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DECEMBER 29, 2019

With hope, your memories of birding in 2019 will evoke wonder, excitement, and satisfaction for years and decades to come. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a surprise Swamp Sparrow at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve in Nevada. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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The first sharer of 2019 was Clare who narrowly beat Duncan by 5 hours. 03 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 17 Jan 2019. 03 Jan 2019. 17 Jan 2019. 05 Jan 2019. 12 Jan 2019. 12 Jan 2019. 05 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 12 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019.

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JUNE 1, 2019

29 May 2019. 29 May 2019. 29 May 2019. 29 May 2019. 28 May 2019. Spanish Sparrow – Passer hispaniolensis. 28 May 2019. 28 May 2019. 28 May 2019. 28 May 2019. 27 May 2019. 25 May 2019. 25 May 2019. 25 May 2019. 23 May 2019. 23 May 2019.

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APRIL 6, 2019

Whilst the eastern hemisphere still leads the life rankings by 1991 to 1808 , the western hemisphere outbirds by 877 to 705 in the 2019 list and 615 to 385 during March. 03 Jan 2019. 03 Feb 2019. 17 Feb 2019. 08 Feb 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 17 Jan 2019. 03 Jan 2019. 17 Jan 2019. 05 Jan 2019.

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MAY 4, 2019

01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019.

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MARCH 2, 2019

03 Jan 2019. 03 Feb 2019. 17 Feb 2019. 08 Feb 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 17 Jan 2019. 03 Jan 2019. 17 Jan 2019. 05 Jan 2019. 12 Jan 2019. 23 Feb 2019. 12 Jan 2019. 05 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 12 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019.

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APRIL 2, 2019

I like sparrows. I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book. Mexico border.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

One down, fifty-one more to go in 2019! Corey joined our 10,000 Birds Beat Writer Carrie on a twitch upstate to see a Golden-crowned Sparrow , a new state bird for both of them. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (First of 2019) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Things can only get better from here! How about you?

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APRIL 12, 2019

Here’s hoping for more than House Sparrows and starlings! The post Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of April 2019? Many species, of course, have yet to begin their migrations in earnest, but many more who weren’t in your area last week may pop up for the first time this weekend. Be there to greet them!

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MAY 25, 2019

The goal of my partner Marilen and myself was identifying all of them, or, at least as many as possible on May 4th, 2019. On a Big Day, every single bird counts, even a House Sparrow. The post Surpassing 300 Species in Costa Rica on Global Big Day, 2019 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The much desired ground-dove.

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JANUARY 19, 2019

The latter is how I began 2019 in Costa Rica and I am grateful. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus; Santa Barbara, 1-Jan. Orange-billed Sparrow – Arremon aurantiirostris; Carara, 3-Jan. Olive Sparrow – Arremonops rufivirgatus; Carara, 3-Jan. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda; Carara, 3-Jan.

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JULY 19, 2021

Nobody has seen any ever since after Category 5 Hurricane Dorian buffeted the low-lying islands with 200-mph winds for two days in September 2019. Developers cut down pine forests to build resorts, and house sparrows and starlings took over the nuthatches’ nesting cavities. There’s just one problem.

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DECEMBER 25, 2019

This year, on the 21st of December, 2019, Michoacán had its second Christmas Bird Count. But here we are in 2019. One of my biologist colleagues was delighted to see his first American Pipit and, believe it or not, Song Sparrow. One of those Song Sparrows. Photo of the Morelia Cathedral on Christmas Eve, 2019).

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

The route Corey and I took in advance of the 2019 African Birding Expo may not be the only optimal way to go, but this approach yielded an absolute bounty of wildlife excitement in just 48 action-packed hours. What makes this destination so magnificent? Mind boggling, I answer! Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle … wow!!

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It was an odd feeling to be back at the “former lake” which I birded in 2019, before the pandemic. What is now recreated of the lake where the god Apollo was married and where the Argonauts built their kingdom is officially called the Reservoirs of the former Lake Karla. The lake IBA has about 230 so far eBirded species.

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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 largest crane, showing off … Sind Sparrow. Yellow-throated Sparrow. Having a scientific background, I correctly posted part 1 before part 2, which is below. Sarus Crane. Tawny Eagle.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

” And a bit later, a Marsh Wren uncharacteristically did the same: I see Black-necked Stilts every time I go to the lake, so I sometimes forget how fascinating this bird must be for those who cannot easily see it: Quite a bit later, in another site, my first-of-year Vesper Sparrow turned up.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Mabamba Swamp is where Corey and I spotted our first Shoebill in the company of an international delegation attending the 2019 African Bird Expo. Mike and Corey attended the 2019 African Birding Expo in the company of African birding legend Herbert Byaruhanga and a slew of international birding professionals.

