10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2014

They are usually seen as a small, noisy flock or family group that passes quickly through feeding acrobatically like the true t**s as they go. My normal experience of them is brief as they are always moving and they have always resisted my attempts to portray them by means of millions of tiny dots. japonicus race.

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Japan Collecting Europe Family 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2024

Cameras were still tucked away, but the experience left us all without words. Red-capped Cardinal juvenile (above) and adult (below) The Rupununi River is a magical and serene experience, inducing a deep sense of calm as if becoming as unhurried as the river itself, winding its way through the lush jungle.

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Guyana Otters Trinidad Bats 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

I know that families in the United States are already fretting/anticipating September’s arrival. Now that we’re later in the season, they are grouping either in family clusters or anticipation of migration. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

” Bill shape and systematics For a long time, the colorful, diverse, and species-rich group of primarily New World birds called nine-primaried oscines (about 10 percent of all living bird species) were classified largely by the shapes and sizes of their bills. .” These are neither sparrows, nor finches, but tanagers.

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2003 Sparrows South America Family 247

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. I knew nothing about their vocalizations.

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Indonesia Family Asia Groups 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Did the Black-bellied Whistling Duck represent his family, “showing face” as we say here in the Caribbean? Animals obviously see death and experience it as we do, so the question is not one of if, but of how. Paying respects? Was it some sort of funeral?

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Elephants Ducks Humane Family 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It had perhaps 20 or so species per plate, and a rather concise description on the opposite (left) page, but all maps were grouped in the end of the book, making it very impractical to check them and in order to use the checklist, you had to know what to expect and which species are unlikely. Subspecies are not included.

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Botswana Africa Birds Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Bats 227

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. But we frame these birding highlights within a broader, more comprehensive experience, visiting world-class museums, archaeological sites, and cultural landmarks.

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New Jersey Guatemala France Birds 246

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 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a rush any new birder experiences: that of every species being a lifer. Once you’ve been around the birding block a few years, your appreciation for the lifer experience deepens greatly. Which is why we all eventually turn to the one way to combine old-birder experience with new-birder opportunities: travel.

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Spain Europe Sparrows Mexico 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

My feelings about shorebirds came back to me a few days later, as I observed a mixed group of peeps and Dowitchers at Mecox Inlet, eastern Long Island, not far from where Peter Matthiessen once observed the shorebirds of Sagaponack, the stars of the first pages of his classic The Shorebirds of North America (1967). my face betrayed me. “I

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

My group came to Montezuma to spy tasty Chocó endemic tanagers, hummingbirds, and anything else we could lay eyes on. Several generations of Leopoldina’s family operate the lodge, serving delicious food and hospitality in a clean, comfortable environment. This, of course, was a great boon for our group.

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Colombia South America Birds America 268

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. In the relatively brief period, my group had something on the order of 450 species.

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Uganda Africa Squirrels Tanzania 187

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2013

If there’s one group of birds that just won’t let you be miserable it would have to be the Grey-crowned Babbler. They are usually in a group and our garden regularly has a family group of eight visit it. If you have any experience with these birds then it makes perfect sense.

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Australia Groups Family Experiments 157

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. Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration.

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Mammals Asia Sri Lanka Bhutan 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds North America Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Spot-breasted Oriole, attending its nest In my experience, male Spot-breasted Orioles begin to sing in the first half of March through most of May on the very same perch in the very same tree every day in spring. The young followed the parents around in small family groups well after they had fledged.

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Miami Costa Rica Florida 2005 190

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. No rails or gallinules.

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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2022

We had a small group of three or four repeatedly calling and posturing as they moved through the canopy. A number of families exist on Trinidad but not Tobago. Most notably the family of New World Vultures. This bird forms part of the “trilling” group of subspecies, and some already refer to it as Trilling Gnatwren.

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Trinidad Turkey Squirrels Cows 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. I don’t think scientific artwork holds less value when used more than once.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

I would lay odds that we birders geek out to all manner of natural phenomena at a higher rate than almost any other group. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the several Black Vultures that went overhead during a family hike to Anthony’s Nose in the Hudson Valley. What do you think?

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Bears 2015 New York Birds 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

Those of us in the United States are celebrating Memorial Day Weekend, normally a time to gather with friends and family for barbecues, beach outings, and other fun group activities. 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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2020 United States Breeders New York 183

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2013

Fortunately for attendees, there are around 60 family groups of the charismatic and affable birds scattered throughout the Brevard County area, and many of the field trips at the festival run across them at various times. Florida Scrub-Jays have extraordinarily specific habitat requirements, or at least it seems that way now.

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Sanctuary Florida Litter Wildlife 219

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

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. Buff-streaked Chats and Cape Rock-Thrushes sing from boulder tops, and family huddles of Ground Woodpeckers emit their rather gull-like shrieks.

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Lesotho Rats Africa Woodpeckers 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2024

The Wood-Rails like to move around in a very visible group. We were happy to experience three birds of prey on this jaunt. There is also a family of Barn Owls on the premises, and I have briefly seen the largest of them (enormous!) They are even more awkwardly cute than adult Jacanas. flying by at night.

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Barn Owls Mexico Parrots ALA 243

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2020

A locally owned company started by Birding Experiences founder and guide Diego Quesada (with whom I have watched Buff-breasted Sandpipers among other birds), CaraCara offers poster art of bird families that occur in Costa Rica. Posters of three groups of birds are currently available; toucans, trogons, and hummingbirds.

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Costa Rica Birds Woodpeckers Species 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. There is discussion of the communication signals birds use in very large groups to locate mates and children, which is something that never occurred to me. There is so much here!

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North America Birds Research America 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name. 3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago?

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Trinidad South America Birds 2011 231

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

Groups them by family too and by their shape” His extra long arm extended and passed me that precious book. One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. These chapters differ in length and content, depending on the number of species in each group. There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same.

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New Jersey Birds Science New York City 183

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. As is this one.

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Mexico Argentina Groups Experiments 161

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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Mexico South America 2020 America 244

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2011

Our visit had two main purposes, one was to experience the exotic biodiversity of the lowland Choco forest and its birds, and the other was to gauge the state of conservation in this area that has been highly criticized due to the deforestation caused by a the logging company Botrosa.

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Monkeys Birds Farming Woodpeckers 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Where a birder goes in the Caribbean determines which birds are seen including toy-like todies, Carib hummingbirds, cool pigeons, quail-doves, unique avian families and outrageous woodpeckers. One such special place is the Centro Manu, a small family run reserve that features several star bird species of Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands.

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. This extremely vocal member of the vireo family utters its rich warble incessantly from sun-up to sun-down but it rarely makes itself visible. Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering.

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