10,000 Birds

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 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. That honor goes to the Gray-crowned Crane , a very sexy species in its own right. Having finally seen this iconic species, I can assure you that the experience wildly exceeds expectations.

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Uganda Africa Birds Penguins 262

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

That’s right… football season has finally begun. Go Cardinals, Ravens, Falcons, Eagles, and Seahawks! 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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2016 New York Falcons Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

They got the message right. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. km long bird path leading to the Palic 2 hide – ignore the confusing arrows pointing left, the path goes over the dyke at the right hand side). And so did I.

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Serbia Birds Spain Hungary 243

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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North America Birds Owls America 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

This is where Gila Woodpecker and Yellow-breasted Chat meet Squirrel Cuckoo , Bat Falcon , and Black-throated Magpie-Jay. As the sun began to set, a flock of Mexican Parrotlets alighted in a tree with brilliant red bark, and we all noticed a Bat Falcon watching silently from a high perch above all the action down below.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

Other uncommon birds for our 2019 list have included the likes of Marbled Wood-Quail, Spot-bellied Bobwhite, Barred Forest-Falcon, Lattice-tailed Trogon, White-flanked Antwren, Turquoise and Snowy Cotingas, Bare-crowned Antbird, and the endemic Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow.

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Costa Rica Species Birds New York 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree. Both can be a challenge and require patient Zen birding in the right places.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

the Forest Falcons – UK. A huge surprise was the addition of an entirely new species for Peru, a Black Swift , found by the Forest Falcons team. Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. The E-Birders – Cornell, USA.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 225

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 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2014

You land, right? The other options are to continue flying past daybreak, which is dangerous both because you are low on energy and because hawks and falcons might come after you. Still, the experience of seeing birds so close is hard to match. Of course you do. Once you’ve landed though, you are in a bizarre situation.

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New York City New York Birds Sparrows 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. Birds came fast during the first few hours, including a wide array of classic Neotropical species such as Keel-billed Toucan , Bat Falcon , Bright-rumped Attila , Buff-throated Saltator , and Boat-billed Flycatcher.

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

A female Mallard was running on the water right out of the thickets, flapping its wing frantically. … To everyone’s delight, a Saker Falcon soon appeared, offering excellent views as it banked in a long stoop after a hapless distant passerine. But no eagles appeared; or at least none that I was prepared to tick.

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Serbia 2004 Eagles Chickens 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2011

My own best bird was Caspian Tern , right on time along Lake Ontario. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a wicked Chuck-will’s-widow at Prospect Park on Saturday. While pondering that, also share your best bird of the weekend!

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2011 Mississippi ALA Sparrows 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

At the same time, a Peregrine Falcon flies across the valley. By the last year of the war, the US increased its military aid to the Greek Government and introduced a new weapon: the first napalm attack after World War II took place right here! Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus. and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 269

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

We reserve the right to use answers in a future 10,000 Birds posting. It helps us think about birds and birding as an ever changing process, and it enhances the birding experience, making it more than just getting the “tick.” Just look at this Peregrine Falcon soaring up and swooping down!

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New York Birds New York City Campaign 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

Situate across a small canyon carved by a steep stream it made for excellent viewing, at eye level right across the small chasm. I stayed a little longer, then went and got Travis (who had stayed at the truck playing) so he could experience this close encounter. “That nest?” ” Eyasses are still in fluffy down.

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Falcons Killing Fur Owls 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. I am scoping Great Cormorants roosting in their colony in the (now dry) flooded forest, there is one… eagle to the right of them. I am right, Kostas confirms, it is a Greater Spotted Eagle. One done, three more to go.

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

Highlights here (while drinking the thrillingly strong coffee) include Channel-billed Toucan , Crested Oropendola , Turquoise Tanager , Bat Falcon , Barred Antshrike , Blue Dacnis , Green Honeycreeper , Gray-headed Dove , Yellow Oriole , and a suite of hot hummingbirds that deserve their own report.

