Sat.Jan 17, 2015 - Fri.Jan 23, 2015

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

10,000 Birds

'Maharashtra, February 2013. Trying not to inhale so much of the dust cloud that envelops us, I am sporting a bandana tied bank-robber style. A winding track through dense woodlands takes us to the Telia Lake in the southeast of the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India.

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Your List, Your Life (or, how Pine Siskin became county bird #178)

10,000 Birds

'I think some of the antagonism towards listing in birders comes from the mistaken belief that one’s list is nothing more the basest commodification of birds, living beings with incredible life histories reduced to a number. I tend to see things the other way around. My various lists – life, ABA, county, yard – are collections of memories, each one precious.

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On the threshold of flight

10,000 Birds

'We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. I speak of flight, of course. This is a key feature of birds. Not all birds fly, but all birds have flight related anatomy and at least descend from those that did. Indeed, we call the very rare non-fliers “flightless.” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are.

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Come a Little Closer, Don’t Be Shy: A Study in Greater Sage-grouse Lovin’

10,000 Birds

'There were so many potential titles for this post, from some of our greatest songwriters ( Sting , Robert Smith , heck even Leonard Cohen ). But at the end of the day, none of them can compare to the sound of a male Greater Sage-Grouse in love, almost alien in its ardor. And these dudes’ vocalizations and “sonations” increase in intensity when a lady Sage-Grouse is present—which, in turn, seems to increase the male’s mating success.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2015)

10,000 Birds

'Get excited, bird lovers… a team with an avian appellation is headed to the Super Bowl! For the second year in a row, the Seattle Seahawks will represent the NFC, the Pacific Northwest, and bird lovers everywhere in pursuit of the NFL championship. Congrats, bone breakers! My weekend wasn’t as eventful as Russell Wilson’s, but I did locate some open water in the icy Irondequoit Bay Inlet.

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Space Coast Starts on Wednesday!

10,000 Birds

'In less than forty-eight hours I will helping guide a field trip to Viera Wetlands at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I can’t wait! Like the White Ibis above, Florida’s big wading birds are so cooperative, so beautiful, and and so willing to be photographed that it is a digiscoper’s dream. I practically drool at the thought of once again exploring Merritt Island, Joe Overstreet Road, Blue Heron Wetlands, East Lake Toho, and all of the other great birding spots i

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“European” Purple Swamphens on Mallorca

10,000 Birds

'David recently published a post on your favourite bird blog about the taxonomy of the Purple Swamphen , a massive rail found throughout most of the “Old World” According to an article he summarizes, genetic data suggests that the Purple Swamphen is paraphyletic since it does not include the critically endangered and equally enchanting Takahe.

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Back to Forest Park – and a Review of the Opticron Natura BGA

10,000 Birds

'I was feeling fairly disheartened. My big year, after starting off with an incredible rarity , had fizzled. A literal wild goose chase had led to a cascading series of errors in which I missed nearly every bird I sought. I had racked up only twenty-odd species, all of which I’d have to be blindfolded to not see if I spent a year in New York City.

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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of January 2015?

10,000 Birds

'We are well and truly into whatever season your part of the planet is in. The Southern Hemisphere is mired in summer doldrums, while we Northerners are enjoying whatever winter birds we’re likely to get this year. How is the season treating you? I still haven’t hit all the winter birds I want, so look for me among the snowy fields or along the icy shore of Lake Ontario this weekend.

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Gantheaume Point birding

10,000 Birds

'Cable Beach in Broome extends south to a point known as Gantheaume Point, which is famous for the wide variety of dinosaur footprints that can be observed at low tide. It is a beautiful location with bright red cliffs and a wide variety of shorebirds during our summer months, though not in the large numbers that you may observe in other places around Broome.

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