Birds Experiments Mississippi Species 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
The bird is just chilling out, waiting for the urge to fly. The bird below is also waiting, but not to fly. One might assume this is a falconry bird, but it’s not. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of birds knows the efficiency and delicacy of their respiratory systems. Now imagine you have the lungs of a bird.
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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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Each time, a small notebook tagged along with me, and I would note the bird species I spotted, then put it away. As we kept paddling, I continued, “It helps me remember when birds come and when they leave. I can go back in my notebook to see when other species arrive, or which spend all year in my Florida region.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2013
How are seasons like species? We’re in the midst of a shoulder season right now, which can be almost as much fun as finding a cool hybrid or intergrade bird in the wild. The bird I was happiest to see this weekend was Eastern Kingbird , a flycatcher that screams summer to me (awesome photo above by Carlos Sanchez ).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2014
There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner. But Warner Brothers cartoons aside, Greater Roadrunner is a much more adaptable species that we give it credit for. It’s not easy to reconcile the vision of this quintessential desert bird in McMansion land.
10,000 Birds
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
Though I have been birding for a few years now, I had only birded west of the Mississippi once before my recent trip to Austin, Texas. Given how far west I found myself, I was hoping for at least a handful of new birds. I didn’t realize how many new species I would see within the city itself! Monk Parakeet.
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