10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

And after visiting these birds regularly for the past ten years, I take their situation very personally. And would those birds still be there, or had they been forced to move on? I normally see Ruddy Ducks on the lake’s deepest waters, and as I said, there are no deep waters in the Lake Cuitzeo right now.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Not all birds are created equal. These are the kinds of birds even those barely cognizant of nature recognize, appreciate, and aspire to. These are the kinds of birds even those barely cognizant of nature recognize, appreciate, and aspire to. Central Africa has one of those birds.

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Uganda Africa Birds Penguins 272

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This last year of the twenty-teens was a monumental birding year for me. I saw 863 species of birds, bringing my life list to 1,820. I birded Uganda, which was my first time on the continent of Africa. Such travel brings a lot of birds and the 863 species I saw this year is the most species I have ever seen.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Having finally found a Black Vulture for my Queens list , an important tick both because it was long overdue and because it was the tenth bird since my last set of predictions, it is time, once again, to look at what might be coming to my Queens list. Either way, the odds of actually getting a Brown Pelican in Queens are pretty low.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2018

Such seasonal signifiers include but are not limited to incipient blossoms, modest budding, children in shorts, and possibly even some new birds. I dropped in at Montezuma NWR before the errant American White Pelican could pull itself away from the carp-filled canal. Such a tough guy deserves to be Best Bird of the Weekend.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Still, a birder’s gotta bird, so I made sure I would have one morning to check out someplace right there in town. I practiced on these Brown Pelicans. I was rewarded by three birds of prey in rapid succession: A Short-tailed Hawk , a Swainson’s Hawk , and this Zone-tailed Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2017

You see I am sitting here typing this with one functioning finger on my right hand. This is because I have torn the ligaments in my right, and I might add, very dominate wrist. For the time being, my birding is limited to the species that I can see on my walk thru the marina, to my office.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left. At home, I may find a new bird, perhaps two, but four? Last evening, Nikos Gallios, the owner and manager of Limneo 3Bs (bed, breakfast & birding) in Chrisochorafa Village asked me what my targets are? The solution? The Kerkini Lake.

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you like birds on posts, if seeing “little brown jobs” posing nicely in the distance as you drive or walk along a dirt road only to have it fly away as you approach makes you deliriously happy, then North Dakota is the place for you. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state. Scott Barnes, N.J.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 144

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2016

There is little doubt in my mind, that the topic of urban birding has been well covered on this and every other birding site. Despite that, I have it in my head to jot down a few of the interesting things about birding here in La Paz, Mexico. With out question, the birding hotspot in this area, is the sewer treatment ponds.

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Mexico Birds Pelicans Geese 140

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I would wake up in darkness, gather my camera and binoculars and drive to Alabama for a birding tour along a river. Blue Jays called near the boat ramp, and a lone, juvenile Brown Pelican paddled lazily in the lapping waves. There was nothing exciting about my birding as I slowly counted feathered creatures on eBird.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2017

I was itching to get out of the car and bird. My binoculars were on the seat right next to me, so close and yet, so far. Birds were literally everywhere. We had a set-in-stone plan to go scalloping on the nearby seagrass beds, and had to head straight past the birding hotspots to the boat ramp and then out onto the bay.

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Wildlife Florida Pelicans Fish 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Definitely my personal favorite of Africa’s pink birds is the delicate Pink-throated Twinspot. Pink-backed Pelican. Its a pelican that is restricted to freshwaters whereas Great White also enjoys the marine zones. Its a pelican that is restricted to freshwaters whereas Great White also enjoys the marine zones.

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Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 217

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

As for nice clothing … right! asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. that although her cockatiel is obsessed with her silver feather earrings, the only wild bird ever interested in them was a Brown-headed Cowbird. “My Raccoons are worse than birds,” said Gay Frazee.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Exercise-wise, I had other options as I work right next to the beach, and I slipped on my walking shoes to take a stroll down the sand. I’ve written about birding walks on Okaloosa Island before, but for me the view never gets old. Birding during the golden hour of a sunset is especially remarkable. It felt liberating.

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Pelicans Rights Birds Florida 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2015

This time I was lucky enough to join a fam trip organised by Natural Greece, an ecotourism company from Athens, and spend a few days at my favourite Kerkini Lake, which you already birded through my bins ( April and September ). These cute little birds are common in the villages. Yes, those were four eagles in 20 minutes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Imagine waking up to the call of thousands of ducks, geese, and every kind of marsh bird you can imagine. Right, smack dad in the middle of Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge. Not another person for miles, and a pair of friendly, well, almost, Great Horned Owls living in the tree right above us. Now that is a first.

