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Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was the coolest turkey he’s ever seen, the Ocellated Turkey of Central America, seen in a wonderful place: Tikal in Guatemala! The attraction of that particular vantage remains unknown. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JUNE 30, 2017

The first weekend of July offers the best of both worlds, at least in North America. Robert Frost once observed that happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. But why choose? If you live outside the U.S., enjoy what is likely a higher standard of health care.

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” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. They’re just like us–they talk with their hands (er, wings) and their feet and some are even crafty!” And, that’s it.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Howell’s A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America , which is absolutely my birder’s Bible for the region, says that Snowy Plovers are fair to uncommon summer breeders in the Lake Cuitzeo area, which they certainly are (breeders, though not uncommon). There is, however, a downside to this phenomenon.

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It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. It is the first bird field guide to every country of Central America (plus the islands governed by those countries).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. A bird by this name won’t be found in older field guides because it was officially split from the Magnificent Hummingbird in 2017. Talamanca Hummingbird. White-crested Coquette. A true gourmand, it requires flowers of the Tea Mangrove to thrive.

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The Rufous-collared Sparrow is apparently a common bird in Central and South America, but in Mexico it only occurs in the southernmost state of Chiapas. But I held on to this photo from 2017 because of the setting in which this Song Sparrow , seen near the Lake Cuitzeo shore, chose to stand.

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3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Illustration for Sophie Webb’s “Why I Love to Draw Birds” © 2017 by Robert A. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield. All rights reserved.

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The survey was commissioned by National Flyway Council (NFC), which implements the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), which, in turn, aims to maintain abundant waterfowl populations in North America. I vaguely recall seeing this survey at the time, but I do not remember whether I completed it, though I believe I did.)

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JUNE 12, 2019

So, in many cases, their survival depends at least as much on the qualities of wetlands in Latin America. In 2017 I made my annual January pilgrimage to get my first Cuitzeo sightings, only to discover that this half of the lake was completely dry. The post Who cares for your ducks in the winter? appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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MARCH 12, 2019

One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas. In 2017, the Texas General Land Office , a state agency charged with maximizing revenue derived from Texas public lands, filed a lawsuit in the U.S.

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He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Yellow-green Vireo: The first of 2020’s “vindication birds” I had “seen” my first Yellow-green Vireo in 2017, when I took some much-better-than-me birders to Paso Ancho, and one pointed out a bird call and some movement in the brush. The Magpie-Jays would check me out while I drank my morning coffee by the pool.

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MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers. Princeton University Press, 2017.

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It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. Don’t worry. There’s a lot in this book to digest and savor, even if you’re not a twitcher. Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell on distribution and identification of vagrants.

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AUGUST 18, 2018

I wonder if birders in North America before European colonization were eager to watch the colors of a singing male Indigo Bunting go from shaded black to shining sapphire blue? From conversations I have had with Tico birders, they would be likewise elated to lay eyes on the fish eagle of North America. Most people still need it.

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MAY 28, 2017

Since they don’t occur in the UK and obviously not in North America, they don’t often make it onto the front page of the bird blogging world and have this aura of unattainability, of being a gap rather than a feature on one’s travel list. Well, they are big. This may sound difficult but it is quite simple.

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JUNE 6, 2017

The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America is divided into three main sections: Introduction, Species Accounts, and Index to Bird Sounds (also called the Visual Index). Chandler S.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In contrast, one of my lifers in 2017 was an Emperor Goose in the Bay Area. A direct flight from Portland is also a plus, as is seeing new parts of America. There’s little better than seeing an American Dipper work a rocky stream in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, a near-perfect combination of bird and location.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

The section is dominated by large portraits of the 180 birds that have been documented by Project FeederWatch as visiting feeders across North America (most of which do not come to my feeders, so reading it made me a little sad and jealous). But, there are things to learn here. by Jim Carpenter. Scott & Nix, Inc., Paperback, 8 x 1.2

