10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In Belgrade, Serbia, winter months offer surprisingly good birding possibilities. And that harsher, mountainous climate attracts some northern guests to overwinter, as well as birds that come down from Serbian mountains to spend the winter in somewhat lower and more hospitable areas, such as Avala. Photo Snezana Panjkovic.

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JUNE 13, 2024

As a little child, I´ve always liked watching birds fly around and imagined, what it would be like flying around on my own whenever I feel like it and not having to sit in an airplane full of nice people. The only reason for it being in fifth place is the unpleasant noise this bird tends to make, which greatly differs from its appearance.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

I admit this is not quite on the level of fellow writers’ posts describing birding as an extreme sport. The proximity to the Myanmar border is reflected in the presence of Burmese Shrikes here – on the wrong side of the border, but it is well known that this species has never been particularly good at geography.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2024

Some birds are especially exciting, because they are so hard to see. For years, I had hoped to see a Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, one of Mexico’s more exotic and difficult species. For years, I had hoped to see a Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, one of Mexico’s more exotic and difficult species. And a few are both.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia, offers several great birding spots and here are some recommendations for areas to go birding in and around the city, how to get there by public transport, and some of the bird species you might expect to see. To get there, take the bus line 56 to the “Cukarica” stop.

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JULY 23, 2022

They can’t provide the same ecosystem value as natural forest and woodland but in places intensely modifed by people, hedges are vital sanctuaries for birds and other wildlife. In pastures of the hot lowlands, they tend to be lines of stunted Gumbo-Limbo trees or some other heavily pruned species. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Most of us have bogey birds – certain species that for one reason or another elude us for years. Forty years ago my bogey was the Bohemian Waxwing, and by 1986 I was sufficiently keen to see one that I was prepared to resort to twitching.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2023

If we were more enthusiastic beach-goers, I would probably have many more tropical birds on my life list by now. As it was, I managed to squeeze about seven hours of birding out of our otherwise highly-social weekend. I still can’t say that I have found Ixtapa’s best spot for shore- and marsh-loving birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

Unfortunately, this makes it sound a bit more interesting for birding than it turned out for me – though admittedly, I spent less than a day there. And the area was recommended to me, so most likely my limited birding skills are to blame, rather than the birds themselves. ” That seems a bit unfair to me.

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JULY 1, 2024

The Black-winged Cuckooshrike is breeding in several Shanghai locations – I suspect that some trees near the Nanhui hotel might be another one, given the vigorous singing of this bird. The Amur Paradise Flycatcher is another species breeding in Shanghai. Not so for the Little Grebe.

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MAY 18, 2024

I was especially looking forward to take some better photos of the birds I saw last time, which I only managed partly. After all, I’d rather call myself a birder than a bird photographer, although I have to admit that I enjoy doing both more or less equally.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? As you start birding, you also start to form a clear list of your favorite birds in your mind, such as the Black-backed Grosbeak. That bird to me is a symbol of where I come from as a birder. A tough question!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Our 9-day trip to Turkey in September was short, and it was not about birding. The historic center of Istanbu l offered urban and coastal birds. Several days later, I saw woodland birds in a forested valley. And that meant a whole new set of birds. I did not see many species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2024

In a recent post, I already covered some impressions of birding in Bonn in spring. But since this is easily the place where I go birding most frequently (if you’re allowed to call a stroll around the block birding!), Several Common House-Martins joined, and a single Sand Martin , my first for the park, also tagged along.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time! Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Aren’t they usually in their nest with their parents?”

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APRIL 27, 2023

As sound photography has not been invented yet, I will therefore focus on the other birds encountered here. The Latin species name alphonsiana refers to Prof. Of course, the Red-billed Leiothrix is a species native to Sichuan – in Britain, it is now discussed whether to regard it as an invasive species ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2024

I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated on 40 species. So one day, in search of new birds, I drove from my base at Agios Nickolas, south of Kalamata, to the Gialova Lagoon, on the west coast.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2023

How can one, in what is barely the second week of the first month of the year – even think of suggesting a Bird of the Year? I began recording my bird sightings with photographs in late 2009, and since then I have seen (or at least heard) a fair proportion of species recorded within my home country of Trinidad & Tobago.

