10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2020

But the birds he most appreciated were the juvenile Least Sandpiper feeding at his feet on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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MAY 16, 2021

Of the 113 species they spotted it was hard to pick a single Best Bird of the Weekend, but the Common Nighthawk perched in the north garden at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge rose to the top of the heap. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Corey got his Best Bird of the Weekend early this weekend as while he and his family were making their way home from a week-long vacation in Cape Cod on Friday a Black-throated Gray Warbler was found in Queens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

This offering is actually hard to part with: a copy of Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil signed by both John Gwynne, who managed the project, and Guy Tudor, eminent neotropical bird artist and art director of the project. Time to give away a wonderful book on 10,000 Birds!

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

This week offers the ideal opportunity to look back at your most recent wildlife watching adventures; next weekend, the game begins anew. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Nat Geo Wild is airing an amazing show tonight called Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! In addition to the live broadcast, viewers can go to natgeotv.com/sharkexperiment to find background on the experts and tests as well as live updates from an on-location blog that will include photos, video and text. Will you be tuning in?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Until Mute Swans took over Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, gallinules bred there. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sadly, that was before Corey moved to Queens. So it was a pleasure to see one and the gallinule was Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are countless field guides and other birding books, websites, blogs, tour companies, and podcasts. Fish and Wildlife service estimates that there are 16 million “active birders” in the United States, though that figure is likely orders of magnitude too high. Simply put, birding is fundamentally different than it was 50 years ago.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Corey saw quite a few quality birds on his trip to the southeastern United States in the last week but he best bird he saw that fits the criteria of having been seen on the weekend was a nice Sora in the early morning sunlight at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge’s Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive. How about you?

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MARCH 3, 2019

He didn’t see a ton of birds but he did appreciate the number of Snow Geese flocking up at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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JUNE 9, 2019

Of what he did see, a pair of Bald Eagles at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was the highlight, a species that didn’t used to be around in June in Queens at all. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. So, Bald Eagles as his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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2019 Bald Eagle Jamaica Eagles 115

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2018

Corey enjoyed shorebirds on the beach in the Rockaways, in the mud at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Wildlife, and on pavement at Floyd Bennett Field this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2019

Late Friday afternoon he was birding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and came across an odd thrasher. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Though I spied quite a few warblers, my best looks were of Scarlet Tanager , a bell-ringer of a bird any day. How about you?

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2019 Jamaica New York Birds 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

A rather lackluster Sunday morning’s birding didn’t result in any major highlights for Corey, a bummer considering he was scouting for next weekend’s Christmas Bird Count, but he did manage to spot a sextet of high-flying Common Mergansers at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Gull-billed Tern of the year at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. They are a graceful tern and Corey appreciated watching it hunt, feed, and fly over the marshes. How about you?

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2015 Jamaica Hunting Birds 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

But his Best Bird of the Weekend was a dabbling duck he found on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, his first Eurasian Wigeon of the year! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2018

But a drake Wood Duck is always appreciated and that it plopped down in front of him at Big John’s Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge made it even nicer. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Jamaica Bears Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

Corey spent time on both Saturday and Sunday morning looking at shorebirds on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. There are more than one in the photo above: can you find them all? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Nature lovers, on the other hand, find time for wildlife watching every weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. At least one weekend a year, bats–particularly the vampiric kind–command more attention than birds, at least from most people. How about you?

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Cattle 2016 Bats New York 156

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2014

There has been a Black-billed Cuckoo repeatedly reported from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge since May and it had studiously avoided Corey until Sunday morning, when he heard it calling in the South Garden. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky. That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. I scrambled for a box. I was mortified.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2017

Corey’s Beat Bird of the Weekend was a singing male Mourning Warbler at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that was chosen despite it giving a brief awful look. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Still though, Mourning Warbler! How about you?

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2017 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. It is an eye-opening experience to view a familiar place from a new perspective.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2015

In particular, he picked one of the many that has already staked out a claim to a nest box at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Spring is here! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 Jamaica New York Birds 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2017

Corey enjoyed visits to the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on both Saturday and Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. First, I witnessed Ruby-throated Hummingbirds haranguing a Cedar Waxwing in suburban Rochester. How about you?

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2017 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Seaside Sparro w he watched for an extended period from a blind at Two Mile National Wildlife in Wildwood, New Jersey. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New Jersey 2017 Birds Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2018

This cooperative bird was found on Saturday in one of the openings in the ice at the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and Corey went and saw it on Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend could have been any of a multitude of species spotted on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Baltimore 2015 Jamaica New York 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the three R ed-cockaded Woodpeckers he saw in the pine woods of Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area in central Florida on Friday during the “Central Florida Specialties” trip for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Such a rare bird is always a good sighting!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

Remember that awful experiment where baby monkeys were deprived of all parent/sibling contact, and became fearful and phobic? If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildlife rehabilitator. Need more information while you’re finding a licensed wildlife rehabilitator?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

Remember that awful experiment where baby monkeys were deprived of all parent/sibling contact, and became fearful and phobic? If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildlife rehabilitator. Need more information while you’re finding a licensed wildlife rehabilitator?

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Raised Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Monkeys 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

He was very pleased to see two of these marvelous shorebirds on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and nearly as pleased to check them off his Queens list. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Number 305! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Corey had a great Saturday morning on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge which has still not filled back up after being drawn down for shorebird season this summer. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Better lay out some suet once the real cold arrives.

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Neglecting 2017 Jamaica Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

He was pleased to see several hundred Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. There are few things nicer than a big ol’ flock of Snow Geese! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 Geese Jamaica Turkey 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a cooperative Lesser Yellowlegs on the famed East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. It is a common bird but well worth watching and digiscoping for awhile. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2018

But none of those birds compared to the plucky Ruby-throated Hummingbird that returned to the same exact branch in the same exact tree at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge to nest once again. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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New York City 2018 Jamaica New York 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

I’ve only been in Virginia Beach for a few days and I’ve already knocked down most of my targets, including Blue Grosbeak and Yellow-breasted Chat at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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