10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Still slightly groggy, I was determined not to miss my first daylight in The Bahamas. It was around 08.30 on New Year’s morning. With a handful of target birds to choose from, one species was placed clearly at the top of my “wanted” list. A movement between the palm stalks caught my attention and there he was.

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Bahamas Species Birds 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

North American breeders winging their way south for the winter may want to head for the Bahamas, where a new national park offers them protected habitat. Can California Condors be taught to avoid the dangers of power lines ? Staff from the San Diego Zoo think so.

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California Condor San Diego San Francisco Ghana 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Corey has been blitzing the Bahamas in his endless quest for Caribbean endemics, so wish him luck on those last holdouts. Flora and fauna across the world feel the phenological shift; do you? I’ll be looking for further signs of spring around Rochester, though our unseasonable warmth this week may be giving way to snow. How about you?

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Bahamas 2017 Birds 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2015

And if your life list includes Bahama Woodstar , you might want to get back out into the field. Outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, a recent addition to the team, was in a slump until the bird’s arrival; after donning a neon yellow sleeve in solidarity with the brightly colored parakeet, he belted his first home run as a Met. Rally Parakeet FTW!

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Parrots Bahamas Monkeys Transported 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2019

When we returned to Tucson, from the Bahamas, I was approaching a milestone number, 1300 bird species, and drove myself hard, climbing, hiking, searching, and driving all over the state of Arizona looking for those last eight birds. Bahamas Totals: 58. New Zealand Total: 104. Australia Total: 242. South Africa Total: 219.

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Costa Rica Tucson South Africa Bahamas 131

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Corey spent Saturday journeying back to New York from the Bahamas and most of Sunday recovering. With winter on the wane, my chance to visit with our local Short-eared Owls seemed to be slipping away, so I rectified that with a quick sundown sojourn. Fortunately, before he left he saw some great birds on Friday.

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Bahamas 2017 New York Birds 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

There is a virtual flock of new and interesting bird science news all of the sudden, including the rediscovery of an extinct Bahama Nuthatch. But here I want to note, and for now, dismiss, a find from Madagascar. It was always thought that humans first inhabited the island of Madagascar about four or five thousand years ago or so.

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Madagascar Humane Elephants Bahamas 125

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2017

That I have trips to Puerto Rico, Austria, and the Bahamas planned in the first two months of the year makes me a bit more confident than usual that I can make it again this year. I saw 425 in 2016, 510 in 2015, 560 in 2014, 517 in 2013, 529 in 2012, 375 in 2011, 601 in 2010, 609 in 2009, 313 in 2008, and 459 in 2007.

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Puerto Rico 2017 Austria Bahamas 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2019

The Bahama Yellowthroat lives, well, on a collection of Bahaman islands. The first can be found from Mexico to Panama, while the second is endemic over a fairly large part of eastern Mexico. But the remaining Yellowthroat species, all marsh-dwellers, live in extremely small ranges.

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Mexico Bahamas Panama South America 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

Or maybe you’re visiting Belize, Guatemala, Paraguay, or the Bahamas? Eurasian Blackbirds living in cities have learned to keep their cool, compared with rural birds. Planning on birding Kenya? Then you’ll want to check out this new book. Then you might benefit from a new program training birding guides.

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San Jose Parrots Kenya Paraguay 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

They are found in the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Turks and Caicos, Antigua, Barbuda and Jamaica. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. They are also the rarest.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

In my first trip to the West Indies , I learned that the Bahamas boast an impressive array of wild native doves including the Caribbean Dove and White-crowned Pigeon. The various islands also support more adaptable civilized species like Mourning Dove , Common Ground-Dove , and Rock Pigeon.

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Bahamas Russia 2006 Turtles 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2012

As the storm was pulled northward across Cuba and the Bahamas, it began to temporarily weaken, lose convection, and suffer from dry air intrusion before it began interacting with an incoming trough. Perhaps more due to being underbirded, there have been no reports of Razorbills from Cuba or the Bahamas (both would be first national records).

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Florida Cuba Bahamas 2012 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Populations in the eastern part of its range, including the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles are resident while those in the western part of its range such as Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamas are migratory. Its wintering range includes most of northern South America.

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Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Miami Florida 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

La Sagra’s Flycatcher , Thick-billed Vireo , Western Spindalis , and Bahama Mockingbird are the most regularly occurring, but other species show up to like Loggerhead Kingbird and Bahama Woodstar. Caribbean strays can occur at any time of year, and these are often the most desirable bird species for visiting birders.

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Florida Miami Stray United States 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

It’s important to note that Kirtland’s Warblers are migratory birds and spend their winters in the Bahamas. This designated area provides suitable habitat for the species and offers opportunities for birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts to observe the warblers during their breeding season from late May to early August.

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United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2017

Austria, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and a brief visit to California have kept me in new birds and it has been wonderful. This year has been a good year for me in terms of travel. But there is still little more in birding that I like than birding my local haunts and seeing what there is to see.

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Puerto Rico Austria Bahamas United States 100

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 9, 2010

See OCEANS, Save Oceans ” is an initiative developed with The Nature Conservancy where a portion of each ticket sold for the film’s opening week April 22-28 will help establish new marine protected areas in The Bahamas. “We For more details on Disneynature’s collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, please visit: www.disney.com/Oceans.

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Bahamas Dolphins Sea Turtles 2010 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2017

And, honestly, I feel a little guilty saying that traveling to Puerto Rico, Austria, and the Bahamas so far in 2017 is what has kept me from seeing not only a Great Gray Owl but New York’s first Clark’s Grebe and the young Ross’s Gull that was visiting Tupper Lake.

