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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of December 2015?

December 11, 2015 by Mike 2 Comments

Discussing winter birding seems incongruous when we’re experiencing spring weather here in western NY. Better to just enjoy the glorious warmth and wait a...

News

News for Northern Spotted Owl Goes From Bad to Worse

December 10, 2015 by Meredith Mann No Comments

(Photo by the California Forestry Association) It’s hard to be a Northern Spotted Owl, inhabiting old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. The logging industry...

Birds

How I dipped the Horned Grebe

by Dragan 8 Comments

…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a...

Birds

The Terns of Tern Island

December 9, 2015 by Duncan 3 Comments

I’ve spoken before about the time I was lucky enough to work on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals. Part of the Hawaiian Islands...

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Bufflehead in Maine and Florida

December 8, 2015 by Erika Zambello 1 Comment

Within one week, I saw Bufflehead over 1,200 miles apart, first in Maine, and then along the Florida Panhandle. For my post this week,...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of December 2015)

December 7, 2015 by Mike 5 Comments

The title of warmest year on record currently belongs to 2014, but the crown may pass in just a few weeks to the present...

Birding

Australian Painted Snipe

December 6, 2015 by Clare M 3 Comments

The Australian Painted Snipe–Rostratula australis is one of the hardest shorebirds/waders to find in Australia and very little is known about them at all....

Reviews

Things I didn’t know that I didn’t know about British bees

December 5, 2015 by Redgannet No Comments

It is probably a safe bet that readers at 10,000 Birds relish field guides irrespective of their subject. Birdie books will obviously take precedence,...

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