Course Document Hunters Species 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. 220; Copyright © 2022 Tom Johnson photos p.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2017
Birders roll their eyes – of course snipe really exist, and of course they’re not a subspecies of jackalope! It seems more likely that common practices like spotlighting and netting informed both the real and the prank hunters. – but don’t dig deeper. It has nothing to do with the childish hazing ritual.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids. You can see the Species Account for Henslow’s Sparrow above, in the banner photo.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Of course, by the time I get to them just about every other big lister in the state has seen them two or three times. That’s about all you can say when faced with pretty clear documentation of North Carolina’s first Violet-green Swallow that you’ve missed by less than 270 seconds. It can pay off in big ways.
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.
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