10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2018
When it comes to initiatives that promote birding, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is hard to beat. The lab at Sapsucker Woods is where we find thousands of nature recordings housed at the Macauley Library. Numerous projects take place that monitor bird populations and help educate people of all ages about birds. The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird.
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MAY 19, 2018
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10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2018
In the very back of my first bird identification field guide ( Audubon , green, Eastern US) there were several blank pages. Since neither the Internet nor eBird were even a thought, that’s where I collected the place names of my birding bucket list. Along with Hawk Mountain and the Platte River, there were two destinations in Texas near the top of the page – Padre Island National Seashore and the Rio Grande Valley.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2018
Merchandising folly 1 – Conservation 0. The Miami-Dade County Commission approved development of ‘the largest shopping mall in North America’ with a vote of 9-1 last week. While there’s nothing inherently noteworthy about another super complex, this one will sit in uncomfortable proximity to the Everglades National Park. It has been my privilege to bird in the ‘Glades – the largest US wilderness east of the Mississippi River.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2018
We are now at the tail end of our time in Australia, but I feel like we are ending it with a bang. 8 days in the Darwin area, which includes Fogg Dam, Kakadu National Park, Cooroboree, Yellow Water, and at least a dozen other non-planned stops would provide all the excitement I could handle. We start our first day with a visit to Fogg Dam, a project that was to have been a rice growing area, turned into an amazing waterfowl reserve.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2018
What was the weirdest place you ever birded? Some smelly sewage ponds? Oh, don’t bother responding. A war zone? Then you are worse than me. Yes, some gruesome graphic content follows, but don’t blame me, you have been warned. Sex? What sex? Oh, that cover photo? I lied to you, no sex here – but you already clicked. Let me see, when was it? Logging into my eBird account… December 6th, 2010.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2018
Turning off the asphalt, I enter the Deliblato Sands steppe, between the Danube and the Carpathian Mountains in the northeast of Serbia, where the first bird to greet me is a Northern Wheatear , followed by a Crested Lark. The wires are decorated with only about a dozen European Bee-eaters : is it still too early, or has the local colony dwindled? Deliblato Sands comprises an elongated elliptical tract of sand, spreading north from the Danube, about 35 km / 20 mi in length and 15 km / 10 mi in w
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2018
I have been looking forward to this visit for some time. We landed in Melbourne, where we had rented an Air BNB for three nights, right in the heart of down town. Two full days, not counting travel days, to and from the airport really does not do Melbourne any justice. The other side of that, is that I really do not like big cities all that much. The saving grace to my visit came in the form of Giles Daubeney.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2018
After a very long day of 7 hours of driving, 11 hours flying and then 9 hours more driving, we have arrived at our temporary home here in South Africa. This will act as our base for the next 20 days. The house is a four bedroom, four bath two story, with a deck running around three sides of the upper story, great for wildlife viewing. So far we have seen Impala, Duiker, Greater Kudu, Mongoose, Zebra and warthogs around the neighborhood, and yard.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2018
The first rule about birding is that there are no rules for birding. Look at a bird with the intent of identifying it or just watching it because you want to, and that’s it, that’s birding. Some who partake in the hobby, the passion, the possible obsession might beg to differ but they would be wrong because you just can’t argue with such an easy, basic, and honest definition.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2018
And the air miles, and highway miles just keep racking up. This week finds us flying from Melbourne, Australia, to Alice Springs, in the center of this incredibly large country. We then picked up our RV and then drove to Yulara, and the mighty, mythical, some say spiritual, Ayres Rock. After 5 days in the “Red Center” called so, because of the amazing red color of the soil, we are then off to Sydney.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2018
This is a continuation of the story about landing in Melbourne, Australia, and I will cover our afternoon the first day and my visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens. If you have not read part one, it would be worth your time to do so, as there are some really great birds covered there. It just seemed wrong to post any stories about Australia without at least one Kangaroo, so on our second hike, those featured in the cover picture showed up on the edge of the forest.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2018
Late in the afternoon on Friday, 11 May, I was at work in Suffolk County. I wouldn’t get done until 10 PM. When the report of a Kirtland’s Warbler in Central Park came through the listserv you can imagine my chagrin. (Or, perhaps, if you are a person who believes in such things, the death of my soul.) There are many reasons why my not being able to go see a Kirtland’s Warbler was a major bummer.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2018
As my long-time fans may remember, back in 2007 – which is to say, more than a decade ago, and YES I am dying a little inside at that realization – I dipped on the Coney Island Creek Western Reef Heron , a major rarity from another continent that was seen by pretty much every other birder on the eastern seaboard. As a result (albeit a very very indirect result) I left my boyfriend, moved more than halfway across the U.S., and got a master’s degree and a tattoo.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2018
• Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction (Chris D. Thomas, Public Affairs). • The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet – and Ourselves (Leslie Anthony, Yale). • The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us (Richard O. Prum, Doubleday).
