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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of 2019?

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All those dreams you had for your 2019 year list will be, come New Year’s Day, accomplishments you’ll savor for decades or failures that will dog you all of your days. I’m headed down to NYC for some entirely unbirdy family festivities. The post Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of 2019? How about you?

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My Ten Best Birds of 2019

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I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. For fifteen years, ever since I started visiting California as a birder, I’ve been hoping to see a Mountain Plover.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2019)

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Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Ivy and I tracked down her first Wilson’s Snipe this weekend.

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Collaborative list – June 2019

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01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of July 2019)

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Though Corey arrived in Southern California late Friday night, he didn’t get much birding in this weekend other than dipping on a Nazca Booby at Dana Point after delaying his departure to go look for it to accompany his family to the beach. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of July 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Reflecting on a Year of Less Birding

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In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more. Not so much.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. There’s more than one song per warbler? Langmore and Michelle L.