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birdie π¦’ #224: π¨π¨π©β¬β¬β¬
I have photographed the »    Thayer's    « subspecies of this bird.
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BRDL 341
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π¦π¦π¦π¦List-assisted because I couldn't find anything that worked with the letters I had.
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birdie π¦ #223: π₯π¨π¨π©β¬β¬
I've photographed this bird before.
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8 hours ago, IKLland said:birdie π¦’ #223: π©β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬
I'm rather impressed by this one in particular, mostly because Β»I'm surprised you didn't pick the Great-tailed first.Β«
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π¦π¦π¦π¦I have not seen this bird.
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birdie π¦ #222: π₯π₯π©β¬β¬β¬
I have photographed this bird before.
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BRDL 339
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π¦π¦π¦π¦A very familiar bird for me
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I gained the Tundra Swan yesterday, but I also lost one. I reviewed my rarities for the year and noticed I still had the Stilt Sandpiper marked. I had corrected my photo but forgot to remove the entry from the checklist, and no other birders positively identified it on the day I was there. Oh well, that means I can get excited about it the next time I (actually) see it. That leaves me at 368 for the year.
A few of those are escapees and thus not countable, however. Off-hand, I can think of these:
Swan Goose
Muscovy Duck
Indian Peafowl
African Collared-DoveI'm going to keep the provisional ones like the Pin-tailed Whydah.
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58 minutes ago, DLecy said:
Iβm curious as to the reasons people on this thread want to keep honorific names?Β
My guess, at least for the general population, would be tradition and familiarity.
The simpler answer is the magnitude of the changes. Species splits usually aren't a big deal, and the old name can still be used to refer to an individual that is difficult to identify further (e.g. Western Flycatcher in Southern Nevada). Occasional name changes aren't that much effort to make a note of if you're using an outdated paper field guide. However, if a hundred birds in the field guide suddenly changed names, there are going to be many uninformed birders out there ignorant of the sweeping changes who still comment on the Allen's Hummingbirds, Nuttall's Woodpeckers, and Cooper's Hawks in their yards because that's what their field guide they bought last year says they are. More conservative birders may prefer using the honorific names because they've used them for 40 years, and learning new names can be seen as a lot of effort.
The less friendly answer may be fairly politically charged, with some of the opposed sharing the same beliefs as those opposed to the removal of Confederate monuments. I digress, however, because I don't want this thread to turn into a feud, and I doubt this reason applies to many people here. π
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birdie π¦ #221: π₯π₯π©β¬β¬β¬
I should've had it on the second guess.
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BRDL 338
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π¦π¦π¦π¦I have not seen this bird.
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My mother and step-father wanted to go the bird preserve today. With the upcoming weather, this was definitely the last outing of the year unless something extraordinary shows up. The interesting sightings included six Wood Ducks, five Crissal Thrashers, four Ross's Geese, three Virginia Rails, two Cackling Geese, and a lifer Tundra Swan a-swimmin'.
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birdie π¦ #220: π₯π¨π¨π©β¬β¬
I have not seen this bird.
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BRDL 337
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π¦π¦π¦π¦I have photographed this bird.
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A short walk at the local park. Nothing too crazy, but it was my first time seeing a Common Goldeneye there.
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2 hours ago, chipperatl said:
βAtβ or βinβ? Β Our small local airport is one of the top hotspots, but getting birds inside the airportβ¦thatβs something else. Β
While I have indeed seen birds in an airport (as well as in other places like supermarkets), that was pre-eBird days for me.
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birdie π¦ #219: π₯π©β¬β¬β¬β¬
I have not seen this bird.
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BRDL 336
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π¦π¦π¦π¦I have not seen this bird.
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8 hours ago, chipperatl said:
Ebird lifer House Sparrowβ¦Detroit Airport. Β π
Hey, I had two eBird lifers at an airport: Common Grackle and Brown Thrasher.
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This brings up an interesting, if someone vain, question: does a zero-species checklist maintain your streak? For instance, there are people who may take an early morning flight east in the winter and spend all of the daylight hours in the air or in airports. They may spend 10 minutes at the crack of dawn by an airport window and observe zero birds. What about people who are inside a windowless office from before dawn until after dusk, and their break outside may yield no birds?
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birdie π¦ #218: π₯π₯π₯π₯π¨π©
Don't play Birdie while distracted. I was thinking of a much larger bird.
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π¦π¦π¦π¦I have not seen this bird.
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14 hours ago, Charlie Spencer said:
Documentation, please.
This is the best I could find. These are how many unique eBirders saw at least one bird in each state/territory/province in the ABA area. It's not perfect because it counts the same person multiple times, and states like California and Florida are popular travel destinations anyway. It'd be great if eBird offered a tool where each person counted only for the territory where they submitted the most checklists.
California 80,846 Florida 63,131 New York 57,602 Texas 55,273 Pennsylvania 42,528 Ontario 42,136 North Carolina 37,824 Arizona 37,240 Virginia 36,799 Ohio 36,678 Washington 36,571 Massachusetts 34,851 Colorado 34,538 Michigan 34,053 Illinois 31,692 New Jersey 30,264 Wisconsin 28,745 Oregon 28,640 Georgia 27,832 Maryland 26,420 Maine 23,861 South Carolina 23,304 Minnesota 23,272 British Columbia 21,900 Tennessee 21,376 Utah 20,617 New Mexico 20,422 Indiana 19,746 Quebec 19,174 Missouri 18,247 Connecticut 16,842 Wyoming 15,030 Montana 14,873 New Hampshire 14,785 Hawaii 14,524 Nevada 13,793 Vermont 13,555 Alaska 13,522 Louisiana 13,281 Alabama 13,063 Idaho 12,815 Alberta 12,788 Delaware 12,073 Kentucky 11,919 Kansas 11,791 Oklahoma 11,366 Iowa 11,240 Arkansas 10,021 West Virginia 9,795 Nebraska 9,688 Rhode Island 8,196 South Dakota 8,149 Mississippi 8,022 District of Columbia 7,960 Nova Scotia 6,855 North Dakota 5,926 New Brunswick 5,714 Manitoba 4,618 Saskatchewan 3,897 Newfoundland and Labrador 2,921 Prince Edward Island 1,963 Yukon Territory 1,503 Northwest Territories 805 Nunavut 650 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 105 -
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Β (Quoted from the Birdie topic)
On 12/22/2022 at 8:24 AM, Snake Fingers said:Yesterday was Bohemian Waxwing.
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On 12/22/2022 at 9:24 AM, Zoroark said:...Very appropriate.
https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN37165&sortBy=obsDt&o=desc
I'm considering going out tomorrow morning if they're sighted today.
Got it! That brings me to 368 and very likely my last new bird of the year.
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I have photographed this bird.