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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. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa.
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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. Perhaps one of my reasons for going to the lake was that it guarantees more species in one day than any of my other sites. And, just maybe, to find some surprise species passing through on their way north.
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
A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.
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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