10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2021

To be honest, this is because the birding has been a bit slow of late. And our rainy season, which to my relief continues to be abundant, does mean that birds no longer concentrate around sources of water. It was also to be expected that the first passerine to turn up would be the Louisiana Waterthrush.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Another pair of Whoopers has been shot , this time in Louisiana. Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.). The pair was part of a project aimed at restoring the birds to Louisiana. The female was killed but experts suggest the male will survive, although perhaps without the ability to fly.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

A straight shot to my bird feeder. My yard is a birding hotspot. The feeder dangles from a clothesline between two pine trees, beckoning a range of bird varieties. Hours slowly ticked by, but I had seemingly infinite opportunities to watch my birds while stilling leftover restless energy with knitting.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

Though Corey spent most of the day on Sunday birding Sandy Hook in New Jersey, seeing 73 species of birds, including four new species for him for the year, his Best Bird of the Weekend was the Forest Park waterhole in Queens, where he spotted his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2017

June may be the gateway to summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but the birding still delivers the thrills of spring migration when you have access to the right birds’ breeding grounds. Corey had a surprising wealth of birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Clavruel’s book is not a day-by-day recreation of Audubon’s various itineraries, but rather a loose investigation of “regions and birds unknown to me,” he says, prompted by his “desire to meet and sketch people who live each day in contact with nature.” Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Winter birding can be fun, especially when you do it in a place with palms, parrots, and weather for wearing shorts. This is where the summer birds go, where those fall warblers went sometime after October. Louisiana Waterthrush. Louisiana Waterthrush. Get ready to see this bird. Cloud Forest near San Ramon.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2014

How would you like to see a lot of bird species in a day? Well, a team from Louisiana State University managed to pull that off on 14 October, seeing an astounding 354 species in one day in Peru. Birding big day Peru' Like, more species than anyone else anywhere has ever seen in a day?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2022

In fact, it was birding that brought them into our lives. I happen to have visited that country twice (both for ministerial purposes and, alas, before I started my second birding period). But finally, three weeks after their arrival, the day arrived when Ricardo and I could go birding together. I was born in 1958.)

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

We’re especially interested in ones involving birds and nature. My best birds of this weekend were ones I’ve already admired in recent weeks. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

But some recent work by James Maley and others is shedding more light on these secretive and fascinating birds. The photo above, one of mine, shows a Clapper Rail in Louisiana. In freshwater rails, this gland is smaller, and the birds do not fare well in saltier environments. These birds are all relatively brightly colored.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! First, wildlife officials in Louisiana announced the first successful wild Whooping Crane nest in that state since 1939. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

The most flamboyant of all hummers, the Marvelous Spatuletail will be one of the many endemic bird highlights along the route of the Second International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. I can’t convey how thrilled I am about the upcoming International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. Photo: Courtesy of Dubi Shapiro.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge : Open to migratory bird hunting (youth only). The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. This is an Urban Refuge ! Why would you open it up to hunting?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Hardly the elegant, natural picture deserving of some seriously stunning birds! And what I found made me take a step back in time and reflect upon how truly special these birds are. In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Hurricane Nate looked set to disrupt my first visit to Louisiana. The birds appeared relaxed and the reflections in the bayous were hardly disturbed by a ripple. Reports predicted that we would make landfall in New Orleans at around the same time. and takes the turn for City Park. Trolley car 12 plies its route along St.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Spoonbills and ibises are stocky, colorful wading birds with distinctive bills: downcurved and pointed in the case of ibises, flat and paddle shaped in the spoonbills (above is my shot of Roseate Spoonbills ( Platalea ajaja ) near a breeding colony in Louisiana). Roseate Spoonbill ( Platalea ajaja ) in Louisiana © David J.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

What if there was an international multi-day Birding competition? Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Bolivia doesn’t come up much in discussions of birding travel.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2020

