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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Without any real birding or outdoor activity during what was a gorgeous New York weekend, I still observed plenty of birds. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Did your weekend feature any fall migrants? How about you?

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Migratory months are made for Big Days, Big Sits, and generally Big birding hauls. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

Car trouble shut down my big birding plans this weekend, but my local birds kept me entertained. My most interesting sighting involved a Sharp-shinned Hawk stalking and possibly taking a bird in a neighbor’s yard. Corey enjoyed a great weekend that included plenty of birding on Saturday morning. How about you?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

This was an easy one to decide on as Best Bird of the Weekend, even if the photographic opportunities were not great. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

September has drawn to a close, but the birding excitement may just be getting started, depending on where you live. They must have chased the birds away! Normally, the Dickcissel that Corey found while watching morning flight at Fort Tilden would easily be his Best Bird of the Weekend, especially as he saw two on Saturday morning.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The fact that this hour falls in the middle of the night means that most people sleep right through it, but I wonder what would happen if you observes a nocturnal bird like an owl during the hour that gets reset. I found myself in a beautiful part of New York that was so remote that birds apparently couldn’t find it.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend would have been the Yellow-billed Cuckoo that popped up in front of him at Kissena Corridor Park on Saturday morning but a rarity in Brooklyn takes the cake instead. It was an incredibly easy twitch with the only downer being the bird’s tendency to stay deep in the reeds. How about you?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2018

I will, of course, get over my weather woes and find a way to enjoy the unappreciated pleasures of winter birding. Because I hid out from the cold this weekend as much as possible, my birding was mainly done from my window. There are lots of nice ducks but none are as sexy as Redheads , Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Amazing birds have been flying through Rochester airspace, but a foot problem has kept me out of the field. Corey had a hard decision between an amazingly cooperative pair of Yellow-billed Cuckoos or a stunningly non-secretive Sora for his Best Bird of the Weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend? What a drag!

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NOVEMBER 11, 2018

For example, we’re entering that season where you have to decide if you’d rather be birding or be warm. Corey enjoyed an outstanding morning flight at Fort Tilden on Sunday with a variety of excellent birds. A new bird on Corey’s Queens list will always be his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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AUGUST 19, 2018

Even notice that hot weekends don’t usually make for hot birding? Though I succeeded in resisting the siren song of shorebirds at the lakeshore, I couldn’t help but pay attention to birds everywhere else I went. What was your best bird of the weekend? Interesting, no? How about you?

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Corey saw quite a few birds this weekend including his first Clay-colored Sparrow of the year at Kissena Park and a surprise Blue Grosbeak while leading a walk for New York City Audubon. But his Best Bird of the Weekend was the brightest male Cape May Warbler he had ever seen in fall, one that was not at all a “confusing fall warbler.”

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

This first weekend of September is still in motion for many of us, which makes our review of best birds slightly premature. Keep in mind, though, that birders bird always, not just on Saturday and Sunday. He thinks at one point he heard a Fish Crow , so that must be his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? How about you?

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JANUARY 7, 2018

Your 2018 year lists, whether you tally them or not, have already begun to populate, silently bearing witness to your commitment to bird looking or lack thereof. I enjoyed my first wave of feeder birds for the year, with Tufted Titmouse winning BBOTW honors only because that species appears less frequently than my other local denizens.

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AUGUST 26, 2018

Godwits are awesome and seeing a year bird is always welcome. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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JANUARY 21, 2018

Maybe my perspective is biased, but if you’re feeling left out, you should be making 2018 your Year of the Eagle as well. Of course I saw tons of Bald Eagles chilling on the ice at Irondequoit Bay, but the bird that thrilled me most this weekend was my second Northern Shrike for the year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JANUARY 28, 2018

The first month of 2018 is nearly in the books. Corey had a wonderful weekend of birding, hitting a variety of spots across Queens on Saturday and then leading a New York City Audubon field trip looking for ducks in central Queens on Sunday. It was his first in Queens in two years and easily his Best Bird of the Weekend.

