10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2020

This is my year list for 2020, the list of the bird species identified from January 1st, 2020 to December 31st, 2020. It’s going to be good, it already is, I wish all you other birders out there a fantastic, fulfilling year of birding in 2020! Black-bellied Plover – Pluvialis squatarola; Punta Morales, 10-Jan.

Costa Rica 260

Costa Rica 2020 Morals Farming 260

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FEBRUARY 1, 2020

For 2020, the list will only contain the relevant month’s sightings to avoid huge, bulky posts as the year progresses. These are the opening stats for 2020. 17 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 28 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 10 Jan 2020. 01 Jan 2020. 25 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020.

2020 158

2020 Wildlife Reserve Tigers Wildlife 158

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MARCH 27, 2020

We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. Perch Press (March 24, 2020). The rehabber connection, though, is very real. ISBN: 0578612003.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 255

Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 255

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JANUARY 4, 2020

The sleeping Long-billed Curlew that Mary and I espied at the salt ponds of Punta Morales. These experiences, guiding, and other aspects of birding were gifts, I look forward to 2020. Wishing readers of 10,000 Birds a wonderful 2020! The wintering Orchard Orioles chattering and foraging in the flowering bush out front.

Costa Rica 188

Costa Rica 2019 San Jose Eagles 188

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APRIL 4, 2020

His co-workers, bosses, girl- and boyfriends are all of the type termed “vile bodies” by Evelyn Waugh in his 1930 novel of that title, concerning a different time and place but the same milieu, one of vapid and overindulgent, morally centerless young people. 26, February 11, 2020. Pray God all this ends soon. The Edge.

Los Angeles 155

Los Angeles Birds 2020 Morals 155

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

Oh yeah, and the serious mega of the day was a dang adult Gray-hooded Gull seen at the shorebird hotspot of Punta Morales! A very rare vagrant to Costa Rica from the Humboldt Current, this beautiful gull has been seen in the Osa, on Cocos Island and at Punta Morales on other occasions, including GBD 2019.

Costa Rica 206

Costa Rica 2020 Birds Morals 206

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni. Parque do Ibirapuera. 14 Mar 2016. Panama Flycatcher – Myiarchus panamensis. 24 Apr 2016. Ash-throated Flycatcher – Myiarchus cinerascens. La Paz, Mexico. 23 Apr 2016. Desierto de los Leones. 28 Mar 2016.

2016 154

2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154