10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2021
The very last Sunday of the decade heralded our final CBC – with group sizes limited to five persons. For the fifth year in a row, I was assigned the prolific and well-known Aripo Livestock Station at the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range. For birders who have visited T&T in the past, the livestock station has always been a staple site for several key species that would be fairly difficult elsewhere.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2021
So many different factors contribute to the quality and quantity of a birding adventure that one would be hard-pressed to predict the very best time to watch birds in a particular area beyond a vague three or four week window. However, one weekend always delivers on the promise of some of the most thrilling and non-judgmental birding encounters of any year.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2021
2020, one of the more memorable and infamous tear years of our lives, is finally done. It doesn’t mean that various issues and problems have disappeared, but at least a new calendar year is a fine excuse for renewal. In the birding realm, it means a new year list, beginning the year with winter birds, and planning trips for the next 12 months.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2021
One of the nice things about winter finch irruptions is that they usually take place across two calendar years, allowing ardent listers to tick the very same species in January for their new year lists as they saw in the final weeks of the previous year. After all, it could be years before some of them come back again. This strategy is even more important given this winter’s “super flight” currently taking place in eastern North America, which is seeing one of the most impressive and southward i
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2021
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years… Oh, who am I kidding? 2020 was the worst of years, through and through. And there were moments during the year when I thought birding was a lost cause. But, looking back at year’s end, it wasn’t all that bad… at least as far as my avian passion is concerned. Of course, it could have been much better, even regarding that hobby.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2021
After spending Christmas Day birding around Broome and observing 92 species we spent the week making a mental note of what bird species were where. When you are planning to do a list exactly one week apart it is constantly on your mind. Every time the weather changes or you observe a bird you did not see on Christmas Day you wonder where it will be on New Year’s Day.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2021
This year you get two listy posts for the price of one. You lucky, lucky birders! The idea being that putting December and the 2020 year review in the same post may prove to be listing overload for some. So this is the list for the complete year and the December list can be seen here. If you are a committed lister and keen to find more ways to play with your sightings, join the petition to eBird to request a list facility which can collate sightings over the lunar cycle.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2021
One of the minor challenges of writing a blog post for 10,000 Birds is to come up with a title. Now, I usually go for the most boring ones imaginable, such as “Birding XY in [season]” Underpromise and overdeliver, as I would say if I was a McKinsey consultant (I swear to god I never was one). But occasionally, that gets – well – a bit boring.
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