10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners World Sparrow Day 2011.Or Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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MARCH 15, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners World Sparrow Day 2011.Or Tags: Asides , audubon • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Welcome to the club!

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MARCH 13, 2011

They breed across Canada and Alaska’s boreal forest near ponds and lakes, using nest holes made by woodpeckers, almost exclusively flickers. … Tags: diving ducks , ducks , flight • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks. Get yours today!

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

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MARCH 15, 2011

If you think one of the birds is a Song Sparrow call it “ Song Sparrow &# and not the unspecific “sparrow.&# No, none of the images below feature a Song Sparrow.* … Tags: diabolical , ID Quiz , quiz • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! Hooded Merganser 2.)

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MARCH 17, 2011

Circus of the Spineless #30 I Agree Wholeheartedly with the Sparrow Cala Boca Galvão About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Just saying.

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2011 Deer New York Owls 140

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MARCH 10, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get to it already! Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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Deer 2011 New York New York City 140

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MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. The bird, which looked like a Barn Owl , was the mascot for the opposing team and died from its injuries.

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Owls 2011 Barn Owls Deer 145

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MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides , christmas bird count • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more!

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Experience Experiments Deer 2011 162

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MARCH 15, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! We need more predictions, more plates, and more promotions ! The deadline is this Friday, March 18. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Deer 2011 New York New York Times 124

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MARCH 9, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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Deer 2011 Oklahoma New York 124

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MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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2011 Deer New York Birds 145

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MARCH 3, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? You can read part one , part two , and part three of Mark’s adventure on Birds and Kids (and other stuff). Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past One and the Same?

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Honduras 2011 Deer Denmark 145

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MARCH 16, 2011

Tags: Asides , festivals • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Really… you too? In that case, if you’re ready to enjoy the best of both, get on down to the Lone Star State for the 9th annual Galveston FeatherFest on April 7-10. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Deer New York Texas 140

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MARCH 12, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Did you even realize that not every bird has a banding code? Chris West has taken on the surprisingly sticky task of parsing American avian Alpha Code s over at North American Birding. Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Deer 2011 Birds New York 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Get to it already! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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Brazil Deer 2011 Peru 140

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MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. So you can imagine our disappointment when we crawled out of the car after our trip to find out that Mike was in fact relaxing in the warm kitchen and had no idea where the woodpecker was! Why is that awesome?

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MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The strip up today is apropos for 10,000 Birds , though some might take exception to the appellation applied to ornithologists. If you are sensitive to mildly bad language don’t click the link. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Deer New York Owls 162

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MARCH 6, 2011

On Sunday at Kissena Park I saw five species of sparrows. A mixed species flock of sparrows (american tree, field and chipping) was by the bike track parking lot. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. I see why people sometimes call them gray ghosts.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 159

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MARCH 16, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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DC Washington Deer 2011 145

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MARCH 5, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Photographed in Cuba , the bird appears to be a melanistic Green Heron though it might perhaps be a dark form or even stained by algae. The jury is still out but what a cool bird! Hat-tip to Shawn. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Deer Cuba Hunters 145

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MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! That is why it is such amazingly awesome news that the British Birdwatching Fair raised £242,000 to help conserve a species that could become the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Africa. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Ethiopia 2011 Deer New York 145

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MARCH 3, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Though breeding grounds for neotropical migrants get the bulk of attention in North America wintering grounds are just as critical, and any news about land being preserved as wintering habitat for the Cerulean Warbler is wonderful.

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

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MARCH 14, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Corey • March 14, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share She calls herself a photo-blogger but this post does blur the line a bit , no? And how unfair is it that my folks have had better looks at redpolls this year then I have?

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2011 Deer New York New York City 140

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

… … Tags: duck butts , ducks , mallards • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? We even have both a male duck butt and a female duck butt for you. We only ask that you not tell us why you like duck butts so much. We really do not want to know. Without further ado, duck butts. Get yours today!

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Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Not only that, but once the Eastern Bluebird arrives it is only a matter of time before the Downy Woodpecker , the White-breasted Nuthatch , and the American Robin start setting up territories and working to attract a mate. Tags: John Burroughs , poetry • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today!

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2011 Deer New York Peru 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Keep your eyes to the skies for sawbills, like this Red-breasted Merganser by Corey Finger Tags: march , weekend • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? We, along the coast in Los Angeles County, have a FY Harris’s Sparrow here now for about a week. Then Harris’s Sparrow is my best bird of the weekend!

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2011 Los Angeles Deer Birds 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? By Corey • March 13, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share It is not every day that a local newspaper covers birding at all, so the fact that The Chapel Hill News ran an article on Nate ‘s Triangle Big Year is pretty cool. Get yours today!

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2011 Deer New York Obama 133

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MARCH 12, 2011

… Tags: brazil , giveaway • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! And if you like entering contests in which books about birds are the prize please make sure that you also enter the latest 10,000 Birds giveaway, in which we are giving away three copies of The Crossley ID Guide.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 150

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MARCH 17, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! You have no idea how bad it can get. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past David Sibley on the Jones Beach Shrike Tangled Bank #86 eBird is now World-Wide! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Squirrels 2011 Deer New York 145

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MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: iatb • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Submit a link and summary to your best recent post about birding or wild birds to me or our next outstanding host, Pat O’Donnell at Costa Rica Living and Birding. Submissions should reach mike AT 10000birds DOT com or information AT birdingcraft DOT com by March 15.

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2011 Deer Costa Rica Birds 145

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MARCH 2, 2011

The Nuttall’s Woodpecker Catching Condors Brown Pelicans in La Jolla Birds of Bolsa Chica The Western Scrub-Jay, A Bright Corvid In Many Respects.Or Tags: california , West Coast , White-faced Ibis • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? You never know what you might see! Get yours today!

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Wildlife 2011 Sacramento Jordan 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Central Park White-Throated Sparrow Slaty-backed Gull (?) Tags: diving ducks , ducks , leucism , leucistic • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? … *See Rick’s post on Aimophila Adventures for the proper pronunciation of “leucistic&# and the word’s derivation. Get yours today!

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « Lewis’s Woodpecker in New York State Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. We can all play our part by choosing operations that give back. Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I blame Charlie Sheen. What is even more terrifying is that the link takes you to Cracked. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Deer New York Owls 153

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MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: denmark , mute swan , national bird , swans • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Denmark is the only country with the Mute Swan as its national bird but it certainly seems like a perfect fit to this American birder who has never been to Denmark. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 173

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MARCH 1, 2011

Slimbridge Wetland Centre (c) Mike Fuller @Riverhead, NY (c) Joe Kelly Magnificent Muscovy (c) Karen Davis Tags: ducks , features , manky , muscovy • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? If you have great photos of manky Muscovy Ducks you’d like us to add to this gallery, send them to mike AT 10000birds DOT com!

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 233

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MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: motmots , national bird , Nicaragua , Turquoise-browed Motmot • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? As far as national birds go a country can do far worse than a motmot, especially one as aesthetically pleasing as the Guardabarranco. … This is the second in a series of posts about national birds. Get yours today!

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 208