10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2022

Partly due to the paucity of birding missions within the past fortnight, but more so because T&T is one of the few countries within which there are several birds bearing the national colours. I was on the fence about including it here, but it is a difficult bird to say no to. If you’re into frogs, that is.

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Trinidad Woodpeckers Bears Family 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2021

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many birders couldn’t help but notice the coincidental similarity between that abbreviation and name of one of the most familiar of all passerine families – Corvidae.

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2017 Italy Argentina Massachusetts 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When out birding, I prefer completely wild habitat. I enjoy birding in cocoa estates especially – as they retain some of the highest percentage of native biodiversity (as compared to other altered habitats). Shade-grown crops have myriad advantages, and naturally, we’re here for the birds. Yellow-breasted Flycatcher.

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Trinidad Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the several Black Vultures that went overhead during a family hike to Anthony’s Nose in the Hudson Valley. The birding wasn’t very exciting but the hike was nice and allowed a nice view of Bear Mountain, the Bear Mountain Bridge, and the Hudson River.

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2015 Bears New York Birds 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Be careful how you Google ‘bird of paradise’! It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 260

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In this post, we’ll share the most positive of the positives, at least for those who write for 10,000 Birds who decided to share. Of all the birds that make the list for a given year one of those birds must be the Best Bird of the Year. We are always content bird-watching around Broome anyway!

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 220

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. Anyway, it is a very cute-looking bird if you are big enough not to be among its prey of (mostly) insects. I have written about the hornbills of this area before.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. Does your family celebrate a lot of April birthdays? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Birding best bird weekend'

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New Jersey 2014 Louisiana Bears 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter. Good birding and happy drinking! Teal Lake Shiraz (2019). Three out of five feathers (Good).

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2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2021

Given this Blog is 10,000 Birds I would like to share, over time, some of the 350 plus Sunshine Coast birds and my favourite birding locations plus some mammals and other critters of my greater area. I’m also going to write about myself and my birding life – even if it involves leaving the Sunshine Coast!

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Australia North America Cooking Fish 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

They also remind me why I love birding in Michoacán. The Trogon family (and order, since the order only includes one family) is quite widespread, being found in all the tropical (and some subtropical) regions of the world. Both are large, stocky birds, with a large head and long, squared-off tail. Those are good numbers.

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Mexico Indonesia North America Arizona 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2013

Maybe the name of this blog should be 10,015 birds. The ornithologists considered plumage, voice, and genetics in making their determinations; birds had to differ from known species in in at least two of those qualities to be considered new. The 15th is grouped in the Bucconidae family and appears similar to a Striolated Puffbird.

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Bolivia Brazil Peru Birds 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

What if there was an international multi-day Birding competition? Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

Over Memorial Day weekend (23-25 May) my family and I spent the weekend along the Delaware shore enjoying the beaches, natural areas, and tourist traps that make visiting the shore such a delight. The sunrises alone made getting up, out, and about so early worth it but the birds made it even better. This one will have to suffice.

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Delaware New York Birds North Carolina 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. sports championships ).

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2021

I got back into birding less than a decade ago, long after moving to Mexico in 1983. So I can hardly speak with authority on birding in the U.S. A quick study as I researched this post revealed that fully 37 Arizonan “specialties” are common birds right here where I live. Consider the striking Berylline Hummingbird.

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Arizona Mexico Los Angeles Dallas 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. Back then, I didn’t know enough about birds, but I knew a lot about cats. I scrambled for a box.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips?

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North America 2003 Birds America 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

Does birding make you happy? And it is certainly possible to imagine compulsive joyless birding, and I think most of us may have encountered it on occasion. I’m going to assume that most people reading this enjoy watching birds. You may be outraged by the suggestion, but let’s face it, birders love not birding.

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Birds Research Hawaii Albatross 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The Collegiate does define the word “ birder ” (“a person who birds”) and “ bird watcher ” (“a person who watches and identifies wild birds”). Of course, a “person who birds” begs the question of what “ bird ,” as a verb, means. That’s not all: bird words abound in the dictionary.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep. I like phoebes.

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New York Cooking Chipmunks Owls 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

For now, I present a story of an excellent day''s birding on a visit to Los Angeles last week.]. It was 7:04am when we saw our target bird. Common birds to the southern California birder, wonderful sights to me. Where to bird next? We did see what I suspect was Luke’s favorite “bird” of the trip.

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers California Birds 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at you LBJs), these accounts are typically written by people who have either gone with groups of like-minded people or those that have gone it alone.

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Birds Bats Elephants Family 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

Birds are singing and migrating, freshets are running, and trees are budding – yes, it’s time for all those things. And given what these birds have been through, this caution is certainly warranted. At last, it’s spring in the northern half of the world. What’s in a name?

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Once you reach Coconut Wells the road bears to your right and just as the bitumen ends you take a left turn towards the beach. In fact one of our pairs was doing just that as we headed north to check on not only the Pied Oystercatchers , but any other birds in the area. Family of Brolga. Pied Oystercatcher shading an egg.

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Eggs Birds Investigation Bears 140

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I must ashamedly admit that prior to this mission, I had never been birding on the island before. Sure enough it was a place I always wanted to visit for birding, but things never fell into place. Tobago of course bears a closer geological relation to the aforementioned Netherlands Antilles than it does to Trinidad.

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Trinidad Netherlands Columbus Whales 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. But these tropical ecosystems also harbor families that remind us by their very presence just how close we’ve come to the Equator and how far we are from the poles.

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Colombia South America Argentina Ecuador 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996).

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. You can see the world’s smallest passerine and the Western Hemisphere’s biggest flying bird.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 253

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2012

This is the crazy winter period, the time of Christmas Bird Count scouting, birding, counting and compiling. 10,000 Birds has reviewed a lot good books over the past 12 months , many of which would make excellent holiday gifts. Some interesting coffee table-type titles have been reviewed in 10,000 Birds.

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New Jersey Porcupines Delaware Birds 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

If you’re a British birder, or a birder looking in to British birding, you could be forgiven sometimes for feeling it bears all the hallmarks of a good soap opera depending on where you surf. Terry writes in a down to earth, no frills style offering an Brit’s view of China’s birds.

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Lithuania Denmark Birds China 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The annual Christmas Bird Count is a venerable tradition and this year’s will be the 113th. The oft-told tale of its start in 1900 as an alternative to the “side-hunt” which was itself a long tradition in many families warms many a birder’s heart. Or the Great Bird Count. But maybe it needs a name change?

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Saudi Arabia Pakistan Abandon Abandoning 141

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2016

It has truly been an incredible honor joining the team here at 10,000 Birds. There in no question that the bird of the year for me, at least from a purely photographic stand point is the Black Skimmer. This Snowy Egret flew by while I was watching the birds out on the tidal flats.

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Grizzly Bear San Jose Bears Fish 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2013

In celebration of the upcoming I and the Bird look at the heron family I invite you to consider the White-faced Heron ! New Zealand, where I live, am the 10,000 Birds Beat Writer of, and of which I very occasionally actually write about, is home to several species of heron. It wasn’t always this way.

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New Zealand Indonesia Cattle Guinea 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

Reports abounded of a huge variety of birds, from thrushes to nightjars, terns to vireos. Our families, on the other hand, might have been a bit upset at the warbler fever that overtook even the most resistant birder. But I had two birds in particular that stood out for me this weekend. And was it ever! Northern Parula.

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New York City New York Kentucky Abandon 172