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Experience Experiments Woodpeckers 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
It is hard to imagine any birder not liking woodpeckers – they are the “motherhood and apple pie” of the avian world. The Bearded Woodpecker (Mkuze, South Africa) does not really look any more bearded than many other woodpeckers. It is the most widespread woodpecker in Africa, claims the HBW.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. So you can imagine our disappointment when we crawled out of the car after our trip to find out that Mike was in fact relaxing in the warm kitchen and had no idea where the woodpecker was! Why is that awesome?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
White-bearded Manakins , Golden-olive Woodpeckers and Green Honeycreepers all came in pairs to feed on the fruit, the woodpeckers also prodding the soft, moss-laden bark for any other available morsels. A male Golden-olive Woodpecker was never far from his partner. Guianan Trogon. Green Honeycreeper. White-bearded Manakin.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Of those he did see, he most enjoyed the flyover Pileated Woodpecker in his hometown, a treat for a resident of New York City, and Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Anyway, how far do you really need to go when Red-bellied Woodpeckers hang out at your feeder mere feet from a picture window? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
260 10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2012
Or join in… Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was, what else, his first Red-headed Woodpecker in Queens ! Woodpeckers FTW! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I had my share of best birds while visiting Wild Wings at Mendon Ponds Park.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2012
My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way!
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2013
They were joined by hoards of Common Redpoll and Black-capped Chickadee , along with Red-breasted Nuthatch , Downy Woodpecker , and Hairy Woodpecker. The high winds and frigid temperatures made photography difficult, but it felt right to experience my life Snowy Owl in its element among the whipping snow.
229 10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2015
But Corey also hit up the Forest Park bird feeders with his family Saturday afternoon and Desi, his five-year-old, was so taken with a Red-bellied Woodpecker (the one above) that Corey had to choose it as his favorite bird of the weekend too. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2020
He saw a bunch of birds but his favorite was the Red-headed Woodpecker that has been hanging out at the corner of Abington and Audley Streets in Queens for a month now. 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
DECEMBER 5, 2019
If you are into amazing avian-dense trail experiences, you either want to bird Pipeline Road or want to bird it again. But this type of singular experience can be enjoyed in the Old World as well. Although Kibale famously offers a more complete chimpanzee experience, the long views the Royal Mile served up left me plenty satisfied.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
This is where Gila Woodpecker and Yellow-breasted Chat meet Squirrel Cuckoo , Bat Falcon , and Black-throated Magpie-Jay. These striking and inquisitive jays were perhaps the bird of the trip for me, and we took our time to soak in the experience of encountering these wonderful birds.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2012
Watching a pristine Hairy Woodpecker working away at the tender core confirmed my decision. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I had a large, half-rotten tree taken down last summer, but chose not to have the stump ground down. What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
And if you take this phrase, “stamps in weathered passports,” my interpretation is that the experiences from travel are the “stamps” as sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, on your “passport,” or soul. Hannah overlooking a valley Traveling into Lesotho from the Sani Pass is an experience more than just the journey to the top.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2024
My only other experience with an Audubon Club field trip anywhere, on a cold October morning in the American Midwest, was frankly kind of a bust. But this one was a wonderful experience. Finally, a birder up front cried out, “A Pileated Woodpecker !”, Then we heard what might be drumming.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2011
Clark’s Nutcracker , sometimes called the Crow Woodpecker , will always be paired with Lewis’s Woodpecker , the woodpecker that acts like a crow, both because of their cross-family likenesses and because of their namesakes. It was a wonderful experience and one that none of us will soon forget.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Old beech forests are inhabited by Grey-headed Woodpecker , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , Black Woodpecker , White-backed Woodpecker (rare), Stock Dove (uncommon), Collared Flycatcher , Red-breasted Flycatcher (rare), Marsh Tit and Coal Tit. Above them, on limestone cliffs, Alpine Swift and Crag Martin breed.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2013
A great combination for any birder wanting a richer experience of northern Argentina and it birds. After this incredible rich quick stop we continued northbound searching at every ebird hotspot and any other stream crossings that came along but all the next hotpost fell short of our first experience. Green-barred Woodpeckers.
220 10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
Corey could have chosen his first Pine Siskins of the year in New York, a Red-headed Woodpecker , a late Osprey , or a Vesper Sparrow as his Best Bird of the Weekend this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Can Snowy Owls be far behind?
