10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

No matter how much time you can spare, you MUST respond to the spectacle of migration taking place right now. Though it is still September and not really proper sparrow season yet, Corey still managed to turn up a nice Lincoln’s Sparrow at Kissena Corridor Park on Sunday morning, his first of the fall.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Backlighting showed off the rusty crown of this Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow. Oddly enough, it is the Western Bluebird that bears the taxonomic name of Sialia mexicana ; but in my experience, the Eastern Bluebird ( Sialia sialia ) is much more common in most of Mexico. The Hepatic Tanager is perhaps our most common resident tanager.

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MAY 20, 2020

But my experience suggests there is a fair amount of geographical overlap between the two ranges in my area. Its insect-like buzz reminds me most of the Grasshopper’s Sparrow’s song. However, in the right habitat I can actually get tired of hearing the lilting song of our endemic Slate-throated Redstart.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

I love sparrows, so seeing a feather-worn Vesper Sparrow this past July filled my heart with joy. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state. We saw sparrows–a total of 14 species–and we saw many other great prairie birds, and we often saw them perched on posts.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2018

The end of June may be superior in many ways to other times of year, or at least that’s what millions of schoolkids are thinking right about now. Speaking of gifts, I finally tracked down that Henslow’s Sparrow that’s been singing its heart out dawn and dusk in a highly inconvenient field. Enjoy Come@Me Week !

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Amazingly, everyone showed up at dawn except for one person, who’d had a near-death experience with me on Colombia’s Sumapaz paramo, an acceptable excuse for a no-show. Several of my clients sponsor a project right near the parrot cliff. We finally reached Mesa de Oso , the table (mountain) of the bear. Location, location, location.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The fact that this hour falls in the middle of the night means that most people sleep right through it, but I wonder what would happen if you observes a nocturnal bird like an owl during the hour that gets reset. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Could you still count it?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2015

A weekend in which we observe both Valentine’s Day and the Great Backyard Bird Count is one most of us need to recover from, am I right? Thankfully, American Tree Sparrows thrive under these brutal conditions and provided terrific views throughout the weekend. So much love! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2015 Birds Sparrows Experience 161

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MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. Seaside Sparrow. I imagined walking right up to them. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.

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New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 213

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Around this time of year, I keep an eye out for White-throated Sparrows landing around my home… they were right on time! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Nature lovers can’t help but get out and enjoy one of the most crisp and colorful times of year.

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2014 Birds Sparrows Experience 167

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APRIL 30, 2017

But no matter where you are, you undoubtedly have good reasons to get out and enjoy nature right now. Every year, I look forward to the arrival, brief as it is, of White-crowned Sparrows to my feeders; this weekend, a gorgeous pair dropped in for breakfast. Everywhere else, other things are happening. But did you?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. That honor goes to the Gray-crowned Crane , a very sexy species in its own right. Having finally seen this iconic species, I can assure you that the experience wildly exceeds expectations.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2016

But, while we are making sacrifices for the avian quest, we also experience side benefits much less trying in nature. But, while we are making sacrifices for the avian quest, we also experience side benefits much less trying in nature. It’s so beautiful in here, all green and beautiful. ” “Ok mom, bye Pat!

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Birds Costa Rica Chickens Goats 151

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JULY 3, 2015

Many of these species were very high on my life bird wish list, and the country itself would be a totally new experience: a vibrant and enchanting culture, a varied and tasty cuisine, and stunning and new landscapes. Boldly patterned and full of character, this endemic sparrow was the highlight of my first day in Mexico. Time flew by.

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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.”. Like he does, say, for the Canyon wren. He had long wondered, Kroodsma says, how many songs, exactly, the Canyon wren has in his repertoire.

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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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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JUNE 11, 2017

June may be the gateway to summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but the birding still delivers the thrills of spring migration when you have access to the right birds’ breeding grounds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Songbirds are still singing, so go find them!

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2017 Louisiana Birds Breeding 101

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2014

You land, right? Hordes of House Sparrows and Rock Pigeons are more than willing to push you around rather then let you have that choice morsel you just found. Still, the experience of seeing birds so close is hard to match. I sure appreciated this Swamp Sparrow. To your chagrin, all you see is buildings and streets.

