10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In October 2015 I shared some photos with you of a Black-breasted Buzzard drinking and bathing on a hot day. They may well have all been from the same family. One of the distinguishing features of Black-breasted Buzzards are the pale wing panels in flight. The outer feathers are very open as you can see in the above photo.

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2015 Eagles Family Birds 264

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JUNE 21, 2015

I took my family on Sunday to explore a stretch of the flat but fancy Lehigh Valley Railroad Trail. This weekend delivered the longest days of the year to those of us on the top half of the world. Hope you made the most of that extra daylight!

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2015 Jamaica Hunting Birds 183

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JULY 21, 2021

The first words describing this species in Wikipedia are “poorly-documented” Before 2015, when I first saw it in Paso Ancho, it had only been reported twice on eBird outside of its Sierra Madre Occidental breeding range: once from Taxco, Mexico, and another report from Nicaragua. This fellow, however, was the real deal.

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Nicaragua 2015 2016 Mexico 264

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JANUARY 3, 2023

I am puzzled as to why Gulls and Terns are almost passed over, with less than two pages of text devoted to a family description and only six species accounts (four gulls, two terns). Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Family Birds Collecting 290

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MAY 17, 2015

He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back.

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Jamaica 2015 Abandoning Abandonment 162

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JUNE 28, 2015

I took a family trip down to rural Pennsylvania, where I can always count on seeing an abundance of Eastern Kingbirds … and I did. The past week has been invigorating for Americans who support freedom, dignity, and equality. Hopefully you celebrated by enjoying some fine birds!

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Pennsylvania 2015 Sparrows Birds 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2015

I’m excited to be camping with my family in the Adirondacks this weekend. However, even the most jaded among us should be able to appreciate the appearance and behavior of fledglings and juveniles. Canada Geese are never as interesting as when escorting those adorable goslings!

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Breeders 2015 Geese Canada 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the several Black Vultures that went overhead during a family hike to Anthony’s Nose in the Hudson Valley. The winds this weekend in western New York must have been favorable for migration, because the only nonresident I could track down was a Swainson’s Thrush.

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Bears 2015 New York Birds 160

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JULY 31, 2015

I’ll be trying to drag my family on some sort of hike this weekend. Corey had no trouble dragging his family to Honduras, where he’ll surely see more interesting birds than me! Then a flash of sun on a waiting hill, Streams laugh that erst were quiet, The sky smiles down with a dazzling blue. How about you?

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Honduras 2015 Family Birds 154

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Springtime Birding with David Sibley (“A great migration is underway in the northern hemisphere, as migratory birds head north to start a family. And one that is a bit older: Fresh Air ( NPR , 2015, 37 min.): Living on Earth ( PRX , 2020, 14 min.):

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Zoos 2020 Massachusetts 2015 264

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AUGUST 9, 2015

My travels with family to the coast of Virginia have already yielded a bevy of birds I usually only see once a year. Summer often means vacation. Vacations mean travel. Travel means new ecosystems. New ecosystems mean new birds. See why I love summer?

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2015 Virginia Birds Family 157

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MAY 24, 2015

Corey is still enjoying a long Memorial Day weekend with his family in Delaware but wanted to share that his Best Bird of the Weekend thus far was a Chuck-Will’s-Widow calling in the predawn darkness at Cape Henlopen State Park. How about you?

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Delaware 2015 Birds Family 157

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MAY 25, 2022

Green-tailed Towhee , San Miguel de Allende, December 2015. Earlier this month, I came across a family of Spotted Towhees (Olive-backed) with a couple of other strange aspects. Canyon Towhees , Cañada de los Filtros Viejos. Green-tailed Towhee , Tres Cerritos, March 2021. But it still shows no spots.

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Mexico North America Sparrows 2015 264

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

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JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Schmitt is a lecturer on Ponant Antarctic cruises who lived in Chile from 2005 to 2015, and helped develop the eBird online birding tool for Chile and the rest of South America. Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy.

