10,000 Birds

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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Afghanistan Birds Feral Zoos 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We work with the best guides so our guests not only have outstanding hotel services in Mindo Cloud Forest, but they will also have a top-notch experience. Julia Patiño has 20+ years of experience guiding in birding tours and is one of the first women guides in Ecuador! Marcelo Arias has 25+ years of experience guiding.

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10,000 Birds

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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Squirrels Louisiana Birds Experience 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2021

One can only hope 2021 gets more exciting–in a good, healthy, and interconnected way, of course–in the coming months. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Can you believe that we’re already one-twelfth of the way through this year?

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Birds Sparrows Experience Experiments 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It is my opinion from personal experience that there is really no point in buying the BTX without the extender. The BTX system stored in the Swarovski BP 30 backpack together with the PTH tripod head Secondly, it is very heavy and cumbersome which is to be expected of course. With the use of the ME 1.7x This one doesn’t.

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10,000 Birds

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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China Birds Russia Owls 219

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Many a birder with years of experience in the Neotropical region has never ever seen or heard an RVG. Speaking of cats, I am reminded of an experience a co-worker of mine had while surveying birds years ago in Washington state. He was of course happily flabbergasted. At that moment, a Puma ran across the road.

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Costa Rica Panama Cats Washington 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2024

There were other birds, of course – Brown-throated Parakeets that flew past low and quickly threw us for a heart-pounding loop. Nevertheless, it was still a magical experience sitting in the jungle. That morning wore on, and still there was only the Sun, so intense it seemed as if the clouds all shied away from obscuring it.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a rush any new birder experiences: that of every species being a lifer. Once you’ve been around the birding block a few years, your appreciation for the lifer experience deepens greatly. Which is why we all eventually turn to the one way to combine old-birder experience with new-birder opportunities: travel.

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Spain Europe Sparrows Mexico 200

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Many studies have shown that a life rich in new experiences, and especially learning a new language late in life, can help stave off the onset of dementia. Of course, it is possible to live in Mexico while avoiding many new experiences; but why would you want to? Good choice!).

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Mexico Birds Costa Rica Alabama 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Of course, excellent opportunity to go birding with my friends Brad and Laura. Of course, I made that up. It is mid-March and I am back in Colorado for meetings. We would leave straight from the airport to the mountains so I had put on the birding clothes and looked like an army veteran. Good thing: I was given priority boarding.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 153

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

I, of course, love a good river delta. You can get a sense of the breadth of my European birding experience by how many of my lifers have the word “Common” in their names. I also enjoyed seeing some old friends, always an interesting experience when one has travelled to the other side of the world.

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Spain Mexico Europe North America 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2023

I experienced this first hand while attending last year’s CBC , but because I’m motivated by feelings I didn’t consider this a true experience. Of course, a major factor in this decision rests in its status as a resident species. Nature is an infinitely unpredictable organism and I’m happy to bird naturally.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

But, of course, it was Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that paid off the most when Corey carefully scanned the margins of the West Pond and turned up a surprise American Bittern. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Jamaica Birds Wildlife Experience 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2023

And of course, there is the expected paper characterizing the mitochondrial genome of Collared Finchbill. Fortunately for them (though less so for the cuckoo), in one experiment they ejected 100% of all cuckoo model eggs. My mother is dead already, but she might have pointed out that she told me so.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When you don’t know anything about babies, the initial 30 days are a crash course in hormones and learning how to take care of a newborn – feeding, diapering, and so much more. Sure, it wasn’t the longest or best birding experience I had ever had, but I proved to myself I could go birding with my baby.

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Birds Florida Geese Turkey 179

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. .” And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

So I took him to Paso Ancho, of course. I’ll still probably try again next June, as this June has been the driest and hottest in memory, and in my experience, summer rains make it much more likely that one will see the Sinaloa Martin. A Russet-crowned Motmot , of course. I wanted him to see all those beautiful endemics.

