10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

For nearly 10 days now, I have been sorting thru all of the images from 2018. In the end, I truly did set out to reduce the number of birds that I feature here from 1302, my years total species, down to 10-12. For those of you that may have an interest, click here for the link to the entire list of 1302 birds from 2018!

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2018 Costa Rica South Africa New Zealand 157

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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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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 101

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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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JANUARY 6, 2018

Imagine forty plus resident species of this esteemed family zipping around a place the size of a small state, many of which enjoy feeder juice, and you probably get the picture. Although feeders are easy, not all species visit them, and natural feeders can be better. Costa Rica is a fantastic place to watch hummingbirds.

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Costa Rica 2018 Species Family 128

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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 114

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

Eight days ago, on Sunday, 16 December, a whole big bunch of intrepid birders headed out across my fine home borough into abysmal conditions to conduct the 2018 Queens County Christmas Bird Count. A large flock of Sanderlings was scanned assiduously but there were no other species mixed in and no other shorebirds to be found at all.

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2018 Bald Eagle Falcons Birds 113

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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 110

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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 102

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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 101

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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 2017 2018 Virgin Islands 254

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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Recently, while guiding on the slopes of Poas, without too much effort, we had more than a hundred species. Such a birdy day and yet, one that still lacked quite a few species. Poas itself seems to be pretty straightforward but I wondered how far down both sides of the mountain should be included in my species list. Two hundred?

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 100

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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 242

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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 221

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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. There are also back-of-the-book sections: acknowledgments, a listing of Rare Shorebird Vagrants, Bibliography, and photographer credits.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 259

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JANUARY 23, 2023

The White-eared Barbet is another bird species with an annoyingly sensible Latin species name, leucotis (white-eared). Obviously, my job as a blog post writer would be a lot easier if there was a racist slave-trader named Ernesto Leucotis who somehow got a bird species named after him. But the same species was never found again.

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South Africa Africa 2018 Birds 147

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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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2017 2019 Nashville Investigation 206

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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 146

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JUNE 6, 2024

It wasn’t until 2018 that Michoacán had its first true Top 100. 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. Birding in Michoacán, and indeed, in Mexico, is quite a new activity. Curiously, I had left if off my list.

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Lamb Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 198

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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 210

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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 261

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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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2018 New York City Abandon Abandoning 212

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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 263

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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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2018 2019 2015 Kansas City 158

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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 195

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AUGUST 25, 2022

The first title of the ‘official’ series (there were two ‘prequels’) was “ Birds of Thailand “, published in 2018. For species with more than one subspecies in the region, the separate resident/breeding ranges of the distinct subspecies are indicated on the map.

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Thailand Colombia 2018 Groups 147

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There was one odd reprint in 2018, when the Subalpine Warbler was split into the Eastern and Western species, but the changes in the guide weren’t sufficient to call it a 3rd edition, so it remained the updated reprint of the 2nd edition. I haven’t noticed changes in the few descriptions of harder to ID species that I compared.

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 252

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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 2017 178

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APRIL 26, 2024

Tucked away at the extreme eastern end of the Mediterranean, Cyprus is regarded politically as part of Europe, but when it comes to birds it’s very much Middle Eastern in flavour, with a number of species that are hard or even impossible to find in Europe, plus a trio of endemics. The song is highly distinctive.

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Cyprus Breeders Falcons Italy 213

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

More than 450 species have been recorded within the Arenal area, and over 250 bird species have been recorded on our private reserve alone. A Luna Nueva bird list has been developed by Juan Diego Vargas & Mirna Salas, both professional birding guides, which describes where you can find species of interest on the property.

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Costa Rica San Jose Liberia Farming 203

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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 203

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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 215

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JULY 1, 2018

Thankfully due to the long life span of this bird species the population appears to be somewhat stable at the moment. The Northern area of Cable Beach fares even worse than the area closer to habitation despite there being more pairs of Pied Oystercatchers.

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Breeding 2018 Eggs 2008 100

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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. when living in suburbia. How is that for a link?

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Nepal Birds Owls Nigeria 159