10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

White-striped Woodcreeper : Faraaz Abdool recently wrote about Trinidad and Tobago’s wonderful Woodcreepers , and this one is the Woodcreeper of western Mexico’s pine-oak forests. Slate-throated Redstart : This lovely little bird is our most common resident (breeding) warbler, and in certain places you will hear it EVERYWHERE.

Trinidad 191

Trinidad Emotional Transported Mexico 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

It is a bird of the Pacific coast of North and South America, breeding in western Mexico and southern California. The whole ride out to the barrier beaches of Suffolk County was a series of emotional ups and downs as the bird would be found, would disappear, would be refound, and would disappear.

New York 150

New York South America 2013 New Jersey 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This totally crazy bird is the crème de la crème of the cracid family, and besides being endangered (population estimated at under 2,500), its habitat choice of cloudforests on the steep slopes of a few volcanoes and mountains in southern Mexico and south-western Guatemala makes it a tough bird to seek.

2012 155

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 155