10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” Smith’s Longspurs, Vermillion Flycatchers, Burrowing Owls, Long-billed Curlews, Virginia Rails, Black Terns, Crested Caracaras–there’s a bird here for every taste. Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2024

There are 154 species of cuckoos in the world, and they’re all a fascinating bunch. It’s not a species you are likely to overlook, either, as it is extremely noisy, its cackling call carrying great distances. Give it a few more years and there’s a good chance that it will be split into a full species, just like the Cyprus Scops Owl.

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Cyprus Africa Europe Asia 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

One wonders how innocent the Spotted Owl finds the rampant range expansion of the Barred Owl. Perhaps our outrage at invasive species can be a bit hypocritical at times. The rapid proliferation of the European Starling is, on the species level, equivalent to incalculable fortunes of billionaire moguls.

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2023

So, in order to show a few more photos of the bird than the usual two or three had I included this bird in a post of birds seen around Wolongshan, Sichuan), here is one dedicated to the species. The Latin species name is semitorques , which means something like “half-twisted” – but I have no idea why.

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Vegan Cats Animal Friendly Eggs 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

I waited until now to post about the owl because the small size of the marsh at Plum Beach and the ease with which people can get into the marsh made it likely that if the owl’s location had been publicized it would have faced repeated disturbances from those hoping to see or photograph it. How cool is that?

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Owls New York City New York Rodents 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Global Big Day has become an annual collective event in May that encourages thousands of people to watch birds on the same date. and ended later that eveing with a final total of 154 species. To properly assess owls, other night birds, and the dawn chorus, you really have to be out and about by 4:30. We started at 4:30 a.m.

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Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Owls 275

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Which is why the past two weeks’ outings have been more about native plant propagation than finding new species. Last Monday, I collected Jamaican Nettletree seeds. I only saw 32 species for the day, which is quite a low number for me down here, even on a short outing. His reaction was most unusual.

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Owls Investigation Mexico Collecting 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2021

A portable speaker is placed on the top of the car, playing Tawny Owl calls from a smartphone. European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 presents information on all species reported to breed in the study period (2013 to 2017) and some with more uncertain breeding status. Original artwork illustrates all species with a full account.

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Europe Breeding Denmark Birds 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Similar to 2020, more than 32,000 people participated, 78,000 checklists were submitted, and more than 7,200 bird species were identified. In Costa Rica, despite there seeming to be less enthusiasm than previous GBDs, enough local and visiting birders dedicated most of the day to binocular use to give us a fantastic total of 731 species !

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Costa Rica Species 2020 Falcons 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2020

Since no-one lives here, there is no organised rubbish collecting. eBird list of the recorded species. eBird list of the recorded species. The Danube being 3 km wide here has another, sad consequence: all floating rubbish is being wind-blown to this bank. The reserve authorities do not seem to care about it. Dupljaja area.

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Mali Serbia Eagles Birds 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read. I don’t think so.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2019

Oh sure, you can go to Rock Creek Park or the Tidal Basin to seek out living avian species, or visitors can head to the Smithsonian museums for a dose of past and present bird lore from all over the world. In early June, I took note of each museum bird I spotted.

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DC Washington Bald Eagle Ostriches 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

I was surprised that this species is named for its vocalization – which sounds like laughter. For example, the Diamond Dove is the world’s second-smallest species of the columbidae order ( source ). The Latin species name haematonotus (“blood-backed”) sounds a bit more exciting but not necessarily more accurate.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2017

The folks at eBird (those would be the ones behind this mass birding and data collection initiative) have sent three teams to count birds in the Yucatan, one for each country that shares this region of avian importance. As for myself, if all goes well, I am counting some sweet hundreds of target species in three to four distinct habitats.

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Costa Rica Colombia Owls South America 124

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

The American Birding Association has declared that 2022 is the year of the Burrowing Owl, but if Rosemary Mosco has her way, it will also be the year of the Rock Pigeon. Yes, sure, Rock Pigeons are not a vulnerable species, unless you count the number of times they have been mocked, scorned, and shooed away.

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2018 New York City Birds Abandon 229

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

It was easy enough to participate, all anyone had to do was watch birds and record the number of species identified using eBird. Those who did so on May 5th automatically became part of the biggest day of collective birding in 2018; Global Big Day ! We logged an awesome 225 species! More than 680 species identified!

