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DECEMBER 14, 2021

As devoted readers of 10,000 Birds know , the writers contribute checklists to a joint eBird account called the “ 10,000 Birds Collaborative.”. Many of the states with more than 200 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally.

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United States West Virginia Puerto Rico Minnesota 190

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AUGUST 16, 2020

I didn’t expect to see any birds. I am also from the Northeast, and seeing architecture that reminded me of New York and Connecticut and even my home state of Maine beneath southern Live Oaks and Magnolias felt a bit odd. With plans to order an annual pass, I also imagine that more birding visits to Pebble Hill are in my future!

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Georgia Mules Birds Connecticut 236

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Bryant Park, that marvelous magnet for migrant birds in midtown Manhattan, has come through with another cooperative stunner. Check this out !

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Connecticut Birds 158

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MARCH 5, 2024

Birders know that some of the finest birding locations in the country are on federal land , which include national parks , wildlife refuges , forests , monuments , and seashores , among others. These lands support countless birds, either year-round, as migratory stopovers, or as breeding grounds. But what else should birders know?

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Virgin Islands Alaska United States Endangered Species 200

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Eager to Share is an American pale ale from Marlowe Artisanal Ales of North Haven, Connecticut. Gulls steal from people, they steal from other birds, and they steal from each other. Good birding and happy drinking! The post Marlowe Artisanal Ales: Eager to Share American Pale Ale appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Connecticut France Game Humane 234

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Guiding birding tours is a remarkably rewarding profession.

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Rattlesnake 2020 Connecticut Industry 150

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JULY 5, 2013

Chuk makes his quip about the Black-winged Yellow Bird; my friend Molly insists that everything is a duck, a pigeon, or an owl. Birds Mangrove Warbler names Yellow Warbler' Philosophically, arbitrary names divorce average people from nature, creating the same effect as any system of jargon — keeping insiders in and outsiders out.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 169

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MAY 9, 2015

Does not mean that this bird is. From Connecticut. Having an eye-ring.

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Connecticut Birds Nashville 160

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MAY 21, 2013

It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like to mention one that we all know about but has been recently studied more closely. You know that birds carry various parasites in their blood, and often, these parasites are transmitted to and from the birds via ticks or other ectoparasites.

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Birds Research Connecticut United States 169

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MAY 15, 2012

Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. My latest addition, a Parasitic Jaeger off the coast, finally got me to my 289th bird, well over a year since I got my 279th. The first time I did this I accidentally added twelve birds to my list before reviewing it.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003. Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team. I think there’s a number of reasons: 1.

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Bald Eagle Los Angeles Connecticut Eagles 232

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Finally getting out to look at some birds at the start of the season may just herald an auspicious autumn! I got out to the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory banding station to observe some masters at work. A BTBW in the hand is worth two in the bush… What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2011 Connecticut Sparrows Birds 157

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JUNE 25, 2019

For many North American birders, wood warblers represent everything exciting, compelling, and immediate about birding. Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. In Jamaica , this winter resident is sometimes called Butterfly Bird or Fire Lantern. Even worse, such sobriquets obscure insight into the birds themselves.

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Rights Connecticut Tennessee Nashville 113

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Connecticut. Amendment 2 changed the process for passing conveyance legislation in Connecticut. The post Parks and Public Lands Win at the Polls appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Election Results = PASSED with 59%+ voter support. Northern Harrier. Photo by © Robin Edwards.

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Nevada Georgia Colorado Denver 160

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

No, this isn’t a birding-related insight, but a life lesson to be sure. The best birds of my weekend were Double-crested Cormorants winging over New Jersey’s Meadowlands as I left Sunday’s Giants game. Corey’s BBOTW was an Orange-crowned Warbler at the Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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New Jersey Connecticut 2012 Game 101

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Not having to work until the afternoon on a Wednesday, I took advantage and decided to go birding yesterday. On my way out I ran into Keir Randall, who had just posted an email letting folks know the bird was still present. The bird worked its way up and down the beach, staying near the dune line.

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New York City Connecticut Jamaica New York 172

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JULY 17, 2020

It’s not our first encounter with juniper at Birds and Booze, but this is our first gin, surprisingly. Of course, we had to wait until I found a gin decorated with a bird, rather than, say, a portrait of Queen Victoria (as found on bottles of Bombay Sapphire) or one of those burly Beefeaters that guard the Crown Jewels.

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New York Connecticut Mississippi North America 159

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JULY 15, 2016

You rush over to investigate, and there are birds in your fireplace. Chimney Swifts are remarkable birds who are having a harder and harder time finding brick chimneys in which to nest and raise their families. These fabulous birds fly all the way to South America for the winter, then return in the spring.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary Birds Connecticut 129

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JANUARY 18, 2019

It’s impossible to pick up a can of The Raven – a chocolate raspberry porter by the Fat Orange Cat Brew Company of East Hampton, Connecticut – and not think of that most famous supernatural poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Good birding and happy drinking! The post Fat Orange Cat Brew Company: The Raven appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Cats Connecticut Rights Birds 114

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JULY 28, 2011

The Mountain Lion struck and killed by a car in Connecticut in June has been confirmed as a wild animal. The last confirmed sighting of a cougar in Connecticut was in the late 1800s. Its journey originated in South Dakota, 1,500 miles to the west!

