10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
According to eBird, the chronology of my life list includes White-Headed Woodpecker at No. Lifers included Painted Redstart, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Arizona Woodpecker, and Rivoli’s, Violet-crowned, Lucifer, and Broad-billed hummingbird. I am a westerner who has lived in San Francisco and Portland my entire birding life.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2018
White-capped Albatross – Thalassarche cauta. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Salvin’s Albatross – Thalassarche salvini. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Royal Albatross – Diomedea epomophora. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. 04 Jan 2018. 04 Jan 2018.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2018
Red-crowned Woodpecker – Melanerpes rubricapillus. Red-rumped Woodpecker – Veniliornis kirkii. Pygmy Woodpecker – Dendrocopos kizuki. ???–?????? Gray-headed Albatross – Thalassarche chrysostoma. Buller’s Albatross – Thalassarche bulleri. Saladero Lodge. 23 Mar 2018.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Syrian Woodpecker – Dendrocopos syriacus. White-backed Woodpecker – Dendrocopos leucotos. Chestnut-colored Woodpecker – Celeus castaneus. Blond-crested Woodpecker – Celeus flavescens. Black-backed Woodpecker – Picoides arcticus. Black-footed Albatross – Phoebastria nigripes.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2019
Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Gray-headed Albatross – Thalassarche chrysostoma. Buller’s Albatross – Thalassarche bulleri. White-capped Albatross – Thalassarche cauta. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2018
Gray-headed Albatross – Thalassarche chrysostoma. Buller’s Albatross – Thalassarche bulleri. White-capped Albatross – Thalassarche cauta. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Salvin’s Albatross – Thalassarche salvini. Salvin’s Albatross – Thalassarche salvini.
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