10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2016

Mid-June has so much to offer in the temperate zones, with breeders in one half of the world and migrants in the other. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Those of you in the tropical zones can enjoy your resident birds in peace for once. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2016 Breeders Birds Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

Traveling really rejuvenates the passion when local breeders become banal. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. His song, “C hanges in latitude, changes in birding attitude” really rings true when you’re on the road. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New York City 2014 Breeders Virginia 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2011

Now how about those birds… Corey has really beaten the summertime birding blues by focusing on the best of what the season of resident breeders has to offer: baby birds! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2011 Breeders Suffering Birds 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. In another experiment, other species of Darwin Finches were kept next to Woodpecker Finches that used tools. The behavior was inherent. Photo: Peter Wilton.

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Fish Woodpeckers Ostriches Eggs 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience. Salvin’s Prion. Our Flock to Marion was no different.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

It is this season we experience vast musical repertoires, green canopies, hot air, and bustling energy. The grasslands have been popping off with breeders for well over a month, but the snow is just now giving way to lush alpine meadows and rocky tundras. Now, here in Colorado this is the season for the high-country birds.

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Colorado Breeders Wyoming Breeding 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

Coupled with its geologic youth, this makes the southern tip of the state function as a bit of an island experiment. In fact, it was the explosive expansion of introduced Eurasian Collared-Dove which lead to the range expansion of Cooper’s Hawks in urban Miami as breeders.

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Florida Miami United States Stray 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 202

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

You’ll enjoy your earliest experiences of birding best if you allow the pros to do the heavy lifting for you: Let them find the birds and, more important, identify the birds for you. Only the ignorant expects to hit a hole in one first time out on the links or to throw all strikes as a beginner bowler.

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Birds United States 2006 Breeders 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other. Still, it was a truly memorable experience, and this gives me a reason to return. As you can see in the photos, it was still light outside well into the evening. Patience, thus, is key.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 192

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

You see, “spring” in the sense that birders in the far northern reaches experience it, has been happening here in the south for the better part of three months. Last weekend seemed to be their peak, as the more northern parulas booked out leaving behind our resident breeders.

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North Carolina Breeders Rights Experience 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America.

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 118

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

I’m sure regular visitors to this area could tell you more about how the winds and tides affect the migrating birds and when the breeders start to nest. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. I was just happy to enjoy the show, one that apparently is just as good in winter as in spring. Anahuac NWR–Skillern Tract.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Many get their birds from breeders. They are going to watch the situation but one told me that this man has hunted with a wild snowy several years ago, so he’s had experience working with them. Falconers can trap any bird of prey any time they want. I talked to some of my falconry friends about the Wisconsin man with the snowy.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. The birds I saw there were most likely Asian breeders, for they don’t start to migrate north until March, by which time the European-breeding birds are already crossing the Mediterranean.

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Falcons Spain Europe 2012 202

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is quite a sight to experience hundreds of Abdim’s Stork dropping out of the skies from seemingly thin air, to gorge on burnt or fleeing insects and rodents. It appears in southern Africa only during the Austral summer months, usually in large flocks that seek out locust and flying termite eruptions.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 243

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I imagine the female bosses the male around, but maybe I am anthropomorphizing there based on my experience in recently working on an apartment with my wife. But then, I am not a cooperative breeder either (nor a non-cooperative one, should this term exist). Well, they live in groups, something I would never survive.

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China Birds Breeders Zoos 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Or was I, like so many birders, doomed to eternal restlessness, always investing somewhere else with the glamor of new birds and new experiences? That more-or-less covers a vast range – both metaphorically and literally, as the yellower birds are eastern breeders and the more whitish ones hail from the west. Could I go home again?

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San Diego Sparrows Breeders 2009 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For those males who pride themselves on being good karaoke singers, it may be pleasing to hear that among male Japanese Thrushes, males breeding with two females tended to have more various trills than monogamous male breeders ( source ). Not this one though.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 202

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

We have to figure out when the highest numbers of migrants coincide with resident breeders to increase the probabilities of breaking the previous record, or to at least hit your Big Day birding goal. That said, this year, it barely happened, and that disturbing experience brings me to my next point.

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Costa Rica Birds Species 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive.

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 238

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

Azure-winged Magpies are cooperative breeders, and it seems that there is a connection between having a larger repertoire of calls and being a social species (me, not being very social, I usually get by with just three different grunting sounds). for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ).

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Birds Research Science Europe 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

But in many cases, Frederick found that the claims of these vaunted but unthinking sources stood in contrast with his own experiences as both a falconer and keen observer of birds. Of course, this fanciful story had been devised to explain the absence of nests in Europe by this Arctic breeder, but Frederick dismissed it as nonsense.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113