10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In ten years of hardcore birding, I have seen Aztec Thrushes only four times, never twice in the same year (2017, 2018, 2019, and now, 2024). Only the 2017 and 2019 sighting were in the same general area; although the first sighting there was of a family unit, and the second was of a single bird.

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2017 2019 Nashville Investigation 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2023

In 2017 the arrival of the Magpie Geese warned us of the high rainfall ahead and then they bred in the area. This year we have had high numbers of Magpie Geese once again in the Broome area and this last weekend we observed our first family groups for the season. The Magpie Geese bred again in the Broome area during 2018.

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Geese Breeding Australia 2017 147

Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. Here are the sentences that I want to bring attention to: The family of Irv Bell, 64, has been growing hogs in Zanesville, Ohio, since the 19th century.

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Gestation Crates Farming Veal Crate Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

There are five families: Stilts & Avocets (Family Recurvirostridae), Oystercatchers (Family Haem), Plovers (Family Charadriidae), Sandpipers and Allies (Family Scolopacidae), and Jacanas (Jacanidae), with Family Scolopacidae representing the bulk of species (as it does worldwide).

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North America America 2006 Delaware 259

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2017

For the last several years, I have produced a small run of calendars for my fiends and family. The best 12 images of the previous year.

2017 123

2017 Culling 2016 Mexico 123

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. This time they appear more relaxed, but nervousness might be a better policy: between 2013 and 2017, well over a thousand rhinos were annually poached in South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2022

Carrie answered the question in a 2017 post , stating that “In general, the Europeans of yore assigned the common name ‘rail’ to members of the family with longer bills and ‘crake’ to the birds with stubby ones.” ” (She then warns that this difference is not consistent).

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Birds 2017 Fish Breeding 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Can a family-focused trip—even to one of the world’s most biodiverse countries—deliver enough opportunities for avian observation to satisfy this serious world birder? With enough planning, you can enjoy a family-friendly, bird-rich vacation in the Panama Canal zone. If you have kids, you’re probably as curious as I was.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2017

On Saturday he dragged his family to the Adirondack Mountains to see a stake out Great Gray Owl in Keene, a first for all three in the family. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the easiest to decide that he can remember.

2017 111

2017 Owls Woodpeckers Birds 111

10,000 Birds

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 258

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2017

Remember those lazy days of summer, the doldrums during which you could catch up on family time, work, or less birdy hobbies? Corey and family can be found in the Hudson Valley. Don’t look now, but the season we are in is rapidly giving way to the next. The summer stall, if that ever really settled in where you live, is lifting.

2017 100

2017 Family Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2020

For the last several years, my first out-of-town trip of the summer takes me to the east side of Lake George in northern New York, for a relaxing mid-June weekend with my family at a lakeshore cabin belonging to a family friend.

New York 154

New York 2017 Adoptable Family 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. In 2017, my neighborhood, Aldea de Santa Fe, began a Juniper Titmouse Nesting Box Project in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch Program. A total of 79 fledged, which beat our 2017 count of 52.

2017 150

2017 New Mexico Groups Abandon 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2017

Luckily, I made it to Cobbs Hill Park for a quick walk, which turned up a frenetic Northern Flicker family. As mentioned, I toiled away in what will soon be a new garden for much of the recreational portion of my weekend. Oh, how I love the Polka Dot Woodpecker , as does Corey, who clearly also enjoys taking pictures of them. How about you?

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2017 Woodpeckers Birds Family 100

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. I was fortunate to not only run into some tasty year birds like Pectoral Sandpiper but also some local birders I knew only by name. Always nice to know the people whose eBird lists you use for field intelligence!

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2017 Birds Family Experience 100

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 your circle of friends reside closer to the South Pole, you probably hear fond thoughts of the approach of spring.

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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. The closer to the poles you live, the more likely you lustily embrace this season. Around here, summer features festivals pretty much every single weekend.

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2017 Endangered Species Falcons Birds 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I’ll be heading (but not technically migrating) to NYC for a family visit that will likely be woefully bereft of bird spotting. A slightly smaller subset of those autumnal advocates also envision all the migrants still streaming across the skies. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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2017 Birds Family 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2017

Because Corey and his family just journeyed to Belize for some serious Neotropical bird looking! Don’t you love that? I’ll be hanging around Rochester this weekend, too paralyzed with envy to get any decent birding done. Why so jealous? How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Belize 2017 Birds Family 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2017

I have much to celebrate, as my family and I are embarked on a Spring Break sojourn to Panama by way of Canada. For many people around the world, the coming weekend carries spiritual meaning, symbolic of rebirth and renewal. And chocolate bunnies. And colorful eggs. And lots and lots of birds. Celebrate your way!

