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MARCH 15, 2020

2017 – 12 March. 2015 – 28 March. As I have for years now, I will now ask the same question of midwesterners and northeasterners that I ask every year: When did you see your first Eastern Phoebe of 2020? And was it late or early? 2020 – 15 March. 2019 – 17 March. 2018 – 30 March. 2016 – 18 March. 2014 – 29 March. Enjoy spring!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

However, I started to fail in the following year, and my blog post on 2015 is still – to this day – incomplete. Therefore, this year’s goal is simple: In 2017, I want to enjoy birds as much as possible. I was able to maintain the new structure in the 2014 list , and this was a mighty fine birding year in all aspects.

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MARCH 17, 2019

In the last ten years I have seen my first phoebe of the year on dates ranging from a 12 March (2017) to a relatively late 31 March (2010). 2017 – 12 March. 2015 – 28 March. And was it late or early? Though it took me until today to see my first migratory phoebe I did see one in Queens in January at Mt. 2019 – 17 March.

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MARCH 30, 2018

The photo up above, by the way, is from October of 2015.). 2017 – 12 March. 2015 – 28 March. Over the last ten years my average first phoebe has been the 22nd of March, meaning that this year’s bird was a full eight days later than average and more than two weeks later than last year’s. 2018 – 30 March.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

David Brito (from Canary Islands, Spain), started operations with our hotel on 14th February 2015 and very fast positioned in Mindo because of our superb infrastructure and top-notch service. December 2017, Ana (his sister), came also to help him manage the hotel and tour operator!

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JANUARY 18, 2018

With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Focused on watching the eagle, I am deaf and blind to anything else, but Kostas warns me of the honking sounds made by Common Cranes , 18 of them in flight, then 7, plus 6 more, 31 cranes in total and my species #399 for 2017! The solution? The Kerkini Lake.

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MARCH 23, 2020

The last ten birds have taken a very long time: when I last asked what I would add to my Queens list it was September 21, 2015 ! So what were the actual ten birds that I added between September of 2015 and two Fridays ago? Not only did I not predict it in 2015 but I never predicted one. That’s long time! 0 out of 1!).

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MARCH 1, 2024

After being ringed my godwit (EY70 137) wasn’t seen again until 1 July 2017, when it was reported from Aldeburgh Town Marshes, not far from where it was first ringed. The first sighting of it after being rung was close to the town of Utena in north-east Lithuania on 11 July 2015.

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MARCH 12, 2019

In 2015, a group submitted a petition to FWS to delist the warbler , relying on a study conducted by Texas A&M University that reported a far larger population and much more appropriate habitat than prior studies. Ultimately, FWS maintained the “endangered” classification, in large part because of continued habitat loss.

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JANUARY 29, 2017

We have done some bush-walking this week around Broome as the weather permits, but still no luck with finding any Snipe species for the 2017 list ! The land is saturated after several tropical storms and attempting to walk around a lagoon this past week became impossible and we just had to resort to wading! Two Jack Snipe at roost.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

In 2015, with my self- published Guide to the Birds of Honduras, I had the intent to simultaneously print it in Spanish. They hope to have a working draft completed by the end of 2017. Good question and kind of hard to swallow. A worthwhile and commendable effort. Sadly, this didn’t happen. But this is about to change.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction. This is a beautifully designed book. The Pieplow titles will help you identify a bird sound.

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JULY 6, 2018

There isn’t much in the way of “official” information about Horus Aged Ales, a brewery founded in 2015 by an ambitious homebrewer named Kyle Harrop, who still works by day as an accountant in the aerospace industry. A close-up of Spring Whitaker’s remarkable can art.

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APRIL 5, 2022

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.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 256

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Both men lead trips for tour company Tropical Birding (Barnes is a founder), and they have also co-authored Wildlife of Madagascar (another WildGuide volume, 2016), Birding Ethiopia (with Christian Boix, 2010) and Wild Rwanda (with Christian Boix, 2015). Princeton University Press, 2017. Princeton University Press, 2017.

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MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. E-bird data up to November 2017 was used to update migrational pattern data and “for locating obscure but locally significant records that otherwise might never have seen the light of day” (p. “Wait!”

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Charlesbridge, 2017; Boardbook edition, 18 pages, 7 x 0.5 PomegranateKids, 2015; Boardbook edition, 24 pages, 7 x 0.8 Baby’s First Book of Birds & Colors. by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes (Author, Illustrator). Grade Level: Preschool and up. ISBN-10: 1580897428; ISBN-13: 978-1580897426. Charley Harper’s Count the Birds.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

This all started way back in 2012 and several of us continued on in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016. The black-headed Gouldian Finches have remained in the same area feeding on the grass seeds with the other finches and were our 75th bird for 2017 and the male Gouldian Finch features in the header photo.

