10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2019

Last week, a good friend, Dan Weisz gave me a tip on the location of a family of Burrowing Owls that were extremely easy to access. I can’t begin to tell you how much fun I had sitting and watching the antics of this family of Burrowing Owls. I am not sure what is going on with the mis-matched iris’s?

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Owls Arizona Tucson South Africa 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2021

You fly to Phoenix, or Tucson, rent a car (or ride a bike cross-country, if you are Noah Strycker), drive to the tiny towns of Patagonia and Sierra Vista, and voila! When they go low… How about the Tyrant Flycatcher family? I got back into birding less than a decade ago, long after moving to Mexico in 1983.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2018

That was the best possible spot we could find from our Tucson base, and given our badly stressed budget. It seems his family of 5, had rented a condo that sleeps 8, at Atlantis Resort, on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas. There just had to be a way to get around this island, without the expertise of a guide.

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Bahamas Tucson El Paso Texas 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We have escaped the clutches of the Bahamas, and are finally back “home” in Tucson, Texas. Our first stop was the Lakeview Drive Ponds, Corey’s primary birding location when he and his family visited the island a few years ago. We got a bit of a late start as the cruise ship does not unload its guests until about 9-9:30.

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Bahamas Costa Rica Abandon Abandoning 141

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind.

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Cows Cattle 2011 Deer 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I managed to get some video of this greedy thrasher before a family walked down the path, and you can view it here. I met the group in Tucson and we spend the next week birding the hell out of the Sky Islands. It was time to drive south and up, to the Sky Islands of southeast Arizona. Highlights included a day on Mt.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

A widely published writer, popular speaker, and enthusiastic tour leader in North American and Europe, Rick lives in Tucson and in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife, Alison, and their chocolate Lab, Gellert. I saw it while visiting a small botanic garden somewhere in Tucson. I had no idea I should have been embarrassed.

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Tucson 2011 Arizona Deer 140