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JUNE 25, 2012

Corey had several good species to choose from this weekend but most appreciated trying to get decent shots of alternate-plumaged Herring Gulls in bright sunlight. Corey and I both pondered birds that are extremely ordinary for us. Not an easy task! How do you think he did?

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2012 Birds Experience Experiments 222

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JUNE 16, 2012

The risk of extinction for Amazonian birds has increased substantially: 07 June 2012 The risk of extinction has increased substantially for nearly 100 species of Amazonian birds, reveals the 2012 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ update for birds released today by BirdLife International.

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Parrots 2012 Birds Humane 249

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JULY 1, 2012

While I saw a number of tasty shore species, I most appreciated the behemoth Great Black-backed Gulls , which I’ve missed since I’ve moved upstate. Summer can be boring from a birding standpoint or it can be very, very interesting. How has yours been so far?

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2012 Birds Experience Experiments 210

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APRIL 4, 2013

They wanted to put together a book about The World’s Rarest Birds , but were finding that it was pretty difficult locating photographs of the 590 bird species considered Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered or Endangered. Hold not one, but two international photo contests, one in 2010 and one in 2012. The solution?

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United States 2012 2010 Birds 214

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MARCH 18, 2012

My weekend was devoted to a seemingly endless celebration of my son’s 8th birthday, which meant that my best bird was bound to be a backyard species. My liver lingers on in the same (sorry) state in which it entered the weekend. Can you say the same?

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2012 Jamaica New York Woodpeckers 207

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Razorbills ( Alca torda ) have invaded the coastal waters of Florida on an unprecedented scale this December of 2012. To put this invasion into perspective, there were only 14 documented records of Razorbill for the entire state before December 2012.

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Florida Cuba Bahamas 2012 244

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JUNE 27, 2012

Seeing as it is near the midway point of the year I thought it would be nice to check in on how the blogging Big Year birders are doing thus far in 2012. Josh Vandermeulen is sitting pretty at 317 species for the year in Ontario, only 21 off the province’s record of 338, set by Glen Coady in 1996. It’s quite a list!

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South Dakota Houston Mammals Fur 251

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I wasn’t having any luck at all though I was enjoying the typical assortment of wetland species that make we New York birders a bit jealous of our southern compatriots. And there it sat until 2012 when the Florida Ornithological Society’s Records Committee reviewed the status of several introduced species in 2012.**

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Feral Florida Ducks Texas 223

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MARCH 27, 2022

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes – Coracina novaehollandiae are a common bird species around our home in Broome, Western Australia. The only other similar species is the White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike , but it is a much smaller species and the call is quite different.

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Australia Zebras 2014 2012 277

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MAY 6, 2012

A Bay-breasted Warbler was my best bird of the weekend though I could have chosen almost any of the 64 species I spotted. Mike was with his kids doing the theme parks in Florida and had as his best bird one of his Florida favorites, a White Ibis. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Chicago 2012 Florida Birds 193

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AUGUST 25, 2012

My focus during my June 2012 visit was obviously on the hummingbirds. Between them, Trinidad and Tobago boast 17 species, of which several of which are extremely rare or accidental and one — the endangered White-tailed Sabrewing — can only be found in Tobago and.

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Trinidad Lions 2012 Species 263

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Catherine Hamilton has been the first to get all three species correct in the last two diabolical wood-warbler quizzes. If she gets three in a row it will show she is the best birder in the world and Felonious Jive will suffer the sad misfortune of dropping to second place.

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2012 Suffering Species Birds 180

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I can’t wait to explore outer space at the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival from 25-30 January 2012! Well, if I don’t get to go to outer space and see space-birds what the heck am I doing from 25-30 January 2012? 140,000 acres and 330 species of bird sounds great to me! Checking out any (many?)

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Wildlife Florida 2012 Birds 215

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Hence, in land-locked Serbia, it has been recorded only three times: in 1857, one was shot at the Morava River; in 1993, one was observed by a bird photographer Rastko Aleksandrov at the Centa fish farm, north of Belgrade; and in 2012, a team of Croat and Serbian ornithologists found one at the Belgrade city rubbish dump.

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Serbia Croatia Hungary 2012 238

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MARCH 11, 2012

Choosing among the hawks, eagles, and owls at the raptor residence (alas no rehab for these irreparably injured birds of prey) and the active late winter species in the park seemed impossible, until an impressive Pileated Woodpecker put on a powerful display of excavatory activity. Woodpeckers FTW!

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2012 ALA Woodpeckers Eagles 183

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MAY 3, 2012

Forget March Madness… this is when things get crazy for those in sync with the endless sojourns of countless species. With the arrival of May, we turn from bird love to migrant mania. Make the most of this special time!

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2012 Florida Birds Species 191

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

According to the minutes of their annual meeting from January of 2012 there was already movement on Nutmeg Mannikin in the Introduced Birds Subcommittee then: Nutmeg Mannikin listing package status. The package will be based in part on information compiled from eBird with the help of Brian Sullivan.

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California Los Angeles 2013 Eggs 245

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AUGUST 15, 2021

In April 2012 I wrote about A close encounter with a Wedge-tailed Eagle. There is definitely some beauty to the colouring of this species at this stage of their lives. I can’t use that heading again! This time the Wedge-tailed Eagle was closer and only involved ourselves and no other creatures. Wedge-tailed Eagle in flight.

