10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2020
That trip was to take my wife and I to Turkey, Jordan, and southern Spain, with stopovers near Paris. My one sighting of the little-known Sinaloa Martin outside of summer had occurred on a 29th of February, and I hoped to repeat that experience. Three years of my experience shows that they most certainly do. (On
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2011
We here at 10,000 Birds thought this would be a perfect time to look back and figure out what each of us considered our Best Bird of the Year, just like we did last year. Not only did we not expect to see this seabird this far inland, it was a life bird for me! We would like you to join in!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. • Explore These Related Posts Another California Bird? Larry wanted to share his passion for birds and conservation and hatched The Birders Report in September of 2007.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2012
I realize that listing is a reviled in birding culture as it is celebrated, and more listing even more so, but hear me out here. I mean to make the argument that county listing is birding at its most pure, the ultimate combination of the two warring angels that sit upon each one of our shoulders. A fine bird for the county.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2013
Ring-necked Duck ( Aythya collaris ) photo by Larry Jordan. The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act , which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1, 1934, authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
My wife and I had the privilege of visiting Mexican friends in Jordan in early October. As it turns out, birding can also be slightly delicate in this country. And I have lots of experience with my long lens drawing attention. The Dead Sea wasn’t entirely dead, but the birds there flew by too briefly for IDs.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
And, sure enough, as the sun set birds came over in ones and twos and fours and fives, adding to what was already a pretty darn big flock of birds spread out on the West Pond. Mostly the ducks were Red-breasted Merganser and Greater Scaup , the two most prevalent species on the pond, but there were a few other birds mixed in as well.
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