10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2024
The sea is never far away wherever you are in the Falklands: my diary records “a constant passage of Black-browed Albatrosses, hundreds of birds as far as the horizon, their white undersides catching the sun [ the weather must have cheered up! ] as they sheered into the wind. Re-reading my diary all these years later, it sounds pretty good.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2023
Because this is New Guinea, it does not attract t**s, finches, and sparrows, but parrots and birds-of-paradise… as soon as a fresh load of papayas and bananas is brought out and thrown on the table, the forest comes alive.” “This lodge owes its fame to a 3-yards-long, moss-covered bird feeder table.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
In addition to discovering more vagrant sparrows and warblers, I hope we can also get more coverage for such regions and situations as these: Long Range Pelagic Trips in the Pacific. There’s a long way to go but increasing numbers of skilled local birders are spending more time in the field. What else is out there?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Every LBJ I’ll see is either a House Sparrow or a Dunnock. The magnificent Northern Royal Albatross. Squabbling Antipodean Albatrosses and Cape Petrels. Buller’s Albatrosses. Lost migrants were I inclined to look for them, vanishingly rare. The New Zealand Storm-petrel was formerly thought extinct.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2016
Maybe they were lured by the promise of even more seabirds and albatrosses. Seabirds and albatrosses? Heck, the way west coast pelagic trips are developing doesn’t suggest the ABA is in imminent procellarid peril, when literally anybody can nowadays see an albatross. The Wrentit which is currently placed in the Sylviidae!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2015
Lincoln’s Sparrow for example. Heck, I still need it for my country list along with other “super rare” sparrows like Lark Sparrow , the needle in a sugarcane field Clay-colored Sparrow , and the extremely elusive Chipping Sparrow. Oh, how that would be a nice year bird.
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