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JULY 11, 2021

My family’s walk through Rochester’s historic Mt. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We just endured the warmest June on record, which may well turn out to be the coolest June we’ll see in a long time. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

But what we did have was our own blog carnival! The inaugural edition of I and the Bird featured sixteen bird bloggers from around the world, many of whom are still blogging today (right Sharon and Clare ?!) As the web matured, the traditional blog carnival lost its relevance. But all good things must come to an end.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Corey spent the last weekend before his son started school camping with family and friends in the western Catskill Mountains. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Most of the birds I spotted this weekend are the same species I’ll be hanging out with all winter. How about you?

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MAY 26, 2014

While I saw some pretty special species this weekend, the most special was the Gray Catbird because my sweet 7-year niece totally got into finding one; I think I’ve found the next generation birder in the family! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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JULY 18, 2021

I found myself fully immersed in marine species while boating, fishing, and birding coastal Virginia with family this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Out on the shore, though, a whole suite of species exists in the places we gravitate to anyway. How about you?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I finally had a chance to visit my brother and his family in their beautiful new home in Westchester. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We explored a trail near his home, where we (really just me) were rewarded with a sighting of a perky Winter Wren. How about you?

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

For such a small place, birders are often spoiled for choice, there seems to be a representative of almost every neotropical family making their presence felt in some corner of habitat. On this blog, I have spoken previously of a trend I managed to pick out while compiling the information for a book I published last year.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

He goes on to describe how early classifications of the nine-primaried oscines relied on bill shape to determine family boundaries. A new perspective on tanagers Much of the core of the tanager family remains intact. Most of these birds are small, finch-like species with thick, conical bills for cracking seeds or eating insects.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

I ask because, despite my deep affection for warmth, indoor plumbing, and uninterrupted Internet access, I found myself and my family enjoying an overnight out of doors. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Why is camping so interesting? How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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MARCH 29, 2015

But Corey also hit up the Forest Park bird feeders with his family Saturday afternoon and Desi, his five-year-old, was so taken with a Red-bellied Woodpecker (the one above) that Corey had to choose it as his favorite bird of the weekend too. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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MARCH 28, 2014

After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. You can see the comments from both sides by scrolling down after the blog’s conclusion. A late-posted blog comment was both revealing and chilling.

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APRIL 18, 2021

Corey enjoyed getting out on birding outings both mornings of the weekend, and was out in nature with his family both afternoons. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Needless to say, he has quite a few birds to choose from in terms of his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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AUGUST 4, 2013

I know that families in the United States are already fretting/anticipating September’s arrival. Now that we’re later in the season, they are grouping either in family clusters or anticipation of migration. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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MAY 22, 2011

Just a few miles up the road from me is the quintessentially English village of Howick, overlooked by the family seat of Earl Grey, the same one that gave his name to that most English sounding of teas. His Birding Frontiers blog is at the cutting edge of identification (and sometimes ahead of it).

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JUNE 23, 2014

Proving that cruelty knows no bounds, some (language unsuitable for a family blog) in Virginia Beach is shooting blow darts at birds. Meanwhile, an Oregon farmer caught a beating from a neighbor irritated by his loud “bird cannons.” (Who Who knew there was such a thing?).

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JULY 5, 2020

Corey enjoyed camping with family and friends for the long weekend after getting tested for COVID and coming up negative. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Those owls were easily Corey’s Beat Birds of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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MARCH 27, 2015

At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds. Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds.

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APRIL 6, 2014

April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. Does your family celebrate a lot of April birthdays? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The wood-warblers are back! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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APRIL 19, 2015

Also lots of birthdays in my family, which is cool. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A better question might be to ask what isn’t great about April. And also birds, also cool! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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APRIL 5, 2015

Actually, signs that winter won’t release its icy grip so readily are also apparent… my traditional Easter family hike was canceled on account of snow. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Signs of spring are evident everywhere winter once held sway.

