohol, and nationalism as fashion. But this time of year also reminds us that as you stand gazing hopefully at the season ahead, you are still mired in the one that is ending. Transitions, like Irish whisky, can make us moody.

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DECEMBER 21, 2014

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JANUARY 25, 2015

Chuck Palahniuk wrote, “The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” Why he was so cynical about a meaningful exchange of beautiful moments and memories, I’ll never know.

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APRIL 12, 2015

We’ve entered that portion of the year where one season loosens its grip enough for the next to begin to peek through. In many parts of the world this weekend, spring felt like spring and fall felt like fall, or at least a recognizable harbinger of days to come. Did you see what I mean?

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MARCH 5, 2015

You might not sense it yet, but excitement is in the air. Somewhere deep in the tropics, a warm, fat, contented bird is beginning to feel the merest inkling of restlessness. Even in the midst of paradise, this itinerant soul cannot remain happy for long. “Is this all there is?” ” the bird will ask.

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