January, 2018

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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour drive of almost every major American city. Many were specifically established for migratory birds and are strategically positioned along one of the four major North American migration flyways. Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies.

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Everything You Need To Know Before Getting A Pet Parrot

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Owning a parrot is very rewarding. However, as any parrot owner knows there is a lot more to ownership than meets the eye. ExoticDirect insurers of exotic pets have compiled a 12 point checklist offering some handy advice and guidance.

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Ten Years Gone

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Here are the posts from January 2008.

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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

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With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left. At home, I may find a new bird, perhaps two, but four? The solution? The Kerkini Lake.

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The Joy of Bird Feeding: A Book Review by a Birder who Loves Her Feeder Birds

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Happy Second Day of the New Year, 10,000 Birds friends! I am still in the old year as I write this. Snow is falling lightly and it is difficult to concentrate on the screen because my feeder birds are turning out en masse for the delights I set out this morning: Northern Cardinals and Mourning Doves at the safflower seed, Carolina Chickadees flying in for one seed per trip, Red-bellied Woodpecker and Carolina Wren at the double suet feeder (the Red-bellied rules and the Wren flies off as he swoo

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Starting Another Year of Birding in Costa Rica

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Not long ago, I had trouble sleeping because of these small, random explosions going off in my neighborhood. Each one was followed up by a litany of dog barks, some high in pitch, others low, far-carrying woofs. I fashioned ear plugs out of tissue, I tried sleeping on the downstairs couch (that would have worked but Ginger the hamster was running like crazy on her wheel), I did my best to get some sleep.

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Starting 2018 with Hummingbirds in Costa Rica

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Costa Rica is a fantastic place to watch hummingbirds. Imagine forty plus resident species of this esteemed family zipping around a place the size of a small state, many of which enjoy feeder juice, and you probably get the picture. As with other birds, different hummingbirds in Costa Rica use different habitats, some use different types of flowers, and one even likes to flycatch from boulders in the middle of rushing streams (that one would be the Green-fronted Lancebil l).

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Fooled Again

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Stick birds. Rock birds. Plastic bag birds. Leaf birds. Stump birds. Branch birds. Snow birds. Lump birds. Pipe birds. Plastic birds. Every birder has been fooled at least once by inanimate objects masquerading as birds. This has a lot to do with the way the birding mind recognizes patterns: see the correct shape and color in the right context and you automatically think that distant plastic bag shifting in the breeze is a distant Snowy Owl.

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Heading out on the road

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And so the next chapter begins. By the time most of you will be reading this, we will be on the road. As of midnight, February 31st, I am officially retired. Let the full time birding begin. At approximately 7:00 AM MT, we will begin our drive north, leaving our beloved La Paz, Mexico after 7 great years. While we have a bit of a deadline to get to Seattle, approximately 3000 miles north of here, we plan on making each driving day a short one, with a stop in some of the Baja’s best birding hotsp

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Great Egret-134th garden bird

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Since we moved into our home in Broome mid 2000 we have kept a weekly bird list of birds that come into our garden or fly over our garden. There are several bird species that we observe daily without fail that come in for water and these include the Bar-shouldered Dove , Peaceful Doves , Brown Honeyeater , Singing Honeyeaters , Magpie-larks , Double-barred Finches , Great Bowerbird and Little Friarbird.

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Gray-headed Kite destroys wasp nest.

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We join proceedings a little way in as it took a few moments to find a good vantage point and find an acceptable camera exposure level. Thankfully, we have already passed the bit where I humiliate myself in front of 22 Brazilian soccer players by tripping on my laces when trying to kick back their stray football. I first noticed the bird as it flew up from the ground and into the tree.

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How Many Waterfowl Can Be Found in Queens in a Day?

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This past Sunday I led a birding outing in Queens for New York City Audubon. The focus of the trip was ducks and we hit a couple of hotspots in central Queens, Baisley Pond Park and Willow Lake Preserve, and then we took a quick stop at World’s Fair Marina to track down a few more species. For the six hours of the field trip, nearly two hours of which were just getting back and forth from Manhattan, we totaled eighteen species of waterfowl.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of January 2018?

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As we approach the end of the first month of the year, take a moment to consider how challenging January birding can be for many of us. Denizens of the temperate zones begin the calendar year in the depth of winter or height of summer, times when species diversity is sparse. The conditions under which those few available species can be found are often dreadfully hot or painfully cold.

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Shorebirds in the desert

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My time here on the Baja has become somewhat limited, so Sunday morning found me up before daylight, and driving over to Conquista Agraria. This is a small community of mostly fisherman, about an hours drive from La Paz, Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean side of the Baja. It is usually a great place to find the traditional migrants that follow the rocky beaches of the Pacific.

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And so the “Little Big Year” begins

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And so it begins! What I am referring to my “Little Big Year”. Let me be quite clear here, my 2018 will not really a true “Big Year” in the sense that I spend an entire year, every day, going all over the world in an effort to establish a new record number of bird species. That type of effort is restricted to world class birders like Noah Strycker, or Arjan Dwarshuis.

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Tundra Swan at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

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Late Saturday afternoon a Tundra Swan was reported from the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. A regional rarity around New York City, Tundra Swans are only regular at Hook Pond in Suffolk County, way out on the eastern end of Long Island. I’d only ever had two encounters with Tundra Swans in Queens, one in November of 2006 and a flock of thirty-three, believed to have been forced down by a storm, in November of 2014.

