10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It was late December, 2012, and I slotted into a sizable group under the joint leadership of two highly respected birders. By 2015 I was assigned to lead a CBC group for the first time. Our jaunt for the CBC of 2015 turned out to be the first of many, as I have been assigned that area each count since then.

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Trinidad Livestock 2015 Buffalo 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

2015 – 28 March. 2012 – 15 March. Regardless, I was happy to see the tail-wagging harbinger of spring migration and I can’t wait for everything else to get back too! Below are my first dates for the last ten years if you are really interested in such things…. 2017 – 12 March. 2016 – 18 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March.

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2017 Jamaica 2008 2009 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2024

Around 2011 or 2012, I discovered an online forum of a rather select group of Mexican birders. Sinaloa Martin By 2015, I had discovered the tiny town or Paso Ancho, Michoacán, as my nearest option for seeing the many endemics of Mexico’s Hot Country/ Tierra Caliente. Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo : I get game.

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Squirrels Mexico Kansas South America 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since I saw my first in February of 2014 at Breezy Point I have had two more encounters, both in February of 2015, both at Jacob Riis Park. The list below includes the dates I made the prediction and, in bold, the date I saw the bird, if I saw it: Cory’s Shearwater, 3 Jul 2010, 11 Apr 2011, 15 May 2012, 06 Oct 2013.

2010 160

2010 2013 2011 2012 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

In fact, the last one was back on 15 May 2012 when my Queens list stood at 289 and I guessed what my next eleven birds would be that would get me to 300. 3 July 2010 31 October 2010 11 April 2011 15 May 2012. John’s the Divine Cemetery.

2012 171

2012 New York City Jamaica 2013 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2016

2015 – 28 March. 2012 – 15 March. Regardless, I was happy to see the tail-wagging harbinger of spring migration and I can’t wait for everything else to get back too! Below are my first dates for the last ten years if you are really interested in such things… 2016 – 18 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March.

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2016 2007 2008 2009 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2017

On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012). In 2015, with my self- published Guide to the Birds of Honduras, I had the intent to simultaneously print it in Spanish. Good question and kind of hard to swallow. A worthwhile and commendable effort.

Honduras 188

Honduras Missouri Panama Birds 188

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Here is a joint media release: WWF, Decembar 11, 2015 – This December, 3,800 Pygmy Cormorants are wintering by the river Sava in Belgrade, Serbia, representing 2 percent of the global population and 5.4 The study was prepared in 2012, but no protection has been declared to date. percent of their European population.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2007 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2018

The photo up above, by the way, is from October of 2015.). 2015 – 28 March. 2012 – 15 March. Over the last ten years my average first phoebe has been the 22nd of March, meaning that this year’s bird was a full eight days later than average and more than two weeks later than last year’s. 2018 – 30 March.

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2018 2015 2017 2009 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2017

I saw 425 in 2016, 510 in 2015, 560 in 2014, 517 in 2013, 529 in 2012, 375 in 2011, 601 in 2010, 609 in 2009, 313 in 2008, and 459 in 2007. Being mired at 313 is no fun at all and getting the list to at least 316 would be wonderful. I will see at least 500 species for the year.

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Puerto Rico 2017 Austria Bahamas 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2019

2015 – 28 March. 2012 – 15 March. Below are my first dates for the last ten years if you are really interested in such things…. 2019 – 17 March. 2018 – 30 March. 2017 – 12 March. 2016 – 18 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. The post First Phoebe of 2019 appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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2019 2017 2010 Jamaica 113

Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

SB416, authored by state Majority Leader, Dean Florez (Democrat, Shafter), chairman of the California Senate Committee on Food and Agriculture, which approved the bill three votes to one on 21 April, would have the prohibition in place by 2015.

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California Proposition 2 Farmed Animals Farm Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. Press, 2015), and has also written articles on eBird and bird identification. Press; December, 2015. George is a natural teacher and I’m betting that Brian is one too. By George L.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

In the four-part ABA Blog series on subspecies , published in 2012, he argued we know too little about subspecies to use the term, and that birders should “show the characters of humility” and adapt alternative ways of articulating geographic differences.

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North America Birds 2012 America 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

My first year on eBird, 2012, exactly 20 people submitted checklists for the entire state. It was July of 2015, and I had been looking for a way to get as low and as high as possible within my one-hour-birding radius. I am not very good at learning to ID birds by song or call. But my home is not in the U.S. or the U.K.;

Mexico 188

Mexico Birds Lamb 2013 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

million by the EPA in 2012 and was sold to Global Harvest Foods in 2014. Texas A&M University Press, 2015. Scott’s was fined $12.5 I do not understand why the sale is reported in one of the final chapters of the book but there is no mention of the corporate crime, the reason behind the sale. . Baicich, Margaret A. 320 pages; 8.6

America 250

America Squirrels Industry Birds 250

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

I also appreciated the occasional photo of a birder (or birders or photographers) photographing vagrants, including the well-circulated one of hundreds of photographers in Beijing gathering in a semi-circle to photograph a Japanese Robin in November 2012.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

I started keeping year lists – not just blogging about them but really keeping track of what I see each year – as late as 2012, roughly 30 years into my birding career. Therefore, the 2012 list itself was never the focus of my year listing, it was competition and blogging.

