10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

I just returned from a glorious birding trip all over Cuba, so I am just going to ignore the pile of spring bird books on my dining room table (most of which arrived while I was gone), and write a bit about my favorite Cuban birds. Of course, it’s the colorful and tiny birds that get the most attention when one thinks of Cuba. There’s the Cuban Trogon, majestic (the national bird of Cuba), brilliantly colored, and surprisingly common.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 4, 2017

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2017

This blog had 1,549 visits during March, which is an average of 49.9 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 44.0.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2017

As you might have seen mentioned previously , last weekend the illustrious Corey Finger and I broke the Queens record with our sighting of fifteen Wilson’s Snipe at Willow Lake (we also proved the extraordinary merit of my water-resistant hiking shoes, but that’s beside the point.) Wilson’s Snipe seems almost too straightforward for What’s In a Name post – it’s named after good old Alexander Wilson , with the Latin name coming into play because it’s appa

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2017

My very first story ever posted here on 10,000 Birds was about the interesting habit of our local Costa’s Hummingbirds, using the sailboats in Marina Palmira, here in La Paz, Mexico for nesting sites. Each and every one of these boats have a myriad of lines, rigging and other places to establish their new nest. Ever since that first year, the number of nesting Costa’s on boats has multiplied.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2017

The second weekend of April definitely sits among my favorites of the year, and not just because this is my birthday weekend. Birds that have been away for a while tend to come back around this time. I’m looking forward to seeing them! Depending on which expected species arrive first, I’ll either be heading up to Lake Ontario or down to Conesus Inlet.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

Abaco is beautiful. My family and I were staying at the edge of a sand beach, facing a wide flat in a house charmingly named “Bone Ami.” The color blue dominated the senses, changing from a deeper hue during high tide to nearly silver at the lowest ebb. The best part? The sand exposed during low tide makes for excellent walking, and even better birding.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Over the past few months there have been a lot of birds breeding around Broome with the excellent rain events that we have been having and the vegetation is at long last revived. The grass is green, the wildflowers are spectacular and now we have numerous species of dragonfly to enjoy as the season starts to change. We are watching the Dollarbirds line up on the power lines before they head north and soon all the gravel roads will be open again and we can head off into the bush once again.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

I have yet to meet a birder who did not consider dippers to be special. Any dipper, any continent, any birder. This special place in a birder’s heart or on a list of best birds of the year certainly pertains not only to their extravagant lifestyle but also to the fact that most birders – particularly visiting birders – often struggle with finding them.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

As birders, we tend to spend more time in wetlands than most of our peers, neighbors, and family members. Unless those non-birding folks happen to be duck hunters or love to go fishing, they tend to stay away from the marshes, the riparian zones, the bottom lands. Such sites being wonderful habitat for mosquitoes and other little biting nasties, we can’t really blame them.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 1, 2017

Here are the posts from April 2007.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

Lists from nine countries have been shared this month with Cuba appearing for the first time. With Corey’s February jollies to The Bahamas (when he should have been at home looking for GGOs), Lichtenstein, Austria and Switzerland our country/province/principality/kingdom/territory list has swollen to 37. 79 checklists were contributed for 624 birds during March and bring the running total for 2017 to 1162.

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