10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Most Americans now live within the ABA Area, but by far the largest excluded group is the Puerto Ricans and the overwhelming majority of them are Hispanic. In any event, departing from tradition is inherent in making changes to increase inclusiveness in the birding community. But progress is slow. Territories in the Caribbean.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2022

One such event is the bird count at Arenal, a day typically replete with varying degrees of rain. This is a mini event replete with coffee, pastries, and a few vendors selling super cool bird art, shirts, earrings, and posters. These were some of the highlights. The Count Meeting.

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Costa Rica Eagles Species Blackbirds 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2020

The boat had been chartered by a big group of Mumbai birders to see a Long-billed Dowitcher that would make a most unusual addition to an Indian list. It turns out that the dowitcher was showing so well that the group had had a whipround for the crew to encourage them to stay longer. This was its fourth year. Common Redshank.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

Then off in search of the main event! As this is a roost site, the best time to take this journey is also the hottest part of the day and with the difficulty of slogging through the mud with caked boots, I contemplated telling my group to continue without me. Much to my pleasure, it was shaded and a good spot to recover from the heat.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

A new paper out this month attempts to paint the most comprehensive picture yet of the origins and diversification of the American sparrows, wood-warblers, blackbirds, cardinals, tanagers, and their kin, an enormous group of birds more than 800 species strong. A female Western Spindalis ( Spindalis zena ) on Grand Cayman © David J.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

The African Allen’s Gallinule ( Porphyrio alleni ) split off from its relatives first, and then there was a New World colonization event that produced the species pair Purple Gallinule ( Porphyrio martinicus ) and Azure Gallinule ( Porphyrio flavirostris ). subspecies and subspecies groups may represent species-level lineages.”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This past Saturday, 10 October, was my favorite birding event of the year. And who would have thoughts that a group of Boy Scouts could nearly derail our whole endeavor? About mid-morning a group of Boy Scouts arrived with plans to do some work on the platform, including repainting it. What is a Big Sit? Odd, but true.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Buying a bunch of votes and dropping it like a big crap bomb at an annual meeting may get you what you want but boy howdy, I can’t imagine people lining up to join that group. The 2012 event was held at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. It’s a pleasant way to spend and hour on the refuge.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In the end, the event gathered 26 birders who occupied the entire upper terrace of a floating tavern at Usce (the confluence ) park, overlooking the islands. The team was international, aged from 10 to 60 – one thing that never ceases to fascinate me is how birding manages to bring such varied groups together. We met at 10.00

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

These people are overwhelmingly undereducated (and I don’t mean formal education) males, although occasionally you’ll find a comparable female going along for the ride (think Sarah Palin – no relation to Palenville, although for this particular event the nearly identical name is both handy and appropriate).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2023

Lovely Cotinga – Once again, the continuing male at Rancho Naturalista was shared with the same group from Buffalo. Bare-necked Umbrellabird – Any view of this endangered species is a major event. We had a number of excellent birds on that trip! I saw this cool bird near Limon, Sarapiqui, and at Cano Negro.

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Costa Rica Buffalo Birds Endangered Species 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2019

These photo sessions turn out to be social events, with people chatting and smoking, and somewhat limited bird knowledge (most of them referred to the male and female Amur Paradise Flycatcher as the red and the white bird). A Grey-headed Lapwing was very noisy in a field nearby, and occasionally lifting off and flying around a bit.

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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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

“TNR has repeatedly been shown to fail to reduce free-ranging cat populations,” the authors say (perhaps because the rate of sterilization in a discrete population has never been close to one hundred percent); and, in any event, neutered or not, feral cat lives are nasty, brutish and short.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Global Big Day has become an annual collective event in May that encourages thousands of people to watch birds on the same date. Eventually, we made our way to the nearby beach, noticing a group of Eastern Kingbirds hanging with a pair of Long-tailed Tyrants en-route.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2021

But I also experienced, along with other birding friends across the country, some unusual and intriguing events. There were about 40 in this group. Of course, I saw a few lifers that I was bound to see eventually, as one does every year. I also saw a most unusual abundance of Lazuli Buntings this winter.

