10,000 Birds

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. ” A mid-sized Grizzly Bear was slowly making its way along the opposite bank of the river.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

But, while we are making sacrifices for the avian quest, we also experience side benefits much less trying in nature. Mangroves in the Yucatan yielded looks at a creeping Rufous-necked Wood-Rail marveled at with a birding friend long before a lost, curious individual photobombed its way into the modern birding world.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The depth of knowledge, and experience shown here, as well as the writing skills leave me in awe most every week, as I scroll thru the weekly entries. The icing on the cake has been getting to join this exceptional group of writers, and avian enthusiasts here on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Dunn starts in Alaska with the goal of seeing Rufous Hummingbird at the northern extreme of its migration (which he does with some effort and a few bear sightings) and ends in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, “the end of the world,” with the sighting of a Green-backed Firecrown feeding at a firetree in cold drizzly rain.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

They earn the annual avian medal of honor because they fly to Costa Rica from as far as Alaska and other places where Snowy Owls roam. Some months later, I had a similar experience with one at a site known as “El Cafecito” This one also carried a feather in its beak, snatched tadpoles, and stood in the open for all to see.

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