2019 2020 Experience Species 
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2020
That is the state of our 2020 year lists and general birding experience. Some of us have already enjoyed some New Year’s day bio-blitzing, but the first weekend of the year offers so much potential to become reacquainted with the species you haven’t seen since 2019. How about you?
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
The checklist of the Louisiana Ornithological Society was at 485 as of August 2020.) Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2019
I saw 863 species of birds, bringing my life list to 1,820. Such travel brings a lot of birds and the 863 species I saw this year is the most species I have ever seen. How can I narrow down the eight-hundred-sixty-three species to ten? How can I, by listing only ten, call eight-hundred-fifty-three species not worthy?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
I photographed the Black-tailed Godwit in my photograph ( above ) on 18 September 2020. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. In the summer of 2020 it was back at Brancaster Staithe again, with the first record on 23 July. Black-tailed Godwits on the move. Did it then move on to Ireland?
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species). The guide covers 265 of Maine’s 461 bird species: common nesting species, common migrants, and wintering birds.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . Her bird books are Birds by the Shore (previously Notes from the Shore, 1995 and re-issued 2019) and the award-winning The Genius of Birds (2016), which focused on studies of bird cognition. It’s fascinating stuff.
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