10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2024

I felt sorry for an American family that couldn’t understand anything said in our church services, so I started interpreting for them. The first Monday out after the festival, I took six people to Las Mesas, because it is almost within the city of Morelia, but offers a wide collection of habitats and species. So that happened.

Turkey 243

Turkey ALA Mexico Collecting 243

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Each family is given a double-page spread. Each species is described only by features that may (although not always) be seen in flight; those impossible to notice in flight are omitted. Each species is described only by features that may (although not always) be seen in flight; those impossible to notice in flight are omitted.

Europe 264

Europe Asia Cyprus Turkey 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Four families are often recognized: storm-petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels , and diving-petrels. But several studies suggest that the storm-petrels actually belong in two different families and that diving-petrels are embedded within the rest of the petrels and shearwaters.

Albatross 219

Albatross Penguins New Zealand Japan 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2023

First, we had our five-week trip to Spain, Turkey and Jordan in September and October. Then we threw together a semi-planned family-related trip to the States in early December. There were Yellow Warblers , a species I always seem to see among willows in lakeside parks. I assured him then, and assure you now, that I am fine.

Jordan 252

Jordan Mexico Ohio Spain 252

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is worth pointing out that titmice belong to the family Paridae , an expansive international clan made up primarily of what we call “chickadees” in the states but are known as “t**s” in the Old World. Why is this adorable, doll-eyed songbird so often ignored? The Tufted Titmouse ( B.

Arizona 267

Arizona Oklahoma Iowa Texas 267

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And I did manage to see a large number of new birds — 45 new species, to be specific. I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here. But no, I had to travel to Turkey to meet them in the wild.

Spain 162

Spain Turkey Mexico Agenda 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2020

In the Amazon, many more species are accepted as normal, everyday birds including potoos with haunting calls, flocks of screeching parakeets, and dozens of other fantastic birds too loud in voice or plumage to be ignored. This bird won’t really look like anything you have ever seen because it’s in a family all on its own.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Cleveland Turkey Parrots 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them. This species has also eliminated the need for childcare – the chicks emerge from this pile on their own and never even get to see their parents. Similarly, the Grey Shrikethrush is neither a shrike nor a thrush.

Australia 243

Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

Anhinga , otherwise known as Snakebird , Water Turkey , or American Darter * – and more formally as Anhinga anhinga – is a bird I have long wanted to see in New York State. I must of mistaken flying Anhingas for ten different species over the next few days and I never really adjusted to seeing a cormorant-like bird soaring.

Florida 186

Florida Honduras Turkey Wildlife 186

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2020

When our local government called for Michoacán’s residents to stay at home, I said goodbye to some 250 regional species, and shut myself in at home with the other 30 that regularly visit my neighborhood. And on this particular trip, I could see all these species on a single kind of tree. And what species!

Squirrels 213

Squirrels Sparrows South America Mexico 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2023

It seems he had looked long and wide for this species. They have come over the years seeking specific species. For the most part, I have been able to show them the species they sought. For the most part, I have been able to show them the species they sought. But he regularly visits family in Morelia.

Mexico 265

Mexico Cuba Species Turkey 265

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

For birders who have visited T&T in the past, the livestock station has always been a staple site for several key species that would be fairly difficult elsewhere. Safe to say no species was left behind! By now we had already crossed 80 species, but there were a few holes in our list.

Trinidad 264

Trinidad Livestock Groups Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. Turkey Vultures , American Crows , and Red-tailed Hawks continue to patrol the skies.

Chickens 179

Chickens 2011 Pennsylvania Birds 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

The feature distinguishes birds from other species; All birds have them, no other species do. Beaks vary across different kinds of birds, and this great diversity in beaks is part of the great diversity of the 10,000+ species of birds that exist today; Beaks thus facilitated the diversification of birds. So how did beaks evolve?

Alligators 257

Alligators Chickens Birds Reptiles 257

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. Until turkey size or so. And smaller.

Camels 230

Camels Whaling Whales Apes 230

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

The official Ontario bird checklist, produced by Ontario Field Ornithologists , June 2022 listed 506 bird species**, putting it in the top tier of U.S. Small Species Accounts: Each species is allotted one page (with certain exceptions) offering basics–bird names and size, one or two photographs, and a one-paragraph description.

North America 246

North America Birds Owls Canada 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

As is typical of urban birding in Costa Rica, we had small flocks of this species fly over and good looks at the White-crowned Parrot , the other most common parrot in the valley. But, they still occur, the most common species being Black Vulture , Turkey Vulture , Gray Hawk , Short-tailed Hawk , and Yellow-headed and Crested Caracaras.

Costa Rica 203

Costa Rica Parrots Birds Blackbirds 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. These turkey-sized birds, named for their raucous calls, can muster an impressive level of volume. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden.

2006 193

2006 Morocco Birds Mexico 193

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Two other countries we visited, Morocco and Turkey, have recently experienced catastrophic earthquakes. Fortunately, two species of Mergansers sometimes stray to Cuba, and so my friend suggested, correctly, that ours was a female Hooded Merganser. The addition of a family of Least Grebes was a nice touch. But which one?

