10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The 2016 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will be 20-25 January 2016 and I can’t wait! Lots of really cool birds, like Bachmann’s Sparrow , Red-cockaded Woodpecker , Crested Caracara , and Snail Kite are eminently possible, even probable. This will be a fun trip and well worth the $85 it costs!

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MAY 3, 2016

Sibley Birds East covers “nearly 700” birds, up from 650, and Sibley Birds West covers “over 700,” which I’m assuming is more than the first edition count of 703 birds, if for no other reason than that taxonomic splits have give us Ridgeway’s Rail, Bell’s Sparrow and Sagebrush Sparrow. Knopf; March 2016, 464 pages.

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MAY 8, 2016

However, in the midst of migration, I’ve been most enamored with the White-crowned Sparrows that have haunted my feeders for the last few days. Once the White-throated Sparrows arrived, I expected a glimpse of white-crowns passing through; what I’ve gotten instead are long, lingering looks for nearly a week.

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JUNE 19, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Barn Swallow that kept him company in a bird blind while Seaside Sparrows sang and Common Terns hunted in Wildwood, NJ. 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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Breeders 2016 Hunting Woodpeckers 100

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MAY 1, 2016

My favorites were the White-throated Sparrows who typically visit my feeders this time of year. Other times, however, find us smiling after seeing birds we haven’t seen in months. Are you smiling today? I didn’t wander far from home this weekend, but luckily a ton of new birds came to me.

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New York City 2016 New York Sparrows 100

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JUNE 5, 2016

Corey had a lot of birds to choose from as his Best Bird of the Weekend from a Red-necked Phalarope at Jamaica Bay to a Brewster’s Warbler at Sterling Forest.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

According to Corey Finger (author of the soon-to-be-published ABA Field Guide to Birds of New York , and we’re all very excited about it), selection of species is one of the more challenging parts of writing an ABA field guide and I was happy to see my favorite Pennsylvania bird, Henslow’s Sparrow amongst the 15 sparrow species covered here.

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MAY 21, 2019

As I got out of my car, I immediately saw the first of many Black-chested Sparrows. The squeaky-toy-on-speed call of the Stripe-headed Sparrow was not far behind. I don’t have to tell you which sparrow is which! But later visits gave me much better photos: And then there are the Sinaloa Martins.

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JUNE 6, 2017

But, I didn’t expect that Henslow’s Sparrow would have a page-full repertory of sounds: Song (3 different types), Whine series, Seet series, Seet and Tseew night calls, Tink calls and Tsit calls. It includes sounds made by American Goldfinch, Bachman’s Sparrow, Hooded Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, and Red-winged Blackbird.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Previous years had given us some idea of what to expect: in 2014, our inaugural year, we netted 72 species ; in 2015, we topped that with 76 species ; but in 2016 we had horrific weather and were washed out before the day was halfway done and only had 35 species. (It It was so bad I never even blogged it.)

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MAY 14, 2016

Today, it’s time to celebrate that combination of magic, obsession, and passion once again with the 2016 Global Big Day! Yes, ironically, the 2016 Global Big Day happens to be the same day when I am scheduled to take a visiting in-law relative out for a day trip.

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Costa Rica 2001 2016 Battery 100

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MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Common and scientific names are also based on the SACC.

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MARCH 23, 2020

313 – Greater White-fronted Goose , 21 February 2016: I don’t know how I didn’t see this one coming. But if I can get a Henslow’s Sparrow in Queens why not a Sedge Wren ? Alright, that is a list of ten birds. So what were the actual ten birds that I added between September of 2015 and two Fridays ago?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since 2016, writers at 10,000 Birds have been contributing checklists to a joint eBird account called the “10,000 Birds Collaborative.” Every month, Redgannet summarizes the checklists, providing an updated life list, year list, and country list. For the United States, there is also a state list.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

My second twitch, during the winter of 2011, was also in the area of McArthur where an American Tree Sparrow ( Spizella arborea ) was spotted during a Christmas Bird Count. The next rare bird that I was able to chase came a couple of years later in January 2016. A very rare find in Northern California. This was a no-brainer.

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APRIL 2, 2016

Unlike other bird races where participants keep tight-lipped about bird species as mundane as a House Sparrow , this event gives a prize to the team that helps the most. It also happens to be the friendliest bird race because everyone is encouraged to share sightings and help each other out.

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Israel Costa Rica Eagles Raised 189

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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

In October 2016 everybody was receiving messages on their mobile phones and also of interest were some people that did not own a telescope or binoculars and just photographed every bird with a massive camera even larger and heavier than many of the telescopes!

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APRIL 2, 2017

Therefore, it is not too far-fetched to call our dippers a commensal species not entirely unlike House Sparrows or Starlings. The canal parallel to Uferstrasse in Berlin where dippers were frequently seen during the winter of 2016/17. If dippers were stealthy and motionless ambush predators, they’d be hard to spot.

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Germany Hamburgers Austria 2016 100

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

House Sparrow, Passer domesticus. Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Passer montanus. I was able to maintain the new structure in the 2014 list , and this was a mighty fine birding year in all aspects. However, I started to fail in the following year, and my blog post on 2015 is still – to this day – incomplete.

