10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

I got my owl fix last weekend but spent the bulk of the week chasing a rare pair of Greater White-fronted Geese around Monroe County. Fortunately, I finally tracked them down yesterday, hiding out amidst teeming masses of Canada Geese. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. Next time, I’ll know why. It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

I couldn’t quite turn a runt among Canada Geese at Genessee Valley Park into a Cackling , so my best bird had to be a flyover Sharp-shinned Hawk. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Erratic weather patterns signal flux. Cherish them!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Barnacle Goose is my choice for the next bird, because we discovered one lone bird among all of the hundreds of Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon at Freiston Shore and it was as if it was a test to see if we would notice “the odd one out”! Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Lifers includes Gambel’s Quail and Neotropic Cormorant, but the real highlights were the morning fly-out of Sandhill Cranes and the evening fly-in of Snow Geese. Geography is destiny.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Though Corey had a host of good birds to choose from (again) he has decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the one he found because he took the time to scope through a ginormous flock of Canada Geese : a diminutive Cackling Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County, New York.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If your CBC experience is anything like mine here in eastern New York, you’ll be counting an awful lot of crows. The 118 th Christmas Bird Count (CBC) began yesterday and I’m sure many of you have at least one count scheduled in the next few weeks.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Does anyone here have personal experience visiting the Charles M. Moreover, children can watch nest cams without adult supervision so a parent’s lack of knowledge or interest is no boundary to the child’s education, the way it would be if learning required a visit to the park or an investment in binoculars.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese. Some people, one or two of my family members included, hate Canada Geese with a passion that rivals their hatred for mosquitoes (if you’re from Maine, or New England at all, you know that hatred runs deep). Weather is weird.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

We are a far bigger problem on this planet than the (over)population of feral cats, elephants, Canada geese, or any other creature we "manage" or want to manage, "humanely" or otherwise. In my experience there are at least a handful of issues that involve compromise when the idea of veganism collides with real life.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Looking down on the Hudson River from 212 feet in the air is an experience worth having and there is plenty of time to look down at the river or at the gorgeous views in every direction on the 1.28-mile mile long walkway.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. The area is recognized as a Globally Important Bird Area for birds migrating between the US and Canada.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2012

Carrie had been at Jones Beach pretty recently , but was happy to return, while I’m not sure that John had ever been, but he certainly seemed to enjoy the experience. The goose, instead of leading us on a wild goose chase, decided to swim up close and then past some Canada Geese , as if to show off its tininess.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Now, he’s sharing some information sure to improve your experience of American historical sites… When I’m not writing about sports teams and bird logos , birding ephemera , or stumbling into first state records , I’m helping protect Civil War-related national parks with the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association in DC.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2018

We had persevered through four years at the top of Battery Harris Platform and could bring our experience to bear on the task of trying to record as many species as possible on a single day from that single spot. I had high hopes for the 5th Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit this past Saturday at Fort Tilden.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada. Share Your Thoughts « A long way from nowhere Domestic or Ganky Geese » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

In A Feathered River Across the Sky , Joel Greenberg quotes the experience of the residents of Columbus, Ohio in 1855: “Now everyone was out of the houses and stores, looking apprehensively at the growing cloud, which was blotting out the rays of the sun. Is this the type of avian experience we want?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Any doubt I had about the need for a book about rare birds in the United States And Canada were wiped out on a Sunday evening in early February with two birding friends. And, as we talked of Long-billed Murrelets and Pink-footed Geese and Nutting’s Flycatchers, questions came up. First, what is a rare bird? by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Wouldn’t our birding be less fun if Hendrickson Park held only Canada Geese ? 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

DECEMBER 23, 2012

Mike managed to maintain his slim ABA lead by spotting the one Barnacle Goose amidst hundreds of Canada Geese in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. 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

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Cultures that experience it generally put a holiday of some sort at the end to motivate people to even bother living through it. The first winter (which should probably be allowed to keep the name winter) is a downhill slide. A pair of Bald Eagles scopes out the Clark Fork for likely snags.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2011

Many a birding trip starts with a longish drive from the airport to the first birding site with these common roadside birds being the first taste you get of a country’s wildlife, and I feel that many bird trip reports, interested mostly in mega-rarities, gloss over the amazing experience this first drive can give.

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