10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do. Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. .”

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Birds LACS France Japan 227

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I was attempting to photograph some Yellow-headed Blackbirds , resting in the cat-tails, when much to my surprise, this Sora , Porzana carolina , just swam right out, and milled around in from of me. These secretive little marsh birds are rarely found out in the open, like most of the rail family.

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Oregon Birds Montana California 100

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JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I didn’t travel much this year, with a June family trip to California and Nevada and a four-day trip in July to Trinidad and Tobago being my only opportunities to get birds not in the northeastern United States. Checking out Red-breasted Blackbirds at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station. Red-breasted Blackbird.

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2013 New York City New York Trinidad 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2018

Taking advantage of my son, Desmond, having this past Friday off from school our small family decided to do a three-day trip somewhere. I’ll get right down to it. Eventually, around midafternoon, the rain slowed down to the point where it was hardly even coming down and the family took a nature walk. Very well then.

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Family Monkeys Deer Pelicans 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. More on Species Accounts.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

He steered me right and there it was, my first life bird in Nevada! Flocks of Bushtits made their noisy way through the bushes and a large number of Yellow-headed Blackbirds , which easily increased by ten-fold the number of Yellow-headed Blackbirds I had ever seen, flushed from one reed-bed to another.

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 201

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JULY 25, 2018

Out near the tidal flats that make up a good portion of this refuge, there were plenty of Red-winged Blackbirds. Today, I saw a handful of Mallards , two Common Mergansers, and a Wood Duck Family. It ran right out to greet me, and then ran all around me, checking out the cool smells on my tripod legs.

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New Zealand Seattle Qatar South Africa 112

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Mule Deer have always been pretty common in this area, but I got quite a surprise when I cleared a small hill in the road, and nearly ran over a male Pronghorn Antelope , right in the middle of the road. Finally we came to a cross road, where I went straight, and he turned right. It was good to be back!

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Dogs Mules Deer Oregon 103

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Brewer’s Blackbirds often joined the hordes of Red-winged Blackbirds flitting in and out of the taller grasses and few shrubs. We need to create bridges (and a very happy experience with a local ranching family led us to believe that this is possible). back to the birds.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 138

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

… Tags: migration , phoebes , spring • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Wicked, right? Or are we both correct?

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2011 Deer New York Philadelphia 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2015

Ironically, thanks to the non-sustainable, land poisoning agriculture seen en route, there is a straight, fast, good road that zooms right on up to Los Chiles, the closest town to Cano Negro. I guess that isn’t too surprising since a quick 30 minute float down the river goes right into Nicaragua. We had several Least Bitterns.

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Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2016

I used the family summer cottage as a base camp, placed in an old orchard where no branches are ever cut off, even when old or rotten – only supported from below. No, son, she said, you cannot go around, the road is unkempt and overgrown, but if you veer right 500 metres after the bridge, you can reach the village of Lajkovac.

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Turtles Serbia Breeding Breeders 112

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

… Tags: ducks , features , jamaica bay , migration , queens • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Wicked, right?

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

We soon figured out the place for Barred Owls, for Harris’s Sparrows and Brewer’s Blackbirds and all sorts of semi-rare birds that we were solely responsible for bringing to the count list at the end of the day. My schedule – as a young semi-professional with a family – is hardly set in stone.

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North Carolina Missouri Blackbirds Sparrows 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2017

After all, exposing a child to nature is important in their development, right? You might think it would have been no big deal to take off to the Adirondacks for a day chasing a rare gull a couple of days before leaving your family for a week while you gallivant around Austria but you probably live alone and will continue to do so.

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New York Owls Beavers Puerto Rico 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I was vacationing on Kennebago Lake, where my family has been coming every summer for nearly twenty years. Not impeded by branches or the need to bushwhack, we could paddle right up close to the sound, in this case the merry singing of a White-throated Sparrow. They were there, but I couldn’t see them. He even matched my kayak!

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Birds DC Sparrows Canada 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: Red-breasted Blackbird is a meadowlark. Not every list has Great Tinamou on it. With the rise in birding tourism, bird lists for entire countries have also become increasingly important. Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2012

Barf at blackbirds. Once you accept this basic fact, you will be surprised at the ease in which you will find yourself identifying peeps and plovers, left and right. Black Oystercatcher … right? If you can identify this bird for what it is, you will earn the respect of your elders and bring much honor to your family.

