10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina.

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New York South Carolina North Carolina Massachusetts 263

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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India North Carolina Columbus New York 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow.

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New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Delmarva Peninsula juts southward towards North Carolina like the appendix of the eastern seaboard. It’s southernmost third, given to Virginia by accident of history rather than geopolitical intention, lies apart from the rest of the state both culturally and geographically.

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Virginia North Carolina DC Louisiana 144

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. A pelagic out of Hatteras, North Carolina , the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio , and trip to Puerto Rico stand out as well. Our honeymoon in the U.S Virgin Islands ( St. John and St. Thomas ) was good for 26 lifers.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2013

The birding in North Carolina, for reasons both of my own making and the vagaries of southern “winter” weather, has been a bit slow. Please come by and hang out, say hello, chat about what you’re seeing and where you’ve been and share any particularly great birding experiences you’ve had at Space Coast.

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Florida North Carolina Birds Branding 153

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Anchorage area hosts a number of far norther species I could never hope to see in North Carolina, and I quickly pulled together a list of targets and my friends made a plan. What an incredible experience. I’m not sure what I expected when I finally got a look at Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska.

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Alaska Bears Grizzly Bear North Carolina 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

You see, “spring” in the sense that birders in the far northern reaches experience it, has been happening here in the south for the better part of three months. Nothing says “real” spring like the first burst of piercing slurry whistles from down a North Carolina stream.

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North Carolina Breeders Rights Experience 153

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Though we were almost rained out, my graduation Outer Banks trip will remain a highlight of my time in North Carolina. Not only did I see beautiful landscapes and great birds, but I could share the experience with my family.

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North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

Perhaps the best experience of the two days I spend offshore was not a bird, but a mammal. The depths of the North Atlantic are unknown and, in many ways, unknowable. Even in light winds, Black-capped Petrels are effortless and amazing. Pomarine Jaegers, some with long tail spoons, kept us company most of the second day.

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Whales Whaling North Carolina Mammals 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. Geography is destiny.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

He is a current member of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee and an eBird coordinator for North Carolina. We need more publishers of quality birding books and more birder-writers offering fresh views, sharing their experiences, covering new, niche subjects.

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Birds North Carolina North America Science 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. The authors themselves, Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman, are professors at Western Carolina University, a state university in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Let me ponder it while I’m picking up two gulls and an egret.”. No one wished for diamonds, fast cars, or penthouse apartments. “I’d

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

The search for the next new bird is that much more fulfilling when you’re limited to the smallest of the arbitrary political boundaries in the United States, and the search for those birds necessitates a broad working knowledge of the county of the sort that can only be attained through experience. You simply cannot go wrong.

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McDonalds South Carolina North Carolina Jordan 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

We took in a bit of the Disney experience this time down – it’s hard to avoid it with young children and doting grandparents – and even I cannot deny the skill at which the Disney corporation packages and sells nostalgia. It’s stressful, and can turn even the most mild-mannered civilian into a raging misanthrope.

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Florida Rattlesnake North Carolina Ducks 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. Throughout the next three full days I would experience all of the jobs that go along with proper bird banding.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

One bird, the authors discovered, flew 5,000 miles nonstop from southern Brazil to North Carolina. If you have had the joy of birding the Delaware Bay (remember, this includes Cape May in New Jersey and Prime Hook in Delaware), what has been your most memorable experience?

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

For the birder, this means that no matter how many Clapper Rails you have seen in the salt marshes of New Jersey, North Carolina, or Texas, that Clapper Rail that lurks in the Black Mangroves at Chomes, Costa Rica is going to be a different species. Check out recordings of Clapper Rail from North America and Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 212

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Way down in the Florida they have the bizarre Snail Kite and the gorgeous Swallow-tailed Kite , both of which have made their way up as far north as North Carolina, though the former only once. We in the south are stuffed silly with kites. This is a bird that does not mess around.

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Mississippi North Carolina Raleigh Groups 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 266

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Not long ago I was down on the southern coast of North Carolina, staked out with a group of birders seawatching on a long concrete pier on Wrightsville Beach. Assuming that I would hear if the Pac Loon showed up, I turned to the quartet of turnstones working the pier for bits of fish scraps.

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Agenda North Carolina Ducks Groups 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement. Some maps are quite busy.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 232

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

North Carolina’s 2nd inland Pacific Loon was on Lake Townsend in 2008. CBCs are different than your run of the mill winter birding experience, because you’re generally going to be spending much more time out in the field that you usually do, and in weather that you might not usually choose to bird in. But are you?

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North Carolina Massachusetts 2008 Suffering 171