10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology. sympathetic magic?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

But his Best Bird of the Weekend was either of the two Black-throated Green Warblers that foraged directly in front of us without a care in the world. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Common, but rarely so tame, they were a joy to watch!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

We are travelers, it is who many of us are and the drive for adventure and exploration rules our lives. When I am not traveling, I am busy daydreaming about future destinations and if I do not have a trip on the horizon, I feel directionless and anxious. However, I cannot stop thinking about my name written in that book.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2024

Some of us are captivated by the fierce stares of hawks and the raptorial majesty of a diving falcon. A fair subset of birders are even crazy about gulls (!). Cardinals win us over with stunning colors, a pretty song, and common presence. Just take a look at a Northern Cardinal.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Plus, fall has a lot more to offer all of us. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2021

Weekends like these tend to fill those of us closer to the poles with envy for our birding friends even the slightest bit closer to the equator. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. At least my summers are mild.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2024

Hannah is passionate about travel, tourism, and birding and hopes to inspire others through her podcasts: Hannah and Erik Go Birding, Women Birders (Happy Hour), and Bird Nerd Book Club. It was on a whim that our most recent adventure took us to Oaxaca. And somehow this directed us to Oaxaca. Next step: find a bird guide.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

But birds don’t seem to care about what ails us humans. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2021

The irony of a free day to do whatever you might want when migration excitement has already petered out has not been lost on us. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Happy belated Father’s Day to all our birding patriarchs out there.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2024

So, think about it and contact us if you are interested. Anyway, the reason for showing this is to indicate that 10,000 Birds is still looking for writers. There is no pay, but the upside of this is that we cannot cut your pay either.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2021

But enough about the New York Giants’ free agency activity. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2021

Weekends are like opinions: everyone has one, but you usually need to go online to find people who want to hear about yours. This is about the time of year American Goldfinches look their sharpest, especially when artfully staged atop one of my purple coneflowers. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2020

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

During a season when many of us have constricted our travel radius from several countries or continents from home to several blocks, the forced focus on local patches seems to be turning up some real jewels in different areas. How about you? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of the two, he chose the latter as his Best Bird of the Weekend, simply because he got a better photo of it.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Really, the worst part of birding mid-September in upstate New York is the realization that, in a couple of weeks or so, the excitement of migration is over for us. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2020

May delivers one of those amazing times of the year when we’re too busy looking at birds to sit around talking about them. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2021

Do we feel weird about being psyched about shorebirds, at least this month? I will share on the record that I am not particularly psyched about shorebirds during any month of the year, but somehow we’ve enjoyed an epic shorebird summer here in the Rochester region. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

We have the slow weeks and months for reading, writing, and dreaming about the birds we’d rather be seeing. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Whether you experienced a Big Day, a Big Sit, or just a big weekend of birding, we’re inviting you to brag about what you saw. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. That makes it automatically the Best Bird of the Weekend.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But, of them all, his Best Bird of the Weekend was a new one for him for Ulster County, a Lincoln’s Sparrow.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For Rogers, the finding of the sparrow is not just about the rarity of the find or the decline of breeding Henslow’s Sparrows in New York State, though she is proud of the first and concerned about the second. The essays are titularly about how Rogers learned to bird at a midpoint in her life. Susan Rogers surprised me.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

Last weekend I accompanied a small group of intrepid birders to El Cerro del Aripo, the tallest peak on the island at about 940m. Still, I kept my camera tucked away, apprehensive about the requirements of the impending climb. Another Rufous-breasted Hermit darted across in front of us. A productive morning, I thought.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2020

There are certain days, specific moments when each of us has the potential to change the world for the better. And what should you do during the hours, days, and weeks when everything you care about isn’t under siege or on the line? How about you? Go birding. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Corey got out and about in Queens early Saturday morning, following up on a report of a singing Chuck-Will’s-Widow , which would have been a new Queens bird for Corey if it sang for him. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. It did not.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2021

While the fourth weekend of January finds us all mired in the depths of whatever season grips our part of the world, the light is ever so slowly changing. What I have is a typical Upstate New York winter, so this weekend was about adding more typical Upstate New York winter birds. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey, on the other hand, isn’t a very good birder and saw little of note this weekend.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2020

I’ve been impatient about the arrival of spring, but a long walk revealed shoots, blooms, and buds everywhere, along with my FOY Hermit Thrush. How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2020

As we look back on another Father’s Day, at least in those places that observe it, and another solstice, let us hope that we’ve turned a symbolic page on the strife of the last season. With hope, the next will be much better for all of us. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2023

Strangely, the author of the study uses this situation as an argument not to ban keeping Hwameis in captivity illegal altogether but rather just to limit the keeping. While I just wrote a post about the Amur Paradise Flycatcher and one of its close relatives, this is not a reason not to show some more photos of the species.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

So that was that and just before I was to board my plane he sent me a text saying that there was a surprise waiting for us at the Reserva Chiguaza, their hub so to say where we would have our breakfast and from where we would head up to the paramo. So a bonus on my one-day trip. I like bonuses. An incredible sight.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2021

How about you? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Fortunately, the bird stuck and he got great looks at this spectacular new bird for Queens!

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