10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As devoted readers of 10,000 Birds know, the writers can be members of the 10,000 Birds Collaborative group on eBird. In January 2022, the Collaborate submitted 209 checklists in 5 countries (Costa Rica, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Serbia). The life list for the United States now stands at 692.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2022

In March 2022, the Collaborative submitted 184 checklists from 4 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , and the United Kingdom ) and they included 637 species. There are 32 Mexican states and the Collaborative has submitted checklists in nine of them. The Collaborative includes the top eBirder in the state!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The silver lining to these frigid winters is that birds are very active around my house, so I can enjoy cool cold-weather birds like Red-breasted Nuthatch from a warm perch. As many as six soaring overhead at once was enough to make the national bird of the United States Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Not just to bird, but equally to rest, reset and restart. And also, to bird. Three years ago I asked American birders which foreign countries they dream of birding, and with more than one fifth of all answers, Costa Rica turned to hold a very strong first place. I was literally awake at 3 a.m., even 1 a.m.,

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

Those of us in the United States are celebrating Memorial Day Weekend, normally a time to gather with friends and family for barbecues, beach outings, and other fun group activities. Perhaps for those of us in the northeastern United States the number of birds this weekend has been a bit of a disappoint though.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. Fine and dandy.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In 2022, the 10,000 Birds eBird Collaborative submitted 1,837 checklists from 9 countries ( Australia , China , Costa Rica , Mexico , Saint Lucia , Serbia , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and the United States ) and observed 1,273 species. The Collaborative life list increased to 4,140.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Most birders I know across the United States–and well beyond–seemed happier than usual this weekend, even ecstatic. Yeah, it’s not a great photo but it’s a pretty great Best Bird of the Weekend! What was your best bird of the weekend? Is a winter finch irruption really that exciting? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hannah Buschert started birding in college thanks to a required Biology of Birds course and a professor who included Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Birds to punctuate lessons. There are some places we want to see in our lives, birds we want to get, but we are also driven to visit places where we know few people who have gone.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2024

This place, called Los Filtros Viejos (the Old Filters) because it used to be Morelia’s main water source, is actually a great place for birding. And there is nothing I can see there that I can’t also see, alongside rarer birds, elsewhere. I love the closeup this bird gifted me.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2022

During the third quarter of 2022 (July, August, and September), the Collaborative submitted 212 checklists from 3 countries ( Australia , Costa Rica , Mexico , and the United States ). Both of these birds were seen on my pelagic tour out of San Diego. Both of these birds were seen on my pelagic tour out of San Diego.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Whether you enjoyed the extra day the United States sets apart to honor former Presidents or spent your day at work in a country predisposed to honor its current leader, you can decide what period best described your weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend? Some weekends last longer than others. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

” Yet, response-driven creatures like birds look past little things like blizzards to appreciate how much later the sun sets each day. Corey got out birding both days this weekend and had a typical suite of winter birds for the northeastern United States, with everything from Razorbill to Common Redpoll.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2021

Once I was fully vaccinated and air travel became an option, I looked for a location for my first birding trip since 2019. I settled on Wisconsin, which is home to one of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding that I have not visited: Horicon NWR. So my criteria were as much about birding locations as they were about birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It borders the Hudson Bay to the north and four Great Lakes to the south, accessible by car and sometimes feet from the United States over bridges with names like Rainbow, Ambassador, and Seaway Skyway. state and Canadian provinces. state and Canadian provinces. © 2023 by Chris Earley and Scott & Nix, Inc.,

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2022

In February 2022, the Collaborative submitted 127 checklists in 7 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and Serbia ). Good Birding in March! The 2022 year list stands at 888 and the life list is now at 4,112. There are 44 hotspots with at least 400 species observed.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2020

Though it is January, often the coldest month for those of us in the northeastern United States, this weekend is forecast to be exceptionally mild.It will be much more cloudy than the sky in the photo above, taken at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

