10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2024

Sinaloa Martin By 2015, I had discovered the tiny town or Paso Ancho, Michoacán, as my nearest option for seeing the many endemics of Mexico’s Hot Country/ Tierra Caliente. I could not test this theory in 2024, as by that month the lake had disappeared.

Squirrels 216

Squirrels Mexico Kansas South America 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

(Note: this post refers to a trip I took a long time ago, in 2015. Still, after I used modern software to turn the originally black-and-white photos into colored ones, some of them may still be worth looking at). Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there.

Mongolia 183

Mongolia Hedgehogs Russia Birds 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

The following year, having tested his employer’s indulgence still further, Chapin was back in the Congo, where, from a forest mining camp east of Stanleyville (now Kisangani), he succeeded in obtaining several specimens of what he was to name the ‘Congo Peacock’ (Afropavo congensis, and now also known as the Congo Peafowl).

Congo 264

Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested. Interestingly, in April 2015 , I was here with a group of international birding guides, at the embankment south of the Strymonas Bridge, when one of them spotted a Scrub Robin for a moment.

Greece 190

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 190

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

And, even as the ducks brighten their plumage and the Black-capped Chickadees test out their spring songs, it’s still so cold. Unfortunately, I’ve been dipping a lot – public transit does not lend itself to rapid response. American Wigeon by Gary Kramer, courtesy of USFWS. Birding Eurasian Wigeon waterfowl wigeons winter'

Iceland 161

Iceland Owls Ducks Montana 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Even more than warbler, shorebird, and sparrow identification, this is a field that tests our endurance (gull watching is too often done in bitter cold, windy conditions), patience (even getting one good photo can take hours as you try to separate the ‘interesting gull’ from the flock), observational skills (so many plumages!)

North America 194

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). .; Houghton Mifflin, U.S.), SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION.

Albatross 278

Albatross Penguins Family Groups 278