10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

It’s among a handful of species — American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee , the unholy trinity of House Sparrow – Rock Pigeon – European Starling , a few others — that have been everywhere I’ve ever lived. We never would have gotten all those extra species of Red Crossbill that way.

Connecticut 208

Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As of mid-November 2021, the Collaborative had submitted more than 4,200 checklists (up from 1,700 in 2018) and has observed 691 species in the United States (up from 618). Thus, there are now seven states with 200+ observed species. The state with the largest increase was Arizona , with 139 species added.

West Virginia 245

West Virginia United States Puerto Rico Minnesota 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

But when a second hummingbird was reported at Lenoir Preserve in Yonkers, New York, it seemed worth checking out, especially because the second bird, unlike the first, which is a Rufous Hummingbird (at left), wasn’t identified to species in the email to the state listserv that alerted birders to its presence.

New York 219

New York Connecticut United States Rights 219

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

Here is my story about a quest for the Connecticut Warbler.–Bill For the better part of the past 25 years of bird watching, I have had one pretty common eastern wood warbler that has eluded me: the Connecticut Warbler. I have met dozens of beginning birders who have seen the Connecticut Warbler. –Bill Thompson III.

Connecticut 194

Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 194

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

There’s a little hint of white in the malar and throat too, which would seem to be a problem for the species Black- chinned Sparrow. Once you know that hybridization between these two species is, as the great ornithologist Charles Townsend relates, “extensive” , the possibilities are endless.

New Jersey 251

New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 251

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

In Connecticut, a woman’s vehicle was totaled after she hit a turkey , flipped a few times and slid 100 feet into the woods. Wild Turkeys were a species of concern in the 20th Century and several reintroduction programs were tried, including the release of domestic turkeys (that didn’t work so well).

Turkey 255

Turkey Hunters Coyotes Boston 255

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This bird was photographed a few years ago in Connecticut, by Corey Finger. Superficially similar to Fork-tailed Flycatcher, especially if you don’t know that this species exists! So unprepared were local birders for Pin-tailed Whydah, some of them openly questioned the species’ very existence on the local listserv.

San Francisco 183

San Francisco San Diego Connecticut South America 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

A filtration system that works on waterfowl pools without clogging,” wrote Linda in Connecticut. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? “Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A I’d wish for respect for what we do.”.

Wildlife 255

Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma Michigan 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

For example, the federal government owns less than 1% in Connecticut but nearly 80% in Nevada. BLM land is particularly important for conservation of the Greater Sage-Grouse and other sageland species. The birds that rely on federal lands therefore include virtually every species that spends meaningful time in the United States.

Virgin Islands 254

Virgin Islands Alaska United States Nevada 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Having never visited the Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch in nearby Greenwich, Connecticut, I was pleased to make its acquaintance on an outing with the Queens County Bird Club yesterday. Audubon Greenwich was the first environmental education center opened by the Audubon Society, and it has been inspiring nature lovers since 1942.

Bald Eagle 147

Bald Eagle Connecticut Turkey New York 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

A little research revealed that these are old names of birds that have been split into different species. Water Pipit is now known as a European species; the American subspecies became the full species American Pipit in 1989. Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family.

2006 231

2006 2014 Connecticut North America 231

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

I dreamed of birding the Sundarbans delta – roughly the size of Connecticut or Cyprus – ever since my very dear friends Tim and Hanna Balke told me a story of their visit to these swamps where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mehgna rivers converge in the Bengal basin. And tell me now – don’t you share my dream?

Bangladesh 207

Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Many species build nests of sticks or mud or spit on human-made structures , or in houses we’ve constructed specifically for their use. The family is global in its distribution, with 83 species of around 19 genera. Connecticut River Swallow Spectacle – Nick Bonomo, Shorebirder. Sinaloa Martin , Progne sinaloae.

Jordan 216

Jordan Iowa Birds Connecticut 216

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2012

Finishing a year with 372 species is nothing to sneeze at and the fact that I added twenty-five birds to my ABA list was nice. Last year I saw 372 species of bird , much lower than the previous two years of 602 species and 604 species. Such is a year without foreign travel. What did I see?

2011 188

2011 Puffins United States 2012 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2012

Compared to something like a Connecticut Warbler , they are just begging to be looked at. Most of them are essentially telling you what species they are when they talk, so just focusing on appearance may make the identification process more complicated than it has to be. 3: Listen to the bird: its not rude.

LACS 219

LACS Alaska Connecticut Wildlife 219

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

The following section on Habitats serves to provide the larger picture, frameworks in which to root the hundreds of individual species to follow. Text is necessarily brief, focusing in on what you need to know in order to separate out one species from another. A different colored tab and page edge denotes each chapter.

Massachusetts 214

Massachusetts Rhode Island North America Reptiles 214

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States. The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316).

Rhode Island 115

Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 115

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The programming is diverse, and capitalizes on the particular passions of each our guides.

Rattlesnake 159

Rattlesnake 2020 Connecticut Parrots 159

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

I may now have the distinction of being the only birder to have found two of this species in North America – not bad for a guy who hasn’t been blessed with a great deal of luck at finding major rarities. It also brought back memories of a Fork-tailed Flycatcher that I found in Queens, New York in 2000.

