10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2020

I could definitely use better birding than the dull summer fare observed in the Southern Tier this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. No matter where you find yourself, heed the imperative of 2020: live to see better days! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mid-January may not count as midwinter in the Northern Hemisphere, but the Arctic effect has definitely settled in! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

That was definitely my best sighting. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Plus, laziness kicks in pretty often and a 20 minute drive to see relatively rare birds like Nacunda Nighthawks and Glossy Ibises is a definite no-brainer. But this experience which I’m about to relate to you was much more significant than chasing a rarity. You can still check the spoonbill out in all its innocence here.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. You know that classical definition of what separates men from boys? impressive for Central Europe. Merely the price of their toys.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The description of the Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike on the same site is not much less exuberant: “While the Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike may not rank as Nepal’s most renowned bird, its striking looks, fascinating habits, and contribution to the vibrant bird community definitely make it worth noticing.”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2022

The female Mistletoebird has moved out of the nest to help feed the chicks and the male Mistletoebird is definitely contributing to a large extent. We are really enjoying the experience of observing another bird species that is black, white and red breed in our local patch. The raising of these young chicks is not over yet!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. And that this one should choose to spend at least 20 minutes far from the reeds that usually hide it was a new experience for all of us. I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2024

And if I had known about it before my friend found it for me, the spectacular Black-collared Hawk would definitely have also been on my bucket list. It would take video to really show the experience, so you’ll have to take my word for it.) This is one of those rare hawks that mostly feeds on snails.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I definitely learned something this weekend, particularly regarding how best to see interesting birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Have you ever heard the saying, “Sometimes you win; sometimes you learn,” as a positive spin on failing to win? Imagine that!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

Wood-Wrens, which like to live close to the ground in deep brush, definitely follow this rule; they are not at all colorful, but their song sure does ring. You truly cannot experience the Gray-barred Wren without hearing the raucous calls shared among group members of this highly-social species.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2019

I definitely didn’t see much, but sometimes the usual species satisfy well enough. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. One truth you learn in the birding business is that birds are always moving in one direction or another. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

But at a hotel in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, he had a singing male Eastern Bluebird on Sunday morning, and that was definitely his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

But he didn’t get a picture of that bird and if we stretch the definition of weekend to include Thursday we can make Lesser Ground-Cuckoo his Best Bird of the Weekend, a bird of which he did manage to get a decent image. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

Apart from helping share this much-needed information, it’s a concrete way they can help, and it can be such an amazing learning experience going through the process of a Birdability Site Review. That is definitely not our aim. A lot of non-disabled birders get really excited about the Birdability Map. Is there a conflict?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

If you are into amazing avian-dense trail experiences, you either want to bird Pipeline Road or want to bird it again. But this type of singular experience can be enjoyed in the Old World as well. Uganda definitely delivers all the fancy forest kingfishers you could want. Chocolate-backed Kingfisher.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2019

If you don’t have a superb bird to report after the first weekend of May, you’re definitely not trying. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Don’t worry: the month of migration has just begun. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

I was definitely not a huge fan of running – still am not to this very day. I walked over to a thick mango tree and sure enough, it flew out, majestic, broad, silent wings spread wide – and just like the Mottled Owl experience I described earlier – eyes fixated on me. He took a few pictures and moved on.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2019

The first Turkey Vulture of the year is definitely the best one! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of course, a green bird wouldn’t fare well in these parts, where the trees are still leafless and rimed with frost. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. It may not be beautiful, but it’s a bird with definite charisma. The individual I am pictured holding ( above ) was a friendly bird that (rather like a dog) seemed happy to be handled. Whatever you want to call it, it’s a fascinating bird.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2014

But watching a Northern Goshawk rip through the sky over Bloomingdale Bog in the Adirondacks was definitely a BBOTW moment. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yes, statistics show that there is a high level of violence in Mexico, but all of our experience suggests that this violence is almost entirely between rival criminal elements. Tinted windows on a Hummer definitely send the wrong message. Please tell me your experiences or share your recommendations with our readers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Or you can say no – probably the better option, though (at least in my case) definitely a lie. Interestingly, it seems that Jonathan Slaght, when searching for Blakiston’s Fish Owl in remote parts of Russia, had similar experiences, as described in his book: “Katkov filled our commutes with loud music.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

If you’re not finding mid-June birding all that exciting, you’re definitely not alone. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2018

Well, maybe I was confused at the appearance of this unexpected bird, but it was definitely noisy. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. In between arctic blasts, I got up to the lake at Hamlin Beach State Park, where I found a very confused and noisy Red-Headed Woodpecker.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2020

It was an invigorating experience and an example of my favorite kind of birding, that of the spectacle. After all, it’s not every day that you more than double the all time high count for a species in your home county, and it is definitely not every day that you get to witness a spectacle like a 12,000-strong gannet feeding frenzy!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Rather, I am speaking of what a certain group of birds must experience every day. And those species that like to hang upside-down definitely amuse me. Still, in spite of the thrill we share with each lifer, that is not the rush of blood to the head to which I refer in my title.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. But you have to be in southwestern Mexico, where I have lived for the past 25 years, to experience the difficulties of identifying Nightingale-Thrushes, which make up one part of the Thrush genus Catharus.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You may remember back in 2017 when Nate participated in this trip or maybe you followed along in 2018 as the Birdchick dazzled us with her experiences there. We’ll be attending the 3rd African Birding Expo and the pre-Expo familiarity tour. I mean, what even is an alethe? Or a hyliota? ” That helped, right?). .”).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

But in 2020 I personally saw thousands of Waxwings in a dozen or so sites, and every one of my birder friends across the country had a similar experience. In the case of these hawks, they definitely are not showing irruptive behavior, as I have seen them multiple times each year, often in the same place. (I

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2014

Most North American birders I know would definitely represent the month of May with a bright and sprightly wood-warbler, though the argument about which bird would best serve would be epic indeed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The neighbors had advised me, from experience, that planting trees without excluding the local free-ranging livestock would be an exercise in futility: first challenge overcome.) Afforestation is, at least here in Michoacán, a definite long-term project. I started afforesting our church lot in 2016, just after we were able to fence it.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2012

Before I get into the nitty-gritties of my awesome birding experiences in Hungary I thought I would just share a few of the shots that I got during the trip. If you ever get the chance to visit Hungary you should take it: you definitely won’t regret that choice. I’m baaack! And what a trip to Hungary it was!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Taking Amy birding is an extremely rewarding experience, as she seems to know the calls of every bird species that exists. As I recall, Amy and Yuca are also biologists, and they are definitely professional birding guides. When I took them to Paso Ancho, she identified a Yellow-green Vireo by its call.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor. This is an extremely helpful aid.

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