10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Identifying 600 species : This is an annual goal of mine and, in Costa Rica, is feasible even if you stick to birding once a week. Last year, I got 654 species. Record more birds, take more photos of species for my birding apps : I work on birding apps for Costa Rica and Panama. Destinations Costa Rica Year List 2015'

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Costa Rica 2015 Panama Birds 187

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AUGUST 8, 2015

Each year, I hope to identify at least 600 species. That 600th species was a Streaked Xenops , an especially uncommon bird in Costa Rica usually seen at Tapanti National Park. That 600th species was a Streaked Xenops , an especially uncommon bird in Costa Rica usually seen at Tapanti National Park. Streaked Xenops.

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Costa Rica 2015 Species West Virginia 154

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a species that he only gets to see in winter and usually has to work for, sorting through flocks of Horned Larks. Between work and shoveling, I had no chance to get out birding. Fortunately, House Finches came to me, brightening up the feeder with their raspberry resplendence.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

With migration about to kick into gear all over the world, birders might want to think about what species to keep eyes out for week by week. Check out the 14-21 August 2015 Regional Migration Forecast. Curious about the first Birdcast of the season? I’m still too focused on summer to worry about the birds of fall.

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2015 North America Jamaica America 154

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APRIL 5, 2015

Corey had quite a few species to choose from this weekend but decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the simple Tree Swallow. The refuge is the most reliable place I know in the Empire State to spot Sandhill Cranes , so I always keep an eye open. This time, we spotted two shaggy cranes flying across the wetlands.

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JANUARY 18, 2015

A huge raft of seaducks included numerous Redheads , a species I don’t nearly see often enough. My weekend wasn’t as eventful as Russell Wilson’s, but I did locate some open water in the icy Irondequoit Bay Inlet.

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Seattle 2015 Birds Experience 238

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It’s just that Birdwatch Magazine is running its Birders’ Choice Awards 2015 and we are–for the first time in our 12-year history–on the ballot for Blog of the Year. I’m working all weekend but plan to get out early and see what wintering species have arrived recently to the Rochester area. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was easy for him to pick despite the fact that he had over 100 species from which to choose. I dipped on the King Eider drake that had been holding court around Irondequoit Bay but did muster a couple of Common Goldeneyes. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

Though seeing an owl on a nest is an awesome experience there can be too much of a good thing for a sought-after species in a vulnerable situation. Corey overcame such weakness: his Best Bird of the Weekend was a Great Horned Owl on a nest at a location in Queens he wishes not to disclose. How about you?

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2015 Owls Birds Experience 228

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JULY 21, 2021

Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. The reason for this annual pilgrimage is a single species, the Sinaloa Martin. All sightings southeast of the species’ Puerto Vallarta-to-Los Mochis breeding area are of migrating birds.

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Nicaragua 2015 2016 Mexico 264

10,000 Birds

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. But New York’s first chaseable Crested Caracara was well worth the effort, even though it took two visits to Orange County to see it!

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2015 New York Florida Birds 217

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JANUARY 11, 2015

One of the awesome gull species the folks on the boat spotted? Fortunately, I had multitudinous murders of American Crows to appreciate; Rochester is reputed to have more crows than people. A pelagic trip yesterday put Corey in a quandary over what to choose as his Best Bird of the Weekend. Should he pick an alcid? Northern Gannets ?

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2015 2012 Birds Experience 217

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

We had not been to Geelong since April 2015 and once again Grant was at work and I got to explore the bird-life around the city. I visited all of the places that I had in 2015 and despite being a different time of year the bird-life was very similar. The post Bathing Eastern Rosellas appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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2015 Australia Birds Species 219

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2015

But one gull in particular caused much debate because it couldn’t be fit neatly into a species box. But for the first couple of hours I was still alright, mostly because we had good gulls behind the boat still. Black-legged Kittiwake. Black-legged Kittiwake. Lesser Black-backed Gull. Herring Gull ? Kumlien’s Gull ?

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New York Iceland 2015 Ducks 241

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

At last count, there are 25 species of birds named for U.S. But only two states have more than one bird named for them: Hawaii and California, with nine and seven extant and eponymous species, respectively. Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (Lodi Appellation). Good birding and happy drinking!

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2015 San Diego California Condor Family 113

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

This post is not a twitch, but it is much more fun to read if you first dwell upon the sentiments from the last picture of Corey’s post from East Pond, Jamaica Bay, 2015 It would be a bold birder that calls a Common Ringed Plover , Charadrius hiaticula where Semi-palmated Plover , C. semipalmatus is also an option.

