10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Buying a bunch of votes and dropping it like a big crap bomb at an annual meeting may get you what you want but boy howdy, I can’t imagine people lining up to join that group. The sparrows are easily viewed, all you have to do is wait a few minutes and eventually they come out of the surrounding vegetation to feed on the mud.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2024

Clay-colored Sparrows In about a month, I will have my 66th birthday. Black-chinned Sparrow , a flagship species for this site. Lark Sparrow In recent months, several American birders have reached out to have me take them birding in or around Morelia. It happens that I hate doing traditional exercise.

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Livestock Birds Sparrows Mexico 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

For those of us in the Americas, nine-primaried oscines are among our most familiar and beloved birds: finches; sparrows, juncos, and towhees; warblers; blackbirds, meadowlarks, and orioles; cardinals and grosbeaks; and tanagers. Above is a beautiful member of this group, the Painted Redstart ( Myioborus pictus ), a warbler.

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Family Blackbirds Groups Sparrows 228

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

Proposal 2013-A-6 would split the shearwater taxon baroli , which breeds on several Atlantic island groups (the Azores, Canaries, Selvages, and Madeira) and strays to North American waters, from its current position as part of the Little Shearwater ( Puffinus assimilis ) complex. Sage Sparrow split. Shearwater split.

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2013 Sparrows Stray Owls 238

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

This past weekend I headed out to eastern North Carolina with a group of friends to try our hand at a Rarity Roundup. Our little group set out to remedy that, by focusing on the southern Albermarle peninsula and the areas around Beaufort and Pamlico counties. Swamp Sparrows are abundant winter residents in eastern NC.

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North Carolina Sparrows Groups Hunters 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

But, amazingly, not all the “House Sparrows” I saw were House Sparrows ; a large group in Algeciras, in southern Spain, were Spanish Sparrows , and a smaller group in Madrid were European Tree Sparrows. (In In Rome, I saw one that turned out to be an Italian Sparrow.

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Spain Europe Sparrows Mexico 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2020

Its insect-like buzz reminds me most of the Grasshopper’s Sparrow’s song. I almost always see the Rufous-crowned Warbler in groups of two or three. But the highly social Rufous-crowned Warbler , found from Western Mexico all the way down to northern South America, is one Warbler that really knows how to warble.

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Honduras Mexico South America America 359

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2012

I was able to find the Common Redpoll among the flock of Lesser Goldfinches and Savannah Sparrows. I even got a halfway decent photo of it before heading a few miles away to see the American Tree Sparrow and Red-naped Sapsucker. Personally, I’m waiting for the irruption of Snowy Owls to reach northern California!

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Owls California Jordan Sparrows 226

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2020

Each of these habitats attracts its own group of species. Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrows and Stripe-headed Sparrows are also fond of this brushy grass habitat. Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrows and Stripe-headed Sparrows are also fond of this brushy grass habitat. And they sing a lot!

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Mexico Nicaragua Lamb Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2022

Extra points to these American Avocets for adopting a different pose for each numbered group. And this is why ornithologists stopped calling the American Kestrel a “Sparrowhawk” Kestrels will eat lots of things, including grubs… but never sparrows. Do you think Anhingas ever dream of having opposable thumbs?

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Blackbirds Germany Sparrows Adoptable 251

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MARCH 23, 2014

Passerida includes such familiar passerines as larks, thrushes and chats, “Old World” warblers and flycatchers, wrens, chickadees and t**s, babblers, starlings, waxwings, weavers, pipits, finches, tanagers, cardinals, sparrows, buntings, blackbirds, wood warblers, and others. An ancient lineage.

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Family Comoros Asia India 272

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

” Bill shape and systematics For a long time, the colorful, diverse, and species-rich group of primarily New World birds called nine-primaried oscines (about 10 percent of all living bird species) were classified largely by the shapes and sizes of their bills. These are neither sparrows, nor finches, but tanagers.

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2003 Sparrows South America Family 259

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2011

These activities started a long series of injunctions, public hearings and extraordinary efforts by private and public groups to secure rerouting of the highway and termination of the landfill operation. In 1969, the remaining area was threatened by plans to route Interstate 95 through it and by a sanitary landfill on the tidal wetlands.

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Wildlife Philadelphia Bald Eagle Pennsylvania 257

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I learned that Stout Cisticolas often stick together in small groups. One of these groups was in a small acacia shrub, while a Coke’s Hartebeest grazed nearby and a Black-shouldered Kite perched on one of the top branches. Yellow-spotted Petronia or Yellow-spotted Bush-Sparrow depending on which text you’re using.

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Kenya Washington Groups Game 255

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MARCH 26, 2011

Perhaps this is why, when asked about the future of field guides in our Crossley ID Guide Giveaway, so many suggested the future is specialization: I believe the future of bird guides will consist of specialist guides which will focused on sparrows, gulls, etc. One example is sparrows. Also Sparrows. would be very helpful.

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Sparrows America North America Birds 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

From: Sparrow. To: Sparrow. Outstanding work, Sparrow! Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop. From: Sparrow. I’ve been monitoring the listservs, Facebook groups, and Twitter alerts. To: Sparrow. From: Sparrow. To: Sparrow. From: Sparrow. To: Tyrannus.

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Ducks 2018 New York City Sparrows 199

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Southern Florida offers many unique wintering birds, but perhaps none more so then the sparrows that call different parts of Florida their winter homes. This year offered no change from the norm as a group of birders were able to find six male Eurasian Wigeons hanging out with a even larger group of Americans.

