10,000 Birds

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. Indeed, eBird tells me that I have yet to submit a checklist from approximately 20 states. Virgin Islands. Geography is destiny.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. 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.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

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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United States Florida South America Europe 194

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo.

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Uganda Africa Squirrels Tanzania 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. Of course, my Profile Page allows me to see this information in yet another way, via a color-coded map that allows me to look globally, by country, by state, and by county. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Margaret A.

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America Industry Birds Squirrels 243

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. The first looked very similar to a Mourning Dove , which of course can be found across the United States. I saw this first-hand during an afternoon studio walk.

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Austin Texas Birds Non Human 116

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2011

I was fortunate enough to spot the individual in this post at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where it was foraging in bushes and small trees between four and fifteen off of the ground. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. That is unfortunate because the Tiger Warbler * is one wood-warbler worth watching.

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Tigers United States Jamaica Pennsylvania 159

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Victor Emmanuel memorably stated that Pico Bonito Lodge was one of the two most beautiful lodges in all the Neotropics during his stay at Cristalino Lodge in the Brazilian Amazon. The Lodge at Pico Bonito is an inviting, idyllic place for relaxation as well as for enjoying wildlife. We first visited Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge.

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Honduras Monkeys Birds America 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s probably on your mind too, especially if you live in the United States. So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. Cuba is on my mind.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2019

The grape reached the height of its fame courtesy of an Ohio entrepreneur and winemaker named Nicholas Longworth, who built the first truly lucrative winemaking empire in the United States making a hugely popular sparkling Catawba wine. Even though they’re from my home state, I really don’t have much experience with Finger Lakes wines.

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Ohio Philadelphia Fox Blackbirds 142

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

For many birders a highlight of birding the southeastern United States, maybe even the definitive birding experience of the region, is taking in the great numbers and diversity of long-legged wading birds.

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South Carolina Alligators Florida United States 157

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

NARSC is comprised of most of the national NGOs in the United States that provide emergency animal services and has agreed to collaborate and cooperate on how resources from the U.S. In 1995, IFAW responded to the Kobe earthquake and two years later an oiled wildlife rescue team deployed to Fukui Prefecture after the Nakhodka spill.

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IFAW Japan International Fund For Animal Welfare Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

I recently asked ChatGPT some questions about the best birding locations in the United States and the results were decidedly mixed. How many birders are there in the United States? # # # Query: What is birding? Encountering a spark bird is a transformative experience for many birders.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

If you live in the States this is an informative and useful book that really takes birding to the next level for your kids. Publications like Ranger Rick and National Geographic Kids can also satisfy their curiosity through their kid-friendly articles on birds and wildlife. GAMES AND APPS. What kid does not love games? BIRD FEEDERS.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ). Backed up by hundreds of excellent photographs, they have brought to life the bees of the British Isles.

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Ireland United States Game Species 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

What events transpire miles away that make a certain destination attractive to birds and wildlife in one way or another? Although this a fairly widely distributed bird globally, they are threatened in the United States. I am often guilty of neglecting “place&# when birding.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. It was there where the first glimpse of his future began.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 196

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

I learned early and often when I moved to Colorado that a birder will have to up their physical ante to experience some of these birds. From the Pawnee National Grasslands to Rocky Mountain National Park to the Colorado National Monument one can find a plethora of exciting wildlife.

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Colorado North Dakota Montana Owls 136

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 211

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The Hawaii vote made it clear that that the ABA Area is about political borders, not geographical or ecological ones, and the two Caribbean territories have long been part of the United States. The absence of the Caribbean means that ABA Area—and the ABA—excludes important aspects of the avian diversity of the United States.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Many years of experience have been lost. This is pretty impressive for the cold northeastern United States. Compiling a Christmas Bird Count is much more complex, especially for a count that is in a bit of flux as the Queens count is. During that long history there have been a couple of hiccups.

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Birds New York City New York New Jersey 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Collins Birds of the World is “ a must for the travelling birder ,” as the BBC Wildlife Magazine reviewer has put it. It is not a concept for a total beginner, more of a reminder to someone with some experience. And I cannot agree more. Have you ever used illustrated checklists in the field, as opposed to full scale field guides?

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Birds Botswana Africa Ecuador 259

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. This bird had only been recorded in the United States a few times and was listed as a Code 4 by the American Birding Association (Code 4 translates into “make plans to twitch now” for many American birders). That most dreaded of disappointments.

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Norway Delaware Pennsylvania Philadelphia 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. But that’s old news. Birders pay bupkis.

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Ducks Hunters 2006 Wildlife 256

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Corey saw quite a few quality birds on his trip to the southeastern United States in the last week but he best bird he saw that fits the criteria of having been seen on the weekend was a nice Sora in the early morning sunlight at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge’s Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive.

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2019 Iceland United States Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. That was one of his cats. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2011

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, better known as Brigantine. As someone who does not know turtles very well I have treated my turtle encounters as learning experiences, taking watching them, taking pictures, and identifying the ones I am not entirely sure of when I get back to my computer and an internet hookup.

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Turtles Terrapins New Jersey Reptiles 194

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

I was trying to find that answer for a while and it turned into a very annoying experience. United States 1160 12. These areas offer magnificent wildlife but, apart from Kaziranga, little in terms of infrastructure. Which countries topped the list? One would expect that the answer is easy to find, but no, it isn’t.

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