10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with her. So touched by the experience that I cried, I’ve only seen one since, his body preserved in some formal likeness of what he once had been. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds.

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Pennsylvania Indiana California Condor 2013 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

Rufous-winged Woodpecker. Endangered and awesome, it’s pretty easy to experience this big parrot in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica from Tarcoles north to near Nicaragua. Not as fancy as some of the other birds, this range restricted woodie is nonetheless much easier to connect with in Costa Rica. Great Green Macaw.

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Eagles 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. So you can imagine our disappointment when we crawled out of the car after our trip to find out that Mike was in fact relaxing in the warm kitchen and had no idea where the woodpecker was! Why is that awesome?

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. Still, this sort of wildlife experience is available in pretty much any Mexican city. Then, around 4:00 p.m., Which is rather freeing, don’t you think?

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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ), Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. A pair of Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ) tends a chick on Middle Rock, Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. And, the birds are awesome.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

The text has to be read; details are not laid out in bold headed, brief paragraphs as they are in the Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America. So, California Towhee can be found in the C section (‘California Towhee’) and in the T section (‘Towhee, California’).

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North America Sparrows America United States 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

There is also an effort to represent all geographic areas of North America, from Eastern Bluebird (below) to Greater Prairie-Chicken to California Scrub-Jay. This is seen nicely in the chickadee portrait, which shows a Black-capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, and Mountain Chickadee on the same branch, “inspecting everything.”

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Hes previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. Duncan Mar 10th, 2011 at 3:01 am I know from experience that Saddlebacks are tricky little guys to catch.

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New Zealand 2011 Deer Cats 148

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Back in December I was in Orange County, California, enjoying the holidays with my in-laws. In 2012 I got my 500th bird in the ABA area when I twitched a Painted Redstart at Lacy Park in San Marino, California. In 2012 I got my 500th bird in the ABA area when I twitched a Painted Redstart at Lacy Park in San Marino, California.

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San Marino California Laws Bats 106

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 147