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MAY 8, 2017

Any dedicated birder visiting Panama City should first consider the Canopy Tower , one of the most important and beloved birding lodges in the Americas. You can’t escape grackles in the Americas. Once you’ve chosen a destination, deciding where to stay tops the list of critical decisions. Seen at various locations. Crested Oropendola.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Howell and Jon Dunn list “overall size and structure” as the fundamental first step in gull identification in their classic Gulls of the Americas (though they then go on to describe endless variations of plumage patterns). This isn’t a new idea. Species Accounts. Gulls Simplified covers 25 species. Range Maps.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

In Steve Howell’s excellent book A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America , he says this species “Sits still for long periods and [sic] overlooked easily; best detected by voice.” But fear not, the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America does: “Sits still for prolonged periods.”

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AUGUST 20, 2017

North America is aflame with eclipse fever right now, which provides yet another opportunity to wonder what life would be like if the average citizen felt a fraction as much passion for birding as is devoted to countless sports, media, celebrities, fashion, or even the rare astronomical phenomenon.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

October 23 2017: I read the text message confirming that there is indeed a Common Greenshank at Edwin B. The point is, the field guide I grabbed without hesitation was the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition by Jon L. Forsythe NWR. The answer takes one click (after you read this review).

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MARCH 4, 2017

uses the zoogeographical ecozones and denotes North, Central and South America (Nearctic and Neotropical realms) as western and the rest of the world (Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Australasian) as eastern. 13 Jan 2017. 20 Jan 2017. 05 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 08 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South America (1994), Africa (1995), Asia (1996), Europe & Russia (2000) and Central America & the Caribbean (2001). I was always curious, but never had a chance to study any of them.

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and of course visited several bookstores and noted at least five different field guides, including the massive identification guide I reviewed back in 2017, The Australian Bird Guide by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin. I recently visited Australia (Yay!) 2023, ISBN: 9780691245492.

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MAY 16, 2018

Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. That was a quality known to Shakespeare when he had his creation, Hotspur, threaten his King: “I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak / Nothing but ‘Mortimer’.”.

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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. Many birders are familiar with Gallardo’s fundraising initiatives, which included a speaking tour in the U.S., Europe, and Honduras itself. Conclusion.

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She’s also produced books on the Art of British Natural History (2017), Expeditions and Endeavours. She also produced 50 bird plates, including the famous Galapagos finches, for Darwin’s The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. You don’t have to go to the Plates section, though, to start appreciating Elizabeth Gould’s art.

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MARCH 8, 2022

I have also written about things I did not expect, such as whether to rename certain birds , an issue that I was essentially unaware of when I started in 2017. The devastating hurricanes in 2017 led me to write a post about the post-hurricane recovery of birds in Puerto Rico.

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MARCH 8, 2022

I have also written about things I did not expect, such as whether to rename certain birds , an issue that I was essentially unaware of when I started in 2017. The devastating hurricanes in 2017 led me to write a post about the post-hurricane recovery of birds in Puerto Rico.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

One of the highlights of autumn for many birders in eastern North America is the annual release of the Winter Finch Forecast. So, with the current nuthatch irruption taking place, I figured this would be a good time to uncork a bottle of a 2017 Pinot noir from Ken Wright Cellars I picked up over the summer.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

The bald eagle is capable of inhabiting areas throughout North America, so long as a sufficient food source persists. Zinke , 2017 868 F.3d Across the range of the species, there is no “usual” ecological setting, in terms of the elevation, temperature, prey species, nest tree species, or type of water source, for the taxon.

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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!). Marsh Sandpiper , Den Oever, Netherlands.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

In North America, one might immediately be tempted to call these Snow Geese ( Anser caerulescens ). So, an obvious choice for Birds and Booze, no doubt, but with its hefty price-tag – as well as the unexciting prospect of appraising such a neutral, reputedly flavorless liquid – it’s a review we’ve been putting off for a while, admittedly.

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