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Blackbirds Mules Beavers Wildlife 122

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2020

Where do you go to bird, when you know you might not be able to go anywhere else? Almost all the flying birds in the heading photo above are Dowitchers (with American White Pelicans behind them), and those are only one part of the total I saw along both lake shores. But this Plover is a Snowy, and will stay right here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2016

The topography looks like it is right out of an early John Wayne movie. There is very little fresh water, at least to be found year round, but the bird populations all seem to do just fine. After you pass the mine, things change quite a bit.

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Zebras Birds Sparrows Mexico 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

She previously wrote on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms. Normally when someone says “wedding,” they don’t also think “birds.” was about all the southern birds I could cross off my list! Hopping almost right next to me, I later identified it as the Boat-tailed Grackle !

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. And us, the birders who travel here from March to May to worship the birds as they seek to survive.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. Lots and lots of birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Have you read my blogs on birding Greece ? But, however successful it proved to be at the moment, waiting for accidental appearance is not the best birding tactic. On both routes, some 50-60 km / 30-40 mi from the border lies one magical lake where you should spend at least two nights and devote one full day to birding.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

“The estuary and the delta of the River Kalamas form the most important wetland of northwest Greece”, so the “ Birding in Greece ” guidebook claims for the area where I am heading, a bit late since I overslept this morning. Yet, beside a few Little and one Great Egret , a raft of Eurasian Coots , no birds. It is getting a bit hot.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

Unless those non-birding folks happen to be duck hunters or love to go fishing, they tend to stay away from the marshes, the riparian zones, the bottom lands. See the birds? As birders, we tend to spend more time in wetlands than most of our peers, neighbors, and family members. For us birders, visiting a wetland is a no-brainer.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes there are birding sites and there are birds – but hardly much info about them (beside Fat Birder ). Local birding sites are well known – among local birders. Nevertheless, describing where to bird is easy. Nevertheless, describing where to bird is easy. Birds ecotourism Europe Serbia'

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Serbia Eagles Birds Sparrows 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

The next morning was Sunday, October 8 th , and I was up before sunrise to bird the gardens of Fort Mason, leaving Katherine to sleep in for another hour or two before we got ready for a long day of city sightseeing. I cut short my birding that morning, headed back to our room to wake up Katherine, and told her she’d better call her sister.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

This is a chance to recharge out batteries, spend a little quite time together and try to get in a whole bunch of birding done. We have found a spot that is right at the place where a very large arroyo meets up with the Sea of Cortez. This allows me to see frigates, boobies, terns and pelicans on the saltwater side.

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Sparrows 2017 Battery Mexico 121

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

This diversity makes for a very unique birding experience. One where you get to enjoy the many different local desert birds, right along side the birds that make the warm salt waters they home. Here are a few of the birds we spotted last weekend. Brown Pelicans. Black-throated Sparrows. Loggerhead Shrikes.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. And, the birds are awesome. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

Birding in Florida is unique in that so much of that state’s plenty is evident even to the casual observer. It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. One had a cluster of recently fledged birds and their nonplussed parent.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 208

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

MAY 1, 2014

We sail into the relative calm of a cliff, the mast takes an upright position, navigation becomes calm and quiet… quiet enough for our bird guide, Andrea Bonetti to pick up a voice of a Western Rock Nuthatch coming from the rock face. We come closer to it, but I cannot find the bird with binoculars. diomedea ). Practicalities.

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Greece Malta Croatia Birds 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We follow the tire tracks in an off-white, salty soil and then, without a word of warning, our guide/driver turns into the bushes, driving left and right… until one and then another Short-eared Owl flushes in front of us. Rao Travel, and the post-conference bird tour by Arpit Deomurari. Acknowledgements.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2015

I was left with most of the day to explore and look for birds. hardly early by birding standards but early enough to beat the crowds of beach goers to my destination: Folly Beach County Park. Right off the bat I could watch the two cute birds, unobstructed by anything other than some low sand vegetation.

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South Carolina Bats Pelicans Fish 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Like all of the esteemed writers and loyal followers of this site, I spend nearly every available moment out in the field birding. The highlight of this is that I get to keep learning, learning more and more about birds. New birds, new behaviors, new countries and even new continents. as well in my photographs.

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