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 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 250

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. Flying around in an airplane or taking a sprawling roadtrip is absolutely the exact opposite of “green” birding, but as a bird junkie, you gotta get around if you want to experience new places and new things.

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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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

I was trying to find that answer for a while and it turned into a very annoying experience. Here’s an example: in 2015, American birder Noah Strycker broke the global Big Year record with 6042 recorded species. These areas offer magnificent wildlife but, apart from Kaziranga, little in terms of infrastructure.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

You may have read about them in the Wall Street Journal , the BBC Wildlife Magazine , or perhaps watched them on BBC, who filmed them here twice, for the Planet Earth II in 2015 and for the One Planet in 2018. Have you heard of a small town in Serbia graced by the presence of its 700 communally roosting Long-eared Owls ?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

.* So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. Ediciones Nuevos Mundos, 2015. and Cuba.). by Nils Navarro. Flexibound, 168 pages. Language: English.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. The amount of knowledge gained from reading Mastering Bird Photography, the resulting improvement in your photographic images, the increase in your enjoyment of the experience–these are your probable gains.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

We spent two blissful days exploring both the waders and wildlife of Lake Yojoa and the tropical splendor of PANACAM Lodge. Alex Martinez Matute, proprietor of El Rancho in El Cajon, Santa Cruz de Yojoa ( eBird hotspot ), might not have taken up birding until 2015 or so, but he’s certainly made up for lost time.

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Honduras Birds Farming America 187

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. I imagine that it’s a product of the authors’ concerns, but I don’t think it contributes to identification skills or knowledge base.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area. Studies at Cabo Rojo NWR have shown that virtually all species have declined more than 70% between 1985 and 2015. Fish & Wildlife Service. The only other populated U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Nevertheless, it necessary to combine field experience with museum experience to create a vivid and accurate image of a species. Gallardo (2015). & updated (PUP, 2010); you can find a full list of his publications and listing of number of plates contributed on Dyer’s web site. Press and Birds of Belize by H.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2016

Nathan O’Reilly’s most memorable bird was one many birders from New York State and beyond drove to see in 2015. Brian Laben had a wonderful experience seeing this rarity in upstate New York (or, is that mid-state? The Northern Waterthrush was my first of the year, a beautiful bird with it’s tail pumping action. Or a sequel.)

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New York Bald Eagle New York City Birds 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2015

Not everyone experiences a dip in bird activity during the nonmigratory months, but those of us who do are ready to see some new birds NOW! Corey will be out and about in the NYC area this weekend; if you are too, you’d be crazy to miss the 10th Annual Shorebird Festival at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. The new offspring of that year hang back and leave later, finding their way to their wintering grounds using something other than experience, and something other than being taught by their parents. More alarm calling. Apparently.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. who knows what 2015 will bring!!! . I was a bit sad, too, that we had annoyed the owl enough that it felt it had to strafe us … my normal MO is to avoid stressing out wildlife. Carlos’s BBOTY – the Nicobar Pigeon.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Penguins 243

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

This effort took a significant step forward at the CCAMLR meeting last month [October 2015] in Australia when China endorsed the Ross Sea MPA proposal … But we need all 25 CCAMLR Members on board, as the organization makes decisions by consensus. Now you know.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

They were still listed as Endangered, but wildlife management measures taken in this park were clearly working. Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. And they both graze grass and browse younger branches and saplings.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In my mind, nothing beats traveling to memorable destinations to experience the grandeur of both human culture and natural beauty. Naturalist Journeys is offering an enticing India: Wildlife and Birding Safari – Birds, Tigers & the Taj Mahal package in February 2015. What’s so great about birding in India?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the trio of Blue-winged Teal that he spotted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge while scouting for next Sunday’s Queens County Christmas Bird Count. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Costa Rica 2015 Jamaica Birds 100