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Pat’s 2020 Bird List, Mostly from Costa Rica

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And this doesn’t mean you are obsessed or a little bit too much into birds because keeping track of a year list actually comes with some side benefits. Yeah, many of us living the birding life do so anyways because we can’t help it. Go birding! Black-bellied Plover – Pluvialis squatarola; Punta Morales, 10-Jan.

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An Open Letter to Outdoor/Feral Cat Supporters

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I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 25 years. I have received countless numbers of wild birds mangled and/or killed by outdoor/feral cats, such as the Orange-crowned Warbler pictured here. I look at these birds, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be. There is no moral ambiguity here.

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Birding Inner Mongolia

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So, to claim that I birded Inner Mongolia is a massive exaggeration. Let’s move to the birds). ” So, while the first moral seems to be quite acceptable by today’s standards, the second one is surprisingly non-pc. Third note: no more notes. Like my mother, the Chinese Nuthatch habitually hoards food (HBW).

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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10,000 Birds’s collaborative list has not been entered to feature here, but if we did we choose to press our advantage of having beats strategically placed around the world, we would currently be in second place. The year has started well with 10 new birds from India, China, Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica. 21 Jan 2020.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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African Gray Woodpecker – Chloropicus goertae. Smoky-brown Woodpecker – Dryobates fumigatus. Golden-olive Woodpecker – Colaptes rubiginosus. Golden-crowned Woodpecker – Chloropicus xantholophus. Brown-eared Woodpecker – Campethera caroli. Hairy Woodpecker – Dryobates villosus.

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Collaborative List – March 2017

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79 checklists were contributed for 624 birds during March and bring the running total for 2017 to 1162. So the accolades for March go to Donna while the dirty looks are directed at Mike who has admitted, in print, that he has been birding this month but has come over all faint around the share button. The lifetime list reaches 2747.

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Collaborative list – April 2019

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If I know the readership at 10,000 Birds, they are already way ahead on this one, but please remember to give the migrants a little space. Red-bellied Woodpecker – Melanerpes carolinus. Downy Woodpecker – Dryobates pubescens. Hairy Woodpecker – Dryobates villosus. The migrants are coming (Hurray!).

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