2017 100

2017 Germany 2012 2013 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

There are always going to be species that will have to be left out of these guides, and though I may miss Allen’s Hummingbird (a bird that has only been definitely identified in the state three times but a lifer for me in 2012), the guide does a good job of covering the basic and interesting residents and migrants. By Steve N.

Pennsylvania 189

Pennsylvania Texas Whaling Whales 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

Since then, we have seen a marvellous recovery, with an estimate of 123 in 2012, 145 in 2013, 165 in 2014, 197 in 2015 and now in 2016, around 232 Great Bustards roam the wilds of Germany, nearly doubling their number within just a handful of years!

Germany 124

Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 124

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And, there is A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia: Second Edition by Morten Strange (2012). The excellent 6-page bibliography reflects the extensive scientific literature review done by the guide’s authors–historical surveys, descriptions of new species, phylogenomic studies as recently published as 2015.

Indonesia 184

Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Gallardo (2015). & updated (PUP, 2010); you can find a full list of his publications and listing of number of plates contributed on Dyer’s web site. Dyer is a field associate in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, as is co-author Andrew C. Richard Garrigues ands Robert Dean (Cornell Univ.

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Sullivan, 2015), Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast (with Brian L.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 246

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either. This week, Bon Appétit Management Company vowed that by 2015, none of the three million pounds of pork we serve a year (including 800,000 pounds of bacon) will come from hogs confined in gestation crates.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

We had not done “year lists” until we started here in 2012 , because a few other Beat Writers had decided to and really…why not! The adult Pied Oystercatchers were still at their non-breeding site at Gantheaume Point and will no doubt lay their first eggs for 2015 in the first week of July.

2015 239

2015 2014 Ducks Ponies 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

In 2012, the Hindustani Times claimed that from January 2011 to June 2012, a further 9 tigers were killed in the Tadoba buffer zone. By the year 2000, the number of tigers in the wild went down to 8,500 and by 2012, it plummeted to a mere 3,200 individuals.

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Tigers India Killing 2006 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Chapter One is all about Marybeth’s 2012 Big Year, an adventure she shares with Lynn, a fishing enthusiast who is probably the most supportive big year/300 year birding partner in the history of listing.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2018

The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn from the 2015 Deming in Education conference: 2,900 views (2 years – 5,500). A few of the less viewed videos that I highly recommend: The Development of Deming’s Management System excerpt from Mike Tveite’s presentation at our 2012 annual conference. How Did We Do on the Test?

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2017 PDSA 2015 2013 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Breeding and wintering locations of Common Loons in western Maine (Rangeley and Moosehead Lakes region), USA, that received PTTs in 2011 and 2012.*. The Condor, 2015; 117 (4): 485 DOI: 10.1650/CONDOR-15-6.1. Here’s one of the maps from that paper: *FIGURE 1. Adams, Kristin A. Kovach, David C.

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Humane Eagles Investigation North America 261

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. “Wait!” ” you’re probably saying. “Let’s back up a little. This is a book about the Bronx?!” ” This makes a lot more sense once you know a little more about the area and its history. Which is true.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 227

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2016

On 28th November 2012 I came across a large flock of shorebirds and was carefully looking through them for anything a little bit different and generally observing their activities after high tide. The flock of shorebirds in 2012 with Grey-tailed Tattler “35” in it! Grey-tailed Tattler “35” in 2012.

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Taiwan 2012 2014 2015 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Consider that Paulson’s Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East (2012) covers 336 odonate species and think about the difference in geographic size and you get a sense of the concentrated diversity in Costa Rica (though the authors note that the rate of diversity is still less than the increase in diversity for butterflies and orchids).

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Costa Rica North America Family America 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

A friend of 10,000 Birds, he talked to Corey about his mission to create this guide in 2012 and wrote about his goal to create a Spanish-language version of the guide in 2017. Guide to the Birds of Honduras was self-published in 2015, text by Gallardo and artwork by John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio, and Ian Griffiths. by Robert J.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. (His A passion for one bird family is also very useful.

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

I wrote of some birding areas around Derby in August 2012 and we hoped that we would be able to get to some of those this last week. Enjoy the last few days of 2014 and all the best for 2015! Birding Australia Derby'

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Ducks Birds Investigation Australia 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

There was a cut-off point at which birds could not be added, which explains why the Temminck’s Stint found by our own Clare and Grant in November 2015, a first for Australia, nor the recently found Nicobar Pigeon are, are not included. ” The result is an organization that is sort of but not always arranged taxonomically.

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Australia Penguins Birds New Zealand 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Press, 2012). Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds (Storey Publishing, 2015) by photographer Marie Read and writer Laura Erickson, documents the procreative and parenting lives of 49 species through beautiful images and readable, knowledgeable text.

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Papua New Guinea Penguins 2014 Guinea 190