10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Of course, there are things that we hate about birding, as per Kai Pflug’s blog of August 15, 2024. But, I think there are so many pluses. Otherwise, why would we be getting up early, baking in the sun or shivering in the cold, to get that one special bird? Spending time with the nice birders.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Corey will, of course, attempt the same (probably more successfully) in Queens. Some splendid winter finches have been turning up sporadically along Lake Ontario. If all goes well, I’ll be able to chase one or two down this weekend. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Of course, the adult male also got angry with people discarding their trash. Of course, in terms of weirdness, the Grey Nightjar scores a similar number of points. I am not sure what the point of the gorgeous light blue color of the immature male is (practicing his dark blue?), but it looks as nice as the dark blue of the mature male.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Of course, there was conventional classroom time spent on topics such as mechanics of flight, metabolism, digestion, nest building, egg production, and so forth. And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

Of course, it should include an offer to join the ABA, perhaps at a discounted rate. Of course, anything that resonates with more birders is good, as the ABA needs additional members to address its financial problems. Such articles are fine, of course, but not at the expense of all content for beginning and intermediate birders.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Of course, we all know that cliches should be avoided like voice messages. Still, they keep cropping up – and some are specific to the world of birds and birding. Here are ten that I find particularly annoying. “Feathered Friends” Just because it is an alliteration does not make it a good phrase.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Over the course of the morning, I would see multiple Berylline Hummingbirds (shown above), Mexican Violetears , and Blue-throated Mountain Gems , and a newly arrived migratory Allen’s (or, just maybe, Rufous ) Hummingbird. Of course, not everything interesting is a bird.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We have had some very strong winds recently and there may well be other bird species blown off course, so we will have to keep an eye out! A few days later another individual Orange Chat showed up, which was female or immature at a nearby ephemeral lake.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

Several have stayed in our home, and of course, invited us to their own homes. But, of course, I wanted more. Over the years, as the online forum gradually and inevitably evolved into a WhatsApp chat, I found myself forming significant friendships with these birders. At least ten have come to Morelia, to visit my best sites.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

There are of course a few more which I intend to get to in due course. There is a recurring theme of threes within the multitude of bird species in T&T, you can see for yourself in some previous posts I made. We have three each of hermits , antshrikes , resident warblers , manakins , trogons , and spinetails.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2022

You’ll note the sky was still pretty dull, but of course it was still around 30c. Of course he continues to put up excellent photos of birds despite being in lockdown and for that we are all grateful. Brahminy Kite on streetlight. The pair of Brahminy Kite in the header photo were photographed a couple of hours later close by.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Population conjectured to have been in the order of 100 million birds in 1980s” The reason, of course, is the usual one: human beings. Bye-bye, Yellow-breasted Bunting … Common birds can also be very beautiful, of course. Bird-shaped cuteness.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2024

But of course, this means to look at the question from a general, not a birder-specific perspective. How to answer this question from a birder’s perspective? My hunch is that most birders are more on the introversion side of the whole spectrum, though I am sure there are many exceptions to this (hello Peter!).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Corey spent his weekend upstate visiting his folks, picking apples, and, of course, looking for birds. 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.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2024

Through the course of the book, the readers are introduced to real owls and the real people working to protect them. And of course, it’s great for kids that love birds (or kids in whom you want to encourage a love of birds!). One of the final spreads ends with photos of Zalea, grown and with chicks of her own.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. Of course, the female is even more subdued-looking. The male, of course, I am afraid. How exciting.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2024

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. After continuing to cycle to the southern edge, I finally picked out the Great Northern Diver after a long search.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Of course, several resident Warblers were also present: Crescent-chested , Grace’s , Golden-browed , and Red Warblers , and our always common Slate-throated Redstart. Of course, even after this successful outing, I can still look forward to seeing a good number of other migratory Warblers.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This can mean some interesting birding, if you can bear the Shanghai heat … Of course, the egrets and herons described in my last post are still around. And of course there are passerines, some which spent the summer at Nanhui, some just returning from their breeding grounds elsewhere. Some cuckoo species.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2021

Tianmushan is a mountain in Zhejiang province – not very high at about 1500 meters, but of course offering very different birds from flat Shanghai (where confusingly, the highest mountain with a height of 100 meters is named Tianmashan – the difference between the a and the u is one of 1400 meters in height.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2020

And while its wings move in a blur, of course, its body moves very slowly from one point to another. Of course, if I could see the male Woodstar, I might be just a bit happier! It feeds by holding its body and very short bill in a horizontal position, with the female’s equally short tail cocked in a more upright position.

