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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2023

The Magpie Geese bred again in the Broome area during 2018. 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. Each family group consisted of an adult male with a significant knob on its head and two females.

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Geese Breeding Australia 2018 147

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). For context, the IOC version 13.1

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2018

Sadly the outcome from here is often chick loss from predation, but for now we will enjoy observing the two families of Pied Oystercatchers as they wander the dunes and come down to the ocean to feed when there are less people around. Pied Oystercatcher family wandering the dunes. Pied Oystercatcher family tracks.

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2018 Feral Cats Eggs Camels 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2018

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. Yes, an Eastern Bluebird was a friendly sight at Baisley Pond Park in Queens, the first I have ever seen there. How about you?

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North Carolina Cruelty 2018 United States 113

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

The authors continue: “Although an appreciation of taxonomic relationships may be intellectually stimulating, arranging bird families according to taxonomic sequence is not necessarily helpful for field identification. inches ISBN: 9780691167398 Publisher : Princeton University Press (05/01/2018). Howell and Fabrice Schmitt Weight: 1.06

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Chile Birds South America Albatross 198

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. The best part was how this bird hung around until 2018 so I got to count it on two year lists for Queens! (2 I must stare at the ocean a lot. Sooty Shearwater – Ditto. 2 out of 3!).

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2018 2019 2015 Kansas City 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

I and my family will endeavor to stay calm on the road to central Ohio, where we’ll be spending the weekend with more family. But travel often involves traffic, which–at least in my case–raises stress rather than lowers it. Corey will remain local, birding in Queens and rooting for France. How about you?

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France Ohio 2018 Raised 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. Then, in 2018, other researchers did DNA testing on the sample specimen and found it was just an ordinary Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird with some kind of slight color mutation ( source ). It must be frustrating.

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South Africa Africa 2018 Birds 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

I had only seen this species once here, in 2018. His family’s 7 hectares (17 acres) of wooded land includes a lovely grassy marsh. But it wasn’t until 2021 that I figured out where they are most common: right around our church! How did I miss that? And then, on February 1st, I suddenly saw dozens.

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Mexico Virginia Barn Owls Birds 216

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JULY 8, 2018

The reason I ask is because my family and I visited the Bronx Zoo this weekend. Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. We may know these birds well, but should we love them? Not only did I see all manner of international avifauna, but I enjoyed seeing them.

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2018 Zoos Raised Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2018

Family obligations kept me on the sidelines during Global Big Day, but I did manage to sneak in a little birding before traveling. This past weekend marked one of the peak moments of migratory bird activity globally, at least in an aggregate sense. Did you notice?

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2018 Birds Sparrows Family 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

2018 proved to be one of my best birding years ever. I am determined to instill the same love for the natural landscape in my friends and family, especially any new, tiny members. Daily birding in my own hometown added to the joy of seeing common species in uncommon circumstances, like a Bald Eagle perched on a Destin sand dune.

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Bald Eagle Alabama Kansas Wisconsin 146

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2018

Corey and family will be getting eyes on all manner of Yucatan birds as they hit the Caribbean coast of Mexico this weekend. I’m still recovering from last week’s veritable banquet of birding in Honduras, which I’ll be writing about soon. Lucky, right? How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Honduras 2018 Mexico Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. In fact, they have risen to become the most active Nest Watching group in New Mexico (regardless of species), contributing 77% of the state’s data in 2018.”. The featured image above is a Creative Commons (CC) photo from Rich Hoeg.

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2017 New Mexico Groups Abandon 151

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2018

Unfortunately, family commitments are killing my Big Day or any other kind of birding this weekend. Saturday, May 5 is Global Big Day , when eBirders around the world strive to collectively encounter as many species as possible. Last year’s Global Big Day accounted for at least 65% of all the bird species on the planet.

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2018 Killing Collecting Birds 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2018

” OK, we don’t really shout “Yee-haw” in New York, but our profane exclamations are not fit for a family-friendly blog. .” “Yee-haw, fall migration is starting soon!” Suffice to say that our experience echoes across the United States and Northern Hemisphere.

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ALA United States 2018 New York 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Results from November 2018 ballots indicate a large and dedicated block of voters who are concerned about the health of ecosystems, as well as the preservation of complex wilderness areas. Below are highlights from across the country where conservation and stewardship won the day!

