10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

The current situation with exotic bird species in Florida is in a state of flux, particularly southeast Florida where the bulk of exotic bird diversity in the United States resides — and much of it “uncountable.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. 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.

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2016

A non-countable exotic he may be, but the fan display of a peacock is one of the birding world’s most splendid sights. Crandon Park, on the island just off the coast of Miami, Fla., In the moderate warmth of a Miami morning, he was able to sustain his fan under light cloud for longer than my camera battery could last.

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10,000 Birds

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.

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Louisville Bald Eagle Kansas Oregon 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Don’t they compete with native birds? In fact, when I was attending classes at the University of Miami, I found the birds so faithful to their routine that I could roughly tell what time it was depending on if the resident male oriole was singing — and what a song!

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Miami Costa Rica Florida 2005 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2012

Just to keep that sweet paternal vibe going, I’m going to award double points to anyone whose best bird of the weekend was seen in the company of a dad or by a dad with his child. However, I spotted that egregious invasive while in Miami during a layover fro Trinidad and Tobago. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In September, I had the fantastic opportunity to travel to an increasingly popular destination for birding: Honduras. Chris Lotz, the owner of the international bird tour company Birding Ecotours , invited me to join him on a familiarization trip that included several highland sites as well as Pico Bonito Lodge.

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10,000 Birds

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. It was truly heart-warming to see the local birding community participate with so much enthusiasm and fervor. This bird was a life bird for him!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Even when they are not feeding in their endearing manner, chasing the waves back and forth, Sanderlings are still one of the most watchable birds that you are ever likely to see. My travels this week took me to Miami , where the ocean could barely summon the energy to lap gently against the sand.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

Artist Enrique Gomez De Molina was sentenced to 20 months in prison and a $6,000 fine in Miami on Friday for trafficking in illegal and threatened wildlife. “In promoting that message, he fell grievously from doing things the right way and became one of the very people he tried to educate,” Kuehne said.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

You may not realize it when you look at those bizarre looking waders with the massive bills and the vacant expression, but you’re looking at a group of birds that has inspired humankind for literal centuries. It’s hard not to be taken in with the green-glossy plumage of these highly migratory and social birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America are often cheaper than going to places like Arizona, Colorado, or California. Intermittent heavy showers made birding with any consistency difficult at first.

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Jamaica Puerto Rico 2013 Birds 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

However, the bulk of the population breeds in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties at the southern tip of the state, particularly around the mangrove fringed coasts and islets of Florida and Biscayne Bay. Birding Florida mangrove warbler' Petersburg area on the west coast. with the bulk of the population in the Upper Keys and Florida Bay.

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Florida Breeders Miami Tampa 185

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

We would like everyone to give a warm welcome to the latest Beat Writer here on 10,000 Birds, Carlos Sanchez. A Miami native and resident, Carlos is perfectly situated to write about South Florida, which will be his beat, though it would not be the least bit surprising if he occasionally writes about birds and birding further afield.

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Florida Puerto Rico Costa Rica Ecuador 158

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Birds are supposed to have feathers and birds without feathers look incomplete, like they left home with shaving cream on their ear and toothpaste spots on their shirt. The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. T urkey Vulture, photo by Dawn Puliafico.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 180

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2012

It was a real pleasure to have a friend and colleague, Simon, accompany me on a visit to Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Miami this week. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds make sure to check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and growing) page of galleries here at 10,000 Birds.

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Miami Florida Hunting Breeding 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

Rangel Diaz is doing a big year in Miami-Dade County, Florida, hoping to reach 300 species, and keeping a blog about it. Follow his adventures at Greg and Birds. I’m not at all sure what his goal is other than seeing lots of birds but Canada is a big country so I bet he succeeds! Check out EPIC Big Year 2013.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

As the cold fronts begin to sweep through the northern states ushering in a wave of seasonal change and color, South Florida becomes a gathering place for migratory birds far and wide across the country. Every day that the weather persists, the birds gather in larger and larger numbers — a “back up.”

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Florida Miami Birds Falcons 253

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2013

Much like how Everglades National Park flanks the western border of metropolitan Miami, Florida, Saguaro National Park flanks both the eastern and western outskirts of Tucson, making for easy access to residents and tourists alike who spend time in that city. Many bird species were observed feeding in the blooms of these cacti.

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Arizona Tucson Miami Shelters 163

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

Being no where near as heavily birded as the aforementioned birding hotspot, I decided to do some exploration and see what the habitat was like all the way south to where the tropical hardwood hammock switches over to open sawgrass prairie. where are these birds coming from?