Mexico 238

Mexico Morocco Cuba Jordan 238

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Way back on 16 May I managed to see my 312 bird species in Queens to add to my Queens list. Somehow I forgot that the last time I predicted what the next ten species I would see in Queens would be was back on 30 December 2013, when my list was sitting at 302. The godwit was my forty-first shorebird species in Queens.).

2010 160

2010 2013 2011 2012 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2019

The noble Blue Tit once ranged from Iran through Turkey and Europe to the Canary Islands (the Spanish Islands off North Africa – the other bird was named for the islands incidentally) and North Africa. Then someone decided that the Canary Island birds were a separate species. But the name… oh god the name. Well, no more!

Iran 161

Iran Barn Owls New Zealand Europe 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2014

I’m in Orlando for what is supposed to be a family excursion, but as anyone who considers a pair of binoculars to be an every day accessory, if there are birds to be found I’m going to make an effort to see them. The birding in Florida is so easy that a kid can do it. Or so I planned to find out. Nothing, that’s what.

Florida 176

Florida Alligators Birds United States 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Now my Queens list stands at a whopping 302, which means I have actually added thirteen species since my last predictions. Turkey Vulture* Eurasian Wigeon* Black Vulture Western Kingbird*. My shorebird list in Queens is now at thirty-eight species! (It Number 300 in Queens!

2012 160

2012 New York City Jamaica 2013 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past Steller’s Jay – Mysteries of the Common Birds A Different Flavor Of Turkey Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis Happy Fiesta de las Golondrinas Lets talk about ducks About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

2011 224

2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Deer 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Since I have limited experience with eastern Mexico, and even less experience with tropical species, I enthusiastically accepted. By week’s end I had 30 new species on my life list. And the final species, seen in the neighborhood in which I was housed, gave me my 500th species in Mexico. Good choice! Go figure!

Mexico 130

Mexico Tigers Cows Birds 130

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

One – the Takahe is far too cool a species to lose. Two – there is so much distinctness amongst the different forms of the Purple Swamphen that lumping means we may as well lump all the world’s reed warblers into one huge species and be done with it. This is ridiculous for two reasons.

Spain 157

Spain Hunters Africa Hunting 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

It would be uber cool to lay eyes on a rare lifer, on species that only seem to live on the pages of a field guide but isn’t that somewhat discriminatory? And why spend time only looking for one or two species when those hours could be used to put binos focused on a few dozen? Aren’t all birds worth watching?

Costa Rica 203

Costa Rica Panama Birds Nicaragua 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

Science 263

Science Birds Costa Rica Research 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Clicking on most of these photos will open a new tab taking you to my 10000 Birds posts on that respective species The post on the California Scrub-Jay above is here. One of the first species I noted were a pair of Anna’s Hummingbirds. A Turkey Vulture was soaring above… And a bit later, a Red-tailed Hawk.

Woodpeckers 105

Woodpeckers Turkey California Birds 105

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2019

He is the author of an internationally distributed book in Spanish about family finances and has recorded four albums in Spanish of his own songs. But then I moved to Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, which has almost no opportunities to see interesting species (except for a good population of burrowing owls). east of Morelia.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Mexico Turkey California 125

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Most locals just leave off the “Resplendent” and refer to this mega unbelievable bird as “Quetzal”, and that does work locally but since there are other species of quetzals, I like “the R. Aside from the obvious meaning, it does NOT mean Black Vulture or Turkey Vulture. How’s that for cool?

Costa Rica 165

Costa Rica Sparrows Birds Eagles 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

In the end, it gave me 44 lifers: 10 from Turkey and 8 from Jordan, which I had not visited before, and 26 from Spain, which I had visited previously, but in which we spent much more time. Among these, one must certainly include the New World-only hummingbird family. Most reach peak bloom as the rains end, in September or October.

Spain 147

Spain Jordan Turkey Species 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

Seeing 525 species was nice, as was the fact that I birded in four countries, nine of the fifty states in the United States, and fifty-one counties. I want to reach 500 birds in the ABA, get my Queens list to 295, see a total of at least 500 species, and get my World Life List to 1,100. But how did I see so many species this year?

2012 154

2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And it offered up another taxonomic family I had longed to meet, with my first bee-eater , an Arabian Green Bee-eater. I suspect that if I could have stood still for a bit, or even (gasp) wander away from the group, I could have seen many more species. Actually, Bee-eaters , as they were quite numerous at the site.

Jordan 147

Jordan Israel Birds Turkey 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Sedge Wren – There are records of this species in Queens, generally along the coast in fall. Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. It leaves Barnacle Goose as the last remotely possible goose species for me to add.

2018 189

2018 2019 2015 Kansas City 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2017

Newly re-opened after budget cuts, the park sported one staff member in the office who generously gave us a map, one woman and her dog, and one family in the set of RV camping spots at the edge of the lake. dawn), afternoon naps, and quiet evenings with my husband as he goes after deer and turkey. Score one for the late-rising birder.

Alabama 113

Alabama Birds Deer Turkey 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2011

My family also farms so that limits places we are able to go throughout the year. While I had heard Yellow Rails in North Dakota in 2010, to see this Ohio Review Species fly, not once but twice, right in front of me was an incredible experience. In the process we observe thousands of bird species and obtain some superb images!

2011 166

2011 Ohio North Dakota Bald Eagle 166