10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Costa Rican birders are clearly up to the task, because the Annual Arenal Bird Count stood out as one of the best organized and attended bird counts I’ve ever seen. The festivities kicked off with a pre-count presentation led by organizers Diego and Juan Diego. What a treat!

2014 217

2014 Costa Rica Birds Groups 217

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It had been a long time since I’d seen any warblers besides Yellow and Nashville ; it had been a long time since I’d seen any Northern Cardinals or Blue Jays , period. It had been a long time since I birded Central Park. When you’re actually putting up with it, it is just very frustrating. lobe of my brain has become.

Montana 166

Montana New York City New York Nashville 166

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The book is organized logically by seasonality. Pasquier cites study after study, often jumping from one continent to another, from one bird family to a totally different group, relying on a bibliography of over 660 studies to lay out the variable, diverse behaviors birds employ.

Research 176

Research Birds Hoarding Sweden 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

How do you organize species, knowing that beginning birders are apt to observe birds by color first and might be confused and intimidated by a taxonomic organization? Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order.

New Jersey 251

New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

For years they continued banding swifts, discovering practically nothing of the half a million birds ringed and released, until 13 swift bands were recovered by a group of American Indians who had turned them into a missionary in Amazonian Peru. Birds that had been banded in Nashville, Tennessee.

North Carolina 172

North Carolina Nashville South America Tennessee 172