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My Year in Birding 2012

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Seeing 525 species was nice, as was the fact that I birded in four countries, nine of the fifty states in the United States, and fifty-one counties. I had some goals for this year as well, goals which I laid out in the introduction to my 2012 year list. Finally, my 2012 Year List easily exceeded the 500 species I had hoped to see.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of April 2012)

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The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species.

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A Look Back at 2012

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Back in January of last year I said in my list for the year that I’d be happy if I hit 300 birds in 2012. The middle period of the year was very barren for new species, and this being New Zealand for birds in general. My final number for last year was 402 as it turns out. So I guess the question is “am I happy?”

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

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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. I didn’t know what species of woodpecker it was, but I knew it was just in the clearing on the other side of the road. It was a cool 48 degrees.

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Reviewing 2011 – My Year in Birds

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Finishing a year with 372 species is nothing to sneeze at and the fact that I added twenty-five birds to my ABA list was nice. 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. Will 2012 be as kind a year to me as 2011? What did I see? And burrowing!

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“Keep your taxonomy out of my field guide” – revisited

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Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why field guides that arrange species in a more or less strict taxonomic order regularly frustrate me. Taxonomy is constantly changing and so does the order of species in field guides. van Balen, N. Brickle & F. Rheindt (review here ).

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Quarantine Twitch for the Best Backyard Bird

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Typical of the species. 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.

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