10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good. I think this might be my best bird of 2016. The Cory’s was one of my birding goals of 2016, one of the last commonly seen birds of the East Coast needed for my ABA list. (10) It was a good birding year. This is a male bird, of course. 7) Piping Plover.

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2016 India Ducks Costa Rica 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right? This calendar year is slipping away, but we still have plenty of time before the ball drops on December 31 to add more birds to our respective lists.

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2016 New York Suffering Birds 147

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MAY 10, 2015

I had planned to reach that goal by the end of 2016, accounting not only for the impressive potential of the county, but also for the fact that birding with two young children at home is not the easiest thing in the world. I move to Greensboro, NC, in the summer of 2013 with a county list of 60.

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2016 North Carolina Raleigh 2015 163

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MAY 21, 2015

A total of 122 teams covering just about every major habitat counted a total of 1183 species or approximately 65% of the entire avifauna of Peru in a single day! The onset of the competitive spirit came the evening of May 9th as many watched the number of species per country switching places between Colombia, Brazil and Peru.

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2015 Peru Colombia Brazil 252

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2016

I’ll be racking up fresh 2016 species on the road from NYC to Rochester. The first weekend of a New Year feels like Christmas all over again for birders all around the world eager to begin new year lists. Even the first bird of a new year feels fun. What was yours? Corey is coming back to NYC to make that Queens list pop.

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2016 Birds Species 138

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge (please only name one species)? Atherton Tablelands Birdwatchers’ Cabin, since 2016 How best to travel to your lodge? By car; less than 2 hours… Source

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2016 Birds Species 203

10,000 Birds

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

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Mid-December is an interesting time for birding, insofar as winter (or summer, in the Southern Hemisphere) species precede the official arrival of the season. So you still have time to add species you missed at the beginning of the year to your 2016 list.

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2016 Birds Species 124

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JANUARY 9, 2016

The owners have been faithfully feeding the birds and welcoming birders for years, and it’s only going to get better in 2016. They also have a couple of trails that could turn up Highland Tinamou, Black-breasted Wood-Quail , and other cloud forest species. Short-tailed Hawk is one of the most regular species in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica 2016 San Jose Birds 143

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

In 2016, the DOT started rebuilding a bridge on the highway next to Four Sparrow Marsh, and maybe because of the noise, maybe because of the removal of some buffer plants, the sparrows did not breed that year. This species is in too much trouble to throw away a breeding ground. There was still hope that the sparrows might return.

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New York City New York Sparrows 2016 223

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Conceptualizing a plumage aberration such as leucism, where pigments are prevented from reaching some (or all) feathers (in the case of birds) may be a feat of the imagination that can most easily be applied to one of the more common species – maybe an American Robin , or a Rufous-bellied Thrush.

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Paraguay Trinidad 2006 2016 264

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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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Ecuador Spain Cows 2018 256

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In an effort to look back on the year, I have added, and deleted, written and scratched off, a list of birds that would represent my “Best Ten Birds” of 2016. Much like David Letterman’s Late Show Top Ten List, I will count these down from number 10 to the number one bird of 2016. #10

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2016 Grizzly Bear Puffins Mexico 100

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MARCH 17, 2021

What I didn’t realize, at the time, was that this pulp is also enjoyed by many bird species. I go there every year around this time, because in 2016 I saw Sinaloa Martins migrating north to breed. This species is rarely seen and almost unstudied. No one knows where they spend winters.)

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2020 Mexico 2016 California 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

If in 2016 the Republicans hold on to the House and Senate and manage to take the Presidency the damage that will be done to our environment will be disastrous. Alisa Opar over at Audubon has a good rundown of how bad this Congress is for the environment. Be afraid for our future and that of our children.

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2016 Campaign Science Animal 204

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JUNE 7, 2018

I have observed this species many times (my eBird says 28 times this year alone) and never had one landing near me. Before (May 2016, by Zeljko Stanimirovic)…. Cover photo : Made at the same place and time of the year, I observed this young White-tailed Eagle coming from the same nest in 2016.

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Eagles Otters Serbia 2016 229

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 sq km / 3.5 Belgrade City Environmental Secretariat accepted the initiative and the Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia produced the study and the official proposal for the protection of 18.6 sq km / 7.2

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Protection Serbia Protest Protesting 279

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MARCH 24, 2022

They both saw an impressive 640 species (plus a dozen or two more each, but not together), yet, while Bruce is still birding nowadays, Lynn is quite happy to forget birds and pursue other interests. And in 2015- 2016, they travelled the entire continent of Australia birding and writing about it.

