10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2020

Learn to read the signs, and you’ll be able to tell the time of year just by which species cross your path… I had the chance to observe some interesting avian activity along the lakeshore this weekend, but the Eastern Bluebirds down in rural Pennsylvania were most distinctively colorful, which counts for a lot with me.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

At 8, everything was far away, distant, and foreign, even Pennsylvania. We were going to make the long drive to far away Pennsylvania and stay in the cabin for a few precious, amazing days. One such surprising experience happened with grouse. They were waiting in the wild places but how could I get there?

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2015

I enjoyed a nice selection of sparrows and raptors in Pennsylvania farm country, with a pair of bold and noisy Red-shouldered Hawks taking the prize. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A beautiful weekend for watching birds demands beautiful people watching birds.

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Pennsylvania 2015 Farming Sparrows 151

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

But for the average birder, these soaring raptors may not always be easy to see; lots of patches that are good for seeing other birds feature trees and other impediments to the wide-open skies that are necessary for the best raptor-watching experience. The image above is James Currie’s, from Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania.).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2015

I took a family trip down to rural Pennsylvania, where I can always count on seeing an abundance of Eastern Kingbirds … and I did. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The past week has been invigorating for Americans who support freedom, dignity, and equality.

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Pennsylvania 2015 Sparrows Birds 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2016

I enjoyed autumnal splendor down in rural Pennsylvania at that perfect moment when lush green foliage begins to mix with brilliant red, orange, and gold. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The month eases you in, docile as a lamb, but promises to bite you on the back end.

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Lamb Pennsylvania 2016 Jamaica 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

Mike enjoyed a bevy of rural Pennsylvania feeder birds this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What a great little bird! The best of the bunch was a hulking Hairy Woodpecker that dwarfed the diminutive Downies around it. How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Not all of them call but enough do to remind me of summer sojourns in places like Letchworth State Park , and the forests of the Niagara frontier and eastern Pennsylvania. In my experience, it seems to sing more during the spring months and this of course is a great help in locating this unobtrusive bird. Western Wood-Pewee.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

The economic impact of refuge visitation is broad: Recreational visitors pay for recreation through entrance fees, lodging near the refuge, and purchases from local businesses for items to pursue their recreational experience. John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania): 358,000; $4.6 Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 million; 50 jobs.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

All three of those authors have far more experience than I do and the upcoming releases for next spring, California and Pennsylvania, are written by authors just as illustrious!

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New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Litter 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2018

I enjoyed a very birdy weekend with all sorts of expected New York and Pennsylvania fall faves and one rare Wilson’s Phalarope to pad my year list. 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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

I was very happy to see Black Vultures circling in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, since vultures don’t hang around western New York during the winter months. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. For some of us, the weekend still rolls on. Birds count.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Because Corey was busy celebrating Desi’s upcoming birthday this weekend with a trip to Great Wolf Lodge in Pennsylvania’s Poconos, he didn’t get out on a single birding outing. 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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Pennsylvania 2015 Birds Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

I experienced some of my best birding in a long time as I explored some new trails at my mother-in-law’s rural Pennsylvania home. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. From a birding perspective, this month offers an abundance of excitement.

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Pennsylvania 2016 Jamaica New York 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

It was that way for my first Indigo Bunting (a male that absorbed all light and sang in morning wet forests of northeastern Pennsylvania in 1979), and my first Brown Noddy seen from a ferry in Costa Rica earlier this year. That’s how important the lifer experience is and I suspect most other birders who started out young feel the same.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. He also wrote the newly published American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania (Scott & Nix).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

This is the perfect field guide for beginning and intermediate birders who live or work in New Jersey, and is likely to be of interest to newbie and even experienced birders who live in New York State and Pennsylvania. In fact, any birder planning to bird New Jersey will benefit from using this book.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This weekend was meant to draw kids into the Hamburg, PA Cabela’s to experience birds in a up-close and personal kind of way. Adrian Binns ( Nikon Birding ProStaff and Wildside Nature Tours ) brought up two vans of children from the Philadelphia area for a chance to experience all of the activities and be filmed on camera.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

My experiences are unlike any of the film's subjects. I grew up in suburbia and the closest I got to an animal farm was from the inside of a car driving through rural Pennsylvania to get to Pittsburgh. There's a voice and a face for everyone to connect with in Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home.

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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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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 232

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. That was easily fixed by adding a post-Safari trip to Eastern South Africa, led by dashing Rockjumper guide Clayton Burne, to my itinerary.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2019

The first of these crosses was known as the Alexander and was probably an accidental hybrid named for its discoverer, one James Alexander, who found the strange new grape growing in 1740 in the Philadelphia garden he maintained for his employer, Thomas Penn (the son of Pennsylvania founder William Penn).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. The Potential of Osteometric Data for Comprehensive Studies of Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) Husbandry in the American Southwest. 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

March is Mesoamerican Month at 10,000 Birds The Other Antigua About the Author Dan Dan is an eastern Pennsylvania native who grew up surrounded by birdwatching and nature documentaries. Mauritius: birding some less well-known spots Pinch Me… I’m Going to Ecuador! Corey Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:52 pm Great post, Dan.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

So, when Corey and Mike asked if I wanted to review the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania , I jumped at the chance to write about this unique type of scientific reference book. I was also curious, as a birder of the northeast United States, to see what kind of avian changes have been going on in Pennsylvania.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Sadly, Gillette's experience is not unique. However, 12 states, namely, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin [Imagine, The Dairy State doesn't protect a woman's right to nurse!], How sick and twisted is that.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is concerned. And buildings without thought for birdlife, significant buildings like the Minnesota Vikings shiny “death trap” for birds, are still being built.** Dr. Daniel Klem, Jr.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. This is how it worked out for Paul and Anita: Chase #1: Drove from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania to Boca Raton, FL. Mike Freiberg couldn’t believe his luck when he had the opportunity to chase two Code 4 rarities not too far from his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2011

The shot below is of a first-fall female Cape May Warbler taken in Potter County, Pennsylvania, by Mike Bergin in September of 2009. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. Enjoy these shots and be glad you are not a Spruce Budworm ! You won’t regret it! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— a.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area. Sometimes it can literally be the same bird : a Black-and-white Warbler that winters in Guánica likely breeds in or around Pennsylvania. The only other populated U.S. territories are Guam (pop.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

As a clumsy person, she enjoys the experience of literally stumbling through nature, learning as she goes, experiencing the magic of finding something interesting. She teaches anthropology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA, and lives in Maryland with her husband and not nearly enough pets.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2017

They take the form of a White-winged Tern that got lost somewhere over the Atlantic and ended up in Pennsylvania. The open, dry habitat was perfect for it and the experience was so real, it was almost painful to wake up but alas, no Loggerhead Shrike, just a vivid dream of a migrant bird that could make a mega appearance in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2019

Best of all had to be the Ruffed Grouse , State Bird of Pennsylvania, that foolishly planted itself in the narrow road winding through the Allegheny National Forest, only to flush and careen frantically towards our car as we rounded a curve. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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