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As the year 2013 accelerates towards its imminent endpoint, I find myself deluged with end-of-year tasks both mundane and inspired. Instead of easing into the last days of December and out of 2013, you might consider redoubling your efforts to end this year on a triumphant note. What was your best bird of the weekend?
These and several other species might end up being armchair ticks if and when we take a closer look at their evolutionary history. Taxa that could end up being split into one species occurring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and one south of the isthmus. (2). Two subspecies of the same species that differ within Costa Rica. (4).
With the foresight to get my taxes taken care of early, I was free to enjoy the cold spring weather and lingering winter species around here. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Some are surely at it still. What a way to ruin a weekend! Birding best bird weekend'
Of course we should seek reasons to celebrate every bird species we share our weekends with, but is the species that delights us most always the most memorable? He was very pleased to get such close looks at such a cool shorebird species with the sun low in the sky behind him. What was your best (or worst) bird of the weekend?
Corey had a pretty good morning’s birding at Jones Beach on Saturday and had a difficult time deciding between three different species as his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I didn’t see this bird break its fast, at least not recently.
When it comes to New World flycatchers, empids tend to irritate me for the same reasons they irritate everyone, but species in the genus Contopus make me much happier for inexplicable reasons. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. My best bird of the year is based on the sighting rather than the species. Only trouble is, which of the seven species I saw this year do I pick?
What elevated the kings of kings above other species this time around was their gregarious behavior. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. My best birds were Eastern Kingbirds , which usually catch my attention in summer. What was your best bird of the weekend?
It is not often that Corey has the privilege of taking a chair lift to go birding but that is what he did and he was rewarded with several mountain species, including the gorgeous Green-tailed Towhee above, which is his Best Bird of the Weekend, narrowly beating out Dusky Flycatcher. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
How are seasons like species? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. In both instances, we can have trouble telling where one ends and the other begins. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'
I hoped to add the Carolina Wren that’s been hanging around my house to the tally, but settled instead for Northern Cardinal , the most common GBBC species at the midway point. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
But he really appreciated the Surf Scoters he saw at Shinnecock Inlet out in Suffolk County on Long Island on Saturday so he chose that species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? What was your best bird of the weekend?
The first Elegant Tern ever spotted in New York State is an amazingly good bird, especially when it is one of eight tern species for the weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The others were Common , Forster’s , Least , Black , Arctic , Roseate , and Royal.).
The natural attractions of midsummer seem more subtle than those enjoyed during the frantic peregrinations of the world’s migratory species. Of course, the reasons why robins might mob a crow are obvious, but I never attributed a mob mentality to that species! How refined are your tastes in nature? How about you?
Corey could have chosen any of three species of owls that he tracked down in the Bronx this weekend as his Best Bird of the Weekend, but for some reason he was really digging the Bufflehead he spotted in several locations, particularly the one coming in for a landing in the photo. Instead, we get the Ravens vs. 49ers in a Har-bowl.
Corey had an absurd array of avians to choose from as his Best Bird of the Weekend considering that between Friday and Sunday he saw 148 species in his journeys around Queens, the Bronx, and Sullivan, Ulster, and Orange Counties. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
A Carolina Wren hopped cheerfully around my front lawn this weekend, establishing that species’ half-hardy credentials. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend wasn’t one bird, or even one species, but the hordes of ducks he saw at Baisley Pond Park in Queens. How did that work out for you this weekend?
Great Gray Owl , Northern Hawk Owl , Snowy Owl – this trinity captures the imagination of most birders with their imposing presence, unique adaptations, and beauty as among the most desired species of bird to see in the world. On the third day, we finally connected with the species I wanted to see the most and just could not miss.
After over a year of planning and preparation (and after a quick trip to the Pantanal and Chapada dos Guimaraes), I finally arrived at Cristalino Jungle Lodge on the afternoon of August 1st, 2013 to begin my nearly three month long guiding experience here. Spotted Puffbird on the Serra Trail!
However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular. Photo courtesy of Ciro Albano. Or so we thought.
Corey had way too many birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Weekend, with exactly 100 species for the four-day weeekend. The shrike, on the other hand, is a species I’ve seen only a few times and thus earns the honor of my Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
Nearly every country or region has an area on its periphery that regularly attracts a tantalizing assortment of vagrants or a set of species that just barely make it over an international border. For others, it is the desire to have a different birding experience from home without needing a passport.
My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. This is what I am able to conclude from my age-related immense treasure trove of experience, which makes it an indisputable truth. Here is a further series of images from another typical day-roost of the species: roof-tops. Legs: The Expendables 2.
Far less experience the two in a single morning. Fortunately, I live in Trinidad and Tobago – a twin-island nation that boasts the second highest density of bird species in the world. The first species we got a good view of was an extremely cooperative pair of White-shouldered Tanagers. Variegated Flycatcher. White Hawk.
The positions of sun and moon don’t change, they can still see features of the landscape and we know some bird species have mental maps of rivers, mountains, and coast lines. Anna Gagliardo1, Joël Bried, Paolo Lambardi, Paolo Luschi1, Martin Wikelski, & Francesco Bonadonna4 (2013). So maybe that.”
In fact, if I remember correctly, it was 2013 when I first noticed (from an office window) a huge collection of sticks at the crown of a large immortelle tree. Although relatively common here they’re notoriously difficult to see well – a phenomenon clearly not unique to this species ! Once we arrived at a suitable (i.e.
I photographed the first of only two Northern Parulas ever reported in my state, way back in 2013. This was only my fourth encounter with the species (all on the east side). He should have visited my home last month, when both species were visiting my birdbath almost daily. But obviously, I haven’t seen one since then.
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.” Very little is known about this enigmatic species.
Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? “Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina.
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.”. A bite from an army ant can really pack a punch; I speak from experience.
Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement. No rails or gallinules.
A good state bird guide needs to offer details about a bird’s look, sound, behavior and habitat in language that is specific enough to differentiate the bird from similar-looking species, but nonscientific enough not to intimidate novice birders. Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order.
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.”. What an amazing experience!
Additional back of the book material includes a Glossary, Biographical Details, a Select Bibliography, Notes, Credits, an Index to Species and a General Index. Cocker writes about the species within each family with a literary specificity softened by a tone of conversational patience. Random House UK, September 2013.
GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. “BBI These chapters differ in length and content, depending on the number of species in each group.
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.”. Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder.
An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication. Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. Why are these issues?
Incredibly we observed another pair of Australian Painted Snipe on 4th August 2013 at an ephemeral lake that still held ample water after the Wet Season, but it could have been the same pair…only they would know that! So many questions can be asked of this mystery species. Where do they go? How do they know where to go?
The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.
The Eastern guide covers 545 species and the Western guide covers 636 species. Each species is depicted in as many or as few photographs as is necessary for identification. I think the quotes do give an idea of the high degree of detail incorporated into each species description.
Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?
Over 3,200 photographs have been used, most showing species in their habitats. There is also text, distribution maps, a dark red bar “warning” about similar looking rare species, and conservation symbols. So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?
More importantly however, there used to be a time when identification guides were published that focussed entirely on the British Isles, leaving out many species of “continental” Europe, and these were labelled “of Britain and Europe” to promote sales outside the UK and Ireland. Next are the tracks of birds.
I remember my first months of birding; the excitement when discovering a new species, the challenge of recognizing field marks in my Sibley guide, the novel way I began to look at the world. Plus, I usually bird alone, so sharing the experience with a friend is that much better. I love hanging out with new birders. ” I wondered.
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