January, 2021

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We Want to Help the Birding Tourism Industry

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With a worldwide pandemic still raging the tourism industry has taken a massive hit. And while we here at 10,000 Birds aren’t terribly concerned about the cruise ship industry or the airlines we are greatly concerned about the impact that the lack of bird tourists has had on the many birding guides, eco-lodges, and birding tour companies. Mike and I talked it over and came up with a small idea that we hope helps to some degree.

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How My 2021 Birding Is Going So Far

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I took a couple of weeks “off” from chronicling my weekly outings, in order to give my thoroughly amateur recommendations on bird photography, for other thoroughly amateur photographers that might be out there. It was, it turns out, a rather exhausting job to write those posts. But special post subjects must eventually come to an end, while weekly birding does not.

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Last CBC of the Decade

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The very last Sunday of the decade heralded our final CBC – with group sizes limited to five persons. For the fifth year in a row, I was assigned the prolific and well-known Aripo Livestock Station at the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range. For birders who have visited T&T in the past, the livestock station has always been a staple site for several key species that would be fairly difficult elsewhere.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of 2021?

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Has the dawning of a new year ever felt as glorious as this one? Not only do we symbolically leave the horrors of 2020 behind us, but we just as symbolically wipe clean our year list to refresh our appreciation of even our most common birds. I’d ask where you’re birding this weekend, but– like both me and Corey –you’ve probably already started!

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What Was Your First Bird of 2021?

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It’s 2021! What was your first bird of the year? Hopefully it will start off a year with vaccines for all and a beginning of a return to normalcy. This year, 2021, has to be better than the dumpster fire that was 2020, right? Happy New Year to you from the 10,000 Birds crew! May your year be filled with lifers! The post What Was Your First Bird of 2021?

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Vulture Socialism

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One of the minor challenges of writing a blog post for 10,000 Birds is to come up with a title. Now, I usually go for the most boring ones imaginable, such as “Birding XY in [season]” Underpromise and overdeliver, as I would say if I was a McKinsey consultant (I swear to god I never was one). But occasionally, that gets – well – a bit boring.

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Trogons, Trinidad and Tobago

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It’s been a crazy few days here in the tropical paradise of T&T to be honest. Let’s just say that there is a single, well-known place where one can comfortably see all three of our resident trogon species, a place which many of you may have visited in the past and more still would surely be dreaming of. Technically I should say was however.

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A Slacker’s Guide to Bird Photography (Part Two)

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Last week I humbly offered up a totally unprofessional, possibly misinformed guide to taking bird photos that aren’t completely embarrassing, and that might even make you proud on occasion. Those suggestions were for birders like me, who are not all about taking that one perfect photo. Our focus is on seeing as many birds as possible on a given outing.

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A day trip to Derby

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Last Sunday it was a dull, cool morning when we awoke and we decided to do a day trip to Derby. It gave us a chance to hopefully add a few new birds to our 2021 bird list and see the lush green land after recent rainfall. The header photo is of a boab tree covered in leaves. Most of the photos that you see of boab trees in the Kimberley show them in our dry months and they do not have the leaf coverage that you see at this time of year.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of 2021)

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So many different factors contribute to the quality and quantity of a birding adventure that one would be hard-pressed to predict the very best time to watch birds in a particular area beyond a vague three or four week window. However, one weekend always delivers on the promise of some of the most thrilling and non-judgmental birding encounters of any year.

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Farewell to 2020 – Marin Brewing Company: Albion Amber Ale

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As uncertain as the future may be, I’m sure we’re all ready to bid farewell to the year 2020. And while we’re all looking forward to 2021 with an uneasy mix of hope and trepidation, I decided to spend this week’s post looking back at a happier time in my own life when carefree travel was still possible – though not without its own hardships. In October of 2017, I took what was my first trip to California as a birder.

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Collaborative list December 2020 and year’s round up.

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The overwhelming sentiment in Christmas cards this year is that 2021 cannot come fast enough. Lock downs and restrictions have curbed our birding, so if you can summon any blessings to mind, count them instead. December’s beats found 609 birds after submitting 116 checklists from 8 countries (USA, UK, Costa Rica, China, Mexico, Serbia and Australia).

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Collaborative list – Year list 2020

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This year you get two listy posts for the price of one. You lucky, lucky birders! The idea being that putting December and the 2020 year review in the same post may prove to be listing overload for some. So this is the list for the complete year and the December list can be seen here. If you are a committed lister and keen to find more ways to play with your sightings, join the petition to eBird to request a list facility which can collate sightings over the lunar cycle.

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7 Resolutions for Birding Costa Rica in 2021

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2020, one of the more memorable and infamous tear years of our lives, is finally done. It doesn’t mean that various issues and problems have disappeared, but at least a new calendar year is a fine excuse for renewal. In the birding realm, it means a new year list, beginning the year with winter birds, and planning trips for the next 12 months.

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Proposed Changes to Migratory Bird Treaty Act – Part II

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently finalized a rule regarding its narrowing interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). However, it is unlikely that this rule will stand long enough for it to be implemented on its effective date of February 8, 2021. Thus, the Trump Administration’s four-year campaign to undermine the MBTA is almost certainly going to fail.

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A new year, new life and new hope….

