10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

I’m still in Israel, planning to cap off our adventure by exploring the Dead Sea and some live birds. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Only through travel can you truly appreciate all the plates! How about you?

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Puerto Rico 2016 New York 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Did you see any birds that you particularly loved this weekend? That coupled with my preparations for a departure for Puerto Rico late on Sunday means that I didn’t get much birding done. The mergansers were nice but not as nice as a new bird for me in Queens would have been! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Puerto Rico New York City 2016 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have to be a football-loving, bird-chasing father of schoolchildren to truly understand the attractions of early September in New York, but the season has something exciting for everyone. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Why don’t you take the weekend off to focus on some of those finer things in life that are free and go birding? I happy to say that Corey and I, after far too long, will be birding together somewhere in the NYC Metro region this weekend. What are you doing this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Birds and airplane compete for right-of-way at Sky Harbor Airport and Seaplane Base (image by Donald Emmerich, Wikimedia Commons). The damage to the bird in question tends toward the catastrophic.) During migration periods, conventional radar systems can give birders a helpful heads’ up as to when and where birds are moving.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

In the realm of birding, it might also be the season for Big Days. With all of those birds singing and showing off their breeding colors, it’s no surprise that we see major bird races like Champions of the Flyway and The World Series of Birding , along with other main birding events like the Global Big Day.

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Costa Rica Birds Species 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

Damning evidence includes an Israeli bird band and unusually large nostrils. Last year, vigilant Saudi Arabian officials detained an Israeli spy vulture yet apparently failed to foil the “Zionist espionage plot.” Birders of the world: if you see something, say something. ( Hat-tip to Suzie Gilbert ! )

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

And so South Africa’s fifth largest park came to be (it’s worth remembering that its largest park, Kruger, is the size of Israel) on marginal land that no one in particular could do much with. Oh, this is a bird site, almost forgot. Yes, there are birds. I stumbled on Madikwe completely by accident. Or Cheetahs.

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South Africa Leopards Giraffes Africa 141

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2012

Well, it is nesting season and being a nest box monitor with three Bluebird Trails, I thought I should rectify the blatant lack of coverage on 10000 Birds of one of the most iconic North American birds of our time. ” at the American Bird Conservancy’s website. Until next time, I leave you with the late Israel Ka?ano?i

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

February 2023 was a slow month for birding in Shanghai, at least for me – so slow that I almost put the Spotted Dove , possibly my least favorite bird here, on the cover. Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. Maybe those should be protected too?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

I’ve just returned from a trip to Israel and I feel like I’ve run 300 miles in a week…in the blazing sun…uphill…with no water…and carrying a one hundred pound sandbag. In reality I’ve returned from filming the second Champions of the Flyway Bird Race. And I had it easy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I also love large congregations of birds. I take comfort in that, when I see a huge flock of birds, I feel so insignificant, it’s liberating. One of those places is the Hula Valley in northern Israel, home to the large Lake Hula which was drained in the 1950s to make way for more agricultural opportunities and prevent malaria.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This year, it seems I wrote one post on birding in Shanghai each month – and I am still not even sure anyone is interested in these. Probably the most interesting bird this month was a Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher showing up in the Shanghai Botanical Garden. I know – sexism is very common in the birding world.

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Finland Birds 2016 McDonalds 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I enjoy digiscoping–using a digital camera with my spotting scope to get photos of birds. Originally digiscoping started as a way to simply get a documentation or souvenir photo of a bird using point and shoot pocket cameras with scopes or binoculars. It’s changed quite a bit over the years. Then came smart phones.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The name is a puzzle though – even the HBW states that the bird has “small or no crest” These photos were taken on Sep 26, indicating that the birds passed Shanghai rather late (according to the HBW, “autumn migration from early to late Sept”). This is not really an option at Nanhui though. The female.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

According to a local African superstition that I just made up, it is not harmful to eat toxically colored birds if you eat them in the dark. Colonial history reflected in bird names. Unfortunately, the Fork-tailed Drongo is not the honest and god-fearing bird one could wish for.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

Last year beats were being spotted way beyond their usual habitat with checklists shared from India, Puerto Rico and Israel. It is good to see that the westerners have picked up the gauntlet after their humiliation in the first list and are currently out-birding the eastern hemisphere by 771:345. fantastic birding tour dock area.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2017

I wouldn’t mind watching birds through palm leaves forever! From my poolside viewpoint I can encompass four countries: Egypt where I am and, over the sea, Israel to the far left (there’s a birding mecca of Eilat), Jordan in the middle and finally the endless deserts of Saudi Arabia to the right.

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Egypt Saudi Arabia Compassion 104