Florida 194

Florida New York Downers New York City 194

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! What species will be the ten to get me to 289? Connecticut Warbler – I have missed this bird in Queens too many times. Short-eared Owl – Finally, a bird that I saw! Whimbrel – The other.

Jamaica 162

Jamaica Owls 2010 New York City 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Among these white-headed/dark-winged gulls formerly lumped into the genus Larus , there were 18+ recognized species the last time I checked, sharing similarities that make telling them apart for the amateur birdwatcher very difficult. 1998), then the proper name for this species is L. fuscus – should be separated as species.

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Deer Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Way back on 16 May I managed to see my 312 bird species in Queens to add to my Queens list. Somehow I forgot that the last time I predicted what the next ten species I would see in Queens would be was back on 30 December 2013, when my list was sitting at 302. The godwit was my forty-first shorebird species in Queens.).

2010 160

2010 2013 2011 2012 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Now my Queens list stands at a whopping 302, which means I have actually added thirteen species since my last predictions. Long-eared Owl* Harlequin Duck* Connecticut Warbler* Alder Flycatcher. My shorebird list in Queens is now at thirty-eight species! (It It is pictured at the top of this post.).

2012 159

2012 New York City Jamaica 2013 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to the study, since 1984 heightened temperatures and resulting aridity have caused fires to spread across an additional 16,000 square miles than they otherwise would have—an area larger than the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined 1. Click on graph for large sized image. .

Wildlife 108

Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Connecticut 108

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2018

My teammate Tom and I have managed to surpass the contest’s namesake goal of 100 species in a day on each of these runs, and we even had the highest species count last year with 124 birds found in Albany County, New York – though that’s still a few short of the 128 Corey counted way back in 2008.

Connecticut 100

Connecticut Abandonment Abandon Abandoning 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

But history doesn’t seem to have recorded which species of bird first dared to land on an electrical wire. They’re often even made of trees (mostly Southern Yellow Pine in North America, though many other tall and straight species will also do) and so attract many of the same critters some birds like to eat.

United States 124

United States North America Game New York City 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003. In many states the best chance you have of seeing many of these and other bird species are at a hawkwatch. Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited.

Bald Eagle 252

Bald Eagle Los Angeles Connecticut Eagles 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

Chicago 234

Chicago New York City New York Illinois 234

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2015

In the one hundred and six minutes I spent at the waterhole seventeen species of wood-warbler stopped by for a drink or a bath. At least one Nashville Warbler came through and I didn’t hear a single person call it a Connecticut Warbler. Can you blame them when you consider that we were treated to views like these?

New York City 197

New York City New York Connecticut Nashville 197

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Listed as a Species of Special Concern in New York and as threatened or endangered in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, Poocetes gramineus is in trouble in the northeastern United States and, considering the decline shown in Ontario’s second breeding bird atlas, in eastern Canada as well.* What has caused the decline?

Sparrows 165

Sparrows North Dakota Downers United States 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

It is probably the case that the rapid spread of Lyme Disease from Connecticut to the rest of the United States and adjoining regions of Canada was because some species of birds (but not all) can carry Lyme disease, and can also carry the ticks that carry the disease.

Connecticut 180

Connecticut Birds United States Research 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Latin species name of the Kalij Pheasant is leucomelanos , meaning “white” (leukos) and “black” (melanos, both Greek words). As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states.

Rhode Island 147

Rhode Island South Dakota North Dakota Nebraska 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Most of the warblers south of the border escaped this ignominy; those Basileuterus and Myiothlypis species generally appear exactly as advertised. NAMED FOR PEOPLE. NAMED FOR PLACES.

Rights 113

Rights Connecticut Tennessee Nashville 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

11 beats have been out this month and have submitted 136 checklists from 7 countries ticking 634 species. 124 Connecticut Warbler – Oporornis agilis. 124 Connecticut Warbler – Oporornis agilis. Beats are getting restless too with a couple of them venturing further than of late. The year list 1516 and life list 4078.

Woodpeckers 249

Woodpeckers Sparrows Parrots Blackbirds 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

They submitted 124 checklists for 671 species of bird. In particular 272 species were noted from 14 checklists submitted on October 17th, eBird’s October Big Day. 559 Connecticut Warbler – Oporornis agilis. This brings our all-time total to 4040. 1 Common Shelduck – Tadorna tadorna.

2020 137

2020 Sparrows Woodpeckers Parrots 137

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

For example, during my long and tasty weekend, I spotted a variety of early winter species, the best of which was Golden-crowned Kinglet by the flockful. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend™ was, in typical hyperbolic fashion, a lovely, rare male Painted Bunting in Connecticut of all places!

Connecticut 177

Connecticut 2011 Birds Experience 177

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2021

The year list ends on a provisional (some beats will be birding ’til the final whistle to try and salvage a ravaged year) 1803 species from 1602 checklists submitted by 12 beats from 16 countries. Imagine that, 13 lists per year where once there were only 12.

2020 257

2020 Sparrows Woodpeckers Ducks 257