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On this final day of 2011 it is time, just like it was on the final day of 2010 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2011, in no particular order. Kirby Adams had a magical experience with his Best Bird of the Year and he blogged about it on his blog, Sharp Tern.
I don’t know what your excuse is, but I spend the weekend under a surprisingly intense sun reveling with a merry mob of friends and family. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Chicken Inferno 2011… the bird being wired up to blow a.
I, on the other hand, had a very busy weekend that included seeing The Big Year (look for a review soon), joining the huge Occupy Wall Street rally in Times Square, taking Desi to the Queens Zoo, and driving upstate to visit the newest addition to the family, my nephew, Andrew Peter (Congrats Jonathan and Shannon!).
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To enter this excellent giveaway all you have to do is write a single, four-sentence paragraph explaining what Brazilian bird you would most like to see and why and email that paragraph to me at 10000birdsblogger AT gmail DOT com under the subject line “Brazil Giveaway&# by midnight on Thursday, 11 March 2011. It is that awesome!
They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is the only Cholorceryle species I haven’t seen, so observing one would complete a genus in this fascinating family. It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day!
It may seem like cruel and unusual punishment for we denizens of the New World to spend an entire week celebrating what is surely the coolest family of birds in the world, a family that is sadly absent from the Old World, but it can’t be helped. Read about them here but also get out and experience them.
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birding / Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? By Mike • March 17, 2011 • 24 comments Tweet Share Happy St. fantastic capture!
… Tags: ducks , features , jamaica bay , migration , queens • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Orange-headed Thrush Orange-headed Thrush By Redgannet • March 6, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share The Orange-headed Thrush , Zoothera citrinus, is common across much of India and south-east Asia. Great shots!
The birds that I have experience with, like some of the raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, and tanagers, are all true-to-life in color, shape, and proportions to say nothing of being pretty paintings, if slightly sterile on the standard plain white background. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.
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My weekend was full of fall family fun with the highlight, a trip to pick the last of the season’s berries and the first of its apples. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.
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Sure, I’m likely omitting some other far more important factors involving family, friends, and professional success, but the little things mean a lot. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Plus my New York Football Giants just advanced in the first round of the NFL playoffs.
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida By James • March 8, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by shorebirds.
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Wood-Warbler Week is finally over for 2011. Good luck and may you see a flock of wood-warblers today! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— This week, 8 May – 14 May 2011, is Wood-Warbler Week on 10,000 Birds! Read about them here but also get out and experience them. Will it come back in 2012? Below is the logo.
That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.
Clark’s Nutcracker , sometimes called the Crow Woodpecker , will always be paired with Lewis’s Woodpecker , the woodpecker that acts like a crow, both because of their cross-family likenesses and because of their namesakes. It was a wonderful experience and one that none of us will soon forget.
The best birdof my weekend was a Brown Creeper that hung around long enough for me to share with generally nature-numb friends and family; what’s more fun than pulling back the curtain and showing people the world that whirls unnoticed all around them? What did you enjoy this weekend? What was your best bird of the weekend?
But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. A scientific analysis of the bird family was written by Lloyd S. Press, 2011).
For some reason the Fringillidae, as the finch family is called if you want to be highfalutin, frequently tend toward pink. Though both birds are actually mostly brown the pink on the wings and their sheer awesomeness qualify them for inclusion in the pink finch family. Not that I’m complaining! What about you?
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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Spring is for Wheatears Spring is for Wheatears By Dan • March 18, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share What is true in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US holds true for Cyprus as well: Spring is prime-time for Passerines.
in 2011*) came about. I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8
GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Bird families that resemble each other are combined into one chapter, for example “Owls, Nightjars, and Nighthawks,” and are then treated separately within the chapter.
The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is hosting an online charity auction until November 9th, 2011. Items up for bid feature a variety of one-of-a-kind experiences and merchandise. An autographed batting helmet from Philadelphia Phillies player and 2011 MLB All-Star Shane Victorino. list courtesy of JGI press release}.
Birders want to have photos of the birds they see to share with their friends, family, and even the rest of the world. In August 2011, I guided a custom tour of the northern Peru Birding Route. We had a great birding experience, which included most of the endemics on our route and many more great birds and breathtaking scenery.
I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Our family trip to Barbados was mostly about the beach but it was also chock full o’birds! Number 7 – Barbados Bullfinch.
Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.
Way back in February when I was enjoying a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas I wisely hired the best – and the only – bird guide on the island, Carolyn Wardle , for half a day to show me around some of the hotspots and help me find endemics and other species I wanted to see.
The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior. In other words, if you value this type of bird photography, it is most probably worth it. Conclusion. “What’s Next?
As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Red Knot XS41059 was banded as a 1st year bird on September 11, 2011 near the town of Tain in the Scottish Highlands on the south shore of Dornoch Firth.
Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO). There is even room for notes. Except for the extinct Cuban Macaw.) Garrido, et al.,
I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. 6) Garganey.
My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011). It’s app is pretty terrific too.).
Because from the beginning, Starbucks has offered an experience worth valuing. Three years later, these same students were asked about their experience and both groups responded with the same level of satisfaction: a lot better than expected for the students in the shoddy dorm and a little worse for the students in the new, cool dorm.
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic By James • March 1, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share Endemism is special. have found their way to Costa Rica.
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