10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2019

But Friday, 6 December, was the first day of the African Birding Expo and we knew that sleeping in wasn’t an option because the afternoon would be spent doing expo events and we wanted to get some time to go birding. Rare birds are weird, and a bird as rare as a first country record is a special experience.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

My weekend wasn’t as eventful as Russell Wilson’s, but I did locate some open water in the icy Irondequoit Bay Inlet. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Congrats, bone breakers! What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Which winter sporting event captured your attention more this weekend: The Olympics or the Great Backyard Bird Count? The GBBC appears to have as much international cache these days as that other event running in Sochi; as of Sunday morning, checklists have been submitted from 103 countries and 6 continents.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Its founder, Chris Vlachos, has extensive experience and background in wildlife photography, starting his career more than 20 years ago. At all times and events, the company takes all the necessary measures to protect everyone. The website’s overhaul was a matter of necessity due to COVID-19.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

I wonder what he would have made of the extraordinary peregrinations undertaken by this species in 2021, with birds turning up well north of their usual range in an event the American Birding Association has coined – with hashtag – #spoonbillsummer?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2017

Guess January birding really is boring… During such an eventful weekend, I observed nothing more interesting than a House Finch — check out more images from Corey’s gallery –which assumes some air of respectability for being my first of the year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Puerto Rico 2017 Birds Experience 103

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

Different promotions and activities are carried out to boost the use of eBird including Global Big Day, a worldwide event that happened on May 5th. The fun thing about this event (known as GBD around these parts) is that it can also be enjoyed at every level of expertise, challenge, and dare I say, obsession.

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Costa Rica 2018 Colombia Collecting 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

The organizers, the Peruvian Tourism Board (PromPeru) and Inkaterra Hotels Association saw this event as an opportunity to foster environmental awareness and introduce the idea of bird habitat conservation. Other teams had member with lots of experience in the western lowlands. Photo: Peru Birding Rally. That was a big help.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

Adam and Tim are experienced Florida birders with varying degrees of experience when birding the Tropical Rainforests. It was obvious that not only scientists found this attractive; canopy exploration has become popular among ecotourists wishing to experience the forest canopy. Many of these birds were lifers for them.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Then again, birding culture offered a surprising slate of events as well. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sports lovers enjoyed a veritable smorgasbord of superior athletic entertainment this weekend, at least in the United States. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

What if there was an event that truly captured the rigors and fast-paced nature of the sport? What if this event took place in one of the most biodiverse natural areas in the world? Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

The insanity of March Madness makes me wonder if any other country has a comparable phenomenon, meaning an annual event or period where college sports dominate discussion. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Can anyone share a similar scenario?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

I can attempt to describe the exhilarating chain of events which unfolds each time a tropicbird or booby runs the gauntlet of marauding frigatebirds – but you can see it for yourself in this clip aired by the BBC for the series Life.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2014

Some of my team member have varying degrees of birding experience in Peru and were visiting the endemic rich northern Peru for the first time. I also congratulate the event organizers, particularly Manuel Bryce, for envisioning and executing a plan to promote bird conservation through ecotourism in one of the world’s best birding hot-spots.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2013

Seriously, sexy migrants are flying fast and furious in Ohio and the event has just started! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Luckily, I caught a few and little else apart from a Hermit Thrush , Ruby-crowned Kinglet , and lots of Ring-billed Gulls. Birding best bird weekend'

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2013 Ohio Birds Experience 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. that’s three birds).

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Science Albatross Research Birds 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2024

There are a few spectacles in the birding community that are high energy, happen quickly, and is worth any effort to experience it. One such experience is a bird grounding event, sometimes called a fallout. A fallout is usually reserved for more significant events, but there is no true gauge as to one versus the other.

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Texas Alabama Alligators Nashville 184

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Animal lovers, this is a very special event! For the first time ever, famed chimpanzee research pioneer Jane Goodall will take audiences in select theaters across the country on an incredible journey through the memories of her life when she appears live to answer their pre-submitted questions during this special one night only Fathom event.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

“The True Nature of Cats movement is about letting our cats be who they were born to be by providing proper nutrition and enriching experiences,” said Nida Bockert, Purina ONE spokesperson. Tracy Reese is the perfect partner for this unique event. “As

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

But, while we are making sacrifices for the avian quest, we also experience side benefits much less trying in nature. I never again saw the son who was finding solace in a patch of old growth forest, a place where I have also found sanctuary in times of mental duress and when events seemed being control.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience, able to be seen consistently across varied habitats throughout nearly all of North America and much of South America. The Pied-billed Grebe , a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This event was scheduled for today, October 5. Dr Ray Greek, President of Americans for Medical Advancement and consultant Dr Andre Menache will be joining the animal charity in asking MSP's and the Scottish Government to take urgent action to end the use of animals in experiments. From indymediascotland.org.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

In fact, I’m about ready to drop from exhaustion because of the 14th annual Chicken Inferno; here’s why… Details about the event will come later in the week, but for now I’ll tag Eastern Meadowlark as my Best Bird of the Weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New York City 2012 Chickens New York 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Do you think that any event in our lifetimes will ever focus so much positive attention and excitement on nature or birding? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Not likely, right? Still, we each know what we like and focus our faculties accordingly.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Participants will also have the opportunity to share their experiences, ask questions, and get great tips from Sonu Mathew and Debbie Wiener. This will be a fun event for people who love their homes and want to find great solutions for sharing their space with the pets that they love! Tags: books events giveaways.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I follow my friend, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for International Bird Rescue, Cheryl Reynolds to the release site where we document the event. ” In the meantime, this is a video/slideshow I put together of what was one of the most memorable experiences in my birding life, my International Bird Rescue Pelican Release.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

We’re all celebrating Ivy’s actual 5th birthday, as opposed to all of the preliminary festivities leading up to the main event. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I just enjoyed a lightning strike visit to NYC for family and fun, then endured the trip back home.

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Bald Eagle 2011 Kentucky Birds 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2011

I love these well-established, deservedly popular birding events and have participated in each one multiple times. But there are something like 350 OTHER bird-related events going on each year across the continent. And we try to get groups of school kids out to a few of the events during the festival.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 9, 2014

Blogging has brought me some truly amazing and fun experiences. I’ve seen bloggers put together amazing events that benefit charities they love. I’ve seen the force for good that bloggers can have. Over my 10 years of blogging I have seen people rally around fellow bloggers when tragedy strikes.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” meters instead of 0.7 End of political rant). Sounds like clever behavior by the parrotbills, right?

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

"It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility." Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. In one case, up to 17 kittens from three litters died or were euthanized -- with no experiment data generated -- after injections to induce hydrocephalus.

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Utah PETA Research Investigation 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I am sure one could make a very boring movie based on the events described in this paper. My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Most important, the event will require scores of dead animals to nosh on, so objecting to using animals for entertainment is a less-than-optimal approach. The event will also have a bounce house and a handful of other activities for children. As for the creation of the picnic, there was no event committee.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? 68,315 people signed an online RSPCA petition stating "We, the undersigned, call on the British Government to work towards ending the use of animals in experiments, replacing them with humane alternatives.". It upsets them.

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RSPCA Animal Research Research Collecting 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2018

My own birding experience in upstate New York this week was much more mundane, with dwindling numbers of Blackpoll Warblers signaling the end of spring migration and prompting my return to a normal sleep schedule. and the continental ABA area, but possibly the Atlantic Ocean itself.

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