10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2012

Wood Ducks are essentially in a class of their own and seeing a drake in good plumage is usually the highlight of any birding outing. In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of most fair, and the Harlequin Duck is just too much of a trollop to really compete.

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Ducks New York City North America 2011 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2014

Brian Stoneman (1946-2009) was a friend of mine and a top class birder. He grew up in the London East End and spoke hardly understandable cockney.

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Turkey 2006 Europe Pelicans 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

At some point, perhaps in the middle of class, perhaps after class, perhaps in an email I receive later, this question gets asked: “How do migratory birds not get lost when the Earth’s magnetic field reverses?” ” For years, my answer was this: “Well, maybe a lot of them do, nobody said life was fair.

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Investigation 2013 Humane Research 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2015

Prizes include cash, a creative writing class in Wales, a tour of East Anglia with British nature writer Mark Cocker, and publication in British poetry magazine The Rialto. The good folks at BirdLife International remind us that there are 4 weeks left to enter this year’s RSPB/Rialto Nature Poetry Competition.

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India Birds 171

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

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2012 126

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The bird is now bonded to humans and an ambassador to her class and the bird has quite the vocabular y. This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America). The woman in the video found it as a chick at a few days old and hand reared it.

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New Zealand North America Laws Raised 164

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2014

From atop a terrific sledding hill, I enjoyed watching American Tree Sparrows lend class and native charm to flocks of House Sparrows. What a thrilling weekend, rich with epic snow and playoff football and all those other things that happen in January to people who don’t live near me. Hope you enjoyed at least part of the excitement!

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2014 Sparrows Birds Experiments 159

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

But we frame these birding highlights within a broader, more comprehensive experience, visiting world-class museums, archaeological sites, and cultural landmarks. The ruins of the Roman city of Glanum are an excellent place to look for bee-eaters and nightingales.

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New Jersey Guatemala France Birds 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

Of course, a person who doesn’t drive, ping-pongs between two states, and has finals in April and new classes every September is not ideally situated to do any kind of Big Year at all. Despite my fraught relationship with listing, there’s always been part of me that loves the idea of a Big Year. ( The nerdy part.)

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New York City Transported New York Collecting 208

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

North of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens is a middle class neighborhood, predominantly Italian-American, known as Howard Beach. Named for William J.

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Parrots New York City New York New Jersey 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2012

Neither labor nor the rights of the American working class are all that popular these days, but the Labor Day Weekend maintains nearly unanimous support. I’m still unabashedly in favor of this three-day sendoff to the season of sun and sand, though I’d like it more if it didn’t mark the official end of summer.

2012 155

2012 New York Birds Rights 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Labor and the rights of the American working class may have fallen into disrepute lately, but the Labor Day Weekend maintains nearly unanimous support. I’m still unabashedly in favor of this three-day sendoff to the season of sun and sand, though I’d like it more if it didn’t mark the official end of summer.

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New Zealand 2011 Birds Rights 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Spotted Redshanks , apparently waiting for a doctor`s appointment … … or practicing line formation (beginner`s class). What a pathetic life. Of course, sometimes Dunlins are awake as well. Common Greenshanks , doing nothing much. Common Sandpiper , at least turning towards me. Makes me feel appreciated.

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Stray Asia Family Industry 231

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

Campers don’t simply take a quick trip on the Hardy Boat; they stay in turn-of-the-century buildings within a wooded wildlife sanctuary, spend their days exploring the rocky coastline, and take daily field trips to hike the Hog Island trails with a world-class team of birders, naturalists, conservationists, and artists.

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Puffins Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eggs 274

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2024

The Crêpe Catastrophe It was supposed to be a delightful class trip, a day of carefree fun with friends. Allow me to share with you two traumatic experiences that have cemented my deep-seated aversion to these audacious avians. We strolled along the picturesque seaside, the aroma of freshly made crêpes wafting through the air.

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Cats Experiments Experience Dogs 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2014

According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within the theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Fur Horses Cows Birds 180

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Not quite as straightforward as the class moths and soot scenario, this instead appears to be a response to the high load of heavy metals that a bird can accumulate when living off junk food in the streets or weed seeds grown in vacant lots.

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DC Birds Falcons Humane 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. The Master Naturalist class gave me a first look at this. Way, way back, during our inuagural game of Gone Birding , my friend Molly developed a theory of birds.

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Montana Bald Eagle Owls Ducks 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

World-class surfing, fishing and birding may not seem to go together but in Riviera Nayarit the three pastimes are what draws throngs of visitors every year. San Blas, situated on the north-western coastline of Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit is one such place.

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Mexico United States Woodpeckers Sanctuary 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Being a mammal myself, I am understandably much less fond of this animal class than I am of birds. The Bearded Vulture looks surprisingly like the Night King in “Game of Thrones” Probably not a coincidence. A juvenile nearby.