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Eagles 2012 Species Birds 264

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APRIL 29, 2014

Despite our near constant doom-and-gloom prognostications we still manage to see wood-warblers, though most of April is spent looking at the several species that are early arrivals, mostly species that winter in the southeastern United States and therefore can get back to we northeasterns rather quickly.

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New York United States New York City Louisiana 264

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

August continues the theme of low diversity and numbers, with only a smattering of new species in addition to those mentioned above such as Yellow-throated Vireo and Worm-eating Warbler. Will October 2012 have the right conditions for a repeat of 2011?

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Miami Florida 2012 2011 235

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MARCH 8, 2012

As long as it persists, this Western species will prompt every birder within 400 miles to consider, however briefly, taking a run to see it. The rosy-finch isn’t even that far from me, but I’d rather see this species in the Rocky Mountains. Have you thought about chasing this rarity?

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Botswana 2012 United States Birds 176

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JANUARY 2, 2012

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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2011 Puffins United States 2012 204

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Even if you’re not ticking new sightings, pay attention to your FOY birds, the first of year sightings that commemorate the phenological passage of assorted avian species in and out of our life. I gave up year listing a couple of annums back even though I’ve rung up some banner bird bounties in 2010 and 2011.

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Zimbabwe Atlanta 2012 2011 177

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JANUARY 15, 2014

It was July of 2012. 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. Black-backed Woodpeckers are non-migratory, although there have been documented intermittent irruptions of the species outside their normal range. It was a cool 48 degrees.

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Woodpeckers California South Dakota Chad 200

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JULY 3, 2014

I was happy to read that the wood stork ( Mycteria Americana ), a bird near and dear to me, was down-sited from the status of endangered to threatened species. Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As a biologist working for the U.S. Photo: U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 246

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 7, 2012

9, 2012, at 8 p.m. These big cats are a species under constant threat from poachers and farmers who fear that the leopards are attacking their livestock. With GPS to track the big cats’ location and WCS camera traps already in place, if successful, the expedition will offer a deeper understanding of the rare and beautiful species.

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Snow Leopard Cats Afghanistan 2012 100

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JANUARY 11, 2023

I began recording my bird sightings with photographs in late 2009, and since then I have seen (or at least heard) a fair proportion of species recorded within my home country of Trinidad & Tobago. I first caught sight of one while birding a mangrove swamp in 2012. Well, let me explain. Will it be upstaged by another?

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Birds Trinidad 2020 2009 264

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OCTOBER 14, 2012

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a more interesting species of warbler, likely the last Northern Parula he’ll find in Queens this fall. I must not be getting out enough, because I was thrilled to find a flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers : usually butter-butts are distractions, not attractions. How about you?

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2012 United States Birds Experience 169

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JANUARY 29, 2012

I’ll admit that I rarely reach 20 bird species a day, especially this time of year. Speaking of Birdchasers, Rob Fergus may not be a medical doctor, but his prescribed 20 Bird Minimum Daily Requirement seems to be a sure cure for what ails most of us. Be honest: how often are you reaching that mark?

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2012 Medical Owls Birds 176

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JANUARY 6, 2013

Most readers of this blog will certainly appreciate an out-of-season tropical post at the beginning of January, a post based on what was almost my best bird of the year 2012 – if it wasn’t for the Bearded Vulture I saw a bit later. You see, these were the little expectations. Little did I realize… And boy, was I mistaken.

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Rhinoceros 2012 Industry Africa 182

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Way back on 16 May I managed to see my 312 bird species in Queens to add to my Queens list. Somehow I forgot that the last time I predicted what the next ten species I would see in Queens would be was back on 30 December 2013, when my list was sitting at 302. The godwit was my forty-first shorebird species in Queens.).

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2010 2013 2011 2012 160

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JANUARY 26, 2012

I, on the other hand, will be lollygagging with the usual Western New York winter species. Corey will be experiencing birding bliss all weekend long at the mighty, mighty Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Lucky you if you’re there too! What will you be doing this weekend and where will you be birding?

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Tanzania 2012 New York Branding 170

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

The Veliko Ratno Island birdlist is about 170 species long, of which more than 90 were observed from the Dorcol Promenade. Highlight species: Ferruginous Duck , Goosander , Red-breasted Merganser , Red-crested Pochard , Greater Scaup , Velvet Scoter , Black-throated Diver. If that is the case, why come here at all?

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Serbia Ducks Birds Eagles 255

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JULY 21, 2013

The six living species are all found in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2012 ) and that their systematic position is “highly unstable” ( Wang et al. Mousebirds are social fruit-eaters that dangle precariously at odd angles in tight clumps, feet spread wide and long tails often splayed. 2011 ) across different types of analyses.

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Kenya Parrots Africa North America 207

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

From Nature, “ Discovery of species-wide tool use in the Hawaiian crow “: Only a handful of bird species are known to use foraging tools in the wild. Two of these species could be detected only in the interior region in 2012 surveys.

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Hawaii Research Center 2012 2000 162

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AUGUST 6, 2012

A new species of barbet was discovered in 2008 in Peru by a team of ornithologists that were recent graduates of Cornell University. The new species is described in the July 2012 issue of The Auk. The Sira Barbet has as its scientific name Capito fitzpatricki , in honor of the director of the Lab of Ornithogy, Dr. John W.

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Peru 2008 2012 Species 160

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 252