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AUGUST 21, 2024

That is not what we expected to see, as our guide took us to the most south-easterly corner of Newfoundland in early July 2018. We missed the ptarmigan, but we had three species of Shearwaters: Sooty… Source We were out to find Willow Ptarmigan and seabirds.

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Canada 2018 Birds Species 279

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JANUARY 3, 2019

My first criterion was that I observed it only once during the year 2018. eBird doesn’t offer such an option, so I used the second best: the species was observed in one month only. The post The top-5 birds of 2018 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. What qualifies a bird to be included in the top-5?

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JANUARY 8, 2019

These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine. 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 2018 2017 Virgin Islands 255

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Denizens of the temperate zones begin the calendar year in the depth of winter or height of summer, times when species diversity is sparse. The conditions under which those few available species can be found are often dreadfully hot or painfully cold. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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2018 Birds Owls Species 169

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Date: 07 October 2018. Date: 08 October 2018. Date: 09 October 2018. Date: 09 October 2018. I knew we should have used a bigger species! Date: 09 October 2018. Date: 10 October 2018. This might not have been the best species to use. Date: 10 October 2018. Date: 11 October 2018.

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Ducks 2018 New York City Sparrows 201

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AUGUST 4, 2021

This lake, with a surface area of up to 150 square miles in good years, is my go-to site for dozens of waterfowl and shorebird species, so I take its health personally. It is also a vital wintering and migratory site for most of these species, so I imagine they take its health very personally, as well.

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San Francisco 2018 Mexico Ducks 264

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MAY 8, 2018

More than 50 years ago, the Hawaiian Goose (Nene) was one of the first birds listed under the Endangered Species Act, part of the inaugural “ Class of 1967 ”. Under the Endangered Species Act, any listing, uplisting, downlisting, or removal from a list requires a formal “rulemaking” process.

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Endangered Species Species Hawaii 2018 133

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AUGUST 17, 2018

I find this season to be least amenable to regular birding, both for its mundane crop of resident species and my unpredictable schedule. The post Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of August 2018? Most of us have not yet returned to our regular routines and still live on an erratic, often enjoyable summer schedule.

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2018 California Birds Species 140

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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 Industry 124

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

According to eBird , more than 17,000 birders from 146 countries tallied 6,136 species of birds. The post Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of October 2018? Did you participate in last weekend’s Global Big Day ? Whether you were part of that international birding brigade or not, you can make this weekend big too.

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2018 Birds Species 127

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Corey did not have a plethora of pleasing species from which to choose his Best Bird of the Weekend this weekend but he supposed that the American Kestrel that perched up for the New York City Audubon field trip he led at Queens Botanic Garden on Sunday morning will have to suffice. Their rusty hinge ruckus never seems far this time of year.

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2018 New York City New York Birds 124

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MARCH 23, 2020

Sedge Wren – There are records of this species in Queens, generally along the coast in fall. 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. It leaves Barnacle Goose as the last remotely possible goose species for me to add. (0

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Many birders have places they return to year after year, special pilgrimages promising scenes and species they see nowhere else. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of September 2018) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The birding mecca on my mind is Chincoteague NWR, renowned far and wide for avian profusion (and wild ponies!)

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2018 Ponies New York City Tennessee 124

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Will the threatened species make it through if there are no birding tourists to make those birds and their habitats valuable to local people just the way they are (as opposed to tropical timber)? Here’s an example: in 2015, American birder Noah Strycker broke the global Big Year record with 6042 recorded species. Brazil 1847 sp. 3.

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Uganda Bolivia Ecuador Thailand 264

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We are located in the heart of Choco Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve declared on 25 July 2018 by UNESCO. 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.

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Ecuador Spain Cows 2018 256

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

The authors wrote: [Species] “are the currency of field guides and of birding, but deciding what to treat as ‘species’ is inevitably a subjective endeavour. … We have tended to a liberal (= realistic) direction when recognising species.” There are no species distribution maps, only textual descriptions.

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Chile Birds South America Albatross 273

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

As of mid-November 2021, the Collaborative had submitted more than 4,200 checklists (up from 1,700 in 2018) and has observed 691 species in the United States (up from 618). Thus, there are now seven states with 200+ observed species. The state with the largest increase was Arizona , with 139 species added.

