10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2022

Double-barred Finch and a Bar-shouldered Dove for size comparison on the same rock. Despite the word “little” the Corellas are large birds compared to others that visit our garden apart from the Pheasant Coucal. Little Corellas feeding.

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Birds Australia 247

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In comparison with ELs, EL 10s and NL 12s have the same field of view, as well as EL 8s and NL 10s. Or those lightweight foldable CL models that fit a shirt pocket, like Pocket or Curio, which I expect to see in the next James Bond movie!

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 299

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2020

While the 480-odd species recorded within T&T may outstrip our fellow Caribbean islands by leaps and bounds, it pales in comparison to the massive lists of mainland South and Central America. Birding in Trinidad and Tobago has been likened to an introductory chapter in the book of birding in the Neotropics. And for good reason.

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Trinidad Family America Species 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

birders are rare, so the recent release of a “ National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons ” is notable. National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons. Comprehensive surveys of U.S. Some background and my subjective views of the highlights are below. Citation: Patton, Stephanie.

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Minnesota Pennsylvania Ohio United States 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

At least we have birds… My desire to see boreal specialties pales in comparison to my passion for staying warm and dry. If you live on my side of the globe–north/south axis, of course–you may be as sick as I am of winter weather. Alas, the long slog to spring will take many, many more frigid, blustery weeks.

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ALA 2015 Hunting Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Whatever Corey will be doing surely pales in comparison, so let’s not even talk about it. Maybe invasion is on my mind because I’m on the eve of an amazing voyage. Thanks to my new best friends at Proexport Colombia, I’ll be birding this weekend in the birdiest country on Earth. How about you?

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Colombia Breeders 2014 Birds 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

This means that any comparison of results obtained in different years may not reflect the success of a birder’s endeavours but rather the variation of the overall birding conditions of the respective years, which are outside the sphere of anyone’s influence.

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Feral Asia Species Florida 224

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It was kind of this Clay-colored Sparrow (left) and Chipping Sparrow (right) to position themselves so well for comparison purposes. The best way to identify the Chippy is that its eye line reaches both in front of and behind the eye. Happily, nobody would struggle to identify a Lark Sparrow.

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Sparrows Falcons Woodpeckers Species 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

Comparison of 180mm macro with the EF 300mm plus Kenko 2X TC The image quality of the 180 mm macro is only a little better. Comparison with 100-400 f/5.6 To do this I have gotten both lenses as close as possible to the subject which means the 300 is 1.25 meters away from the subject and the 180 mm is 0.4 meters away.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Whether this comparison is valid or has an ecological meaning is anybody’s interpretation. As birders, we love to make comparisons, quantify what we see, find the difference between this and that species, keep lists of all sorts, and make self imposed benchmarks. Gray Gulls would be the Laughing Gull tropical counterpart.

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Chile Peru South America Florida 207

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2011

And here, for comparison purposes, is a Yellow-pine Chipmunk that is not of the Olympic Chipmunk subspecies at Mount Rainier National Park. I’m glad that we got the chance to watch a few of them while we enjoyed Olympic National Park and I hope that some day we get to see them again!

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Chipmunks Mammals Deer Washington 194

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2011

Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus As to its origin, a few examples of the African form of the gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus are shown here to offer a comparison. Interestingly (credit must go to David J. The only photo I have is the one below, from a trip to Buenos Aires in May 2011.

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South Africa Pedigree Africa New York 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2012

Here’s is what your run-of-the mill Laysan Albatross chick looks like, for comparison. I was sad to leave Midway for many reasons, but one of them was that I was unable to see what Moby Dick would look like once he shed all his baby down and took off into the Pacific.

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Albatross Birds 187

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2013

… For comparison purposes, here is a shot of a Black-chinned Sparrow, another desert sparrow found at Red Rock Canyon. The bird in these pictures was the first of its species I had seen in six years and it more than made up for lost time. Click the image above for a bigger version.

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Las Vegas Sparrows Nevada United States 185

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Those of us in North America may not necessarily associate “uppies” with the highly derived Long-billed Curlew , but check out the Eastern Hemisphere’s Little Curlew for comparison. Long-billed Curlew ( Numenius americanus ) cc-by winnu Godwits Godwits are next: large, impressive shorebirds with awesome, upswept bills.

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Family North America Netherlands New Zealand 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2013

Now, apart from the fact that most of us have only very rarely seen burning pencils, it is difficult to grasp what he meant by this comparison. You can further check this striking similarity and the sharpness of the comparison by studying the next few images of Greater Flamingos in flight.

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France Vet Germany Breeding 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

My own Solitary Sandpiper sighting seems paltry in comparison. Where some might dwell on billions of dollars in property damage and lost productivity, birders see mega-opportunity! 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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2011 New York Birds Experiments 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2011

By way of comparison, an American Robin is 23-28cm.) Still no parrotbills. oh, yeah, that’s right, its a Black-backed Forktail ( Enicurus immaculatus ). A bad photo of a good bird. Collared Falconet ( Microhierax caerulescens ) at 15cm long, it is not particularly big. (By www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkGCWbbFlD0

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Thailand Montana Birds Africa 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2012

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular American poet during the nineteenth century though as the years have passed his star has dimmed in comparison to other poets of the period. Many see his work as derivative of the European poets, unoriginal, and suitable only for children.

