10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2013

Either way, I’m extremely excited to be attending my first birding festival, and very grateful to the organizers for covering the expenses. Everyone else is otherwise engaged, or my hand went up first, or both. So I’m quite interested in exploring a new territory.

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Nevada Las Vegas Jordan North America 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse. I love a field guide that makes usability a priority. Species Accounts. ” ( Birding , November 2009). I loved that page title).

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North America America Hawaii Birds 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

I know, of course, that the ABA is a scientific organization, and aesthetic arguments hold little weight with them (otherwise we wouldn’t be stuck with the prosaically-named Yellow-rumped Warbler and Northern Flicker.) But honestly.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 195

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2018

Saddle-billed Storks, Yellow-billed Storks, Woolly Storks, Sacred Ibis, Gray Herons, Reed Cormorants, Three-banded Plovers, White-crowned Lapwings, Blacksmith Lapwings, Egyptian Geese, White Faced Ducks and African Palm Swifts have been there every day. I have managed to find two owls, the first was this pair of Verreaux’s Eagle-owls.

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Lions Buffalo United States Zebras 126

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Species Accounts are smartly designed, utilizing font color and size to organize information and help the user quickly find it. More on Species Accounts.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Harlequin Duck - 01 January 2012 – A great way to start the year at Fort Tilden, and it made up for missing several the previous winter. Snowy Owl - 04 February 2012 – A bird that was long overdue and one that I had predicted on my previous list but not on the most recent.

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Connecticut 2011 2012 Jamaica 184

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The conversational writing style is punctuated by lists (Things to Consider When Going on a Bird Walk) and Tips to Remember (for finding waterfowl, raptors, shorebirds, gulls, owls, perching birds). Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. The book starts with “Why Birds?”

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

It will take dedicated, sustained effort by many organizations and individuals but if any bird is worth the effort it is the gorgeous national bird of Honduras. Though Scarlet Macaws are threatened in Honduras there is hope that they will get protection and recover at least some of their numbers and former range. Wicked, right?

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

If you look for ducks in summer or warblers in winter, you’re very likely to be disappointed. You may not realize it, but there is an excellent chance that some group in your area has a full slate of organized birding excursions open to non-members. Do yourself a favor and sign up for one of these trips.

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Birds United States 2006 Breeders 219

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Species accounts are organized primarily on Clement’s Checklist (the taxonomy used by eBird), but it is noted in the Introduction that there are cases where other taxonomies are followed or species are re-arranged so similar looking species can be shown together. It really is an achievement.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 235

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2024

This seems quite ridiculous and I’m not sure of their effect on the soil and other organisms (at least there is no need for mowing the lawns). Other standard waterfowl including Tufted Duck , Common Pochard , Little Grebe and Great Crested Grebe are also around. I have also heard Tawny Owl and Eurasian Eagle Owl at night.

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Geese Birds Germany Woodpeckers 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

it provides a fantastic way to store and organize your lists and spread the good word of rarities. For example, in California, populations of birds like Aleutian Cackling Goose have dramatically increased…but where did our Fulvous Whistling-Ducks go? but it’s safe to say many birders are very optimistic about it.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 180

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The Great Miami Winter Bird Count, an event that transpired over the course of four days from February 13-16, set out to record this diversity for the first time in an organized manner as part of the overall Miami Birding Wave project. Muscovy Duck (Domestic type): 322. Mottled Duck: 19. Ring-necked Duck: 19. Barn Owl: 3.

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Miami 2015 United States Birds 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

l-r) Brushland Tinamou ( Nothoprocta cinerascens ), Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), Greater Sage-Grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ), Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ). Have you noticed ducks and quail replacing loons and grebes at the beginning of newer bird field guides and checklists? This is why. Why is this?

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Also, with the opening of more hunting seasons i am hopefull that more concerned sportsmen will start an organization along the same grain as Ducks Unlimited to protect and create Sandhill habitat. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4 It’s free!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 260

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Mauritius Owl. Amsterdam Duck. We have so altered the earth – pumping pollution, moving species around, destroying ecosystems – that many species, dependent upon ecological niches or simply unprepared for an onslaught of unfamiliar organisms with which they did not evolve, have no chance. Black-fronted Parakeet.

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Mauritius Djibouti Guam Birds 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

More than ten years ago, when permissions were negotiated for all the flyway states expected to be used by the ultralight migration project, as well as surrounding states, all of the wildlife management organizations in these states were contacted for permission and partnership. The reason? Likewise for the anglers. Wicked, right?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It turns out that duck nests tend to be so similar that you need to identify the feathers lining the nest, usually the breast feathers of the parent, to identify the user. There is also a Nest Key, a four-page listing of nest categories–nests organized by shape, material, habitat–and the birds who build those nests.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

As the title plainly says, this is a guide to the sounds birds create—their songs, calls, chatters, chitters, barks, drills, raps, claps, pops; some made with syrinx (a bird’s vocal organ), some with bills, wings, feathers, feet, or air sacs (it seems that there is not a body part that some bird doesn’t use to make sound).

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North America America Birds New York 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

So, I could capture it in all its owlish glory, complete with fake eyes at the back and nicely illustrating the capability of the owl to turn its head by almost 180 degrees in each direction. I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 256

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These are photos of Mandarin Ducks (where they belong, not in Central Park), Great Crested and Little Grebes, endangered Black-faced Spoonbills feeding with Eurasian Spoonbills, a Japanese Sparrowhawk (which Kai notes he first thought was a Cuckoo); and, speaking of cuckoos, a Cuckoo in side portrait and face-forward screaming, red maw agape.

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China Birds 2018 Ducks 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Also, the company “pushes the limits on predictive insights, delivering the highest quality intelligence to help organizations make better risk decisions and improve the health and safety of the entire planet’s cyber ecosystem.” ” Back to non-cyber ecosystems such as the ones containing the Black Kite (bird).

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Organic chocolate goodies could also be served but some menu items would be banned from the Big Day birding kiosks. This was the second highest total for the country and if we would have done more owling, we would have had even more species! It was a beautiful day of focusing on birds, dawn to duck and then some. And how not?

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Costa Rica Argentina Bats Birds 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Also on the ground you’ll see your first Finsch’s Duck. This attractive relative of Australia’s Maned Duck is the most common duck you’ll see on the tour, but visitors always love seeing them and their ubiquity doesn’t detract from their attractiveness. Laughing Owl.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

There are exceptions: some full-frontal views, owl back views, and, strangely, a section on Kingfisher Behavior in which the kingfishers are facing left). Birds are arranged in taxonomic order, organized into sections based on families. Language helps our brain keep the minutiae of the world organized. But, always to the right.

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North America Birds Species America 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2020

This year, thanks to the wonderful organization and work carried out by Tim Appleton of UK Birdfair fame, October GBD was taken one step further and became linked to Global Bird Weekend! I was surprised to see that no Lesser Scaups were found as this is a regular wintering duck. It must be just a bit too early for them.

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Costa Rica 2020 Birds Morals 237