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AUGUST 25, 2019

My extended family from The Bronx visited us this weekend for some upstate festivities. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of August 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The end of August keeps most of us in the Northern Hemisphere busy, what with the impending end of summer and all that.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Corey finished up his family trip to Costa Rica on Saturday and his Best Bird of the Weekend should be a Pacific Screech-Owl outside of his hotel on Friday night, a lifer! The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of August 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JULY 28, 2019

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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APRIL 19, 2019

Corey will be enjoying sunshine and hopefully the one endemic species to be found on Barbados as he enjoys a short vacation with his family. The post Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of April 2019? How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I haven’t always acted in accordance with this philosophy, but those avian observation excursions undertaken with friends or family loom larger in mind than the ones I took alone. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of September 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JUNE 16, 2019

I fell into the latter camp, with cold rain dashing my family’s Father’s Day hike and any interest I had in leaving the house. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Unfortunately, without sunshine and high temps, this time of year becomes a bit of a bore.

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JANUARY 20, 2019

I’ve been chasing a family of Trumpeter Swans from one patch of open water to the next. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. But no matter what infernal heat, abyssal chill, or thunderous precipitation blasts a place, birds still endure and often thrive.

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JUNE 23, 2019

If, on the other hand, you managed to eke out a bird of interest this weekend, tell us all about it… I brought the family to Chimney Bluffs State Park, a magnificent slice of New York currently suffering from extremely high levels on Lake Ontario. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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MARCH 19, 2021

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many birders couldn’t help but notice the coincidental similarity between that abbreviation and name of one of the most familiar of all passerine families – Corvidae.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

This northern fox really does look red, unlike the pale, sandy-coloured animals I saw in Georgia in 2019 ( below ). A Suffolk Otter swimming in the Little Ouse river Not all Otter s want to be photographed But this one emerged, though only briefly The otter is, of course, a member of the weasel family.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. 130 mature individuals, in 2019 (Monge et al. 2010; Macaw Recovery Network 2019).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Wildlife Explorers is a newly established travel company, founded in September 2019, which deals exclusively with the service of wildlife photographers. Wildlife Explorers, amongst the numerous trips organized every year, has incorporated some that are designed for both the photographers and their families.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2019, we received the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence which accounts for the quality, quantity and recency of reviews submitted by travelers on Trip Advisor over a 12-month period. With Mercedes, you will be treated like family, and guaranteed to have the trip of a lifetime!

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MARCH 12, 2021

Besides the few warblers depicted in the mix of songbirds featured on Safe Flight IPA by the Kings County Brewers Collective we sampled in October 2019, I think this is only the second time we’ve seen a warbler here at Birds and Booze, a surprising situation given how popular this family is with North American birders.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

In April of 2019 I went to Paso Ancho with Gerardo, another biologist friend from our birders’ chat, and was astonished to stumble across an almost-mature male Red-breasted Chat. They were also believed to be part of the Wood Warbler family. As much as I enjoy the Yellow-breasted Chat — and believe me, I do!

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Shorebirds – or “shorbs” for the cuteness factor (as if that needed any enhancement) – remain one of the most fascinating families of birds for me. I had the good fortune to visit Lake Nakuru in Kenya in 2019, one of the high elevation rift valley soda lakes. There is still so much to learn!

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MARCH 11, 2024

This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. No doubt, the Lesser NLT will be relieved not to be bossed around by its erstwhile bigger family member anymore.

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MARCH 29, 2020

On Boxing Day, when we found the first Gang-gang Cockatoos for our 2019 bird list, we encountered an Echidna. Once again this week I would like to wish you and your families and friends all good health. Echidna from above. It was not concerned about us, because we kept our distance and let it wander into the bush.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For oceanic birds he uses the taxonomy that he and Kirk Zufelt developed in Oceanic Birds of the World: A Photo Guide (PUP, 2019). Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. This is particularly helpful for bird families that might be new to birders.

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JULY 13, 2023

It got worse and worse as time went on, especially bad after in 2019 we got my second dog lily. I’ve been dealing with him being especially bad as a brother and animal owner since 2019, when he became physically and mentally abusive and it really started to show.

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MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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JULY 9, 2020

As I simply saw too many interesting birds during my short Delhi birding trip in 2019, I decided to cover the trip in two separate posts. The Robert Smith of the lapwing family. Having a scientific background, I correctly posted part 1 before part 2, which is below. Kind of a Nazi in the bird world, I guess. Red-wattled Lapwing.

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

I am determined to instill the same love for the natural landscape in my friends and family, especially any new, tiny members. Daily birding in my own hometown added to the joy of seeing common species in uncommon circumstances, like a Bald Eagle perched on a Destin sand dune. Not so much.

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AUGUST 11, 2019

We have observed the first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2019 over the past two weeks grow steadily. Over the two weeks since I first introduced you to this family of Pied Oystercatchers there has been a lot of walking. Pied Oystercatcher family. You can also see that the legs of the chicks are almost as wide as the adults!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. It’s a unique title; twitchers and naturalists interested in migration will find it fascinating reading and valuable for future reference.

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MARCH 23, 2020

Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. 318 – Burrowing Owl , 16 May 2019: An unbelievable find and a thrilling chase, this bird at Big Egg Marsh was as as astonishing as it was unpredicted. Sooty Shearwater – Ditto.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden. My schedule was not too full, so there was lots of free time to check out the local fauna.

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MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. Species Accounts names and species have been updated to all changes up to the 2019 American Ornithological Society Supplement. The guide ends with the famous Peterson bird silhouettes.

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MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp. by Marybeth Lima.

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

Two new birds for 2019 just like that! All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! It was a beautiful male bird and we then realised there were female birds on the other side of the wide trail that he was communicating with. It was a beautiful day and there is a camping ground right on the foreshore.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Photo by © Mike Blevins. Denver, Colorado. Measure 2A Parks and Open Space – Healthy Parks and Rivers for Everyone. – Operating and maintaining any related additional acquisitions and capitals improvements”.

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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.” This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As far as we can tell, his naughty language hasn’t caught on with other ducks in Australia – and that’s a good thing for the producer of this week’s featured wine, the 2019 Teal Lake Shiraz. Suffice to say, their 2019 Teal Lake Shiraz is a far cry from your bubbe’s Manischewitz. Teal Lake Shiraz (2019).

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles, Biology Letters , publishe April 03, 2019, [link].

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JUNE 8, 2019

Snowcap and White-tipped Sicklebill – Choice hummingbirds in a speciose, fantastic family of birds. We also saw a Ruddy-Quail-Dove at Carara National Park on Global Big Day, a quail-dove sweep will require four more species of these shy terrestrial doves.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior. Rocky Nook, 2019 (eBook December 2018; paperback March 2019). by Marie Read. Paperback: 340 pages; 10 x 8 inches.

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