10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., I’m not quite sure where I was at the time, probably working, and it was six more years till I got my state Henslow’s Sparrow at Shawangunk NWR (a shorter drive and a more cooperative bird). a rural area in the eastern-central part of the state.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” The checklist of the Louisiana Ornithological Society was at 485 as of August 2020.) Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ” I wondered.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
There was the Botteri’s Sparrow giving a larger Canyon Towhee a piece of its mind, on my way into town: The reservoir itself was underwhelming, only offering me a collection of white Egrets (Cattle, Snowy and Great) and a single Great Blue Heron. This was my fourth and final FOY bird for the day. Brown-backed Solitaire.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2022
While I can’t convince myself to be excited about my First-Of-Year House Sparrows , almost anything else is exciting. We had a nice collection of birds of prey for the day. That number was a bit better than my first-day total from 2019, though a bit worse than 2020’s total. There weren’t any Red-tailed Hawks.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2021
This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. Martell (2020). Poulin, R.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2018
Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. Donna was first amongst beats to reach North Dakota and brought the number of Lower 48s to 32, adding Sharp-tailed Grouse , Sprague’s Pipit and LeConte’s Sparrow to the life list. And so to summer.
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