10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

In 2021, the American Ornithological Society announced that it has now classified the Bahama Nuthatch as a distinct species, Sitta insularis. Many ornithologists fear that the long-billed relative of the southeastern United States’ Brown-headed Nuthatch is kaput. Brown-headed Nuthatch of the southeastern United States.

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Bahamas Philadelphia 2004 United States 344

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JULY 13, 2013

One element of Red Rock Canyon that I probably don’t need to see much better is the Black-throated Sparrow. Amphispiza bilineata is a species of the desert and it is found throughout proper habitat in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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Las Vegas Sparrows Nevada United States 175

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2011

Savannah Sparrows have been very kind to me over the last couple of years, whether at Brigantine , Breezy Point , or Lake Perris. Savannah Sparrows breed across the northern United States and most of Canada and Alaska and winter as far south as northern Central America and Cuba. … a.

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Sparrows Breeding Cuba United States 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

There are black-and-white drawings by Aaron Hargrove illustrating some of the birds Marybeth writes about– a Red-shouldered Hawk on a wire eating a garter snake, a Grasshopper Sparrow in a chainlink fence, a staring Burrowing Owl inside a drainage pipe, and a few more. by Marybeth Lima. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2011

I never would have thought that a film that focused entirely on North American sparrows could be so delightful. After all, there is only so much sparrow that non-birders can take and this film is chock full of sparrows! Well, each species gets its own segment, and the filmmakers alternate narrating duties.

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Sparrows North America United States America 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

April, while not as exciting a migratory month as May is in the northeastern United States, is still a great time of year to see migrating birds. In the New York City area the number and variety of sparrows a birder can see in mid-April is astounding. They are often flighty and difficult to approach.

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Sparrows New York City New York Fox 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain.

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Bald Eagle Montenegro Campaign Turkey 163

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The southeast tip of the Florida peninsula is not well endowed with a wide variety of sparrows in winter like the rest of the southeastern United States. Barnes or Matheson Hammock will never produce sightings of any sparrow at all (and if you did, it would be a really good sighting).

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Sparrows Florida Atlanta South Carolina 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Decades later, Richard Pough’s Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds (I happily own the 1948 edition) included nest and egg descriptions for each species as well. And photographs of feathers in the species accounts, which surprised me. Text retrieved from the Hathitrust Digital Library. The first is accomplished well.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 239

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JULY 14, 2021

But it does offer plenty of the endemics and other species that make our area distinctive, and many of them were waiting for me on this latest visit. For the taxonomy fans out there, the American Ornithological Society just announce that this species should be moved to the Chlorophonia genus. My guess is that they are still mating.

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Mexico Sparrows United States Virginia 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Corey got out birding both days this weekend and had a typical suite of winter birds for the northeastern United States, with everything from Razorbill to Common Redpoll. Of all the species he spotted nothing pleased him more than finally connecting with his first Field Sparrow of the year: in fact, he saw four of them!

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United States Birds Sparrows Humane 153

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For the United States, there is also a state list. The writers at 10,000 Birds span the globe, but I am particularly interested in the lists for the United States, as that is my “beat.” As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States.

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 1978 two researchers from Harvard University were impressed by these quetzal-filled cloud forests, published photographs in the United States, and the Chacóns began to host increasing numbers of American birders. more than two dozen species before the rain forced us inside.

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Costa Rica Opossums Mammals United States 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 152

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I was hoping to seek out during the one day I had available between business commitments. The climatic changes set in motion by the Industrial Revolution are now proceeding at a pace far greater than many species and ecosystems can adapt to naturally. Black Rosy-Finch.

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Species Science Los Angeles Birds 177

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2015

You know a bird is beautiful when Robert Tory Peterson describes it as a “ sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” ” New Hampshire must have thought the same, for they voted the Purple Finch the state bird in 1957. The Purple Finch officially became the state bird on April 25th.

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New Hampshire United States Birds 2010 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2020

One of the ways I could describe the unique mix of birds I can see here in southwestern Mexico, would be to divide our species into five categories. The invasive species are few, but, unfortunately, very numerous. But there is a final group of species here, about which I have not written very much.

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Mexico Birds Honduras United States 201

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis is an avid eBirder and he likes to keep a good record of his lists, photograph as many species as he can, and he encourages others to do the same. Multiple times if I’m honest, but if the title of the article told you anything, the bird that was the most important in the count is probably a lawn bird for most of you in United States.

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 170

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

The celebration of Columbus Day in the United States has become somewhat contentious over the years as people have taken a more nuanced look at the “discovery” of the New World. Trash birds hog the feeders, crowd the trees, and consistently outcompete other species for habitat and resources.

