10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

This was always a process of solitary exploration; only later did other birders ask me to take them to see the unusual species I had found. Found all sorts of wonderful species. And here we are, in 2020, being told to shun human contact as much as possible. Wander into a bit of abandoned second-growth forest.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2021

January is the month where I allow myself to go only to my very best sites, and rejoice in even the most commonplace species. I correctly suspected that Lake Cuitzeo would be too dry this year to give me its usual 75+ species in the deep of winter. (It It yielded 88 on January 1st, 2020.) Ten of these were hummingbird species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

In most years, that wouldn’t be all that special — the lake is normally where I can see the most species in a single day, so I usually go there first. These photos exaggerate the size difference between the two species, which is actually so minimal as to be almost useless for ID purposes.). Was it practicing?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. Lovette (2020). Jonas D’Abronzo. Billerman, and I.J.

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