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MARCH 30, 2012

I like Julie Zickefoose’s art , her writing , her blog , her blog posts here on 10,000 Birds , and, of course, I like birds. So a book about birds by Julie Zickefoose, featuring her writing and art, some of which has been featured in different forms on her blog, is guaranteed to be a hit with me. How could it not be?

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JANUARY 4, 2015

No, he just brought his family to the area he knew one was hiding and waited for Daisy to make the discovery. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. No matter who found it a Northern Saw-whet Owl is always a pleasure. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

At least I didn’t have to travel far for great birds; my whole family thrilled to the sight of an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk chowing down on an unspecified rodent in our yard. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Some weeks, Monday feels more like a respite than a burden.

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JUNE 29, 2020

However, my best birds showed up much closer to home in the form of a chattering House Wren family which apparently displaced my usual Carolina Wren. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I need more birds!! As usual, I restricted my birding activity this weekend to local trails.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Corey greatly enjoyed his weekend in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of upstate New York with family and friends. His favorite, and therefore his Best Bird of the Weekend, was actually a family of Eastern Phoebes , in particular the four fledglings. That level of cute is tough to top! How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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MARCH 22, 2020

You may have experienced one of the weirdest weekends of your life, what with all bars and restaurants closed and people maintaining a healthy distance from even close friends and family. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sometimes the little things really do mean the most.

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APRIL 5, 2020

But it was during an outing to Rockaway Beach with his family on Sunday afternoon that he saw his Best Bird of the Weekend, his first Piping Plover of the year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. In fact, he saw six! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JANUARY 11, 2012

I have another dream that involves a beach covered with gulls and bikini-clad women but perhaps we should leave that one off this family-friendly blog. I know that folks from Florida read this blog, I know that previous attendees of Space Coast read this blog, and I know that birders are an extremely helpful bunch.

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JUNE 5, 2013

Maybe the name of this blog should be 10,015 birds. The 15th is grouped in the Bucconidae family and appears similar to a Striolated Puffbird. That would reflect the number of new species discovered in the Amazon rainforest over the past five years or so, according to scientists. Of the bunch, 14 are passerines.

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MARCH 29, 2020

However, my whole family did take time to appreciate the understated beauty of Mourning Doves. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. With hope, a little time in nature—or at least looking at something wild from your window–took your mind to a better place this weekend.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Taxonomically, swallows are one of the few families of birds that has seen little change in its ranks. For centuries, it seems that ornithologists and naturalists have correctly pegged swallows to the right family. The family is global in its distribution, with 83 species of around 19 genera.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Corey was extremely pleased to finally get out and about birding again after his family all caught COVID and recovered. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Whatever species it turns out to be it is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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JULY 20, 2022

The exploration of triads within the avifauna of Trinidad and Tobago has taken me through various families and species groups on this blog. It’s taken a life of its own to be honest. While this post isn’t entirely following that trend, it loosely is.

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APRIL 20, 2014

Corey enjoyed his Easter weekend upstate with his family, though he did sneak out in the early mornings to look for birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Now that’s a Best Bird of the Weekend worth watching! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Bill Thompson III, also known as Bill of the Birds , will be leaving 10,000 Birds because he just can’t keep up with the vigor of bird blogging at the fast paced, deadline-driven environment of 10,000 Birds. Or maybe it had something to do with rasing a family, having a day job, and trying to get some books published.

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OCTOBER 6, 2013

Blog security is serious business! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey and I don’t get out in the field together much, since we’ve determined that the ongoing security of 10,000 Birds requires the two of us to live in separate cities. How about you?

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Ala Shan Redstart (which I will not call Przevalski’s Redstart, see my juvenile rants about the evil Mr Przevalski in earlier editions of this blog) is a very attractive bird and – as many attractive birds – listed as Near Threatened. Finally, always good to end a blog post with a vulture as a gentle memento mori.

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