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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

There really isn’t much to say about the Mottled Duck. It is one of several species in the Mallard -complex of ducks, along with American Black Duck , Mexican Duck , and quite a few others. Essentially the Mottled Duck is the southern analog to the American Black Duck. What a bird!

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Ducks Florida Illinois Mississippi 169

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JANUARY 13, 2020

My business trip to Florida to host the Tests and the Rest Winter Conference 2020 was more than just a professional success. January in Florida always delivers on tasty birds. The Black-bellied Whistling Ducks pictured above wanted no part of these colorful bruisers. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Florida Birds Ducks 159

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MAY 2, 2016

On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. Of course, I contacted Carlos Sanchez , alleged south Florida birder extraordinaire, to maximize the returns on what time I could spend. Let me get out of the car before making me look at birds! Come on, Carlos!

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 122

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I’ll be the first to admit the selection of ducks so far at Booze and Birds has been rather paltry. Stumpy Duck is an American pale ale by Trillium Brewing Company of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the most popular breweries in New England for the past few years. Not exactly a small bird.

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Ducks Houston Boston Fowl 104

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

We birders are very particular about the birds that we count. We can count introduced species that have met the criteria of the “Bird Police” for the area to which they are introduced. There are lots of birds we can’t count. There are lots of birds we can’t count. We can’t count caged birds.

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Chickens Florida Feral Species 205

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MAY 20, 2023

But does ChatGPT have even a rudimentary understanding of a niche topic like birding? I asked it a few questions about birding locations and the (unedited) results are below, along with some brief analysis. Please note that the availability of specific bird species may vary depending on the season.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon who loves to share thoughtful , in-depth conservation pieces with 10,000 Birds readers. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), contain many of the nation’s most renowned birding locations, including Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico, Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas, and J.N.

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Factory Ducks North Dakota Nebraska 118

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MARCH 1, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Manky Muscovy Ducks Manky Muscovy Ducks By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 6 comments Tweet Share The Muscovy Duck ( Cairina moschata ) attracts more attention than most ducks, at least in North America.

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 223

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Within one week, I saw Bufflehead over 1,200 miles apart, first in Maine, and then along the Florida Panhandle. Bufflehead are black and white ducks, the male sporting a large white patch on an otherwise black head. We all know that birds are amazing. Bufflehead swimming along the Gulf Islands National Seashore. million.

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Florida Alaska Cuba United States 107

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AUGUST 29, 2020

Most birders know what a nemesis bird is and, most of all, what that truly means. It happens to every birder and it may take a while but eventually, every person who strives to see different species of birds comes across that one warbler, that particular shorebird or bunting or crossbill that they really, honestly, should have seen.

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Costa Rica Ducks Birds Laws 262

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MAY 25, 2020

Note: Erika is the Communications Director for Audubon Florida. I have been birding for about seven years now – time flies when you’re having fun. However, until this spring I had yet to participate in some of birding’s most time-honored traditions: a Birdathon. The covid-19 alteration?

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Florida 2020 Shelters Species 183

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I exclusively see Common Loons , both in Maine – where I spent the holidays and into January – and at my home base in Florida. Mom and I birded at Maine’s Fort Edgecomb State Historic Site while Dad chased my hyperactive toddler across the grassy slope. The Common Loon look-alike bird remained a mystery.

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Bald Eagle Florida Farming Eagles 232

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APRIL 20, 2011

O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. What an oddly proportioned bird! a tropical delight!

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Florida Tail Banding Ducks Ohio 145

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville, Florida, is an amazing destination to see a wide variety of wildlife including, of course, birds! And while I didn’t lead any field trips to the refuge this year during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I did visit the refuge on a couple of occasions.

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Wildlife Florida Birds Ducks 237

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

That will be the opening day of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. Who knows what great birds 2015 will bring? Like this past January, I will be leading field trips and spending the rest of my time birding. So, basically, I’ll be birding all the time.

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2015 Wildlife Florida Birds 203

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JANUARY 1, 2019

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers, listers and photographers, friends and fellow travelers near and far! Writing a post scheduled for January 1st for a birding blog is a big responsibility. On the first of the year, every bird is a new bird! It was a United States lower-48 birding year for me.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 163

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MAY 29, 2012

In early May, I reluctantly accepted my parental obligation to bring my children to Orlando, Florida. At least, thought I, Florida would produce some superior birds. Orlando, Florida is an ecological blight. If you’re looking for birds, try Disney’s Animal Kingdom. In this, I was absolutely wrong.

