10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2015

My wife and I had the chance to visit Alaska! The Alaska wilderness lives up to the visions we had. Alaska was incredible. We are told the scenic beauty of Alaska is only rivaled by that of the Patagonian and Antartic region in extreme South America. But an opportunity presented itself and we took it.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

Birders know why Alaska is known as The Last Frontier. But until this past month, I’d never been to Alaska. I’m not sure what I expected when I finally got a look at Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. Because that’s what animals do in Alaska. Birding Destinations Alaska bears' I was off to St.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Black Oystercatcher ( Haematopus bachmani ) can be found along the Pacific Coast of North America from Alaska to Baja California. Click on photos for full sized images. I found these two on the North Jetty at Humboldt Bay foraging and relaxing on the rocky outcroppings.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Mew Gull is the smallest of the “white-headed” gulls in North America, where it was formerly known as the Short-billed Gull. If I make it up to the Canadian coast or Alaska I will most likely find a breeding adult to photograph. Click on photos for full sized images. I grabbed a series of shots while the youngster was preening.

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JUNE 18, 2013

First of all, the species only occurs semi regularly in North America in a small patch of Alaska where it occasionally breeds. Most of its range is actually in the Old World so if you want to see one in North America you have to arrange a trip to western Alaska in breeding season, not exactly an easy proposition logistically.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

West of Ontario cone crops are poor in the boreal forest in Manitoba and Saskatchewan but improve westward with average crops in southern Yukon and excellent crops in Alaska. Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “call types” in North America. Birch seed crops are poor to average in the boreal forest. COMMON REDPOLL.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Marbled Godwit breeds in the grasslands of the northern United States and southern Canada, with small isolated nesting populations in southwestern James Bay and Alaska 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , It’s nice to have friends that are excellent wildlife photographers. Click on photos for full sized images.

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AUGUST 10, 2014

They gradually spread to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the southern coast of North America (before it was joined to South America) and gained the ability to pursue prey by diving in cool waters (see Pereira and Baker 2008 ). Least Auklet ( Aethia pusilla ) and a Crested Auklet ( Aethia cristatella ) in Alaska © Don Henise.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Curlews The first branch contains the curlews, plus North America’s the Western Hemisphere’s Upland Sandpiper. Those of us in North America may not necessarily associate “uppies” with the highly derived Long-billed Curlew , but check out the Eastern Hemisphere’s Little Curlew for comparison.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

“I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska. ” Cade was later to comment, “1951 was when I first saw the high-flying style of hunting performed by the wilderness-inhabiting Peregrines of Alaska.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2011

Savannah Sparrows breed across the northern United States and most of Canada and Alaska and winter as far south as northern Central America and Cuba. It was nice, very nice, as the photos below hopefully demonstrate.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2016

When I picture state birds, I picture the gorgeous Scissor-tailed Flycatcher of Oklahoma, the pristine white feathers of Alaska’s Willow Ptarmigan , or the haunting call of Minnesota’s Common Loon. 2 ounces , every year these hummingbirds migrate from Central America to the Eastern United States and then back again.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2016

One of the most impressive birds in North America is the Golden Eagle. It is found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, taking its place as one of Mexico’s official symbols. ” The bird is massive.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

In North America, the Greater White-fronted Goose breeds in open tundra areas of the low Arctic from Point Barrow, Alaska to northeastern Keewatin, Northwest Territories, and it winters south to Chiapas, Mexico, thus having the broadest latitudinal range of any arctic-nesting goose 1. I was not disappointed! Great birding!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2017

This is a very well traveled bird, moving as far south as the southern tip of South America and Terra Del Fuego, and then back to the rocky tundra areas in Alaska and the Yukon to nest. Most of the Surfbirds were just starting to show the rusty gold scapulars of their breeding plumage.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2011

Hoary Marmots , also called Whistle Pigs , inhabit rocky areas near the treeline in northwestern North America up into Alaska. Their warning whistles when danger approach are one of the coolest noises one is likely to hear when exploring northwestern mountaintops.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

