10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

We look at the Six Pelicans who rest at night and see Brown Pelicans because we already know what pelicans look like. ‘Six Pelicans Rest at night. Cornell Lab Publishing Group, Wundermill Books, March 2019. I do wonder, however, if Harper’s birds are too minimally visual for a toddler’s eyes.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2015

Right off the bat I could watch the two cute birds, unobstructed by anything other than some low sand vegetation. After two hours everyone had woken up, and I left the beach to rejoin the group and avoid being too antisocial. Turns out, it took me almost 30 minutes to leave the parking lot! Nesting Wilson’s Plovers.

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2010

Right now, there are still no confirmed deaths due to the spill, but rescue groups are gearing up for the worst. The animals threatened most by the spill are bluefin tuna, sea turtles, brown pelicans, shrimp and sharks. That's when the full impact of the oil spill on wildlife will be seen.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Then, to finish the week, we visited the famous, and not necessarily for all the right reasons, Malhuer Wildlife Refuge. The first part of the week, we parked the RV at a campground right on the water, of Dog Lake, 20 miles southwest of Lakeview, Oregon. I only ran across this one Clark’s Grebe mixed in with in the groups of Westerns.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Gulls, pelicans, oystercatchers, and a few sparrows. The program established clear protocols for marking shorebirds, with color coded flag bands for each country, or country group. In addition, there is an actual ” right leg, left leg, above and below the knee” set of marking patterns.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2015

As it turned out, I was the only travel writer of the group. The van was parked at the Eastern Dyke of the lake and we were scanning the mud flats and numerous Pygmy Cormorants , Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans with a few Greater Flamingos and Eurasian Spoonbills here and there, as well as one or two Purple and Black-crowned Night-Herons.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This nice little group of shorebirds, including a Killdeer, three Long-billed Dowitchers and a Spotted Sandpipers all got together for a photo. My first ever Gamble’s Quail were feeding right next to the picnic area, and alongside the visitors center building, I spotted a thrasher. Right in our camp, we found Ladder-backed Woodpeckers.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. Brown Noddy.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

After filling our water bottles at the clear mountain spring, the group splits and the majority continue on foot across the high pass to find many signs of bear presence in the area – scratching posts, scat (above), footprints; while the two of us continue by car along the very good final section of macadam prior to the village. Not at all.

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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. Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate. He could not say the same today.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

As for nice clothing … right! asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. Monte Merrick’s friend Vann Masvidal once found a rhinestone in a Brown Pelican ‘s poop, and Maren Scott’s unreleasable Quid Poe Crow popped the diamond out of her ring and presumably ate it.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

In wildlife refuges and reserves in many parts of the world, all you need is a scope, time, and the right overlook and you can walk away with easy, prolonged studies of ducks, herons, waders, grebes, and lots of other marsh birdies. While we scoped and scanned those birds, our main target suddenly appeared… American White Pelican!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

We are looking up in the sky, trying to identify the small group of swifts that are circling over head, when we are joined by a young man with his camera and tripod. On our last day in Bijagua, we got to see a small group of White-throated Magpie-jays. We ran across this Common Back Hawk right alongside the mangrove swamp.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Watching my first Brown Pelicans , I am inhaling deeply and commenting to Sergio Arias how strong the scent is. Somewhere else, the tricky group would be the LBJs, a.k.a. He answers: “Maybe the ganja those guys are smoking makes it that strong.”. Sergio and I continue to a sloth shelter, where, waiting for the tour, I sit in a café.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

The cover designs, like the parent book, are cheerily colorful; the Eastern guide is green, featuring a photo of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, the Western guide is blue, featuring a White Pelican just landing onto the water. King Eider to the left, Common Eider to the right. Both guides measure 5.5 inches wide by 8.5

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

You may be happy to have a flock of chickadees visit your backyard, but it is difficult to ignore hundreds of American White Pelicans streaming by. Shorebirds, of course, are one of the groups of birds most known and loved for their social tendencies. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA. Other flocks don’t come off as being so homogeneous.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I held him a minute so he could look around, then I slowly opened my hands and after a few seconds he flew off and went right to a tree trunk and started acting like a wild woodpecker. But I did one Brown Pelican release that was memorable. I set my camera up, then got him out. So gorgeous! He pounded away on my hands.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. At mid-day, we took a boat tour of the heronries and the pelican islands with Nikos. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Belles, rising steeply two kilometres (1.2