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LACS Alaska Wildlife Connecticut 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Red-winged Blackbird in Flight Flight Of The Ancient Mariner About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right? • Explore These Related Posts What is the National Bird of Honduras? The Doctor Bird Close Encounter of the Mute Kind.Or

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 163

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Either that or having family friends in Germany. Previously, all these dark, distant birds turned out to be Eurasian Blackbirds and after turning around and finding a safe place to stop on the incline, amongst speeding traffic in the middle of the road, I put my binoculars to confirm its Blackbird status. A quick sidetrack.

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Salamander Germany Birds Blackbirds 138

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Grassland birds continue to lose habitat as small, family-run farms are replaced by large-scale, corporate agriculture interests, or are bought up and consigned to real estate development. “Bubbling Bob the Bobolink”, as illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes for The Burgess Bird Book for Children (1919).

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Of course, it is quite common for human parents to set fire to their family homes in order to keep the adult children from moving back home, but this is not an issue for drongos. A hard-working Chinese Blackbird almost certainly already incubating its second brood is certainly not a target customer for a La-Z-Boy.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right? The boys knew what Owls looked like, they saw Screech Owls (and Barred and Great Horned Owls) at a local wildlife park, and we photographed Burrowing Owl families every year at Brian Piccolo Park.

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Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

I chanced to glance at a bird perched atop the Oak tree in my back yard, figuring it was one of the Blackbirds or Grackles that had recently returned to my neighborhood. Wicked, right? Tags: baltimore oriole , half hardy , Terminology • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hat-tip to Stella.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. I’d like to see photos of Chris birding, his Central Park compadres, his travels, and of his family, about whom he writes with such affection and intensity.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Regardless of the temperatures I got out and about both mornings on my own and in the afternoons with the family. In this shot the bird on the left has just landed, displacing the bird on the right, which is the one I was digiscoping at the time. There were lots of birds around and my camera was in overdrive!

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Bald Eagle New York City Birds New York 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

Illustrations are old school, in a separate section, with images of the right and brief descriptions of the left–73 plates offering 1,000 images. These descriptions are quite helpful, especially if you are not familiar with the family group. Species Accounts. The Species Accounts are arranged in a rough AOS taxonomic order.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 104

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge.

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North America America Birds New York 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2020

This year our list started off as a joint effort first thing and we started with some common species like Common Blackbird , Common Starling , Common Myna , Galah , Little Corella , Red Wattlebird , Spotted Dove and Magpie-lark. The main purpose was to look for the Dusky Moorhen family and add them to the list.

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Fish Australia Ducks Japan 136

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In some instances the names old names were given to new birds of familiar types in error ( American Robins are actually thrushes, and New World sparrows are really buntings), but in many other instances these names were applied to entirely new families and genera. Another long time mystery bird, or pair of birds, were the piopio.

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New Zealand Australia Penguins Family 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2018

We were picked up at the Christchurch airport by our family friend, Neville Blampied, who as it turns out, is an amazing local bird guide, disguising himself as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury. Is just a whole lot of time on an airplane. The LA to Auckland leg is 6577 miles all by itself.

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New Zealand Los Angeles Seattle Parrots 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) small families putting less pressure on the adult members of the family). Wicked, right? all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Water levels are right but the waders are still very scarce. I always choose a target bird for my trips to Florida, which are mainly to visit with family, but I never ever dreamed that one of my FL Life Birds would be a MacGillivray’s. Jochen Mar 15th, 2011 at 5:03 am The return of the twilight chorus of Eurasian Blackbirds.

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2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2012

If I had more time I could have hiked around to find one of the star attractions, Gouldian Finches , but I had gone there mainly to find two of my target families, storks and cranes. Another nice find right outside the centre was a Emu, although it was so tame it can hardly be called a find.

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Geese Ducks Australia Pelicans 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds. Tragic, right? Second, I was in India, which, had you told me even one month prior that I’d be going to India, I would have said you were crazy.

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167