10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

The “ Explores” are only part of the book, and there is much else of value in it, even for the reader who cannot quit his job, sell all his worldly possessions, leave his home and family, and take to the byroads armed only with a parabolic microphone. It’s not a field guide, as such. Drawing of the avian syrinx by Amanda Morgan Riley. __.

Virginia 264

Virginia Boston North America 2020 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What my previous experience had not prepared me for, was that this summer I would see many of those species for the first time all at once. El Temascal does not (to the best of my knowledge) host the Ovenbird , Northern Waterthrush , Lucy’s , or Virginia’s Warblers , although I do see these species elsewhere each winter.

Mexico 216

Mexico Nashville Virginia Shelters 216

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

From Florida to Maine and back again I toured urban forests, marshes, estuaries, and more, stopping along the way to visit family and friends. One particular resting place brought me to familiar birding territory: Pleasure House Point, Virginia Beach. During my three days in Virginia Beach, I knew I had to walk that path again.

Virginia 100

Virginia Blackbirds 2013 Protection 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

The following section on Habitats serves to provide the larger picture, frameworks in which to root the hundreds of individual species to follow. Text is necessarily brief, focusing in on what you need to know in order to separate out one species from another. A different colored tab and page edge denotes each chapter.

Massachusetts 214

Massachusetts Rhode Island North America Reptiles 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2018

I am sure that was the reason I was not able to spot the Virginia Rail, with its two babies that had just previously been spotted by a Bob, resident birder. Today, I saw a handful of Mallards , two Common Mergansers, and a Wood Duck Family. USA species – 111. Australia species – 242.

New Zealand 143

New Zealand Seattle Qatar South Africa 143

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2022

The thing is, you can’t reach the birding stratosphere without shirking off all earthly attachments, and doing nothing but travelling the country looking for “just one more species” I, in contrast, have a day job, and a family. Yes, Virginia, that is a large number of Sinaloa Martins.

Mexico 147

Mexico Virginia Family Woodpeckers 147

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. This Virginia’s Warbler was my most unexpected new bird in Queens. My shorebird list in Queens is now at thirty-eight species! (It This was a pair of relatively uncooperative birds at St.

2012 160

2012 New York City Jamaica 2013 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. They were there, but I couldn’t see them.

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Birds DC Sparrows France 195

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

A recent episode of the American Birding Podcast featured an interview with Virginia Rose (Founder and President) and Freya McGregor (Coordinator) of the non-profit Birdability. The refuge is a popular birding location and approximately 230 species have been observed by about 1,400 birders who have submitted nearly 8,000 checklists.

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Portland Oregon Laws Virginia 248

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Initiating a hunting season on a large, charismatic species like a crane is no way to resuscitate hunting.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

But come spring, an even luckier few may even find a fellow survivor of their own kind with whom to start a family, unwittingly causing contentious debates among birders about the countability of established feral populations in the process. What’s in a name?

North America 113

North America Vermont America Farmed Animals 113

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

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). The process took eight years and has since been duplicated all over the world with a variety of species, explained one of our guides … the genial and informative Dr. Kress himself.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 277

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Most of the warblers south of the border escaped this ignominy; those Basileuterus and Myiothlypis species generally appear exactly as advertised. NAMED FOR PEOPLE. NAMED FOR PLACES.

Rights 113

Rights Connecticut Tennessee Nashville 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918. It is reproduced in “Mrs.

Virginia 134

Virginia Portland Industry New York City 134

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing. Tags: Bird Behavior , buntings , features , michigan • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

2011 243

2011 Michigan Birds Ohio 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2018

This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. To get there we would need to get out of New York, through New Jersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination. Two years ago it was Culebra, Puerto Rico.

North Carolina 100

North Carolina New York Delaware Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

There are over 11,000 species of moths in North America. I have a hard enough time with the 1,103 bird species on the ABA Checklist. The Southeastern guide doesn’t; I imagine this was to save space in a book with 300 additional species. This is the first thing we learn in the Introduction of each guide. Let that sink in.

North America 102

North America America Oklahoma Missouri 102

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” But there are species here, like Trumpeter Swan and Snail Kite (called Everglade Kite), that are no longer considered endangered. The chapter also gives hope.

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Betty Crocker 2008 Birds 2007 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This was a wonderful re-introduction to the desert species I was seeking. I managed to get some video of this greedy thrasher before a family walked down the path, and you can view it here. As I drove through Papago Park to the Garden, I spotted coveys of Gambel’s Quail, parents herding exuberant chicks.

Arizona 111

Arizona Lovebirds Phoenix New Jersey 111

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices. Boepple (Emily Gillette's attorney), Gillette refused, saying, "No, thank you.

Animal 40

Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

beats have still managed to share 82 checklists and accounted for 737 species. Virginia Rail – Rallus limicola. To get as close as I can to a true reflection of species collaboratively collected by the beats, I update the post just before kissing my family goodbye and heading to the airport. Oare Marshes LNR.

2019 137

2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 137

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This past Saturday afternoon I was out on the beach in the Rockaways with my family. The young tern was banded near Chincoteague, Virginia, on 17 July of this year when it was still too young to fly. It’s a shame, as I’d like to know when the adult was banded. Not bad for a young bird!

New York 176

New York Virginia Breeding Family 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. 2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama.

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2012 Guatemala Birds Florida 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2015

Independence Day weekend saw the family and me visiting my folks in New York’s Hudson Valley, in Saugerties to be exact. I was hoping to see or hear rails and bitterns, as my list of such species in New York this year is rather pathetic. a downy Virginia Rail fledgling.

New York 157

New York Virginia Hunting Florida 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

After a brief look at a map, my rough guesstimate is that the territory from Guatemala and Belize south to the Darien gap is roughly equal to New England, or Florida and the eastern parts of Georgia and the Carolinas north to the Virginia line. Fewer tanagers : Many more member of this technicolor family occur in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica 148

Costa Rica Guatemala Nicaragua Birds 148

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2019

On one hand, it’s already the official state bird of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the home state of Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery, just as it is for half a dozen other states, making it the most popular selection nationwide. Heir apparent to what exactly?

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Rattlesnake Mexico Eagles Virginia 160