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Sheep Mountain Goats Gazelles Mammals 230

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

I always knew this on some level but my appreciation was renewed and focused when I took a tree identification class in Prospect Park this past weekend. If you get the opportunity, I recommend that every birder take a class or two on their local trees. It’s an experience I can’t recommend highly enough.

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Kentucky Bears Experiments Experience 126

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2011

” And if it looks a bit like a supermodel among your practical Petersons and stolid travel guides, well, couldn’t your joint use a bit of classing up? In the end, Chandler comes very near his goal of creating “a book for anyone in Europe or North America who wants to know more about the Barn Owl.”

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Barn Owls Owls North America Europe 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

These owls don’t live in a state park or any sort of protected area, they live in the neighborhoods, right next door to stucco middle-class Florida homes, going about their business in a landscape of manicured lawns and screened-in porches.

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Owls Tenant Florida United States 194

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

In later years it included a class for digiscoping which I entered a few times. I was placed one year with a photograph of little egrets, taken at Kerkini in Greece, while the following year I won the class with a shot of Wryneck, photographed in an orchard in Poland ( above ).

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Poland Estonia India Pelicans 188

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Remembering a fourth-grade class where he learned that Massachusetts Native Americans planted fish heads along with their corn, he collected fish waste and composted it. Besides actually rehabbing, Monte spends a lot of time convincing people that fish waste could be a money-maker and save birds’ lives in the process.

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Pelicans Fish California Massachusetts 198

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

After all, a world-class birding destination fifteen minutes from my house is pretty much irresistible. You are also probably aware that Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, one of the best urban birding sites in the world, is on my regular list of spots that I like to stop by and visit.

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Jamaica New York City United States Wildlife 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

I have no problem birding in urban areas and generally feel fine toting my bins and even my digiscoping set up with me anywhere.

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Fish Birds 149

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 25, 2012

Roxy the Traveling Dog takes a nap during Dino Dogan’s SEO class. Roxy was very sweet and even came to visit my lap a few times during the class, and she had the prettiest little painted toe nails too! They arrived in the Ferret Chariot, and were even more adorable in their tuxedos for the Nose to Nose awards.

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Ferrets Branding Pets Dogs 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

But that day, with our regular class missing, I wondered if we could help at all. Could we visit another class?” There is a class that would enjoy seeing…”. The teacher asked the class if they’d like to meet Alex. It was a small class, maybe 10 kids. “Hi, I worried about Alex. She needed to do her therapy work.

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Dogs Michigan 2009 Raised 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Like others of his class and time, Schieffelin may well have been a Shakespeare fan. With a Horatian eye to their capacity to delight and to profit, the Society’s introductions over the years included everything from brook trout to Java finches , neither of which, if memory serves, ever trod the boards at the Globe.

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New York City New York North America Species 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2012

list-servs, newsgroups, photo-sharing… Oh and better concentrate in science classes as you also need to be a part-time scientist cum biologist with a complete grasp of the concepts of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA Analysis and just in case why not tag on a short course in stable isotope analysis?

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Morocco Birds Science Tagged 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

My NRLI fellowship class zipped across the Rodman Reservoir in two air boats, avoiding the submerged tree trunks leftover from the bottomland forest that once grew here. I visited the reservoir to learn about the environmental controversy surrounding the Rodman Dam (to remove, or not to remove), but the birds completely distracted me.

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Bald Eagle Transported Eagles Birds 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This was brought home to me in one class when a young girl got stuck on the idea that the female Mallard we were looking at might be a nighthawk, since it was a brownish bird in a horizontal pose. With all of these things in mind, I’ve been more and more apt to recommend apps – Merlin and the like.

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Owls Groups Birds 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2023

And then I came across an American Avocet , who gave me a class in the strange art of Avocet feeding. But they rarely fly by me at such a close distance. Unfortunately, Ruddy Ducks can’t always have bright blue bills. But they keep their tails stiff anyway. Avocets sometimes line up in a sort of sweeping, avian feeding chorus line.

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Spain Ducks Birds Mexico 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2011

first alternate = first-summer = second calendar year). … a.

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New York Species Birds 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In fact, when I was attending classes at the University of Miami, I found the birds so faithful to their routine that I could roughly tell what time it was depending on if the resident male oriole was singing — and what a song!

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Miami Costa Rica Florida 2005 172

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The coves are populated with oak, hemlock, poplar, and the area is stream-rich (including a Class V river gorge) with lush understories and shrubs. With a little birder luck, you might see some migrants, and chances are fairly good to catch a wintering Yellow-rumped. If you visit later in the year, join Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count.

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West Virginia Virginia Kentucky South Carolina 170