10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2020

This was the month we (in the northern hemisphere) had all been waiting for, but what a strange month May 2020 has been. Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). The post Collaborative List – May 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Montagu’s Harrier (Circus pygargus).

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2020 Sparrows Niger Woodpeckers 154

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JANUARY 2, 2021

The idea being that putting December and the 2020 year review in the same post may prove to be listing overload for some. This year you get two listy posts for the price of one. You lucky, lucky birders! So this is the list for the complete year and the December list can be seen here.

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2020 Sparrows Woodpeckers Ducks 230

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

70 Greater Spotted Eagle – Clanga clanga. 71 White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. 312 Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. 70 Greater Spotted Eagle – Clanga clanga. 71 White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. 312 Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus.

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2020 Sparrows Woodpeckers Blackbirds 183

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MAY 2, 2020

White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). The post Collaborative list – April 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus). Eurasian Marsh-Harrier (Circus aeruginosus). Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus). Red Kite (Milvus milvus). Gray Hawk (Buteo plagiatus).

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2020 Woodpeckers Sparrows Blackbirds 156

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

Other misses included some of the more difficult birds in Costa Rica, species such as Tawny-faced Quail, Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle, Great Jacamar, Strong-billed Woodcreeper, and Sulphur-rumped Tanager. The post Highlights from Costa Rica, Global Bird Weekend, 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Costa Rica 2020 Birds Morals 220

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JANUARY 2, 2021

If you wish to see a full list for 2020, you can find it here. . December’s beats found 609 birds after submitting 116 checklists from 8 countries (USA, UK, Costa Rica, China, Mexico, Serbia and Australia). The year list ends on a provisional 1803 species from 1608 checklists submitted by 12 beats from 16 countries.

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2020 Sparrows Woodpeckers Parrots 237

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. The post Collaborative List – July 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Chinese Sparrowhawk – Accipiter soloensis. Eurasian Sparrowhawk – Accipiter nisus. Cooper’s Hawk – Accipiter cooperii.

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2020 Sparrows Blackbirds Woodpeckers 157

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JULY 4, 2020

118 Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. 118 Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. The post Collaborative list – June 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The year list stands at 1514 with the life list standing still at 4009. 1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis.

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2020 Costa Rica Blackbirds Sparrows 162

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. The post Collaborative list – August 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Pied-billed Grebe – Podilymbus podiceps. Wilson’s Snipe – Gallinago delicata. American Bittern – Botaurus lentiginosus.

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2020 Sparrows Woodpeckers Blackbirds 151

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JANUARY 4, 2020

Three days, three hawk-eagles. During a memorable guiding trip in June, we hit the jackpot with all three species of hawk-eagles in just a few days. The Ornate Hawk-Eagle was noticed at the last minute on our drive towards San Jose through the dense rainforests of Braulio Carrillo National Park. An Ornate from another day.

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Costa Rica 2019 San Jose Eagles 203

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MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. Have you had rehab experiences with eagles? I’ve only handled a couple of eagles, and they were awesome birds!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 267

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Other important breeding species include Black and White Stork , Lesser Spotted , White-tailed , and Booted Eagle. Overwintering raptors include Greater Spotted , Golden , and Imperial Eagles. In 2020, due to Covid19, your presence was missing. 140 birds). Greater Flamingos stay at the lake in their thousands.

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Greece Wildlife Boars Otters 264

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JUNE 17, 2021

White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. Last March (2020), only a few days before the famous virus has reached Serbia, the Ministry of Construction and Traffic stated: “No, we gave up on the Beljarica locality, the harbour will be built somewhere farther upstream.” It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1

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Serbia Protection Deer Boars 278

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JULY 7, 2020

copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. If you want to learn more about avian visual field, the essay cites two related essays in the book on Eagles and Meadowlarks (though there is a typo–it should be p.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

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NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The structure of wings is addressed in Chapter 8, “Feathers and Flight.” Among their other uses, wings are also employed for balance during copulation, a not unimportant or inconsequential usage, as the male Bald Eagle ably demonstrates in the photo, above right. September 1, 2020. Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior.

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Bald Eagle Puffins 2001 Boston 264

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JANUARY 2, 2021

2020, one of the more memorable and infamous tear years of our lives, is finally done. Since I was fortunate to see lots of birds in 2020, I can’t go wrong with seeing more in 2021. This is what a distant Black Hawk-Eagle looks like. See More Birds. The more birds the better and there’s a lot to see in Costa Rica!

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Costa Rica Liberia 2020 Birds 229

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JULY 8, 2022

The red, white, and blue label features a glowering Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) – the national bird of the United States – pulling apart its red shirt to bare a heavily muscled chest that’s emblazoned with the word “MERICA”. Unfortunately, Collective Brewing Project closed for good in 2020 and this beer is discontinued.

