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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

On Saturday, he only found one out there but with his folks visiting he made another trip out with the whole family and spotted both owls, one of them a gorgeous adult male. Regardless, seeing Snowy Owls with the family and getting a new bird for the Queens list was great!

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2012 Owls New York Birds 161

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JULY 19, 2012

Speaking of July, every year around this time an assemblage of my family and friends gather in a remote part of Pennsylvania for food, fun, and flaming chickens. Corey will be spending the weekend with family in NYC and doubts he’ll get much birding in. Is this too heady for a lazy July?

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Chickens Pennsylvania 2012 2011 162

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NOVEMBER 8, 2014

On October 29 th 2012, “superstorm” Sandy devastated the east coast of the USA, affecting states from Florida to Maine, with severe damage in New Jersey and New York. We know that Corey and his family came through the ordeal safely, but what of the warblers?

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New Jersey Jamaica New York Transported 203

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Some families will travel, while others might prefer to hunker down and hibernate. My family is driving up from NYC for a long Rochester weekend. Schools across the United States are closing for Mid-Winter Break, which means the nation will be abuzz with energetic kids fighting boredom. How about you?

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United States 2012 New York Australia 156

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JULY 29, 2012

My family and I have taken our show to the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. The month of July is drawing to a close, so prepare yourself for the inevitable chorus expressing surprise, chagrin, and dismay at the imminent end of summer. Do folks on the southern side of the globe, I wonder, do the same thing around the end of January?

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Michigan 2012 Falcons Birds 158

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DECEMBER 25, 2012

Tropical Kingbird is likely to be one of the last birds I see in 2012 and first I see in 2013. December 25th is possibly the worst day of the year to be posting a blog, because lets face it, even the dispensing of wisdom from the world’s leading birder (past, present, and future) can compete with family duties.

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Costa Rica 2012 2013 Family 152

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JUNE 7, 2012

North of the equator, schools will be letting out for the summer and families will be packing up for adventure. Obviously, that means a lot of things in a lot of contexts, but here, of course, I’m talking about birding. Exotic locales make for exotic birding and even the most mundane territory can astound the first time visitor.

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Botswana 2012 Birds Fish 161

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week. The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common. No kid should be stuck in school in early August!

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Kentucky Michigan United States 2012 159

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JUNE 28, 2012

I’m taking my kids down to NYC to get in touch with their Bronx roots and family. The Fireside Poet James Russell Lowell had some thoughts on the matter , but I recommend that you get out there and decide for yourself. You’ve only got a few more days in the month, so make the most of this weekend!

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Trinidad 2012 Birds Family 158

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Say’s Phoebe – A self-found rarity at Edgemere while accompanied by my family made my day back on 05 October 2014. Golden Eagle – Two weeks to the day after the Say’s Phoebe I was once again at Edgemere with my family and picked up a Golden Eagle flying past , a surprise bird for sure!

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JUNE 10, 2012

One of our watering points in the garden had a family of Black-chinned Honeyeaters at it. They generally acknowledge their arrival with a distinctive shrill sound, but they were silent on this occasion and it was the first “family” visit. They are distant photographs and it shows how well they can hide in the foliage.

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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.

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2012 New York City Jamaica 2013 158

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

My family and many others are looking forward to veritable feasts to honor the fall harvest, for which I am also thankful. Most Americans are enjoying an early Thanksgiving weekend, for which I’m thankful. I also give thanks today for 10,000 Birds, our awesome writers, and our awesome readers… love you guys!

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Pennsylvania 2012 Turkey New York 138

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JANUARY 8, 2012

Just two weekends into 2012, I already love this year. Sure, I’m likely omitting some other far more important factors involving family, friends, and professional success, but the little things mean a lot. Plus my New York Football Giants just advanced in the first round of the NFL playoffs. Don’t you agree?

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Debeaking Atlanta 2011 United States 164

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JULY 2, 2024

There are five families: Stilts & Avocets (Family Recurvirostridae), Oystercatchers (Family Haem), Plovers (Family Charadriidae), Sandpipers and Allies (Family Scolopacidae), and Jacanas (Jacanidae), with Family Scolopacidae representing the bulk of species (as it does worldwide).

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North America America 2006 Delaware 259

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JANUARY 15, 2014

It was July of 2012. I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. In October of 2012, the Institute for Bird Populations released “ A Conservation Strategy for the Black-Backed Woodpecker in California 3.”

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Woodpeckers California Chad South Dakota 170

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JANUARY 1, 2012

We have recently come across several Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles families around Broome. Looks like it’s coming to us in 2012 now!! They generally lay four eggs, but we have only seen a maximum of three surviving chicks after a few days. A good indication that they have eggs or young is the extreme noise that they make.