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New York City New York Birds Sparrows 205

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MARCH 13, 2012

I had just arrived at the water hole at Forest Park and was sitting on a log watching White-throated Sparrows forage in the leaves when the wren flew in and landed next to the log to my right. But that was just the start of my experience with this wonderful little wren.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

This diversity makes for a very unique birding experience. One where you get to enjoy the many different local desert birds, right along side the birds that make the warm salt waters they home. Black-throated Sparrows. Box canyons, long arroyos, and rolling desert vistas, accented with several different kinds of cactus.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. It was big, private, right next to the lake, and well-maintained. It also had nesting Gray Catbirds , fledgling Chipping Sparrows , singing Red-eyed Vireos , and a patch of jewel weed that attracted Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Mom has a bug!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2011

My own best bird was Caspian Tern , right on time along Lake Ontario. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a wicked Chuck-will’s-widow at Prospect Park on Saturday. While pondering that, also share your best bird of the weekend!

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2011 Mississippi ALA Sparrows 157

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 experience of seeing a pair feeding and calling in the mountains of Honduras felt like a much more genuine birding experience to me. the species suffering most from deforestation).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here are some of the best experiences of my excellent trip. A Cactus Wren nest is right at the entrance, and I saw and heard the wrens everywhere, as well as Anna’s Hummingbirds, Black-tailed Gnatcatchers, Verdin (most young, without their yellow heads yet), White-winged and Inca Doves. At least for birders.

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Arizona Lovebirds Phoenix New Jersey 102

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APRIL 18, 2011

Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. That means that as of right now the yardstick I am holding does not exist because there are no yard sticks that are zero long.

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JUNE 8, 2019

Other uncommon birds for our 2019 list have included the likes of Marbled Wood-Quail, Spot-bellied Bobwhite, Barred Forest-Falcon, Lattice-tailed Trogon, White-flanked Antwren, Turquoise and Snowy Cotingas, Bare-crowned Antbird, and the endemic Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. San Vito and Buenos Aires.

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Costa Rica Species Birds New York 195

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot. These striking and inquisitive jays were perhaps the bird of the trip for me, and we took our time to soak in the experience of encountering these wonderful birds.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and Bell’s Sparrow has the Birdosphere buzzing on everything from field marks, vocalizations, status and distribution to historical records and hypothetical patterns of vagrancy. The problem?

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San Francisco Fox Sparrows California 172

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JULY 18, 2020

Where can I see Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow followed by a fantastic meal ? I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm. How about sites for Snowcap ?

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Costa Rica Birds Thailand Family 202

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MAY 21, 2011

You see, for various reasons, I’ve been unable to put myself in the proper place to experience the kaleidoscopic madness of spring migration. These birds were enticingly smaller than the House Sparrows that just fledged, so I grabbed my downstairs bins (you also have optocs stashed strategically throughout your house, right?)

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JULY 1, 2011

The experience served to remind me why some people devolve into Larophiles but, don’t fear, I have not sunk to that low and disturbing condition myself (at least not yet). Ugly, right? I need to go find some sparrows or some other species that are really easy to deal with… a. What do you make of this one?

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New York Collecting Sparrows Experience 177

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Southern Florida offers many unique wintering birds, but perhaps none more so then the sparrows that call different parts of Florida their winter homes. The wigeon madness was just one of the few special species found on the coast that week, but the bird that had me excited the most was the Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

For example, we might just enjoy the calls and antics of those White-throated Sparrows while searching for a Harris’s. After seeing the rare, endemic, and major target Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow on the first afternoon, the coast was clear to look for lots more birds.

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 175

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MARCH 7, 2016

Because Carolina Wrens are common and easy to see, right? One of them was a Pine Warbler that I tried to convince everyone was a Bay-breasted Warbler because sometimes my brain doesn’t work right.) It should be no problem to get one to come out for a view, right? Well, maybe not right. What about a Swamp Sparrow ?

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North Dakota Birds Florida Wildlife 116

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Of course, with the Drakensberg still not that far away from Capetown and South African explorers obviously very fond of saving mental energy by simply starting bird names with the word “cape”, we have the Cape Robin-Chat … … the Cape Rock Thrush … … the Cape Sparrow … … and the Cape Weaver.

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