10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2020

But our rainy season, while bad for wildlife photography, has encouraged some beautiful non-feathered life forms. If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. Sometimes it is the experience that makes them memorable. You could say that I don’t bird just for the birds.

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Turkey Birds Elephants Eggs 256

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico. I am a westerner who has lived in San Francisco and Portland my entire birding life.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. And the Baltimore Oriole is an iconic eastern bird, which winters along Mexico’s east coast, but never in the west. Then, around 4:00 p.m.,

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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 143