10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2022

They are places where we invest most of our birding time and rightly so; mature tropical forests are where we find the highest number of species. Additional bird species prefer the sun-drenched vegetation of open fields and other edge habitats. Find a brushy field during the winter months and you might also find these colorful species.

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Costa Rica Farming Sparrows Birds 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2012

These adaptations for avoiding predators has allowed most species of owls to flourish in their own habitat albeit, with reclusive habits. This time of year, in Colorado, offers exciting species like the Boreal Owl and the Northern Pygmy-Owl. The former two species, however, are resident and are just starting to come alive.

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Owls Colorado Breeding Species 199

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2024

So, I hired Kingfisher Birdwatching Nuevo León for a trip on my own after I’d come back from my travels to Colorado. The day was only minutes old and we already had 32 species on the day list. Going birding with newbies is fun and it is important to spread the conservation message, but there’s only so much a hardcore birder can stand.

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Parrots Woodpeckers Industry Fast Food 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

I often wonder what the true first colonists of Colorado had running through their minds when they first encountered the Colorado Rockies. Views like this offer specialty niches for many high-altitude species. These White-tailed Ptarmigan are without a doubt one of the most sought-after species in Colorado.

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Colorado North Dakota Montana Owls 134

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Although you know from the beginning that Dorian will end up with 618 species, there is suspense as he searches for skulkers like Black Rail, rarities like Rufous-back Robin, and his trip nemesis, Pacific Golden Plover. This is a smartly written book.

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 207

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2016

Basically, he’s too busy birding from Colorado to Idaho to write about birding! The best way to appreciate mundane species is through a new filter. And on the other end of the spectrum, I may be writing about birding, but that alone doesn’t get me in front of exceptional avifauna.

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Idaho 2016 Colorado Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2019

First, some background regarding the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the listing of the Golden-cheeked Warbler is required. Although many ESA regulations apply only to federal agencies, private entities that take actions that could adversely impact a listed species must first obtain a permit. What is a conservation bank? # # #.

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San Antonio Endangered Species Texas Austin 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

While we continue to decimate our short and tall grass prairies many species reach their inevitable peril. Here in Colorado many species are affected, but perhaps none more than our beautiful Mountain Plovers and Ferruginous Hawks. I feel blessed to live in Colorado where I can see these beauties in migration and breeding.

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Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? wrote Heilke in Colorado. A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A “I’d wish for rehabber-appreciative regulators who don’t think adding paperwork equals adding security,” wrote Louise in Oregon. Personal Things. “A

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 242

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2014

Although watching thousands of gulls in the Niagara Gorge was sublime, more bird species (and warmer weather) eventually brought him to Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and other very birdy, tropical places.

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Costa Rica Ecuador Peru Colorado 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

That is, of course, dependent on me finishing a manuscript in a timely way by the end of February which I am well on my way to doing, having completed over one hundred species accounts thus far. In the meantime, I have whittled down the number of birds I want to include to 298 species, which is still a bit more than I am supposed to include.

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New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 194

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2012

It seems likely that the squirrels we saw are of the nominate subspecies, seeing as Merriam described the species from a specimen taken in Riverside County, California, not far from Joshua Tree National Park.* The other subspecies range from the southern end of Baja California north into Idaho and Oregon but never east of the Colorado River.

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Squirrels Chipmunks Idaho Mammals 200

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2011

The Front Range of Colorado offers unique birding experiences from top to bottom. He moved from Delaware to Colorado and then like a week later this bird shows up in Denver. Most birders go a lifetime without seeing this species. I joked with my good friend, Jeff Gordon (ABA President ), of his luck.

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Denver Colorado Birds Delaware 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2018

With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir. The numbers are as follows: Little Big Year Species – 892.

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Colorado Texas Trinidad Albuquerque 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

These arid hills, cloaked in a mosaic of deciduous scrub and desert vegetation, form a northern outpost for several Neotropical species while also harboring several key endemics and southwestern Nearctic species. I had point blank life views of this tricky species from within a few feet.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2013

It has no avian endemic species (only one subspecies), and its most spectacular birds like Venezuelan Troupial and Fiery-Topaz Hummingbird can be found in greater numbers across a narrow strait in mainland South America, where you can pick up an additional 400-500 species besides. This, like most things, offers some pros and some cons.

