10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

I know I neglected to ask you where you were birding this weekend, but don’t ever think that means I don’t want to know. Any good bird sighting deserves to be shared and enjoyed. So fire away! I was pleased to discover that my resident Carolina Wren , unseen for months, appears determined to ride out another Rochester winter.

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2017 Neglecting Jamaica Birds 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Rabeneltern” – raven parents Raven parents, raven mothers, raven fathers – shame on you all, for you are neglecting your children. And then we have the terms “Eule“ and “Kauz“, but the assigning of the various species into these two categories is not consistend and lacks taxonomic base and reason.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The story of the White-winged Guan , in some ways resembles the re-discovery of some species thought to be extinct. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. The decades of storage in a museum came after it was regarded as an extinct species. Most species go extinct.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 269

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2012

In fact, I have way more photos of Whooping Swans ( Cygnus cygnus ) – a species I almost never see – than of Mute Swans. But none of my local birds here in the Alps got quite so neglected as the Blackbird ( Turdus merula ) – I do not seem to have a single photo of a Blackbird in my library.

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Neglecting Blackbirds Birds Species 146

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

From a birder’s perspective however, this is both a shame and a blessing, as I will show below based on my observations of the species on the island of Java in November. The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. Other birders might however owe their very lives to this neglect.

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Burma Laos Birds Indonesia 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

Florida is perhaps the one place in the United States where you can rack up a pretty great list of birds, including some of North America’s most impressive species, simply by walking down the sidewalk for an hour or so. That was largely due to the vagaries of a single rental car and two young children, but it wasn’t so bad.

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Florida North America Neglecting South America 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

But the honeyguides, indigobirds, and a single species of duck all do the classic cuckoo strategy (obligate interspecific brood parasitism) as well. Most people think of brood parasitism and two kinds of bird spring to mind: the cowbirds (most often the Brown-headed Cowbird ) and the Old World cuckoos (most often the Common Cuckoo ).

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Eggs Neglecting Adoptable Hunting 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Another nice find by the assembled birders was a Bar-shouldered Dove , a species I had only seen in Queensland before this point. I’ve seen the species here and there over the years, but today they were utterly ubiquitous, even our guide had never seen this many. Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. was a Powerful Owl.

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Owls Birds Neglecting Hawaii 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I spent two full days where the birding was near constant, and, just to keep the binoculars from being neglected, topped it off with another half day of birding on our drive back from Cano Negro, Costa Rica. One of those species was a Pied Puffbird , our sole individual for the day and maybe the only one for the count.

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Costa Rica San Jose Birds Farming 122

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2011

It is the featureless nature of the sea of blue, spanning from horizon to horizon, its neglect of offering a foothold to the wandering eye that binds my thoughts. The species is quite common within settlements indeed, and the inner cities are a favoured haunt. The sky has been haunting me for days now. They have gone.

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Elephants Neglecting Europe Birds 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

I bring this up not to boast (well, not much) but because I think that this approach to wildlife travel is somewhat neglected in birding circles. You may not get the species counts that the race delivers, but you’ll have memories burned into your skull. I’ll also take the opportunity to travel a bit.

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Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2018

It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. For hummingbirds, though, since cooperation leads to quick starvation, they ain’t no such thing as a team!

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Humane Neglecting Investigation Birds 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

I spent as much time as I could out and about in the parks of Queens and enjoyed every single second, spotting twenty-two species of wood-warblers. Saturday was sublime and Sunday was superb.

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New York City New York Kentucky Abandon 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Getting to know the subtleties in differences between closely related species takes years of dedication and practice. Thirdly, many species of shorebirds display such vast differences in their summer and winter plumages that it is always interesting to note how some birds in the same flock are in contrasting stages of plumage.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 191

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I neglected to take the camera into the courtyard in the beginning, though I did bring the hounds and their beds. It's about not fetishizing one species while making an industry of torturing others. Violet was spooked early on, but Charles stayed for the entire evening. Veganism, to me, is about justice.

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2018

He pointed out that Illinois had been sadly neglected up to this point, so Redgannet made a special visit to Chicago to redress this oversight. 8 beats shared 126 checklists accounting for 704 species. They birded 6 countries; USA, UK, Costa Rica, Serbia, Australia, and Mexico.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113