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I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2017 this morning, 12 March, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, thus kicking off spring for myself over a week early. As I have for the last several years, I will now ask the same question of midwesterners and northeasterners that I ask every year: When did you see your first Eastern Phoebe of 2017?
2017 – 12 March. 2012 – 15 March. As I have for years now, I will now ask the same question of midwesterners and northeasterners that I ask every year: When did you see your first Eastern Phoebe of 2021? And was it late or early? 2021 – 13 March. 2020 – 15 March. 2019 – 17 March. 2018 – 30 March. 2016 – 18 March.
2017 – 12 March. 2012 – 15 March. As I have for years now, I will now ask the same question of midwesterners and northeasterners that I ask every year: When did you see your first Eastern Phoebe of 2020? And was it late or early? 2020 – 15 March. 2019 – 17 March. 2018 – 30 March. 2016 – 18 March. 2015 – 28 March. Enjoy spring!
Here’s hoping that 2017 is a much better year than 2016! 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. Thank all that is good and holy in the world that the abomination that was 2016 is finally in the books.
This week’s wine is a lovely 2017 rosé from the Chateau de Colombe produced under the Appellation Bordeaux Contrôlée. The Château de Colombe estate was purchased in 2012 by Henry Lathwaite, scion of the famed English wine merchant family and a trained winemaker in his own right. Château de Colombe: Bordeaux Rosé (2017).
These efforts appear to be paying off–most of the mature Verbesina plants on one of the atoll’s islands are history, and officials expect full eradication from Midway by 2017. Between 2012 and 2013, populations of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses at Midway reached near-record levels.
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.
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. Brown Pelican, 3 Jul 2010, 11 Apr 2011, 15 May 2012, NOT YET SEEN! Purple Martin, 3 Jul 2010, 11 Apr 2011, 26 May 2012.
A fine example of site faithfulness in shorebirds can be shown by the Grey-tailed Tattler “35” that was flagged in Taiwan in August 2012 and has returned to our local beach during the non-breeding season for five years now. These following photos were taken February 12th 2017.
On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012). They hope to have a working draft completed by the end of 2017. He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science.
In the last ten years I have seen my first phoebe of the year on dates ranging from a 12 March (2017) to a relatively late 31 March (2010). 2017 – 12 March. 2012 – 15 March. And was it late or early? Though it took me until today to see my first migratory phoebe I did see one in Queens in January at Mt. 2019 – 17 March.
In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS).
Portillo Padua’s previous documentary, the 2012 Diario a Tres Voces, was well reviewed and made the festival circuit, but it was of the creative, personal documentary subspecies. Still, this may account for the very specific, personal nature of Birders ‘ people scenes. Hopefully, it will be more widely available in the future.
2017 – 12 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…. 2018 – 30 March. 2016 – 18 March. 2015 – 28 March. 2014 – 29 March.
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.
Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, its beautiful illustrations are by a single artist, Dale Dyer–the norm in years past, but a feature that few field guide projects can afford in terms of time and money these days.
I will also give you the link here for 2017 in case you are reading this next year or want to plan a trip for next year! Venturing out only on the outgoing tide is advisable, so you can explore at your leisure and not have the incoming tide chase you back in. Soon it will go north and then we anxiously await its return later this year!
And, there is A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia: Second Edition by Morten Strange (2012). So, the question of whether field guides should be written for the political or biogeographic area probably are not as important as simply having up-to-date field guides for the area, period.
He invested $350 million of his own money, started recruiting entrepreneurs in 2012 and put a five-year timeline on the project. SMM: Tony’s self-imposed deadline for Downtown Project was January 2017. Business journalist Aimee Groth lived through the first three years of Hsieh’s “community as a startup” experiment. Can you explain?
Back when I first appeared on eBird for Michoacán, in 2012, the state’s Top “100” list only had 22 names by years’ end. I finally became the first person to pass him up in first place for the state in 2017, a full 52 years after he finished his work here. His lists were included in eBird posthumously.)
