It’s 2020! What was your first bird of the year? Of the decade, even? Here’s hoping it was something good and it starts you off right on a whole year of wonderful birds! Happy New Year to you from the 10,000 Birds crew!
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Rufous-naped Wren heard outside the bedroom window.
Ring-billed Gull. Which is better than what it could have been.
20 mourning doves on a wire down the hill from my house in Brewster, NY
American Crows in my grocery store parking lot. I went there to get a cheese bagel!
Brown Booby from cruise ship in Hawaii.
Heard: goldcrest. Seen: woodpigeon. All in Heidelberg, Germany.
Grey Kingbird
American Oystercatcher.
Carmel-by-the-sea.
I’m with Mia. American Crows in winter around the Finger Lakes crave attention.