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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. There are actually much nicer photos of the Purple-crested Turaco in another blog post of mine, Birding Mkuze.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Birds of Belize by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. Dale Dyer put in years working on his paintings for Birds of Central America , both in the field and in the museum. Howell utilizes the IOC World Bird List (v.11.2, Why are these issues? © 2023 by Steve N.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Marcelo Arias has 25+ years of experience guiding. In Ecuador, there are 1.600+ species of birds.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Jeff Gordon resigned as president of the American Birding Association, effective November 30, 2021. For example, the financial statements have not been updated since 2018, nor have the annual meeting minutes. Even with the auditor’s warning, it appears the ABA ran annual operating deficits in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

There’s something wonderfully primeval about the Northern Bald Ibis: it has the look of a bird that really ought to be extinct. The fact that it’s not is quite surprising, as this curious bird has come very close to the brink. Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In

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APRIL 15, 2018

Countless flocks of frigid, sodden birds must be wondering whether they took a wrong turn somewhere. Corey had a large variety of birds to choose his Best Bird of the Weekend from this week and had a hard time making his selection. What was your best bird of the weekend? How about you?

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JUNE 10, 2018

Most of us know all too well the bittersweet mood returning from a birding trip evokes. Actually, even those parts of a birding trip can be sweet. These thoughts crossed my mind as I returned from a week of birding bliss as a guest of the Honduras Institute of Tourism. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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APRIL 8, 2018

On my wanderings I picked up quite a few species that were new for my year list but my Best Bird of the Weekend was one that countered cruelty with happiness. Mike, too, chose a bluebird as his Best Bird of the Weekend, though his was a different species seeing as he and his family avoided the cruelty of April by being in California.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But it seems the birds like this habitat, probably as this is a rare more open area on these otherwise mostly heavily forested hills. The monastery is quite large compared to a bird guide (Bella from Alpinebirding on the left-hand side). And compared to birds, for that matter. Please consult your own bird guide for more details.

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JULY 29, 2018

Either way, birders gotta bird, so make the most of whatever the season offers. Though he didn’t find anything particularly noteworthy he did enjoy seeing lots of Stilt Sandpipers which he decided was his Best Bird of the Weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend? How about you?

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JUNE 3, 2018

Actually, I got pretty lucky that the bird called in my vicinity, as better birders than I had worse cuckoo luck that morning. Corey didn’t have a great weekend’s birding but he did enjoy two male Ring-necked Pheasants in the early morning light out in the scrub habitat in the Rockaway Peninsula. How about you?

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JULY 8, 2018

July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species. We may know these birds well, but should we love them? 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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APRIL 1, 2018

Of the several FOY birds encountered this weekend, I was most pleased with American Kestrels , which we spotted on power lines along much of our journey while traveling on Easter. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was going to be Brown-headed Nuthatch , that specialty of the southeastern United States. How about you?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Weekends are much like birds, in that some are more prosaic than others. Were we to ascribe to weekends the taxonomy of birds, our days would likely resemble our lists: for every resplendent songbird or wild raptor would be ten ordinary gulls or pigeons, interesting in their own rights but hardly worth raving about. How about you?

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JUNE 17, 2018

Another Father’s Day, another opportunity for millions of birding dads to invite, entice, or drag their progeny out into the field. Here’s a question for the fathers out there: did you even try to take your kids birding this weekend? That’s the best bird I’ve enjoyed in a while! If so, how did that go?

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APRIL 22, 2018

Such seasonal signifiers include but are not limited to incipient blossoms, modest budding, children in shorts, and possibly even some new birds. Only the awesome rarity and pelican pulchritude of this vagrant could top the other amazing birds at Montezuma right now. Such a tough guy deserves to be Best Bird of the Weekend.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Birding during quiet periods can sometimes feel like you’re trying to make something out of nothing. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was actually a large flock of birds, a horde of Red-winged Blackbirds , his first large flock of them since fall. What was your best bird of the weekend? All we have to do is find it.

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JULY 1, 2018

The compelling contrarian positions put forth during Come@Me Week undoubtedly had many of you questioning your core beliefs about birds, birding, conservation, and even basic biology. Corey did not see much that was too exciting in what little birding he did during a scorcher of a weekend in New York City. How about you?

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MARCH 18, 2018

I had to work all weekend but managed to chase snow birds on Friday morning. Corey didn’t see many birds that were too exciting this weekend but he did really appreciate the bright red male cardinals coming into the Forest Park waterhole. What was your best bird of the weekend? Did you make the most of it? How about you?

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MAY 13, 2018

Between bird blitzes and Mother’s Day brunches, most of us lived very full lives this weekend. Corey had the easiest time ever deciding what bird would be his Best Bird of the Weekend. Corey had the easiest time ever deciding what bird would be his Best Bird of the Weekend. Good thing Monday finally got here!

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