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West Virginia United States Puerto Rico Minnesota 263

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Next to me was a copy of “Birds of Central America” with a somewhat longish subtitle “Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama” by Vallely and Dyer from 2018. In over 200 plates, this field guide covers more than 800 regularly occurring bird species found in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica El Salvador Belize Nicaragua 279

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JULY 21, 2021

Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. The reason for this annual pilgrimage is a single species, the Sinaloa Martin. All sightings southeast of the species’ Puerto Vallarta-to-Los Mochis breeding area are of migrating birds.

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Nicaragua 2015 2016 Mexico 264

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OCTOBER 13, 2018

Through multi-partnerships, cooperation, federal funding, and the private conservation efforts of one family, 616 acres were officially added to the Cherokee National Forest in September 2018. In the area live 15 species from Tennessee’s threatened and endangered list, as well as 11 aquatic species from the federally endangered list.

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Georgia Bald Eagle Tennessee 2018 214

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. They would care about land-use decisions involving urban sprawl, agriculture, transportation, waste disposal, pollution, deforestation, desertification, invasive species, climate change, and even population control. What was the response to your Birding article in 2018?

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2018 Agenda Science Massachusetts 264

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Yes, sure, Rock Pigeons are not a vulnerable species, unless you count the number of times they have been mocked, scorned, and shooed away. They’re apparently not a sensitive species either, because this derision doesn’t seem to bother them at all!

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New York City 2018 Abandon Abandoning 246

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

2018 proved to be one of my best birding years ever. In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more. Not so much. And the third trimester?

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Bald Eagle Alabama Kansas Wisconsin 223

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JANUARY 5, 2022

I had only seen this species once here, in 2018. Virginia Warbler: The Virginia Warbler is a common species in the thorn forest of the Balsas River Basin, so I had seen it often. Extra points for this species’ rockin’ name. How did I miss that? And then, on February 1st, I suddenly saw dozens.

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Mexico Virginia Barn Owls Birds 264

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MARCH 13, 2018

The Northern Spotted Owl is a “ threatened ” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject of extensive and protracted litigation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly relating to forestry management plans in the Pacific Northwest. The environmental groups appealed to the U.S.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 178

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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. At the conclusion of every month, we might ask ourselves, “Did I see enough or well enough these past weeks?”

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2018 New York City New York Birds 100

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JANUARY 2, 2019

It ended with little fan fare; in fact I did not even go chasing birds on the last two days of 2018, as I am just plain tired. With four days to go in 2018, why not try for a few more, right? I just don’t see us doing anything even close to what 2018 turned out to be, but I guess you just never know. New Zealand Total: 104.

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MARCH 8, 2018

I hope everyone participated in at least one day of the four day Great Backyard Bird Count of 2018. I submitted five checklists from four different locations yielding 44 species. All in all, I tallied 44 species.

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2018 Bald Eagle Woodpeckers Turkey 100

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JUNE 2, 2020

Clearing a space, I retrieved my field notebook – untouched since April of 2018 – and flipped to a brand new page. Moreover, when I return to my field notebook someday, I have a better sense of how to capture unfamiliar species on the page to compare to my field guide back at home. I’m going to go through them all!

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Puffins 2018 Florida Branding 226

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

There are 258 species documented; half of which nest in the park. This is the bird formerly known as Gray Jay (from 1957 to 2018). In the midst of an intensifying battle between protecting public lands and advancing private interests, I want to share a moment of avian celebration at Yellowstone National Park. As the first U.S.

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Canada 2018 Blackbirds Protection 201

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APRIL 28, 2021

Only a month ago, a good morning spent gazing at my garden could yield 20 species; but now, suddenly, my goal is 10. And in another month, when the rainy season makes my birdbath less attractive, that number will drop to around 5 species.). I was able to see 2 species of Grebes and 6 Egrets/Herons at a small reservoir on Monday.).

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Mexico Trafficking Sparrows Virginia 264

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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 253

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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

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JULY 5, 2024

These species are not only beautiful or charming, but have a personal resonance for me. It turns out this species is very difficult to see — everywhere except in my territory, since to date I have now seen it 64 times within an hour of Morelia. I could not test this theory in 2024, as by that month the lake had disappeared.

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Squirrels Mexico Kansas South America 246

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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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Mexico North America 2018 2017 264

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Sadly in June 2018 a weed was found in the area and they had to completely close the rest area down. Although we do have Black-tailed Treecreepers around Broome they are the sub-species Climacteris Melanurus malanurus and this is the sub-species Climacteris Melanrurus Wellsi. They head north! Black-tailed Treecreeper.

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Transported 2018 2019 Australia 249

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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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