10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2023

Due to the plethora of bird species around, invariably we were to experience something breathtaking. These two Muscovy drakes brutally battled for about ten minutes right in front of us. They all coexist harmoniously, apart from the fish perspective that is. They are all free-flying and can choose to stay or leave as they please.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2021

October can be a fantastic birding season in the right places. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. With hope, you’ve found yourself in one of those places! Corey spent his weekend upstate visiting his folks, picking apples, and, of course, looking for birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2023

Considering Broome often experiences cyclones and strong winds it does make sense for the birds to build a more substantial nest to survive the extreme weather. The Crested Pigeon will breed at any time of year if the conditions are right.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Right now, though, we can watch and listen and enjoy. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. May is a time for birding. We have the slow weeks and months for reading, writing, and dreaming about the birds we’d rather be seeing. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

In that sense, June is no different than any other month, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. You may, if fortune favors you, hit good weather or birds. On the other hand, if fate turns fickle, you’ll miss the good stuff entirely. Rumor (i.e.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

Fortunately, we have birds to look at, so let’s focus on them right now. Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. At least, I hope he is.)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

That’s the Kingfisher at the right; on the left was one of the area’s many European Stonechats. You can get a sense of the breadth of my European birding experience by how many of my lifers have the word “Common” in their names. Gee, I hope I got this one right.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The weekend found me in the Fairbanks area, where the dominant bird right now has to be Sandhill Cranes. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I spent the last week in Alaska chasing all kinds of excitement but finding fewer birds than I’d hoped.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

But next season’s specialties are right around the corner… In the face of cold winds and chill rain, I decided to keep my proverbial powder dry this weekend. 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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2024

A forest trail with enclosing vines and branches on either side gradually ascended to a point where the foliage gave way to giant boulders, and here I immediately knew I was in the right place to see this iconic species. Nevertheless, it was still a magical experience sitting in the jungle. After all, there were already rocks.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

These thirty-eight years of experience went fast but that is what happens when you have fun, right? Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February. My name is Paulo Boute. I have been leading birding trips all over Brazil since 1982.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

February feels like a step forward to our next season, but we’ll still be as mired in winter or summer, depending on your hemisphere, at month’s end as we are right now. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Learn to love it! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

I am not only surprised but shocked at my second lifer of the month right here in Monroe County. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Nothing unusual in your backyard yet? Keep looking… November 2020 appears full of surprises. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But how do you ensure that the change you make is the right one first time round? I wanted to share with you seven ways you can make sure that the change you implement when it comes to your career is the right one for you. This is your opening contact with prospective employers so it needs to be right.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

I was especially pleased that a Virginia Rail (pictured above) was hanging out by a puddle right at the edge of the road when I arrived. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. There’s always good birds to be found there. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But this experience which I’m about to relate to you was much more significant than chasing a rarity. Having extensive experiences with this species did not prevent me from enjoying them, for as I said – they show themselves. You can still check the spoonbill out in all its innocence here. Aplomado Falcon. Frustrated, yes.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Nonetheless, November can really cook when the birding conditions are just right. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This month doesn’t really resemble the migratory months or the more staid and settled spans of summer and winter. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2023

I, meanwhile, have come to experience a species of hummingbird that has up-ended my perceptions of them being wholly brown-winged creatures. One can only see the truest purple when the light is just right! Could this be a real bird? I had never seen a bird with iridescent wings before.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2019

And a few years later, I read of her experience birding with me at one of the larger birding web sites and learned that E. had every right to feel worried, with or without a reason. Anyway it was a great experience with you and I am glad that I took the chance.”. What were your experiences with bird guides? I was nervous.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2020

When bird activity flags, we can focus our bins and scopes on various other flora and fauna, as well as celestial bodies under the right conditions. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Did anyone get a good look at Comet NEOWISE this weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

You know what that means, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We’re barreling towards an equinox, which signals a lot more than just a shift in local patterns of day and night. Spring may be coming, but the Great Lakes region still lies mired in icy winter.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

And my decision to take this as a learning experience led to some interesting conclusions — and even some pretty cool birds. Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. I had already chosen to go back up to Lake Cuitzeo on this particular day (October 25th). Wet mudflats are the muddiest mudflats.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

Without a clear vision for the future, it seems difficult to search for, let alone hire, the right person. The next executive director should have experience successfully managing a non-profit organization and creating and implementing budgets. Nevertheless, some criteria will obviously be important.

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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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2020

Around midnight, I heard the most emphatic grunting right outside my window–unexpected because I was on the second floor. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we?

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Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

" Two Animal Rights Conferences: Will you be there? " by Drew Wilson at Care2's animal welfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. The post itself doesn't actually intentionally differentiate between the terms, but does align TAFA with reform and AR with rights (and then mentions Vegan Outreach).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

When you can’t search reports, compile lists, or (as I’m struggling to do right now) post birding blogs without waiting for hours for pages to load, everything feels less efficient, which means less time to do what you wanted to do in the first place: seek the best views of birds. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. That’s the hashed-out area to the right of the top space in the photo below.)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds). I did not actually go to Afghanistan for birding. The photos taken with my mobile phone all suck.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

And while it was to be a work (ministry) trip, I had still managed to schedule it right during the migratory peak along these two major corridors. My one sighting of the little-known Sinaloa Martin outside of summer had occurred on a 29th of February, and I hoped to repeat that experience.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. Salvin’s Prion. Our Flock to Marion was no different.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. I’m sure it must have been on my list of suggested reading for my tour (I just checked my files, and yes, it was).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

But I am afraid to post my photos of these with IDs, since I am never quite sure I got them right.). Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. The Ruddy-capped Nightingale Thrush is, in my experience, the hardest of the three species to see.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

I don’t know whether head brewer Chris Schell – a Delmar native with a decade of craft brewing experience – is a birder or not, but each beer is adorned with trippy, vaguely sci-fi depictions of birds by Boston artist Ian Tartasky , some of which seem to be identifiable to species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

In field guides I’ve seen many beautiful gull paintings, where I couldn’t help asking myself: however alluring they may be, is the JIZZ just right? From my experience, the gulling season is definitively winter. Yet, there is one group of birds where even I prefer photographs: gulls. Or slightly off? The colder – the better.

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