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Chile Birds South America Albatross 271

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. My desk is littered with general field guides, guides to specific families, books about bird behavior, and books about status and distribution of birds in New York while my browser is always opened to eBird and xeno-canto.

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New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Colorado 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to bird this time round. A nice assemblage of waders, including my first encounter with the newly minted ABA 2015 Bird of the Year Green Heron. The birds were what you’d expect.

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Florida North America Neglecting South America 232

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APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

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AUGUST 26, 2021

As Watson has put it in the Chapter 1, “while the focus of this book is on families of African birds, there are a few individual species that have somehow come to epitomise Africa, even though they have relatives elsewhere, and commentaries on these appear too. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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Congo Africa Madagascar Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

The last ten birds have taken a very long time: when I last asked what I would add to my Queens list it was September 21, 2015 ! Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. That’s long time! I must stare at the ocean a lot.

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2018 2019 2015 Kansas City 212

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.” The latest press release from the USFWS. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Louisiana 165

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JANUARY 5, 2022

which is its common name in Spanish) back in 2015, and I had heard it two times since. His family’s 7 hectares (17 acres) of wooded land includes a lovely grassy marsh. And in November I saw it again, further west but still within the state, on my way to seeing this year’s White Ibis (#6 above).

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Mexico Virginia Barn Owls Birds 264

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JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

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JANUARY 6, 2015

Species Accounts in both titles are arranged loosely in ABA Checklist order, with some flipping around of order within each family. I did find some photographs used in both guides, notably the impressive male Bald Eagle and the 2015 ABA Bird of the Year, Green Heron. Interestingly, there is little overlap.

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Colorado Florida New Jersey North America 267

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. They were simply sent to Family Court. In the following days harrowing photos of dead birds and severed body parts were posted on social media pages. Gutierrez was 18.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

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MAY 5, 2015

The bird family accounts are wonderfully informative, especially if you are a birder (like me) who knows enough to know what family a bird belongs to, but still has trouble differentiating amongst specific species within the family. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2015. by Kevin Karlson and Dale Rosselet.

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New Jersey Birds Science New York City 205

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. September 15, 2015. by Nate Swick, illustrations by Robert Brandt. Page Street Publishing, 176 pages, 9.3 Kindle edition available Sept.

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North Carolina Birds North America Owls 263

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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). Sullivan, 2015), Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast (with Brian L.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 246

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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. Say’s Phoebe – A self-found rarity at Edgemere while accompanied by my family made my day back on 05 October 2014. Whimbrel, 11 Apr 2011, 15 May 2012, 30 Dec 2013, 20 May 2015.

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MAY 30, 2015

The real Gung-Ho, Kung-Fu birders would have drove to this site at midnight and just slept in the car or looked for owls until the dawn chorus in excellent middle elevation rainforest but since we have families, and I hate being exhausted and zombie-eyed from lack of sleep, more leisurely birding was just peachy.

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Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 218

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The White-backed Vulture was “not considered of conservation concern until 2007, after which its threat status has been successively elevated, becoming Critically Endangered in 2015 following severe decline in several parts of range and likelihood of continuing decline.” ” (HBW). And I do not see much of a helmet either.

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Elephants Congo Birds Africa 147

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MAY 3, 2016

Organization: The guides are organized taxonomically (by scientific group), according to the 17th edition of the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) Check-list of North American Birds , including changes through the 56th supplement, which came out in 2015. And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get.

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North America 2003 Birds America 189

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.

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Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 181

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Both Puerto Rico and the USVI have active birding communities that are currently excluded from full membership in the ABA family. All Americans Should be Full Members of the ABA Family. Adding Puerto Rico and the USVI would largely achieve the goal of bringing all Americans into full membership of the ABA family.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 202

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Robert Gallardo’s self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras came out in 2015, and is the first bird field guide dedicated to that country. (I Each family group starts with a description of what traits are common to the species within the family, its representation in Northern Central America, and other interesting, relevant facts.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 235

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. Clearly, members of the birding community and their families–thanked in the opening Acknowledgments section–played a strong role in getting this project done. . An identification guide for an overlooked bird family?

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 216