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Mexico Trafficking Sparrows Virginia 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

A wonderful variety of bird species are waiting to be seen and among them are many a birder’s favorite avian group, the wood-warblers. Participate in the Rainforest Biodiversity Group’s annual bird-a-thon. With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest.

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Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. Others : There are many birding festivals , including several large and well-attended ones, but attendance numbers for any individual event do not provide much information about the overall number of birders.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 8, 2014

31, for each post, Pro Plan Cat will donate one pound of its cat food (up to 50,000 lbs) to cat rescue groups in need through the Rally to Rescue network. cats events people helping animals' Pro Plan wants to inspire cat owners to capture moments with their own cats, and then share what makes cats great!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

You see, it clearly resembles a hybrid between the Spanish and the House Sparrow, and an ancient hybrid event was long suspected to be the source of its existence – with recent research indicating that apparently this isn’t the case after all. Winter plumage makes things a bit more difficult, but the difference is rather obvious.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

It’s a protracted event, one that begins with waders, Willow Flycatchers , and other first birds on the move to the south. It picks up in September but the biggest numbers seem to pass through Costa Rica in October.

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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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

They are large groups of birds of all different kinds of species. Also in large flocks were black Common Scimitarbills , part of a group of tree living relatives of the hoopoes that look like pretty much no other bird on Earth. Fortunately, if I couldn’t go to the bush, the bush could come to me. White-crested Helmetshrike.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2022

I saw a few of each group, with the obvious exception of the second one. According to Wikipedia, the ancient Chamorro people believed that when it screamed over a house it meant that someone would soon die or that an unmarried girl was pregnant (apparently similarly catastrophic events, I guess).

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The event will be held on Sunday, October 4th, 2009. This is Los Angeles’s premier animal-related fundraising event benefiting the following non-profit rescue organizations: The Rescue Train, Best Friends Animal Society, Animal Alliance, A Dog’s Life Rescue, Stray Cat Alliance, Four-Legged Friends Foundation, and Molly’s Mutts & Meows.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. These are bird groups that have been covered extensively by other guides. Armistead and Brian L. It is an intriguing choice of species.

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Animal Person

JULY 25, 2010

Thanks, once again, to James LaVeck and Jenny Stein of Tribe of Heart for kindly and carefully bringing attention to what should be a stunningly-obvious moment of hypocrisy by groups that exist to advocate for and save animals.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

I’ve been home only a few days after what amounted to an almost-three-week trip–twelve days with the ABA group, a six-day extension to Assam, and travel time–so I think the simplest way to write about the safari is to focus on two memorable days. Dinner was a celebratory event. Soon, it was time to leave the Taj Mahal.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2014

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. The two unidentified police women graciously posed for a group photo. Purple-throated Sunangel. Photo: Pia Oberg. Surbound Team.

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Peru Birds Experience Experiments 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here is a small group of the Pigeon Guillemots near their rocky Cliffside nesting area. Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. And here is a small group the broke away and swam out to deeper water. Here is a small group shot of those Purple Martins.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

Antbirds, flycatchers and ovenbirds (Furnaridds) are the largest groups of Tropical Rainforest birds, but they don’t occur evenly along the altitudinal length of the forest. We are greatly indebted to the event sponsor Peru’s Board of Tourism and Inkaterra Association.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 23, 2010

A group of drooling dogs were all ears as actor and dog lover Taye Diggs read excerpts from the newly released ALPO® “Real Dogs Eat Meat” Handbook at a first-of-its-kind book reading event in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on May 19. TAYE DIGGS AND HIS POOCH AT BOOK READING EVENT.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2020

In conjunction with closed borders, schools, events, and other public-related things, all national parks in Costa Rica close. Since too many people seemed to not be staying away from other groups of people, the government recently placed a restriction on any private travel from ten p.m National Parks close. No more night birding.

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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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North Dakota Birds Ohio West Virginia 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Outside the breeding season, the birds stop vocalizing and roam in pairs or small family groups in wide-ranging feeding circuits which makes them much more difficult to find. The young followed the parents around in small family groups well after they had fledged.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers. The initiative for this hunt comes from a small group of hunters. More than 50,000 Sandhill Cranes stop to feed while migrating during the fall and winter between Wisconsin and Florida. The state’s response?

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