10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

It’s the only one in all of Mexico. This was always a process of solitary exploration; only later did other birders ask me to take them to see the unusual species I had found. Found all sorts of wonderful species. Wander into a bit of abandoned second-growth forest. The nearest Audubon Club chapter?

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Birds Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 126

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

There are few places in the United States where simply driving around can leave you with a list of 30+ species, many of them large and spectacular. There are a few places where that is especially obvious, and one of those is the town of Cape Coral, just north of Naples along the Gulf of Mexico.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 193

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2012

The species ranges north well into Canada in the summer months, but in the winter they make for the southern coasts or down to Mexico. They may gather in flocks of hundreds during their fall journey, abandoning their lonely summer habits. So the Hoary Bat is migratory.

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Bats Iceland Stray Fur 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

This week marks the 2-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

After our brief trip thru the great state of Texas, we were headed back into New Mexico, a state I was quite excited to explore. I have been all around the western states, here and there, but never spent any time in New Mexico. This did open up the area to a few new species, like this Wilson’s Warbler.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 120

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Three: Why would anyone , no matter what their species, want to become tangled in human hair? I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths?

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2013

The United States built Fort Jefferson on Garden Key between 1846 to 1875 to protect its interests in the Gulf of Mexico, but was later abandoned without ever being fully completed. A first impression of Garden Key on the approach to the tiny isle. So where are you birding this spring break? I can’t wait to go back.

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United States Sea Turtles Baltimore Abandon 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2015

Whoever is in charge of names in the area had abandoned an unwise relationship with compound names ((meaning Redwinged Starlings were Red-winged Starlings again) and seemed to have shifted the names of lots of species around in the hopes of aligning them with the IOC (goodbye louries). There had also been a number of splits.

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Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Penguins 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

I’m going to start with a specific example: species accounts for Common Tern and Arctic Tern. How have these species accounts changed from The Sibley Guide to Birds , published in 2000 (heretofore called Sibley One) to The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , published in March 2014 (and heretofore called Sibley Two).

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North America Birds Species America 229

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. A trip to the coastal plain may net you up to seven species of warblers, from the omnipresent Yellow-rumps to Chats and Cape Mays. But how does the apply to Orioles?

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140