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South Dakota Florida Sparrows Wildlife 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Normally the lighthouse is obscured in fog, but when we arrived the air was crystal clear, and in addition to seeing groups of Gray Whales migrating past, I spotted hundreds of Surf Scoters , a Pigeon Guillemot , and a pair of Peregrine Falcons from my perch atop the lighthouse cliff. White-crowned Sparrow.

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Seals Elephants Whaling Whales 238

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and Bell’s Sparrow has the Birdosphere buzzing on everything from field marks, vocalizations, status and distribution to historical records and hypothetical patterns of vagrancy. The problem?

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San Francisco Fox Sparrows California 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” There’s more than one song per warbler? There is so much here! How do they know?

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North America Birds Research America 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I love sparrows, so seeing a feather-worn Vesper Sparrow this past July filled my heart with joy. We saw sparrows–a total of 14 species–and we saw many other great prairie birds, and we often saw them perched on posts. Baird’s Sparrow was one of those elusive creatures.

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North Dakota Sparrows Birds Blackbirds 191

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2021

There were about 40 in this group. Three other passerines followed the same pattern of showing up as much in this one winter as in all previous years combined: Indigo Buntings , Lincoln’s Sparrows , and Grasshopper Sparrows. Before this winter, I had only seen Lincoln’s Sparrows there 5 times.

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Mexico Trafficking Sparrows Virginia 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

After all, it’s not like I’m going to see anything other than the White-throated Sparrows and Northern Cardinals flitting about the brush pile outside my window. News big bird black-throated blue warbler burrowing owls cats International Bird Rescue mating penguins pheasants social groups spill' Disturbing/hilarious image by Corey.).

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Nepal Bird Rescue Penguins Rescue 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2021

Still, in any given three-week period (which is the period I have dedicated to this latest group of thematic posts), dedicated birding will produce some sort of news. I’m no expert, but I strongly suspect Rusty Sparrows only hunt for grubs when they are feeding babies.

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Louisiana 2000 Mexico Hunting 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. Mabamba Swamp is where Corey and I spotted our first Shoebill in the company of an international delegation attending the 2019 African Bird Expo.

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Uganda Africa Penguins 2019 299

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

This bunch of possible Costa Rican crypto birds can be grouped into four main categories: (1). Based on even more recent recordings, it seems that the birds in Costa Rica can probably be placed in the Mangrove Rail group. Two of those vocal groups are shown by birds in Costa Rica and neither of those are heard in South America.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2024

But the Black-chested Sparrow is also rather handsome, for a sparrow, and has an even smaller range. Although our sightings were too brief for photos, it’s always a treat to see a group highly endemic Banded Quails ; and the presence of Mangrove Cuckoos so far from their namesake mangroves is rather fascinating.

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Mexico South America 2020 America 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But it turns out a Tufted Flycatcher can be even cuter, with just a little hop: Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireos are actually true Vireos, but of a group that is physically larger than the Vireos that reach the U.S. Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrows can become cuter by feeding among Coral Tree flowers, which reflect the color of their crown.

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Colombia ALA Canada Mexico 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. These are bird groups that have been covered extensively by other guides. Armistead and Brian L. It is an intriguing choice of species.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? We are now up to 3 males and at least 4 females (I see there is a Kim in the group photo too). These group dynamics are always hard to track, but this group seems particularly complex. Any reason? yes you, Dawn, coy.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

After filling our water bottles at the clear mountain spring, the group splits and the majority continue on foot across the high pass to find many signs of bear presence in the area – scratching posts, scat (above), footprints; while the two of us continue by car along the very good final section of macadam prior to the village. Not at all.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 271

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I am in communication with birders all over Mexico, and almost everywhere, they have been reporting groups of Cedar Waxwings. A good number of these Mexican specialties were firsts for the year: Rufous-capped Warbler , Grace’s Warbler , Rufous-capped Brushfinch , Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow , and Yellow-eyed Junco. Waxwings !

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Woodpeckers Nashville Mexico ALA 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2015

As it turned out, I was the only travel writer of the group. Picture 10: Rock Sparrow – Petronia petronia. Then I spotted an easy and obvious one, the Black-eared Wheatear , while the group climbing the steep hillside found the Rock Nuthatch of which I told you before, as well as the Rock Sparrow, striped, pale and indescribable.

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Greece Woodpeckers Eagles Owls 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2024

A group of about 15 Least Sandpipers was feeding in the shallows. We spotted a Black-throated Sparrow … … and then our guides heard Cassin’s Sparrow calling. The entertainment consisted of a group of 8 Grasshopper Sparrows and Cattle Egret attending to a small herd of – wait for it – cattle.

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Ducks Emotional Cattle Owls 217

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

Sibley Birds East covers “nearly 700” birds, up from 650, and Sibley Birds West covers “over 700,” which I’m assuming is more than the first edition count of 703 birds, if for no other reason than that taxonomic splits have give us Ridgeway’s Rail, Bell’s Sparrow and Sagebrush Sparrow. This means that loons are no longer first!

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North America 2003 Birds America 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The group I was guiding saw and heard a few pairs of these special birds along with Black-capped Flycatcher, Black-cheeked Warblers, Long-tailed Silky-Flycatchers , and so many other wonderful birds of the cool, high elevations. These smart looking birds are tropical sparrows.

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Costa Rica Birds Litter Farming 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

Multiple groups of trogons with young in the United States seems surreal, but is entirely possible in the right place. Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a Lark Sparrow , highly unusual at his current coordinates. The real highlight of my weekend, out of many worthy contenders, had to be Elegant Trogon.

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