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MAY 19, 2021

Of course, plenty of non-endemics also turned up to have their picture taken. Of course, to say they are “different” is incredibly generous of me. But the Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (in this case, a female) is a strictly Hot Country species, replaced by the closely-related Golden-fronted Woodpecker up where we live.

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JULY 30, 2024

Of course, these profiles also allow interested readers to contact them directly. We will also have two additional series of posts: One features profiles of bird guides from all over the world, explaining their background, their regions, and their favorite birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Not to say, of course, that there’s no point in getting out to see birds this time of year–any day is a good day for birding. Mid-November holds the dubious honor of being one of the most mundane birding periods imaginable in most temperate zones.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Mexican Whip-poor-wills , of course, have a Spanish accent! (As As, of course, are Vermilion Flycatchers. Fortunately, I knew that Cuerporruín is the local name for the Mexican Whip-poor-will. In fact, it is a perfect name, since this species has a clearly rolled “r” sound in the middle of its call.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). Of course, hearing about this immediately makes me think I have to show the photo of a Yellow-eyed Babbler below. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Of course, the events are geared to professional ornithologists, so the material can be technical and assume a background in the subject. But I also dabbled in topics such as Snowy Owl eruptions, urban ornithology, window strikes, and eBird (of course). Grames — What can Ornithologists Tell Us About Global Insect Decline?”.

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JULY 21, 2021

Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. Not that I measured him, of course. Twice a year, in February and July, I make a pilgrimage to the Hot Country ( Tierra Caliente ) thorn forest zone around Paso Ancho, Michoacán.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2020

No photos, of course… and no second chance for years, until last week! The Lesser Roadrunner … running on the road, of course. The only birds big enough for me to ID with the naked eye on the way back up the hill were one large Red-tailed Hawk , an unmistakeable Russet-crowned Motmot , and a lifer Lesser Roadrunner.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The severe drawback of course being that the birds were covered in heavy fog too. Of course, just when we were leaving, the fog cleared up. Apparently, the location was the scene of a fight between Tibetans and Han Chinese a long time ago. The remaining crumbling walls make for some interesting scenery when half covered in fog.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

In the next few weeks, we will have some exciting guest posts by recent authors of birding-related books – and of course, every week we already have one bird guide share her/ Source So if you have something to share about birds, birding trips, bird conservation, a new bird book, or anything else related to birds, contact us!

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Of course, we reserve the right to lightly edit any posts we receive and/or refuse to print anything that we don’t want to. You can include up to three images (sized 740 pixels across) and a single link. Put the blog post directly into the body of the email: we will not open attached documents. Get us your materials as soon as possible.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Attendees had a chance to network at events such as the Veterinary Career Mix and Mingle, relax at the Center for Wellbeing, and, of course, learn about new developments in veterinary medicine. So many special moments came out of AVMA Convention 2023, held July 14-18 in Denver. Check out the following photo gallery to learn more.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

After doing a quick scan of the constellation of recreational fields, a disk golf course, playground, and pond, I didn’t have high hopes for the nature viewing in this busy area. . We opted for a local green-space we had often driven by but had never visited: Tom Brown Park. I am thrilled to say I was wrong!

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APRIL 18, 2021

We’re still far from peak passerine passage, but getting closer every day… I had to move my bird feeder from its perfect position this weekend, because of–of course–squirrels.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

One can only hope 2021 gets more exciting–in a good, healthy, and interconnected way, of course–in the coming months. Can you believe that we’re already one-twelfth of the way through this year?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Of course, the main differences between the Glossy Ibis and the similarly proportioned and plumaged White-faced Ibis are all in the subtle details. Glossy Ibis. Each time I encounter one – or have to evaluate a record of one for the committee – I’m always straining my eyes to get a good look at that face.

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