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JANUARY 7, 2023

Another year of birding in Costa Rica has come to an end, another one begins. I bet some tanager flocks will be in the cards; birding in Costa Rica tends to deliver. It’s 2023 already and I have already started this year of birding. A male American Redstart flashed its Halloween finery and other birds flitted into view.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While these birds are very much liked by Chinese birders, the species could unfortunately not be named the National Bird of China as the Latin species name of the bird is Grus Japonicus. it would not be the national bird of the USA either. Incompetent photographers can always blame the bird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2024

The month starts with many birds and ends with very few – but some of those are quite spectacular. Apparently, the species name rutila means “red, golden red, reddish yellow”, which sounds a bit like a contradiction in itself. If there ever was a misnamed bird, it is the white-faced morph of the Black Bulbul.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2022

After last Sunday’s post featuring a few of the birds that use the streetlights around Broome I thought I really should show you a few more! One may have been the same bird that I photographed earlier and it is not far to the coast in any direction. A few more bird species and a few more different streetlights!

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

As the rice paddies near Kota Kinabalu described in an earlier post , Tanjung Aru beach is not really a major birding spot in its own right. However, it is only a short taxi ride away from the airport where most travelers will arrive at – better to see birds instead of just eating fast food while waiting for a connecting flight.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2023

Perhaps a little more shock-inducing and paradoxical than concepts of birding at sewage ponds or graveyards, an oil refinery seems to be the antithesis of a desirable place for a birder. From Yellow-hooded Blackbirds to Purple and Common Gallinules , there are almost too many birds to focus on!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? My favorite bird species is the Great Blue Turaco. What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? I’m based in Nyungwe National Park and am a bird guide there and at Akagera National Park… Source What is your name, and where do you live?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? My favorite bird species is the Gray-throated Chat (Granatellus sallaei) an endemic bird of the Yucatan Peninsula. What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? What is your name, and where do you live?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is the second part of a post showing some birds seen at Nonggang in December 2022, along with the usual (mostly irrelevant) comments. Even the Latin species name soror (“sister”) indicates the similarity to another pitta species (blue-naped). Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Director Gen.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2024

Winter birding in Bonn generally appears to be rather bleak, but I can’t really complain with the Wallcreeper that spent several weeks just outside the city. Now that this bird has seemingly moved on, I had to find other species to distract me, but fortunately that was not too hard.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Birds of Belize by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Two books, two authors, two countries bursting with neotropical avian diversity. © 2023 by Steve N.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

As a birder, I’ve found this place to be a complete treasure trove for many species difficult to see elsewhere. Personally I’ve seen over a hundred species over several birding trips there, the overall species list for the location is approximately 160 – a tally that will only increase. White-shouldered Tanager.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If habitat is protected, they can also act as important pathways to fantastic places and can greatly facilitate connecting people with birds and biodiversity. In terms of birding, they more easily bring us to a vast variety of species, Costa Rica included. Two of the best are Paradise Road and the RECOPE Road.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2024

Last week, David Tomlinson wrote about the excitement of that first birding outing for the year, when every bird is new again. One always wants to see as many species as possible in a single day, whether on an ocean island with few species, or in Suffolk, England. Which leads to totals at or just above 100 species.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I did not actually go to Afghanistan for birding. So, birds in Kabul. I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds).

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JANUARY 13, 2024

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. On the bird recording site Waarneming, I saw that a Great Northern Diver ( Common Loon ) was found on a lake just south of the city.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

The refuge has more than 10,000 eBird checklists and 286 species have been observed by approximately 1,100 eBirders. The most popular of the ten eBird hotspots is McNary NWR–Headquarters/Quail Trail , which does indeed feature California Quail , as well as Yellow-Headed Blackbirds and numerous other species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2024

In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh. I can also pretty much count on one or more joints to be a bit cranky on any given day — especially after a long day of birding.

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