10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2020
Black-chested Sparrow is one of Paso Ancho’s flagship species. It wasn’t my fault; the Sparrow came to me. As I learned this week, locals cook the unripe fruit into meat dishes, and eat the ripe fruit raw… as do birds! Striped-headed Sparrows and Streak-backed Orioles seemed to be everywhere.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2019
This is the same history of conquest and despoliation which now puts many of these very species in danger of extinction. Let’s not, as has also been proposed, then, rename Saltmarsh Sparrow to honor Roger Tory Peterson, great though his impact on birding may have been. Wilson’s Plover ?
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2019
This year, my main challenge is identifying 700 species within the borders of Costa Rica by December 31st. Those 700 species also need to be identified by my partner Mary (the other half of Team Tyto) because the road to 700 species is one that we are walking together. Such stops have already yield the tiger-heron and dipper.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
I was in the middle of cooking dinner, but I quickly got permission from my wife, turned the burners to low, and booked out to a park a few minutes away. It is my goal to track down species for my Piedmont eBird Challenge team, and county birds are secondary, but they come in twos. 10 minutes later I was on a Lincoln’s Sparrow.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
Fluttering Shearwater ( Puffinus gavia ) Flesh-footed Shearwater ( Puffinus carneipes ) Buller’s Shearwater ( Puffinus bulleri ) Along with these three were Two further species, also both familiar to North American birders, Sooty Shearwaters and Short-tailed Shearwaters. It is also restricted as a breeder to the north of North Island.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2019
To birders, the search for raptors perched at the very tops of telephone poles, or for neatly arranged rows of sparrows or buntings sitting on the low-slung lines draped between them is one of the chief joys of any drive through the country. that he had several miles already buried dug up and the entire system strung overhead on poles.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Miriam’s is a plain, simple place offering delicious local cuisine cooked in a wood oven, combined with an awesome birding station! more than two dozen species before the rain forced us inside. more than two dozen species before the rain forced us inside.
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