Edwards Deming: The 14 Points : 46,000 views in 2017 (added 3 years ago – 106,000 total views all time). The most popular video posted in 2017 was Deming 101 – Curiosity, Learning, Knowledge, and Improvement by Tim Higgins: 800 views. excerpt from Bill Bellow’s presentation at the 2012 Deming Conference.
The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population. However, a drastic decline followed, and census results for 2016 and 2017 produced counts of around 2,500 pairs. However, the Lesser Kestrel has received help. Finance came from national and regional governments.
As I noted above, Dunne and Karlson co-authored three books before this one: Birds Of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America , (2017), Gulls Simplified: A Comparative Approach to Identification (2018), and Bird Families of North America 2021).
E-bird data up to November 2017 was used to update migrational pattern data and “for locating obscure but locally significant records that otherwise might never have seen the light of day” (p. ” I’m down as the observer of a White Pelican at the Whitestone Bridge on Dec. Which is true.
Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding. Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan.
This all started way back in 2012 and several of us continued on in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016. The black-headed Gouldian Finches have remained in the same area feeding on the grass seeds with the other finches and were our 75th bird for 2017 and the male Gouldian Finch features in the header photo.
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. Many birders are familiar with Gallardo’s fundraising initiatives, which included a speaking tour in the U.S., Europe, and Honduras itself.
” The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, 9th edition by Graham Pizzey and Frank Knight, edited by Sarah Pizzey (2012): Field Guide To The Birds Of Australia, 7th edition by Nicholas Day and Ken Simpson (20o4; there is an 8th, 2010 edition as well): The Slater’s Field Guide to Australian Birds (1993, there is also a 2nd ed.,
Here is a map of all Black Woodpecker observations in Germany and Luxembourg during the breeding season 2012 – 2017, generated with the best data base in the world, ornitho.de (ignore the colours, they do not show concentration but denote “proof of breeding”, “likely breeding” etc.).
This all started way back in 2012 and several of us continued on in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016. Well, another New Year crept up on us once again and once again I will commit to listing on the website! Just looking at everyone’s lists over the years you can see how varied our birding lives can be.
This all started way back in 2012 and several of us continued on in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016, 2017 and 2018. Well, another New Year crept up on us once again and once again I will commit to listing on the website! Just looking at everyone’s lists over the years you can see how varied our birding lives can be.
Even though “inland” is stretching things a bit when you consider that the Baltic sea is just 60 km to the North, my observation constitutes only the third Arctic Tern in NE Germany away from the immediate Baltic coast since 2012. That’s not bad. Shore Lark , Sylt, Germany.
December’s collaborative results also summarises the year’s efforts, so this is December 2018 and the rest of 2018 all rolled into one sentence. Last year, Pat was the only beat invited to the awards ceremony and he swept the board. Golden-crowned Sparrow – Zonotrichia atricapilla. Ridgefield NWR–River ‘S’ Unit.
Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Common Greenshank – Tringa nebularia. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Oriental Pratincole – Glareola maldivarum. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Silver Gull – Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Little Tern – Sternula albifrons. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018.
Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Rufous Whistler – Pachycephala rufiventris. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Olive-backed Oriole – Oriolus sagittatus. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Willie-wagtail – Rhipidura leucophrys. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Mangrove Fantail – Rhipidura phasiana. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018.
In 2012, a petition to delist was filed by ranching and agriculture groups and conservative legal organizations. The comment period closed in February 2017, and not all commenters were fully convinced, including Audubon Texas. FWS issued a recovery plan in 1991 and a five-year review that proposed downlisting to “threatened” in 2007.
In 2012, FWS determined , for a third time, that the desert eagle was not a listable taxon and CBD again filed suit. Zinke , 2017 868 F.3d .” CBD has been litigating this issue with a some success for a decade: it won preliminary victories in 2008 and 2011. The opinions: Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. 3d 1054 (9th Cir.
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