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Recent content by Barr Tender

  1. Barr Tender

    Chasing Alcids-- Looking for advice

    Hi folks-- we're two birders from Denver who have birded the Oregon Coast, et al some years ago (and loved it!). We're looking for a shot in the arm for our life lists, and we're very thin on Alcids. We were there in early fall some years back, but I assume breeding season is when we might...
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    Chasing nemeses again

    In what will be our 5th birding trip to Arizona, and our 1st trip anywhere since the virus started, we're heading for Tucson-ish at the end of this month. Hoping to spot the Jacana at Ina Rd, trying AGAIN to get Deb her lifer Am. Bittern, and trying AGAIN for Olive Warbler (Madera), N...
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    LBB or Yellow legged?

    I assume your pics are from across the pond... I didn't check other species, but I did look into Steve N. G. Howell's "Gulls Of The Americas," which features pages of pics of both species. Between Yellow-legged and Lesser Black-backed, it's a slam dunk for the latter. The dark mantle and wider...
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    Yet another SE AZ trip; thoughts welcome

    When I planned this trip months in advance, it was for 2 nights Tonopah (including a chase N to Wickenburg Meadows for the Lawrence's) and 2 nights in Globe, for the Olive. Time passed, and Globe totally looked like Not-the-place, while Tucson had the recent sightings. So we cancelled Globe...
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    Yet another SE AZ trip; thoughts welcome

    Wasn't really planning to write a formal trip report, so here, by your request, are the cliff's notes! When I checked ebird for species for this trip, I always narrowed the calendar to this year only. As it's only Feb, that eliminated all but month-old sightings. There are still scads of...
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    Yet another SE AZ trip; thoughts welcome

    We had tremendous luck on this trip! At this point, as Deb told me recently, every bird we can tick at this point will be one at a time. But-- that said, with tons of research of recent sightings on ebird, we went down with a target list of the original 3 mentioned above, and a total of 14...
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    Tucson/Ferruginous Pygmy Owl RFI

    Hey folks, So we're pretty well planned out and booked for a 5-day weekend, 1/2 phoenix and 1/2 Tucson, for 6 specifically targeted species, and 5 long-shots on the wish list. I've just noticed that, SW of Tucson, recent sightings of Ferruginous Pygmy Owl produce the purple squares, but, due...
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    Yet another SE AZ trip; thoughts welcome

    We already have the Sprague's. And if Peach-faced Lovebird (Sibley can call it Rosy if he wants!) is countable, then I MUST chase that one! I have two of them living in my kitchen for the past 5 years, but if I can count them officially, I'm all for it. :king: As for the cold in Sax-Zim...
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    Yet another SE AZ trip; thoughts welcome

    Sax Zim was a great experience for us! We whiffed on Spruce Grouse, but got 6 other targets up there (Sharp-tailed, Evening Grosbeak, Boreal Chickadee, Black-backed WP, Snow Bunting, and, after three tries, finally, the Great Gray Owl!), plus an unexpected bonus-- a Gyrfalcon. Our flight...
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    Yet another SE AZ trip; thoughts welcome

    We're down to hunting nemeses, and pending any additions to the target list, we'll be shooting for three birds in mid February 2019. LeConte's Thrasher Lawrence's Goldfinch Olive Warbler We're looking at flying into Phoenix and hitting what's described on ebird as 'the thrasher spot,' East of...
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    Guides: Paper and Human!

    Definitely the ABA guide to SE Az is a must. A couple or three days in the Huachucas area (Sierra Vista area; highly recommend the Ramsey Canyon Inn) will be highly productive. Also, more remote, and also highly productive with different birds is the Chiricahua Mtns area. The former will have...
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    RFI: Winter Pelagic trips out of Gloucester

    Aaaaaannd-- it didn't. Great time, though, in a great place. Frome shore, on a 5-day trip, we got 6 lifers, 5 of which in the first 5 minutes of birding. Common Eider Harlequin Duck Great Cormorant Black-legged Kittiwake Razorbill (my 700th bird) And later, and further south, the Purple...
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    3 birds for identification

    I concur with all three. The eye-ring is diagnostic for Solitary, as the chocolate mantle over orange legs for semi-palm. And the lapwing, well, that's hard to mistake for anything else. :-O
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    ID help / Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Excellent, thanks for the confirmation.
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    Hummingbird in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

    Can't see all the colors, and don't know the bird from personal experience, just cruising through a CR guide... That said, could this be Blue-throated Goldentail?
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