10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Corey spent the last weekend before his son started school camping with family and friends in the western Catskill Mountains. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Most of the birds I spotted this weekend are the same species I’ll be hanging out with all winter. How about you?

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Breeders Birds Owls Experience 219

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For such a small place, birders are often spoiled for choice, there seems to be a representative of almost every neotropical family making their presence felt in some corner of habitat. On this blog, I have spoken previously of a trend I managed to pick out while compiling the information for a book I published last year.

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Trinidad Groups Family Species 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2021

I found myself fully immersed in marine species while boating, fishing, and birding coastal Virginia with family this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Out on the shore, though, a whole suite of species exists in the places we gravitate to anyway. How about you?

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Virginia Birds Experience Experiments 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But his Best Bird of the Weekend was one he saw with his family on a visit to Jamaica Bay on Saturday evening. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you were wondering, the rabbit won this encounter. Corey enjoyed some good birding on both Saturday and Sunday mornings.

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2020 Rabbits Jamaica Pelicans 243

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Corey got his Best Bird of the Weekend early this weekend as while he and his family were making their way home from a week-long vacation in Cape Cod on Friday a Black-throated Gray Warbler was found in Queens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. His wonderful family agreed to drive straight there before going home and Corey got a new Queens bird!

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2020 Jamaica Birds Family 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Corey enjoyed getting out on birding outings both mornings of the weekend, and was out in nature with his family both afternoons. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Needless to say, he has quite a few birds to choose from in terms of his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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Squirrels Louisiana Birds Experience 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2020

Corey enjoyed camping with family and friends for the long weekend after getting tested for COVID and coming up negative. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Those owls were easily Corey’s Beat Birds of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Owls Birds Experience 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2020

However, my best birds showed up much closer to home in the form of a chattering House Wren family which apparently displaced my usual Carolina Wren. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I need more birds!! As usual, I restricted my birding activity this weekend to local trails.

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2020 Birds Experience Experiments 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2021

Corey was extremely pleased to finally get out and about birding again after his family all caught COVID and recovered. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Whatever species it turns out to be it is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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Texas New York Birds Owls 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

At least I didn’t have to travel far for great birds; my whole family thrilled to the sight of an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk chowing down on an unspecified rodent in our yard. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Some weeks, Monday feels more like a respite than a burden.

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2020 New York City Rodents New York 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2022

The exploration of triads within the avifauna of Trinidad and Tobago has taken me through various families and species groups on this blog. It’s taken a life of its own to be honest. While this post isn’t entirely following that trend, it loosely is.

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Woodpeckers Trinidad South America Hunting 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2020

However, my whole family did take time to appreciate the understated beauty of Mourning Doves. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. With hope, a little time in nature—or at least looking at something wild from your window–took your mind to a better place this weekend.

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2020 Birds Experience Experiments 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers. For some reason, the Mandarin Chinese name of the Scarlet Minivet translates as “Red Mountain Pepper Bird” I do hope a Chinese reader of this blog can explain the origin or meaning of this name.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2020

You may have experienced one of the weirdest weekends of your life, what with all bars and restaurants closed and people maintaining a healthy distance from even close friends and family. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sometimes the little things really do mean the most.

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2020 ALA Birds Experience 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. There are actually much nicer photos of the Purple-crested Turaco in another blog post of mine, Birding Mkuze. It can have up to 8000 pieces and takes 3 to 6 weeks to complete” ( source ).

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South Africa Africa 2018 Birds 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2020

But it was during an outing to Rockaway Beach with his family on Sunday afternoon that he saw his Best Bird of the Weekend, his first Piping Plover of the year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. In fact, he saw six! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Birds Owls Experience 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I was looking for a title for this third part of a blog post on the birds of Baihualing, and thought that the made-up term “Trequel” would sound fitting. Somewhat confusingly, its Latin species name is boulboul – a word that stands for nightingale but of course is also the name of a large bird family, the bulbuls.