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Mexico Oregon Squirrels Science 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

’ The Beautiful Sibia is beautiful even in Mandarin Chinese (Li se qi mei, “Beautiful babbler”) … … and of course in science (scientific name pulchella , “little beautiful”). Apparently, the dark color of the plant nectar attracts the bird, as shown by controlled experiments.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2022

Over the course of a single Arctic tern’s life (up to thirty years), these voyages can add up to a total distance of one and a half million, or roughly the distance of three roundtrips flight between the Earth and the Moon.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2023

Some weeks ago, I elaborated on some of my experiences on the eastern and southeastern ends. Birds are of course, plentiful here. One of the interesting aspects of Trinidad’s nature is that both southern corners of the roughly boot-shaped island are dotted with wetlands.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When I call this a rite of passage it’s because watching Short-eared Owls in winter in New York is one of the most miserably frigid experiences I’ve had as a birder – and one I’ve endured on more than one occasion.

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Owls New York New York City Cuba 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

Of course, Tiaozini also has Cattle Egret … … and the usually somewhat depressed looking Black-crowned Night Heron. A juvenile night heron experimented with getting across fences (note: neither fence nor heron were hurt during the experiment). Also available as a set of two.

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Birds Uganda Breeding Rats 222

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2020

In the normal course of things, Corey’s first Eastern Phoebe of the year on Sunday morning would have easily been his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Birds Experience Experiments 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

Birding Experiences. Of course, we reserve the right to lightly edit any posts we receive and/or refuse to print anything that we don’t find appropriate for this site or purpose. But first take a moment and click through to some of the wonderful submissions from the month of February. There’s something for everybody! Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Uganda Greece Ghana 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. I just happened to be there to experience it. Of course, unexpected experiences such as this are one of the great appeals of birding. Sometimes they can be seen with a scope from shore. Sometimes they can be seen with a scope from shore.

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San Francisco Portland Whales Whaling 131

10,000 Birds

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. In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. Of course, for the birds involved, this often leads to death.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Over the course of the following hour or so we observed many different species *coincidentally* alight on the wall near to the body of the fallen yellowlegs. Animals obviously see death and experience it as we do, so the question is not one of if, but of how. Life departed from yet another little body, and all were notified.

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Elephants Ducks Humane Family 273

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2022

We are really enjoying the experience of observing another bird species that is black, white and red breed in our local patch. Of course the Pied Oystercatchers are also breeding at this time of year and we continue to monitor their progress along our coastline. They can fly short distances, but then again they only have short tails!

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Family Breeding Raised Experience 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Rather, I am speaking of what a certain group of birds must experience every day. Of course, birds that are rare, new, or especially beautiful are beloved by most birders. Still, in spite of the thrill we share with each lifer, that is not the rush of blood to the head to which I refer in my title.

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Mexico Horses Species Groups 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What my previous experience had not prepared me for, was that this summer I would see many of those species for the first time all at once. Of course, several resident Warblers were also present: Crescent-chested , Grace’s , Golden-browed , and Red Warblers , and our always common Slate-throated Redstart.

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Mexico Nashville Virginia Shelters 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Asian Brown Flycatcher does not count as a season-starting bird – discrimination, of course. Anyway, not a bad look for a juvenile given the bland look of some of the bulbuls I recently saw in Borneo, though of course, the adult bird looks more distinct.

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Birds China Taiwan Raised 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. Of course, I can’t bat a thousand on the bad photo rankings. Of course, I also managed to take a bunch of incomplete or unfocused bird photos and turn them into a blog. They were actually worse when I started.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2020

Several have stayed in our home, and of course, invited us to their own homes. This lifer for both of us would have been our undisputed peak experience for the outing, if it had not been for the majestic sight of a pair of Great Swallow-tailed Swifts that flew near us at eye level. But, of course, I wanted more.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Of course, birds only represent a sliver of the near-infinite flora and fauna that, collectively, grows, blooms, dies back, and lapses into dormancy over the course of a year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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