10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. It seems the bird I saw is a first-winter one, at least according to the HBW description: “First-winter has head white apart from dark brown mottling on crown and nape; upperwing-coverts extensively marked brown; black subterminal tail-band; dark bare parts.”

Birds 240

Birds Tail Banding Psychology Buffalo 240

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. Armed only with a cellphone camera, she walked right into the flock to take a photo, putting a big flock of skimmers up into the air. Get a load of the mandible on the granddaddy skimmer to the far right. But here you go.

Florida 145

Florida Tail Banding Ducks Ohio 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

Albatross 185

Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). And, of course, it shows the beauty of the world of the rain forest.

Puerto Rico 238

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by. Hawkwatches on the northern half of the Appalachians get a lot of press.

South Carolina 162

South Carolina Maryland North Carolina New Jersey 162