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Breeding Cows Eggs 2012 144

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JANUARY 2, 2012

I begin 2012 with 284 birds on my Queens Life List , 478 birds on my ABA Life List , and 1,048 birds on my World Life List. When you go on a boat ride specifically with the hope of seeing a species, and you drag your family onto said boat, you had better see the birds that you want to see! Who wouldn’t want to see this bird?

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2011 Puffins United States 2012 169

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JANUARY 22, 2015

She is an excellent mother, managing not only to feed her four large cubs, but their visiting father One-eyed who comes by every now and then (he has two more families and being the good father he is, visits them all regularly, usually around lunch time). Very dusty Swarovski CLs.

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Tigers India Killing 2006 242

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APRIL 30, 2017

Since 2012, I was fortunate to spend a considerable amount of time birding through southern Borneo almost each year, and this new book meant that I now have four field guides for Borneo at my service. The figures show the order of bird families in the four field guides mentioned above. Order of bird families, non-songbirds.

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AUGUST 19, 2012

Here in the United States, students and their families are no more than two weeks from the beginning of school, notwithstanding those poor kids who have already commenced their academic year. Many potential reasons spring to mind, but one possibility might be the same end-of-summer mania that seems to have infected me and everyone around me.

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2012 United States Birds Family 113

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MARCH 13, 2012

There is only one way to find out, head over to the Dearfoams Facebook page and enter your adorable dog photo (now through April 16th), then be sure to have your family and friends vote for your pooch (voting is open now and you may vote once daily). PHASE ONE: Submit an image of your dog between February 13th, 2012 and April 16th, 2012!

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Dogs 2012 Pets Family 100

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APRIL 29, 2020

The last time I had seen a Summer Tanager was during a Christmas Bird Count in 2012. The only harassment came from the resident Red-tailed Squirrel family – which seemed to be more curiosity than anything else, as their nest was just about two feet away. Typical of the species.

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Trinidad Birds Squirrels 2012 200

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APRIL 6, 2014

By the beginning of September the family had decided to move north and over two nights they moved through the area on Cable Beach that is the busiest during the day. Although it would seem a risky move it was to get the family to a reef that is exposed on low tide to the north. Hermit Crab in lid.

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2007 Eggs 2014 2002 168

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JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

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AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. There was little movement by the family during the heat of the day except to fly to the shoreline for a drink and to cool their feet.

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Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 176

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MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? . I was confused.

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Trinidad South America Birds 2011 193

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JULY 17, 2012

Starting on June 28, 2012, anyone can nominate at purina.maker.good.is. Nominations are accepted now through July 30, 2012. 6, 2012 through Aug. 20, 2012 with the winner revealed after Aug. And, the Shine a Light on a Shelter is a perfect start to help combat this misperception.”. Voting runs Aug.

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Shelters 2012 Homelessness Branding 100

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MARCH 15, 2012

Celebrate Earth Day, April 20, 2012, by seeing the latest Disneynature film, True-Life Adventure, CHIMPANZEE! CHIMPANZEE is a story of family bonds, individual triumph, and extraordinary personalities of the intelligent chimps. We are very excited to bring the story of Oscar and his chimpanzee family to the big screen.

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Congo 2012 North America Africa 100

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MAY 11, 2013

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!

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Kazakhstan New York 2006 United States 153

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MARCH 10, 2017

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) In some ways his story is familiar to a lot of birders: the outdoors was both recreation and refuge for him, his family imbued him with a love of learning and an appreciation for the earth.

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South Carolina Stray Cows Blackbirds 125

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. see: Matthew E. Clapham and Jered A.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 197

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JULY 11, 2013

A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. This time they appear more relaxed, but nervousness might be a better politics: in 2007, poachers killed only 13 rhinos in South Africa, but in 2008 already 83, in 2009 – 122, in 2010 – 333, in 2011 – 448 and in 2012 a staggering 668!

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 189

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APRIL 13, 2015

However very few birders ever venture to areas off this well-beaten track, so with this in mind, I decided to explore a fascinating but ornithologically little known corner of Ethiopia in January 2012, to see what surprises awaited me. As the sky turned rosy with dawn, we stopped for some excellent additions to our burgeoning bird list.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Cattle 239

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

That night Ty and his family looked through the photos. Ty died peacefully at home yesterday, on October 17, 2012. In an instant, he was gone. There were cheers, applause, and minutes later people were pointing upward, swearing that the tiny speck in the sky must be Ty’s hawk. Cindy wrote, “Our baby is finally free.”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Killing 2012 160

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APRIL 8, 2012

Disneynature takes moviegoers deep into the forests of Africa with CHIMPANZEE , a new True-Life Adventure that introduces an adorable young chimp named Oscar and his entertaining approach to life in a remarkable story of family bonds and individual triumph.

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2012 Africa Family Cats 100