Month: November 2003

Blogging

10,000 Birds Month in Review: November 2003

November 30, 2003 by Mike No Comments

Sara and I, collectively known as the Core Team, enjoyed some great New York City birding in November 2003. We spotted our first Hermit...

Birds

Storm-petrels and Science

November 26, 2003 by Mike No Comments

There is a great article in Wired magazine about the technological innovations being tested through an ornithological research project. The bird in question is...

Birding

Reason To Become a Bird Watcher #8: The Element Of Surprise

November 25, 2003 by Mike No Comments

One lesson any observer of the natural world learns quickly is to take nothing for granted.Â Nature loves to defy all expectations. Nobody expects...

Birds

‘Swan Rare Sighting

November 24, 2003 by Mike No Comments

Bird watchers have come to expect nearly endless variations of a small number of familiar forms throughout the world’s 10,000 species. For example, there...

Trips

The Point Is Birding

November 22, 2003 by Mike No Comments

We’ve been writing about holiday gifts for birders all week, but at the end of the day, what bird watchers really want is to...

Trips

Looking For Apples, We Get Oranges

November 16, 2003 by Mike No Comments

One of the inviolable truths of birding is that you cannot force the bird. Just because you’re looking for it doesn’t mean that it...

Birds

West Nile Violence

November 12, 2003 by Mike No Comments

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported yesterday that last winter, in West Nile virus-afflicted parts of the United States, American Crow counts dropped to...

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