10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the case of most of these wonderful bird species, I probably know where they are most likely to be found. 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). Another local species that loves burnt-over areas is the Gray Silky-Flycatcher.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2017

With only a few weeks left before we turn the page on 2017, birders around the world have been burning their proverbial candles at both ends to observe as many birds as possible. Anyway, two species of nuthatch are visible from my toasty warm kitchen, so let’s give this weekend’s honors to White-breasted Nuthatch.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

The year 2016 is done and gone and 2017 beckons us onward, bright and new and shiny, hopefully full of birds. Here’s hoping everyone has a wonderful 2017, full of amazing birds and experiences.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

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. So having reached 500 or more species in six of the last ten years makes me confident I can do it again. That really sucks.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

In September of 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by two powerful hurricanes: it was grazed by Irma and then clobbered by Maria, a Category 4 storm that cut a devastating swath across the island. Species with small ranges ( e.g. , single island endemics) or tiny populations ( e.g. , endangered species) are especially vulnerable.

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Puerto Rico 2017 2018 Virgin Islands 254

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Back then, in 2012, the motivation was to have something nice to blog about and to show Corey how the cow eats the cabbage since he was seeing too many good species too easily. I am not entirely sure if I am going to include a graph of my species total since I will not define a numerical goal. Species List. February. […].

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Don’t panic yet, but do plan for how you’ll spend the rest of 2017 making this birding year one to remember. I’ve dipped on a few fancy species recently, so I’ll be watching the wires for their potential return. The denouement starts this weekend. Corey will be cleaning up in the Queens area.

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MAY 14, 2017

Global Big Day 2017 is in the books, with 15,954 participants submitting 40,698 checklists to eBird accounting for 6,068 species … so far. What a weekend for birders all over the world. I hope you were able to be a part of the festivities.

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2017 Laws Birds Experience 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. Too short-tailed to be a kestrel, it’s a Merlin and the species #400 in barely more than an hour on my first morning at the Kerkini lake! The solution?

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 180

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OCTOBER 14, 2017

There are, after all, a heck of a lot of birds over there including juicy targets like Bare-necked Umbrellabird , Snowy Cotinga , Semiplumbeous Hawk , and a few hundred other species. eBird your sightings : Always a worthwhile endeavor but especially for folks like me who want to identify more than 700 species during 2017.

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Costa Rica 2017 Birds Woodpeckers 133

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JANUARY 7, 2017

If not, I hope the following tips will convince you to come on down to this easy birding paradise: 100s of bird species are closer than you think. I know, there are literally hundreds of birds in the ABA region and the Western Palearctic too and recent major Big Years have nabbed well over 700 species in the ABA. Yes, hundreds.

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Costa Rica 2017 West Virginia Birds 114

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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.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

In 2021, the American Ornithological Society announced that it has now classified the Bahama Nuthatch as a distinct species, Sitta insularis. A 1931 daily newspaper article (likely from The Philadelphia Bulletin) reported that Bond “brought back thirty species of birds never before represented in the Academy’s collections.

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Bahamas Philadelphia 2004 United States 343

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JUNE 6, 2024

I finally became the first person to pass him up in first place for the state in 2017, a full 52 years after he finished his work here. One young girl had sent her a photo she had taken with her mobile phone, wanting to know what species it might be, and was it a good one. His lists were included in eBird posthumously.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When you mention “Africa” to a birder, it is likely that at least two thirds will instantly think “Kenya”, and for a good reason: it is home to over 1,060 bird species and boasts many globally important birding areas. Each site gets from 2 to 5 pages (but mostly 3-4). Endemics are indicated with a bracket “(E)”.

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JUNE 3, 2017

Our beats were out waving their binoculars around, contributing to the 50,000 checklists submitted and boosting the total which exceeded 6,500 species. It may be possible to find out how many species the beats found on the big day but, quite frankly, life is too short. shared xxx checklists producing xxx species.

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MARCH 25, 2021

And, some time later, during the final stages of the bird-atlassing work, computer models of Serbian ranges for some 150 bird species were produced for the first time ever: Some bias was created because of the large data set from Belgrade and environs where the majority of active eBirders live. The consequences were amusing.

