10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2012

Finishing a year with 372 species is nothing to sneeze at and the fact that I added twenty-five birds to my ABA list was nice. Last year I saw 372 species of bird , much lower than the previous two years of 602 species and 604 species. The Tufted Puffins at Protection Island in Washington State. What did I see?

2011 174

2011 Puffins United States New York 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

I was a little sad to see that the newer editions don’t have the second signature birds (Wood Duck for Eastern, Tufted Puffin for Western) and regional maps on the spine. And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. This means that loons are no longer first! ” Thank you, David Sibley!

North America 171

North America 2003 Birds America 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 234

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2011

And where will I be going that will have the birds I want to see and be acceptable destinations for a non-birding family? The Varied Thrush that spent this past winter in Central Park, the only example of the species I have seen. What other birds that I have seen before will I be excited to see again? Wish me luck and lots of birds!

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Seattle Rhinoceros Puffins United States 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

You may not get the species counts that the race delivers, but you’ll have memories burned into your skull. Ugandan Mangabeys were part of my family once. In California I smelt the breath a Blue Whale as it passed feet beneath my boat. In Belize I cruised above reefs few people had ever seen.

Uganda 162

Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

I love puffins. Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of the Atlantic Ocean, the appropriately named Atlantic Puffin. At $55 a head, and free for toddler Desi, the chance to see puffins from a comfortable boat seemed too good to ignore.

Washington 174

Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). The process took eight years and has since been duplicated all over the world with a variety of species, explained one of our guides … the genial and informative Dr. Kress himself.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. The auks, which range from puffins to guillemots all the way to the tiny auklets and murrelets, are typical for seabirds, long lived with tiny clutches of one or two eggs. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy.

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 166