10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2018

Your 2018 year lists, whether you tally them or not, have already begun to populate, silently bearing witness to your commitment to bird looking or lack thereof. I enjoyed my first wave of feeder birds for the year, with Tufted Titmouse winning BBOTW honors only because that species appears less frequently than my other local denizens.

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2018 Beavers Bears Birds 104

10,000 Birds

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. From Part I, “Shorebirds in Winter,” p. 41; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T. 57; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2018

The first month of 2018 is nearly in the books. But of all of the many species he spotted none gave him more satisfaction than the Red-necked Grebe he found at Jacob Riis Park, hiding amid a flock of scaup. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2018 New York City New York Birds 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. Publication date 05 Oct 2018. As a rule, I like second editions better. Book information.

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Asia Laos Myanmar Indonesia 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

It was easy enough to participate, all anyone had to do was watch birds and record the number of species identified using eBird. Those who did so on May 5th automatically became part of the biggest day of collective birding in 2018; Global Big Day ! We logged an awesome 225 species! More than 680 species identified!

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Costa Rica 2018 Colombia Collecting 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Why are these issues? © 2023 by Steve N. Not every bird.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You may remember back in 2017 when Nate participated in this trip or maybe you followed along in 2018 as the Birdchick dazzled us with her experiences there. Uganda boasts a checklist of well over one thousand species of birds and host of mammals, reptiles, and interesting insects.

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Uganda Africa Gorillas Reptiles 194

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Maybe these people like challenges – at least here at the monastery, getting good shots of this species is quite easy. Another species apparently enjoying the proximity of a monastery is the White-winged Grosbeak. My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch.

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Birds Germany India 2018 258

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For, in birder lingo, a split occurs when subspecies are determined to be, in fact, entirely separate species. If you happen to have seen both species, your life list can increase without you even leaving the house. Two former species can also be joined into one, the same way. This Bullock’s Oriole migrated from up north.

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San Diego San Francisco Baltimore Mexico 219

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sadly, the HBW states that the species is “almost extinct in some areas in China owing to hunting and trapping for the cagebird trade and taxidermy” The Maroon Oriole looks much more interesting, though my photos do not really do it full justice. ” Contribution to the vibrant bird community. when living in suburbia.

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Nepal Birds Owls Nigeria 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2021

One in November 2018 included a one-day birding trip in the Drakensberg area, a mountain range in the border area between South Africa and Lesotho. In fact, this is probably a species that has substantially expanded its original range through the pet shop route and the resulting escapees. A challenge for young birders, maybe.

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South Africa Africa Lesotho Nigeria 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. Publication date 2018. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.” At one moment I even realised where I’d like to be while reading it: deep in rural Norfolk.

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Angola United Kingdom Mozambique Botswana 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2018

On my wanderings I picked up quite a few species that were new for my year list but my Best Bird of the Weekend was one that countered cruelty with happiness. Mike, too, chose a bluebird as his Best Bird of the Weekend, though his was a different species seeing as he and his family avoided the cruelty of April by being in California.

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North Carolina Cruelty 2018 United States 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2018

The Tern colonies in Queens didn’t produce anything but the expected species but Gull-billed Terns , Corey’s first of the year, were a pleasure to see loafing on a mudflat at Big Egg Marsh. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Honduras 2018 Eggs Birds 118

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. The White-eared Barbet is another bird species with an annoyingly sensible Latin species name, leucotis (white-eared).

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South Africa Africa 2018 Birds 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey spent a half-day on Sunday with his friend Seth doing a dry run for his “Waterfowl in Queens” challenge. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Iceland 2018 Geese Birds 113

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. The solution? The Kerkini Lake.

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2018

I’ve been chasing this species for months in an effort to close out our local swans, when all I needed to do was hang out at the hawk watch station! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Hope your weekend wasn’t too rough! How about you?

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2018 United States Birds Experience 104

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2018

So, for perhaps the first time ever, Corey has chosen an introduced species as his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Birds Experience Experiments 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2018

That netted them 136 species, and more birding on Sunday morning got Corey even more. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey had an astonishingly good weekend of birding with the Global Big Day on Saturday, which he made local by doing a Queens Big Day with Cesar Castillo.

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2018 Birds Sparrows Family 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2018

Not only did I bag the beautiful bird I expected, but I also encountered a tasty species I never expect there until I see it every year: Olive-sided Flycatcher. Speaking of OSFL, Corey had quite a haul of species to choose from this weekend after leading two walks for New York City Audubon and doing a ton of birding on his own on Sunday.

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New York City 2018 Jamaica New York 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2018

July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Following me here? We may know these birds well, but should we love them? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Zoos Raised Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2018

He didn’t find anything particularly spectacular but he did see quite a few species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Well, maybe I was confused at the appearance of this unexpected bird, but it was definitely noisy. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New York City 2018 New York Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

To this tasty tropical cocktail concocted in July 2018, we added one more volatile ingredient in the form of a contingent of Americans and Hondurans sponsored by the Honduras Institute of Tourism. All in all, a few kilometers of easy birding along the eco-sendero yielded an impressive list of species. than we had time to attempt.

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Honduras Birds Kentucky Owls 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

All manner of spring species are turning up in the Finger Lakes region, but I’m still working on winter stragglers, which makes a self-found Iceland Gull my favorite of this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Gulls two weeks in a row… what has become of me?

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Iceland 2018 Owls Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2018

I cleaned up a few spring species along the lovely and locally legendary Lakeview Community Church Trail, but my best sightings were in the reeds in front of the more widely renowned Braddock Bay Hawk Watch platform. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2018 Birds Experience Experiments 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. There are 461 species on the Maine checklist. This field guide covers 265 species, the ones most likely to be seen–residential and migratory, almost all nesting birds, many wintering birds.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 241

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 4, 2018

The birding around Lago de Yojoa in Honduras is frankly phenomenal, as I learned during a June 2018 birding junket organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Turismo. Since he first started walking his property, he’s located a slew of species so exciting that birders are starting to turn up at his doorstep. White-necked Puffbird © José A.

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Honduras Birds Farming America 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, in contrast to all the blog posts that were expanded into essays, Jenn Dean’s “The Keepers of the Ghost Bird,” the story of the fight to save the Bermuda Petrel, the cahow, was originally published as an e-book by The Massachusetts Review (in which format it won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay Award).

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New York City Fox Owls California Condor 236

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ). I do have experience with this species from Bodrum, Turkey; it is daring, bold and cocky, and is impossible to forget.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. Once again the bird disappeared, or at least wasn’t reported, until it was noted at Titchwell RSPB Reserve on the North Norfolk coast on 10 July 2018. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used.

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Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. The index lists bird species by whole name, which is less than satisfactory.

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Birds Eggs Laws Oregon 188

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.

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 125

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s not often that we have the opportunity to glimpse the home life of albatrosses, nor of any seabird species. For most seabird species, the male takes the first shift and the male and female then alternate, but the period of time for each shift varies according to species. Princeton University Press, March 2018.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 116

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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Virginia Portland Industry New York City 131

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2018

We had persevered through four years at the top of Battery Harris Platform and could bring our experience to bear on the task of trying to record as many species as possible on a single day from that single spot. At 8:30AM we were already at 53 species and we knew we still had many more easy birds to find. Species number 81!

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