10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Many a birder with years of experience in the Neotropical region has never ever seen or heard an RVG. Speaking of cats, I am reminded of an experience a co-worker of mine had while surveying birds years ago in Washington state. He was of course happily flabbergasted. It was a ground-cuckoo family and they weren’t even shy!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. But we frame these birding highlights within a broader, more comprehensive experience, visiting world-class museums, archaeological sites, and cultural landmarks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What my previous experience had not prepared me for, was that this summer I would see many of those species for the first time all at once. Of course, several resident Warblers were also present: Crescent-chested , Grace’s , Golden-browed , and Red Warblers , and our always common Slate-throated Redstart.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a rush any new birder experiences: that of every species being a lifer. Once you’ve been around the birding block a few years, your appreciation for the lifer experience deepens greatly. Which is why we all eventually turn to the one way to combine old-birder experience with new-birder opportunities: travel.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to bird this time round. Now they’re regularly seen foraging in the weeds along the golf course and soaring overhead with clouds of vultures. Swallow-tailed Kite.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

Several generations of Leopoldina’s family operate the lodge, serving delicious food and hospitality in a clean, comfortable environment. This, of course, was a great boon for our group. Of course, the 67 species we saw in the upper and middle segments of Montezuma Peak Road included more than hummers, tanagers, and flycatchers.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and a bunch of white folks all shared their stories and experiences and tried to wrap their heads around the enormous issue that race is in the United States and how it can be addressed in the birding world.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Most famous for the great wildebeest migration, a phenomenon of 2 million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and eland seasonally moving across the plains and woodlands following an ancient course charted by seasonal rainfall. And of course the big game is an added bonus.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2024

Bright, but not the correct shade or combination – or even family. There were other birds, of course – Brown-throated Parakeets that flew past low and quickly threw us for a heart-pounding loop. Nevertheless, it was still a magical experience sitting in the jungle. Which birds? The bright yellow birds! And waited.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2021

Even though this is no challenge at all, of course. A Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler made an early experience. Looks quite different from the Eurasian Jay I have seen in Germany, which I found is par for the course for this bird – it apparently has 8 races and 33 subspecies. So, what was there to see? Always nice to see.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. And, of course, as I do sometimes, I managed to sneak in a bit of birding. No, I wasn’t being punished, the apocalypse had not come, and I was putting myself through these privations voluntarily! There is still some bug to go. I like phoebes.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The birds that I have experience with, like some of the raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, and tanagers, are all true-to-life in color, shape, and proportions to say nothing of being pretty paintings, if slightly sterile on the standard plain white background.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

That is, of course, dependent on me finishing a manuscript in a timely way by the end of February which I am well on my way to doing, having completed over one hundred species accounts thus far. The book I am writing is the New York edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. And the references I use!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

Hey, in 1959 Walt Disney set up a studio on the island and filmed Swiss Family Robinson there! I did however manage to be in the right place at the right time to experience a gang of Magnificent Frigatebirds that had a Red-footed Booby surrounded. The seabirds are of course, the main attraction.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

For some reason the Fringillidae, as the finch family is called if you want to be highfalutin, frequently tend toward pink. Though both birds are actually mostly brown the pink on the wings and their sheer awesomeness qualify them for inclusion in the pink finch family. Of course not! Not that I’m complaining!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2012

More importantly, I know which groups/families occur in these regions, which ones resemble each other, and where to find them in my books even in cases where similar groups are found in different segments of my field guide because they are not closely related to each other. This means I know my birds quite well.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Since this is the closest spot to the bird action, this is of course where we all want to be. Well yes, of course! Watch birds however you please… but seriously, you gotta experience the Cafe Colibri! Watch the birds. But, what I mean by that is checking out the birds before reaching for the camera.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2024

We were happy to experience three birds of prey on this jaunt. A Roadside Hawk perched on a post next to, of course, a road. There is also a family of Barn Owls on the premises, and I have briefly seen the largest of them (enormous!) And two Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls toot-toot-tooted from the brush. flying by at night.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. A Suffolk Otter swimming in the Little Ouse river Not all Otter s want to be photographed But this one emerged, though only briefly The otter is, of course, a member of the weasel family.

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MARCH 12, 2011

They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. I can imagine myself inside the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest (with the book in my bag), checking every movement, searching for this almost legendary creature and of course jumping in joy when finding it!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2024

As I have mentioned repeatedly over the past months, life this spring has gone topsy-turvy in central Mexico, as we experience what has certainly been one of our driest years in history. Of course, Paso Ancho is also a hotspot for many other beautiful species and endemics.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

It will be family friendly and it is well organized. With deep local roots in the New York City activism scene and experience, post Hurricane Sandy, of the damage that climate change can cause , Occupy Wall Street has morphed into an organization with a ton of organizing and direct action talents. I plan to attend.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? Birds, of course! ( To get to the sewage ponds you have to go to Henderson, which is a quick drive to the southeast of Las Vegas, about twenty minutes from the strip.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Where a birder goes in the Caribbean determines which birds are seen including toy-like todies, Carib hummingbirds, cool pigeons, quail-doves, unique avian families and outrageous woodpeckers. One such special place is the Centro Manu, a small family run reserve that features several star bird species of Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2022

Over the course of the next ten days we visited many locations with which those who have already visited Trinidad for birding would already be familiar. A number of families exist on Trinidad but not Tobago. Most notably the family of New World Vultures. American Flamingo.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Bird families that resemble each other are combined into one chapter, for example “Owls, Nightjars, and Nighthawks,” and are then treated separately within the chapter.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

One particular family of owls had particularly evaded me. Two Great Horned Owl chicks had successfully fledged from Veteran’s Park at Baywalk , a small park that was once a three-hole golf course on Okaloosa Island. Almost the entire family had us surrounded. Until this past Sunday. Veteran’s Park at Baywalk.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2019

Probably some of them did carry a scope, but the majority clearly ditched scope for a camera (and expected their guides to provide scopes, of course). Yet, going through the pages of a book is an irreplaceable experience. Talking of eBird, why don’t they show users the list of the bird families they observed?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

I will, of course, gather those responses and use them in a blog post, so make sure you indicate in your email if you want your full name used (and if you have a blog include the URL so I can link it). Tags: giveaway • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! It is that awesome!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But of course, it is also nice to remember past birding trips. After my Przevalski experience, I now look up such names to check whether the person the bird is named after has made similar racist statements, or even done worse things. I was vaguely curious about the family name mousebird. Or they are afraid of flying.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

” Of course, I birded every moment I could. A surplus of quality birding experiences kept me from making my reports, which is embarrassing. I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Yellow-throated Warbler by Carlos Sanchez Of course, for many local birders, part of the excitement in this hobby is finding the unusual or rarely recorded, and winter offers perhaps the greatest deal of excitement in this regard. What does this mean for the visitor?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

… Tags: Lewiss Woodpecker , new york , woodpeckers • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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