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Birding Barcelona: City Parks
European Robin, Parc de Turo, Barcelona, Spain Almost thirty years ago, long before I ever noticed the birds, I did a college semester abroad in Oviedo, Spain. It was amazing. The country and the...
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Birding Girona, Spain: City Parks
The Sept of Baelor (aka the Girona Cathedral) Girona is a Great Town After several pleasant days in Barcelona, we rented a car and drove 100 kilometers northeast to Girona. It’s a charming city with a...
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Birding Catalunya, Spain: Odds & Ends (& Flamingos!)
Flamingos are a ridiculous sight, like a swan standing on electric pink stilts with a melting bill It’s so fun a few weeks after a great adventure to relive it by writing up these posts. And our trip...
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Eurasian Eagle-Owl in NY’s Central Park
Flaco the Eurasian Eagle-Owl in Central Park, NY Fugitive Owl Making it in New York At 8:30pm on February 2, 2023, officials at New York’s Central Park Zoo realized that a twelve year-old Eurasian...
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Birding Puerto Rico #1: Bosque de Cambalache
A Puerto Rican Lizard Cuckoo snacking on a big centipede Lifers and Endemics in Puerto Rico Woodland In June, I took my first trip to Puerto Rico in 20 years. Unlike the last time I visited, this trip...
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Birding Puerto Rico #2: Laguna Cartagena, Cabo Rojo
An eye-catching non-native Venezuelan Troupial Birding Southwest Puerto Rico: Laguna Cartagena Puerto Rico is a brick-shaped island that is 100 miles wide and 35 miles tall. That’s big enough to...
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Tundra Bean-Goose in L.A. County: UPDATED
Tundra Bean-Goose: far away from home, far away from my camera The wacky Arctic winter in Southern California continues You may recall that my 2023 started off with an improbable Snowy Owl in a...
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Birding Puerto Rico #3: San Juan
Greater Antillean Grackle are restricted to Caribbean Islands Birding Puerto Rico: In and around San Juan My trip to Puerto Rico, like so many others, started and ended in the capitol city of San...
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Great Crested Flycatcher in the 5MR
L.A. & 5MR Lifer: Great Crested Flycatcher A “promotion” at my job has led to more work, and less birding. That’s what you get for a raise, I guess. Less birding means fewer posts, because I’ve...
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Chestnut-Collared Longspur at L.A. Landfill
The elusive Chestnut-collared Longspur showed for a few seconds Chestnut-collared Longspur at Toyon Landfill Every October 29th, I go to a closed landfill in Griffith Park in Los Angeles and see a...
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Birding Piedmont Italy
The view of the Langhe from our Italian villa Birding Wine Country of Piedmont Italy People around me are turning 50. And some of them really know how to throw a good party. A friend of mine decided...
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Birding Baja California: Todos Santos
Gilded Flicker at La Poza de Todos Santos Birding Baja California: Todos Santos My family just spent a week near the southern tip of Baja California for a winter vacation. Instead of the resort hotels...
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Birding Baja California #2: Elf Owl Encounter
Somehow, in darkness, my son spotted an Elf Owl perched in a bush just feet away from me Birding Baja California: The Elf Owl Road As I planned for our 2023 trip to Todos Santos in Baja California, I...
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New Year, New LA County Lifers
A Winter Wren in the right season, but on the wrong coast Two New LA County Lifers in the New Year The New Year is an exciting time for birders because their precious year lists revert to zero. Every...
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5MR: 2023 Recap and 2024 Targets
Great Crested Flycatcher on LMU’s campus, Sept. 23, 2023 2023: In a Year of Travel, the 5MR Still Delivers For the first time since COVID appeared in spring 2020, I traveled a bunch last year. Trips...
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