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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.” Anyway, it seems to work reasonably well for the two species I saw here.

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Birds 2017 Fish Breeding 207

10,000 Birds

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 2017 178

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JANUARY 4, 2017

In the same day, just a few meters up the arroyo, there is a plethora of desert species. They make themselves right at home in some of the nastiest plant life around, flying in and out of, and perching on the many different cactus species that live here in the desert of Baja Sur, Mexico.

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Sparrows 2017 Battery Pelicans 116

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JULY 2, 2024

Taking inspiration from Matthiessen’s 1967 book (long out of print), which combined his natural history essays with species accounts by Ralph S. Species Profile, Black-necked Stilt, p. 57; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

The species is only in the north of Australia and they are often found in locations that are hard to get to year round. We have been able to observe Purple-crowned Fairy-wrens in a few locations across the north of Australia and they were quite easy to see in the car-park at Big Horse Creek in 2017.

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Australia Horses 2017 Experience 183

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Nine species (including the Hermit Thrush and its migratory identical-twin species, and our five non-migratory Nightingale-Thrushes ) belong to the genus Catharus. Being such a difficult species, I was very grateful that my first sighting of the Aztec Thrush, in April of 2017, involved not only photos, but also witnesses.

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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. The highway divides a huge expanse of flooded land and numerous bird species have bred in the area over recent weeks. The Magpie Geese bred again in the Broome area during 2018.

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Geese Breeding Australia 2017 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Photos courtesy of Mosetlha Bush Camp A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

One of my favorite bird species living by my house is the Juniper Titmouse. 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.

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MAY 8, 2017

In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site. Plus, we never stopped finding new and better species, which suggests that this place could compile a highly respectable site list. This species is a Summit Ponds specialty. Green Heron.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

It is only in recent years that the White-quilled Honeyeater became a separate species from the Blue-faced Honeyeater. eBird mentioned the changes in August 2017. The White-quilled Honeyeaters really can’t be mistaken for any other species. The colours of the White-quilled Honeyeater are also a stand-out feature.

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Australia 2017 Species Birds 139

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. It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Australian Magpies are a species that most people are familiar with, but often for the wrong reasons. Their plumage varies throughout Australia, but due to their size they are hard to mistake for another bird species. In a bit of fun Australian Magpies won the Bird of the Year title in 2017.

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Chickens 2017 Australia Species 183

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2015

A bird species battling an onslaught of invasive rats just got a glimpse of hope. While this is happy news for any parents, and wonderful news for any threatened species (these Pipits live only on Antarctica’s South Georgia Island and number only 3,000-4,000 pairs), it’s tremendous news for those trying to eradicate rats from the island.

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Georgia Rats Rodents 2017 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

Just last year, 5 new bird species and 5 new subspecies were discovered in a few short weeks of fieldwork on the islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka. In recent years Indonesia has been competing with the Andes as the region giving rise to the biggest number of undescribed bird species (naturally, all of them endemics).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A local birder friend of mine, Ricardo Arredondo, mentioned to me just last week that while the Swainson’s Hawk is supposed to be only a transient species during migration here in southwestern Mexico, he has seen it throughout the winter months near his city of Zamora. There is, however, a downside to this phenomenon.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Corey had a host of birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Weekend seeing as he did a big day on Saturday that netted 123 species. I was thrilled this weekend to see a bird I haven’t encountered in nearly a decade; maybe American Pipit is common in your parts, but I had to scour the East Spit of Braddock Bay to luck into one.

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2017 Jamaica Birds Experience 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. How do they know? I do wish there was more about research on female bird song.

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JUNE 11, 2017

It could have been any of those from among the over 100 species that crossed Corey’s path this weekend but of them all he chose the singing Henslow’s Sparrow at the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge as this state-threatened species is hard to see and it gave Corey the best looks he ever had of the species.

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2017 Louisiana Birds Breeding 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2017

Not because he saw lots of really rare or unexpected species but because he saw quite a few common birds and sometimes it’s difficult to decide which of the common species to choose from the flock. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was not an easy choice.

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2017 Suffering Birds Experience 101