10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was easy for him to pick despite the fact that he had over 100 species from which to choose. The Whooping Crane is a very special bird and seeing one for the first time is a never-to-be-forgotten experience. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 Birds Experience Experiments 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bushy-crested Jay , one of quote a few fine species he spotted while exploring the area around Copan Ruinas in Honduras. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Honduras 2015 Farming Birds 161

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a species that he only gets to see in winter and usually has to work for, sorting through flocks of Horned Larks. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Between work and shoveling, I had no chance to get out birding.

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2015 Geese Birds Owls 190

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Birding can leave a bitter taste in your mouth if you fixate on certain aspects of the experience. Over the last month, I’ve reacquainted myself with so many species I only see once a year at best, The pleasure those encounters triggered mean so much more than the pain of missing a couple of life birds.

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2015 Birds Experience Experiments 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2015

Corey had quite a few species to choose from this weekend but decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the simple Tree Swallow. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This time, we spotted two shaggy cranes flying across the wetlands. Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 Jamaica New York Birds 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

That means, by logical progression, that in January the trip I am on will experience an actual sighting of a Black Rail ! Sign up if you want the chance to see an enigmatic and charismatic species. … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay level sponsor of the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Sign up for Space Coast !

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Wildlife 2015 Bald Eagle New York City 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

A huge raft of seaducks included numerous Redheads , a species I don’t nearly see often enough. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. My weekend wasn’t as eventful as Russell Wilson’s, but I did locate some open water in the icy Irondequoit Bay Inlet.

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2015 Seattle Birds Experience 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. The White-eared Barbet is another bird species with an annoyingly sensible Latin species name, leucotis (white-eared).

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South Africa Africa Birds 2018 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

But of all the species he spotted he felt either of the two Grasshopper Sparrows at Kissena Park in Queens was his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. After all, the two birds doubled his total number of Grasshopper Sparrow sightings in his home borough!

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New York City 2015 New York Sparrows 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2015

Corey saw 115 species of bird on Saturday alone so he had lots of to choose from in picking his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Mid-May is one of those times of year where everything needs to take a backseat to birding.

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2015 Laws Birds Experience 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2015

This endangered species nests all along the south shore of Long Island and Corey was fortunate enough to see six on Friday morning at Rockaway Beach, including two fluffy youngsters. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2015 United States Endangered Species New York 155

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the four Cave Swallows he saw in Queens, part of an amazing invasion of the northeast by this species after sustained southwest winds for nearly a week. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2015 ALA Birds Experience 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

I wish I could count the uncharacteristically confiding Sunbittern at the Toronto Zoo, but that species continues to elude me in its natural range. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What more could you want for a three-day weekend? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2015 Zoos Birds Canada 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a new bird in New York State for him, a difficult feat when approaching 400 species checked off the checklist. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 New York Birds Florida 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend could have been any of a multitude of species spotted on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

2015 145

2015 Baltimore Jamaica New York 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2015

One of the awesome gull species the folks on the boat spotted? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Fortunately, I had multitudinous murders of American Crows to appreciate; Rochester is reputed to have more crows than people. Should he pick an alcid? Northern Gannets ?

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2015 2012 Birds Experience 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

Coincidentally, this species was Corey’s Best Bird exactly one year ago. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Although he caught unsatisfying glimpses of his first ABA Mourning Warbler , BBOTW honors must go to a bird much better seen, like a sweet Canada Warbler.

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2015 Jamaica Canada Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

In the summer of 2015, that proposal was scheduled for voting in the City Assembly, but was withdrawn before the vote took place. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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Serbia Deer Protection Boars 275

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2015

But I wonder how these trends are impacting every other species on Earth… yes, sometimes I can think of someone besides myself! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Considering how cold the area I live in usually is, this balmy December suits me fine.

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2015 2014 Geese Birds 104

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Black-legged Kittiwake seen from shore in Suffolk County, New York, while on a wild goose chase that did not net nearly enough species of goose. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2015 New York Birds Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The count totaled 119 species, which is historically a very good number. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? 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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Bald Eagle 2015 Nashville Pelicans 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication. Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. Why are these issues?

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 212

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I don’t consider my little garden to be a terribly birdy patch, although years of observation have resulted in my seeing 59 species there (64, if you count the White-throated Swifts , Black and Turkey Vultures, Red-tailed Hawks and Common Ravens that may fly high overhead). Días de precipitación = Days of precipitation. The reason?

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Nashville 2015 Mexico Turkey 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. The first sighting of it after being rung was close to the town of Utena in north-east Lithuania on 11 July 2015. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used.

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Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. The latest press release from the USFWS. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. The accounts cover vagrancy patterns for the family as a whole, reasons for vagrancy, documented examples of vagrancy for specific species and reasons that might account for those incidents.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 259

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. How do they know?

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. It is an intriguing choice of species. New Year’s resolutions from birding friends are starting to trickle in as I write this review.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2016

This is Tom’s second contribution to 10,000 Birds, following the riveting description of his great hummingbird nest heist : The Gray Thrasher , one of the endemic species of the “The Baja,” has become one of my favorite birds to photograph. It was spotted by several birders at the Famosa Slough, on August 2nd of 2015.

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San Diego Seattle Mexico Oregon 104

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. That is, of course, dependent on me finishing a manuscript in a timely way by the end of February which I am well on my way to doing, having completed over one hundred species accounts thus far.

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New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 198

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. The solution? The Kerkini Lake.

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Finally, the Similan Islands are perhaps one of the most beautiful islands in the world and form a stunning backdrop to this species, one of the loveliest pigeons in the world. The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. who knows what 2015 will bring!!! . I also blogged about that dreamy day.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

So close to the pole only a handful of bird species can survive, and even so, death toll is very high, hence their populations must be huge (millions). There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Finally – the Seabirds. As a consequence, the Ross Sea has one of the highest concentrations of seabirds in the world.

Russia 171

Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

But, I did take many photos, and used the book, in spurts during the trip and more closely afterward, to identify three seabird species, two expected (Sooty and Black-vented Shearwaters) and one a surprise. It does not include near-shore, coastal species, like Brown Pelican, Elegant Tern, and Harbor Seal.

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Navarro’s exceptional drawings illustrate the species accounts. Forty-eight species. Compare, for example, the species account illustration of the Cuban Trogon with the photo that opens up the introductory chapter. The luxury of space means that each species can be shown from various angles and in distinctive poses.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 229

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

Alex Martinez Matute, proprietor of El Rancho in El Cajon, Santa Cruz de Yojoa ( eBird hotspot ), might not have taken up birding until 2015 or so, but he’s certainly made up for lost time. Since he first started walking his property, he’s located a slew of species so exciting that birders are starting to turn up at his doorstep.

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Honduras Birds Farming America 137