10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2020
The mixtape covering the year 2019 would be a rather boring affair, including mostly songs by The National, with one or two by Craig Finn and Hold Steady added, as well as Avant Gardener (almost none of which were released in 2019, showing how far behind I am these days). A Chinese Pond Heron in its full breeding plumage glory.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
I photographed the Black-tailed Godwit in my photograph ( above ) on 18 September 2020. Black-tailed godwits winter in large numbers on the estuaries of both Norfolk and Suffolk, and we know that nearly all these birds breed in Iceland. In breeding plumage islandica godwits develop a deeper red plumage than their limosa cousins.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2021
2020 was the worst of years, through and through. I did, however, manage one work trip to Acapulco, back in January, when we thought the wildest thing about 2020 would be the U.S. Indigo/Lazuli/Varied Buntings: As the 2020-2021 winter season began, I began seeing Indigo Buntings everywhere! presidential elections.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2020
So, on April 13th, I chose to go back to the same site I visited on my first outing of 2020, Lake Cuitzeo. Our 2019 summer rainy season had lower-than-normal rains, and the lake is now extremely shallow. But it was the Long-billed Dowitchers who were really rocking their breeding plumage. And there were lots of them!
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. banding station, 2020. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
Species Accounts names and species have been updated to all changes up to the 2019 American Ornithological Society Supplement. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; April 2020. The guide ends with the famous Peterson bird silhouettes. Then again, try explaining to a new birder why falcons come after woodpeckers and before parrots!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!
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