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Trinidad South America America Ecuador 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2012

Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences in North America. Day-trips to the Dry Tortugas are of course possible but the best way to experience the islands is on an extended 3-day guided tour. Also in attendance were a few Peregrine Falcons and the ubiquitous ospreys.

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Florida Kentucky France North America 244

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Reading to your kids before they go to bed is an easy and simple way to subtly put birding right into their sub-conscious. Birding with your children starts right in your backyard. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially the live raptor display by well-known Master Falconer, Jonathan Wood. BIRD FEEDERS.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 278

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. Not easy, right? Of course, that meant the race was on to find the golden-plover again.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet? Each has its strengths.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 143

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. Below are our Best Birds of the Year.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

When you think about it, this is pretty remarkable; even with all the excellent bird photographers available, it must have taken hundreds of hours to locate good quality photographs in which the bird looks towards the right. King Eider to the left, Common Eider to the right. Swainson’s Thrush opposite Gray-cheeked Thrush.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Standing at the hawkwatch at Kiptopeke State Park, as I did for a significant amount of by visit to Virginia, was a humbling experience, not just for the word-class birding raptor watching but for the enormous numbers of passerines passing overhead at any moment.

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Virginia North Carolina DC Louisiana 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2016

The Bald Eagle was flying upside-down with talons up trying to ward off the small white falcon! Brian Laben had a wonderful experience seeing this rarity in upstate New York (or, is that mid-state? One day, my father came in from field work and went right to the bookshelf. Within 15 minutes the Gyrfalcon flew in. Or a sequel.)

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New York Bald Eagle Birds New York City 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Some birds are put next to each other to aid in the identification process, for example, falcons follow hawks. Additional helpful design features include the names of family groups against a yellow-and-white striped background on every page corner and having every bird image facing right (except for that Common Loon chick!),

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 195

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

We have seen Peregrine Falcons fly through circling flocks of shorebirds and Brown Goshawks attempt a kill, but generally they are able to escape by their constant circling. From our experience the greatest risk is when the shorebirds take off in a panic flight and clip each other’s wings and several fall into the sea.

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Taiwan Breeding Japan 2017 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 181

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

But I’ll trade Red-taileds any day for a Northern Harrier , a lovely pair of Peregrine Falcons , and the surprising presence of a pair of Crested Caracaras , normally seen at much lower elevations. A wonderfully close Peregrine Falcon. Believe it or not, Caracaras (in spite of their 4-foot wingspan) are falcons, not hawks.

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Falcons Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

The poem is on the left side of each two-page spread and a factual paragraph about the nesting process–usually brief, but sometimes fairly detailed–is located on the right side. Author Mya Thompson has a Ph.D. Dávila also does a very good job drawing the small birds that populate almost every page of Ruby’s Birds.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 148

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

If conditions are right, the Palm Beach Agricultural Area can be teaming with various shorebird species such as Spotted, Solitary, Upland, Buff-breasted, Least, Semipalmated, Western, and Pectoral Sandpiper, Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plover, Long-billed Dowitcher, and Black-necked Stilt.

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Florida Miami Birds Falcons 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This makes it a particularly exciting time in New Zealand as the Rugby World Cup begins in two days, and the competition is being held right here in New Zealand (I would imagine they might be more excited if they hadn’t just lost two matches to Australia and South Africa, their big rivals in the Tri-Nations).

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Birds 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. This is largely due to the remoteness and prior near inaccessibility of the area, forming a natural barrier to modernization and the detribalization of the Omo Valley.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 241

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Algeciras, Spain, to be specific — right around the bay from Gibraltar. A Peregrine Falcon was seen in the distance, one of the day’s few species I could also have seen in Mexico. The first to turn up were Egyptian Vultures , majestic birds in their own right. One European Sparrowhawk turned up.

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Spain Birds Mexico Eagles 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

I’ll still probably try again next June, as this June has been the driest and hottest in memory, and in my experience, summer rains make it much more likely that one will see the Sinaloa Martin. This female Streak-backed Oriole is the rightful nest owner. As it happens, there were no Martins to be found that day. Seeing one?

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Mexico Oregon Squirrels Science 148