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Florida Birds Alligators Turtles 175

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Once upon a time, bird field guides included nests. Decades later, Richard Pough’s Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds (I happily own the 1948 edition) included nest and egg descriptions for each species as well. There are many reasons to inquire about bird nests (and eggs) and how to identify them. Harrison. (A

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 239

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JANUARY 20, 2020

He has been an avid lover of the natural world since he was a kid, with a strong love for paleontology when he was younger, but he only took up birding in his last year of high school and hasn’t looked back since. This is Luis’s first guest post on 10,000 Birds but hopefully not his last! And something different I got!

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 170

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

As it turned out the month of October brings some of the common migratory waterfowl to our local water treatment plant ponds in Indian River County, Florida. Other ducks such as American Wigeons , Northern Pintails , and Northern Shovelers are as common at the ponds as the frequency and duration of each cold front. Flock of coots.

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Florida Ducks Birds 174

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JUNE 6, 2015

Lake Apopka Restoration Area in Lake County Florida is fast-becoming one of the best bird magnets in all of Florida. Situated pretty much slap-bang in the center of the state north of Lake Okeechobee, this massive wetland was once the Florida’s most polluted body of water.

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2015 Florida Farming 2014 240

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JANUARY 5, 2015

2014 was a great year for birding! Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m Now we need to top that number next year!

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2014 Costa Rica New York New Jersey 244

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JANUARY 29, 2013

“Out West” to most Floridians might mean California or Arizona or might even refer to the Gulf Coast of Florida. These two water management wetlands are amongst the very best birding and photography locations in south Florida. And this is where magic happens from time to time. If not THE best.

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North America Factory Alligators Trafficking 230

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For many in the birding community, Miami is a destination meant only for ticking off ABA-countable exotics such as Spot-breasted Oriole or Red-whiskered Bulbul. For others, it is simply a launching point to Everglades National Park or the Florida Keys. This bird was a life bird for him!

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Miami 2015 United States Birds 168

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MARCH 22, 2013

Greetings, 10,000 Birds readers! Birds have already begun making their presence known on the court. The Round of 64 boasts a healthy contingent of teams with bird mascots.* For the record, here are all the bird-related teams who made it to the tournament: Oregon Ducks. Florida Gulf Coast Eagles. Temple Owls.

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Louisville Bald Eagle Kansas Oregon 161

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AUGUST 13, 2021

“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina. I picked up a few bottles and we were off on our way home to Albany.

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New York South Carolina North Carolina Massachusetts 264

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In terms of early morning birding, I’m the worst. As a result, I more often bird in the afternoon or evening, despite the fact that there are fewer birds I can actually see. As a result, I more often bird in the afternoon or evening, despite the fact that there are fewer birds I can actually see.

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Blackbirds Birds Owls Florida 154

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JANUARY 30, 2019

After being “officially” closed during the government shutdown, Florida’s Gulf Islands National Seashore didn’t look too worse for wear when my husband and I visited over the weekend. As a duck hunter, he had seen Redheads and scaups and mergansers throughout the winter, but as I did not relish getting up at 3:30 a.m.

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Bald Eagle 2019 Florida Hunters 113

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JANUARY 23, 2013

The cup runneth over with good birding at the Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival in Titusville, Florida. It matters very little what field trip you sign up for, or which leader you end up going out with, you’re likely to find some excellent birds and get some extraordinary looks at them.

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Florida Bald Eagle Eagles Ducks 194

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Sometimes great birding days are not about all the birds you see. As I hopped in my car to head home, I pondered the Florida birds I had yet to see. I am an odd duck sometimes, and I have strict rules for my own personal birding. Some are great because of just one. How does one almost see something?

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Sea Turtles Dolphins Birds Turtles 159

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will take place from the twenty-second of January until the twenty-seventh of January in 2014. What’s not to like about amazingly cooperative birds , fascinating bird behavior , and a bird that is impossible to find outside of Florida ?

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2014 Bald Eagle Florida Wildlife 155

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APRIL 13, 2021

The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. For example, the survey (of eBirders) found: “Nearly all respondents (99%) indicated they participate in birdwatching or birding.”.

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

During the decade, I submitted 1,219 checklists and observed 555 bird species, all in the U.S. I started eBirding about the same time I started birding, and I made an early executive decision (a very good one) that any pre-eBird observations simply did not count. Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 151

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APRIL 8, 2019

More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights. He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 200

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Ok, so just to prove that you can do birding anywhere and anyhow, check this out. Two of my favorite pastimes are birding and surfing. When I tell her I’m working at the office for the day, I’m probably going birding. But one thing is REALLY good for both and there is no shortage of them during the fall in Florida.

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Birds Florida Bahamas 2005 153

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JANUARY 3, 2017

It was a good birding year. Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good. I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 112

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JULY 24, 2020

billion in LWCF appropriations since the 1960s is substantially more than the approximately $1 billion of Federal Duck Stamp revenue since the 1930s. However, the only national organization representing birders, the American Birding Association , was notably absent. For a sense of magnitude, the approximately $11.4

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