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Panama 2017 Canada Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ll be entertaining family from out of town this weekend and fear that we’ll never get out where the interesting birds are. If you’re celebrating Canada Day or Independence Day, you may be in position to enjoy a long weekend rich with cookouts, fireworks, and general summer fun. If you live outside the U.S.,

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North America 2017 Canada Birds 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Will there be more in 2017–more birds, more places, more friends? I’m heading down to NYC for family festivities, though you won’t find me in Times Square rocking in the New Year. Do you see the ones you wanted to see, in the places you desired to visit, with the friends whose camaraderie you appreciate?

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2016 2017 Birds Family 111

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. Just about anywhere a birder ventures, the miniscule members of the latter family can be seen, and in most tropical locales, it’s not just one species. Talamanca Hummingbird. White-crested Coquette.

Costa Rica 212

Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Honduras 212

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Family accounts for all 142 bird families recorded from the region. The family accounts is the only illustrated chapter and that sudden outburst of photos looks a bit strange compared to the rest of the book. Country accounts for all 68 territories that comprise the region. Species accounts for all 2,792 bird species.

Africa 168

Africa Botswana Nigeria Namibia 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. The photos of Sultan Tit that I got at Hongbenghe in 2017 were much better than the ones I got on Hainan in 2022. I am only joking! Birds should be free. A worrying trend.

Myanmar 147

Myanmar Birds China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

Falcons 205

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 205

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago describes all 1,456 bird species (39 species more than in the first edition) within 107 bird families known to occur in the region, including 628 endemics (27 endemics more than in the 1st edition) and 10 species yet to be formally described (down from 18 in the 1st edition).

Indonesia 264

Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. Their text is combined with 200 (rough count) brightly colored photographs, many full or three-quarter page in size, and 10 charts and diagrams. This is a beautifully designed book.

North America 278

North America Research Birds America 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2017

Now, those of you familiar with my tendency to chase birds in New York and knowledgeable of the spate of Great Gray Owls we have had in 2017 might question why it took me to nearly the end of March to make a trip upstate to see one. I, on the other hand, enjoy living with my family and would like to keep doing that. Family twitching?

New York 101

New York Owls Beavers Puerto Rico 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

The birding has been rewarding as always and we have been able to add several birds to the 2017 year list that we may not see around Broome every year. I am not expert on our local wildflowers and scientists are constantly finding new species in remote areas of the Kimberley, so for some of the flowers I can only give you a family name.

2017 100

2017 Australia Ducks Family 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The Shorebirds in Action begins with introduction to various families, as a framework for later discussions. The buttonquails are only briefly mentioned here, while the skuas, auks, terns and gulls are families not generally regarded as shorebirds and are therefore not covered. Publisher: Whittles Publishing, 2017.

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Botswana 2017 Groups Europe 117

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2017

It is with that in mind, and given that we are pretty much half way through this year, that I have picked my top twenty images for 2017. I happen to think the Crested Cara cara is one of the most beautiful birds in the falcon family. They stay here in Mexico despite the heat, and raise their families.

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Seattle Mexico 2017 Falcons 107

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

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. 314 – Sooty Shearwater , 13 May 2017: Yes! I must stare at the ocean a lot. Sooty Shearwater – Ditto. Western Tanager – Pretty unlikely but a guy can dream, right? 1 out of 2!).

2018 158

2018 2019 2015 Kansas City 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge. by Nathan Pieplow. Peterson Field Guide series.

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North America America Sparrows Birds 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

After a very good Wet Season with substantially more rain than normal over the first few months of 2017 the land was flooded and a huge variety of birds arrived in the Broome area to take advantage of the ideal conditions for breeding. The more brightly coloured female bird remained at the back of the family group as they swam to shore.

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Breeding Eggs Raised 2017 100

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. It is an extremely popular fundraising project with an almost cult-like following.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017. I come from a family where the worse the situation, the faster and more furiously the wisecracks fly, so I suppose I’m hardwired to look for humor. But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. Are you still rehabbing birds? The book is darkly funny.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 252