article thumbnail

California Audubon Names Burrowing Owl Bird of the Year

10,000 Birds

After all, California Audubon’s site states that “This is a conservation award. We’re particularly interested in recognizing bird species that were of significant conservation interest in 2013, but that also had a compelling story and rallied the public around it.” How does that sound for a headline?

article thumbnail

Gullmania in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Oh yes, straight from California and very much twitchable, a first year Heerman’s was found in early March hanging out at the cruise ship dock. It’s a bird species I have expected for some time, an overdue bird if you will. Our own version of Gullmania began with the first documented sighting of a Heerman’s Gull.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

A Great Day Out West – Bobcats, Birds and Boardwalks

10,000 Birds

“Out West” to most Floridians might mean California or Arizona or might even refer to the Gulf Coast of Florida. And the magic factories are two neighbors, Green Cay Wetlands and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. I’m out guiding a lovely couple from California. We exit the car and enter magic factory number two.

article thumbnail

Collaborative list – December 2019

10,000 Birds

They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Thus 100 species were missed by the time he woke up and noticed that eBird had reset the counters at midnight(do you guys have nothing better to do?). California Gull – Larus californicus. They came home exhausted. 22 Dec 2019.

2019 179
article thumbnail

Collaborative List – March 2019

10,000 Birds

978 species were tallied this month from 163 checklists. Only 123 species appear on both sides of the life list. California Gull – Larus californicus. old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis. That’s just 3.35%.

2019 113
article thumbnail

Collaborative List – August 2017

10,000 Birds

They submitted 144 checklists, noting 628 species adding 72 to the year’s running total bringing it to 1890. California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. OWD factory area – US-NY-Tupper Lake-Adirondack Park – 44.2351x-74.4676. 26 Mar 2017. 04 Jan 2017.

2017 100
article thumbnail

Collaborative List – January 2019

10,000 Birds

The engaged and generous beats ( 10 of them) have shared 188 checklists during January and have accounted for 859 species from 8 countries (USA, Australia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, UK, New Zealand and Serbia. old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. Alphabetic Taxonomic. 03 Jan 2019.

2019 113