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

AUGUST 8, 2017

Marks National Wildlife Refuge just after dawn. Marks Wildlife Refuge. 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. I was itching to get out of the car and bird.

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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

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!

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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

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

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.). Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. On the other hand, Davis is, of course, a big fan of the Bald Eagle, as Audubon was not.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2024

Of course, there should be a photo of a Plain Prinia here now, but somehow I did not get one this month). But then, of course, my conscience took over and the truth won, as it should. Luckily, it does not live in Florida, where such an attitude is strongly discouraged by a would-be Trump named Ron DeSantis.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

In under a month I will looking at lots of great birds at the 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. 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? John’s National Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. 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. 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. Lower Suwanee River National Wildlife Refuge. A boat ride of course. My favorite?

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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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

It’s only a small surprise that a significant proportion of those sites are in Florida. The jewel in Florida’s bedazzled crown may be Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, on the Atlantic Coast in the shadow of Cape Canaveral. When I got to the terminus I turned left, towards the last of my Florida targets.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

When two males and a female are all showing up at the visitor center of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. 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.

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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. ……… a.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I am really excited to say I’ll be heading down to Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida, next month as a correspondent for 10,000 Birds. It won’t be my first trip to Florida. I can’t wait to reacquaint myself with Florida Scrub-Jays and Sandhill Cranes.

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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. It’s nice to have friends that are excellent wildlife photographers.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2011

I was in Florida last week, the freakiest of the southeastern states. All true of course. I don’t play golf and I’m not one for laying out by the pool so my Florida related activities are almost exclusively exploration related and even though I was hardly at what you’d call a wildlife refuge, it was Florida.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2013

The cup runneth over with good birding at the Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival in Titusville, Florida. Viera Wetlands is one of those Florida institutions, not only for birders, but also fans of civil engineering (you know who you are). But that’s par for the course. So yeah, Viera was pretty hot this morning.

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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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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. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Is this a glitch, then, or part of a larger trend of later, lost-er, more lingering kingbirds?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois. This means, of course, that we birders love them! There really isn’t much to say about the Mottled Duck. What a bird! Mottled Ducks.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

California (297) is next, followed by Florida (227), Oregon (209), and New Jersey (199). Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida). Of course, the Collaborative will also continue to work on the global map (below) as well. The post 10,000 Birds goes eBirding appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J. That bird stuck around for a while, invariably associating with some Canada Geese on a specific fairway on a specific golf course near Half Moon Bay. Geography is destiny.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The event that I am most looking forward to at the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is the “Noon Blog” that I will have the great pleasure of facilitating. Florida in January sure beats anywhere with copious amounts of snow, ice, and cold! Of course you are! If not, why not?

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The idea is to give you a start in the identification process, and of course knowing which species are possible in your area helps narrow the possibilities down further. No Nest, in Divot in Moss on Branch of Mature Conifer in Old-Growth Forest ? Only one possibility, Marbled Murrelet. (I I should be so lucky.)

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JANUARY 1, 2019

Whooping Crane, Florida. There is a small resident population in Polk County, Florida, in the middle of the peninsula, mostly on protected land, and once in a while they show up in a place where they can be easily observed. Nice to know that some things don’t change! An eBird mystery. I also noted that the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

I have put this post off for a couple of months now because I wanted to avoid dealing with the huge pile of American Bittern images I had after my experience at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival back in January. Of course, I was unable to keep to just five, but I did keep it well under two hundred. How ridiculous?

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MARCH 2, 2015

It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. I think a lot of people know that climate change is not a positive thing, but do they know whats in it for wildlife? So what does climate change mean for birds? Well…it means everything.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. Illustrated with drawings by the author’s wife, wildlife artist Catherine Putman, “Understanding Animal Behaviour” has 178 pages. Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens.

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JULY 18, 2013

It is these, of course, that drew the attention of the Bronze Age people and their unusual ibis-based cultural fascination with the bird. Though as the Sacred Ibis continues to make inroads in Florida, that line gets more and more blurry every year. White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge – Larry Jordan, 10,000 Birds.

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JULY 21, 2014

My daughter was taking an evolutionary biology course at the University of Chicago and was given an assignment involving surveying Monk Parakeet nests in Hyde Park. Of course, the only thing my daughter knew was that she had to go out in the cold and look at birds. Florida’s Introduced Birds: Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2013

A grail, of course, is not just a rare and interesting cup. Main characters Samuel, a wildlife photographer grieving his wife’s death, and Thomas, a forest ranger grieving the world’s more general losses, struggle to find the bird and save its last known habitat. The fact of this grail bird is vital to the whole story.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. In fact Punta Cana is a shining example of how large hotels can conduct their operations in a sustainable manner whilst contributing significantly to the preservation of birds, wildlife and habitats. This is not a birding lodge. Far from it.

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