10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2017

Are you on your way to Costa Rica? Planning a trip for later this year? Good choice, the birding is fantastic! If not, I hope the following tips will convince you to come on down to this easy birding paradise: 100s of bird species are closer than you think. Yes, hundreds. I know, there are literally hundreds of birds in the ABA region and the Western Palearctic too and recent major Big Years have nabbed well over 700 species in the ABA.

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Costa Rica 2017 West Virginia Birds 115

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2017

Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor (or, What Friends Feathered, Furred, and Scaled Have Taught Me about Life and Love) is a fun read about what it is like to be an exotic pet vet.

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Fur Vet Pets Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2017

While wandering around my home borough on Sunday morning doing some post-snowstorm birding I made my way to Oakland Lake in northeastern Queens with the hope of finding Rusty Blackbirds to add to my year list. I circumnavigated the pond, got my blackbirds, and was about to get back in my car and head home when I noticed a bird-shaped form on the edge of the frozen lake against the phragmites.

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Oakland Blackbirds Feral Experience 103

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2017

May I let you in on a little secret, just between you and me? A new calendar year doesn’t make common birds any more exciting to me. Obviously, I’ll savor a millisecond of satisfaction at my first dirt-common Canada Goose or Ring-billed Gull of the year, but once that moment passes, I’m back to scanning their respective flocks for newer, rarer, more exciting species.

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Puerto Rico 2017 Canada Birds 101

Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

Don’t think we’ve noticed that most of you don’t play along with this game of sharing the best–meaning the coolest, rarest, fanciest, or dearest–bird species you’ve spotted in a given weekend. Honestly, we’re hoping that you’ve been answering the question every Monday, even if you’re muttering under your breath or just bragging to a few birding buds.

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2016 2017 New York Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2017

During my formative birding years, growing up in the high altitude desert of Eastern Oregon, flycatchers were just a really cool sounding bird, found only in whatever field guide I was able to check out of the local Public Library. After college, and now living in the densely forested areas of the Pacific Northwest, a whole new world of these lovely birds opened up for me.

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Oregon Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 102

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

Well, another New Year crept up on us once again and once again I will commit to listing on the website! This all started way back in 2012 and several of us continued on in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016. Just looking at everyone’s lists over the years you can see how varied our birding lives can be. As usual we got out and about on New Year’s Day and got the first one hundred birds onto the list, so now it will be a little harder or it means we need to travel beyond the town of Broo

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2017 Zebras Ducks Australia 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or Kazakhstan, as was frequently the case during the last few years. I did not see any lifers whatsoever in 2016, making it my first lifer-free year since around 2010. My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101