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Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. Of course, the female is even more subdued-looking. The male, of course, I am afraid. How exciting.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Last week I introduced you to the new bird-watching hut at the Broome Poo Ponds and now I will let you know it is not just about the ponds, but the adjoining Broome Golf Course! Some bird species are regulars at the Golf Course, but we have also had rare birds how up over the years such as the Banded Lapwing in 2011. Golf Course birds!

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JANUARY 19, 2022

And to add to my new year list, of course. There were Vermilion Flycatchers , of course. There were, of course, many other birds seen that day. So it is odd that this rather drab landscape would host some of our most colorful birds. Even in winter, this Indigo Bunting shows a lot of indigo. Hutton’s Kinglet.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

There are of course a few more which I intend to get to in due course. There is a recurring theme of threes within the multitude of bird species in T&T, you can see for yourself in some previous posts I made. We have three each of hermits , antshrikes , resident warblers , manakins , trogons , and spinetails.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They are, of course, a smaller more compact goose, but picking out the various distinguishing features (such as the yellow eye ring) at such range is invariably challenging, to say the least. Often the best clue is counting the flock. They soon lose the colour as the spring progresses).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Of course, there was conventional classroom time spent on topics such as mechanics of flight, metabolism, digestion, nest building, egg production, and so forth. And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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MARCH 23, 2024

We still focused on the birds of course and saw quite a good number of species, although few were unexpected. We strolled around quite casually as we also enjoyed simply updating each other about what we’ve been up to given that we hadn’t seen each other for five months.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

But of course, you can skip them when getting near the end of this post – though that will mean not using your knowledge and skills to help Afghan women. And of course, there is a large number of Rock Doves (feral), particularly near one particular mosque. Oh god, I sound like the Pope now.

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APRIL 8, 2024

And of course, given that black is the new black (yes, I know – not a very original phrase), it should start with a Black Bulbul. According to the highly successful book ” 7 Habits of Highly Successful Birding Blog Post Writers”, only about 50% of birding blog posts should start with bulbuls).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Population conjectured to have been in the order of 100 million birds in 1980s” The reason, of course, is the usual one: human beings. Bye-bye, Yellow-breasted Bunting … Common birds can also be very beautiful, of course. Bird-shaped cuteness.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Of course, you can just recklessly say that you like music – but that would be foolish and almost guarantees you will have to listen to a mix of local folk music (preferably modernized by some electropop elements) and Celine Dion. I am not sure there is a good answer to the question above. Indeed, I fared a bit better this time.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Corey will, of course, attempt the same (probably more successfully) in Queens. Some splendid winter finches have been turning up sporadically along Lake Ontario. If all goes well, I’ll be able to chase one or two down this weekend. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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APRIL 17, 2022

You’ll note the sky was still pretty dull, but of course it was still around 30c. Of course he continues to put up excellent photos of birds despite being in lockdown and for that we are all grateful. Brahminy Kite on streetlight. The pair of Brahminy Kite in the header photo were photographed a couple of hours later close by.

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MARCH 9, 2024

Not that I mind – in fact the transforming and evolving shapes of their flight formations were great fun to watch, a bit like clouds changing shape from the air currents (although of course way cooler since they’re birds, duh!).

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

Corey spent his weekend upstate visiting his folks, picking apples, and, of course, looking for birds. My weekend was actually pretty slow from a wildlife appreciation angle, but the bare husks of coneflowers in my garden are still drawing curious American Goldfinches.

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Critter News

JUNE 21, 2009

I've been looking for something like this for a long time. From the Humane Society's press release.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Central Mexico has, of course, its own trash birds. But, as most of our readers know, the phrase “trash birds” usually refers to those species that one sees so often that they become tiresome. Fortunately, however, many of our trash birds are just plain prettier than yours.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

By Hannah Buschert Hannah Buschert started birding in college thanks to a required Biology of Birds course and a professor who included Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Birds to punctuate lessons. Of course, it was busting with birds and got us many firsts with White-throated Towhees , Berylline Hummingbirds , and a Gray-backed Woodpecker.

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MARCH 14, 2024

A Roadside Hawk perched on a post next to, of course, a road. A Snail Kite flew overhead, unfortunately a bit too far away to fully appreciate its sharply-hooked bill, made for eating, well, escargots. And two Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls toot-toot-tooted from the brush. We were unable to see them, but both showed up for photos the next morning.