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2018
More than 50 years ago, the Hawaiian Goose (Nene) was one of the first birds listed under the Endangered Species Act, part of the inaugural “ Class of 1967 ”. Due to substantial improvements in its population and its prospects, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed downlisting it from “endangered” to “threatened.”. Under the Endangered Species Act, any listing, uplisting, downlisting, or removal from a list requires a formal “rulemaking” process.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2018
Most Americans are on the cusp of one of the year’s most beautiful weekends, with an extra day off from work to boot. No matter where you find yourself or how many days your weekend may last, you have a lot to look forward to. Enjoy! I’ve been remiss in tracking down some of the migrants still missing from my year list. Time to catch up!
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2018
On a visit home to my folks’ house in Saugerties, New York, on Mother’s Day weekend (12-13 May, 2018) I was pleased to once again hear Wood Thrush singing from the periphery of the yard, as they have done every year for as long as I can remember. Somehow, though, I had never found a nest. That changed this year when I spotted a nest in a hemlock branch over the driveway.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2018
This past weekend marked one of the peak moments of migratory bird activity globally, at least in an aggregate sense. Did you notice? Family obligations kept me on the sidelines during Global Big Day, but I did manage to sneak in a little birding before traveling. Black-throated Blue Warblers may not be rare in my part of the world, but they’re still one of my favorite songbirds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2018
The Rufous Hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) visits my home every year about this time. Of course the males come first to establish territory. According to Macauley Library’s migration map the overwhelming breeding activity for this species occurs north of the state of California. The thing is, I have females that have been hanging around also.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
Happy May Day! Here in New York City, May is a magic time for birders as the migration floodgates open. To celebrate spring migration, I usually review an exciting new bird book. But, this year I’m going to be contrary and give you moths! You can blame the nice people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who took it upon themselves to send me a review copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2018
For some of you, this final weekend of May is still in full flower. Let’s not gloat, though. You may be birding on a Monday morning, but we tally weekend sightings now. I cleaned up a few spring species along the lovely and locally legendary Lakeview Community Church Trail, but my best sightings were in the reeds in front of the more widely renowned Braddock Bay Hawk Watch platform.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2018
Last week I mentioned the steady increase of Plumed Whistling-Ducks to the Broome Poo Ponds and that they now number in the thousands. As the land starts to dry out the Plumed Whistling-Ducks head for remaining fresh water around Broome and the ephemeral lakes are good locations for them to move to, but the Poo Ponds are also ideal. Although the Poo Ponds are right in town they are also close to the Broome Golf Course and the grass at the Golf Course is watered via the recycled water from the Po
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2018
A light rain had begin to fall on the valley between steep slopes that held the headquarters of HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. Patches of blue sky winked at me from behind the mountain peaks, raindrops occasionally obscuring my vision as I glanced upwards. At the edge of the Oregon Cascades, rain is expected, and the researchers and scientists thought little of it as they continued about their daily tasks.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2018
The question isn’t whether you went birding this weekend, because everyone who wasn’t part of the Royal Wedding was out chasing birds. The only valid questions involve what you saw and whether you’ll share details. I’m happy to share details on my annual run to Rush Oak Openings for cinch Blue-winged Warblers. Not only did I bag the beautiful bird I expected, but I also encountered a tasty species I never expect there until I see it every year: Olive-sided Flycatcher.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2018
Following an exceptionally wet start to the year we are getting used to finding bird species around Broome that we do not encounter every year. A fine example was on Friday 18th May at the Broome Poo Ponds. We had just dropped our vehicle off for a wheel alignment and the Poo Ponds are conveniently located almost opposite and so we wandered over the road to see what had arrived since our last visit.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2018
This post is going live slightly late today to avoid stealing Harry and Megan’s thunder. Hope you enjoyed the wedding. You’ll be pleased to know that Lady Helen’s hat stayed on, but the shoes don’t usually last beyond the canapes. All our best wishes to the happy couple. How do little old ladies get so much heavy hand baggage onto an aeroplane?
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2018
This weekend may not mark another migratory milestone in the birding universe, but we’re still smack dab in the middle of May. That means you should be birding. I’ve been catching most of my target songbirds this season but plan to land wherever the action along Lake Ontario is this weekend. Corey will be leading a bird walk and doing a lot more bird walking on his own.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2018
Tomorrow I’m taking part in my local club’s official Big Day event – the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club’s 73 rd Annual Guy Bartlett Century Run – for my fifth year in a row. My teammate Tom and I have managed to surpass the contest’s namesake goal of 100 species in a day on each of these runs, and we even had the highest species count last year with 124 birds found in Albany County, New York – though that’s still a few short of the 128 Corey counted way back in 2008.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2018
When we began planning this trip, Cairns was immediately put on the list, as we have a very good friend, Kevan, who we have not seen in a few years, and this would be a great chance to do so. Later on, as my research got a little bit more detailed, this might just turn out to be a huge stop. With help from Giles, back in Melbourne, this details got much clearer.
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