10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina. It is rarely seen in the interior of the country at any distance from the waters of the Atlantic, or those of the Gulf of Mexico.

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New York South Carolina North Carolina Massachusetts 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

In the spring (when they look like they do — the males, that is — in the photo on the left, above) they fly more than six thousand miles from the Amazon Basin to the Arctic, via Florida and Ohio. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Mandarin Duck, Central Park, NYS. It is very possible that Mike and Corey will penalize me for including the Mandarin Duck–also known as the “Hot Duck,” “Mandy” only to tourists and the Gothamist–in this list, but its celebrity cannot be ignored. Everybody wants to know about the Hot Duck. An eBird mystery.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 163

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey was commissioned by National Flyway Council (NFC), which implements the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), which, in turn, aims to maintain abundant waterfowl populations in North America. But only 13% purchased a Duck Stamp. “A This is not a surprising result.

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The Sunda Teal is a brown duck. This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but it doesn’t make it much of a deal within such an illustrous group as the dabbling ducks. Birds dabbling ducks Indonesia waterfowl' Now, “restricted to the islands of…” does not sound very extensive.

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New York City Los Angeles Timor Indonesia 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The authors’ goals are (1) to provide information that will help readers identify a bird nest; (2) to explore the broader ecology of bird nests of North America, “an ecological study of how hundreds of species have adapted nests and nesting behavior to environs that range from tropical deciduous forest to Arctic tundra” (p.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 239

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. My Eastern Sibley served me well, replacing the Peterson’s with which I learned my ducks and waders. At the same time, care has been taken to eliminate exotics no longer a presence, such as several of south Florida’s parrots.

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North America 2003 Birds America 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m My trip to Florida and some timely twitches are all that made that happen. That’s so cool.

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2014 Costa Rica New York New Jersey 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance. It is now more important than ever to draw on the diverse group of refuge advocates around the country to safeguard America’s wildlife heritage 1.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 208

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2013

It has no avian endemic species (only one subspecies), and its most spectacular birds like Venezuelan Troupial and Fiery-Topaz Hummingbird can be found in greater numbers across a narrow strait in mainland South America, where you can pick up an additional 400-500 species besides. With few exceptions, almost no one does.

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Cattle South America Florida Colorado 158

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana. Geography is destiny.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. A weird mussel-eating duck. Florida in 1951. North America certainly doesn’t want for wood-warblers, many of whom are more dramatic that the little canebrake dweller. In Missouri in 1948.

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South Carolina Cuba Missouri Mississippi 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

In other words what are the chances of one of these extremely remote species showing up in a less remote place – like my backyard in Lake Worth, Florida? Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). The general location of the section on Ducks, Geese, and Swans can be found in the front, in the Contents listing.

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North America Birds Species America 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. I had enough time to warn my husband that it was headed our way and we ducked.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Well-represented exotic families include starlings, ducks and doves and there are also many more individual species that now thrive here. The Spot-breasted Oriole , a native of Central America, is one of the lucky exotics to make the list. A Carolina Parakeet mounted in a museum in Germany Fritz Geller-Grimm.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 138

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

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2011 Birds Michigan Ohio 226

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

uses the zoogeographical ecozones and denotes North, Central and South America (Nearctic and Neotropical realms) as western and the rest of the world (Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Australasian) as eastern. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100