10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

Shorebirds – or “shorbs” for the cuteness factor (as if that needed any enhancement) – remain one of the most fascinating families of birds for me. I had the good fortune to visit Lake Nakuru in Kenya in 2019, one of the high elevation rift valley soda lakes.

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Buffalo Kenya Trinidad 2019 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. The scientific species name of the Rusty-naped Pitta oatesi honors Eugene William Oates (1845-1911), an English civil servant in India and naturalist.

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Burma India Indonesia Thailand 212

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication. Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. Why are these issues?

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 225

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals. In 2023 I attempted to keep a year list of mammal encounters: the list barely exceeded 20 species, while it became complicated by seeing bats and voles that I was unable to name specifically.

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Fur Otters Bulgaria Estonia 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2024

It’s a decidedly different direction for the author of Kingbird Highway (1997), Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America (2005), and A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration (2019), to cite just three of his books, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed, underlined with energy, and am still thinking about.

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Philadelphia Birds Investigation North America 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

When you have birded a single area as much and for as long as I have birded Michoacán, it becomes progressively harder to find first-time species (“lifers”) there. I achieved five lifers in Michoacán in 2019, four in 2020, three in 2021, and only two in 2022. As you can see, this is not a promising trend.

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Bats Mexico ALA 2019 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But when I felt familiar with perhaps half of the species around my town, I started to feel that my field guide is now too bulky and too hefty to carry, and that was the era before smartphones and phone apps. of January 2019, which resulted in 10,711 species, 40 orders, 246 families and 2,313 genera.

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Botswana Africa Ecuador Birds 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

I don’t know whether head brewer Chris Schell – a Delmar native with a decade of craft brewing experience – is a birder or not, but each beer is adorned with trippy, vaguely sci-fi depictions of birds by Boston artist Ian Tartasky , some of which seem to be identifiable to species.

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Boston New York 2019 Collecting 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

They are one of the most famous families of birds, and for good reason. Trinidad and Tobago has historically had seventeen species on record, sixteen on Trinidad and six on Tobago. Oftentimes even the uncommon to scarce residents play nice, one can easily view fifteen species on a single visit to the twin island republic.

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Trinidad South America Venezuela 2019 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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South Africa Malaysia Africa China 238

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. The guide covers 265 of Maine’s 461 bird species: common nesting species, common migrants, and wintering birds.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Suriname Malawi 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

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. With my new job, I feel privileged to work towards protecting vulnerable species each and very day.

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Bald Eagle Alabama Kansas Wisconsin 152

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Even the Latin species name soror (“sister”) indicates the similarity to another pitta species (blue-naped). The eBird description of the Small Niltava starts with the surprisingly dull statement that “size distinguishes this species from other niltavas” Who would have thought.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2020

As I simply saw too many interesting birds during my short Delhi birding trip in 2019, I decided to cover the trip in two separate posts. A resident in India but also included in the list of the world`s 100 worst invasive alien species. The Robert Smith of the lapwing family. One of my favorite bird species. Sarus Crane.

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India Zoos Birds 2019 170

10,000 Birds

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.

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2018 2019 2015 Kansas City 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. So, when British natural history writer Jon Dunn (not to be confused with U.S.

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 180

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. © 2021 Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman & Quarto Publishing.

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North America Research Birds America 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

beats have still managed to share 82 checklists and accounted for 737 species. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019. 01 Jun 2019.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 122

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

There are numerous bird species that we only observe when we are many miles from home and some bird species we have rarely observed. Two new birds for 2019 just like that! All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! Gang-gang Cockatoos. The post Gang-gang Cockatoos-a Christmas wish!

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Portland Tigers 2019 2020 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden. The 29 species I added to my January list say so as well.) I would definitely say that it is.

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2006 Morocco Birds Mexico 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The book is divided into three parts: “Introduction,” “Avifaunal Overview,” and “Species Accounts.” Norse, and John Kieran.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 156

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

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Science Birds Costa Rica Research 236

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay. September 2019, $25. The latest and delightfullest in this genre is Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay. To readers and to baby birds, its author, Julie Zickefoose, is a treasure. by Julie Zickefoose. 5 1/2/X 8 3/4.

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Ohio Adoptable Emotional 2019 148

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Though many bird species are capable of imitating human speech, Ripper made headlines for being the first duck ever known to have done so. As far as we can tell, his naughty language hasn’t caught on with other ducks in Australia – and that’s a good thing for the producer of this week’s featured wine, the 2019 Teal Lake Shiraz.

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2019 Australia Fowl Ducks 236

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

So, for example, Essay #15, “Individual Variation,” uses Herring Gulls to introduce the concept that one species, even one species at a specific age, can vary widely in appearance. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.

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North America Birds Prairie Dogs Barn Owls 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

© 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal. Each activity builds on these basics–observation, documentation and action–introducing concepts like migration, nesting, and conservation, and also teaching specific ways bird behavior may be different for different species. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2021

I would be away from my family for a time and my visiting in-laws from Tasmania….Perhaps To underline the mystery of this species in 2019 a Nordmann nest was discovered; the first in 40 years! The arguments against? This would really be an I.D.I.O.T. Cairns was some 1600 kilometres, nearly 1000 miles, away. Adrian Walsh].

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Australia 2019 Thailand Russia 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

It’s a unique bird, even its scientific name is wonderful, so it’s not surprising that Gerard Gorman, Woodpecker Expert Supreme, has written a book all about the species. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. Like many species, Wryneck numbers are on the decline.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand Europe 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

Black-winged Stilt near and on the highway There are still over forty species of birds to be found along the highway across Roebuck Plains, but the tall vegetation can be problematic. There are several Swamp Harriers that upset the birds and then you do find there are more species present than are initially visible.

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Pelicans Australia 2019 Fish 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2021

Now this is not the first time Facebook has or is being used to showcase beautiful pictures of birds, to allow conversations between birders and to highlight the location of uncommon or rare bird species. Obviously the winner for each year has taken pictures of the greatest variety of bird species within the zone in the calendar year.

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2020 Birds Australia Species 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The latest edition of the Clements Checklist that I could find, last modified in August 2022, lists 965 species (a little more manageable!), including 355 endemics, 28 introduced species, 6 extinct species, and 77 globally threatened species. There are three to four species on each page, for the most part.

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Australia 2017 Birds New Zealand 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

This may be before the Fairy-Wrens developed the ability to detect Cuckoo young in the nest, an ability recently described by ornithologists, or this family may be one of the 60% who don’t detect Cuckoo chicks. As I said before, the book plates utilize the species names used in the original books and drawings.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 200

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The book offers numerous facts about many species, findings of hundreds of research projects, notes on trends and exceptions from the norm, but little that captures the poetry of winter bird behavior or ignites a passion for change.

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Hoarding Research Birds Sweden 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

Now that I have got your attention, let us move to the new version of the Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle and Sharpe, published by the Lynx Edicions (2019). Furthermore, there are six families confined to the Greater Antilles. If a species is monotypic, this is clearly stated.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279