Gray Jays are resident in the boreal forest from Alaska south as far as northern California, and across Canada to Labrador, which might account for another of their monikers, Canada Jay. They are one of three species in the genus Perisoreus and the only found in North America (the others, Siberian Jay and Sichuan Jay , are found in Eurasia).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The Red-breasted Sapsucker calls the West Coast home, ranging from southern Alaska south to Baja California. References: 1 Birds Of North America Online a. The bird shown above arrived at my house at the end of October, a new species for my yard list! Click on photos for full sized images. Range map courtesy of NatureServe.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. Their total population, from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is estimated at somewhere between 1 million and 3.5 So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are a colonial breeder, nesting only in western Alaska, on a narrow band of coastal sedge meadows 2. References: 1 Friends of the Arcata Marsh , 2 Birds of North America Online a. Among the several species we did see on the jetty however, is the Black Turnston e ( Arenaria melanocephala ). Click on photos for full sized images.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2022

The owner has two adorable Border Collies and a pure-white cat called Alaska. Tap water is not as cold as in Europe (and, I presume, North America), but to be called lukewarm it should be warmer.

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JUNE 19, 2013

References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 California Bird Species of Special Concern : A ranked assessment of species, subspecies, and distinct populations of birds of immediate conservation concern in California. Photo from Wikipedia Commons taken by Terry Gray.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2011

The Ruffed Grouse is a bird of the forests across much of North America, from Alaska and the mountains of the west through Canada, and in the east down through the Appalachians to Georgia. It is a beautiful bird and well worth taking examining closely if such a situation can somehow be arranged.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Personally, I think that they should have had to go to the back of the line and not cut in front of Alaska and Hawaii. CON – The America’s first traffic light debuted in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914. Finally, in 1953, Ohio was formally admitted into the union retroactively to 1803. He did it in 1924 in Paris in the long jump.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A direct flight from Portland is also a plus, as is seeing new parts of America. Nome, Alaska. Of course, there are also many potential lifers that are essentially impossible to see in outside of Alaska, at least in the United States. For me, it seems the birding location is as important as the birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

Countless towns, schools, and natural formations are named for him, including Whittier Glacier in Alaska and, by extension, its tiny neighboring town, a gateway to Prince William Sound that I’ve had the profound pleasure of visiting. His poems rhapsodize about woods, water, and pastoral settings. He was also enamored of birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

But while their range expansion in the old world was made up of relatively short hops no one expected this species to move westward across the Atlantic Ocean to South America but it did just that! The species has been recorded as far north as Alaska and as far south as some of the islands off Antartica.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. ; and a bird that I didn’t see but feel I know well, the Plain-capped Starthroat that spent a summer in my friends’ Portal, Arizona backyard. Don’t worry. There’s a lot in this book to digest and savor, even if you’re not a twitcher.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

They breed in northernmost Canada and Alaska, and winter in Patagonia in southernmost South America. Hudsonian Godwits are among the few extraordinary birds that fly from the Arctic almost to the Antarctic every year.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

While it makes a passing attempt to say not all scientists are like these monstrous fiends (or truly arrogant, as she dubs them) it mostly focuses on these monstrous fiends simply to prove that scientists in wildlife conservation can be monstrous fiends, particularly compared to the environment-loving oil industry of Alaska.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

These guides are sequels, updates, and complements to Wheeler’s previous classic books, Raptors of Eastern North America and Raptors of Western North America (PUP, 2003), now out-of-print and fetching prices in three figures on used-book sites. Hawks of North America, 2nd ed. But, they are not comprehensive treatments.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Red Crossbill RED CROSSBILL : Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “types” in North America. Matt Young of The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reports that there is currently a large early irruption of Type 3 Red Crossbills (smallest billed type) from the west into eastern North America.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos. That’s a photo of Ridgway’s office on the right, fifth floor of the South Tower. Robert Ridgway wrote over 500 articles and 23 books, illustrating many of them himself.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

ash berry crops are very good to bumper across the boreal forest from Alaska to the island of Newfoundland. Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “types” in North America. ash berry crops are very good to bumper from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador. INDIVIDUAL FINCH FORECASTS. PINE GROSBEAK. BOHEMIAN WAXWING.

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