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MAY 4, 2021

Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. There are black-and-white drawings by Aaron Hargrove illustrating some of the birds Marybeth writes about– a Red-shouldered Hawk on a wire eating a garter snake, a Grasshopper Sparrow in a chainlink fence, a staring Burrowing Owl inside a drainage pipe, and a few more.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Plop in the middle of the sparrow section I found the Sparrow Nest Quick-Look Chart, a 2-page spread listing sparrow species and columns for nest placement, habitat, and unmarked eggs (an identification characteristic). To be fair, the Sparrow Chart is cited in the sparrow family group write-up, but it could be easily missed.).

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JANUARY 12, 2022

While I can’t convince myself to be excited about my First-Of-Year House Sparrows , almost anything else is exciting. That number was a bit better than my first-day total from 2019, though a bit worse than 2020’s total. I can’t resist loving my first week of birding each year.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” There’s more than one song per warbler? Langmore and Michelle L. Press; May 2021.

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MARCH 23, 2020

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. 319 – Sage Thrasher , 17 May 2019: Finding my own new Queens bird is always exciting and for it to be the first in the state since 1973 was a cherry on top. 4 out of 5!).

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OCTOBER 12, 2019

The next day, she bought a Peterson guide, and studied it, and was able to go outside and put a name to the “little brown blobs” she had seen – House Sparrows! Last but not least, the cover of the album is a beautiful painting by the 2019 American Birding Association Bird of the Year Artist, Megan Massa.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

We are 140 ticks behind our August 2019 figures and 340 behind on the year as a whole. White-eared Ground-Sparrow – Melozone leucotis. Lincoln’s Sparrow – Melospiza lincolnii. Black-striped Sparrow – Arremonops conirostris. Seaside Sparrow – Ammospiza maritima. Any volunteers?

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

They are also involved with a project to learn more about and conserve the endemic Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. The endemic ground-sparrow is actually a cool, colorful towhee. I look forward to more shared birding in 2019, maybe “Team Tyto” will try for a big year… Happy Holidays and Happy Birding in 2019!

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MARCH 18, 2021

While this species is very common in Japan, a few showed up on the Shanghai coast in the winter of 2019/2020. In fact, bulbuls are the work horses of the bird world in many parts of Asia and Africa. “Dissonant, moi?”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Harris’s Sparrows denote dominance by the amount of black on the head, the adult male birds with the most black ranking highest. Princeton University Press, 2019. Because, whether our future winters are warmer or colder, we want to survive them with our birds. Birds in Winter: Surviving the Most Challenging Season.

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JUNE 8, 2019

Other uncommon birds for our 2019 list have included the likes of Marbled Wood-Quail, Spot-bellied Bobwhite, Barred Forest-Falcon, Lattice-tailed Trogon, White-flanked Antwren, Turquoise and Snowy Cotingas, Bare-crowned Antbird, and the endemic Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, and John Kieran.

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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.”

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JULY 5, 2022

Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. Heidi Trudell talks about bird collisions with Nate Swick on the ABA Podcast, June 27, 2019. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. I hoped it was an anomaly. Were they always there and I just never noticed?

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AUGUST 6, 2019

The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling. Cornell Lab Publishing Group, Wundermill Books, March 2019. It’s a very specific illustration. Ruby’s Birds.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Best wishes to you all for 2019, keep safe and keep birding. Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps. Rufous-winged Sparrow – Peucaea carpalis. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Cassin’s Sparrow – Peucaea cassinii. Grasshopper Sparrow – Ammodramus savannarum.

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Hainlin Mill Sparrow Drive. Hainlin Mill Sparrow Drive. Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix griseus. Hainlin Mill Sparrow Drive. Hainlin Mill Sparrow Drive. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Grasshopper Sparrow – Ammodramus savannarum. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

There are newly determined species resulting from a decade of splits: Ridgway’s Rail, Sagebrush and Bell’s Sparrows, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay and California Scrub-Jay, Scripps’s Murrelet, Cassia Crossbill, and Morrelet’s Seedeater. These are the species that immediately come to my mind, and I probably missed some.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cassin’s Sparrow – Peucaea cassinii. Sagebrush Sparrow – Artemisiospiza nevadensis. LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammospiza leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Centronyx bairdii. Henslow’s Sparrow – Centronyx henslowii. Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps.

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