10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Kroodsma waited for years for the right opportunity to record its different songs, a “cascade of sweet and liquid notes,” one naturalist said, “like the spray of a waterfall and sunshine.”. Good field guides to bird sounds are certainly available, particularly Nathan Pieplow’s for eastern and western North America.)

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JUNE 16, 2021

It is also fascinating to see how similar Old World trogons look to their New World relatives, right down to the same flamboyant color patterns. The Elegant Trogon prefers drier habitats, with a predominance of oaks rather than conifers, and in my experience is much harder to find.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Sure, this is my first trip to North America, but still, who could find fault with 20+ wood warblers in a day? And so when we heard that there were Woodcocks displaying in the Maumee Bay State Park, we naturally jumped on the opportunity to get out there and experience the action live in person. Unsatisfying.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

A nice bird for sure, a bird with an evocative name and one that would be a lifer for many birders from North America, but not the bird we had hoped it to be. And yet there it was, shining white as soft atoll sand, my much wanted lifer White Tern foraging in front of us, foraging next to the boat, even flying right over the boat.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The Durango Highway is arguably one of North America’s great birding roads due to the great variety of habitats, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the numerous Mexican endemics one can target. The birds we observed were nesting right into the cliff face. Photo by Andrew Spencer.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

But even more bitter is a birder’s envy… Jealousy makes up so much of the birding experience that I imagine the green-eyed monster derives its color from parrot plumage. But the envy that gnaws at me right now stems not from the thought of the 9,000+ birds that I haven’t yet seen that others have.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A professional hawkwatcher for many seasons, his passion and knowledge saw him invited to join the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America in 2013. In my experience non-birders connect with the travel, visiting beautiful places and spectacle of birding and hawkwatching often entails all three.

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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. The region is also especially rich in trogons and motmots, two decidedly tropical families with a longer evolutionary history in North America than South America. the species suffering most from deforestation).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2013

I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the ocean on right side of North America. Having never birded west of Arizona, there were many bird experiences I was looking forward to, but chief among those was the opportunity to get offshore aboard the Grande to see what was hiding beyond that blue horizon.

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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. What was yours?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

That’s how important the lifer experience is and I suspect most other birders who started out young feel the same. Hailing from North America, for me, this super avian distance migrant was long overdue. The most likely culprit is the El Nino effect happening right now in the eastern Pacific. My lifer Arctic Tern !

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? This pair first appeared four years ago, and are amongst the most northerly known breeding Pacific Loons in North America.

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

A study released by the associations that accredit zoos across North America said that the occurrence of deaths was not a fluke. There were also reports that the zoo may have concentrated too hard on enhanced visitor experiences without being sure that exhibits were up to par — something that could have led to many of the deaths.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield. Braunfield.

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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. That means I used to be very young. Almost infantile.

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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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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

What are the best field guides for birds in North America? Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. Analysis : The first and third paragraphs seem right to me, but the second is weaker, in my view.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

An excellent synopsis of the situation is right here at 10,000 Birds. All populations mentioned above for both species have occurred in North America, and larophiles already attempt to separate out these forms when possible. 2 of which make their home in the United States. Birds I Am Birder splitting taxonomy'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Consider Estero Lagoon for example… In North America there are nine regular plover species, ten if you include the more vagrant Common Ringed Plover. This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

Based on The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America , published in 2010, the New Stokes regional guides aim for more portability and ease of use in the field. King Eider to the left, Common Eider to the right. Western Grebe right next to Clark’s Grebe in the western guide (pictured left). Now, on to the books.

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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. He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. Howell continues his tradition of giving clarity to what most birders find intimidating with Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide , just published by Princeton University Press.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. I’m happy to say that the ones right on the other side of a low wall were not so large. Then, around 4:00 p.m., I liked their attitude.

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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. Let me know if you have seen the Kirtland’s Warbler, if you were part of the Magee Marsh experience or if you made the trip to Mio, and what that birding trip was like.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right? This guide will prove invaluable to those who already take an interest in tracking and wish to gain more experience. So what is one to think of the former?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.” Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. Each has its strengths. For the time being, I suggest that U.S. birders visiting Great Britain and Ireland stick with Collins.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

In any event, there is the distinct possibility that Wild Turkeys in North America today form a kind of squished up ring species, with an entirely anthropogenic European arm. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. Which would be weird.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

3 Responses to “Spring is for Wheatears&# Duncan Mar 18th, 2011 at 3:36 pm I got to experience a wheatear-palooza on my one day birding around Dubai last year. Wicked, right? Migratory Isabelline, Pied and Red-tailed Wheatears along with a non-migrating Hume’s Wheaterar! Corey Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:52 pm Great post, Dan.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

This allowed them to carry out experiments such as giving some bones to the hyenas to see what they would look like after being munched on for a while. This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes. You’d starve.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

.” They conclude that many non-vocalizing Empidonax flycatchers can be identified in the field, but only “when several field characters are used in combination–and after one has gained experience in looking at these characters on singing/calling and captive birds (i.e., known-identity).”** Phoebes and Myiarchus ?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s hawk migration time again in North America, time to once again school ourselves in the art of identifying distant silhouettes and remembering the difference between a glide and a soar and a glide-wing flap-glide. Many of the full-page photographs are lovely in their own right, not only as teaching tools.)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. Text is on the left, plates are on the right. One field guide, seven countries.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. There is also an effort to represent all geographic areas of North America, from Eastern Bluebird (below) to Greater Prairie-Chicken to California Scrub-Jay.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N. Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. Rare Birds of North America covers 265 species within these parameters. First, what is a rare bird?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2017

North America is aflame with eclipse fever right now, which provides yet another opportunity to wonder what life would be like if the average citizen felt a fraction as much passion for birding as is devoted to countless sports, media, celebrities, fashion, or even the rare astronomical phenomenon.

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