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MAY 28, 2021

When the variety was first planted on the West Coast of the United States in the 1970s, American winemakers might have adopted the literal translation “pinot gray” as a linguistic compromise, but perhaps that would risk sacrificing too much invaluable European cachet in those early days of domestic winemaking?

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JANUARY 15, 2022

If you are plugged into the birding community, you’ve probably seen photos of this errant eagle, normally found in Russia and Asia but now be-bopping around the United States and Canada. Later, reflecting on the experience, we all noted how friendly, how positive, how helpful everyone acted that day on the wharf.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Fish and Wildlife service estimates that there are 16 million “active birders” in the United States, though that figure is likely orders of magnitude too high. The next executive director should have experience successfully managing a non-profit organization and creating and implementing budgets.

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APRIL 1, 2018

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was going to be Brown-headed Nuthatch , that specialty of the southeastern United States. But his plans were thrown awry by a cooperative Yellow-throated Warbler at Cape Henlopen State Park. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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APRIL 8, 2018

If the cold weather across much of the United States is any indication than T.S. Eliot was correct when he stated that “April is the cruellest month.” 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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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

To keep things relatively close to home and reasonably-priced, I have limited myself to birding in the United States, creating my own birding area consisting of all 50 states and the U.S. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots.

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JULY 5, 2015

All standard calendars include a 4th day of July, but we in the United States place just a bit more emphasis on recognizing that date. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Ellen DeGeneres ?astutely What was your best bird of the weekend?

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Suffice to say that our experience echoes across the United States and Northern Hemisphere. ” OK, we don’t really shout “Yee-haw” in New York, but our profane exclamations are not fit for a family-friendly blog.

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MARCH 22, 2015

Here in the United States, we are gripped by March Madness. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. While this epic basketball tournament can make people pretty crazy, the real madness is how much this weekend felt like winter instead of the gateway to spring.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

This is it, people… your last chance, at least in the United States, to wear white without committing a social faux pas. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What’s that? Oh right, good birders don’t wear white. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JULY 19, 2015

It is truly getting into the dog days of summer here in the northeastern United States. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience or shared photos online, you should include a link in your comment. Temperatures in the nineties (Fahrenheit – global warming hasn’t gotten that bad yet!),

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Unlike most of you, I live in what is currently the second snowiest city in the United States. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But I don’t need reminding that it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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MARCH 4, 2018

Corey didn’t see as many birds this weekend as he would have liked because the remnants of the nor’easter that struck the northeastern United States on Friday meant high winds all weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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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. Because of said snow, the smart birds are refraining from returning to Rochester; we’re dealing with a lot of confused robins and smug starlings.

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DECEMBER 8, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one that many birders across the Northeastern and Midwestern United States probably also selected, a Snowy Owl. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

But hands-on bird experience has been a major gap in my knowledge to date and I’m astounded at how much more I’m discovering about birds. Chuck-will’s-widows migrate from the south-eastern United States to the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America. In Florida, many birds remain year-round.

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JUNE 18, 2017

While we in the United States celebrated Father’s Day this weekend, the rest of the world just celebrated the weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Saturday and Sunday seem to stand on their own merits for purposes of revelry and relaxation.

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

The long Columbus Day weekend still sails on here in the United States, so if you haven’t found a worthy bird to report for the weekend yet, you may still have time… This weekend also marks the point in the year where I stop taking Turkey Vultures for granted, which made me enjoy the many spotted soaring overhead.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. But they helped me to pick up a very nice catch for the day.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are among our North American readers, there is a very good chance you are acquainted with the Yellow-breasted Chat , because its range extends across most of the United States, and parts of Canada. This Chat winters along the coast of Mexico and throughout Central America.

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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. But like so many things, evaluations of temperature can be relative.

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AUGUST 4, 2013

I know that families in the United States are already fretting/anticipating September’s arrival. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Another long, lovely summer weekend has slipped into history. Midsummer will be giving way any moment to late summer.

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APRIL 14, 2013

Here in the United States, April 15 is Tax Day, which means that countless Americans have toiled through the last 48 hours to prepare their taxes. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Some are surely at it still. What a way to ruin a weekend!

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AUGUST 2, 2012

The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common. Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week. Maybe Kentucky has it right.

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OCTOBER 14, 2012

Sports lovers enjoyed a veritable smorgasbord of superior athletic entertainment this weekend, at least in the United States. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Then again, birding culture offered a surprising slate of events as well.

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APRIL 16, 2017

The third weekend in April, when we birders in the northeastern United States start to go stir crazy, convinced that the wood-warblers should all be back by now and lamenting the species that we have not yet seen. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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APRIL 15, 2012

The second weekend of April holds special meaning for citizens of the United States, and by special, I really mean dire. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But like it or not, most of us have filed our tax returns. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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MAY 27, 2012

Here in the United States, we’re in the midst of the Memorial Day weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What’s better than a two-day weekend? A three-day weekend, of course, unless you can swing four or more! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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APRIL 13, 2021

The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs). But only 13% purchased a Duck Stamp. “A

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OCTOBER 7, 2012

As thrilling as this time is in the United States for fans of both America’s Pasttime and America’s favorite sport (football, obviously), this month matters even more to sports fans fond of birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The bird was a Grasshopper Sparrow and it looked particularly out of place at the West End of Jones Beach State Park foraging in what little open ground the snowplows had dug up in the aftermath of the blizzard that hit the northeastern United States at the beginning of the weekend. How about you?

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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. He did not ride in a car for 12 months!

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MAY 15, 2011

Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Read about them here but also get out and experience them.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Help educate me… share your knowledge or experience of Halloween celebrations outside of the United States! I know Halloween as a highlight of the American autumn calendar, but have heard rumors that All Hallows’ Eve is observed in one form or another all around the world.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Grant McCreary of The Birder’s Library , who shared the experience with me, probably has pretty much the same problem. Purple Gallinules live in marshes in the southeastern United States, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. What do you do with hundreds of picture of Purple Gallinules ?

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JUNE 12, 2016

For example, if you live in the southeast United States, you might not be able to predict which Caribbean vagrants will blow in, but you can bet a few tasty ones will make landfall every year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Then you have to decide if you are a chaser.

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