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Five Things To Do When It Is Too Cold To Bird

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Though temperatures have rebounded from the nadir and were temporarily above freezing here in New York City, the mercury has plummeted again and long outings out of doors are distinctly less pleasant than they would be if it were T-shirt weather. What’s a birder to do when weather fails to cooperate? After all, you don’t want to sink to spending time with family or doing chores, do you?

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Big Energy 1, Birds 0

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We’re less than a week into 2018 and already birds (at least those that migrate in and through the United States) are worse off than they were at the end of last year. A new directive from the current administration wipes out protection engendered by President Obama. Namely, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act will no longer be interpreted to include accidental killings (such as from environmental hazards) as crimes, only intentional deaths.

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Broome Poo Ponds-Barndarlmarda Hut

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For many years we have peered through the fence at the Poo Ponds here in Broome and we have stood on our roo bars, balanced on the side steps, stood on roof racks and stood in the back of trays of utes in a desperate attempt to see into the ponds! We have driven around slowly and pondered over the areas we can’t see properly and wondered what species of bird are eluding us!

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Some of My Favorite National Wildlife Refuge Photos

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I think most of you know how important our National Wildlife Refuge system is to me. After all, I have written several posts on wildlife conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Pass that my co-founder Ingrid Taylar and I have been encouraging for years. This week I have simply put together a post featuring several of my favorite photos, all taken on our National Wildlife Refuges.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of 2018)

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And they’re off! Your 2018 year lists, whether you tally them or not, have already begun to populate, silently bearing witness to your commitment to bird looking or lack thereof. Some eager beavers have already broken triple digits for the year while less industrious sorts may not even be in double digits. No worries… with 51 weekends left in this year, we’ll all have plenty of time to indulge in avian observation.

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Getting the Year List Started in Queens

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On January first my year list, just like every other birder’s year list, reverted to zero. Every single species, even the European Starlings above, count as one bird on the year’s checklist. Sure, 2017 was a wonderful year , but out with the old, what have you done for me lately, and all that jazz. So before the hangover kicked into overdrive I was out the door, leaving an apartment full of sleeping revelers, seeking out some good birds for my year list.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2018)

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This new year already appears to be auspicious for eagles. Not only did I pick up my life Golden Eagle on New Year’s Day, but now the Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. Maybe my perspective is biased, but if you’re feeling left out, you should be making 2018 your Year of the Eagle as well. Of course I saw tons of Bald Eagles chilling on the ice at Irondequoit Bay, but the bird that thrilled me most this weekend was my second Northern Shrike for the year.

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Bird Litigation: Sonoran Desert Bald Eagle

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently decided that the Sonoran Desert population of Bald Eagle is not a listable taxon under the Endangered Species Act. What does that mean? The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (“ESA”) protects species of plants and animals threatened with extinction by listing them as either “endangered” or “threatened,” which in turn confers certain legal protections.

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The Shelter Pet Project

4 The Love Of Animals

Did you know that every year, of the 8 million dogs and cats that enter animal shelters, 3 million of these healthy and treatable pets are euthanized? It is such a sad statistic, you can read even more about the.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2018)

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The first month of 2018 is nearly in the books. At the conclusion of every month, we might ask ourselves, “Did I see enough or well enough these past weeks?” With hope, our answers improve with every month. I saw nothing this weekend I hadn’t seen earlier in January, but White-winged Scoters earn respect every time they turn up. The common scoters of Lake Ontario, these seaducks bring a strong, dark presence to our winter shores.

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Mendocino Brewing Company: Red Tail Amber Ale

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When I began reviewing beers for 10,000 Birds, I knew I would eventually get around to writing about the Mendocino Brewing Company. While I’m happy whenever a brewery has just one bird-inspired beer, Mendocino offers an entire range of beers named for birds, with each bottle handsomely adorned with a namesake bird. And these aren’t kitschy or ironic cartoon birds, or highly stylized logos, or some other over-the-top exhibition of artistic whimsy – as much fun as these designs can be – but sincer

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A flashy blue surprise

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Walking up the ramp, from the docks here at Marina Palmira, on my way to the adjacent sidewalk that border the marina, I was literally blasted with an amazing flash of blue! Please understand, my eyes are always trained in a downward angle, not only to assure that I stay on the dry portion of the dock, nearly but all of the birds to be seen, are in close approximation to the water.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of January 2018?

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Three weekends into a new year should see everyone still taking their resolutions seriously. Whatever birding momentum you picked up from a fresh year list should still be strong, driving you to seek out new ticks for 2018. If your enthusiasm is flagging, pick it up… we’ve got a long year ahead with a lot to see. Without intending to, I’ve been birding assiduously this month, hitting both reliable haunts and new hotspots.

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A short timers approach to birding

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As my days get shorter and shorter here in La Paz, Mexico, I find that my birding has changed a bit. Where, in the previous weeks and months, I was working a normal, well close to it, schedule, of 8-5 Monday thru Friday, and 8 until noon on Saturday. Unless, I felt like a mental health day, or hour, or at least an afternoon, to run down a rare species that had popped up on eBird.org.

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