10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

In the birding world, May is the beautiful time. With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest. A wonderful variety of bird species are waiting to be seen and among them are many a birder’s favorite avian group, the wood-warblers. Among the most desired bird species during May migration, brightly colored, beautiful and boldly patterned, how can a birder not get hooked on spring warblers?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. She also has an abiding interest in important figures in natural history. She’s already written about Rachel Carson: Secret Birder. Now, Sherri turns her attention to an ornithologist with a soft spot for raptors… The boy pushed through scrub mesquite following a trail strangely different from the rest of his grandfather’s land.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2019

Now that the Mad Queen is dead, Brandon the Broken, First of His Name, is the King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Six Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm; and peace is restored in all the kingdoms, would you want to bird Westeros? I am not talking the filming locations, but the imaginary kingdoms themselves. How many birds have you spotted in 8 seasons?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2019

In 1942, a shepherd from the Ural Mountains, Vasily Zaytsev, then a soldier in the Red Army, found himself on the front lines of the Battle of Stalingrad. Zaytsev had impressive marksmanship skills, which is why he was soon transferred to the sniper division. At the same time, at the western bank of the Volga River corpses piled ever higher… or so starts the plot of the Jean-Jacques Annaud’s movie Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law as young Zaytsev.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2019

During our three weeks of birding in a variety of habitats around Singapore we encountered three species of Munia. We are very familiar with the finches and mannikins in Australia with Double-barred Finches visiting our garden every day. We also have the occasional visit from Long-tailed Finch and Zebra Finch and these two species are easily found around the Broome area.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2019

There I was, enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon at home on a rainy and blustery day, resting on my laurels after seeing lots of good birds on Saturday and Sunday morning. I picked up my iPhone because, well, this is the twenty-first century and that’s apparently what we do, and was amazed to see that a few minutes earlier word had went out that a Common Greenshank had been found at Timber Point Country Club.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2019

The endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler breeds only in Texas Hill Country near Austin and San Antonio, but much of its nesting grounds have cleared in favor of subdivisions. Given the explosive growth of the region, development will continue , placing additional pressure on the warbler’s vanishing habitat. One way developers are navigating the warbler’s endangered status is by utilizing conservation banks.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

I couldn’t believe it. On a sandbar in the center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of ducks swirled around each other or lay down to take cover against the punishing wind. February had brought zipping breezes and cloudy skies to this part of coastal Texas, but the birds didn’t seem to mind. What made my eyes widen? The waterfowl flock was made up of two very unique looking species: the Fulvous and Black-belled Whistling Ducks.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2019

The 2020 Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Do birders and canoeists/kayakists/kayakers/kakies make good bedfellows I wonder? The new canoeing centre is still under construction at Kasairinkaikoen, so to hide my disappointment, I went birding instead. Oriental Turtle Dove. My first job was to reconnect with the common birds that one might reasonably expect to see on a flash visit to Tokyo.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2019

After seeing the Burrowing Owl on Thursday night last week and talking to some other birders I realized that Friday was shaping up to be a good migration day, at least so far as we could divine from the weather forecast. I decided to take Friday off from work and devote my day to birding. I was up and out of the house before dawn on Friday morning to get in a couple hours of birding in Forest Park before I had to drive Desi to school.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

“Get a field guide!” That’s what novice birders are told, over and over. But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2019

If you don’t have a superb bird to report after the first weekend of May, you’re definitely not trying. Don’t worry: the month of migration has just begun. My daughter Ivy and I hit a host of hotspots along Lake Ontario in observance of Global Big Day (not too late to add your lists!) We encounter all sorts of exciting FOY species, including a particularly gorgeous Black-throated Green Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2019

I am originally from California, so it is easy for me to deal with a geography defined by a low coastal mountain range, a central valley, and a much higher inland range (in California, the Sierra Nevada). But for the past 25 years, I have lived in Mexico’s state of Michoacán. Here, the coastal range is the Sierra Madre del Sur, the central valley is known as la Tierra Caliente, or the Hot Country, and I live in the much higher Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2019

During our three weeks of birding in Singapore we spent many hours on forest trails. We had hoped that during our visit we may encounter a Blue-winged Pitta. After the sad story of the Fairy Pitta in Broome just prior to our departure it made it even more special when we did encounter not one, but several. The most reliable place we found for observing Blue-winged Pittas in Singapore was at Windsor Nature Park.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2019

The first weekend of June usually signals the tail end of any migratory activity that was still passing through your region. While this may inspire nostalgia for the avian excitement of, say, two weeks ago, there’s no need to put your optics on ice just yet. Early June offers much for those willing to embrace its opportunities. Corey and I will both be in the NYC area this weekend, but only one of us will probably be birding.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2019

I said in my last review that it wouldn’t be long before we saw yet another New England India Pale Ale (IPA) at Birds and Booze – and here we are with one more. I’m not sure I have anything new to say about the style at this point, but with everyone and their mother making the New England IPAs these days, it probably doesn’t matter.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2019

