10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds). We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women.

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Afghanistan Birds Feral Zoos 184

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

First, from 8 AM until noon will be the “Shorebird Workshop for Advanced Birders” which will be led by Kevin Karlson, a co-author of The Shorebird Guide. That means, by logical progression, that in January the trip I am on will experience an actual sighting of a Black Rail !

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Wildlife 2015 Bald Eagle New York City 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. Seeing as the digiscoping trip was wrapping up, some of us decided to head over to check out the sparrows.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. This may make taxonomic fanatics faint, but it is useful for learning how to differentiate amongst birds that look alike but really aren’t, like sparrows and longspurs, hummingbirds and swifts.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 172

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

I read as much as I could, accumulating a fairly large library of field guides and ornithology texts, listened to recorded songs, and participated in a number of workshops in Cape May. The Harris’s Sparrow in Dryden. In the three years before my big year I birded in eight states, Puerto Rico, Canada, England and Japan.

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New York Puerto Rico 2011 Japan 179