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August 2007 was another action-packed month here at 10,000 Birds! Shorebirds seemed to be the flavor of the month as Corey and I visited Montezuma NWR (here and here) and Jamaica Bay WR (here, here, and here) among other places, while Charlie shared images of tasty water birds from the deserts of Oman. Even better, [...]

and the photos, as one might expect, are sensational. Check out those butterflies and poison frogs.

Last week I was out on the Cohoes Flats looking at shorebirds, hoping to find something good. Both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs were around as well as several small groups of Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers. A couple of Pectoral Sandpipers were hanging out on flat rocks on the other side of what little Mohawk River [...]

Our excursion to Jamaica Bay’s East Pond during the 2nd Annual Shorebird Festival this past weekend was certainly instructive, yet it was hardly the first time I learned something about birds and birding there. August 2003 represented the Core Team’s veritable initiation into shorebirding. While visiting the East Pond of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge [...]

Science should be part of a well-balanced life, which makes Balancing Life a fitting home for the eighty-seventh edition of Tangled Bank.

The birding blogosphere is abuzz with Common Nighthawk migration. Read about them or view pictures of them here, here, here, here or here.

Earlier this month I found and photographed this spider in my grandmother’s backyard. I finally got around to trying to figure out what it was today by searching obsessively through web page after web page. Well, I think I mostly figured it out, narrowing it down to its family, the Agelenidae, more commonly referred to [...]

A new study published in the ornithological journal Ibis has uncovered that for the vast majority of bird species, there are more males than females. The discovery suggests that populations of many of the world’s threatened birds could therefore be overestimated, because scientists often base population estimates on counts of males.  The headline above, cribbed [...]

As Mike nicely detailed in his post the two of us spent most of Sunday morning on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge looking at and learning about shorebirds at the Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival. He also mentioned that we didn’t see a Baird’s Sandpiper, a bird that neither of us has ever [...]

September 2 is International Rock-Flipping Day. Mark your calendars! Dave Bonta has the details.