In my last post, I introduced you to some of my favorite birds from the tiny town of Paso Ancho, Michoacán. This town sits at the edge of a river in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente (Hot Country), an inland basin between the coastal Sierra Madre del Sur and the much higher Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Paso Ancho has an altitude of 3,300 feet, which would make it high and cool in most of the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2019

In the midst of a three-day Memorial Day observance, many American birders still have a day left to nail down a BBOTW. If you’re not happy with your progress so far, make the most of what is left of May. Spotting Blackpoll Warblers around here breaks bittersweet; obviously, anyone would enjoy spotting one of these monochromatic songbirds, but with this late migrant comes the promise of months of little more than resident breeders.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2019

Singapore is a great location for observing Kingfishers and there are several species to observe. The largest Kingfisher is the Stork-billed Kingfisher and the smallest Kingfisher is the Black-backed Kingfisher. White-throated Kingfishers are a substantial size of around 28cm and are quite widespread throughout the island. Our first encounter with a White-throated Kingfisher in Singapore in March was at Gardens by the Bay , but it was a brief observation in poor light.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2019

Is May ending already? Some birders wait eleven months for just this moment, keenly feeling loss after its passing. How can you prevent the post-migration blues? Make hay while the sun shines: if birds are still passing through your corner of the world, get out and greet every one. Maybe they’ll come back in the fall! I have to work this weekend, but you’ll still find me catching the last of this season’s raptor migration and any songbirds I can find.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2019

One of the great things about living in southern Arizona is our proximity to Mexico. This allows for some really fun birds to come across the border, not that they know it is a border, and giving us some interesting birds each year. Without question, the most famous of these “immigrants” was last year’s White-throated Thrush that took up residence in Madera Canyon.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2019

A few miles from my home, a bridge rises gradually over the water of Santa Rosa Sound. Linking the mainland of the Florida Panhandle to the barrier island of Navarre Beach, half the bridge structure slopes to the water as sandy edges and sea wall. Between the grasses growing in tufts here and there, Black Skimmers and Least Terns have begun to nest on the hot sand.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2019

This past Friday, after leaving Cupsogue where my twitch for the Wilson’s Plover had ended in success I decided to head back over to Big Egg Marsh in my home borough of Queens to see if I could rediscover the Burrowing Owl I had seen the previous evening could be rediscovered. A bunch of birders had looked unsuccessfully for the owl in the morning but I was hoping I might get lucky.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2019

When Paul Lewis reached out to us asking if we were interested in some blog posts about birding in Mexico we were psyched! After all, the beat writer who had been posting about Mexican birds, the amazing Tom, has moved from Mexico and we didn’t have anyone writing about the birds there. His first guest post was so good we decided to make him a regular writer!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2019

I was home on Thursday evening hanging out with Desi. Daisy was working late and my mother-in-law had kindly started to make me some spicy ramen for dinner. Then my phone buzzed with a text message from my good birding buddy Mary and, well, it let me know that a Burrowing Owl had been found in Queens and the photo posted to twitter. My first thought was that it was probably a hoax but I found the link and shared it to the New York Birders Facebook page, hoping to find out if anyone knew if it wa

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2019

If you’re devoting as many free hours to birding as we are this month, you have no time for preamble. Let’s share sightings! i saw plenty of new birds this weekend, some of them in the process of making future new birds. Though I spied quite a few warblers, my best looks were of Scarlet Tanager , a bell-ringer of a bird any day. Corey had no problem picking out his Best Bird of the Weekend.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2019

It is often useful to look at satellite images on Google Earth to see where there is suitable habitat for different bird species. Sometimes it can be disappointing when the area has changed due to development and other times you can find some unlikely birds. When we decided to go to see what bird species there were in the undeveloped areas at Changi Business Park we encountered several species of bird that we did not observe anywhere else in Singapore.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2019

Check your calendar. If the month reads May, don’t worry about making weekend plans. You’re already booked… to go birding. Just be sure to arrive at your favorite patch early. Staying late is optional but highly recommended. Various spots along the southern shore of Lake Ontario call to me this weekend, promising tantalizing glimpses of birds that alight only briefly in the Rochester area before taking off for points north.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2019

The month of May gives no quarter to passionate birders. You probably spent all of last weekend engaged in an extended Global Big Day , whether you realized that fact or not. Take a moment or two this Saturday to observe World Migratory Bird Day while you’re enjoying migratory birds. This year’s theme is “ Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2019

After the slow surge of April migration, the moment you’ve anticipated all year has finally arrived. Global Big Day ! No? Maybe you weren’t counted among the 30,000 birders around the world who participated in last year’s avifaunal observance, but you can be a part of this year’ celebration. You’re going to be birding anyway, so join the fun.

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