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. Woodpecker Finch using a tool.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. The experience of seeing a pair feeding and calling in the mountains of Honduras felt like a much more genuine birding experience to me. Trips Honduran birding La Tigra motmot'
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Babita Tours has many years of experience organizing tailor-made wildlife tours for private groups in this wonderful country. The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2024
I spent some time sitting on the lawn and watching an Eurasian Green Woodpecker forage around me. Eurasian Green Woodpecker In other areas, the lawn was densely covered in daisies and I experimented a bit with photographing from low angles to make the daisies look even more dense.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2022
I’m accustomed to seeing nothing while walking along some of these trails, but apart from a Golden-olive Woodpecker knocking the trunk of a palm tree at the entrance, it seemed extra quiet. All the while it moved a grand total of three times – vastly differing from all my prior experiences with this species!
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
This Great Spotted Woodpecker isn’t even trying to hide its spots. One paper on Great Spotted Woodpeckers is titled “Requirements by the Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major for a suburban life”, but contrary to my expectation, it does not state that the birds need a car (an SUV, perhaps?)
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. Yesterday evening I got home from the second Swarovski Skills Camp at Lake Neusiedl in the east of Austria. impressive for Central Europe.
299 10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2013
However, the great birding experience that is Sani starts lower down. Buff-streaked Chats and Cape Rock-Thrushes sing from boulder tops, and family huddles of Ground Woodpeckers emit their rather gull-like shrieks. Another typical Sani Pass bird, the strange Ground Woodpecker, a remnant of an ancient woodpecker lineage, by Adam Riley.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2012
Remember the whole Cornell Ivory-billed Woodpecker search and how you literally had to apply for a volunteer position to pay your own way down to Arkansas for 2 weeks to try and look for that bird? Count me as one of the many who signed up for that. So, how about you, how do you define ornithologist?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
My only taste was eating a quick sandwich in a park, during which time I observed the behavior of an impeccably plumaged Hairy Woodpecker. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Seriously, this bird was sleek and stylish! What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
And then there are the Ground Woodpeckers ! These are one of only three ground-dwelling woodpeckers in the world. A Ground Woodpecker by Adam Riley But probably the very best attribute of this gem of a birding spot is its proximity to the ocean.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2014
Adam and Tim are experienced Florida birders with varying degrees of experience when birding the Tropical Rainforests. It was obvious that not only scientists found this attractive; canopy exploration has become popular among ecotourists wishing to experience the forest canopy. Many of these birds were lifers for them.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2020
These birds also invite one to sites that are unique within the United States – the climate, vegetation, and landscapes all add context and heighten the experience of seeing one’s first Elegant Trogon or Painted Bunting. North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2011
The woods were quiet, so we focused on geocaching beneath the silent trees with only a single Hairy Woodpecker for company. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey, on the other hand, pulled a Razorbill in Jones Inlet that gave decent looks but no photographic opportunities.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school. He probably should do.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2013
I know I never would have been able to tick a Pileated Woodpecker off my life list had not one of the birders in my party whipped out a phone to play the Pileated’s call. They may experience undue stress and/or needlessly expend energy.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2015
I didn’t get too far afield this weekend, but enjoyed the impact adding a nut blend to my feeder has had: Red-bellied Woodpeckers look huge next to the usual sparrows, finches, and chickadees! 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
OCTOBER 30, 2016
I saw lots of different kinds of woodpeckers this weekend, but that big, honking Pileated always wins out over the others for Best Bird honors. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Nature lovers, on the other hand, find time for wildlife watching every weekend. Happy Halloween!
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2012
I do try to experience and learn as much as I can on every trip and my week in Hungary was no exception. Black Woodpeckers are mythical creatures that Europeans, jealous of our Pileated Woodpecker , made up. It is the insensible birder who doesn’t learn something on each and every birding outing.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
In the next year I visited the British Birdfair for the first time, which turned out to be the experience that changed my life. In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. Another concern of mine is the involvement of the locals as a part of sustainable tourism initiatives.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2020
Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Golden-fronted Woodpeckers apparently like blackberries, too. This year, that pair of Golden-fronted Woodpeckers are big customers as well. One of our birdiest plants.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Many birds love the flowers, such as this Red-crowned Woodpecker. Antwrens are furtive residents of deep forest on Trinidad, but on Tobago one can experience a pair of White-fringed Antwrens seemingly around every bend, whether it is scrub, dry forest, or rainforest. Along the trails there are many species that accompany the walker.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2012
After all, North America has no native hedgehogs and seeing something so outside of our normal experience was pretty exciting, even if the little guy quickly headed for cover and refused to show itself for Clay Taylor, who came upon the scene a minute too late. Fine, my best bird was a White-backed Woodpecker , alright? …
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