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AUGUST 13, 2017

We had never observed Sarus Cranes until that day in July and they are proudly on the 2017 year list ! The Australian Government removed them from the migratory species list in June 2015. There is a lot of useful information regarding the differences and similarities between Brolga and Sarus Cranes on this website.

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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. Whimbrel, 11 Apr 2011, 15 May 2012, 30 Dec 2013, 20 May 2015. Here’s hoping I’m writing another one of these posts by this time next year…though it will likely be 2017!

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. Gallardo (2015). And, its beautiful illustrations are by a single artist, Dale Dyer–the norm in years past, but a feature that few field guide projects can afford in terms of time and money these days.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

A friend of 10,000 Birds, he talked to Corey about his mission to create this guide in 2012 and wrote about his goal to create a Spanish-language version of the guide in 2017. Guide to the Birds of Honduras was self-published in 2015, text by Gallardo and artwork by John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio, and Ian Griffiths. by Robert J.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

And, Karlson himself has a section on gulls in his 2015 book (co-authored with Dale Rosselet) Bir ding by Impression. I compared the maps to those in the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th edition (2017) and though, yes, most of the ranges remain the same, there are some changes. I don’t know.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

There was a cut-off point at which birds could not be added, which explains why the Temminck’s Stint found by our own Clare and Grant in November 2015, a first for Australia, nor the recently found Nicobar Pigeon are, are not included. ” The result is an organization that is sort of but not always arranged taxonomically.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

This information comes from the January 2017 issue of the HBW Alive Newsletter ; aside from a thank you in the Acknowledgements section, there is little information in the book itself on which of the 27 artists listed on the title page are responsible for which sections.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 122

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DECEMBER 3, 2017

The second sighting of a Grey-headed Lapwing was at Amata in South Australia some years later followed by a third sighting in 2014 in Victoria and then the fourth sighting at Penrith Lakes, Western Sydney, in September 2015. Maybe in the future it will be noticed more often and become a more regular vagrant!

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JANUARY 6, 2019

This all started way back in 2012 and several of us continued on in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016, 2017 and 2018. Well, another New Year crept up on us once again and once again I will commit to listing on the website! Just looking at everyone’s lists over the years you can see how varied our birding lives can be.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2018

This all started way back in 2012 and several of us continued on in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016. Well, another New Year crept up on us once again and once again I will commit to listing on the website! Just looking at everyone’s lists over the years you can see how varied our birding lives can be.

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JULY 30, 2023

When we spent a few weeks in Melbourne in the summer of 2015, which was February, I would often walk to Albert Park. Pair of Black Swans individually marked Black Swan trying to ignore the weather You are still able to report any of your Black Swan sightings to the platform that I mentioned in 2015 and see the history of the Black Swan.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

You may know (although probably not since you’ll likely reside in North America) that a Siberian Rubythroat showed up over the winter 2015/16 in a small village in the Netherlands, an extremely rare and highly sought-after vagrant from Siberia (duh!). The story of this bird is one of defiance and pride rather than rarity.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

December’s collaborative results also summarises the year’s efforts, so this is December 2018 and the rest of 2018 all rolled into one sentence. Last year, Pat was the only beat invited to the awards ceremony and he swept the board. Bell’s Sparrow – Artemisiospiza belli. Antelope Valley–110th St. E at E Ave.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. White-winged Tern – Chlidonias leucopterus. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Whiskered Tern – Chlidonias hybrida. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Common Tern – Sterna hirundo. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Great Crested Tern – Thalasseus bergii. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018.

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Magpie-lark – Grallina cyanoleuca. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Paperbark Flycatcher – Myiagra nana. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Torresian Crow – Corvus orru. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Jacky-winter – Microeca fascinans. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018.

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Stripe-breasted Wren – Cantorchilus thoracicus. El Tapir hummingbird garden. 01 Jan 2018. Bay Wren – Cantorchilus nigricapillus. El Tapir hummingbird garden. 01 Jan 2018. White-breasted Wood-Wren – Henicorhina leucosticta. El Tapir hummingbird garden. 01 Jan 2018. Tawny-faced Gnatwren – Microbates cinereiventris. 01 Jan 2018.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Orchard Oriole – Icterus spurius. Sendero Bogarín. 07 Feb 2018. Hooded Oriole – Icterus cucullatus. Marina Palmira. 02 Jan 2018. Yellow-backed Oriole – Icterus chrysater. PN Montaña Santa Barbara–Sendero Quetzal (parte de la zona de amortiguamiento El Sauce). 06 Jun 2018. Yellow-tailed Oriole – Icterus mesomelas.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Calle Rodriguez above San Isidro. 13 Feb 2016. Green-tailed Towhee – Pipilo chlorurus. Conquista Agraria. 17 Apr 2016. Spotted Towhee – Pipilo maculatus. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. 01 Jan 2016. Eastern Towhee – Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Howerton Rd. 15 Jan 2016. Yellow-thighed Finch – Pselliophorus tibialis. 08 Feb 2016.

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