10,000 Birds is having trouble with our website platform. When you are an American expatriate who lives, and birds, in Mexico, it is a topsy-turvy world. One or or two of these cute birds visited me every day throughout the winter. A good winter will also include an Ovenbird, and at least one Louisiana Waterthrush.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

February had brought zipping breezes and cloudy skies to this part of coastal Texas, but the birds didn’t seem to mind. Encompassing over 30,000 acres, the refuge protects birds of course, but also butterflies, mammals, and more. While the whistling ducks may have been the highlight, there were birds everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

“Tis the season for migration, bi bi bi bi bird, bi bird bi bird.” If you were trying to pick out Blackburnian Warblers and other migrants from the September foliage in Central Park, the shores of Ohio, or any other sites in the north a few weeks ago, a fair number of those birds have now made it to Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Oil washes ashore at Venice, Louisiana. Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. May 19, 2010 Oil washes ashore on mainland Louisiana.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2013

At first glance you might not recognize this bird as a Golden-crowned Sparrow ( Zonotrichia atricapilla ). It is an immature bird with an indistinct yellowish forecrown with dark stripes on its crown (click on photos for full sized images). Resources: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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Critter News

MAY 24, 2010

Several pelicans were coated in oil on Barataria Bay off Louisiana, their usually brown and white feathers now jet black. It is unclear if the area can even be cleaned, or if the birds can be saved. Tags: birds marine life pelicans 2010 oil spill. It's the Exxon Valdez all over again.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

However, for those of us living the birding life, Spring is more than just the transition between the cold and the warm. It’s also a big time for bird movements, a period punctuated by waves of migrants, first the early ones, then a time of many species, and finally, those last “late” migrants moving north.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

However, oiled birds would have suffered even more were it not for the relief workers attending to as many as they could. The April 2010 Gulf oil spill was obviously devastating to the region’s wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

Today’s quiz is all about birds. Every clue is about birds. Birds, birds, birds. The answer, however, is not about birds. 3 rd word, first syllable: what do Kirtland’s Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm Warbler, American Pipit (and maybe others) ­­­­­have in common?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

His obituary in The Auk describes him as “without a doubt” responsible for Texas’ laws on bird conservation, “for he was the first in the state to present the real facts concerning the importance of bird life in its relation to human welfare.” Undeveloped land absorbs water, filters salt, and slows wind.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Sad news out of Louisiana. Maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to shoot any cranes? Hat-tip to Julie.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Actually, I visited the Two Towers twice, had about 50 bird species each time and about 60 in total, so this is sort of a composite tour description. Birds are mostly the same, only Pygmy Cormorants are becoming more numerous. After a long, chill day of open-window bird-driving, we went to a shabby village tavern, the only one around.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2011

This past weekend had the family and me visiting my folks for Easter in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, “Where,&# as the slogan says, “The Catskills Meet the Hudson.&# Because I am an absurdly early riser of late I had some time before breakfast on Sunday to get out for some birding. Nah, impossible!** It was great!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

Corey was lucky enough to meet Carlos while birding in Ecuador , where Carlos was dragooned into accompanying the horde of Queens birders for the day, an encounter that somehow didn’t turn him off of all things New York. If you have been out birding in southeast Florida there is a good chance that you have run into him in the field.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

All we do is complain about the lack of migrating birds so far and in New York City if southeast winds are blowing we are nearly despondent because southeast winds mean that the birds are moving north but the easterly component of the winds keep usually keep the bulk of birds to our west. … Birds migration wood-warblers'

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2012

” That is the defense of Lloyd “Chip” Badeaux , a city councilman in Thibodaux, Louisiana, for killing 48 whistling-ducks at a friend’s house. “This is not just regular duck. This is an infestation, they come by the thousands.” State law allows 6 dead ducks per day.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

Here is what I remember about the quiz: the clues are all about birds, but the answer is not. Clues=birds. Answer=not birds. 3 rd word, 1 st syllable … what do Kirtland’s Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm Warbler, American Pipit (and maybe others) ­­­­­have in common? As I said, all of the clues have to do with birds.

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