10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. Portland, Oregon. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

So we, of course, headed further north, to Oregon Plains Road, which I had last visited last month. Oregon Plains Road was quieter, bird-wise, than last time. The Ruffed Grouse, kindness birdified, stopped in a ray of sunlight to look back: After that marvelous experience we were pretty much done for the day.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

While Uganda does not have the international reputation of its neighbors Kenya and Tanzania, the experience there is no less extraordinary – and in many ways, particularly for the birder, it’s even more so. The diversity of habitats in this country that is approximately the size of Oregon is particularly notable.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2024

There are a few spectacles in the birding community that are high energy, happen quickly, and is worth any effort to experience it. One such experience is a bird grounding event, sometimes called a fallout. A fallout is usually reserved for more significant events, but there is no true gauge as to one versus the other.

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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. Malheur NWR (Oregon): 210,000; $30.1; This spending supports economic activity throughout the local economy.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. A lot of his travel experiences involved camping and independent travel on small sailing yachts, and if this is your preferred mode of travel this book will be particularly useful. Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

His summers during college were spent as a biological technician, monitoring breeding birds for Point Reyes Bird Observatory in Eastern Oregon, and also five seasons in Black Hills, SD, working for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The unique American experiment in balancing the public freedom and good with private interests will be forever shattered, while a new kind of inequality soars, not just inequality of economics and economic opportunity, but of life experience, the chance to experience liberty itself. References: 1 $3.3

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2012

We know of no more enchanting experience than to watch the sun set behind a jagged sky line of snow-clad peaks to the accompaniment of their ethereal songs. Surely then, if ever, one listens to the music of the stars. Gabrielson and Stanley G.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2016

Tom Brown grew up in the high desert area of Central Oregon. My first experience with this bird was near the fishing village of San Evaristo, on the Sea of Cortez, 50 miles north of La Paz, Mexico. His love for birds and photography started at a young age. They’ve been traveling and bird blogging the world ever since!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. Predictably, the states I have lived in (California and Oregon) have the most species, as does nearby Washington. Indeed, eBird is the only way I track my observations and the app is the only way I enter checklists from the field.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

So I attempted to apply the access considerations to Tualatin River NWR near Portland, Oregon. Apart from helping share this much-needed information, it’s a concrete way they can help, and it can be such an amazing learning experience going through the process of a Birdability Site Review.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Growing up in central Oregon, allowed me to experience such a diverse amount of habitat, and the wildlife that resides there. For me, the real jewel of central Oregon is Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Flycatcher Jen of I Used To Hate Birds has amassed close to 160 species in the last two years just walking and biking around Portland, Oregon, which is a number that deserves a toast if you ask me. Most of you know about Dorian’s impressive bicycle-based big year.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

I’ll still probably try again next June, as this June has been the driest and hottest in memory, and in my experience, summer rains make it much more likely that one will see the Sinaloa Martin. Two weeks later, it was a young math and science teacher from Oregon named Brent who asked me to take him with me.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Even on a previously scheduled rest stop at his home in Oregon, he can’t resist going birding with friends ( Tufted Puffin , a clumsy flyer but an elegant swimmer, #2701). “When all your energy is focused on a single purpose,” he says, “nothing else seems to matter.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was the Red Crossbill that plopped down in front of him to grit on Oregon Plains Road in the Adirondacks. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Crossbills are always fun and one relatively close is a joy. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises. This is a smartly written book.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I’ve taken tours out of Monterey Bay (with pelagic legend Debi Shearwater , now retired) and Half Moon Bay, California ; Newport, Oregon ; and Hatteras, North Carolina. That is, incidentally, my universal experience on pelagics, as everyone has been very good and very experienced on all my trips.)

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Here in Portland, Oregon, it is more frequently too rainy rather than too cold to go birding, at least comfortably. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Photos: Jason Crotty (Bosque del Apache NWR, Anahuac NWR, Pacific Ocean off Oregon coast).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge : Open to migratory bird hunting (youth only). This is an Urban Refuge !

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

It covers seabirds and marine mammals and miscellaneous living things–creatures likely to be found on day trips from the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California. It’s perfect for birders like me, birders who have some experience, but who get all queasy inside at the thought of identifying seabirds on their own.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

A resident of Bend, Oregon, McGee Bennett lives on a 10-acre farm with her husband, Brad, two dogs, two cats, five llamas, 11 alpacas, and super composting red wigglers, number unknown. Her animal training experience includes working with dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas and camels.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2021

But one has to wonder why this jawbreaker sobriquet wasn’t enthusiastically adopted in Oregon, a state that’s no stranger to confusing names. Lett began experimenting with pinot gris in 1979 with the very first plantings of this varietal in the New World. After all, is it OR-ee-gun, OR-uh-gun, or OR-ee-gone?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. Fortunately, some birds seem to be ok with a concrete environment – like this Blue Rock Thrush. … and a Ring-necked Pheasant.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. First time left Bandon Oregon late morning. Next day from Corvallis, Oregon. That most dreaded of disappointments. That bird can then be referred to as a”dip”, the noun version of the word. The bird in question? A Fork-tailed Flycatcher. hours back.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2019

Specifically, the coastal temperate rainforest of Oregon and Washington. But for me, one of the best reasons to go is to experience the cool stillness of its pines and firs, and the silence of being so far from civilization. This photo is from Mexico, not Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

It was one of two life birds (the other being Cassin’s Vireo ) I photographed at the inaugural Mountain Bird Festival in Klamath, Oregon. The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. Carlos’s BBOTY – the Nicobar Pigeon.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Bigelow Road – a winter wonderland After burning a good forty minutes with only Red-breasted Nuthatches , Black-capped Chickadees , Blue Jays , a lone White-breasted Nuthatch and a single Hairy Woodpecker to show for our time we decided to head around to the eastern end of Bigelow Road, where it terminates on Oregon Plains Road.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2018

It was an all around quality experience. It is not over yet, we still have several adventures planed before the end of the year, with Canada, my home state of Oregon, and it is looking like an end of the year trip to Costa Rica, to put a finish on one of the most amazing years of my life.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

My experience says otherwise (particularly with my childhood kitty, Brady), but generally speaking Masson's depiction of cats is accurate. There's never a claw in sight and she's very patient). However, I have to disagree with page 78's: "Will a cat comfort you when you are sad? He might, but I would not count on it."

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Rick Wright has brought ornithological knowledge, meticulous research, the pragmatism of experience in field, a passion for little brown birds, and a certain kind of stubbornness to the conception and writing of the Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America and produced an exceptional, unique resource.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Nonetheless, Chino, a golden retriever who lived with Mary and Dan Heath in Medford, Oregon, and Falstaff, a 15-inch koi, had regular meetings for six years at the edge of the pond where Falstaff lived.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In the event I’m in a life or death struggle with an Oregon Junco or a particularly feral Dunnock I’d rather my birding companion was at least nominally on my side. It’s an unnerving experience and not at all pleasant even if the bird doesn’t connect often, and I am no stranger to bird attacks.

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