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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Nonetheless, November can really cook when the birding conditions are just right. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of November 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. This month doesn’t really resemble the migratory months or the more staid and settled spans of summer and winter.

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APRIL 30, 2020

In fact, if I were to leave China right now, they would not let me back into the country. The post Nanhui, Shanghai in early spring 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Winter is not the greatest time for birding in Shanghai, and this year, there was no escaping to Southeast Asia due to Covid-19.

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JULY 19, 2020

When bird activity flags, we can focus our bins and scopes on various other flora and fauna, as well as celestial bodies under the right conditions. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of July 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Did anyone get a good look at Comet NEOWISE this weekend?

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APRIL 24, 2020

Keep your eyes open, because new species may be showing up right outside your window. The post Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of April 2020? If you have, please take a moment to appreciate another global phenomenon currently moving untold millions of individuals across the world: zugunruhe. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JUNE 7, 2020

Around midnight, I heard the most emphatic grunting right outside my window–unexpected because I was on the second floor. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (First of June 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we? Saturday night, a surprise found me.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Sounds fun, right? The post Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of February 2020? Have you started your Leap Day List yet? What could be more challenging that growing a list you can only work on every four years at nearly the nadir of avian seasonal diversity. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

As uncertain as the future may be, I’m sure we’re all ready to bid farewell to the year 2020. I never did get around to writing that post until today, and I lost track of those notes long ago, but none of that matters now: it was exactly the right beer for a perfect moment and that’s how I remember it.

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JULY 19, 2020

In the header photo the Pied Oystercatcher chick is only just to the right of the adult. The post The first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The Pied Oystercatchers hide the chicks in the thick vegetation once they leave the nest site. This offers a lot more protection than the exposed nest site.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

And while we were all hoping 2021 would be better than 2020 it seems like we have to hope that 2022 manages to improve on the previous two years. It can’t be worse, right? Here’s hoping it was something memorable, awesome, exciting, or some other positive adjective. At least I hope it wasn’t a pigeon!

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JANUARY 1, 2021

This year, 2021, has to be better than the dumpster fire that was 2020, right? What was your first bird of the year? Hopefully it will start off a year with vaccines for all and a beginning of a return to normalcy. Happy New Year to you from the 10,000 Birds crew! May your year be filled with lifers! appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Now, I am holding the 5th edition (2020) in my hands – what has changed in the meantime, especially in the 9 years since the 4th edition? Beside the paperback, the Sasol app has also been updated in 2020 and is a massive improvement on the previous edition. In the upper right corner of every species entry is a pencil.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The fully fledged Pied Oystercatcher chick is the bird on the right. We are very pleased that at least one Pied Oystercatcher chick has survived this year when there has not been much good news for 2020. On a rising tide the Pied Oystercatcher family soon found a good position to watch and wait until the reef was exposed once again.

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MARCH 1, 2024

I photographed the Black-tailed Godwit in my photograph ( above ) on 18 September 2020. With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. In the summer of 2020 it was back at Brancaster Staithe again, with the first record on 23 July.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

But in 2020 I personally saw thousands of Waxwings in a dozen or so sites, and every one of my birder friends across the country had a similar experience. Other than that, there are exactly three eBird registries for the highlands of my state, and points north, before 2020 — two that I trust completely, and one which I doubt.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2020

It’s an adaptive necessity to challenge a perceived invader right now – it takes only seconds for most birds to mate, so a territory holder, like this one, below left, can’t allow another male to linger: But phenotype and extended phenotype (physical appearance and behavior) – are inextricably bound, and much of Kricher’s book addresses the former.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

My friend was right. As I pointed out at the beginning of the pandemic, this can be a very valuable skill right now. But they are still too populated for my 2020 tastes. Last week I wrote about my first experience with a new site that a friend thought looked promising when he saw it on Google Maps.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

I recently revisited those posts and I think the arguments hold up, but one seems more significant in 2020. Expanding the ABA Area would be a step in the right direction. Virgin Islands , focusing on the arguments that had been successfully made for the inclusion of Hawaii. Those posts generated a spirited discussion on Facebook.

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JUNE 16, 2021

In 2020, our Birdathon efforts came in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, when lockdowns and restrictions remained common. It is super fun – a way to get out there and bird with friends and co-workers. Though this was my second year, it was truly the first time I participated in a “normal” Birdathon.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

With things being what they are in 2020, there’s been no shortage of pundits on cable news and social media, there to proffer opinions on politics, the pandemic, and other pressing topics of our age on the 24-hour news cycle.

