10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds World Sparrow Day 2011 Why are Birds So Important to People? Tags: Asides , richard crossley • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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2011 Deer New York Cats 151

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MARCH 15, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners World Sparrow Day 2011.Or Tags: Asides , audubon • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Welcome to the club!

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2011 Deer New York Owls 133

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MARCH 10, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get to it already! Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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Deer 2011 New York New York City 140

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MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides , christmas bird count • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Thanks for visiting! OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more!

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Experience Experiments Deer 2011 162

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MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Nine-legged Plover? Nine-legged Plover? Hat-tip to Mike McDowell. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer New York Cats 173

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MARCH 17, 2011

Circus of the Spineless #30 I Agree Wholeheartedly with the Sparrow Cala Boca Galvão About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Just saying.

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2011 Deer New York Owls 140

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MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. The bird, which looked like a Barn Owl , was the mascot for the opposing team and died from its injuries.

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Owls 2011 Barn Owls Deer 145

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MARCH 15, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! We need more predictions, more plates, and more promotions ! The deadline is this Friday, March 18. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Deer 2011 New York New York Times 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Thanks for visiting!

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Deer 2011 Oklahoma New York 124

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MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer New York Birds 145

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MARCH 3, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? You can read part one , part two , and part three of Mark’s adventure on Birds and Kids (and other stuff). Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past One and the Same? Thanks for visiting!

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Honduras 2011 Deer Denmark 145

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MARCH 16, 2011

Tags: Asides , festivals • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Really… you too? In that case, if you’re ready to enjoy the best of both, get on down to the Lone Star State for the 9th annual Galveston FeatherFest on April 7-10. Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Deer New York Texas 140

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MARCH 12, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Did you even realize that not every bird has a banding code? Chris West has taken on the surprisingly sticky task of parsing American avian Alpha Code s over at North American Birding. Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Deer 2011 Birds New York 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Get to it already! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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Brazil Deer 2011 Peru 140

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MARCH 15, 2011

If you think one of the birds is a Song Sparrow call it “ Song Sparrow &# and not the unspecific “sparrow.&# No, none of the images below feature a Song Sparrow.* … Tags: diabolical , ID Quiz , quiz • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! Hooded Merganser 2.)

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 226

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MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The strip up today is apropos for 10,000 Birds , though some might take exception to the appellation applied to ornithologists. If you are sensitive to mildly bad language don’t click the link. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer New York Owls 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Thanks for visiting!

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DC Washington Deer 2011 145

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MARCH 5, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Photographed in Cuba , the bird appears to be a melanistic Green Heron though it might perhaps be a dark form or even stained by algae. The jury is still out but what a cool bird! Hat-tip to Shawn. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer Cuba Hunters 145

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MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! That is why it is such amazingly awesome news that the British Birdwatching Fair raised £242,000 to help conserve a species that could become the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Africa. Thanks for visiting!

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Ethiopia 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Though breeding grounds for neotropical migrants get the bulk of attention in North America wintering grounds are just as critical, and any news about land being preserved as wintering habitat for the Cerulean Warbler is wonderful. Thanks for visiting!

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

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MARCH 14, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Corey • March 14, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share She calls herself a photo-blogger but this post does blur the line a bit , no? And how unfair is it that my folks have had better looks at redpolls this year then I have? Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer New York New York City 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Cow Birds Half Hardy I Am Heron, Hear Me Roar Good Gully: A Birder’s Oddity The Magenta’s Petrels.Or Tags: etymology , names , Terminology , words • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Thanks for visiting!

2011 140

2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

… … Tags: duck butts , ducks , mallards • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? We even have both a male duck butt and a female duck butt for you. We only ask that you not tell us why you like duck butts so much. We really do not want to know. Without further ado, duck butts. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 235

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MARCH 13, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? By Corey • March 13, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share It is not every day that a local newspaper covers birding at all, so the fact that The Chapel Hill News ran an article on Nate ‘s Triangle Big Year is pretty cool. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer New York Obama 133

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MARCH 6, 2011

On Sunday at Kissena Park I saw five species of sparrows. A mixed species flock of sparrows (american tree, field and chipping) was by the bike track parking lot. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. I see why people sometimes call them gray ghosts. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 New York Deer Birds 169

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MARCH 12, 2011

… Tags: brazil , giveaway • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! And if you like entering contests in which books about birds are the prize please make sure that you also enter the latest 10,000 Birds giveaway, in which we are giving away three copies of The Crossley ID Guide. Thanks for visiting!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! You have no idea how bad it can get. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past David Sibley on the Jones Beach Shrike Tangled Bank #86 eBird is now World-Wide! Thanks for visiting!

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Squirrels 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: iatb • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Submit a link and summary to your best recent post about birding or wild birds to me or our next outstanding host, Pat O’Donnell at Costa Rica Living and Birding. Submissions should reach mike AT 10000birds DOT com or information AT birdingcraft DOT com by March 15.

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2011 Deer Costa Rica Birds 145

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MARCH 3, 2011

Keep your eyes to the skies for sawbills, like this Red-breasted Merganser by Corey Finger Tags: march , weekend • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? We, along the coast in Los Angeles County, have a FY Harris’s Sparrow here now for about a week. Then Harris’s Sparrow is my best bird of the weekend!

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2011 Los Angeles Deer Birds 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Central Park White-Throated Sparrow Slaty-backed Gull (?) Tags: diving ducks , ducks , leucism , leucistic • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? … *See Rick’s post on Aimophila Adventures for the proper pronunciation of “leucistic&# and the word’s derivation. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I blame Charlie Sheen. What is even more terrifying is that the link takes you to Cracked. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer New York Owls 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: denmark , mute swan , national bird , swans • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Denmark is the only country with the Mute Swan as its national bird but it certainly seems like a perfect fit to this American birder who has never been to Denmark. Thanks for visiting!

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 188

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MARCH 1, 2011

Slimbridge Wetland Centre (c) Mike Fuller @Riverhead, NY (c) Joe Kelly Magnificent Muscovy (c) Karen Davis Tags: ducks , features , manky , muscovy • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? If you have great photos of manky Muscovy Ducks you’d like us to add to this gallery, send them to mike AT 10000birds DOT com!

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: motmots , national bird , Nicaragua , Turquoise-browed Motmot • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? As far as national birds go a country can do far worse than a motmot, especially one as aesthetically pleasing as the Guardabarranco. … This is the second in a series of posts about national birds. Get yours today!

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

… Tags: migration , phoebes , spring • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I think that both are correct, but the eastern phoebe usually only passes through the NYC area during spring, while tree sparrows nest here and stay over summer. Joseph Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:17 pm “who is right?

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2011 Deer New York Philadelphia 203

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MARCH 13, 2011

… Tags: diving ducks , ducks , flight • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Tags: bufflehead, ducks, waterfowl • Camping tents – Check out our pop up tents, family [.] If you liked this post featuring Bufflehead images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Get yours today!

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

… Tags: honduras , macaws , national bird , Scarlet Macaw • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? *Some of the birds are actually descendants of the ones seized. … This is the third in a series of posts about national birds. Please click here to see the archive of national bird posts. Get yours today!

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 170