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South Dakota Mountain Lions Cougars Connecticut 159

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MAY 17, 2011

Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. But not me.

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Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 169

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If birders say they love birds ostensibly because they can fly and we cannot, then there must be no more beloved group of birds than the swallows. These aerial acrobats are among the most impressive flyers in the bird world, darting this way and that over open country in pursuit of flying insects. Til next year.

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Jordan Iowa Birds Africa 180

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MARCH 30, 2016

Which, in the bird world, means babies. And who doesn’t love cute baby birds? OspreyCam … no offspring yet, but you can be the first to spot them, at this cam run by the Connecticut Audubon Society. And, of course, no list of bird cams would be complete without Audubon’s Puffin Loafing Ledge. Which means spring fever.

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Bald Eagle Puffins Connecticut Falcons 103

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JANUARY 2, 2012

Two-thousand-and-eleven was a pretty darn good year for me, birding-wise. Sure, I didn’t leave the United States but my first trip to the Pacific Northwest allowed me to see lots of new birds and spending the beginning of the year in southern California didn’t hurt the ol’ year list either. Those birds are big!

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2011 Puffins United States New York 168

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Thanks to a kindhearted man who found it, an able and willing wildlife rehabilitator named Linda Bowen who nursed it back to strength, a helpful pilot who got it to Florida, and a host of others, a White-tailed Tropicbird that was found on the ground and exhausted in Connecticut in the wake of Hurricane Irene will be released tomorrow.

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Florida Wildlife Rehabilitation Connecticut Wildlife 171

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MARCH 27, 2020

An enigmatic line of text emblazoned across the can of this week’s featured beer – the Sherwood Double New England India Pale Ale from Connecticut Valley Brewing Company – implores us to “Rise and Rise Again”. The brewery claims the name comes from Connecticut’s Sherwood Island State Park, the state’s oldest ( Yeah, sure… ).

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Connecticut India Lamb Lions 136

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AUGUST 9, 2018

According to the study, since 1984 heightened temperatures and resulting aridity have caused fires to spread across an additional 16,000 square miles than they otherwise would have—an area larger than the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined 1. Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed.

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Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Science 102

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MAY 18, 2018

Tomorrow I’m taking part in my local club’s official Big Day event – the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club’s 73 rd Annual Guy Bartlett Century Run – for my fifth year in a row. But after an entire day of Century Run birding, I always look forward to a celebratory beverage. There’s always one. Moments like this call for a big can of double IPA.

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Connecticut Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 100

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This bird was photographed a few years ago in Connecticut, by Corey Finger. I know birders just as well as I know birds, and I was not ready to put all my faith in this fantastic sighting. Sure enough, the bird’s true identity became known the next day.

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San Francisco San Diego Connecticut South America 170

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It was frustrating to see the birds and not be able to get them digiscoped but birds do tend to base their actions on their needs and not those of photographers so I continued on my way, enjoying Palm Warblers , Song Sparrows , and Eastern Phoebes. Now that is a good forty-five minutes of after work birding.

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Sparrows New York City New York Connecticut 151

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APRIL 20, 2011

In Connecticut, a woman’s vehicle was totaled after she hit a turkey , flipped a few times and slid 100 feet into the woods. These are just quick turkey car accident links I’ve found on my usual birding news feeds, but I’m sure many more are out there. A woman in Ohio had a turkey crash through her windshield.

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Turkey Hunters New Jersey Boston 222

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JANUARY 15, 2016

info) and is also USFWS licensed for migratory birds, specializing in waterfowl. I told him to bring me the bird, and while he was en route, I prepared a suitable enclosure. Upon arrival, I was surprised to see that the bird had a single, very long (perhaps 14”) tail feather – definitely not a tern.

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Connecticut Florida Wildlife Rehabilitation Delaware 151

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APRIL 3, 2012

Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. New Jersey mystery sparrow.

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New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 214

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Any day of birding in New York State that includes a sighting of a Vesper Sparrow is a better-then-average day. Grassland birds have been hit the hardest across the northeast and Vesper Sparrows like closely cropped landscapes and eschew taller grasses, so they have been hit particularly hard. What has caused the decline?

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JUNE 7, 2019

The tendency of birds to alight onto the wooden posts, steel towers, and metal wires that constitute our power and communications infrastructure turns any car ride into exciting and endless game of drive-by identification. A common sight to all birders: the bird on the wire.

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United States Game North America New York City 116

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AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A A filtration system that works on waterfowl pools without clogging,” wrote Linda in Connecticut. Summer is high season.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 241

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MAY 12, 2014

Birding being a visual and an auditory pursuit, it’s not surprising that publishers have taken advantage of the media of its day to produce bird books accompanied by CDs or DVDs. These allow birders to hear as well as see the birds they are studying. But, that technology is for another article.)

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