10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. I, however, am still a California boy, in spite of not living in that state for four decades now, and I still keep track of the weather there. I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Visiting from California, he had visited local gardens and trails with me, spent time by the pool, and took a few mini-canoe trips. “Why do you always keep a list?” ” my brother asked on a hot and muggy afternoon in North Florida. Gwynn sat behind me in the canoe as we paddled lazily around a shallow lake.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. But in many states, any idiot with 20 bucks can get a permit to own a non-native, captive-bred bird of prey.

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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. Ivy and I tracked down her first Wilson’s Snipe this weekend.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. Off the coast of northern California, Sooty Shearwater are common and are seen on virtually all pelagic birding trips. I just happened to be there to experience it. Of course, unexpected experiences such as this are one of the great appeals of birding.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Taking Amy birding is an extremely rewarding experience, as she seems to know the calls of every bird species that exists. Early on in my experience with the group, my church work took me to Veracruz, a tropical city on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and I got to visit a mangrove forest near that city with Luis.

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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 121

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

If you read my weekly posts bookending theweekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and flow of each season impacts out experience of the natural world must inform our efforts to observe avifauna if we want to optimize our experience. Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2013

Corey was very pleased to finally find a Bell’s Vireo this weekend in Carbon Canyon Regional Park in Orange County, California. One of three lifers in his first two days in California and one that he was proud to identify by voice before he tracked down a visual. It mostly made up for this disaster. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2018

Corey has a plethora of pleasant California birds to choose from this weekend but he was most pleased with the only Long-billed Curlew of the trip which he saw foraging at Upper Newport Bay in Orange County. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2018 Birds California Experience 100

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. Naturally, a walk through one’s life lists triggers memories.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” Think about it for a minute.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2018

Mike, too, chose a bluebird as his Best Bird of the Weekend, though his was a different species seeing as he and his family avoided the cruelty of April by being in California. 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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2021

They were a fairly common species from my childhood in California, but I had not expected them to turn up in central Mexico. A Rose-throated Becard seemed even more interested in watching me than I was in watching it, which was an unusual experience. Kind of like my eyebrows are becoming.). I could swear it was following me.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I’ve taken tours out of Monterey Bay (with pelagic legend Debi Shearwater , now retired) and Half Moon Bay, California ; Newport, Oregon ; and Hatteras, North Carolina. That is, incidentally, my universal experience on pelagics, as everyone has been very good and very experienced on all my trips.)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

A very rare find in Northern California. For the past several years I have been taking advantage of our many National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) here in Northern California. In September of 2013 there was an Eastern Kingbird ( Tyrannus tyrannus ) seen in Redding, California, less than 30 miles from my home. This was a no-brainer.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2016

Corey had a host of birds to choose from as his Best Bird of the Weekend as he spent Friday morning birding at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Orange County, California. He didn’t see them do a courtship dance but their elegance was more than enough to leave him happy about the experience.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. For fifteen years, ever since I started visiting California as a birder, I’ve been hoping to see a Mountain Plover.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose as it was his first albatross, a Black-footed Albatross off the coast of California. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Though the Bar-tailed Godwit he saw on Sunday was pretty good too.). How about you?

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Albatross 2016 Seals Birds 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2013

The one thing I really wanted to do on this most recent trip to southern California was visit Santa Cruz Island again. First off, Felonious Jive ‘s brother-in-ornithology, Seagull Steve , who you will remember from my trip to southern California back in December , came aboard the boat after a two-week stint doing field work.

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Whales Whaling Dolphins California 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

First, you get to tour one of their California centers , you get a special opportunity to see a Pelican getting its final medical exam and numbered leg band, plus you get the honor of releasing one, or in my case, two of their rehabilitated pelicans! There are advantages to being a “Pelican Partner” for International Bird Rescue

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

For whatever reason, however, yesterday on my way to work my mind wasn’t with our upcoming spring, but with September’s in California. Visiting this area for the first time after seeing it for month was a crazy experience. I saw a wagtail there once, which was exceptionally cool for California (I’m told).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Veronica in California. “I

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the two life birds he spotted up on Mount Baldy in southern California. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2017

Corey had a wonderful weekend in Southern California racking up year birds in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. My birthday bird this weekend ranks high on my list of special sightings: Northern Saw-whet Owl !

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’m curious whether our California readers have a similar experience. [News flash: A few hours after writing this paragraph, a flutey call alerted me to the presence of my first Blue Mockingbird for the year in the yard. It was dusk, so the sighting was clear, but the photos were not.].

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APRIL 8, 2023

When we had signal again I immediately looked up black panther sightings in southern California but I can't find anything at all. I can tell you from first hand experience you're not crazy. Has anyone else had a similar sighting and been laughed at or dismissed? submitted by /u/Maouwu_ [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Having never birded west of Arizona, there were many bird experiences I was looking forward to, but chief among those was the opportunity to get offshore aboard the Grande to see what was hiding beyond that blue horizon. These birds nest in Baja California, and drift up into US waters occasionally in the late summer.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77. I have put together a video to help you feel the experience I was a privy to on this beautiful fall morning at the refuge. You can check your state’s refuges here , listed by state.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2019

On my first exploratory trip to Cerro de Garnica, I was surprised to be greeted almost immediately by the same Steller’s Jays with which I grew up in coastal northern California. But for me, one of the best reasons to go is to experience the cool stillness of its pines and firs, and the silence of being so far from civilization.

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Mexico Washington Birds United States 128

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I have friends who talk nostalgically of birding trips with the Lane’s Guides to Southeast Arizona, or Southern California (there were eight guides in all, some co-written or updated by other birders, notably Henry Holt). In the back were simple bar graphs showing species seasonality.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

I doubt we have to worry about Herring Gulls , Ruby-throated Hummingbirds or California Towhees going extinct, though their abundance and distribution will surely shift in time. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. It’s that simple.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s already written about Rachel Carson: Secret Birder.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

After some hours of recording in northern California, and then, painstaking analysis and listening, he determined the number to be 37, at which point he, palpably exultant, announces to the reader: “a decades-long quest fulfilled.”. He had long wondered, Kroodsma says, how many songs, exactly, the Canyon wren has in his repertoire.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team. In my experience non-birders connect with the travel, visiting beautiful places and spectacle of birding and hawkwatching often entails all three.

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