10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Both of these birds were seen on my pelagic tour out of San Diego. The life list rises by 2 , to 4,126 species : 4,125: Townsend’s Storm-Petrel (California, US). 4,126: Cook’s Petrel (California, US). Good Birding!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

So when Nutmeg Mannikin was finally, at long last, added to the ABA list last summer, it was a foregone conclusion that those birders at the ABA’s San Diego rally, of which I was one, would need to make a trip out of our way to get it. Get your bird. They’re not supposed to be here. We shouldn’t want them here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. If you love penguins, and you love Doctor Who , you won’t want to miss this David Tennant–narrated miniseries on PBS. Penguins are also being touted as a way to gauge the health of oceans.). Still craving more penguin news? Can prairie grass curb bird strikes?

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San Diego Penguins Ohio Geese 216

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Staff from the San Diego Zoo think so. Prothonotary Warblers (like the dapper bird above captured for posterity by Corey) should carry frequent-flier cards—a recent Audubon-led study found that one geolocator-toting individual racked up more than 5,000 miles in eight months.

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California Condor San Diego San Francisco Ghana 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo. “ San Diego Zoo ” is also a nice song by the 6ths (mostly Stephin Merritt, in this song with Barbara Manning singing).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

Jonathan is originally from San Blas on Mexico’s west coast, a birder’s paradise I have yet to visit. But the past several years he has worked on several projects in Ensenada, just south of San Diego. His main project is monitoring the Snowy Plover population there.

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San Diego Turtles Mexico Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2013

Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. Many escapes and introductions have taken place over the years and some species have found the warm, dry climate to their liking.

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Parrots California Los Angeles San Diego 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2013

This month I was in San Diego, helping out with and participating in the American Birding Association’s San Diego rally. But before this month I had never been birding off the Pacific Coast, where the water and air are cooler and the birds are always around you.

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Critter News

APRIL 25, 2009

Daniel Andreas San Diego, wanted for alleged involvement in 2 bombings in San Francisco has been listed by the FBI as one of their Most Wanted Terrorists. San Diego has ties to animal rights extremist groups. San Diego wears eyeglasses, is skilled at sailing, and has traveled internationally.

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Daniel Andreas San Diego Extremist San Diego Animal Rights 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

US District Judge Jeffrey Miller called the hearing in San Diego after Sea World asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that names five orcas as plaintiffs in the case.

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San Diego PETA Ethical Treatment Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

I learned a lot about why Wood Thrushes (like the one Corey photographed above) are less efficient at migration than adults (like human kids, they seem to make more pit stops along the way), and that Dark-eyed Juncos which spend all year in San Diego seem to have undergone a fairly recent genetic shift toward “sedentariness.”

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 211

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Birding the border area of San Diego, CA, my colleague Seagull Steve almost had a brain aneurysm when confronted with a female White-collared Seedeater earlier in the year.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It’s my first return to Prospect Park since my overwhelming San Diego adventure and things seem quiet, despite favorable overnight winds and gushing reports of a wild sparrow bonanza the previous day. The lawn seems bare of birds, except for a single female Flicker. Overhead, a white-tailed young Red-tailed Hawk calls.

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San Diego Sparrows Breeders 2009 197

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder.

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South America San Diego Mexico America 223

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Slightly further south of where these pictures were taken, from southern Orange County south to Baja California, the subspecies called the San Diego Cactus Wren or Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus sandiegensis , is a California Species of Special Concern because of habitat fragmentation and destruction and a marked decline in the population.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 8, 2011

BarkNetwork.com , the ultimate site for athletic dogs, will provide a free live stream of the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge Western Regionals from San Diego. 2011 marks the 14th year of the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge and the third consecutive year the competition has held its Western Regional event in San Diego.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

Sunshine and surfing, deserts and wildfires, Hollywood and San Diego. Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways. As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. Five orcas were listed as the plaintiffs. PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S.

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PETA San Diego Ethical Treatment Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This Western Grebe was from just north of San Diego. And the Mexican Violetears I see in the mountains around Morelia no longer share a single species (“Green Violetear”) with their Central American relatives. A Clark’s Grebe from Lake Cuitzeo, just north of Morelia. A Transvolcanic Jay.

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San Diego San Francisco Baltimore Mexico 225

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

Salmon, UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego Co.; v=gJma0Szy8R8 References: 1 University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program, June 2005. Authors: T.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder.

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San Diego South America Costa Rica America 227

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2012

The southwestern US is still undiscovered country for me – barring one trip to San Diego and a handfull of layovers in Las Vegas, I’ve never been – and I had imagined a Grace’s Warbler darting out of a treetop in Nevada or New Mexico to add a flash of color to my first real exploration of the region.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder.

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San Diego Mexico Costa Rica South America 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2016

As of a few months ago, there was a sighting of a meransi across the US/Mexico border and up into the San Diego area. It was spotted by several birders at the Famosa Slough, on August 2nd of 2015. This is over 100 miles from its northern most previous sighting. I guess he was just going north for a short vacation!!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

I know Seagull Steve, who is slaving away on Snowy Plover and Least Tern monitoring in San Diego, is busy as well, but he can’t help but reflect on how different his current job is from his last spring gig. My recent work with birds has prevented me from, ironically, working on seeing birds lately.

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San Diego Mississippi Mexico Malaysia 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Red-masked Parakeet, a near-threatened endemic of southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, has sizeable population clusters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

You see it was about now that the non-resident owner of the boat had decided to move his boat back to his home town of San Diego. I was surprised that there were several days before there were a couple of eggs in the nest when she took off to get a bit to eat.This is the part where the story gets fun.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 17, 2013

Doggy proms will be held throughout the week at Best Friends Pet Care centers in the Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, San Diego and Houston metro areas, across Connecticut and New Jersey, and in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Charlotte and at Best Friends Pet Care center at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

San Diego; Austin, Texas; Miami; and Portland, Ore. The first event will take place in Chicago on September 24. Events will follow throughout the fall in cities across the country, including: Washington; Staten Island, N.Y.; Nashville, Tenn.; If you have an event in your area and attend, we would love to hear about it.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder.

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Guatemala San Diego Mexico South America 180

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2018

There is a small resident population established directly north of us, in the San Diego county area, as well as in and around the Tijuana, Mexico area. There was no band, or any other marks that would indicate that this bird had spent any amount of time in a cage.

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San Diego Mexico Parrots Pets 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2019

The aroma is an inviting throwback to a time around 2010 when West Coast IPAs – especially from San Diego – were the biggest thing in brewing: it’s brash and hoppy, with big doses of tropical fruit, citrus, and pine. Outta Line IPA is defiantly clear and amber-hued beer: this is no pale and hazy “milkshake” IPA here.

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India Penguins San Diego Peru 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Kooyman is currently professor emeritus and research physiologist in the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and has 124 scientific papers listed on his academic website (most co-authored, as is the academic way).

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Half a decade ago, in a little mountain town about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, a feral kitten dragged his front left leg uselessly. The dog-loving owners of the property in Julian where he sought refuge rushed him to the local veterinarian, who informed them that if his leg was amputated, he could live as an indoor cat.

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San Diego Kittens Cats Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

After seeing Rhinoceros Auklets and Xantus’s Murrelets on the first half of Sunday’s San Diego Bird Festival pelagic trip, we reached Mexico’s Islas Cornado (Coronado Islands), four rocky islands off the coast of northern Baja California.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea California 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

At one point, Hayward, in San Diego for a pelagic that turns out to be cancelled and desperate for bird #700, must choose between a Curlew Sandpiper on Plum Island and a Blue-footed Booby in New Mexico. low points and highs.

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