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Australia Cooking Birds 2015 278

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Others might require a life list or the ability to identify a specific number of species, or some other criteria. million birders.

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2016 North America 2019 2020 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Appreciation of invasive species may be somewhat heretical in some naturalist circles, but watching these huge winter flocks always entertains. Between work and weather, I didn’t see much this weekend, but my kids and I spotted a mesmerizing flock of European Starlings wheeling about in intricate formations.

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2016 Birds Experiments Experience 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

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Papua New Guinea Guinea Suriname Brazil 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why field guides that arrange species in a more or less strict taxonomic order regularly frustrate me. Taxonomy is constantly changing and so does the order of species in field guides. van Balen, N. Brickle & F. It was a nightmarish thing to do.

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Brunei 2009 2014 2016 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2017

Thank all that is good and holy in the world that the abomination that was 2016 is finally in the books. Here’s hoping that 2017 is a much better year than 2016! All of 2016 only netted me one new species for Queens, a Greater White-fronted Goose. I will see at least 500 species for the year.

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Puerto Rico 2017 Austria Bahamas 143

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

He was pleased to spot all of his target species, from Yellow-breasted Chat to Ovenbird. Corey enjoyed an early morning subway ride into Manhattan on Sunday in search of a couple of reported rarities and some lingering wood-warblers at City Hall Park. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2016 Squirrels New York Birds 156

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is probably the most iconic bird species in China – to the point that some bird guides I know are quite tired of looking for it. In 2016, the global spoon-billed sandpiper population was estimated at 240–456 mature individuals – a critically endangered species.

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China Endangered Species 2016 Species 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

Species with small ranges ( e.g. , single island endemics) or tiny populations ( e.g. , endangered species) are especially vulnerable. Nevertheless, the 2017 CBC tallied 1,934 birds of 82 species, both of which were low counts for past CBCs ( e.g., the 2016 CBC had 2,579 birds, 97 species).

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Puerto Rico 2017 2018 Virgin Islands 255

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JANUARY 3, 2023

It covers 403 species: 172 nonpasserine species and 231 passerine species in the Species Accounts, 198 species beautifully illustrated by the author in the Plates section. The scarcity of information on the young of some avian species is astounding.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Family Birds Collecting 290

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. With that logic those trees, if left to grow, should produce something of use to at least one or two species of birds. Of course, various species of bats as well. A Yellow-crowned Parrot digs in.

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Opossums Barn Owls Reptiles Hunting 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them. All photos were taken in Australia in December 2016 – locations included Brisbane and surroundings, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Melbourne, and the coast near Melbourne. Admittedly, it is mostly grey.

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 259

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America covers 827 species, including resident, migratory, and common vagrant birds. The end result is that the whole “biographic” area (NCA plus southern Mexico and northern Nicaragua) is home to 41 endemic bird species.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2024

The island’s largest salt lake, Akrotiri, is not a great draw for waders, but the range of large, shallow saline pools on its east side, along Lady’s Mile, were in perfect condition to attract a wide variety of species. Additional species seen included a pair of Whimbrels which didn’t linger, Little Ringed Plovers and Greenshanks.

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Cyprus Tethering Breeding Cattle 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2024

Back in 2016 one very unexpected bird appeared in the Mexican highlands: an American Flamingo. After birding and passing through a large number of habitats, our total for the day was 109 species.) Of course, when a group sees 109 species, there are many highlights for the day. Flamingos !”

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Mexico Cuba Chile South America 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The ones that will be in the calendar, the elite 12 are selected by not only the quality of the image, but most colorful, most unique, and in the case of a couple of birds cut out this year, species that appeared in last years Calendar. Least Grebe. Varied Bunting. Mangrove Warbler. California Quail. Tri-colored Heron.

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2017 Culling Mexico 2016 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2022

There it is, my single photo of that Greater Roadrunner in Guanajuato, from May of 2016. This arae is prime Lesser Roadrunner territory — in fact, of my eleven sightings of the species, ten have been there. Who would have thunk it? Those were dark days for my attempts at bird photography, my friend.

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Coyotes Mexico ALA Abandon 262

10,000 Birds

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.” That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared the Golden-cheeked Warbler “ endangered ” under the Endangered Species Act. Nevertheless, in 2016, FWS denied the petition , finding the Golden-cheeked Warbler “has not been recovered, and due to ongoing, widespread destruction of its habitat, the species continues to be in danger of extinction.”

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Austin Texas Endangered Species United States 214