10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In addition to providing many people with wonderful life experiences, these birding visits have helped increase our understanding of local bird distribution. A fairly recent trip turned up Manx Shearwater and fishing boats got pictures of the young Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross that had also been seen in Belizean and Panamanian waters.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

From Waved Albatross and Blue-footed Boobies to Neblina Tapaculo and Andean Condor , and from Tumbes hummingbird (a dull-colored hummer of the western lowlands) to the outlandish Rainbow Startfrontlet and Rufous-crested Coquette , we counted a combined total or 864 species during the Rally. This was worrisome since we gave it all we had.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose as it was his first albatross, a Black-footed Albatross off the coast of California. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Though the Bar-tailed Godwit he saw on Sunday was pretty good too.). How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

About six-and-a-half years ago I had the privilege of watching a young Waved Albatross on the Galapagos island of Española learning how to fly. It’s not often that we have the opportunity to glimpse the home life of albatrosses, nor of any seabird species. So, what did I learn from Far From Land ?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Hornbills are spectacular under any circumstances, but when a pair lands in a bush beside you at eye-level and begin mutual preening , it makes for a spectacular experience. but I really feel I should nominate an albatross, if only because I love taunting Corey about them. You can read more about his experience here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast opens with the unexpected appearance of a Laysan Albatross. We are all suckers for an albatross, at least in the United States. The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Do I need to say anything more?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2011

In my limited experience on pelagic trips, which are almost entirely off the coast of New York State, I can say that Northern Gannets will willingly fly right into the midst of a chum scrum, sometimes even plunge-diving very close to the boat.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2016

When Corey asked us if we would like to compile a top ten this year instead of our one “best bird” I realised that his ALBATROSS would be the number one bird, but he obviously had some equally good birds that he wanted to give some credit to. Finally it turned itself the right way up and was a Pintail Duck ! Pintail Duck.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2012

We had been cracking jokes about how we had been saying we would get jaegers and a Manx Shearwater so the next bird on our list would be an albatross because we had also said we would get one of those. Nonetheless, it was a pretty darn cool experience and I think I will count it on my ABA list. Long-tailed Jaeger ! What would you do?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It was productive throughout (the official summary is here ) and the highlights were a Cook’s Petrel , several Black-footed Albatrosses and Least Storm-Petrels , as well as higher numbers of Red-necked Phalaropes , Pomarine and Long-tailed Jaegers , Craveri’s Murrelets , Sabine’s Gulls , Townsend’s Storm-Petrels , and Brown Boobies.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

(Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike) Dunedin You don’t have to go very far to see spectacular seabirds in this southern city, the adjoining Otago Peninsula is home to the only mainland colony of albatrosses in the world. Slightly to the north is Tutukaka, gateway to the world famous diving site at the Poor Knight Islands.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. Seeing this giant, awkward yet majestic bird walk through the densely littered landscape was a surreal experience. (4) I saw this Greater Adjutant in Assam, India, where they scavenge in the Guwahati city dump.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement. No rails or gallinules.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. Geography is destiny. 188 for that location and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

clockwise from top left) Common Loon ( Gavia immer ), Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ), Black-footed Albatross ( Phoebastria nigripes ), Brown Pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis ), White Ibis ( Eudocimus albus ), Marabou Stork ( Leptoptilos crumeniferus ), Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax varius ). Jarvis et al.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Conclusion Birds of Belize and Birds of Costa Rica are both impressive, informative, well-organized field guides, distinguished by the expertise, experience, and talents of their authors. 4 (July 2013), pp.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

His words, as profound as they are, have draped like an albatross around my neck for years. Tim Houlihan is an evangelist of applied behavioral economics with more than 25 years of experience in product development, training, sales leadership and marketing strategy. But how can I practice perfectly in an imperfect world? Perfection?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

His words, as profound as they are, have draped like an albatross around my neck for years. Tim Houlihan is an evangelist of applied behavioral economics with more than 25 years of experience in product development, training, sales leadership and marketing strategy. But how can I practice perfectly in an imperfect world? Perfection?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. Howell continues his tradition of giving clarity to what most birders find intimidating with Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide , just published by Princeton University Press.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. Yellow-nosed Albatross. Wandering Albatross.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. that’s three birds).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

Volunteering provides a very different experience to tourism though. In Hawaii I stood on a beach as albatrosses fledged and Tiger Sharks prowled for the less successful ones. This Laysan Albatross died from ingested plastic. And come the new year I’ll be telling you all about my experiences this time around.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You can end up basking in a rare bird bliss that may linger for weeks, or you basically experience a living hell. There are few things worse than being extremely seasick, particularly if you pay close to $200 for the experience. Pelagic trips. There is nothing in birding like a pelagic…you never know what to expect.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Hes previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. Duncan Mar 10th, 2011 at 3:01 am I know from experience that Saddlebacks are tricky little guys to catch.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I particularly like the albatrosses and owls, shrikes and boubous. and having them in your pocket makes a huge difference in your birding experience. Perhaps birds of prey are somewhat overcrowded, but still well organised. The app has all the descriptions, maps, paintings and seasonality bars like the printed edition.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

The Introduction’s sections on “Migration and Vagrancy in Birds” and “Where do North American Vagrants Come From” are the heart of the book, representing the authors’ thoughts on vagrancy patterns, based on years of experience, past ornithological research, and their own data analyses. by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

They want an authentic nature experience, but a relatable authentic nature experience. They leave comments on your videos and give you cute names like Ozzie the Osprey and Wisdom the Albatross. There’s only so much I can do. They want this as instinctively as you want that dead vole. We all need this.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

.” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

Right now you’re reading a blog about birding, not even birds but birding, although to be fair I can’t really make any definite statements regarding how much you are enjoying the experience. I think you know about this, about how planning for a birding trip can be a fun part of the overall experience.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins was preceded by Albatross: Their World, Their Ways (2008), co-authored with Mark Jones and Julian Fritter; the Penguins book was conceived with Jones and Cornthwaite as a successor to Albatross. There is also a great deal of biological and ecological information encapsulated within De Roy’s experiences.

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