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After spending Christmas Day birding around Broome and observing 92 species we spent the week making a mental note of what bird species were where. When you are planning to do a list exactly one week apart it is constantly on your mind. Every time the weather changes or you observe a bird you did not see on Christmas Day you wonder where it will be on New Year’s Day.

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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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This is the second post in the Birding crème de la crème series (the first, focused on southern Asia, is here ). This time we travel to Africa, or to narrow it further, to the Afrotropical region (since the north of the continent avifaunally belongs to the Palearctic). The bird-richest region of Africa is its equatorial East: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (unlike the rest, the last one, Burundi, is politically unstable and not recommendable).

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“The Pines of Florence”: Castellare di Castellina Chianti Classico (2018)

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One of the nice things about winter finch irruptions is that they usually take place across two calendar years, allowing ardent listers to tick the very same species in January for their new year lists as they saw in the final weeks of the previous year. After all, it could be years before some of them come back again. This strategy is even more important given this winter’s “super flight” currently taking place in eastern North America, which is seeing one of the most impressive and southward i

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2021)

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Can you believe that we’re already one-twelfth of the way through this year? One can only hope 2021 gets more exciting–in a good, healthy, and interconnected way, of course–in the coming months. If you haven’t figured out where to visit first once the world opens up, watch this space: we’re going to sharing ideas for your next big birding trip all of February.

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Cold, Wind, and Quetzals

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Cold is subjective. At least how a person feels about temperature. It’s true! I have heard many people in Costa Rica mention the freezing cold weather, or how cold it is… when it’s 65 degrees. If I had grown up only knowing warm, humid weather, I would feel the same. But I didn’t grow up in the tropics. As much as I dig the biodiversity, experiencing the constant production and growth and profusion of life at all levels, I grew up in much colder places.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of January 2021)

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While the fourth weekend of January finds us all mired in the depths of whatever season grips our part of the world, the light is ever so slowly changing. Another couple of months of a little more or less light at dusk every day will soon trigger that global migration of birds we all eagerly await. Until then, make the most of what we have today. What I have is a typical Upstate New York winter, so this weekend was about adding more typical Upstate New York winter birds.

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Kimberley Flycatcher

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Last week I introduced you to the Kimberley Flycatcher – Microeca tormenti. This species is easier to find in Derby than Broome and the Derby wharf is a good place to go and observe them. The Kimberley Flycatcher had previously been a sub-species of the Lemon-bellied Flycatcher , but is now a species in its own right as of August 2019. The significant visible difference between the Lemon-bellied Flycatcher and the Kimberley Flycatcher is the lack of “lemon” colour in the Kimber

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Snow Geese in Florida

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By their very name, most would assume you can’t spot Snow Geese in Florida. The Sunshine State isn’t known for its massive snow drifts, nor for the massive flocks of Snow Geese that grace states like Texas and New Mexico every winter. Of course, Snow Geese are named for their appearance, not their proclivity for frozen places, and every year birders do spot the occasional white waterfowl. 2020 was that year for me!

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Mexico Beat BBOTY

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It was the best of years, it was the worst of years… Oh, who am I kidding? 2020 was the worst of years, through and through. And there were moments during the year when I thought birding was a lost cause. But, looking back at year’s end, it wasn’t all that bad… at least as far as my avian passion is concerned. Of course, it could have been much better, even regarding that hobby.

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Pat’s Costa Rica Bird List, 2021

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2021 is already well underway, are you birding? I hope so because watching a flock of redpolls bound through wintery airs that echo with the calls of crows is nature connection magic. Tracking the soaring of a Bateleur in hot African skies is a lifetime gift. Watching Baltimore Orioles consort with Blue-gray Tanagers as Great Kiskadees throw down their wings and yell is the perfect start to any day.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of January 2021)

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During the second weekend of the year, even common birds still carry their luster. Enjoy that feeling while you can, because we are still months away from migration! While I sought rarities on the western edge of Rochester this weekend, I came up with entirely common species. Still, I rarely get tired of seeing large flocks of Long-tailed Ducks in their striking plumage.

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Locusts and Oriental Pratincoles around Broome

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Although we have not had a lot of rain recently there has been enough to turn the dry dusty landscape into a lush green environment. We often think about how deceiving it would have been to the early explorers that came to the north of Australia during the wet season. They believed there was potential for sheep in those days, but now there are only cattle.

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A Slacker’s Guide to Bird Photography (Part One)

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It always surprises me when people compliment my photographs. As I have often commented on this site, I started taking photos of birds only to improve the accuracy of my IDs. And while I put more effort into taking decent photos than I used to, I still don’t do the hard stuff. I don’t greet the dawn in a camouflaged hide, and I don’t lie down on mudflats to see Sandpipers at ground level.

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Bodegas Navarro Lopez Laguna de la Nava Gran Reserva (2013)

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I’m moving house at the end of this month, which provided a good opportunity for me to dig around my modest wine cellar – my basement, that is – for any older bottles of aging wine that might be ripe for enjoyment. I figure the less I have to pack, the better. I unearthed this 2013 Laguna de la Nava, a Spanish Gran Reserva wine bottled by Bodegas Navarro Lopez in Valdepeñas, a Denominación de Origen Protegida region in the province of Ciudad Real, about one hundred miles south of Madrid.

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