Jim Wright is an author and birding columnist. Jim’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds was A Rare Caribbean Parrot on the Brink. Many ornithologists fear that the long-billed relative of the southeastern United States’ Brown-headed Nuthatch is kaput. Brown-headed Nuthatch of the southeastern United States.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. The idea is to portray one bird for each hour of the day in words and art, presenting the diversity, beauty, and wonder of avian life. Angell’s black-and-white illustrations bring sparks of energy and visual clarity to the fascinating bird behaviors described by Huber.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour drive of almost every major American city. Many were specifically established for migratory birds and are strategically positioned along one of the four major North American migration flyways.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate. These birds also invite one to sites that are unique within the United States – the climate, vegetation, and landscapes all add context and heighten the experience of seeing one’s first Elegant Trogon or Painted Bunting.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2020

One of the ways I could describe the unique mix of birds I can see here in southwestern Mexico, would be to divide our species into five categories. We also have many species that we share with the rest of Mexico, Central America, and/or the southwest of the United States. But, once you bird beyond the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2015

Here in the United States, we’ve just observed (not celebrated, mind you) Tax Day, the annual IRS tax filing deadline. Therefore, if you live in the United States, celebrate the fact that your taxes are filed by birding this weekend. If you live outside the United States, celebrate that!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Knopf, 1994/97.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vultures, you see, are safe birds for smaller creatures. Zone-tailed Hawks breed in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, but they winter from Mexico to Brazil. first appeared on 10,000 Birds. But the Yellow-headed Vulture is not the only species that can easily be mistaken for a Turkey Vulture.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2022

Last week, I wrote about my recent trip from my current home of Morelia, Mexico to my childhood home of the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States, and how several species can be found in both places, in spite of how far apart they are, and yet look quite different in each place. They are, in effect, the same, but different.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2019

While a huge swath of the United States braces for record-setting heat–again–other parts of the world may be suffering equally oppressive though dramatically different weather. Wherever you are, whatever you do, stay safe, but also try to find time to check out some birds! appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This means that yes, you can visit Costa Rica, you can come here for birding BUT you can’t just get on a plane and show up. Guaranteed coverage of medical expenses in the event of becoming ill with the pandemic COVID-19 virus while in Costa Rica, for at least USD $50,000 (fifty thousand United States Dollars). The Birding.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. I just want to point out it could be much worse.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2022

During the second quarter of 2022 (April, May, and June), the Collaborative submitted 581 checklists from 7 countries ( China , Costa Rica , Mexico , Trinidad and Tobago , Saint Lucia , the United Kingdom , and the United States ). Good Birding! The 2022 year list is up to 1,124 species.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

.” While certain New Jersey decisions may be dubious, their state bird, the American Goldfinch, is a beautiful choice. The legislature named the goldfinch the state bird in 1935 , sharing the designation with Washington and Iowa. The populations of American Goldfinch are doing well throughout their range.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* My inner self felt stuck in an area between disbelief and total joy and the voices near me were echoing this state of mind: “Oh My God,” “I never thought I would see this bird,” “Look at that bill!” “How did that bird get here?”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2019

Great swathes of the United States will be buffeted by heavy snow and Arctic cold this weekend. Weather and work alike conspire to keep me from birding this weekend. Corey never stops birding, so follow him if you want a clear path through the snow to alcids and other enticing NYC coastal birds. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2020

When it comes to one’s most exciting bird sightings, of course, it all comes down to context. I wouldn’t change my central Mexican endemics for any other region’s birds. So my favorites for 2019 includes a good number of birds that are rather common elsewhere, but were firsts for me. But it still is not easy.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2019

For example, here in the United States, we are heading into the unofficial final weekend of summer even though we all have weeks (some more than others) of heat and humidity. At the same time, many of our local birds have already started observing fall, which means some are already on the move. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It is not particularly big but has a reported 430 bird species including migrants, though during my short stay it seems I missed most of the key attractions among them. It goes like this: While fishing, the bird tucks its head down and uses its wings to create a shady area. Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you?

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