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Nevada Georgia Colorado Denver 164

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JUNE 7, 2018

and after the road construction (June 2018). There is not a slightest trace of asphalt, nor the promised sewage ponds, which may be good for the two Little Ringed Plover families incubating their eggs at the site as we speak, but is far from good for the people living there. And that was the last I ever heard from the officials.

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Eagles Otters Serbia 2016 169

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In one of the first of Dee’s observations about gullers he calls them: “men leaving their homes and their families to spend time peering at arsey birds in some of the arseholes of the world.”. Publication date 2018. Book details. Hardback | 178mm x 128mm | 240 pages. Publisher Little Toller Books, United Kingdom. ISBN10 1908213620.

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Angola United Kingdom Mozambique Botswana 183

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. I was vaguely curious about the family name mousebird. Given the strict covid prevention measures here in China, I have not left the country in almost 2 years now.

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South Africa Africa Lesotho Nigeria 229

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

Sometime back in 2018, I started sharing some of my photos by e-mail with my sister and aunt. But most of our forest has a combination of both pines and oaks, with dozens of species from each family growing in the state of Michoacán. It’s all about the avocados. The driest slopes may be covered with pines, almost exclusively.

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Costa Rica Mexico Birds illegal 149

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. Sheep may timidly graze but these Black Grouse are another matter altogether. Blackcocks at the Lek (1901) by Scottish painter Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935).

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Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 194

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

So, we need to lift a glass to 2018, a year that has given us Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide by Klaus Malling Olsen and Gulls Simplified: A Comparative Approach to Identification by Pete Dunne and Kevin T. A larophile is a gull enthusiast, taken from the genus name Larus and/or the family name Laridae. Press, 2018.

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North America El Salvador America Nicaragua 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2018

After an incredibly wet start to 2018 as a result of several tropical cyclones and other rain events the land remains saturated around Broome and as a result of this there are several bird species breeding that we don’t even encounter in dry years. Juvenile Australian Painted Snipe.

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Breeding 2018 Family 2011 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Arctic Tern : There were multiple records of this species in June of 2018 out at Breezy Point and they just weren’t around when I was out there. There was one at Breezy Point in the summer of 2018 and another one showed up at Jamaica Bay last summer. They must come through as they nest out on Long Island and at many points north.

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New York City Birds New York Blackbirds 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior. Rocky Nook, 2019 (eBook December 2018; paperback March 2019). by Marie Read. Paperback: 340 pages; 10 x 8 inches.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Puffins 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This is the last post covering my time birding the Kruger Park in November 2018. Among some other species of the kingfisher family, this species is a bit of a laughingstock. It seems this African Harrier-Hawk just caught something here. No clue what it is though. ” Instead, it mostly feeds on insects captured on the ground.

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South Africa Mice Niger Nigeria 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It seems his family of 5, had rented a condo that sleeps 8, at Atlantis Resort, on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas. While this trip was primarily scheduled as a family rest/rest/vacation outing, with 13 days left in my Little Big Year, that plan is mostly out of the question. If we could get there, all other expenses were covered.

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Bahamas Tucson El Paso Texas 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

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. 2018, 584 pp., Text is on the left, plates are on the right. Both genus names and species names are listed.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?).

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New York City Fox Owls California Condor 184

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2018

If not, it’s certainly worth looking forward to the 2018 release of Kiwi Rising. But I’m still finding it on the shelves, and – probably due to its durable packaging in 16-ounce “tall boy” cans – it tasted just as good this week as when I first had it a few months ago. Happy drinking and good birding!

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New Zealand India Massachusetts United States 100

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. We spent two blissful days exploring both the waders and wildlife of Lake Yojoa and the tropical splendor of PANACAM Lodge. That is how the saying goes, right?

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Honduras Birds Farming America 136

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

As we entered the harbour, Nikos explained the state of ecotourism in the national park: “The previous 2018 was the record year with, I estimate, about 3000 birders visiting the lake. The moat would protect the islets and allow the birds to start nesting earlier.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 193

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2018

Sadly, though I managed to sneak out of the house while friends and family entertained each other, the goose had flown the coop. I’d like to believe that I’ll pay attention to Dark-eyed Juncos again in 2018 but I probably won’t. Female Northern Cardinals are very nice.

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Ducks Litter Feral 2018 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In many cases, our waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds are the same as those overseas – or only slightly different – and there are many other corresponding species in nearly all the shared families. Despite having reached its first birthday and beyond, the wine retained a lively fizz.

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 117