10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

It was my second field guide, and I quickly gave it that worn look I imagined all “real” birder’s field guides had by dropping it into the creek at Allaire State Park in New Jersey (by accident!). My Eastern Sibley served me well, replacing the Peterson’s with which I learned my ducks and waders.

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North America 2003 Birds America 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2012

Sure, I didn’t leave the United States but my first trip to the Pacific Northwest allowed me to see lots of new birds and spending the beginning of the year in southern California didn’t hurt the ol’ year list either. Tufted Duck in Cold Spring Harbor. Brown Booby in Cape May. Rufous Hummingbird in Westchester.

2011 172

2011 Puffins United States New York 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

For many birders a highlight of birding the southeastern United States, maybe even the definitive birding experience of the region, is taking in the great numbers and diversity of long-legged wading birds. Below is a family shot of at least six. Where do I sign up? Can you find all of them? A fairly Floridian morning.

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South Carolina Alligators Florida United States 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.”

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 178

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). Her natural talent was astounding and surprising. So you have to break them in gently.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

The search for the next new bird is that much more fulfilling when you’re limited to the smallest of the arbitrary political boundaries in the United States, and the search for those birds necessitates a broad working knowledge of the county of the sort that can only be attained through experience.

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McDonalds South Carolina North Carolina Jordan 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Since many of these exceptions are common birds (Wood Duck, Red-tailed Hawk, Great-horned Owl), I assume Lund saw the additional space as opportunities to teach people how to absolutely positively identify these birds, adding more text and featuring images of the species in flight or in gender-specific, nonbreeding or juvenile plumage.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 204

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota covers over 1 million acres and is the largest grassland in the United States. We need to create bridges (and a very happy experience with a local ranching family led us to believe that this is possible). back to the birds.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 143

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

Seeing 525 species was nice, as was the fact that I birded in four countries, nine of the fifty states in the United States, and fifty-one counties. Mottled Duck ? We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. This year my goals are simple.

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 144

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2012

If I have learned anything from living in the northern half of the United States is that in order to survive winter with my sanity in tact is that I need to eat a lot of kale, take a daily 20 minute walk (no matter how cold) and plan a trip some place warm even if it’s only for 48 hours.

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Texas Birds North Dakota South America 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2021

My family’s walk through Rochester’s historic Mt. But everything else paled in comparison to his first Black-bellied Whistling-Duck in Queens since 2010. Such a great bird for the northeastern United States was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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United States Turtles 2010 Birds 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Flight photographs are included with the hawk, seabird, and tern entries, and many of the ducks and warblers are depicted in their male and female forms. It is the perfect reference source for the family on a trip or living in New England. But, there are more than you might expect. What is your favorite Kaufman Field Guide?

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Massachusetts North America Rhode Island Ohio 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. l-r) Brushland Tinamou ( Nothoprocta cinerascens ), Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), Greater Sage-Grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ), Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.”

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. 5) White-winged Duck. White-winged Duck is an ugly duck, maybe the ugliest bird I’ve ever encountered. And, scoping.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 112

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

We then switch to Andy McWilliam, a genial investigator with the National Wildlife Crime Unit, who combines the skill of a life doing police work with a deep appreciation for the importance of Great Britain’s wildlife laws. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 218

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The guide covers 520 species of birds regularly found in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, including, interestingly, a number of exotic species. Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Knowing the order allows us to know where to find the species. (Of

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North America America Birds New York 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is the only Cholorceryle species I haven’t seen, so observing one would complete a genus in this fascinating family.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 211

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Description and drawing (from Ridgway) of a Broad-billed Hummingbird nest from Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley by Florence Merriam Bailey, 1902. The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Didn’t every household have a copy of a Peterson Field Guide on the shelf, maybe a third or fourth edition that family members grew up with, which they could quickly consult to see the arrow pointing to that belly band? .” I was puzzled by what seemed like a universal lack of knowledge about hawks and falcons.

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 233

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

COVID-19 was the worst of it but we also endured horrific wildfires, tremendously damaging hurricanes, another year of the worst President of the United States in history, and the list could go on ad infinitum. I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. In a year divided by pre-pandemic birds (travel!),

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 240

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

It was a United States lower-48 birding year for me. I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Different types of birds (songbirds, raptors, ducks, gulls and waders) are diagramed, resulting in a nicely detailed topography section that is as much glossary as diagrammatic anatomy. ” Interestingly, the Goosander plate is not the same as the Common Merganser plate; I could only spy three images of the duck that were in both plates.

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Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The thing about Florida is that it’s truly the best of both worlds for those of us birders who are saddled with the unfortunate reality of “non-birding family”, a condition that affects many of us and impacts our ability to fully give ourselves to the birds. Those expectations did not include frigatebirds.

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Florida North Carolina Miami Family 132

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122