10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2015
Each year, I hope to identify at least 600 species. That 600th species was a Streaked Xenops , an especially uncommon bird in Costa Rica usually seen at Tapanti National Park. That 600th species was a Streaked Xenops , an especially uncommon bird in Costa Rica usually seen at Tapanti National Park. Streaked Xenops.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2021
A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2018
The end results are steady lines of traffic marching to crowded beaches, more visitors to the country’s famed national parks, and a parade or two where drunken wannabe cowboys on prancing horses add local spice to the festive mayhem. We saw five species, all of which at one point came to the same fruiting tree!
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. What is surprising is quite how many species did end up here, and how economically unimportant they were.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2018
Like if you feel that seeing a friendly chattering House Sparrow was a good bird, then it indeed was. With that same glee, he told me how he enjoyed watching the sparrows in his garden, how the males courted the females, fought over seeds, always chattering. He had a heart of gold, you could see it in his eyes.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2017
While birders up north are pishing up sparrows, digging the Autumn weekend at Cape May, or twitching vagrants, we are busy with kingbird flocks during our height of migration. We might not get the variety of a New Jersey autumn but we do get major numbers of species that winter in South America.
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