10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

Note: Erika is the Communications Director for Audubon Florida. Of course, nothing is typical about 2020. At Audubon Florida, we opted to change a typical Birdathon to bring not only our staff together, but our whole Florida birding community. to 11:59 p.m. Staff would bird for 24 hours as part of a fundraiser.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida. Of course they would react differently.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After doing a quick scan of the constellation of recreational fields, a disk golf course, playground, and pond, I didn’t have high hopes for the nature viewing in this busy area. . We opted for a local green-space we had often driven by but had never visited: Tom Brown Park. I am thrilled to say I was wrong! The post Rainy Day?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

For the past few years, they’ve been mere acquaintances, passing through North Florida on their way to who knows where. I’m talking, of course, about “my” flock of American White Pelicans. I’ve made some new friends in 2022.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Not far behind is California (348, up from 297), followed by Arizona (294, up from 155), Florida (233, up from 227), New Jersey (223, up from 199), Oregon (221, up from 209), and Texas (218, up from 106). Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida). Thus, there are now seven states with 200+ observed species.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville, Florida, is an amazing destination to see a wide variety of wildlife including, of course, birds! Florida Scrub-Jays are, of course, endemic to Florida. Roseate Spoonbills are one of my favorite Florida birds. So, if you see one that you like, click it!

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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. During a North Florida winter the lake isn’t much to look at – mostly dry with brown tufts of grasses and dead lily pads.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. Of course, you can use the data in many ways. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2015

A friend was in Florida, and as people in Florida are wont to do, he taunted me with pictures of some good birds that I am not currently looking at. Of course, the term dates from the 1870s, when many things were not cool. In this case, it was especially cruel because he posted a Limpkin , a bird I have never looked at.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

His only birding regret was not starting sooner while he was still in Cuba and his final goal is to be able to bird at least once on every continent of the world, although he is mostly a Florida birder. If you see him on the field or contact him, he will be sure to join you since birding is always better with an extra pair of binoculars.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I’ve been learning to band birds at the South Florida Bird Observatory. Of course I’ve seen these birds in Florida many times but I never really appreciated just how big these nocturnal bucket mouths are. In Florida, many birds remain year-round. A Chuck-will’s-widow !

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It was odd to realize that with a temperature of 85 degrees F and a breeze, I felt like “fall” had begun in Northwest Florida. Besides, I didn’t need a still image to identify my familiar Florida species. These river areas of Northwest Florida always strike me as mysterious.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

In celebration of the coming weekend, The Management at 10,000 Birds have generously offered a special, all expenses paid trip to a pampering spa in Florida (they will not actually be paying the expenses, but it is assumed that at some point someone, somewhere, will end up paying. Of course not! They asked me to make that clear).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Five Fun Things That Corey Will Be Doing At the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding And Wildlife Festival, 25-30 January, 2012 Seeing Florida Scrub-Jays. Last year Mike had the great pleasure of adding the endemic Florida Scrub-Jay to his life list and I need to catch up. Joining a Florida pelagic trip! What a line-up!

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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. We had an ambitious itinerary planned: six springs within eight Florida State Parks. Of course, Anhingas have caught on to their hiding techniques.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina. He once obtained a specimen in full plumage about ten miles north of Charleston.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Such is the burden that a digiscoping bird blogger bears when he visits the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Florida in January. Most of them are year-round residents though much of the population in the United States – with the exception of south Florida birds – migrate south for the winter.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

But when Brian told me that his sister’s wedding would by held at the beginning of May in Fort Myers, Florida, my second thought (the first being “Eeeeeeeeeeee let’s gooooo!!!”) Though they are common in Florida, this was the first I had ever seen. Adding a bird to the life-list and I had only been in Florida for thirty minutes!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

There are, of course, more big years happening this year. The following is not an exhaustive list, of course, but hopefully we will learn of more big years in the comments. Rangel Diaz is doing a big year in Miami-Dade County, Florida, hoping to reach 300 species, and keeping a blog about it. What records will fall in 2013?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Of course you would first have to register for the festival so why don’t you head on over to do that and then come back and figure out which trips to go on with me? “Florida” Red-shouldered Hawk at Blue Heron Wetlands. … Birding festivals Florida Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

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. All the local birders had seen them, and though I arrived on the Florida Panhandle too late to observe them when they were young, I fervently wished to see them all grown up.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

Like my two previous visits I spent one day that I didn’t have to lead any field trips doing a run through central Florida looking for some of the specialty species of the region. From 1993 to 2004, biologists released 289 captive-raised whooping cranes into central Florida. That number has continued to shrink.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2017

Though I had driven past the Lower Suwanee River National Wildlife Refuge a half dozen times in my trips about Florida, I had not yet stopped, and I hummed with excitement as we drove down one of the forested refuge roads. A boat ride of course. Yes, but we were playing the numbers game. What could take us over the edge?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2012

And last week I got to celebrate my coming of (young) age by crossing one off the old list, courtesy of my mate Adrian Binns and Wes Biggs of Florida Nature Tours. Day-trips to the Dry Tortugas are of course possible but the best way to experience the islands is on an extended 3-day guided tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6akXhJE44w

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2013

The most famous of these is Cattle Egret , but Masked Duck looked like it might make things interesting for a while and Antillean Nighthawk has more or less staked out a little niche for itself in extreme southern Florida. Of course not. Go to the TdS golf course and look around. Nonsense, said Jeff.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. Of course not! What do all these birds have in common?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2017

Of course I wanted to go scalloping, which involves snorkeling through the seagrass before plucking the shellfish from the ground and cleaning them right then and there – but I always want to bird. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, which is truly one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever visited in Florida.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Marbled Godwit ( Limosa fedoa ) in the photo above, shown landing at Fort De Soto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida, is used with permission from my friend Mia McPherson of On The Wing Photography fame. Of course there were some scuffles with the Heermann’s Gulls snatching their hard earned catch.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2015

To try to regain the species, state officials even brought in fledglings from Florida , a program that continued until 1980 ! Though the Gulf oil spill has threatened their numbers again, birders and non-birders alike can delight in the antics of pelicans in coastal regions all over the United States and of course, Louisiana.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

After our successful run through Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area , Doug and I were confident we could find some more of our target birds along Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs from Canoe Creek Road to Lake Kissimmee in Osceola, Florida, which is a bit south of Kissimmee and St. ……… a.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana. Geography is destiny. Nome, Alaska.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

We assembled at nine in the morning in a small parking lot outside the naval base in Key West, Florida. There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. That was mostly my fault.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you ever are in Florida or if you live there now, or anywhere where these amazing birds can be found, make sure that you appreciate them. And, whatever you do, never tell the power companies where Painted Buntings are… *Of course this isn’t true at all.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2015

Of course, half of getting information out of any data set is knowing what questions to ask. You do, however, see them in January in places like Florida and North Carolina. I checked Scissor-tailed Flycatcher as well and the same held, although that species did have a handful of summer records that the kingbirds lacked.).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

“Out West” to most Floridians might mean California or Arizona or might even refer to the Gulf Coast of Florida. These two water management wetlands are amongst the very best birding and photography locations in south Florida. And this is where magic happens from time to time. If not THE best.

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