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Iceland Stray Breeders Canada 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Sign up if you want the chance to see an enigmatic and charismatic species. The eBird checklist for the trip included 45 species to which we added a bunch more when we stopped at another portion of Lake Jessup Conservation Area and picked up, among other things, Great Horned Owls and Yellow-throated Warbler. Sign up for Space Coast !

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Wildlife Bald Eagle 2015 New York City 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Western” refers to a two-species complex, the Cordilleran Flycatcher and the Pacific-slope Flycatcher. But we – and by we I mean the crowd of birders that had swelled quite a bit from the lonely three birders looking early in the morning – still had the issue of not knowing what species we were actually looking at!

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Collecting Birds 2015 Species 303

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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. Mid-May is one of those times of year where everything needs to take a backseat to birding. Are new migrants flooding your area? If so, we hope you’re getting out there to greet them!

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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. I was well satisfied to travel through farm country this weekend and count the many American Kestrels perched predatorily above the fields. How about you?

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Honduras 2015 Farming Birds 185

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JULY 4, 2020

The first, A Guide to the Birdsong of South America , was released in 2015 and helped raise nearly $15,000 for a pair of non-profit environmental organizations in South America; Aves Argentinas and the Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco in Ecuador.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

She was attracted by the number of different species and their colors. She has a very broad knowledge of species. In Ecuador, there are 1.600+ species of birds. Mindo Cloud Forest has been always on top of Christmas Bird Counts all over the world with 450+ species! Why organize with us your birding/photo tour in Ecuador?

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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. The authors wrote: [Species] “are the currency of field guides and of birding, but deciding what to treat as ‘species’ is inevitably a subjective endeavour. …

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2015

Maybe we’ll find something good, like one of Florida’s specialty species… Snail Kites are amazing. 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay level sponsor of the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. …. Make sure to sign up for them if you want to spend time birding with me!

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Florida Wildlife 2015 Species 226

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

Birders normally care about species and make species lists, how do families fit into those? Adding more species brings a lot of excitement, as long as you bird your own country or a continent. 11,000 species require lots of money and a good portion of one’s life. That gamble is rigged, so the house always wins.

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Family Birds South America Breeding 299

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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 ! Sedge Wren – There are records of this species in Queens, generally along the coast in fall. So what were the actual ten birds that I added between September of 2015 and two Fridays ago?

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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. I explored a couple of amazing new areas this weekend and was rewarded with a luscious Least Bittern in flight along Sodus Bay. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Some of the commonest species found throughout Trinidad and Tobago are American Redstart , Yellow Warbler , and Northern Waterthrush. Finding any warblers besides these and the three resident species requires considerable good fortune. Somehow, I couldn’t peg it to any of my familiar yard species.

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Trinidad 2015 Suffering Cats 264

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

I mean, it is easy to count them all, but what I want are numbers of individual species within such flocks and not just numbers of them all together. I am an experienced bird counter, but until a few years ago, I was mostly counting waterfowl, where you can easily tell the species apart, even in large mixed flocks.

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Serbia 2015 Species Birds 260

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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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AUGUST 14, 2015

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. But birding is obviously so much more than ticking names off a list.

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2015 Birds Experience Experiments 185

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MAY 16, 2017

Here’s a map showing all the Saltmarsh Sparrow nests counted between 2012 and 2015, right in this one spot, by a biologist working with this population. This species is in too much trouble to throw away a breeding ground. The Department of Environmental Conservation has been alerted.

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New York City New York Sparrows 2016 223

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2015

Midsummer birding can become boring if you focus solely on species counts. Keep your eyes to the skies… maybe you’ll get lucky and see wild Scarlet Macaws ! The general lack of longitudinal movement among birds limits most areas to the same restricted pool of resident breeders every year.

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Breeders 2015 Geese Canada 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Corey will undoubtedly search more diligently than most of us for FOY species. Keep your eyes open for emerging life this weekend! I’ll be working much of the weekend, but my eyes are peeled for new arrivals. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Seychelles’ small landmass combined with geographic isolation results in few species. He is the author of Underwater Guide to Seychelles (2015), Underwater Eden (2019) and Reef Fishes of Seychelles (2021). The book ends with further reading suggestions, list of useful websites, and the index of both English and scientific names.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2023

Finding Birds in Northern Greece (2015) covers the birdwise very best northeast of the country (provinces of Macedonia and Thrace), from the wetland border with Turkey all the way to the mountains and lakes at the triple border with Albania and North Macedonia. with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).

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