10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The warm, sunny climate beckons a wide variety of passerines, raptors, and shorebirds to spend the winter, inflating the species diversity to the extent that Miami-Dade can go toe-to-toe with counties in Texas and Arizona during this season. Can we hit 200 ABA-countable species in four days next year?

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Miami 2015 United States Florida 217

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APRIL 12, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a new bird in New York State for him, a difficult feat when approaching 400 species checked off the checklist. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 New York Florida Birds 217

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2015

One of the awesome gull species the folks on the boat spotted? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Fortunately, I had multitudinous murders of American Crows to appreciate; Rochester is reputed to have more crows than people. Should he pick an alcid? Northern Gannets ?

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2015 2012 Birds Experience 217

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2015

Corey saw 115 species of bird on Saturday alone so he had lots of to choose from in picking his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Mid-May is one of those times of year where everything needs to take a backseat to birding.

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2015 Laws Birds Experience 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bushy-crested Jay , one of quote a few fine species he spotted while exploring the area around Copan Ruinas in Honduras. 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?

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Honduras 2015 Farming Birds 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Birding can leave a bitter taste in your mouth if you fixate on certain aspects of the experience. Over the last month, I’ve reacquainted myself with so many species I only see once a year at best, The pleasure those encounters triggered mean so much more than the pain of missing a couple of life birds.

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2015 Birds Experience Experiments 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Here in Trinidad, we routinely experience several of these migrants – most of these birds surely pass by unrecorded as not everyone is a birder and not all birders are huge fans of suffering from Warbler Neck. Finding any warblers besides these and the three resident species requires considerable good fortune.

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Trinidad 2015 Suffering Cats 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2015

This endangered species nests all along the south shore of Long Island and Corey was fortunate enough to see six on Friday morning at Rockaway Beach, including two fluffy youngsters. 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?

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2015 Endangered Species United States New York 178

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JANUARY 7, 2023

First birds came in the form of migrants and resident species that live in an oasis of precious green space near home. 2022 gave me a fair share of wonderful birds and birding experiences. Those kept me below the 700 species threshhold but I won’t complain about 691 species. 48 Hummingbird Species.

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Costa Rica Buffalo Endangered Species Birds 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

That means, by logical progression, that in January the trip I am on will experience an actual sighting of a Black Rail ! Sign up if you want the chance to see an enigmatic and charismatic species. … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay level sponsor of the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Sign up for Space Coast !

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Wildlife Bald Eagle 2015 New York City 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. That is, of course, dependent on me finishing a manuscript in a timely way by the end of February which I am well on my way to doing, having completed over one hundred species accounts thus far.

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New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 253

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

Coincidentally, this species was Corey’s Best Bird exactly one year ago. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Although he caught unsatisfying glimpses of his first ABA Mourning Warbler , BBOTW honors must go to a bird much better seen, like a sweet Canada Warbler.

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Jamaica 2015 Abandon Abandonment 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The following year, 2014, I elected to join a different group birding the lowland seasonal forest at the opposite end of the CBC radius from where I had that wonderful experience the year before. The sandy forest yielded half-decent looks at several uncommon forest species such as this White-shouldered Tanager. Common Ground Dove.

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Trinidad Livestock 2015 Buffalo 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

I wish I could count the uncharacteristically confiding Sunbittern at the Toronto Zoo, but that species continues to elude me in its natural range. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What more could you want for a three-day weekend? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2015 Zoos Canada Birds 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Anything else we could say about this great book would only be more in the way of superlatives. (And the price has not increased since 2015; it’s a bargain.).

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Suriname Malawi 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

But of all the species he spotted he felt either of the two Grasshopper Sparrows at Kissena Park in Queens was his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. After all, the two birds doubled his total number of Grasshopper Sparrow sightings in his home borough!

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New York City 2015 New York Sparrows 150

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DECEMBER 6, 2015

But I wonder how these trends are impacting every other species on Earth… yes, sometimes I can think of someone besides myself! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Considering how cold the area I live in usually is, this balmy December suits me fine.

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2015 Geese 2014 Birds 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I don’t consider my little garden to be a terribly birdy patch, although years of observation have resulted in my seeing 59 species there (64, if you count the White-throated Swifts , Black and Turkey Vultures, Red-tailed Hawks and Common Ravens that may fly high overhead). Días de precipitación = Days of precipitation. The reason?

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Nashville Mexico Turkey 2015 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the four Cave Swallows he saw in Queens, part of an amazing invasion of the northeast by this species after sustained southwest winds for nearly a week. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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ALA 2015 Birds Experience 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. The latest press release from the USFWS. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Louisiana 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend could have been any of a multitude of species spotted on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Baltimore 2015 Jamaica New York 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

Will the threatened species make it through if there are no birding tourists to make those birds and their habitats valuable to local people just the way they are (as opposed to tropical timber)? What will be left of birding tourism? I was trying to find that answer for a while and it turned into a very annoying experience.

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Uganda Bolivia Ecuador Thailand 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

Florida is perhaps the one place in the United States where you can rack up a pretty great list of birds, including some of North America’s most impressive species, simply by walking down the sidewalk for an hour or so. That was largely due to the vagaries of a single rental car and two young children, but it wasn’t so bad.

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Florida North America Neglecting South America 237

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. It is an intriguing choice of species. New Year’s resolutions from birding friends are starting to trickle in as I write this review.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The count totaled 119 species, which is historically a very good number. 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? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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Bald Eagle Nashville 2015 Pelicans 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2016

This is Tom’s second contribution to 10,000 Birds, following the riveting description of his great hummingbird nest heist : The Gray Thrasher , one of the endemic species of the “The Baja,” has become one of my favorite birds to photograph. It was spotted by several birders at the Famosa Slough, on August 2nd of 2015.

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San Diego Seattle Mexico Oregon 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

In November of 2015, I saw a Northern Mockingbird 20 out of the 30 days. On May 22, 2015, I embarked on a 365 day-long project. For the duration of a year, I was going to record every species I saw every single day. I’ll be able to tell you the average number of species I saw in a day, in a month, in a summer.

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2015 Pelicans Birds Species 124

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AUGUST 3, 2021

There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. How do they know?

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North America Birds Research America 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

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.

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New Jersey Birds Science New York City 223

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. The solution? The Kerkini Lake.

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 190

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APRIL 5, 2022

per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. The accounts cover vagrancy patterns for the family as a whole, reasons for vagrancy, documented examples of vagrancy for specific species and reasons that might account for those incidents.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Navarro’s exceptional drawings illustrate the species accounts. Forty-eight species. Compare, for example, the species account illustration of the Cuban Trogon with the photo that opens up the introductory chapter. The luxury of space means that each species can be shown from various angles and in distinctive poses.

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Cuba Birds 2000 United States 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Here are a few suggestions for 2015: Lets get the incredibly unoriginal stuff out of the way first… do a big year. Flycatcher Jen of I Used To Hate Birds has amassed close to 160 species in the last two years just walking and biking around Portland, Oregon, which is a number that deserves a toast if you ask me.

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Birds Portland Oregon Wildlife 256

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Black-legged Kittiwake seen from shore in Suffolk County, New York, while on a wild goose chase that did not net nearly enough species of goose. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2015 New York Woodpeckers Birds 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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?

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

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?

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Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But getting a grip on gulls can be rewarding, and even within a large group of seemingly drab-colored, dump-loving trash eaters, there are spectacular species, like the dramatic Sabine’s Gull, the nearly mythical Ivory Gull, and easily one of the most sought-after species in North America, the mysterious Ross’s gull. (p.

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North Carolina Birds North America Owls 263