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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
We can, of course, count wild, native, species. We can count vagrant species that made it to the area we are in under their own power. We can count introduced species that have met the criteria of the “Bird Police” for the area to which they are introduced. There are lots of birds we can’t count.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 13, 2020
Factors like temperature, weather, and availability of food sources drive avian distribution, but the single most influential factor regarding how many species you might see this month is YOU. My business trip to Florida to host the Tests and the Rest Winter Conference 2020 was more than just a professional success.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
There’s a new proposal before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Classification Committee to split Painted Bunting into two species (yay! — maybe, more later) and to name the new species “Eastern Painted Bunting” and “Western Painted Bunting” (no!).
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2013
On a recent filming trip to Emeralda Marsh in Lake County Florida we managed to film and photograph a suspected hybrid between a Tricolored Heron and a Snowy Egret. Hybrids between separate species are rare. Suspected hybrids between heron species, whilst extremely rare, have been documented for some time.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. In the spring (when they look like they do — the males, that is — in the photo on the left, above) they fly more than six thousand miles from the Amazon Basin to the Arctic, via Florida and Ohio. Eighty hours of flying.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 23, 2013
After you have your scope and your camera adapter, take that equipment to a camera store and test away. I had read Mike McDowell’s blog and got an idea of the camera I wanted and could afford, but kept an open mind while we tested different cameras with the scope.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. Cactus finch, Geospiza species. Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens. Galapagos cactus finch, Geospiza species. Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla. Black grouse, Tetrao tetrix.
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