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JULY 8, 2021

Tianmushan is a mountain in Zhejiang province – not very high at about 1500 meters, but of course offering very different birds from flat Shanghai (where confusingly, the highest mountain with a height of 100 meters is named Tianmashan – the difference between the a and the u is one of 1400 meters in height.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Not to say, of course, that there’s no point in getting out to see birds this time of year–any day is a good day for birding. Mid-November holds the dubious honor of being one of the most mundane birding periods imaginable in most temperate zones.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We have had some very strong winds recently and there may well be other bird species blown off course, so we will have to keep an eye out! A few days later another individual Orange Chat showed up, which was female or immature at a nearby ephemeral lake.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Of course, this requires some luck – the trash has to serve as some kind of vessel and contain some water. In order to deter real estate speculation, residential birds deliberately use ugly materials as part of their nests in order to prevent a local real estate boom. Trash as a vantage point ( Striated Heron , Nanhui, China).

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fortunately, other spots in the same area offer similar birds, which of course I would not have known without our guides. Of course, for me, the decision has never been in much doubt. Of course, scientifically this is an overinterpretation. There are some Azure-winged Magpies , which can also be found in Shanghai parks.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the super-abundance of marsh birds at Iramuco was not really a good thing, as it resulted from severe environmental stress factors. That is not normally a problem, as my bird photos are usually taken from quite a distance, and are heavily trimmed.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Of course, the adult male also got angry with people discarding their trash. Of course, in terms of weirdness, the Grey Nightjar scores a similar number of points. I am not sure what the point of the gorgeous light blue color of the immature male is (practicing his dark blue?), but it looks as nice as the dark blue of the mature male.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

The severe drawback of course being that the birds were covered in heavy fog too. Of course, just when we were leaving, the fog cleared up. Apparently, the location was the scene of a fight between Tibetans and Han Chinese a long time ago. The remaining crumbling walls make for some interesting scenery when half covered in fog.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

brings the wind from every quarter in the course of an hour or two.” (Their trip took ten days; Clavruel’s, mostly by car, was somewhat quicker.). On the other hand, Davis is, of course, a big fan of the Bald Eagle, as Audubon was not. They couldn’t use sails, she says, because “the many turns on the river.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Of course, the events are geared to professional ornithologists, so the material can be technical and assume a background in the subject. But I also dabbled in topics such as Snowy Owl eruptions, urban ornithology, window strikes, and eBird (of course). Grames — What can Ornithologists Tell Us About Global Insect Decline?”.

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APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. Of course, for the birds involved, this often leads to death. Apparently, this name is derived from the well-ordered patterns of the male.

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OCTOBER 17, 2021

Of course there is always something interesting about bowers wherever they are, but especially amongst human habitation. It is amongst some quite dense bush, but the white items make it stand out. It is quite an achievement as always and the items around and in it continues to increase. Great Bowerbird bower and stolen nails and screws.

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APRIL 18, 2021

We’re still far from peak passerine passage, but getting closer every day… I had to move my bird feeder from its perfect position this weekend, because of–of course–squirrels.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Of course the best way to find your favorite birds is by coming to Costa Rica and seeing them for yourself. In Costa Rica, we’ve got a heck of a lot of birds to choose from. It’s probably impossible to pick the five most popular ones but I bet the species mentioned above are good candidates.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

Black-breasted Buzzards are a lot more distinct in flight with their wing panel pattern than on the ground, unless of course they spread their wings! They may well have all been from the same family. Black-breasted Buzzard interaction. The post Black-breasted Buzzards and their wing panels appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

One can only hope 2021 gets more exciting–in a good, healthy, and interconnected way, of course–in the coming months. Can you believe that we’re already one-twelfth of the way through this year?

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APRIL 11, 2024

Of course the last thing that Messrs Baines and Richards would have thought about when they designed it was that one day it would support a flourishing colony of birds of any sort, let alone Kittiwakes. Built in 1902, the architects were George Baines and F. They designed the church to be in the Arts and Crafts style.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Of course, when a group sees 109 species, there are many highlights for the day. These two birds are almost certainly the same Flamingos as have been seen for years in León. Our contacts in that city confirmed thie theory, and were very happy indeed to hear that their birds are alive and well.

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