10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2015

I hoped to see warblers, warblers, warblers, plus classic northeastern species I had had no opportunity to look for while living in North Carolina. Swarming around my neck, ears, and hair, they forced me to abandon birding altogether as I swatted them away as best I could. Kennebago Lake. Ruffed Grouse.

Birds 160

Birds North Carolina North America Woodpeckers 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. Wicked, right? The truth is, wintering Baltimore Orioles are unusual, but not unheard of, in the southeast. Hat-tip to Stella.

North Carolina 140

North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The return home included a total of 5 ½ hours of flight delays, one missed flight, and we subsequently missed the entire town of Charlotte, North Carolina. After that we visited a small remote site of an abandoned resort that is going back to the jungle quickly, and a water front location for shorebirds and gulls.

Bahamas 138

Bahamas Costa Rica Abandon Abandoning 138

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2016

They form and have lots of genes on them, but over time, all the non sex-related genes abandon the chromosome. From a recent article in Nature , “This bird acts like it has four sexes,” says Christopher Balakrishnan, an evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, who worked with Tuttle and Gonser.

Rats 113

Rats Sparrows Birds North Carolina 113