10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2017

I was so crippled with envy over Corey’s current Neotropical sojourn (with a few family commitments thrown in) that I could barely bring myself to look at birds at all. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Be warned though: we have plenty of the current season left!

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Guatemala 2017 Turkey Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

My family and I enjoyed the Corn Hill Festival this weekend, which is definitely one of Rochester’s better events. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The closer to the poles you live, the more likely you lustily embrace this season. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Corey had a great weekend in his hometown visiting his family and making a couple visits to local birding hotspots. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Always nice to know the people whose eBird lists you use for field intelligence! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We encounter a family participating in a hawk watch count at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park; birder and activist Madeleine Sandefur, who introduces us to Sabal Palms Sanctuary in Brownsville, on the south side of a border wall built in 2009; and birders who are actually birding, identifying an oriole (Altamira rather than Hooded).

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Advocacy Mexico United States Sanctuary 268

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Co-author Frank E. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago? Species Accounts.

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Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 184

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. Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. Bring on 2017!

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2016 India Ducks Costa Rica 167

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Business journalist Aimee Groth lived through the first three years of Hsieh’s “community as a startup” experiment. His family members and close friends all work for him. SMM: Tony’s self-imposed deadline for Downtown Project was January 2017. Have you ever seen an environment like this or met a business leader like Tony Hsieh?

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Las Vegas Experience Experiments Nevada 54

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. Eagle hunting is a family tradition that goes back at least 12 generations, part of the larger nomadic Kazakh culture.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 133

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Brewing your coffee at home, which was the norm in 1971, costs (in 2017 dollars) about $0.08/cup2 Because from the beginning, Starbucks has offered an experience worth valuing. We spend time daydreaming about things that are important to us — like upcoming vacations with friends and family.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

According to the 2017 Center for Exhibition Industry Research Index Report, the fourth quarter of 2016 was yet another sign the reign of trade shows is over. Offering a fun, interactive experience for the whole office could capture each individual’s attention for anywhere from 45 minutes to two-plus hours. Make it immersive.

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Branding Missouri Chicago Industry 72

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. Everyone’s family situation is different from their professional situation and those worlds have collided,” McCarter says. “It Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years.

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Industry 2020 Georgia Research 111

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. Everyone’s family situation is different from their professional situation and those worlds have collided,” McCarter says. “It Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years.

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Industry 2020 Georgia Research 48

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America. Good birding and happy drinking!

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. There are also introductions to a couple of related species within the family sections–Golden-Plovers and Willets.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Recently, while guiding ABA 2017 Big Year winner Yve Nagy Morrell in Costa Rica for a handful of days, we found ourselves trying for just a few more. The next day saw us making our way to El Tapir for close views of the Snowcap , a surreal fairy of a creature that stands out in an already surreal family.

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). Each family group begins with a small box summarizing the characteristics of the family in Australia.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

A friend of 10,000 Birds, he talked to Corey about his mission to create this guide in 2012 and wrote about his goal to create a Spanish-language version of the guide in 2017. These descriptions are quite helpful, especially if you are not familiar with the family group. Europe, and Honduras itself. Species Accounts.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

” Kricher delineates the many types of bird families and species you are likely to encounter in the Neotropics, emphasizing habitat and behavior (especially feeding behavior, and particularly fruit eaters; fruit is an important element when it comes to tropical ecology). Princeton University Press, 2017. is remarkable.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

This may be before the Fairy-Wrens developed the ability to detect Cuckoo young in the nest, an ability recently described by ornithologists, or this family may be one of the 60% who don’t detect Cuckoo chicks. She’s also produced books on the Art of British Natural History (2017), Expeditions and Endeavours.

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