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Horses Family Blackbirds Species 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Ala Shan Redstart (which I will not call Przevalski’s Redstart, see my juvenile rants about the evil Mr Przevalski in earlier editions of this blog) is a very attractive bird and – as many attractive birds – listed as Near Threatened. Finally, always good to end a blog post with a vulture as a gentle memento mori.

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China Birds Austria ALA 247

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Most Americans celebrated a long weekend filled with a lot (maybe too much) food, family, and shopping. My family actually pays attention to eagles too, which makes them more interesting to see. My family actually pays attention to eagles too, which makes them more interesting to see. How about you?

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2018 Bald Eagle New Jersey New York 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2019

When Paul Lewis reached out to us asking if we were interested in some blog posts about birding in Mexico we were psyched! He is the author of an internationally distributed book in Spanish about family finances and has recorded four albums in Spanish of his own songs. We hope you enjoy his posts as much as we do.

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Mexico California Family Birds 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2019

Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Share the details! Imagine that… a successful snipe hunt.

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2019 New York Birds California 125

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In blog posts, photo galleries presumably have a similar function: Brown Shrike … … Amur Stonechat … … Mugimaki Flycatcher … … Red-flanked Bluetail … … Rufous-tailed Robin … … Japanese Paradise Flycatcher … … and Taiga Flycatcher.

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Birds Deer China Owls 220

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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 United States Breeders Birds 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2019

My extended family from The Bronx visited us this weekend for some upstate festivities. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The end of August keeps most of us in the Northern Hemisphere busy, what with the impending end of summer and all that. How about you?

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2019 Costa Rica Bald Eagle New York 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2022

If you wonder how such a self-referential and obscure joke survived the editing process for this blog post, the explanation is simple: There is no editing process). At least, it does not have to pretend to like wine, unlike its relative, the Spotted Redshank. (If ” (She then warns that this difference is not consistent).

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Birds 2017 Fish Species 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

Shorebirds – or “shorbs” for the cuteness factor (as if that needed any enhancement) – remain one of the most fascinating families of birds for me. The first post I ever prepared for this blog centred around a search for a vagrant Curlew Sandpiper here in my native Trinidad.

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Buffalo Kenya Trinidad 2019 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2017

On Saturday he dragged his family to the Adirondack Mountains to see a stake out Great Gray Owl in Keene, a first for all three in the family. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the easiest to decide that he can remember.

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2017 Owls Birds Woodpeckers 112

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2015

I took a family trip down to rural Pennsylvania, where I can always count on seeing an abundance of Eastern Kingbirds … and I did. It could have been and of a trio of amazingly cooperative herons at Marine Nature Study Area but he decided to save them for other blog posts. Hopefully you celebrated by enjoying some fine birds!

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2015 Pennsylvania Sparrows Birds 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Corey finished up his family trip to Costa Rica on Saturday and his Best Bird of the Weekend should be a Pacific Screech-Owl outside of his hotel on Friday night, a lifer! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2019 Costa Rica Pelicans Birds 121

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2019

Though Corey arrived in Southern California late Friday night, he didn’t get much birding in this weekend other than dipping on a Nazca Booby at Dana Point after delaying his departure to go look for it to accompany his family to the beach. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 Birds California Raised 120

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before! The text pages have a lively look.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2015

Also lots of birthdays in my family, which is cool. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A better question might be to ask what isn’t great about April. And also birds, also cool! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 Birds Experience Experiments 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2019

I’ve been chasing a family of Trumpeter Swans from one patch of open water to the next. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But no matter what infernal heat, abyssal chill, or thunderous precipitation blasts a place, birds still endure and often thrive. How about you?

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2019 Birds Experience Experiments 115

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. Does your family celebrate a lot of April birthdays? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The wood-warblers are back! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New Jersey 2014 Louisiana Bears 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2014

While I saw some pretty special species this weekend, the most special was the Gray Catbird because my sweet 7-year niece totally got into finding one; I think I’ve found the next generation birder in the family! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2014 Birds Experience Experiments 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Car troubles keep shutting my birding plans down, but at least I got out with the family to cut down our Christmas tree. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Another weekend in the books means that this calendar year is almost over. How about you?

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2018 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 113