10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

So many people devoted serious time this weekend to acquiring gifts for family, friends, and strategic acquaintances. Hopefully, each of you found time to give yourselves the gift of a decent bird sighting or two. I tried to rustle up some Short-eared Owls down at Nations Road, a notorious haunt for these magnificent beasts.

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2014 Virginia Owls Birds 167

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AUGUST 10, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend, on the other hand, was one of the many species of shorebird he during a weekend full of birding opportunities what with his whole family being in California. Based on my tale of woe, consider me lucky to have walked away with a couple of ratty Common Yellowthroats this weekend.

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2014 New York California Birds 167

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JUNE 15, 2014

But while one a whale-watching trip with his family on Saturday and seeing only Herring Gulls at the back of the boat for a good half-hour, he heard Desi, his four-and-a-half-year-old son, pipe up with “There’s a Laughing Gull !

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2014 Whales Whaling New York 161

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JUNE 9, 2015

On March 16, 2014, I saw and heard a raven flying overhead in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The family has continued hanging around Chelsea since, and it’s a lot of fun watching (and hearing!) In 2010, Common Ravens nested in Queens. They’ve also recently nested in the Bronx and nearby in New Jersey.

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New York City New York 2015 New Jersey 247

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AUGUST 1, 2014

Corey will be birding Greene County with family and friends. If you’re fretting the end of summer, don’t forget that you still have plenty of time left to enjoy it! I just returned from a brief but exciting trip to Colombia and will take this weekend to catch my breath. How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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Colombia Psychology 2014 Birds 158

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MAY 12, 2014

Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family. Tanagers are listed in the table of contents as members of the Tanager, Thraupidae , family, not members of the cardinal and grosbeak, Cardinalidae , family. Cool Springs Press, March 2014, 224 pages, 8.2 by Noble Proctor.

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2006 2014 Connecticut North America 195

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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.

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2007 Eggs 2014 2002 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

This research suggests that the boom isn’t due to an influx of newcomers, but rather because more local birds are flourishing and successfully rearing families. “At some level what we confirm is that the ecological consequences of an invasion such as that of the EAB are complex and difficult to predict,” study coauthor Walter D.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Chicago Kentucky 273

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. His wildlife photographs have been published in birding and mountaineering magazines and his devotion to his very favorite bird family, the Albatross, have been documented in his book, Around the World for Albatrosses (2019). Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 278

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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

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since I saw my first in February of 2014 at Breezy Point I have had two more encounters, both in February of 2015, both at Jacob Riis Park. This pair of birds on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond had been around for several days by the time that I got to see them in early September 2014. Lapland Longspur, 31 Oct 2010, 17 Feb 2014.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Ardmore is aged on site in American oak bourbon barrels and refill casks, and the bulk of the distillery’s production is destined for the blending of Teacher’s Highland Cream, though some of it is bottled as single malt whisky, as with the Legacy expression introduced in 2014.

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Eagles Ireland Deer 2014 190

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to Honduras in 2014, I was advised to use The Birds of Costa Rica by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (2014) and The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N.G. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries. Howell and Sophie Webb (a classic, but big and published in 1995).

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 231

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

Phillipps: Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan, Third Edition (2014): I couldn’t find anything in the introduction, but it appears to be generally a combination of traditional (1993) and newer (2009) taxonomy, review here. Order of bird families, non-songbirds. Phillipps, Q. &

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Brunei 2009 2014 2016 153

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

I didn’t travel much this year, with a June family trip to California and Nevada and a four-day trip in July to Trinidad and Tobago being my only opportunities to get birds not in the northeastern United States. Hopefully I will see at least that many species in 2014! And what do you think they will be in 2014?

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2013 New York City Nevada Trinidad 172

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JANUARY 6, 2015

I reviewed the New Jersey volume in May 2014 and, being in Florida at the moment, I thought this was a good time to take a closer look at both the Florida volume, published just last month, and the Colorado volume, published in June 2014. (I December 2014. Scott & Nix, Inc., 320 pages; 0.8 Scott & Nix, Inc.,December

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Colorado Florida New Jersey North America 234

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JULY 7, 2021

A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. Whether it is birding tourism or simply spreading awareness about biodiversity, it is always with the aim of getting us humanoids to treat nature a little (ideally, a lot) better.