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JULY 19, 2021

Developers cut down pine forests to build resorts, and house sparrows and starlings took over the nuthatches’ nesting cavities. A series of devastating hurricanes in 2016, 2017 and 2019 may have sounded its death knell. (British thriller writer Ian Fleming later appropriated the ornithologist’s name for his 007.).

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MAY 3, 2022

Seaside Sparrows were singing on both sides and occasionally popped up to give us a view before diving deep back into the Spartina grass, hopefully getting ready to nest. Seaside Sparrow. At the end of the road, we found two Nelson’s Sparrows who quickly flew out to a tiny bit of land in the channel. Eastern Meadowlark.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Lisa Scheppke arrived and we slowly added birds as they woke up: White-throated Sparrow , Eastern Towhee , Gray Catbird and more. Other new species for the count included White-crowned Sparrow , Long-tailed Duck , Caspian Tern , and Red Knot. We added Common Eider to our cumulative list when two were spotted just offshore.

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Battery Birds Sparrows 2016 236

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MAY 4, 2021

The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

When I returned Sunday morning with appropriate optics, warblers were nowhere to be seen, but a veritable profusion of sparrow species along with a mess of Marsh Wrens made up for their absence. My first pass, sans binoculars, revealed many migratory songbirds popping around.

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2016 New York Birds Collecting 154

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Harris’s Sparrows denote dominance by the amount of black on the head, the adult male birds with the most black ranking highest. This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior.

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Hoarding Birds Research Sweden 246

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JULY 19, 2024

Releases took place from 2008 to 2016, eventually establishing a viable population of around 50 pairs in the county. Female Reed Buntings are rather sparrow-like and are easily overlooked The c**k Reed Bunting’s head becomes blacker as the breeding season approaches. This technique proved highly successful.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

The photos in this post were taken in 2015 and 2016 – I was not only an amazingly attractive, almost young person then, but also a surprisingly bad photographer. before discovering that russet means “reddish-brown in color” Takes some of the mystery out of the Russet Sparrow , I am afraid.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Species order follows the AOU Checklist of North American Birds up to the 2015 supplement (so warblers come before sparrows), with a variation– certain subspecies are treated as full species (Eurasian Teal, Western Willet, Audubon’s Warblers, Red Fox Sparrow, and more). .

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Michael DiGiorgio does kingfishers & puffbirds, tityras & allies, vireos, and the last 18 plates, which include swallows, wrens, wood warblers, tanagers, cardinals, sparrows, and blackbirds. They are both excellent guides.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 150

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

As 2015 comes to a close and birders the world over start thinking about what 2016 will bring we here at 10,000 Birds would like to take a moment to celebrate our best birds of 2015. 2015 was great and here’s hoping 2016 will be even better. We’ll give Duncan a pass on this one… A sparrow? Another sparrow?

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 190

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

The two-page spread on Parts of a Bird provides diagrams for the topographical terms used in the Species Accounts, including hummingbird, shorebird, gull, passerine, and every feather on the upper wing of an adult Lark Sparrow. Black-capped Chickadee, and Rock Ptarmigan.

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APRIL 1, 2017

stakeout Rufous Hummingbird, Aquebogue (2016-17). stakeout Rock Wren, Rutgers Blvd, Franklin Township (2016-17). stakeout Rock Wren, Rutgers Blvd, Franklin Township (2016-17). Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Olive Sparrow – Arremonops rufivirgatus. Chipping Sparrow – Spizella passerina.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 133

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Donna was first amongst beats to reach North Dakota and brought the number of Lower 48s to 32, adding Sharp-tailed Grouse , Sprague’s Pipit and LeConte’s Sparrow to the life list. LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammodramus leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Ammodramus bairdii. Still all mainland though.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 124

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cassin’s Sparrow – Peucaea cassinii. Sagebrush Sparrow – Artemisiospiza nevadensis. LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammospiza leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Centronyx bairdii. Henslow’s Sparrow – Centronyx henslowii. Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

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MARCH 4, 2017

146 shared checklists (an increase on last year’s 97, well done chaps) noted 664 species (ooooh, down on 826 from last February) and brought the yearly total to 1063 (1303 at this time in 2016, ouch!). stakeout Rufous Hummingbird, Aquebogue (2016-17). stakeout Rock Wren, Rutgers Blvd, Franklin Township (2016-17). 12 Jan 2017.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Sagebrush Sparrow – Artemisiospiza nevadensis. LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammospiza leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Centronyx bairdii. Henslow’s Sparrow – Centronyx henslowii. Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps. 07 Sep 2018. 03 Sep 2018. 03 Sep 2018.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Woodpeckers 113

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

stakeout Rufous Hummingbird, Aquebogue (2016-17). stakeout Rock Wren, Rutgers Blvd, Franklin Township (2016-17). stakeout Rock Wren, Rutgers Blvd, Franklin Township (2016-17). Rufous-winged Sparrow – Peucaea carpalis. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Bosque los Colomos. 12 Jan 2017.

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