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. Barnes or Matheson Hammock will never produce sightings of any sparrow at all (and if you did, it would be a really good sighting).

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Sparrows Florida Atlanta South Carolina 149

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

Jim Wright is an author and birding columnist. Jim’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds was A Rare Caribbean Parrot on the Brink. He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science. Photo by William K.

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Bahamas Philadelphia 2004 United States 344

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JUNE 29, 2023

The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

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Papua New Guinea Guinea Suriname South America 253

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2022

I, desperate for some birds, used that to take a few photos, even though it meant attracting a lot of attention from the other residents, as I am the only foreigner in this compound and also the only person owning an 800 mm telephoto lens. The most interesting bird I got was probably this Asian Stubtail.

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Los Angeles Birds China Blackbirds 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. There were no dead birds for weeks. I hoped it was an anomaly.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 258

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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. It keeps my wife happy.

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Birds Woodpeckers Madagascar Nashville 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

I am a birder, who began photographing birds as an identification tool. Still, writing for 10,000 Birds has been an exercise in humility. There are so many wonderful birds in my corner of Mexico, for which I do not yet have good photographs. I think it is the most beautiful sparrow I have ever seen. No birds here.

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Mexico Sparrows South America Collecting 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Of course, birds only represent a sliver of the near-infinite flora and fauna that, collectively, grows, blooms, dies back, and lapses into dormancy over the course of a year. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his favorite species, a Green Heron , at the Great Vly in his hometown of Saugerties, New York. How about you?

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2016 New York Birds Collecting 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2018

I hope everyone participated in at least one day of the four day Great Backyard Bird Count of 2018. As I walked out on my back porch on Friday morning, the first day of the count, it was a cool, clear day and the birds were very active at the feeders. Fun birding! Here is a male Lesser Goldfinch taking his turn.

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2018 Bald Eagle Woodpeckers Turkey 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And here is a photo from that birding trip, at Tualatin River NWR near Portland, Oregon. Also, I’ve been teaching myself web development so RainCrow was a practical way to practice skills and concepts I was learning while also making something useful for myself and the birding community.

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Research Wyoming Portland Oregon 289

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example of Darwinian Natural Selection in action. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 199

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Odd habitats attract odd birds. Or rather, I should say that out of place habitats attract lost birds. Although Costa Rica is noted for tropical forests and their subsequent wealth of birds and biodiversity, us local birders also have our own, out of the way habitat hotspots. Birds that Would Have Flown Over and Kept on Going.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 233

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I am shocked to be writing this post already, and doubly shocked that I’ve seen six new species for Queens since I guessed what my next five Queens birds would be just eight months ago, back in March. It’s been a good year for birding in Queens! Fortunately, there are birds to help. Even juveniles are distinctive.

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New York City Birds New York Blackbirds 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

I just returned from a glorious birding trip all over Cuba, so I am just going to ignore the pile of spring bird books on my dining room table (most of which arrived while I was gone), and write a bit about my favorite Cuban birds. Like flycatchers, the bird continuously forages for insects.

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Cuba Birds 2015 Bahamas 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

All of these titles deal with birding in specific North American geographic areas: The Atlantic coast, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The photos show the forms of the bird seen on the east coast and are annotated with notes on plumage and other distinguishing field marks. It’s time for some short book reviews. Well, short for me.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

I think some of the antagonism towards listing in birders comes from the mistaken belief that one’s list is nothing more the basest commodification of birds, living beings with incredible life histories reduced to a number. My various lists – life, ABA, county, yard – are collections of memories, each one precious.

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North Carolina Falcons Florida Birds 197

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Louisiana is a magical place to bird. At the same time I was ogling Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and Upland Sandpipers, Marybeth Lima was also birding Louisiana. Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

There should be thousands of birds at this time of the year, Dimitris Michalakis from the Karla Lake management authority told me. In the northern section, the water was deep, interspersed by reed-islets, but the only birds were a few Little Egrets and Black-headed Gulls. Lesser Kestrel. I am trying to count them all!

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Greece Killing Pelicans Eagles 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The Durango Highway is arguably one of North America’s great birding roads due to the great variety of habitats, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the numerous Mexican endemics one can target. There are many dusty side roads in this area, many of which offer productive birding.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 196

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

It is also a good description of the birding in southernmost Florida. However, few realize how unique and how good the birding can be here. Sure, Miami and the Florida Keys do not boast any endemics ( ‘Cape Sable’ Seaside Sparrow is close) at the species level.

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Florida Miami United States Stray 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. She gave me a peak through her scope and, sure enough, the bird was different. Is it dumb luck? Is it innate skill?

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same. Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. So say Kevin T.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2019

10 Beats have been out in 9 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, China, Costa Rica, USA, UK, Italy and Mexico) and have shared 125 lists to account for 916 birds. Italy is the newest country to feature in our collection of Countries/Territories/SARs/Kingdoms/Principalities and brings this list to 51. This is them; . 24 Sep 2019.

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2019 China Italy Argentina 118

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The Bronx also has a special place in birding history.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 152

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

…so here’s a post about some birds at a spring. The spring the birds I’ll show you today is far from the seat of New Zealand’s government where I now work. Striolated Bunting ( Emberiza srtriolata ) This member of the bunting family (that’s bunting, not sparrow. I’m sorry. Long may it last.

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United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen 161

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status. My first instinct was that the rarest gull would rank high on the ‘most interesting’ scale, but that’s a lister’s instinct – a sort of stamp-collecting bias, at best. It’s pink.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 225

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We’re passing the Dasada village where shop owners and artisans are opening their doors, collecting rubbish in the street and burning it, while standing around those small fires and warming themselves up. Rao Travel, and the post-conference bird tour by Arpit Deomurari. and another thermophile species, the Long-legged Buzzard.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are bird feeders and then there are squirrel feeders disguised as bird feeders, a fact known well by those of us who have committed a part of our lives to our yard birds. And, although I grew up in a house with a great yard, my parents were not of the bird-feeding persuasion. At least, feeder birds.

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Squirrels Birds Factory Raccoons 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

Here are some facts to keep in mind about Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: Passionate Birders Share the Joys of Watching Birds: (1) This is not a dress code. (2) 3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Braunfield.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

In summer, when feathers are worn and younger birds are molting into their next plumage, gulls can be downright ugly. Here, for example, are two birds in flight, both nearing their adult plumage, but both in that awkward phase that makes ugly ducklings look positively beautiful. Which one of these birds is not like the others?

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New York Collecting Sparrows Experience 184

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Timothy Barksdale is a birder/biologist turned filmmaker , passionately pursuing birds with a television camera for the last 24 years. His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2024

Last week, David Tomlinson wrote about the excitement of that first birding outing for the year, when every bird is new again. Back when birding was still a solitary activity for me, my records show that my first outings yielded 75-85 species. Birds being easily offended, and all that.

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Mexico Birds Woodpeckers Sparrows 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

The vast majority of guests that visit these “birder-friendly&# lodges are birders and the primary target market of these places is the birding segment. This is not a birding lodge. Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Punta Cana means birding in style!

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

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