2020 Birds Breeders Breeding 
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2020
As we ascend to the height of the season, we become more likely to encounter extreme weather coupled with extremely mundane birding. This is not to say that you won’t find great birds where you are, but only that they will likely be the resident breeders or wintering species you’ve already grown accustomed to.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2020
Though we may not be able to enjoy our normal Memorial Day gatherings one thing is constant whether there is a pandemic, a war, or any other calamity: there are birds. Perhaps for those of us in the northeastern United States the number of birds this weekend has been a bit of a disappoint though. What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2023
It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
It is not particularly big but has a reported 430 bird species including migrants, though during my short stay it seems I missed most of the key attractions among them. It goes like this: While fishing, the bird tucks its head down and uses its wings to create a shady area. Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of technology, development, and globalization, but which still shines bright, fewer in number but brilliant in quality, thanks to birders and birding organizations that believe in knowing your patch and your state.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. Simon & Schuster, February 2020, 336 pages. And, it’s here where that story ends.
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