10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2023

Missing was Great Black-Hawk , missing on account of not spending enough time looking in the right places and the species having undergone serious decline in Costa Rica over the past 20 years. I looked in some of the right places but failed to connect. I also failed to see a Pearl Kite , maybe one of my biggest misses of the year.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

This year, 2021, has to be better than the dumpster fire that was 2020, right? What was your first bird of the year? Hopefully it will start off a year with vaccines for all and a beginning of a return to normalcy. Happy New Year to you from the 10,000 Birds crew! May your year be filled with lifers! The post What Was Your First Bird of 2021?

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

The boreal forest belt that runs from Scandinavia right across to the Pacific and beyond holds some resilient bird species, which are able to survive the harsh and dark winters.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

Now you can check the fish farm lakes on your left (but here you have to ask for permission in the management building, the last one on the right hand side) or you can drive on until the first, very slight band in the road. Before that, on a rather sharp right bend, 1.8 We continued on to Sakule.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2024

Hongbenghe, a small village right at the border of China’s Yunnan province and Myanmar, has a number of woodpeckers. And most birders (though not all – see here for an exception) quite like woodpeckers, making it a good topic for a dedicated post.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

There is a Yellow Chat in both of the photos below to the right of the Orange Chat. Orange Chat and Black-fronted Dotterel. The Yellow Chat is much harder to see in this landscape and blends well into its surroundings. Orange Chat , Yellow Chat and Magpie-larks. Orange Chat and Yellow Chat.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

It is the kind of small place that still offers some living space to birds right in the town – witness this Chestnut-tailed Starling nesting in a lamppost. Di Linh is a town and district in South Vietnam a bit less than 2 hours southwest of Dalat.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Well, writing posts for 10,000 Birds is probably not the right way to get there. But if you are interested in birds and think you might enjoy writing blog posts for our site – either occasionally or regularly – please contact us. We are still looking for writers. The post Want to be famous? first appeared on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

Fortunately, we have birds to look at, so let’s focus on them right now. Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At Wildfires are raging in the west, a hurricane is slamming the south, and the pandemic continues to rage among the unvaccinated.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Indigenous community of El Remanso, right underneath the imposing monoliths of Cerros de Mavecure. Left to right: my guide Edson Moroni and the local shop keeper Daniel Luis.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

At least most of the resident species can still be seen right along the road, you just have to keep an eye out for cyclists and vehicles on their way up and down the volcano. Either way, its all good, its still birding and if you try it in the right places on Poas, the avian treats will delight you.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

You can park by the side and check the Boljetinska River Canyon at your right, a true geological history book. where there is a Y junction, left for the Somrda Reserve (dirt road), right for the Dobra Village (and, farther, Golubac Town) – keep right. Somrda Peak (810 m a.s.l.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

They don’t need to be professional bird killers either, predators only need to be in the right place at the right time. By chance, on October 22, I happened to be in just the right place at the right time. The Collared Aracari is a small toucan with a sharp beak. A picture I took of Cope’s Oasis.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2021

Nope, definitely not one of those… The classification of beer styles can be a pretty thorny issue in its own right, and I suspect Helles requires some explanation to most casual drinkers outside of Germany. Well, good for them. We’ve got a beer to drink.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Right now, though, we can watch and listen and enjoy. May is a time for birding. We have the slow weeks and months for reading, writing, and dreaming about the birds we’d rather be seeing.

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MAY 11, 2024

There will be large eucalypts and a canal on your right. After another few kilometres you will turn a very sharp right just after the rice mill, cross the canal and start your birding on the SE-659 (37° 4’53.84″N, 6° 2’20.57″W). The successful search for the duck has inspired me.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

” Oriental Dollarbird: Supposed to look blueish, but not around noon, I am afraid Oriental Magpie: A bad case of molting And some other birds … Black-crowned Night Heron: I guess this one should really be with the waders, if the Little Egret is … but somehow that does not feel quite right.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

It’s an adaptive necessity to challenge a perceived invader right now – it takes only seconds for most birds to mate, so a territory holder, like this one, below left, can’t allow another male to linger: But phenotype and extended phenotype (physical appearance and behavior) – are inextricably bound, and much of Kricher’s book addresses the former.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

I am not only surprised but shocked at my second lifer of the month right here in Monroe County. During a season when many of us have constricted our travel radius from several countries or continents from home to several blocks, the forced focus on local patches seems to be turning up some real jewels in different areas.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2022

In between way north and way south, the majority of Hudwits either fly right on over, or stop at regular rest and refueling sites. These days, we have a bit more coverage but the trick to connecting with a Hudwit in Costa Rica is the same as finding rare migrants anywhere; luck to be in the right place at just the right time.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2021

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

During our visit, one was sleeping high in a tree right next to the parking area. Since Centro Manu has the right forest habitat and is situated in that hot zone for elevational migrants, it seems to be especially good for such serious megas as Bare-necked Umbrellabird (yep, you read that right!), Want to see a roosting potoo?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

These thirty-eight years of experience went fast but that is what happens when you have fun, right? My name is Paulo Boute. I have been leading birding trips all over Brazil since 1982. And, with you it will be the same, a wonderful combination of fun and birding by coming to Brazil, once it gets safe to travel again.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2021

These unreal birds zip through every level of forest, use every habitat, and, like various others of their kind, several are found right in the garden. It seems that as long one provides the right types of flowering bushes and trees, hummingbirds will do more than pay an occasional visit.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2022

” and you will know they are right. Right, say what?! Look for them the right way in the right places and you can see this uncolorful yet cool rainforest tanager. .” Social Flycatchers are also camera loving flycatchers. Your preparations will also reveal when someone is actually a pseudo birding guide.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

There is a thing parents know very well – how important it is to choose the right name for a child. E.g. one Croat birder I know, Vedran – I never met a guy so well described by his own name, which loosely translated as “joyful”. Or Fleming – he has chosen “Bond”.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

The birds have to be correctly drawn, show the right colors, postures, and be painted with care but when it all comes together, beautiful bird art is in a category of its own. Not only is this the right way to go about using paper, but it also adds a touch of old-school class.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But Morelia is part of a large relatively homogenous ecosystem, while the La Escalera area sits right on the junction of our highland pine-oak forest system and the lowland tropical thorn forest biome. As I was very surprised to discover recently, this area is at the same elevation as my home in Morelia.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Identifying 50 species between now and the 31st depends mostly on investing birding time in the right places and I’m already pretty busy with various projects. It doesn’t help that a bunch are tough and local but if I can spend enough birding time in the right places, I should find several of the missing. Cloud Forest.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2022

But, if your eyes are constantly scanning the sky while you are talking to someone, if you are twitching at every trembling tree branch outside your office window, if you watch birds in your dreams… this is the right stuff! What is the right stuff for you? Time and effort-wise, what types of birding do you recognise?

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