10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

That was definitely my best sighting. 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. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Red-billed Curassow ( Crax blumenbachii ), a large, ground-dwelling bird belonging to the same family as the more familiar Plain Chachalaca of southern Texas, was never a very widespread species. There are certain birding experiences that stay with you forever. Is that all we are going to get? Or so we thought. And that was it.

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California Condor Brazil Parrots Texas 240

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. But it’s a very fluid definition, as the book makes very clear. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The Nikon’s BATV crew flew in to Paramaribo where we were graciously hosted at the luxurious Hotel Krasnapolsky for a night so that we could experience the culture and fun of the capital city. The second sound that we heard belonged to another fantastic member of the cotinga family, the White Bellbird.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2013

My best bird this weekend was hardly rare, but spotting a Great Blue Heron in a suburban yard far from water definitely caught my attention. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. Thankfully there are several really excellent family board games that you can play as a whole family. Her natural talent was astounding and surprising.

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Birds Game South Africa Wildlife 279

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 island of Tobago in the southern Caribbean is much wilder than one could imagine.

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Fish Rights Breeding Species 262

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

“In 80 birding tours to more than 100 countries, that was definitely the best day of birding I have ever had in my life!’ However, the great birding experience that is Sani starts lower down. A family of endangered Wattled Cranes might be a highlight of the lower sections of the Sani Pass road, by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Despite depicting 540 species/56 families, it is a lightweight book of 173 pages, easy to pack and carry. There is no definitive answer which approach is better, but this checklist’s claim to fame is that is the first book to describe and illustrate all mammal species found in the region. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.).

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Mammals Asia Sri Lanka Bhutan 212

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. Motmots definitely make up one of the bird world’s glamour families. Western Mexico offers only one, the endemic Russet-crowned Motmot.

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

Wood-Wrens, which like to live close to the ground in deep brush, definitely follow this rule; they are not at all colorful, but their song sure does ring. You truly cannot experience the Gray-barred Wren without hearing the raucous calls shared among group members of this highly-social species.

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Trinidad Transported Mexico Emotional 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. For those of you who are wondering why I’m talking about self-isolation and using “we”; my party consists of myself and my wife – who insists she is definitely not a birder. Once we arrived at a suitable (i.e.

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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? If you ever get the chance to visit the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve you should definitely go for it. Birds, of course! ( As Clare well knows! )

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Las Vegas Nevada Birds Blackbirds 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2013

They are usually in a group and our garden regularly has a family group of eight visit it. They have listed under “Other names” in one of our field guides “Happy Family & Yahoo”! If you have any experience with these birds then it makes perfect sense. Birding Australia Babblers Broome'

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Australia Groups Family Experiments 157

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. ” I agree.

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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 247

10,000 Birds

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. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is the only Cholorceryle species I haven’t seen, so observing one would complete a genus in this fascinating family. It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day!

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Brazil 2011 Birds Penguins 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Corey finished up his family trip to Costa Rica on Saturday and his Best Bird of the Weekend should be a Pacific Screech-Owl outside of his hotel on Friday night, a lifer! 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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2019 Costa Rica Pelicans Birds 144

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

It’s impossible to think of him being bothered by the wet, cold ground when there’s some count to be made definite after years of thinking about it, some esoteric puzzle to be finally solved. Like he does, say, for the Canyon wren.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We all have them: families of birds that are maddeningly similar, forever leaving nagging doubts about our identifications. Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. New World Warblers in non-reproductive plumage. Thanks again, Fabián!

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Mexico Argentina Groups Experiments 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

For many birders a highlight of birding the southeastern United States, maybe even the definitive birding experience of the region, is taking in the great numbers and diversity of long-legged wading birds. Below is a family shot of at least six. Can you find all of them? You can click on it to get the larger photo.

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South Carolina Alligators Florida United States 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. So little is known about Green-breasted Pitta, that he cannot get a definite location for the bird, or a recording of its display call. (He It’s what I dream of every Monday morning. Schneider’s Pitta was thought to be extinct for over fifty years.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

Diversions like these definitely help get us through the more prosaic birding months. My family and I enjoyed the Corn Hill Festival this weekend, which is definitely one of Rochester’s better events. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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. So writing for you fine folks fell by the wayside.

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Spain Turkey Mexico Agenda 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

If you’re not finding mid-June birding all that exciting, you’re definitely not alone. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. 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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. A Redux” but is really about birding and conservation.

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North Carolina Birds North America Owls 263

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

These consist of Red-crowned Crane , Blakiston’s Fish-Owl , and Steller’s Sea-Eagle – all among the most massive and spectacular representatives of their families. The owls eventually melted back into the woods from whence they came, and we retired for the night, elated with what definitely ranked as my best Christmas ever.

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Japan Massachusetts Asia Birds 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2023

This past January, however, my experience was even better. The same can be said, to a lesser extent, for the shorebirds, New World sparrows, warblers, and many other families. It definitely happens.) Most years, a day in January of serious birding around Lake Cuitzeo can give me around 85 species.

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Blackbirds Ducks Mexico 2020 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

There are always going to be species that will have to be left out of these guides, and though I may miss Allen’s Hummingbird (a bird that has only been definitely identified in the state three times but a lifer for me in 2012), the guide does a good job of covering the basic and interesting residents and migrants.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison. Text is on the left, plates are on the right. It’s a puzzle. Both genus names and species names are listed.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. • Explore These Related Posts What is a raptor?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

I have encountered this situation only one time in my birding experience. 2. Size is interesting, but isn’t definitive. 3. Facial characteristics are interesting, but aren’t definitive. 5. Song is interesting, but isn’t definitive. It is not a new book, about 6 years old. But not while flying. Think “white”.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It was bit of a traumatic experience for me and I vowed to never own an animal again. But as I began my search for a new family member at local shelters, I noticed that something was terribly wrong—I couldn’t hold the dogs I was considering adopting for more than 5 minutes before going into a sneezing convulsion.

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Suffering Dogs Fur Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Hornbills are spectacular under any circumstances, but when a pair lands in a bush beside you at eye-level and begin mutual preening , it makes for a spectacular experience. I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 2, 2012

With Petfinder’s mobile app, you can have access to the databases of 13,000 shelters and rescue organizations; and it definitely helps to have it with you as you bounce from one shelter to another, so you can compare fees and legal requirements.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You'll get hands-on experience with new tools and technologies, and the event itself is chock-full of inspiring keynotes on a variety of topics – from accessibility to diversity. If you have time to experience the city, try Red Farm; it has some of the best dim sum in this part of the city, and it’s right near the conference venue.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

My childhood in the 1970s and 1980s was of course shaped by family, friends, playmobil ( very popular in Germany back then), and school but also to a certain extend by the Cold War. As cheesy as it may sound, these experiences with what I was taught all my life were foes wanting nothing more than my demise were life-changing.

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