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

As a proof, two Dalmatian Pelicans are flying low above us, while a Bluethroat disappears into the nearby bush. Europe: Then I spotted an easy and obvious one, the Black-eared Wheatear, while the group climbing the steep hillside found the Rock Nuthatch, as well as the Rock Sparrow , striped, pale and indescribable.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Far below the ruins, a reservoir offered me a single Dalmatian Pelican. I had seen Great White Pelican s in Izmir, but the Dalmatian Pelican was a new-to-me inland bird. There, to our right, was an Isabelline Wheatear , my first of this group. I did not see many species. Where else could they be, with so few trees?)

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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. They are often found roosting in small groups along the edges of lakes and riverine sandbars.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

We later saw another group of 19, and finally a distant flock of 52. Numerous Black Vultures , Snowy Egrets and Brown Pelicans were also present. Brown Pelican. Like many other birds we saw that morning, we photographed it and left it right where we found it. American Flamingos and Semipalmated Sandpipers.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For years now, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has included among its birding excursions a group of tours that acknowledge the breadth of birders’ horizons, taking full advantage of both the natural and the human richness of some of the birdiest destinations on the planet.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The focus is on “groups of birds that are often observed in diurnal migration.” Also, because The Shorebird Guide already covers this group so completely.) Each section is composed of a ‘group introduction’ followed by individual species accounts. The group introduction of each section expands on these topics.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

An Aplomado Falcon by Tom Dunkerton A soaring White-tailed Hawk by Tom Dunkerton A nice group of Harris’s Hawks by Bill Schmoker Not only is this area well-known for limited distribution birds but also sheer numbers. Right at the lodge. He was gesturing like a madman. “Schmoking Ponies! Sure enough, there they were.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2015

I watched the Australian Pelican, Chestnut Teal and Silver Gulls in the shallows whilst I had a warm drink. Australian Pelican, Chestnut Teal and Silver Gulls. As I got closer to Geelong there were several groups of Black Swans in the shallows feeding. You can see one of the rabbits on the second bollard from the right.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Thanks mostly to David Lindo, The Urban Birder, there are a few British bird groups touring the country every year now, even the BBC came to film the world famous Long-eared Owl gathering in the town of Kikinda with more than 700 birds in some winters. What has changed in the meantime? eBird bar chart. #3 3 Rusanda Nature Park in Melenci.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Caspian Terns in the back, large flocks of ducks or all the regular dabbling varieties, American White Pelican s staked out in the center, ibis, herons, and egrets set against the crackling soundtrack of Red-winged Blackbird s and Boat-tailed Grackle s. “Heron high going right! We set up scopes and started tallying.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

We have Restless Flycatchers in Broome and this is another species with a similar scissor like grinding call, so you recognise the family group immediately. Well, you are right! Male Leaden Flycatcher The Blue-winged Kookaburra was particularly vocal throughout the day, but thankfully quietened down during the night!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

The National Park is unusual because it offers very few facilities compared to most, but there is a sealed road right into the small car park and a shade shelter with a table and chairs and information about the park. As we wandered along the trail we soon encountered family groups of both White-winged Fairywrens and Variegated Fairywrens.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2015

It doesn’t take long and you are right on the coast and I have walked north in the past to follow the trail to Westgate Park , but on this occasion I once again set off to the south. On the sheltered side of several jetties I came across small groups of up to seven Hoary-headed Grebes bobbing along. Australian Pelican.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

” White-tailed Deer have been introduced but no one in our group picked up any ticks. Magnificent Frigatebirds and Brown Pelicans are easy to find, just look up regularly and you will get them. I guess I wasn’t in the right spot to see them! Scaly-naped Pigeons are easy to find anywhere in Culebra.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site. Yes, that’s Panama City to the right. Brown Pelican. One seen on Lago Gatún during our boat tour, right before White-faced Capuchins came aboard for grapes. TRANSPORTATION.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2012

Right next to the world famous Opera House is the the Sydney Botanical Gardens, a good place to see Sulphur-crested Cockatoos , Banded Rails and large roosting groups of Grey-headed Flying-foxes. And it is certainly possible to see others with luck and a trip to the right spot. The city is a very green one.

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