10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep.

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New York Cooking Chipmunks Owls 174

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, New York suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.

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New York Boston 2019 Collecting 261

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. That means that as of right now the yardstick I am holding does not exist because there are no yard sticks that are zero long.

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New York City New York Walruses Birds 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2019

We’re still driving towards the depths of winter here in New York, but I just noticed that our days are getting longer. Spring migration will be here before you know it, right? Corey enjoyed leading a New York City Audubon bird walk at Forest Park on Saturday morning and visiting Breezy Point on Sunday.

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2019 New York City New York Birds 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The fact that this hour falls in the middle of the night means that most people sleep right through it, but I wonder what would happen if you observes a nocturnal bird like an owl during the hour that gets reset. I found myself in a beautiful part of New York that was so remote that birds apparently couldn’t find it.

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2018 New York City New York Jamaica 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2019

Northern Mockingbirds , for example, are charming any time of year but abundant right now in my part of the world. Corey enjoyed a weekend upstate in his hometown, beating the heat that baked New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 New York City Virginia New York 132

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2019

.” Even if the words are new to you, the sentiment surely resonates. This month may have brought uncommon cold and rain to Upstate New York, but June went out on an exceedingly high note for us. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 New York Shelters Birds 126

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Last week I wrote about my first experience with a new site that a friend thought looked promising when he saw it on Google Maps. My friend was right. This experience of finding an entirely new, but very birdy, site is nothing unusual for me. And E-Bird only listed a couple of high-quality sites back then.

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San Francisco 2020 Experience Experiments 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2018

New York state is burning right now, or at least the air feels as if it’s on fire. Corey did not see much that was too exciting in what little birding he did during a scorcher of a weekend in New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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New York City 2018 New York Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. Atria Books, New York, $20 (U.S.); $27 (Canada), 79 pp., The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty, by Sy Montgomery. May 3, 2022. May 3, 2022. ISBN 978-1-6680-0196-7; ISBN 978-1-6680-0197-4 (ebook).

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New Hampshire Chickens Hunting Falcons 204

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The book I am writing is the New York edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. Inspiration books field guide New York' And the references I use!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It was a very pleasant experience. The nightjar was singing loudly, almost incessantly, and from the snippets of conversation I could hear it was obvious that the new birders had no clue they were listening to it (New York birder eventually pointed this out to them). That’s right. Florida Canyon, AZ.

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San Francisco New York Experience Experiments 217

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right? After all, Pink-footed Goose is still on the level of continent-level rarity, even if it has become more-than-annual in New York State. Corey’s choice for Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one.

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2016 New York Suffering Birds 125

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Formerly, as you can tell from its name, it was a military base, mostly tasked with keeping New York Harbor safe from attack. I was joined on the platform by Luke Musher, a recent transplant to New York City who I met a week earlier in the same location with Doug Gochfeld. ” Let’s pause here for a second.

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New York City New York Battery Experience 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

March Madness is on everyone’s mind right now, at least in the United States. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But I’ll tell you what March Madness really is… looking out the window on the first (and second and third) day of spring and seeing fresh snow.

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2014 United States New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2014

Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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New York City 2014 Kentucky New York 188

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Many Northern Hemisphere birders see summer as the nadir of the annual bird watching experience. I’m trying to decide where in Western New York to chase birds this weekend… got any ideas for me? I’m trying to decide where in Western New York to chase birds this weekend… got any ideas for me?

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2014 New York Birds Raised 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

I found the experience of authentically aggressive heat rather refreshing, but much prefer my moderate New York summers! Multiple groups of trogons with young in the United States seems surreal, but is entirely possible in the right place. Bad picture of a great bird… Elegant Trogon !! How about you?

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2012 United States New York Birds 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

That’s right… football season has finally begun. Early fall in Western New York seems to be a fortuitous time to find Northern Mockingbirds , as I observed many more than usual this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2016 New York Falcons Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

One sighting that came right on schedule for me was that of Ospreys on their nests all along the perimeter of Montezuma NWR. The first Elegant Tern ever spotted in New York State is an amazingly good bird, especially when it is one of eight tern species for the weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2013 New York Birds Experience 156

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

Back in 1979 New York State birders were pleased with the first record of Mississippi Kites in the state when two visited Staten Island and spent nearly two weeks fattening up on the periodical cicadas that emerged in great numbers that year. The sound of so many cicadas is just awesome, as is the sight of so many cicadas.

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Mississippi Brazil New York City New York 173

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2014

You land, right? Almost every year there are a few birds that stick around at Bryant Park long after they are gone from the rest of the New York City area. Still, the experience of seeing birds so close is hard to match. To your chagrin, all you see is buildings and streets. Of course you do. Ovenbird in Bryant Park.

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New York City New York Birds Sparrows 208

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2014

We’ve all been there, right? Only the second known to grace New York State, this bird has all the state birders abuzz, particularly the ones too distant to chase it. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 New York Birds Experience 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

Growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, June was a celebration of summer. Growing up birding in Western New York was also a time when the old woods of the Niagara Gorge were punctuated with the songs of hidden Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos and the lazy notes of Eastern Wood-Pewees.

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Costa Rica Species Birds New York 197

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Kroodsma waited for years for the right opportunity to record its different songs, a “cascade of sweet and liquid notes,” one naturalist said, “like the spray of a waterfall and sunshine.”. Boston, New York. Like he does, say, for the Canyon wren. To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? It’s a good life!

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 236

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MAY 15, 2016

What a weekend, right? Corey had a host of birds to choose from this weekend what with it being the middle of May, the peak of spring migration in New York. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We can’t wait to hear everyone’s stories!

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2016 Jamaica New York Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2011

Perfect weeks like the hot (but not too hot) one we’ve just enjoyed here in western New York remind me how good summer is for so many things other than birding. My best bird of the weekend was the energetic Red-tailed Hawk that appears to live right beside the pool my kids and I visit.

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2011 Jamaica New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Not likely, right? Though Corey had a host of good birds to choose from (again) he has decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the one he found because he took the time to scope through a ginormous flock of Canada Geese : a diminutive Cackling Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County, New York.

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Polar Bears 2012 New York Geese 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

Corey, of course, carried his phenomenal bird-finding fortune into the New Year with an improbable to the point of being unprecedented Grace’s Warbler in New York. Ugh, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2011 2012 New York Birds 168

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I I wish people would start appreciating the misunderstood animals out there, like snakes and opossums,” wrote Elissa in New York. High Technology.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 242

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In my experience non-birders connect with the travel, visiting beautiful places and spectacle of birding and hawkwatching often entails all three. In my experience if you show a non or novice birder their first Bald Eagle and they will be amazed, show someone their first Thayer’s Gull and they aren’t likely to gasp (sorry, larophiles)!

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Bald Eagle Los Angeles Connecticut Eagles 234

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2018

Alas, the beer is only available on draft in Texas for a limited time, far out of range for me in New York. Admittedly, it’s not a revelatory gastronomic experience, but the pairing does work: the robust, roasted flavors of the beer make up for the relatively bland sweetness of the Peeps. “Fat free”?

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Fort Worth ALA Texas Investigation 115

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.” Sounds like clever behavior by the parrotbills, right? meters instead of 0.7 End of political rant).

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Two issues came to mind immediately when I examined my reviewer copies.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 206

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. This time, the first to find it was Tom Burke, one of New York State’s top birders both in terms of skill and list-size.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

On a recent family trip to Jones Beach, on New York’s Long Island, I had the opportunity to observe a small flock of gulls bathing, resting, and preening in some shallow brackish water that had collected behind the beach. Ugly, right?

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New York Collecting Sparrows Experience 178