Today was another exciting day in Southwest Florida! We spent most of our time at J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge, driving the Wildlife Drive twice to look for the Mangrove Cuckoo. The staff at the entrance told us that a cuckoo was seen yesterday between Mile Marker 1 and 1.5, so we checked […]
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We had another great day of birding today! Our first stop was the lake near the FGCU Food Forest. It was still early in the morning, and the light over the water looked amazing. We picked up some of the “common locals” we were still missing from our trip list, so it was a nice
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Today was another amazing day in Key West! We visited two great spots: Fort Zachary Taylor and the Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden. We managed to catch up on most of the “common locals” that didn’t show up yesterday, and even added a few rare birds! Early in the morning, we headed towards
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South Florida, One of the southern most part of the United States, with tropical waders filling the everglades, distinctive songbirds singing in the mangrove, and frigatebirds souring above the shore line, has become our destination for this year’s Thanksgiving Break. Today, the first day of the trip, was an amazing start! Early in the morning,
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By Miles This Saturday morning LA Birders – Students held a field trip in the Buckhorn Area, with 7 birders attending! It was a cool day and birds were super active! We (Dessi, Surya, Surya’s mum, Susan, Frank, my dad, and me) started off by hiking down the Burkhart Trial, listening to the bird songs
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By Miles This Saturday morning LA Birders – Students held a field trip along the Willow Street stretch of the Los Angeles River, with 8 birders attending, including 6 students! It was a sunny day and birds were flying and foraging all along the river. We started off by scanning the section right next to
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By Miles There are only three species in the Genus Phalaropus in the whole world. They are all cute little “sandpipers” with distinct behavior and breeding habits. One of the most interesting facts of the Phalaropus or Phalaropes is that they are polyandrous and have reversed sexual dimorphism, where females have a lot more fancy
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By Miles The week before last week, we followed a PAS (Pasadena Audubon Society) field trip to the Santa Barbara Channel and the Channel Islands NP – Santa Cruz Island. We started our trip at Ventura with Alex Coffey and Grigory Heaton aboard Island Explorer, operated by Island Packers, went birding in a
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By Miles Bear Divide Birding – D9: This is probably our last day at Bear Divide this season. The migrant numbers are greatly declining, and nearly no one was there. Even the banding station stopped banding last week. We were also not coming for the migration today, we were here for the Black-chinned Sparrows!
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By Miles Bear Divide Birding – D8: We started our day with a weekly Bear Divide birding and some backyard birding before heading out. It’s our eighth day at Bear Divide this year, although we probably missed the peak, because it is a school day, the species variety and total bird counts were
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