10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Eventually, I learned to read the “status and distribution” section to whittle my must-see list down to species that were actually possible within T&T. The years passed and I had several similar experiences with this cryptic species. Back then, I distinctly remember drooling over plates of birds I needed to see.

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2012 Bears Experience Experiments 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

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. Marion has a fascinating history with invasive species. Salvin’s Prion. Just get rid of the mice.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

Even so, he still knew many species and always yearned to learn about the wildlife he encountered. There were also grouse, the Ruffed Grouse , and like so many other species, it just seemed impossible that I would ever see one. One such surprising experience happened with grouse.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises. This is a smartly written book.

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 228

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Yes, you do, trust me. Arguments in favor: 1.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

The 1,500 km route included a great diversity of habitat types, elevations along the west and east facing slopes of the Andes, jaw dropping landscapes, contrasting microclimates, cultural diversity and a potential list of well over 1,000 species. Other teams had member with lots of experience in the western lowlands.

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Peru Birds South Africa United Kingdom 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular. Curassows are such stately birds.

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Brazil California Condor Parrots Texas 224

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

I remember my first months of birding; the excitement when discovering a new species, the challenge of recognizing field marks in my Sibley guide, the novel way I began to look at the world. Plus, I usually bird alone, so sharing the experience with a friend is that much better. I love hanging out with new birders. ” I wondered.

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Florida Fish 2013 Turkey 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

are up next, with a wonderful Australian species: It is very hard to choose a Best Bird of the Year any year. Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. Clare (and Grant!) How cool is that?

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

I was given my first real field guide to the birds of Europe by my parents, a guide beyond the species found at backyard feeders and city ponds. It was during these long evening sessions that I allowed my mind to wander to far-away destinations, making plans and coming up with strategies on how to see them all with a minimum amount of trips.

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Europe Birds Kazakhstan Russia 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Pelagic birding off the Atlantic coast of Florida can be a frustrating experience, usually involving long waits of up to an hour or more interspersed with brief flurries of activity — a far cry from pelagic birding off of coasts blessed with cold water currents and nutrient rich upwelling such as California, southeast Australia, and Peru.

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Florida United States Fish 2005 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. The nation was launching its official National Birdwatching Strategy, which is a pretty cool thing for a nation to have, let alone one that can offer so much to that end. The list goes on and on and on. Next time, I suppose.

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Colombia Primates Reptiles Experience 156

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 259

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

With an obvious hint of disapproval, the HBW remarks that for this species, the “nest [is] a small or bulky but always untidy pad” I suspect the author of these lines lives with teenage children and uses the description of the magpie-robin to vent some frustration with them. But it is all for science, I hear them say.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

But for millions of years up until now you haven’t had an international audience of thousands of highly social mammals with their own particular quirks and evolutionary strategies watching your every move around the clock. They want an authentic nature experience, but a relatable authentic nature experience.

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Most of the chapters in The Bird Way focus on one or two scientists who has done extensive research on ‘outlier behavior.’

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 237

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way. Bicolored Antbird. Ocellated Antbird.

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San Diego South America Costa Rica America 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

All species are from the ABA area, and all groups must meet at least one of these criteria: (1) the group “represented a good opportunity to build core birding skills,” (2) the authors thought it was a group that needed “a refreshed treatment,” (3) the authors were intrigued by the group and wanted to present it using their unique format.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Once you manage to spell it correctly – which may take some time if my own Google experiences are any indication – you will find plenty of information online about the birds and the birding within this amazing park. This brings its very own challenges and strategies about which little has been written.

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Suffering Birds Indonesia 2013 159

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. link] The strategies used by professional reptile keepers are only successful because they take into account the behavioral flexibility of the reptiles.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2015

Yes, the time had come to see how many of Costa Rica’s hummingbird species we could find, and we had two days to work with. Having already snagged Plain-capped Starthroat, Scaly-breasted Hummingbird, and Cinnamon Hummingbird , the Mangrove was actually our third species of the day. Green-breasted Mango.

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Costa Rica San Jose Species Owls 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? Well, they weren’t so much of a flock as they were a group of birds all following their own foraging strategy in the same area. Later in the season more species show up.

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

In fact, experience proved that the process is actually way more cumbersome and time-consuming than it should be. Then the fun really started… The eBird interface came back saying that a whopping 251 species needed clarification. My strategy is to let the software take care of it from now on.

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Arizona Belize Adoptable ALA 178

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The warm, sunny climate beckons a wide variety of passerines, raptors, and shorebirds to spend the winter, inflating the species diversity to the extent that Miami-Dade can go toe-to-toe with counties in Texas and Arizona during this season. Can we hit 200 ABA-countable species in four days next year?

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Miami 2015 United States Birds 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

It has also found its way to Japan where it is considered to be an invasive species. Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) pigeons, Columbia livia ).

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 210

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. No rails or gallinules.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

Our trip to Botswana produced some great owl species besides the reclusive phantom, including some of the smallest and some of the largest owls in Africa. In addition, since their prey lives underwater where hearing is not a defense strategy, the owls lack the soft edges to their flight feathers which provide other owls with quiet flight.

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Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. There is also a major section on 180 bird species that is 123 pages long, about 1/3 of the book. The latter appear to be suburban apartments.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I’m fairly certain that it was the deliberate strategy of the bird to kill the duck on the water and wait for it to come ashore. This bird was “tamer” than most of her species because she had become accustomed to hunting the narrow causeway for ducks and was relatively acclimated to all the vehicular traffic.

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Falcons Ducks Utah Ethics 118

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. A respected expert on seabird taxonomy, Howell summarizes the current state of a field, which, he says, “has followed a long and tortuous path, with much debate about whether separate populations are species or subspecies” (p.15).

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North America Albatross America Species 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The warbler is on the road to being delisted from the Endangered Species List.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. Gooddie describes his quest in terms of a contest of wills and strategy. One must “out-think” the bird. And mosquitos. edition of the book in the fall. (At

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 202