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AUGUST 6, 2012

When you live in Queens and you only have one morning of an August weekend to go birding there is only one place to go – the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Get out to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond and enjoy those shorebirds. What makes it so good? Shorebirds! Well, it is. See you out on the pond!

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MAY 18, 2020

Mourning Warblers are never a guaranteed bird in Queens and seeing one at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was a real treat. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JANUARY 30, 2015

Through the internet, they have forged bonds with other wildlife rehabililators throughout the world. In March, rehabbers in the United States will gather at the annual National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association conference to make contacts, swap information, and learn new techniques. Conservation India wildlife rehabilitators'

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JULY 7, 2013

Matt Daw just had the find of a lifetime at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. For more on the bird check out the ABA Blog. He was busy filming a Least Bittern , a pretty good bird to get video of to begin with, when, well, watch the video! Congratulations, Matt Daw! … Birds rails rarities'

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JANUARY 11, 2012

Because I will be at the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival ! 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. So, Space Coast veterans, where should I be birding? Help me out, 10,000 Birds readers!

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

My weekend was actually pretty slow from a wildlife appreciation angle, but the bare husks of coneflowers in my garden are still drawing curious American Goldfinches. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. October can be a fantastic birding season in the right places. How about you?

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MARCH 1, 2021

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Corey explored the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on Saturday morning and Fort Tilden on Sunday morning. 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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JUNE 11, 2014

They are filling up comment sections on blogs , rallying on Facebook , and doing everything they can to stop the removal of cats and allow the continued slaughter of wildlife by said cats. (If As is only to be expected, the cat crazies are out in force trying to stop this wholly rational and logical action.

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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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APRIL 14, 2013

He was walking along a trail at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge when he saw a flash of yellow up ahead. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. It’s nice to see that Red-breasted Nuthatches still haunt my home turf. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a total surprise.

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APRIL 1, 2013

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will take place from the twenty-second of January until the twenty-seventh of January in 2014. … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub-Jay level sponsor of the 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Will you be there? I sure as heck will!

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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. It was easily Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

At that point I didn’t know about 10,000 Birds; I had been a wildlife rehabilitator and mother for years, with no time to surf the net for amazing birding sites. Not only that, the blog writers were fabulous. I kept searching for a head tilt or a wing droop, but there were none to be found.

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JUNE 4, 2013

We here at 10,000 Birds are pleased to announce that two new Beat Writers have agreed to risk their spare time, their reputations, and their credibility by agreeing to blog here on 10,000 Birds! Trained as Wildlife Biologist at the University of Florida, he moved south to the central part of the State and settled in sunny Vero Beach.

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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?

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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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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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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. As an example of how close they were, the shot above is uncropped. How about you?

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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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JANUARY 30, 2012

By the time you read this blog post I will hopefully have checked my first lifer of the day off and be on to my second. Forgive the brevity of this post but, like with the last one , I really have neither the time nor the energy to do more at the moment.

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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. How about you?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Those of you who visit this blog on more than the rare occasion are probably aware that I live in Queens and love living and birding here. You are also probably aware that Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, one of the best urban birding sites in the world, is on my regular list of spots that I like to stop by and visit. Please sign it!

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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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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

I spent probably an hour-and-a-half watching Mottled Ducks during my time in Florida at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival and I didn’t see a single Mottled Duck do a single interesting thing. I hope you liked this blog post of questionable quality. I have pictures of all three of those activities though!

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MARCH 14, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. That said, given the history of the islands I imagine the wildlife will recover with time. Tip of the hat to our own Duncan Wright, who used to work on Tern Island.

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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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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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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? Birding best bird weekend'

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MAY 23, 2012

Skimming through the myriad of posts in my blog reader yesterday I came across a post from the ever-watchful guys at the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog that left me cold with anger. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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JUNE 18, 2013

I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. Get more National Wildlife Federation updates at NWF.org/News.

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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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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. Starving and dehydrated, they were taken into care by Dr. Helene von Doninck of Cobequid Wildlife Centre . As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. That’s what we call it when you try to get a hold of wildlife that the idiot in possession thinks they can take care of better than you.”.

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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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