10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2021

While at San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge he tracked down the long-staying Neotropic Cormorants , a new Orange County bird for him and then found a Black Tern , which was also new for him on the state. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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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 234

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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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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2020 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 233

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2020

Corey enjoyed a morning walk on Saturday with three friends at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where they spotted over fifty species between mosquitoes and biting flies. 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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2020 Pennsylvania Jamaica Birds 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2013

Birding and wildlife watching can be, as we all know, a solitary activity. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. And our practices, though familiar to anyone in our phenologically-attuned culture, can seem strange, sometimes even threatening, to the uninitiated.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2012

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Osprey in New York State this year, seen perched on a nesting platform at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in early morning fog on Saturday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2012 Jamaica New York Woodpeckers 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

But, of course, it was Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that paid off the most when Corey carefully scanned the margins of the West Pond and turned up a surprise American Bittern. 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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Jamaica Birds Wildlife Experience 231

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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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2014 Arizona Jamaica Birds 212

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2013

Corey had a Best Bird of the Weekend or rather a pair of birds, Stilt Sandpipers , that plopped down directly in front of him while he was digiscoping a juvenile Short-billed Dowitcher at the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2013 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 211

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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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New York City 2014 Breeders Virginia 199

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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2013 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 178

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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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 223

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 179

4 The Love Of Animals

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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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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2020 Jamaica Birds Family 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Long-billed Dowitcher at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens on Sunday morning, his first 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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2013 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 174

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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2019 Breeders Jamaica 2011 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Every wildlife watcher, no matter how specialized, becomes attuned over time to the ebb and flow of each local plant and animal’s life cycle. With enough observation and experience, we notice slight variations and how those aberrations sometimes ripple throughout ecosystems. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2012 New York Suffering Birds 180

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. His blog is still intermittently updated at www.underclearskies.com. In my experience non-birders connect with the travel, visiting beautiful places and spectacle of birding and hawkwatching often entails all three.

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Bald Eagle Los Angeles Connecticut Eagles 252

10,000 Birds

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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Soreing Jamaica Birds Collecting 179

10,000 Birds

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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2019 Nevada Turkey New York 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

This weekend, however, I needed to take my mind off all those gaudy birds Corey was scoping down at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I’ll admit that I rarely reach 20 bird species a day, especially this time of year.

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2012 Medical Owls Birds 176

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 166

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 Monkeys Birds 190

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 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2014

While others were enjoying the beach this weekend I was enjoying the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where I reacquainted myself with the mud and the shorebirds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Ideas anyone? How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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2014 North America Jamaica Birds 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. The resolution has been reduced for the blog, but in high-res, 2 or 3 dark filaments are visible. The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. Their function?

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2011 Deer India New York 233

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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Portland Oregon Laws Virginia 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2013

I don’t know what to expect from the festival itself, but I think I can say at least that the birding will be off the charts good, which really ought to make for a pretty sweet festival experience. Because it’s Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in January, and that’s all any birder really needs to know.

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Florida North Carolina Birds Branding 170

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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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

MARCH 13, 2011

The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge will soon be winging their way north, so he spent some quality time with them, his best birds of the weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Though I only managed a rather poor photo for the blog!) link] Donna S.

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2011 Deer Owls Birds 133

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2011

Someone of your birding experience may already recognize the problems posed by such little diversity among American birders which include: So many people are missing out on the fun and benefits of birding. That’s why you blog about birds, take photos of birds, tweet about birds, etc. – You may already be aware of this. to reach others.

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Philadelphia Birds Ethics America 234

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Third of all, the bird that was first seen on 30 October is, as of this blog posting, STILL THERE! But after repeated good experiences with birders as individuals, Mr Jordan has consented to allow the bird to be made public before it leaves. It made it through the rough winter and is still coming around to the feeders.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 234

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Corey encountered a bunch of winners, but 24 Common Redpolls at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, in almost the exact same spot he saw them a couple of years ago, feeding on birch inflorescence by the East Pond, were easily his best birds of the weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2011 New York Deer Philadelphia 174