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Florida United States Texas Miami 183

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

Interestingly, the birding lexicon uses other terms to describe unanticipated arrivals in more positive terms. What would birding be without the prospect of twitching the occassional vagrant, which is by definition an uninvited, though in these cases welcome, guest. Birds exotics invasive species Invasive Species Week irruption'

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Many state listers immediately chased it even though the bird was very mobile and did not offer good looks for most who tried. Also, tropical waters lack the dynamics for significant upwellings of cold, nutrient rich water to reach the surface and feed the extreme density of plankton that feed the vast schools of fish these birds rely upon.

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Florida Cuba 2012 Bahamas 215

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

European Starlings count as much as any other bird on a big year. Now seems like a good time to look in on the birding big years happening in 2013 to see how folks are doing as they tear around their county or region or state or province or country trying to see as many birds as possible before 1 January 2014.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the least known stories of New York birding is the tale of the wild Mitred Parakeets. JFK Airport was a major hub for the importation of wildlife for the pet trade, and it is likely that birds escaped from quarantine during this period. The population may also be supplemented by releases of pet birds. from South America.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Every year from around January through the end of March, Anhinga Trail in Everglades National Park comes alive as water levels throughout the park drop and force birds to concentrate around more permanent water sources. Suddenly, the entire trail system comes alive as birds begin their day.

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Wildlife Florida Miami Alligators 129

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Nonetheless, this bird is one of the most interesting species in the avifauna of southeast Florida for many reasons — an interesting biology that parallels that of several pigeon species in the Old World Tropics as well as its limited distribution in the state.

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Florida Miami Bahamas Mexico 159

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It’s not just that the flamingos are the bird that other people react to — because they react to it, it’s the bird I want to talk about. Flamingos represented Vegas and Miami and pre-Castro Cuba. The Blackcap in our garden was more up close and personal, the Cirl Bunting was in a more beautiful landscape.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Here is a synopsis from a Brown University web site about his case : Matthew Block, of Worldwide Primates, Miami, FL, was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison, three years of supervised probation, and a $30,000 fine at a 2-day sentence hearing on April 16, 1993.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2022

It’s a brew with unapologetically loud flavors and a bold, lurid can to match featuring Connecticut artist Edgar Allan Slothman’s lively, Day-Glo interpretation of John James Audubon’s portrait of a caracara pair from The Birds of America. Good birding and happy drinking! Collective Arts Brewing: Jam Up Passion Fruit & Peach.

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Collecting Phoenix New York Miami 182

10,000 Birds

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. The reason the location is remaining undisclosed is that reliable Mangrove Cuckoos are difficult to find in the American Birding Association area and are a very sought after species. Come on, Carlos! Come on, Carlos!

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 117

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Carlos Sanchez is an excellent birder, a Miami resident, and a polyglot. 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. That’s right.

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Florida Miami Cuba Bahamas 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Autumn migration gets off to an inauspicious start in Miami-Dade with the appearance of a small selection of passerines at local migrant traps at mid-July. Birders in South Florida might have to wait until next October to have a chance at seeing these birds again. A visit to A.D. A fall Cape May Warbler, by Carlos Sanchez.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Although the two activities seem mutually exclusive at first glance, shopping mall parking lots and the edge habitats that surround them can be ideal for incidental birding in the holiday season or even any season. In fact, several species in Miami-Dade are found exclusively in such habitats.

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Miami Fast Food Florida Birds 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2013

Smooth-billed Ani ( Crotophaga ani ) is a widespread and ubiquitous bird in disturbed grassy areas throughout much of the neotropics, including most of the Caribbean Islands. Incredibly social, Smooth-billed Anis form monogamous pairs that build a communal nest where all birds share in the responsibilities of feeding and tending to the young.

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Florida Virgin Islands Miami Breeders 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We did however gain an extra night, at our expense in Miami, Florida, all of which was in the dark, so I could not even run out and put a couple of birds on a Florida State List. Our first stop was the Lakeview Drive Ponds, Corey’s primary birding location when he and his family visited the island a few years ago.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2015

The bat was once believed to be common on Florida’s eastern coast in the Miami-Coral Gables area but reported there only a few times since the mid-1960s. Further studies used geographic variation and morphology to arrive to the conclusion that E.

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Bats Florida Endangered Species Cuba 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

In fact, the guide represents such a bold leap forward that reading it makes one wonder what the future of bird guides holds. This is why we asked readers to share their views on the NEXT big step in bird guide design, philosophy, or technology as part of our Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway. Digital guides (for ipod, etc.)

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