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Cattle South America Florida Colorado 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2016

This property is located in northern Butte County which is nearing the (dwindling) northern most historic range for this species in California. Nesting habitat use by Burrowing Owls in Colorado. One of the reasons we are so excited about having a nesting pair of Burrowing Owls at the Tuscan Preserve is its location. v=TG4HxJ0pIp0.

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Owls California 2010 Colorado 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2016

The Cornell team is no doubt having a fantastic day of birding up there in beautiful spring Colorado while they identify Cassin’s Sparrow, Prairie Falcon, Lazuli Bunting , and other western birds in some of the same places I surveyed in 1997 and 2001. I will nevertheless be counting birds despite not actually going birding.

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Costa Rica 2016 2001 Battery 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

To make things even more confusing, Trinity Brewing Company is located in Colorado Springs, where none of the thrushes are black, but one of the resident blackbird species – which are all New World icterids – is named for a Brewer. Still with me? Brewer’s Blackbird is a more beery icterid than most, but it’s no merle.

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Blackbirds Belgium Colorado Wounded 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America are often cheaper than going to places like Arizona, Colorado, or California. I made my way to the coast to Hotel Jamaican Colors just north of Manchioneal for the night having seen 23 of my target species already.

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Jamaica Puerto Rico 2013 Birds 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

It is mid-March and I am back in Colorado for meetings. The same Townsend’s Solitaire I dipped on last time in Colorado. My hosts could confidently tick off the species on their life list. We got at least three sub-species but the highlight was a Wilson’s Snipe we flushed. the trails were empty.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 143

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2013

The Black Swift is considered a Species of Special Concern in California. Plus the fact that they only lay one egg per season which is incubated for about four weeks and the chicks don’t fledge for another fifty days gives you some notion as to why these birds are a Species of Special Concern.

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California North America Costa Rica Niger 203

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 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I have been a fan of the Kaufman Guides since I bought the Field Guide to Butterflies of North America , for a birds and butterflies trip to Colorado. The following section on Habitats serves to provide the larger picture, frameworks in which to root the hundreds of individual species to follow.

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Massachusetts North America Rhode Island Ohio 204

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Colorado or Delaware? That said, Liz and I are really grooving on Colorado these days. One thing that unites those three is that they’re spectacular species I’ve had multiple chances of seeing and so far missed. That way, you can stuff the Green Heron ’s ballot box! For me, for birding: Delaware.

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Delaware Colorado 2012 Advocacy 236

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. Professor Marc Bekoff at the University of Colorado advances the even more progressive idea of “compassionate conservation.”

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 234

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. Betty’s Bay was also a great place to see all of South Africa’s cormorant species, including the endangered Bank Cormorant.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 252

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California. . “I’m with Cara, I find releases stressful,” said Veronica Bowers of Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol, CA. But I did one Brown Pelican release that was memorable.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 216

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The scientific species name of the Golden-throated Barbet is franklinii , commemorating Capt. The HBW section on this species’ behavior mostly repeats the phrase “more information needed” Though of course scientists, hungry for grants and topics, say that all the time. Ok, I made that up. Then, on to nuthatches.

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, the Profile Page (mine is below) displayed state-level checklist information as a map with darker shades indicating more species observed and lighter shades indicating fewer. And Colorado showed a similar shortcoming, despite the fact that I have made countless business trips to Denver. Those differences matter.

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District of Columbia Puerto Rico Michigan Colorado 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2020

It happens to every birder and it may take a while but eventually, every person who strives to see different species of birds comes across that one warbler, that particular shorebird or bunting or crossbill that they really, honestly, should have seen. Unlike many other ducks, this species was stealth in action.

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Costa Rica Ducks Birds Laws 256

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States. The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316).

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In talking to the local guides, and Rangers, they all agreed that they had not been seeing too many species around in the last couple of weeks. We are on our way to Colorado, and the famous Trinidad Lake area. Little Big Year species – 888. eBird submissions – 292.

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Wyoming Wolves Grizzly Bear Mountain Goats 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

A good state bird guide needs to offer details about a bird’s look, sound, behavior and habitat in language that is specific enough to differentiate the bird from similar-looking species, but nonscientific enough not to intimidate novice birders. Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order.

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New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 237

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Their abundance this summer may not be enough to herald a comeback – and the western populations of the species, in particular, are still facing major trouble – but it was a welcome sight for any nature lover nevertheless.

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North America Colorado Texas New York 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The guide covers 520 species of birds regularly found in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, including, interestingly, a number of exotic species. There is also a traditional index to bird species, by common and scientific name. Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family.

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North America America Birds New York 163