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Columbus United States Birds Sparrows 192

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APRIL 24, 2014

We in the northeastern United States are desperately awaiting the flood of migrant passerines that we are sure should be here by now and will complain incessantly until we see dozens of wood-warblers of at least twenty species at short range and in good light. Can you identify all three species? It is spring!

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United States New York Sparrows Suffering 170

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AUGUST 1, 2023

It borders the Hudson Bay to the north and four Great Lakes to the south, accessible by car and sometimes feet from the United States over bridges with names like Rainbow, Ambassador, and Seaway Skyway. state and Canadian provinces. state and Canadian provinces. © 2023 by Chris Earley and Scott & Nix, Inc.,

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North America Birds Owls America 220

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The warm, sunny climate beckons a wide variety of passerines, raptors, and shorebirds to spend the winter, inflating the species diversity to the extent that Miami-Dade can go toe-to-toe with counties in Texas and Arizona during this season. Song Sparrow is a genuine rarity in Miami-Dade. Clay-colored Sparrow: 1.

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Miami 2015 United States Birds 168

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APRIL 29, 2014

We birders in the northeastern United States are unbearable in April. Just don’t embarrass yourself by hearing a Chipping Sparrow and confidently declaring that you just got your first Pine Warbler of the year. April birding often consists of sifting through a flock of Butterbutts trying to find another species.

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New York United States New York City Breeding 229

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. Dusky Seaside Sparrow – Ammospiza nigrescens (likely extinct).

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California Condor Endangered Species Bald Eagle Parrots 103

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. 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. New Jersey mystery sparrow.

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New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species! In the HBW, there are about 40 species with the word “plain” in the species name.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 193

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

Many birders are aware that the Caribbean specialties, tropical seabird colonies, and even the menagerie of exotics are a unique feature of this part of the United States. Sure, Miami and the Florida Keys do not boast any endemics ( ‘Cape Sable’ Seaside Sparrow is close) at the species level.

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Florida Miami United States Stray 172

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APRIL 4, 2023

Gulls and sparrows are tough but manageable; Empids may require DNA analysis (as it actually did in the case of the non-vocalizing Western Flycatcher seen in Central Park, NYC in November 2015). That’s 18 species in one book. This is more than a collection of species accounts.

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Los Angeles North America America Species 220

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There is no place that compares to Maine with its rocky shorelines, freezing waters populated by wintering alcids, offshore islands filled with nesting Atlantic Puffins, mixed and boreal forests (the most forested state in the U.S., we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 205

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

I love sparrows, so seeing a feather-worn Vesper Sparrow this past July filled my heart with joy. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state. We saw sparrows–a total of 14 species–and we saw many other great prairie birds, and we often saw them perched on posts.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 144

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2015

New York, I can say with certainty that you have chosen the perfect bird to represent your state. Though it took you until 1970 to designate your state bird – the last in the United States to do so – the Eastern Bluebird is beautiful, has a distinctive song, and is a great example of an environmental success story.

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New York New York City United States Birds 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

The third weekend in April, when we birders in the northeastern United States start to go stir crazy, convinced that the wood-warblers should all be back by now and lamenting the species that we have not yet seen. Of those migrating birds my best was actually one that doesn’t generally winter in the neotropics.

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2017 United States Mammals Panama 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2016

I’m one of those people who thinks all birds are beautiful, from the drab House Sparrow to the pink Roseate Spoonbill. The Mountain Bluebird is one of the most striking birds in the United States, and is the state bird of both Nevada and Idaho. million breeding birds.

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Nevada Idaho United States Alaska 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

He allegedly proposed to introduce every species of bird mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to the United States. Starlings are a super competitive cavity nesting bird that aggressively evicts other species from nesting cavities. This is one of the reasons why so many bird lovers dislike the European Starling.

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North America United States New York City New York 196

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

I like seeing as many species as possible on my life list, year list, state list, patch list, any kind of list. For my state of Michoacán in central Mexico, Lago de Cuitzeo is an unusually poor site for our specialty, which is west-Mexico-only endemics. I confess: I am a lister.

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Ducks Blackbirds United States Pelicans 116

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m That increased my total list from my balcony to 92 species!

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2014 Costa Rica New York New Jersey 244

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Parking lots in Miami-Dade county offer a mostly standard assortment of birds compared to the rest of the United States. We have House Sparrow , Rock Pigeon , and European Starling like almost everyone else along with the usual Ring-billed Gulls that join them in winter.

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Dominican Republic Miami Puerto Rico Florida 219