10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

In fact, prior to my visit to Florida in January for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I had never seen an Anhinga at all save one lousy look in Honduras back in 2009. And their plumage, especially their breeding finery, is a sight to see. And, like cormorants, they provide a nice photo-op when doing so.

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Florida Honduras Turkey Wildlife 172

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

When I arrived at the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance office in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, a high-tempo, tap-tap-tapping immediately arrested my attention. ” Brown-headed Nuthatch family groups practice cooperative breeding, and the mating pair as well as their young from previous seasons can band together to fend off intruders.

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Florida Groups Breeding Species 119

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2012

With a family renowned for its strong flight and capability to colonize far flung locations (such as the Imperial-Pigeons and Fruit-Doves of the Tropical Pacific, Blue Pigeons of the Indian Ocean, or endemic pigeons of the Canary Islands), this fact comes to no surprise.

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Florida Miami Bahamas Mexico 156

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JUNE 3, 2015

Over Memorial Day weekend (23-25 May) my family and I spent the weekend along the Delaware shore enjoying the beaches, natural areas, and tourist traps that make visiting the shore such a delight. Blue Grosbeaks were common and clearly on breeding territory. There are few birds as stylish as a Green Heron.

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Delaware New York Birds North Carolina 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

3 rd word, 2 nd syllable … Florida breeding one-word named bird, the northern limits of its breeding range, swamps, marshes, last three letters of the name … Limpkin … “kin”. bird families, bee-eater, gnat-eater, honey-eater … “eater”. The “pump” their tails. 4 th word, What do bee, gnat and honey have in common?

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2011 Louisiana Florida Canada 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

My family and I were staying at the edge of a sand beach, facing a wide flat in a house charmingly named “Bone Ami.” Sure, I can see most of the birds in the Bahamas while living within Florida, but not in such stunning surroundings! Ruddy Turnstones , morphing from winter to breeding plumage, mixed with a new shorebird.

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Bahamas South Carolina United States Florida 100

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AUGUST 5, 2012

If you have been out birding in southeast Florida there is a good chance that you have run into him in the field. If it were not for the resident cardinals and large number of breeding exotics, Matheson Hammock would be all but silent during the late spring and early summer. That it not to say that the park is dead — far from it.

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Miami Florida Birds Pelicans 161

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AUGUST 23, 2011

The epicenter of large, charismatic, and often photogenic, fish-eating birds is in Florida, at places like Everglades National Park and Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, the only site in the park system that could convincingly be named for an exotic dancer. Below is a family shot of at least six. Who knew?).

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South Carolina Alligators Florida United States 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

January – Starting Off and Florida. I went to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. It was my first Florida birding so I had quite a few easy birds to check out and check off my ABA life list. Florida Scrub Jay ? May – Migration’s Peak and Breeding Begins.

2012 143

2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 143

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We all have them: our favorite places to take friends and family when they visit, the bird-friendly areas we pop in on when we have the chance, the landscapes that entrance us. Every few minutes we saw these bunched families of gallinules, sometimes mixing with the striped heads of the young grebes as well.

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Alligators Turkey Family Hunting 117

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

It honors dogs of all breeds — from working dogs to family pets — and encourage pet owners to do something special for their dog. Canine guests must be on leash and accompanied by a human companion. Founded in 2004, National Dog Day is observed annually on August 26.

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Dogs Oklahoma Maryland North Carolina 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University and a Ph.D.

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Birds North America Breeding America 114

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And, sometimes, I use chip notes to try to lure a bird in, using just a couple of notes and only if I was sure it would not be interfering with a breeding bird or other birder’s enjoyment. Red-shouldered Hawk has only the eastern subspecies illustrated but there are photos of Florida birds and California birds.

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New York Battery Hawaii United States 173

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MAY 3, 2016

At the same time, care has been taken to eliminate exotics no longer a presence, such as several of south Florida’s parrots. And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years.

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North America 2003 Birds America 155

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JUNE 17, 2015

It encompasses over 70,000 acres spread out between Wakulla, Jefferson, and Taylor counties, and includes about 43 miles along the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida.” The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

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MAY 2, 2016

On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. Of course, I contacted Carlos Sanchez , alleged south Florida birder extraordinaire, to maximize the returns on what time I could spend. It was the first of many problems with Carlos’s guiding.

