10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. At home, I may find a new bird, perhaps two, but four? The solution?

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

The species is only in the north of Australia and they are often found in locations that are hard to get to year round. We have been able to observe Purple-crowned Fairy-wrens in a few locations across the north of Australia and they were quite easy to see in the car-park at Big Horse Creek in 2017. Female Purple-crowned Fairy-wren.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. Where once there were 13 species of “Darwin’s finches,” there are now 17. I wish I had read this book.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Corey had a host of birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Weekend seeing as he did a big day on Saturday that netted 123 species. 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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2017 Jamaica Birds Experience 124

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AUGUST 13, 2017

For example, I saw all kinds of special species this weekend, but nothing impressed me more than displays of the tyranny of tiny birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But any time of year is the right time to pay attention to uncommon avian behavior, even from common birds.

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AUGUST 27, 2017

Not because he saw lots of really rare or unexpected species but because he saw quite a few common birds and sometimes it’s difficult to decide which of the common species to choose from the flock. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

My weekend was rather prosaic from a birding perspective, but I took time to appreciate some local Mourning Doves , distinctive not just for their early sunrise plumage but for their species success; I found these doves as plentiful in lush Caribbean forests as they are in Rochester’s inclement winterscape.

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Austria 2017 Birds Experience 104

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2017

It could have been any of those from among the over 100 species that crossed Corey’s path this weekend but of them all he chose the singing Henslow’s Sparrow at the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge as this state-threatened species is hard to see and it gave Corey the best looks he ever had of the species.

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2017 Louisiana Birds Breeding 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2017

Rochester is still wintry, but bird activity among the common species has picked up quite a bit. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Your first weekend of spring or fall may have been uneventful in terms of birds, but pace yourself. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2017

I was excited to bring my daughter Ivy to see her first Sandhill Cranes , a rare but abiding species for Monroe County, NY. Sure, it’s an introduced species, but seeing a female pheasant so well is a treat! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

A late Nashville Warbler , an Orange-crowned Warbler , and a bunch of dabbling ducks were some of his top species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey saw some decent birds this weekend but nothing that really astounded. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The juvenile bird was hanging out in the sand between the boardwalk and the dune scrub, an unusual location for the species that probably only happened because young birds, like teenagers, often make bad decisions. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs). Broadly speaking, they were not.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Corey spent all day Saturday in one spot watching birds during the Queens County Bird Club’s Fourth Annual Big Sit and any one of the 74 species they spotted could be his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Plus, I saw a Common Yellowthroat there.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

His explorations netted him several species that are lingering longer than usual, like Glossy Ibis , Lesser Yellowlegs , and Snowy Egret , a rare duck in a drake Eurasian Wigeon , and, best of all, his first Hudsonian Godwit of the year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2017

His Best Bird of the Weekend was the only wood-warbler species he spotted all weekend, the Butterbutt, better known as the Yellow-rumped Warbler , of which he spotted quite a few, but none that he enjoyed so much as the flock he found along the Hudson River in early morning light, one of which is pictured above.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Despite having a distant Black-legged Kittiwake , a flyover Eastern Meadowlark , and a couple of American Pipits , Corey chose a much more commonly seen species as his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Corey spent all day on Saturday blitzing across Queens with Carrie Laben and it was a wildly successful day with 87 species spotted including a Great Horned Owl that seemed not to know that owls are supposed to be hidden away during the day, fifteen Wilson’s Snipe (a new high count for Queens), and a Piping Plover.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

The third weekend in April, when we birders in the northeastern United States start to go stir crazy, convinced that the wood-warblers should all be back by now and lamenting the species that we have not yet seen. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2017

If you haven’t yet embraced the theory or practice of birthday birds, I recommend that, next time your special day rolls around, you make it a point to pursue a seasonally appropriate species you don’t regularly see. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Los Angeles 2017 Coyotes Birds 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You may remember back in 2017 when Nate participated in this trip or maybe you followed along in 2018 as the Birdchick dazzled us with her experiences there. Uganda boasts a checklist of well over one thousand species of birds and host of mammals, reptiles, and interesting insects.

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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? I do wish there was more about research on female bird song.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

Don’t think we’ve noticed that most of you don’t play along with this game of sharing the best–meaning the coolest, rarest, fanciest, or dearest–bird species you’ve spotted in a given weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2016 2017 New York Birds 100

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MARCH 14, 2022

Birdlife South Africa has previously done two of these types of trips before, previously called Flock to Sea – Namibia in 2013 and Flock to Nowhere in 2017, in partnership with MSC Cruises. Marion has a fascinating history with invasive species. It is an extremely popular fundraising project with an almost cult-like following.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

I had an amazing birding year in 2017 with tons of travel , lots of amazing birds , and some truly memorable experiences. I will add at least three new species to my Queens list. This will be very difficult as I have added a total of three species to the list in the last two years. Tune in all year to find out!

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MARCH 1, 2024

They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. 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. Whether it has been seen again I don’t know, but I found its history fascinating.

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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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

But does the value of a particular trip come from the number of birds seen, viewing a particular species, seeing an endangered species, catching a glimpse of a rarity, adding a lifer, or something else? How much do birders value a birding experience? This includes bird-watching experiences.

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10,000 Birds

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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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 183

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JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. There is also a major section on 180 bird species that is 123 pages long, about 1/3 of the book. The latter appear to be suburban apartments.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 175

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MAY 4, 2017

” Kricher delineates the many types of bird families and species you are likely to encounter in the Neotropics, emphasizing habitat and behavior (especially feeding behavior, and particularly fruit eaters; fruit is an important element when it comes to tropical ecology). This is where fruit comes into play. Oilbirds eat fruit.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

I will also give you the link here for 2017 in case you are reading this next year or want to plan a trip for next year! From our experience the greatest risk is when the shorebirds take off in a panic flight and clip each other’s wings and several fall into the sea.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

The book covers 77 species; 105 taxa (species and subspecies): 45 Birds of Paradise species, 4 species formerly classified as Birds of Paradise (Satinbirds and MacGregor’s Honeyeater), and 28 Bowerbird species.* Introduction. It is, he says, “probably the most extreme examples of sexual dimorphism” (p.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. As the BTO notes, wild vagrants are usually found mixed in with Brent and Barnacle – both typical carrier species.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

The food was better than decent, which exceeds our experience of Panamanian cuisine at most other locations. In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site. Despite the golf course, this place host all manner of birds and mammals. Summit Ponds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

It’s a unique bird, even its scientific name is wonderful, so it’s not surprising that Gerard Gorman, Woodpecker Expert Supreme, has written a book all about the species. I was surprised to learn that there are two Wryneck species in the Jynx genus: Eurasian Wryneck, Jynx torquilla, and Red-throated Wryneck, Jynx ruficollis.

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