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Collecting Belgium Bald Eagle Texas 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall coniferous tree across Boothbay Harbor, having arrived at the harbor area seven minutes earlier (I know! ” Steller’s Sea-Eagle, Boothbay Harbor, January 24, 2022 Copyright © 2022 Donna L. It has wings. It can fly.”

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 263

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Continuing along the rail trail I soon add a Wedge-tailed Eagle , Spotted Dove , Striated Thornbills , Varied Sittellas , Eastern Spinebill and Grey Shrike-thrush. Two Australian Magpies had discovered a Wedge-tailed Eagle roosting at the top of a very tall tree. Wedge-tailed Eagle. Two Cattle Egrets with four cows!

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Buffalo Fish Koalas Cattle 166

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. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. It would be nice to be there now.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

This 2020 Thanksgiving was one of the best because not only did we enjoy turkey with all the expected sides, we also enjoyed dinner at one of Costa Rica’s few true classic birding lodges, Rancho Naturalista. A soaring Black Hawk-Eagle. They have been keeping track of its whereabouts and knew just where it would likely show up.

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Costa Rica Turkey Iceland Eagles 244

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

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. So cheers to 2020, and more birding adventures! Not so much. It’s not about the birds you’ve missed, it’s about the birds you have yet to see.

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Bald Eagle Alabama Kansas Florida 153

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2021

If you look at this header photo and then the header photo of our first camping trip in 2020 you will notice it is somewhat similar. The pair of White-bellied Sea-Eagles had positioned themselves on the old telegraph pole that used to carry the line across the Fitzroy River many years ago. Pair of White-bellied Sea-Eagles.

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Eagles Falcons Eggs Zebras 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2021

As shown by the photo, below, of McMullan and Merlin, his Eurasian Eagle Owl friend, McMullan is a rough-hewn 6’4” foot bear of a man; he describes himself as resembling a character from the World Wrestling Federation. Pathfinder UK, 2020, 220 pp., More Birds Than Bullets: My Life With Birds. By Geoffrey McMullan. UK, $18.99

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Fox Kuwait Bosnia Afghanistan 186

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

Similar to 2020, more than 32,000 people participated, 78,000 checklists were submitted, and more than 7,200 bird species were identified. Another October Big Day has come and gone and thus made its way into the sacred birding archives. Nothing like getting as many people to bird at the same time as possible and see what they find!

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Costa Rica Species 2020 Falcons 262

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JULY 4, 2023

Their common names reflect their size, appearance, residence, and sometimes their sound, ranging from the simple to the eponymous: Little Owl, Powerful Owl, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Cloud-Forest Pygmy-Owl, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Morepork, Christmas Island Boobook, Blakiston’s Fish-Owl. Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In early November 2020, there were 15 countries with more than 1000 species eBirded so far. The area is known for more than 600 bird species, of which 472 were eBirded by now: Cinereous Vulture , Pallas’s and Lesser Fish Eagles , Ibisbill , Wallcreeper , etc. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard.

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Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 276

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 193

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JUNE 1, 2021

It does seem like the order is concurrent with the 61st Supplement, which came out in 2020, but Northwestern Crow is included as a full species. Bald Eagle, for example, is still said to be “formerly more widespread” though the range map shows expansion. The text, however, is sometimes at odds with the maps.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

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JANUARY 5, 2020

Driving through dairy country we soon added Australian Wood Duck , Pacific Black Duck , Grey Teal , Grey Fantail , Wedge-tailed Eagle , Laughing Kookaburra , Eastern Rosella and Superb Fairy-wren to the 2020 Year List.

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Fish Australia Ducks Japan 139

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

And of course, two raptors that are a part of North American birding history: the Great Black Hawk of Portland and the Steller’s Sea-eagle of Boothbay Harbor and other local areas. ( So, expect to find warblers before sparrows if you are browsing.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

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JANUARY 4, 2020

A big thank you goes out to The Management and beats for their contributions and may you all have a happy and productive 2020. Black-chested Snake-Eagle – Circaetus pectoralis. Banded Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinerascens. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus.

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2019 Chile Texas Sanctuary 179

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Black-breasted Snake-Eagle – Circaetus pectoralis. Brown Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinereus. Changeable Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus limnaeetus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. 15 Feb 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle – Hieraaetus ayresii. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus. 16 Jun 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 101

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle – Hieraaetus ayresii. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus. 16 Jun 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle – Hieraaetus ayresii. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus. 16 Jun 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Brown Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinereus. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Kruger NP Central Park.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113