10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. A Suffolk Otter swimming in the Little Ouse river Not all Otter s want to be photographed But this one emerged, though only briefly The otter is, of course, a member of the weasel family.

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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

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. It was a ground-cuckoo family and they weren’t even shy!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

Of course, Corey wasn’t actually the one to spot it. No, he just brought his family to the area he knew one was hiding and waited for Daisy to make the discovery. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. No matter who found it a Northern Saw-whet Owl is always a pleasure.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2021

Even though this is no challenge at all, of course. A Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler made an early experience. Looks quite different from the Eurasian Jay I have seen in Germany, which I found is par for the course for this bird – it apparently has 8 races and 33 subspecies. So, what was there to see? Always nice to see.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Where a birder goes in the Caribbean determines which birds are seen including toy-like todies, Carib hummingbirds, cool pigeons, quail-doves, unique avian families and outrageous woodpeckers. One such special place is the Centro Manu, a small family run reserve that features several star bird species of Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Since this is the closest spot to the bird action, this is of course where we all want to be. Well yes, of course! Watch birds however you please… but seriously, you gotta experience the Cafe Colibri! Watch the birds. But, what I mean by that is checking out the birds before reaching for the camera.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

Hey, in 1959 Walt Disney set up a studio on the island and filmed Swiss Family Robinson there! I did however manage to be in the right place at the right time to experience a gang of Magnificent Frigatebirds that had a Red-footed Booby surrounded. The seabirds are of course, the main attraction.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

One particular family of owls had particularly evaded me. Two Great Horned Owl chicks had successfully fledged from Veteran’s Park at Baywalk , a small park that was once a three-hole golf course on Okaloosa Island. Almost the entire family had us surrounded. Until this past Sunday. Veteran’s Park at Baywalk.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. Of course, unless you live on Venus, we all know that this year is far from normal and so is the birding news. Check it out: Juvenile Tiny Hawk Show in Sarapiqui. Las Arrieras Nature Reserve.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

My family and I indulged this weekend in the kind of deep-fried treats you can only find at the New York State Fair… bacon-wrapped corn dog, anyone? But I always count on the Thruway drive through Montezuma NWR to deliver some sort of avian delight; this time, a Northern Harrier coursed the tall grass close to the highway.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But of course, it is also nice to remember past birding trips. After my Przevalski experience, I now look up such names to check whether the person the bird is named after has made similar racist statements, or even done worse things. I was vaguely curious about the family name mousebird. Or they are afraid of flying.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

This is, of course the Lesser Roadrunner. You truly cannot experience the Gray-barred Wren without hearing the raucous calls shared among group members of this highly-social species. It is not that close of a relative of the Northern Mockingbird , being in the same family, but a different genus.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

Several generations of Leopoldina’s family operate the lodge, serving delicious food and hospitality in a clean, comfortable environment. This, of course, was a great boon for our group. Of course, the 67 species we saw in the upper and middle segments of Montezuma Peak Road included more than hummers, tanagers, and flycatchers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

At the end of October, my family flew to Florida for a multi-day road trip aimed at the beautiful springs. Of course, Anhingas have caught on to their hiding techniques. Other than donning a snorkel mask and being in the right place at the right time, I don’t know how to seek these beautiful aquatic birding experiences!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. And, of course, as I do sometimes, I managed to sneak in a bit of birding. No, I wasn’t being punished, the apocalypse had not come, and I was putting myself through these privations voluntarily! There is still some bug to go. I like phoebes.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. While hoopoes are in their own family, DNA studies suggest that the hoopoe diverged from hornbills, and the wood-hoopoes and scimitarbills from the hoopoe. The African Hoopoe looks very much like the Eurasian one but is now considered a separate species by most authorities.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2020

While I don’t have a lot of experience with tropical terns, I believe that narrows it down to Sandwich Tern ( Thalasseus sandvicensis ), a bird that – while still quite rare in the Northeast – seems to be occurring with greater frequency , along with an increasingly northward incursion of Royal Terns ( Thalasseus maximus ).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

Although Bobolinks are a very rare migrant, lots of other birds are possible, more than enough to rack up hundreds of species over the course of the year. Snowcap and White-tipped Sicklebill – Choice hummingbirds in a speciose, fantastic family of birds. Living in Costa Rica, June is just as warm as the rest of the year.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If your CBC experience is anything like mine here in eastern New York, you’ll be counting an awful lot of crows. Fermentation of Uncommon Crow is carried out exclusively with a local strain of Brettanomyces , the wild yeast family we’ve encountered before in some other sour beers.

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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. The book I am writing is the New York edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. And the references I use!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Bird families that resemble each other are combined into one chapter, for example “Owls, Nightjars, and Nighthawks,” and are then treated separately within the chapter.

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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. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2017

And though it was not a birding trip we were out in the woods all day every day so of course I saw some birds. My use of binoculars attracted the attention of a random guy who, of course, wanted to know what I was looking at. This year we tried out Mongaup Pond Campground, a state park in the Catskills in Sullivan County. “Whoa!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

It will be family friendly and it is well organized. With deep local roots in the New York City activism scene and experience, post Hurricane Sandy, of the damage that climate change can cause , Occupy Wall Street has morphed into an organization with a ton of organizing and direct action talents. I plan to attend.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and a bunch of white folks all shared their stories and experiences and tried to wrap their heads around the enormous issue that race is in the United States and how it can be addressed in the birding world.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

’ They are challenging to find, frustrating to photograph, and the antbird experience often includes heat and humidity, mud and bugs. They are members of the Parulidae family and Horneros are members of the Furnariidae family, a nice example of parallel evolution.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Of course, that is just my perspective and I have been known to think that birds that don’t show up until May are late if they aren’t here by mid-April. Of course it did. I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the New York Aquarium. What a horrific result!

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 10, 2012

The theme can be interpreted as a celebration of accomplishment, discovery and travel of course, but equally valid is its implicit call to action. New Year’s day symbolizes the opportunity to work toward new goals, experience new beginnings, and make a difference.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

If I want my children to be birders, or at least to appreciate birding, I need them to have good experiences doing it with me. So there was more than simple lister anxiety coursing through my body when word of one sitting atop Grandfather Mountain came out, and birders began making plans to head west.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? Birds, of course! ( To get to the sewage ponds you have to go to Henderson, which is a quick drive to the southeast of Las Vegas, about twenty minutes from the strip.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And of course, two raptors that are a part of North American birding history: the Great Black Hawk of Portland and the Steller’s Sea-eagle of Boothbay Harbor and other local areas. ( I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.

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