Month: December 2014

Birds

Northern Flicker Intergrade in California

December 31, 2014 by Larry 4 Comments

The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is the third largest woodpecker in North America if you count the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It is smaller than the...

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Jochen’s 2015 Year List

by Jochen 4 Comments

Outlook and goals for 2015 I started year-listing three years ago, with previous listing ambitions having been limited to my life list. While it’s...

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My Nemesis Birds to Be

December 30, 2014 by Corey 17 Comments

“Thus, I give up the binoculars!” – Captain Ahab’s last words (paraphrased) I have been relatively fortunate in my birding life in that I...

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2015 World Big Year

December 29, 2014 by Corey 2 Comments

Talk about ambitious! Noah Strycker, author of The Thing with Feathers and Among Penguins, will be doing a world-wide Big Year in 2015. Rather...

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New Birding For A New Year

by Felonious Jive 2 Comments

Many readers of 10,000 Birds are more than the casual birdwatcher…they are hopeless bird junkies. Truly depraved birding addicts. It may not take long...

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2014)

by Mike 4 Comments

And that’s a wrap. The calendar year 2014 has just about run its course. It’s all over but the year bird counting, so take...

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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

December 28, 2014 by David 5 Comments

The colorful Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) lives in wetlands from Portugal and Senegal all the way east to New Zealand and the Samoan Islands,...