10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2012
I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. Most of them were pretty good in the Owl-Duck-Pigeon range, but they got bogged down when trying to make the leap from a study skin to a particular page of the field guide for, say, a blackbird or a sparrow.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2013
Since it’s really hard to type in a splint, here is a blast from the past: specifically from the beginning of this long, strange trip, my cross-country journey from New York to Montana: I have to confess, I had forgotten all about the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. And who doesn’t want to see a bunch of Turkey Vultures?)
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2020
Ruddy Quail-Dove – Geotrygon montana. Yellow-hooded Blackbird – Chrysomus icterocephalus. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Brewer’s Blackbird – Euphagus cyanocephalus. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2021
Checklists came in from 7 countries (USA, UK, Serbia, China, Mexico, Costa Rica and Australia) and brought the year list for 2021 so far to 1143. Checklists came in from 7 countries (USA, UK, Serbia, China, Mexico, Costa Rica and Australia) and brought the year list for 2021 so far to 1143.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2011
Unfortunately, flood conditions had washed out many of the edges and reed beds where I would have hoped to see Gadwalls and Goldeneyes , Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Wilson’s Phalaropes. I did spot a handful of Blue-winged Teal , and on a fencepost a single Wilson’s Snipe – my second and final lifer of the day.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2021
The year list ends on a provisional (some beats will be birding ’til the final whistle to try and salvage a ravaged year) 1803 species from 1602 checklists submitted by 12 beats from 16 countries.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Ruddy Quail-Dove – Geotrygon montana. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Yellow-headed Blackbird – Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus. Irvine Regional Park.
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