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JUNE 17, 2021

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.” Golden Jackals in Beljarica. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I’m not sure what they think of 2020’s low water levels, but they looked happy! Birding on Lake Cuitzeo is a real challenge right now, because what little water has gathered in the center of the lake is surrounded by extensive mud flats. That’s a lot of Northern Shovelers. I came south early, just to pose for you.

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MAY 25, 2020

Of course, nothing is typical about 2020. Then I got lucky: a handful of Glossy Ibises had recently taken up residence at the lake, and they – along with a Wood Stork – walked right by my yard. Typically, team members fan out across their region, counting as many species as they possibly can from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. “Nothing is more humbling,” he sighs, “than spending a few hours in a boat or on a riverbank, unsuccessfully trying to catch a fish, and then seeing an Osprey dive and catch one right in front of you” (p. by 1 by 7.5

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MAY 17, 2020

Kroodsma waited for years for the right opportunity to record its different songs, a “cascade of sweet and liquid notes,” one naturalist said, “like the spray of a waterfall and sunshine.”. 27, March 10, 2020. Like he does, say, for the Canyon wren. To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? It’s a good life!

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

Birding even close to home didn’t even appeal to me, as the extra movement added to the dry heaves (pregnancy is super fun, am I right ladies?). So cheers to 2020, and more birding adventures! It’s not about the birds you’ve missed, it’s about the birds you have yet to see.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2020

However, a birder can also stay right at the house and see birds all day long. Good birding in 2020! The road to Raptor Ridge passes through quite a bit of tropical dry forest and second growth before accessing even more intact mature forest at and near the house. Gartered Trogon.

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MAY 2, 2023

banding station, 2020. And she is very conscious of the ethics involved in the scientific processes she describes, even interviewing an ethics specialist on whether we should be burdening tiny birds with our scientific apparatus. Warblers caught in mist nets and placed in net bags, waiting, some impatiently, to be weighed and banded.

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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. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2020

So, on April 13th, I chose to go back to the same site I visited on my first outing of 2020, Lake Cuitzeo. The slightly more numerous Snowy Plovers , however, will stay right here; Lago de Cuitzeo is one of the few places where this species breeds in central Mexico. But this Plover is a Snowy, and will stay right here.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Yale University Press, New Haven and London, May 19, 2020. Photos in the body of the review, above, by David Tipling.] Flights of Passage: An illustrated natural history of bird migration. By Mike Unwin and David Tipling. 9 ¼ x 11 3/8, $40. ISBN 9780300247442. The post Flights of Passage: a book review appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

It was a beautiful day and there is a camping ground right on the foreshore. All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! Two new birds for 2019 just like that! We drove down the windy road to the Walkerville North car-park to take a walk along the beach. Gang-gang Cockatoos !

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JULY 26, 2020

Following on from the sad loss of our first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020 the other eggs are now also hatching. Although the following photo does not show the full features of the adult I do like it, because both chicks had their right feet up at the same time! Pied Oystercatcher chicks with right feet up!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I drove out a bit late because of an almost-flat tire that needed attention, and then managed to drive right past the reservoir without seeing it. While not my quite my first sighting of an Olive-sided Flycatcher for 2020, this difficult species is always a welcome find as it makes it way through Mexico to reach Central and South America.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Her first birding book, When Birds are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers (2020), is a smartly curated collection of essays from new and experienced writers. I felt like an explorer who had landed on a distant continent, or more rightly a pilgrim who had arrived, after years of walking, at Compostela.”

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JUNE 20, 2020

But it wasn’t four months ago, it was mid-June, 2020, mid-COVID-19 pandemic. We could have continued along the paddle trail, but I’m still building my kayaking muscles and didn’t want to overdo it right out of the gate. Only one kayak and one canoe passed us as we explored.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Species Accounts are organized by family according to the 61st Supplement (2020) of the AOS Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (the 62nd Supplement came out while the book was in production, which is to be expected).

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. I dread to imagine what Yellow-billed Cuckoos from Illinois, Missouri, and elsewhere will find when they arrive on these wintering grounds in 2020. No sparrows or migrant juncos nor hardly any Yellow-rumpeds and forget about Orange-crowned (a serious mega around here!)

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