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Florida Miami Birds Owls 115

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

If you have been out birding in southeast Florida there is a good chance that you have run into him in the field. During the winter, southeast Florida becomes the wood-warbler capital of the ABA area. As one can see, seeing twenty warblers in the winter in southeast Florida is well within the realm of possibility! That’s right.

Florida 158

Florida Miami Cuba Bahamas 158

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? And then I showed them the one photo that was not taken in Florida, an image of baby American Robins in a nest in Central Park. There is nothing as deadly as 15 bored 4-year olds.

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Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 207

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MARCH 23, 2013

It is one of three species of ani ( Groove-billed and Greater Anis are the other two) and together form a unique branch in the cuckoo family. Smooth-billed Anis were relative newcomers as breeders to Florida, having only begun nesting since the 1930s. During this time, southern Florida was in a state of ecological chaos.

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Florida Virgin Islands Miami Breeders 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. Tags: baltimore oriole , half hardy , Terminology • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Instead I saw a flash of orange.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. A bit risqué, all of it, and something to think about next time you watch a thrasher, well, thrashing. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Said Blue-throated Barbet – maybe lacking an altimeter – indeed could be seen very close to its family member at Tongbiguan. A paper on the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch titled “Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China” has 8 authors.

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 169

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Well-represented exotic families include starlings, ducks and doves and there are also many more individual species that now thrive here. Some uncountable species, like Mitred Parakeets , are in fact way more numerous than some of the countable species and they are clearly breeding in well-established populations.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 131

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

liz Mar 7th, 2011 at 6:18 am Fleeing the snow and cold of NY, we visited Florida and I got a lifer – a snail kite. I had a beautifull view on 5 horned grebe here (one in breeding plumage), in Ann Arbor Michigan, for the 3 seconds it lasted, until I heard a huge “CRRACK&# , and I fell through the ice.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Three helpful sections precede the Introduction: Photo and silhouette comparisons of gulls that breed in North America (see illustration above), Basic Anatomical Terms illustrated with four diagrams, and a very selective Glossary. A larophile is a gull enthusiast, taken from the genus name Larus and/or the family name Laridae.

North America 195

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Finally, deciding that a duck that required 250 acres of land to breed probably did not welcome intruders, we tiptoed out of the swamp.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 108

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois. It is one of several species in the Mallard -complex of ducks, along with American Black Duck , Mexican Duck , and quite a few others.

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Ducks Florida Illinois Mississippi 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The guide covers over 650 species, most of the breeding birds in the United States (minus Hawaii) and Canada (like most guides with ‘North America’ in its title, it does not include Mexico or the Caribbean). The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Introductory Material.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 222

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APRIL 5, 2016

But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. This section also includes range maps, indicating range by breeding season, wintering season, and residence year-round. So much simpler than pinning down those warblers! There are the females, so many so brown. And, that thing called plumage.

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North America Asia Europe America 144

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. In the meantime, it’s a good topic for holiday family gatherings. An eBird mystery.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 151

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Southern Cassowary with chicks by Duncan Wright Carlos Sanchez was particularly appreciative of a new bird for him in Florida. This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. Northern Florida represented a refreshing change of scenery and an opportunity to explore with a renewed sense of discovery.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 144

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

I had spent several holidays with my family in the USA in the 1980′s and then worked in Maine during the summer of 1985-beware the poison ivy and the snapping turtles! I then had a year in Florida – beware the alligators and hurricanes!

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South Africa United States Austin Alligators 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

In Sibley Two, the in-flight images literally fly across the page in slight diagonals, with the full-bodied images are presented below in a parallel order (meaning we see the same bird–fresh juvenile, worn juvenile, 1st year, Adult breeding, Adult nonbreeding–in the same part of the page for each species).

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North America Birds Species America 232

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MARCH 5, 2011

Breeding behaviour and plumage was very apparent, but John Wise , an ex-pat Brit now resident in Orlando, told me that the birds’ activities had been held up for a couple of weeks during a cold snap that saw frosts in Florida. There are more at the Orlando, Florida post on Redgannet. Get yours today!

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2011 Alligators Florida Deer 116

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is how, I think, the “Crossley technique” works best—coverage of specific bird families that pose identification challenges to birders at all levels of skill. And Hybrids: Waterfowl tend to hybridize to a greater degree than most other bird families, and the guide does an excellent job of covering hybrids.

Ducks 115

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147