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Costa Rica 2018 Colombia Collecting 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

(The White-tipped Dove is actually called, in Spanish, the Paloma Arroyera , or “Gully Dove” And sorry, I have yet to get a photo of this shy species. Like most of the species on this list, this tiny highland bird prefers to make its presence know by singing, rather than by being seen. You do want to see it.

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Trinidad Emotional Transported Mexico 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. Above is a pellet from one of a pair of Great Horned Owls that nested a few blocks from my apartment.

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Bats Dissection Owls Minnesota 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

Since we collectively shared that day of birding with more than 20,000 people in more than 150 countries, there’s a pretty good chance that more people were out watching birds on May 13th than any other day in history. In Costa Rica, we did our part and were elated to finish with more than 640 species. Could we still hear one?

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Costa Rica 2017 Owls West Virginia 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list. The mythical Red Owl on a day roost at Lake Bemanevika.

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

You could say that migration is covered by almost any birding book; I learned a lot about radio transmitters from Jonathan Slaght’s Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020) and Alexander Lees and James Gilroy’s Vagrancy in Birds (2022) is almost a textbook on migration theory (especially magnetic fields, not covered in Flight Paths ).

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US. Cut down the virgin forest and lose the Orangutans or Spotted Owls or Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. This species is in trouble. This moment is about beginning to see in a new way.

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 216

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

As I explained to my nephews when they were younger, “The Burrowing Owls don’t think we’re their friends. People on one side of the rope, owls on the other.” Substitute Snowy Owl here if you’d like the modern version). The beautiful Bee-eater family, with its 26 species, is covered in a little less than two pages.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We’re passing the Dasada village where shop owners and artisans are opening their doors, collecting rubbish in the street and burning it, while standing around those small fires and warming themselves up. The next two species are the Southern Grey Shrike and the Tawny Pipit , also characteristic for this habitat type. ceylonensis.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

So, for example, Essay #15, “Individual Variation,” uses Herring Gulls to introduce the concept that one species, even one species at a specific age, can vary widely in appearance. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America. I remember the talking (Song?)

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 118

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. The next spring she reported that her first class was doing very well and were able to rapidly identify nearly 200 species. That blew my mind.

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South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Killing 266

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Checking for moult limits on a female Band-tailed Manakin to determine her age Imagine learn or improving your mist-netting, bird banding, handling, aging, and Neotropical bird ID skills in one of the most exuberantly natural surroundings ( 599 bird species recorded at Explorer’s Inn and Sachavacayoc Centre!) Wicked, right?

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

During this time, the fish trapped in the shrinking pools of water attract hordes of herons, egrets, storks, and other wetland species. The star of such huge concentrations is the massive Jabiru , towering over a diverse collection of South American waterbirds such as Sunbittern , Plumbeous Ibis , and Southern Screamer.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Which is not to say that it doesn’t contain striking images of birds parenting the most adorable songbirds, owls, and heron nestlings imaginable. Some chapters focus on one species (Yellow Warbler), some on several related species (Chickadees and Nuthatches). Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) And of birds courting and mating.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

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Guatemala Mexico San Diego South America 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The guide presents 69 species and 1 subspecies, from “NEW WORLD VULTURES: Cathartiformes” to “OSPREY: Pandioninae” to “FAMILY: Accipitridae” (Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Hawk-Eagles), to “FALONIDS: Falconidae” (Falcons, Forest-Falcons, Caracaras, Kestrels, Merlin). Owls are not included, though they sometimes are in ‘raptor’ guides.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Breeding is well underway and everywhere you look the Glaucous Gulls are, ahem, engaged or collecting grasses and sedges for nests. Friends of mine came home from those lakes with tales of Sandhill Cranes , Snowy Owls with eggs in the nest and others. Few things in this earth can beat falling asleep after a day outdoors to bird song.

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Bald Eagle Iceland Owls North America 126

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The Second Atlas’s logo, designed by bird carver Larry Barth, with its perched Scarlet Tanager, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Ruffed Grouse, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Common Raven, and Eastern Bluebird, gives a good idea of the diversity of birds that can be found in Pennsylvania. The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 239