10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2012
No doubt the weather has something to do with it; Rochester, NY may historically be one of the United States’ snowiest metropolitan areas, but we’ve been basking in almost vernal weather. Note that I only condone this treatment for the highly localized Atlanta Falcon. Not a bad bird at all!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
The southeast tip of the Florida peninsula is not well endowed with a wide variety of sparrows in winter like the rest of the southeastern United States. Lucky Hammock is the best location to have guaranteed sightings of this small seed-eating bird, where it is often the most numerous species in the months of November to February.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
I recently asked whether Puerto Rico should be part of the American Birding Association’s ABA Area. The Hawaii vote made it clear that that the ABA Area is about political borders, not geographical or ecological ones, and the two Caribbean territories have long been part of the United States. Puerto Rico and the U.S.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. No lemmings left in the north?
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