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New York Owls Beavers Puerto Rico 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

The Eurasian Collared-Dove , as Larry has already ably pointed out , has spread rapidly across North America since its release in the Bahamas in the mid-1970s.

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New York New York City North America Bahamas 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

And, while friends have told that me that I can go to the Bahamas and easily see the warbler in January, it turns out that is not true, the bird is elusive in its winter habitat as well (which is not Jack Pine, by the way). So if you want to see a Kirtland’s Warbler, you go to Michigan in May or June.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 226

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 20, 2010

The “See ‘OCEANS,’ Save Oceans” initiative; Disneynature’s pledge to make a contribution in honor of everyone who sees the motion picture between April 22-28 has already translated to more than 790 acres of marine protected area in The Bahamas—and that number is still growing! Will you be seeing “OCEANS&# when it opens?

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Bahamas 2010 Protection Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

The Eurasian Collared-Dove ( Streptopelia decaocto ) was first released in the New World on the island of New Providence, in the Bahamas. In the mid-1970s, a local breeder was burglarized and a few of his birds escaped, after which the breeder released his remaining stock of about 50 birds 1.

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2002 Breeders North America Bahamas 178

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2018

Last year it was New Providence in the Bahamas. This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. Two years ago it was Culebra, Puerto Rico. This year, traveling in April instead of February, we decided to do a road trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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North Carolina New York Delaware Puerto Rico 100

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2019

Her personal breakthrough goal was to swim from The Bahamas to Florida! The journey to realizing a championship sales team has to start with having a breakthrough or stretch goal – by which I mean a level of performance your team has never achieved before, something currently beyond its capability (or so everyone thinks).

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Bahamas Psychology Raised 2018 125

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2014

The last three potential targets, Western Spindalis , La Sagra’s Flycatcher , and Bahama Mockingbird , are perhaps also the most desirable for those trying to see new birds in the ABA area. Roseate Terns breed in a mixed colony with Least Terns at Marathon in the Florida Keys.

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Florida Miami Bahamas Breeders 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Five chapters are profiles in ornithological adventure and challenge: Spoon-billed Sandpiper research in China ; Kirtland Warbler research on their wintering grounds in the Bahamas; forty years of research on the Swainson’s Hawks of Butte Valley and Argentina; the continuing fight against the slaughter of songbirds in Cyprus; a trip to remote (..)

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Cyprus Slaughtered Slaughter Research 249

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2017

From 20 February through 25 February I was on a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas. More specifically, I was on Paradise Island, the small, resort-laden and heavily developed island on the north end of New Providence, adjacent to Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. Thick-billed Vireos are aptly named.

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Bahamas Puerto Rico Louisiana Birds 102

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

In the Bahamas I swam in a pod of feeding dolphins. In Uganda I would often cross paths with Chimpanzees as they went about their lives and I went about mine (which was living with a troop of monkeys). In Hawaii I stood on a beach as albatrosses fledged and Tiger Sharks prowled for the less successful ones.

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Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2012

With a family renowned for its strong flight and capability to colonize far flung locations (such as the Imperial-Pigeons and Fruit-Doves of the Tropical Pacific, Blue Pigeons of the Indian Ocean, or endemic pigeons of the Canary Islands), this fact comes to no surprise.

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Florida Miami Bahamas Mexico 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

Cuban Emeralds, a near-endemic found in Cuba and the Bahamas, perched at a distance from the Bee Hummingbirds. To everyone’s delight, males were engaging in mating displays, shooting up to dizzying heights, iridescent specks in the air. The female Bee Hummingbird watched.

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Cuba Birds 2015 Bahamas 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Black-and-white Warbler by Carlos Sanchez With the northern Bahamas just to the east and Cuba just to the south, southeast Florida biogeographically sits on the northern edge of the Caribbean and so the wintering wood-warbler species are mostly those typically found further south in the islands.

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Florida Miami Cuba Bahamas 158

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2013

With quick use of the tape and a short burst of song, I had an immediate response and got to observe this flycatcher at length — the call is quite different from that of the closely related Bahamas race of La Sagra’s Flycatcher which I have heard in southeast Florida.

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Jamaica 2013 Parrots Bahamas 152

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

By comparison, other species such as Eurasian Collared-Dove spread from the Bahamas to Florida and then onward to the rest of the country within a very short time frame.

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Florida Miami Bolivia Alligators 193

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

As Sandy hovered over the Bahamas, we got some really strong north-easterly winds for a day. A Brown Noddy Then most recently – after and during Hurricane Sandy – I came across a nice variety of birds seldom seen close to shore here. The surf was huge and unrideable. So I ditched my board for bins and walked down the beach.

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Florida Birds Bahamas 2005 146

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

A Eurasian Collared-dove photographed by Mike in the Bahamas , which is pretty different from midwinter Montana Eurasian Collared-doves, as you may have gathered from the name, are not part of our native avifauna. The Collared-doves were introduced to the Bahamas in the 1970s, and from there apparently leapfrogged to the U.S.

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Montana 2011 Bahamas Deer 134

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Kirtland’s Warblers are rare, apparently fewer than 2,000 in the world, they winter in the Bahamas and summer in Michigan. But I do monitor our local hotline and couldn’t resist a Kirtland’s Warbler that showed up not far from home. Draw a line between those 2 points and our home is not far off their track.

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