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Opossums Barn Owls Reptiles Hunting 264

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Twelve family accounts have been added. It is 72 pages longer than the first edition. An undisclosed number of family and species accounts have been updated. Nine photographers contributed most of the photographs used to illustrate the family sections, including Richard Crossley, Kevin T. Over 70 range maps were updated.

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North America America Family Falcons 177

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I The plates show differing plumages as required by the individual families and species. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014.

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Brunei Asia Birds China 174

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

” Although some doves get as much respect as the late Rodney Dangerfield, we shouldn’t let commonality cloud our view of this big, beautiful family. “No respect!” Those who ignore the doves would miss out on crazy feathered beings like the Orange Dove , or (gasp!) one of the crowned-pigeons.

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Costa Rica Bolivia Rats South America 176

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius 2006 275

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JANUARY 15, 2014

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. 4 Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project (2014). It was July of 2012. I arrived at Lassen Volcanic National Park around 7:00 a.m. It was a cool 48 degrees.

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Woodpeckers California South Dakota Chad 170

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MARCH 5, 2017

In early 2014 the rainfall was good and flooded the main highway south from Broome and made for some excellent birding from your car. The area remained flooded for several months in 2014 and there was significant road damage, but over the months the birding improved as more and more birds arrived in the area.

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Geese Breeding Eggs 2014 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 4, 2014

On April 15th, 2014, Skittles required emergency surgery due to an intestinal obstruction. So far, Bridget has raised over 50% from friends, family, and animal lovers from all over, which is amazing! Reader Bridget needs our help! Thank goodness, he is out of surgery and healing now.

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Massachusetts Medical No Kill Shelters 100

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APRIL 25, 2022

One would think that a bird named Grey Butcherbird is a shrike or at least related to shrikes (which are commonly called butcherbirds), but one would be wrong, as Duncan already explained in a 2014 post for 10,000 Birds. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow. Female below.

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 184

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JUNE 20, 2019

When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. Nikos managed to show us the incubating Cattle Egrets, of which only 2 or 3 pairs breed in this enormous heronry, counting up to 9000 pairs back in 2014. What should I expect?

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 193

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2013

Nemesis Bird has come on strong with a core of great young birders twitching rarities at a pace that astounds those of us with full-time jobs and families. Perhaps some birders should pitch in together and decide ahead of time to do a big year blog together in 2014? That would be a blog to be reckoned with! … I and the Bird.

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Birds Groups Singapore 2014 212

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JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. And I, like some dowager countess in a birding vest, am expected to know each one’s family at a glance and greet them by name.

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Peru South America Birds Kenya 254

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MAY 6, 2016

Once you eliminate the risque jokes (I know, I know, but it’s a family blog) the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet might have the most comical name in American birding. The tyrant flycatchers, in turn, derive their name from the first member of the family to land a Latin name, the Eastern Kingbird.

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Costa Rica 2014 Family Collecting 102

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JANUARY 1, 2023

Way back in 2014, when I saw my first Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo near the little town of Pino Real, and shared the sighting on a birders’ chat group, it took just over a month for the first biologist/ornithologist to visit me. But he regularly visits family in Morelia. It seems he had looked long and wide for this species.

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Mexico Cuba Species Turkey 206

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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

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). ’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*. .

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Galahs and Red-tailed Black Cockatoos called noisily overhead and the honeyeater family were represented by Brown Honeyeaters, Yellow-tinted Honeyeaters and Rufous-throated Honeyeaters. We observed a Grey-crowned Babbler flying out of a Boab tree and soon realised that it had come out of a roost where the family group will gather.

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Ducks Birds Investigation Australia 145

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Lockwood and Bruch Freeman was a model of its kind—the definitive book on the status, abundance and distribution of birds in one of our largest states, both in terms of geographical size and checklist—and the second edition, published ten years later in 2014, continues to set the bar high. Texas A&M University Press; Second Edition, 2014.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 164

10,000 Birds

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. Naish, D., & Dyke, G.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 198

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2023

I could observe where the family had come down to the ocean at night on the big tides. Pied Oystercatcher family footprints in the soft sand and down to the high tide mark The two Pied Oystercatcher chicks were obedient and hid when they were told by their parents. One large Pied Oystercatcher family !

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Eggs Australia Protection Breeding 130