10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. 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. Salvin’s Prion. Our Flock to Marion was no different.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

He may have been looking for the best way to sabotage a power supply, right? What made the story better (and a worse experience for him) was the fact that the cops had seen the Dogs of War. You noticed it: it doesn’t even live in Western Africa at all! Still, knowing his Latin names well, Jamie Shannon stayed alive.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2019

Getting to actually see four species, in the last two weeks, and to hear two more is almost unheard of in my experience. The Great Horned Owls that live in the palm trees right above our RV have returned and brought with them a pair of fledglings. That was no deterrent from landing right in the middle of the road.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

This added to the whole birds of prey experience in Big Sky country. The Yellowstone District south of Big Timber is full of campgrounds, if you want to bird right next to the tent. Insider tip: Take some serious insect repellent. On a horseback ride into the mountains, I saw an off-season (unoccupied) eagle’s nest in a cave.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2017

Completely meaningless gibberish from an entirely unknown guy (from my experience, it’s always a guy, looking like a lumberjack and that’s okay) that, strangely enough, makes you insanely excited? If not, you must try gulling. To read it all, or for the gull to take flight, whichever comes first. And then all the gulls took flight!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes! Insider Tip: If you want to experience a fall migration in this area of Texas, Rockport-Fulton is having its 30 th anniversary HummerBird Celebration from September 13-16 this year. So let’s plan that trip, shall we?

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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. Suggestions are offered at the end of each chapter—yes, there are still “tips”! Within the framework of sharing the joy, the tips become gifts from friends. All rights reserved.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

Snowcap and White-tipped Sicklebill – Choice hummingbirds in a speciose, fantastic family of birds. One of those occasions was by invitation from the San Vito Birding Club , a memorable experience I will cover in another blog post. We saw both of these beauties at known sites near the edge of Braulio Carrillo National Park.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2015

That experience along with additional opportunities to explore the property with guide Ismael Torres established what we expected all along: Finca Luna Nueva is very birdy with a reserve list of over 240 species. Fortunately, I never had to choose as a pair of rails loved to roam right out in the open.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

The next logical step was to explain the right way to get started. With luck, you’ll hit the right ones and sway someone to your side. Here are three simple steps to starting bird watching the right way: 1. The concept of observing the right birds in season, however, should hold true wherever you find yourself.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The section on shooting birds in snow, for example, covers how to expose for snow (to the right), the consequences of different shutter speeds (fast shutter speed to show individual snowflakes or slow shutter speed to show streaks?), Each illustration (and, there are many) is captioned with equipment used and camera settings.

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10,000 Birds

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. I imagined walking right up to them. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. American Avocets.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

We reserve the right to use answers in a future 10,000 Birds posting. Each species account includes tips on where and when to find the bird in the state. It helps us think about birds and birding as an ever changing process, and it enhances the birding experience, making it more than just getting the “tick.”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

He could not have been more right. Like I imagine is so with many birders, some of my first truly gob-smacking experiences with wildlife were in the form of PBS nature documentaries I watched as a kid. To have the power to make mini-documentaries literally in the palm of my hand is a heady experience. Aguan Valley, Honduras.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

When you think about it, this is pretty remarkable; even with all the excellent bird photographers available, it must have taken hundreds of hours to locate good quality photographs in which the bird looks towards the right. King Eider to the left, Common Eider to the right. On perched birds, wingtips do not reach near tail tip.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Birdwatching is a hobby that many people enjoy, and it’s one that you can experience year-round. With the right amount of food, shelter, water and areas for birds to raise their babies, you can transform your backyard into a birdwatching paradise. Here are a few tips to get you started.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

In my experience, parrots form a visibly and numerically important component of the Brazilian bird fauna. The Red-fan Parrot breaks the mold by having elongated red feathers with purple tips that it can erect to form a spectacular mane around the head.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

10 TIPS TO GET YOUR KIDS INTO BIRDING 1. Reading to your kids before they go to bed is an easy and simple way to subtly put birding right into their sub-conscious. Birding with your children starts right in your backyard. Here’s a quick guide that encompasses some successes and lessons learnt. BIRD FEEDERS.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

And I am inside the southern tip of the western Balkan Dinara-Pindos population range, stretching from Slovenia in the north to Greece in the south, with 2,500 bears. Only the Balkan (700 + 2,500 ind.) and Carpathian populations (8,000 ind.) combined offer a larger range as well as a larger gene pool (source: Euronatur).

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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. At which point, the Owl will lunge out at pluck the bird right off it’s perch. It wasn’t too hard as it seemed we parked our SUVs right on top of a pair’s territory.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# It was a great experience. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. What a spectacle indeed. Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Tom Dunkerton tipped me off to an area on the Black Merritt National Wildlife Refuge where some of my target birds can be seen. In my experience, however, most salt marsh species are seen like this. I mean, is it satisfying to just roll up and see your target bird right away? I prefer a little sweat first.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

And it’s on this marvel of engineering that I arrived for the recent American Birding Association Rally held at Kiptopeke State Park, on the very southern tip of the appendix. A closer look at the individual suggests that, with that white edging right under the bill, this bird probably has a bit of Myrtle in it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

On the contrary, if you are a traveling birder, you might just find your next birding destination right here on 10,000 Birds. PIP is situated right on a beautiful lake -- the place to be when its hot! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Frank runs very informative and productive day-trips from the lodge.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

Read on for some fascinating tips on how working with animals relates to our own weight! In 2007 – at age 50 – I realized that the answer was right in front of me. Her animal training experience includes working with dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas and camels. I have battled with my weight since age fifteen.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Marabous occur throughout tropical and subtropical Africa from Zululand in northern South Africa right up to the arid Sahel region fringing the Sahara Desert, avoiding the closed canopy rainforest zones of central and west Africa. This stork is named in honor of Bey El-Arnaut Abdim, a 19th century Turkish Governor of Wadi Halfa in Sudan.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

I spotted a Eurasian Wigeon amongst the American Wigeon right out of the gate, but that wasn’t the best sighting of the day. A First Christmas Bird Count Experience » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The Greater Flamingo is the bird with the pink bill tipped with black. And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). Or korhaans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

My mother, mother-in-law, and godmother are all visiting right now. Blair Cessna Mar 17th, 2011 at 3:01 pm I do most of my birdwatching right from my computer chair looking out my den window to my back yard. Salls Country Life Mar 19th, 2011 at 1:35 pm We are experiencing some incredible migratory bird watching right now.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2015

This endangered endemic is always tough even right in the middle of its specialized mangrove habitat. Unfortunately, perhaps because of drier than normal weather, or because big ideas tend to be learning experiences, we couldn’t find any flowering Heliconias at a restaurant or even along the road.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The birds that I have experience with, like some of the raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, and tanagers, are all true-to-life in color, shape, and proportions to say nothing of being pretty paintings, if slightly sterile on the standard plain white background. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Once on our own, Jess and I decided to try a fun experiment. My only thought of why it took me over two minutes to see it right in front of me can only be attributed to light-headedness from the high altitude. On another Jochen tip I knew there was a colony of European Bee-eaters about two hours out of our way.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations. Charley Harper passed away in 2007 at the age of 84.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

This post might give you a few ideas for what to see during a stop in Dubai and a few tips on where to go and how to get there. Pay AED10 to get through the control gate and turn right shortly after. Keep right onto the Oud Metha Road to find the Flamingo Hide at Google Earth ref; 25 11 34.21N 55 18 44.44E.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

He has earned his tip. Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of.

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