10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2021
As always, we held our sit high atop Battery Harris at Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. A pair of flyover American Black Ducks , a flock of Green-winged Teal winging west way out over the ocean, and surprisingly, all three of our expected falcon species were all seen relatively early in the morning.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2016
The Cornell team is no doubt having a fantastic day of birding up there in beautiful spring Colorado while they identify Cassin’s Sparrow, Prairie Falcon, Lazuli Bunting , and other western birds in some of the same places I surveyed in 1997 and 2001. I will nevertheless be counting birds despite not actually going birding.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
You can easily scroll through the 940 species of bird included, which covers the United States (including Hawaii) and Canada. A nice touch is the option to view the app with black print on a white background or, if you want to save battery life and not illuminate the entire area, you can use it with white print on a black background.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2019
172 lists were shared and 1004 species were seen, both records for October, so well done beats! Collared Forest-Falcon – Micrastur semitorquatus. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. has reached 54. 18 Oct 2019.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2018
We had persevered through four years at the top of Battery Harris Platform and could bring our experience to bear on the task of trying to record as many species as possible on a single day from that single spot. At 8:30AM we were already at 53 species and we knew we still had many more easy birds to find.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2015
In addition to having more participants, we had more bird species, 76, beating out last year’s inaugural effort by two whole species. We really had to work hard for our 76 species this year too, and it makes me wonder if it will possible to ever break a hundred species from the platform during an October big sit.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
If the birds were Germans, Siberian Rubythroats wintering in Xishuangbanna (where I saw them a few years ago) would certainly be described as “Warmduscher” by their fellow species members seen in Shanghai this month. One of the alleged proofs is that these drones often land on power lines to recharge their batteries.
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