10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are among our North American readers, there is a very good chance you are acquainted with the Yellow-breasted Chat , because its range extends across most of the United States, and parts of Canada. They were also believed to be part of the Wood Warbler family.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

You’d think that a long weekend launched by Turkey Day would prove popular for birding in the United States. I’m traveling down to NYC for some family fun, just as Corey is vacating the city for parts north. Plus, birding is never all that popular in these parts. How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

Not without reason, this was taken as an insult by the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. Les animaux sont presque tous sans défense, sans corne et sans queue. Skeins of Greylag Geese completed the picture.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2021

We share seven resident species with different parts of the United States: the Rock , Canyon , Cactus , (Brown-throated) House , Marsh , Sedge , and Bewick’s Wren can all be seen within a half hour of Morelia. (I The raucous Spotted and Gray-barred Wrens are in the Cactus Wren family.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

A thrill to see, especially to see well, the Cape May Warbler is most commonly spotted as a passage migrant or as a winter resident, considering that its breeding area is the spruce-fir forests of Canada and some of the northernmost parts of the United States. Well, no more!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2018

If the cold weather across much of the United States is any indication than T.S. Eliot was correct when he stated that “April is the cruellest month.” Western Bluebirds are another marvelous bird, and he saw his at Malibu Creek State Park. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JUNE 1, 2021

The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

” OK, we don’t really shout “Yee-haw” in New York, but our profane exclamations are not fit for a family-friendly blog. Suffice to say that our experience echoes across the United States and Northern Hemisphere. .” “Yee-haw, fall migration is starting soon!”

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AUGUST 4, 2013

I know that families in the United States are already fretting/anticipating September’s arrival. Now that we’re later in the season, they are grouping either in family clusters or anticipation of migration. Another long, lovely summer weekend has slipped into history. How do you feel about it? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

I had a very nice visit with his family — so nice that I didn’t get to do all that much birding. The family can be found from Mexico to South America, but even this species, while the northernmost of all, does not make it to the United States. I did visit my new friend’s home shortly after our meeting.

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MAY 7, 2011

It may seem like cruel and unusual punishment for we denizens of the New World to spend an entire week celebrating what is surely the coolest family of birds in the world, a family that is sadly absent from the Old World, but it can’t be helped.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2016

In the United States, that means that kids (and teachers) are freaking out about the first day of school, even if that date is still nearly a month away. Corey and his family are absorbing as much of the American West as they can fit in as they drive from Colorado to the West Coast. Expect plenty of photos! How about you?

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

I’m hardly attuned to the specific interests of residents of the other continents, but I know my North Americans pretty well and the United States has much to appreciate right now. I’ll be driving down to NYC with my kids for a family fun weekend. So what will you be doing this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

Though wood-warblers, the mostly brightly colored birds of the family Parulidae, are only found in the New World we felt that birders the world over would be pleased to see a plethora of posts about these striking and sought after species.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Schools across the United States are closing for Mid-Winter Break, which means the nation will be abuzz with energetic kids fighting boredom. Some families will travel, while others might prefer to hunker down and hibernate. My family is driving up from NYC for a long Rochester weekend. How about you?

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JUNE 30, 2013

Duck hunting is big business in the United States. Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) A mockup of what a Wildlife Conservation Stamp might look like.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

True, they are the oldest continuous professional American football club in the United States, running hard since 1898. The male bird’s scarlet plumage and pert crest was reminiscent enough of a Roman Catholic cardinal’s colored robes to earn it, its family, and its genus the name they all share.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At the time, Dreher’s family owned the greatest brewing empire in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in the 1830s, young Anton embarked on a “Grand Tour” of sorts befitting a promising young brewery heir.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common. Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. It is weird and wonderful.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, because his name was so firmly a part of birding culture, I also didn’t realize how recently he had lived and birded the United States, nor how relatively new was the concept of a field guide. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. What Is In This Field Guide?

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OCTOBER 20, 2013

When citizens of the United States tout the superiority of our country, we tend to focus on debatable issues of culture, economy, and government. However, if we’re being fair, one of the irrefutable elements that makes America great is our proliferation of Northern Cardinals.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

We encounter a family participating in a hawk watch count at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park; birder and activist Madeleine Sandefur, who introduces us to Sabal Palms Sanctuary in Brownsville, on the south side of a border wall built in 2009; and birders who are actually birding, identifying an oriole (Altamira rather than Hooded).

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JANUARY 8, 2012

No doubt the weather has something to do with it; Rochester, NY may historically be one of the United States’ snowiest metropolitan areas, but we’ve been basking in almost vernal weather. Plus my New York Football Giants just advanced in the first round of the NFL playoffs.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

Almost as if by accident, Hannah landed the dream job of Park Ranger in the Rio Grande Valley at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park where she guided many birders who filled her head with far-off destinations and incredible birds. We were met with regular checkpoints and were hassled by local authorities.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

His topic was the report recently issued by the Audubon Society where the organization claimed 314 species of birds in the United States and Canada are threatened by climate change. If 314 species are threatened in the United States and Canada then the numbers world wide must be absolutely staggering.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2011

Clark’s Nutcracker , sometimes called the Crow Woodpecker , will always be paired with Lewis’s Woodpecker , the woodpecker that acts like a crow, both because of their cross-family likenesses and because of their namesakes.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2016

With all my recent traveling up and down the eastern United States, I have had almost zero time to bird in my “home territory.” A lone Great Blue Heron stalked prey in the shallows, eventually taking flight when a family (and their dog) made it to the sand. Enjoying the network of boardwalks.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2014

This was a family vacation and I had led my unsuspecting wife and son out onto the curving pier at Aquatic Park, overlooking San Francisco Bay, ostensibly to get a better look at Alcatraz and the bridge, but actually with half a mind to finding a Wandering Tattler. It was the bobbing action on the rocks that drew my attention to the bird.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

Mike photographed this Unmarked Dagger ( Acronicta innotata ) at his family’s annual “Chicken Inferno” in 2009. And with an oppressive heat wave clutching much of the United States, even the resident birds can hardly be bothered to put on a show for anyone who cares to look. Are you a birder who hates summer?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2012

While eating lunch with Daisy and her family at a picnic area in Joshua Tree National Park the other day a small chipmunk-looking creature ventured out of the rock formation we were eating next to. The cute little critter was clearly looking for a handout which we did not provide.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and a bunch of white folks all shared their stories and experiences and tried to wrap their heads around the enormous issue that race is in the United States and how it can be addressed in the birding world. What did I take away from the conference?

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JANUARY 26, 2014

The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America, present in many parts of the United States even through the winter months, when the birds feed on small fruits and other foods, including sap.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. Just about anywhere a birder ventures, the miniscule members of the latter family can be seen, and in most tropical locales, it’s not just one species. Costa Rica is no exception.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

At woodpecker family meetings, it usually stands a bit separate from most other species as it cannot meaningfully participate in discussions about wood (it mostly lives in rocky terrain without trees). Kind of like a diesel version. The Ground Woodpecker (Drakensberg, South Africa) is listed as Near Threatened.

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JULY 27, 2016

The Greater Roadrunner , a member of the cuckoo family, is native to much of the Southwestern United States, and northern Mexico. Nearly every trip into the desert, I see them Zipping back and forth across the dusty Mexican back roads. It is very similar in appearance, slightly smaller in overall size, with a shorter bill.

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