10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

They also remind me why I love birding in Michoacán. I would love to know how the order spread across these regions, since that spread must have involved either crossing oceans or the frigid regions that these birds avoid. 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 194

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

These reports (called “ Banking on Nature “) are relevant to birders because they are among the few comprehensive analyses that relate to the economic impact of birders on national wildlife refuges, which are among the more popular birding locations. A number of these NWRs appear on my list of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding.).

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 258

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

After all, each refuge has been set aside to permanently protect birds and other wildlife. Nevertheless, if you have not spent much time birding in the area, it is difficult not to find lifers. Mexico border. Several trails wind along the banks of Rio Grande, which constitutes the border between the United States and Mexico.

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Texas United States Mexico Campaign 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

I dipped on one of my favorite birds from this area, the Lesser Roadrunner , as well as the marvelous Sparkling-tailed Woodstar (a long-tailed hummingbird). But the day did provide me with a parade of some of Michoacán’s most colorful birds, some of them migratory, and others local specialties.

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South America Sparrows Mexico Bears 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

And I love making my little garden (some 1400 square feet) more attractive to birds. But I would never have imagined how important it would be to my emotional well-being to have a bird-friendly garden during lockdown. In recent years, I have moved much more in the direction of plants that attract birds.

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Birds Woodpeckers Madagascar Nashville 159

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Let me start off with being quite clear, there are no grizzly Bears on the Baja! All of which, was for one a one day shoot with the famed bears, as they dined on the fall salmon run. I had prepared a target list of birds that I had hoped to photograph, which, in looking back now was really quite ambitious.

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Grizzly Bear Alaska Bears Puffins 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

Birders have been encouraged by the American Birding Association and others to buy Federal Duck Stamps. The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat. In June, the 2018-2019 Federal Duck Stamp was released. And the U.S.

Ducks 203

Ducks Wildlife Texas Hawaii 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I moved to Mexico in 1983 (and really should update my bio below). Oh yes, and as he specifically requested, a morning of birding with his dear old dad. A son who wants to bird with me? As Las Mesas goes, it wasn’t a particularly spectacular day of birding. So our now-adult children have never lived in the U.S.

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Laws Mexico Bears Turkey 216

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

I love living in central Mexico, and miss very few things about living in the U.S. Of course, I also love birding in Mexico, with its 1,000+ species, and seemingly infinite variety of habitats. Mexico, like many developing countries, has a terrible problem with habitat destruction. Go ahead, admit it.

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Mexico Species Bears Experience 185

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since 2016, writers at 10,000 Birds have been contributing checklists to a joint eBird account called the “10,000 Birds Collaborative.” The writers at 10,000 Birds span the globe, but I am particularly interested in the lists for the United States, as that is my “beat.” For the United States, there is also a state list.

Rhode Island 114

Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

Hecho en Mexico. What better way to start the year than with a visit to Mexico? Especially if you can fit in some birding? But others actually do some birding, and they paved the way for this Great Ornithologist to do a little bit on a recent vacation to Todos Santos. A male Belding’s Yellowthroat.

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California San Jose Birds Mexico 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

There are a lot of side benefits to birding. Mangroves in the Yucatan yielded looks at a creeping Rufous-necked Wood-Rail marveled at with a birding friend long before a lost, curious individual photobombed its way into the modern birding world. He asked and I told him my name and that I was watching birds.

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Birds Costa Rica Chickens Goats 159

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 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.” A Harpy Eagle.

Panama 100

Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last week, Peter Penning regaled us with tales of death-defying birding exploits. But there is another extreme to birding, one for which I have been slowly preparing over the past years. But during the winter, when our territory is inundated with wintering northern birds, it becomes our neighborhood’s avian social center.

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Nashville Virginia Bears Woodpeckers 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The icing on the cake has been getting to join this exceptional group of writers, and avian enthusiasts here on 10,000 Birds. In an effort to look back on the year, I have added, and deleted, written and scratched off, a list of birds that would represent my “Best Ten Birds” of 2016.

2016 100

2016 Grizzly Bear Puffins Mexico 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Few American birds have the publicity problems of the titmouse. A bird in the genus Baeolophus is neither a mouse nor…the other thing. The word titmouse descends from the Old English terms, tit (any small animal or object) and mase (small bird), essentially meaning one small, small bird. So be on the lookout.

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Arizona Oklahoma Texas Mexico 266

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2018

Chaco Cultural National Historic Park, a World Heritage Site in New Mexico, teeters back and forth with ongoing lawsuits. The Bears Ears National Monument (a protected public lands designation given to sitting presidents under the Antiquities Act) recently lost 1.1 Bears Ears National Monument ACTION. Horned Lark.

Colorado 166

Colorado Protection Bears ALA 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2021

My first experience birding was as a teenager back in the 70s, when birding meant a pair of binoculars, a couple of bird feeders, and a smallish field guide (book). I have birding buddies! Suddenly, I gain new respect from the aforementioned Mexican birding buddies. … to where I once belonged. I feel special.

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Kansas Wounded ALA Squirrels 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

However, for those of us living the birding life, Spring is more than just the transition between the cold and the warm. It’s also a big time for bird movements, a period punctuated by waves of migrants, first the early ones, then a time of many species, and finally, those last “late” migrants moving north.

Costa Rica 146

Costa Rica South America Tennessee Philadelphia 146

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Ironically, this feathered figurehead is neither a bird of prey nor particular distinguished athletically. Not that making it to the show might make any difference: only one football team named for a bird has ever won the NFL championship! Cardinalis cardinalis is an extremely prevalent bird throughout much of its range.

St. Louis 186

St. Louis United States Belize Guatemala 186

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.

North America 113

North America Vermont America Farming 113

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!

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2011

The Mexican Duck, as its name suggests, is native to Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States, and unlike the Mallard, the Mexican Duck does not have a showy male breeding plumage; both sexes are brown throughout the year. Do you prefer stability and certainty, or would you rather make changes to our lists early and often?

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Ducks North America Texas Mexico 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

Bear in mind, even the plants have to find ways to survive, so virtually every one of them has some form of thorny defense. The Elephant Cactus , puts out a white tubular flower that open from late March, until early, June, and are visited by nectar feeding bats at night and many birds during the day.

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Elephants Woodpeckers Squirrels Shelters 108

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 123

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo. With enough room for another, of course.

California Condor 106

California Condor Oregon California Zoos 106

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2017

At one point this week, I was facing the biggest Dip of my birding life. I had committed the better part of five days, before work, after work, weekends, every spare moment trying to a rare bird. In my case, the news came in the form of an e-mail, a “Rare Bird” sighting sent to me as part of the eBird.org reporting system.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica Guatemala Bears Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

What started as me posting a link on my private Facebook page about how much I hate the Transportation Security Administration, quickly turned into a very revealing conversation about race and could be a very large and underlying issue of why we don’t see more people of color in birding or enjoying nature in general. you guessed it.

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Laws Colorado America Kazakhstan 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2019

Despite looking way older than his years, we cannot attribute Regannet’s haggard appearance to hard birding, scoring only 19 during eBird’s Big Day was not the greatest effort expended on May 4th. Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground).

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2019 Australia Ghana Woodpeckers 113