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    Christmas Bird Counts -- anyone participate?

    So the Christmas Bird Count 2015-2016 season is upon us in the Americas. Anyone participating in any of them this year? Any special birds staked out for your count circle(s) yet? A thread for everything CBC!
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    RFI: Argentina in December

    Hello everyone!: I am currently planning an exciting end of the year Argentina trip with a good friend of mine, and I would appreciate some advice and feedback on my plans to date. I will likely visit Otamendi, San Clemente del Tuyu, and Costanera Sur before he arrives: Part I (NW Argentina)...
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    Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015 -- Results!

    Due to the mild winter climate, a wide variety of passerines, raptors, and shorebirds spend the winter in southeast Florida, inflating the species diversity to the extent that Miami-Dade can go toe-to-toe with counties in Texas and Arizona during this season. The Great Miami Winter Bird Count...
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    Matheson Hammock in Miami, Florida (12/6): 62 species

    On Saturday I decided to bird Matheson Hammock County Park for my Miami Birding Wave eBird Blitz effort. I tallied 62 species in about six hours of birding, covering the marina, lagoon, picnic area, and tropical hardwood hammock west of Old Cutler Road. I believe that a 70+ species day at this...
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    Everglades National Park (11/20): a day at the park

    It is a great time of year to be birding in Everglades National Park! Alex Harper, Rangel Diaz, Brehan Clare Furfey, and I headed down main park road from Homestead well before dawn, flushing several Eastern Whip-poor-will from the roadsides. As we drove up to the Flamingo area of the park, a...
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    Bahama Mockingbird at Pine Tree Park (5/18)

    Bahama Mockingbird, found by Frank Schena on 16 May 2014, was still at Pine Tree Park today in Miami Beach, Miami-Dade, Florida. It was hanging out on the northern edge of the community garden, feeding on the ground and turning the leaf litter. This is my third Bahama Mockingbird in Florida, but...
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    Spring Migration at Bill Baggs State Park, Miami-Dade, Florida

    Bill Baggs sits on the main migration flyway for many bird species that winter in the Caribbean in northern South America and the Caribbean, including Cape May, Black-throated Blue, Prairie, and Blackpoll Warbler. Westerly winds overnight results in many of those migrants stopping over in the...
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    Great Backyard Bird Count -- what did you see?

    The Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count occurred this past weekend (14-17 Feb). Although the citizen science effort is often derided for having many misidentified birds submitted, the massive number of eBird reviewers is helping keep the data much cleaner. In any case, it was fun birding a whole...
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    Southeast Brazil

    I will be working as a guide at Cristalino Lodge in Brazil starting at the end of June of this year and stretching to the end of September. Before heading back home, I really want the experience of birding southeastern Brazil. I want to know the feasibility of birding this region on your own...
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    Malaria in Thailand?

    For all those birders who have been to Thailand, is malaria a real risk in that country? A friend of mine who has been in Thailand for 40 days has recently contracted the disease while there. However, he has been traveling bare bones cheap, using public transportation, and perhaps staying (and...
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    Wildlife Conservation Stamps Petition

    For all US residents: "We propose a Wildlife Conservation Stamp, comparable to the well-known Duck Stamp, to support the acquisition of habitat and the conservation of all wildlife in the National Wildlife Refuge system with an emphasis on non-game species. A Wildlife Conservation Stamp would...
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    Countries needing field guides

    Which countries/regions of the world are in most need of a field guide? My vote would go to Bolivia, which does not seem to have any coverage at all. Improved/updated field guides for Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, New Guinea, and Wallacea would also be great. South America, in general, seems...
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    Which potential life birds have you unintentionally flushed?

    I think we have all had this experience one way or another -- usually secretive birds that we unintentionally flush despite our best attempts to sneak through the forests undetected, only to hear a sudden flap of wings just around the bend of a trail as your life bird makes a quick getaway...
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    csanchez's 2012 Year List

    Going to keep a year list on here this year -- let's see where it takes me and how it evolves. Just about one hour of effort this morning to start off my 2012 year list, visiting a small local park and the immediate area around where I live. Summer Tanager was the first bird I saw for the...
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    Where in the world am I? Bird Game!

    I have been thinking of a potential bird game and thought this one would be a fun one to play: where in the world am I? How to Play: I post a real checklist of birds from anywhere in the world, with date and time given to take into account seasonality. I'll provide some background information...
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    Cartagena, Colombia -- two small flycatchers

    A friend recently had a business trip in the Cartagena area of Colombia and photographed these two small flycatchers in secondary growth/local parks. He originally IDed the first photo as a Forest Elaenia, but I don't believe the photo shows one of the Myiopagis Elaenias. It seems to have...
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    Bird-A-Day 2012 Participant Sign Up

    Every year, a group of friends play a game with the following rules: If anyone wants to play or see the ongoing results for this year's effort, you can visit and sign up at: http://www.awm3.com/birdaday2/ ...or you can also email: [email protected] Hope to see some of you playing...
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    What is your "patch" or favorite birding spot like?

    What is your favorite local birding location or patch? What types of habitat does it encompass? What are the most common species that occur in it, and how does it change through the seasons? What are the rarest county, state, regional, or country-wide rarities that you have found while birding...
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    What is your "patch" or favorite birding spot like?

    Mistake.
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    HY Fall Warbler -- Miami-Dade, Florida

    Not entirely sure about this warbler seen on 12 Oct 2011. Had prominent wing bars, seemed 'big' and chunky relative to our regular migrants. I think it is a hatch year bird. Perhaps a HY Blackpoll? Carlos
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    Palm Beach Sod Farms Shorebirding

    On Wednesday, two fellow birders and I drove up to the Palm Beach Sod Farms to look for shorebirds. In three hours, we managed to tally over 18 species of shorebirds, many in large numbers, after just stopping at three locations along Hwy 880 (a flooded field between Duda Farms Rd and Brown...
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    Tern -- Marco Island, Florida

    I had this tern today at Marco Island's Tigertail Beach mixed in with a flock of Sandwich Terns (with many juvenile birds), Black Skimmers, and Laughing Gulls. I am not sure what to make of it. At the time, it was horribly back lit but seems to show a dark carpal bar and the bill lacked the...
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    For a change of pace, how many wrens have you seen?

    Just for a change of pace from all the white-eyes, starlings, and other Old World-centric families, how about a list for wrens? Between them and the thrushes, perhaps the most beautiful songsters in the neotropics and a characteristic component of the dawn chorus across the Americas...
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    June Challenge starts Wednesday

    For all those interested: Miami-Dade county in Florida was the winner last year! Carlos
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    So... how many tanagers (Thraupidae) have you seen?

    A big, diverse, generally colorful family with many spectacular representatives... but pretty much restricted to the Neotropics. Some of my favorite passerines fall into this group. According to the latest Clements, I have 92: Bananaquit Magpie Tanager White-capped Tanager Black-capped...
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