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Massachusetts Birds Europe Collecting 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

So comparisons of bill shapes, foot shapes, and the like can certainly stimulate the imagination, but we need rigorous science to explore and synthesize more molecular work, morphological analysis, and biogeographical hypotheses in order to close more gaps in our understanding.

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 252

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

When I could, I tried to do side by side comparisons: Above is a Chaffinch that I took with the iPhone and my scope. The camera has surprising light gathering ability–although using a Swarovski ATM 80 doesn’t hurt the process either. Here’s the same Chaffinch but taken with my SLR.

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Israel ALA Abandon Abandonment 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

To allow for a better comparison, all three soared in the same thermal. A Western Marsh Harrier quartered the reedbed, soon a Common Buzzard appeared, then another… no, wait, the second one had visibly longer wings and… rufous tail! It turned out to be a Long-legged Buzzard !

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Serbia Romania Eagles Falcons 261

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another female Broad-billed Hummingbird , and a Dusky Hummingbird for comparison. It is not present in our migratory visitors, I’m happy to say. But with our residents, this pattern isn’t very helpful at all. Male and female Duskys both have this facial pattern, darn them!).

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Mexico Species America Family 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. So say Kevin T.

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New Jersey Birds Science New York City 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2023

I’m also a big fan of birds lining up in pairs for purpose of comparison. There seem to be an unusually large number of American Wigeons on the lake this winter. Which is fine… I like American Wigeons. These two are a Cinnamon Teal and a Blue-winged Teal. Ring-billed Gulls are the most common gulls at the lake.

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Spain Ducks Birds Mexico 184

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For easier comparison, confusingly similar pairs are shown on the same page, side by side. 850 illustrations by Tomasz Cofta are both accurate and stunning, and 2,400 photos by Michal Jakuj and 189 other photographers from Europe and Asia are good documentary shots.

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Europe Asia Cyprus Turkey 262

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

At first, he was chased by a Hooded Crow , roughly appearing similar in length, but the crow visibly massive and heavier, so the falcon took flight to find himself another dry branch and land near a Common Kestrel, offering more comparison time. Finally, one Lesser Whitethroat in a bush by the road… and a sunset turns into darkness.

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Falcons Greece Madagascar Game 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Also, each major habitat is accompanied by an illustrated climate graph that allows easy comparisons between habitats. Three pages of text are illustrated with superb photos of a forest in the mist, two birds and a mammal.

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Costa Rica Cougars Madagascar Mammals 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2020

The juvenile Pied Oystercatcher gives you a glimpse into its development when it stretches a wing out and when it stands close to its parents for size comparison. Adult and juvenile Pied Oystercatcher. Juvenile Pied Oystercatcher having a stretch. Juvenile Pied Oystercatcher front on.

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Eggs Breeding Family Protection 187

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Even by comparison with a couple of Dunlin and a one-legged Western Sandpiper, the Least Sandpiper look less than a satisfying mouthful. Most of you would have been looking at much bigger birds last Thursday. The individuals above were seen at the top of the tide, pushed hard against the shore of San Francisco Bay.

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San Francisco Sea Lions Lions California 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

The subject begs for facile metaphors and easy comparisons, and rejecting such is one of my favorite hobbies after birding itself. I am writing (hopefully, by the time this posts, have written) on the odd confluence of good birding territory and historic gay cruising zones. The Magic Hedge in Chicago, of course. Plum Beach in Brooklyn.

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Chicago Litter Louisiana Montana 195

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2011

The Tirolean Alps are – well – rather barren by comparison. I then lived in Central America where there were more bird species than my bird books (and my competence) could hope to identify. But then again, those are some pretty hard acts to follow.

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South Africa Factory Parrots Africa 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Despite considerable speculation, the evolutionary origins of this species’ remarkable tool behaviour remain largely unknown, not least because no naturally tool-using congeners have yet been identified that would enable informative comparisons. Here we show that another tropical corvid, the ‘Alal? ( Although the ‘Alal?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2022

They aren’t rare birds by any means, but a leisurely view like this was without comparison. Even Channel-billed Toucans calling loudly in the distance couldn’t tear me away from this pair. The presence of austral migrants makes T&T an attractive birding destination all year round.

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Trinidad Squirrels Birds Parrots 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2015

I figured that it is only fair and right to include the male Mountain Bluebird ( Sialis currucoides ) for comparison. Firstly, if you check the wonderful photo galleries here at 10000 Birds, you will find some excellent shots of the female Mountain Bluebird that Corey took in New York, of all places! Click on photos for full sized images.

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United States Mammals Squirrels Bears 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2015

For comparison, this is the male Purple Finch ( Carpodacus purpureus )… And the female Purple Finch … One of the physical distinctions between the Cassin’s Finch and the Purple Finch that may be most obvious is the bill shape. This is the more widespread distribution map for the Purple Finch.

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North America America Species Breeding 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2011

The length of the list means nothing except in comparison to Corey’s list ; I’ve finally overtaken him in our ABA competition, but how long can I maintain my lead? On the other hand, a woefully brief glimpse of a Hook-billed Kite at Bentsen State Park was all it took to move it from my world list to my ABA list.

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2011 Mississippi ALA Sparrows 157