10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have any doubts whether you want to see a Snares Penguin, you can read the species description, directly following, and drink in photos of their bright, droopy yellow eyebrows, bulbous dark-red bills with bare pink skin at the base, and peek at a group of the penguins, walking en masse within the thick island scrub. Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2012

Before I get into the nitty-gritties of my awesome birding experiences in Hungary I thought I would just share a few of the shots that I got during the trip. My life list has increased by 33 which, considering I tallied 137 species during the trip (out of the 160 that the group got), is a pretty significant total.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2015

After all, Teale Fristoe, the designer of Birds of a Feather , had offered a free prototype to try out so it’s not as if I was risking my own money on this seemingly odd experiment. Each player plays a card and can count any species from the same habitat group as the card played. It’s fun, fast, and easy to learn.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. Our group, led by world-renowned guide Herbert Byaruhanga, piled into canoes ostensibly to search for a variety of papyrus and wetland specialties, but really we were just looking for the shoebill.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It was late December, 2012, and I slotted into a sizable group under the joint leadership of two highly respected birders. As prolific as the area was, the group was on the move. The group was significantly smaller, only myself and one other person. By 2015 I was assigned to lead a CBC group for the first time.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2023

Considering Broome often experiences cyclones and strong winds it does make sense for the birds to build a more substantial nest to survive the extreme weather. The Crested Pigeons enjoy cooling off under the sprinklers in the parks and gardens on hot days too.

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Breeding Australia Eggs Family 262

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. rosaceus form.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

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. Either way, they signal fertile flux on the horizon! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

Corey got into some great shorebirds and hungry muck at Jamaica Bay , where a group of Hudsonian Godwits proved well worth the cost of a boot full of mud. 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

MAY 20, 2020

But my experience suggests there is a fair amount of geographical overlap between the two ranges in my area. I almost always see the Rufous-crowned Warbler in groups of two or three. Yellow Warblers are altitudinal migrants within the state of Michoacán, wintering in the lowlands and summering in the highlands.

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Honduras Mexico South America America 359

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I found those comments insightful and inspiring, valuable experiences and opinions worthy of sharing to a wider audience than the FB groups where they were initially posted. Eric DeFonso: “I think a ‘good guide’, in the most generic sense, is one who provides for a gratifying nature experience for his or her clients.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. Take, for example, the group of the goatsuckers Caprimulgidae – the nightjars, and nighthawks, and whip-poor-wills, and widow-chuckers. If you feel the inclination to experience failure, try spotting legs on them: Legs: The Expendables 1.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Mike had already explained to us that, in his experience, Black Rails at St. Nonetheless, hearing tiny little rails in the midst of a vast marsh with a score of other birders while an amazing sunset lit up the sky was an awesome experience. We were a happy bunch of birders well satisfied with our experience. Johns NWR'

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

Joining some travelling birders FB group, I’ve read a long list of dos and don’ts. If you cannot share the bird with your guest, try not to share the experience because it makes everything they have seen a little league birding, compared to your mega tick. What are your experiences with and advices to bird guides?

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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.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2014

The story is etched into my memory not for my experience with the bird, which was an obstructed view of a singing male through a mess of dense underbrush at about 100 feet, but for the effort it took to get there. I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. My region, thankfully, only seems to host migratory Hermit Thrushes from this group. The Ruddy-capped Nightingale Thrush is, in my experience, the hardest of the three species to see.

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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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Back in 2006, Problogger Darren Rowse proposed a fun Group Writing Project challenging bloggers to put together a good “How To&# post. You may not realize it, but there is an excellent chance that some group in your area has a full slate of organized birding excursions open to non-members.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Los bebés (the babys), Gustavo and Alberto, are the youngest members of the group, and only recently got their degrees. Taking Amy birding is an extremely rewarding experience, as she seems to know the calls of every bird species that exists. My birding buddies from the forum/chat include quite a few more biologists.

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Mexico Birds California Spain 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

There were three other small groups staying there and after dinner we all drove 40 minutes to the cliffs. I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other. Still, it was a truly memorable experience, and this gives me a reason to return.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 243

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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

While the group pursued the owl a little further, I became distracted by excited whispers in Swahili. Unbothered by our presence, we eventually crawled away from the pair and retreated to a safe distance where we could gather our wits and comfortably marvel at the magical experience we all just shared. Pearl-spotted Owlet.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

InkaNatura Travel is the only leading tour operator in Peru owned by Peru Verde, a non-profit conservation group. In groups of two and three the big Red-and-green Macaws come flapping in, landing in the treetops as they eye the main stage below — the eroded clay banks. We also have local offices in Cusco and Puerto Maldonado.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The biologist David Haig explains, “Speciation comes about when there is recombination and isolation between different groups of genes, so that no longer can genes in one group be recombined with genes in another group.” Speciation is an evolutionary process. Let’s not get into hybridization, which only complicates the point!).

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Groups 2009 Parrots Branding 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2022

I don’t know what the experience is like in other parts of the world – so do let me know – but at least here in T&T, some of the absolute best waterbirding can be done at sewage ponds. Some days following that, I linked up with a friend who took us into another set of sewage ponds on a distinctly sunnier morning.

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Ducks Groups Experience Experiments 264

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. According to my list, which somehow ended up being the official group list, we saw 41 species in about four hours.

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San Francisco California Woodpeckers Turkey 246

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

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 221

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. This, of course, was a great boon for our group. completed the experience. The experience, as magical as it was, feels far from complete. Hope that you’re as fortunate to go birding with Leo!

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Colombia South America Birds America 268

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2024

Now, I have met quite a few biologists over the past few years who lacked field experience, or weren’t really interested in birding. I have quite a list of birds I have seen, or at least heard, because this is my year of group birding. How can that be in such challenging circumstances? A few even are careless with their IDs.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2012

Namibia is politically stable and a safe country to visit offering spectacular scenery, untouched wildernesses, vast game reserves, superb wildlife and fascinating cultural experiences. This family group is performing their loud croaking territorial calls. A family group of Rüppell’s Bustards uttering their croaking territorial calls.

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Namibia Angola Lovebirds South Africa 272

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

While preparing an article this week for a local newspaper on the nighttime denizens of Tobago, it crossed my mind that I never considered owls as a group, far less target species for any particular outing (except for a select few, upon which I shall expound here). It wasn’t yet light, the sky was still a dark blue. Perhaps heard?

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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. We travel from Delhi via Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, a truly magical experience with the added bonus of Black-winged Stilts and River Lapwings on the Yamuna River.

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India Wildlife Tigers Rhinoceros 260

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

Yet, there is one group of birds where even I prefer photographs: gulls. From my experience, the gulling season is definitively winter. The authors are among the foremost experts on this taxing group. Yes, I do prefer paintings, among other reasons, for the sheer aesthetic pleasure of enjoying a particular artist’s style.

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