5 Tricks to Identify Shorebirds

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  • @kevinharding2099
    @kevinharding2099 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I’ve just moved to Brunswick, Maine and I’m struggling with shorebirds. I’m a long time birder, but never much at the shore. This video helped. I’ve been on bird walks with experts and they tend to make it more complicated with too much information. My technique is to go on a walk and then go back by myself to see if I’ve learned anything. Thanks for this video - love your channel.

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Popham Beach and Small Point can be an awesome place to practice shorebirds near you. I haven't been there in a while, though.

  • @seafruit.
    @seafruit. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hands down the best east coast shorebird guide video in existence.

  • @g_br
    @g_br 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Congratulations for the teaching!
    Greeting from South America

  • @shreecreativearts5132
    @shreecreativearts5132 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice, good information about shore birds,explained in a unique way.

  • @douglaswetzel3221
    @douglaswetzel3221 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome video Bob. Thanks for your very much common sense information! I really enjoyed shorebirding this spring from a little local freshwater marsh here in Houston. You're the best.

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too funny! I was just thinking this morning over breakfast that I gotta get back to Houston to do some shorebirding soon. It really is awesome along that whole section of coast.

  • @CC-re1pu
    @CC-re1pu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Once again, a great video filled with practical knowledge! Your videos are awesome, thank you!

  • @willway9378
    @willway9378 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I wish I could like this video more than once. I’m about as far from shoreline as o can be in the hot dry Plains, but the concepts should carry over at times. Birds are more sparse in most places here. Lord of the usual suspects in cities, but we are just about overrun with at least three types of doves and just about all year. I like them better than the grackles the doves seem to like feeding off the ground from where my sunflowers have leaned forward and dropped seeds. I’ve not been able to identify the small birds that are feeding directly off the plants even hanging upside down picking sunflower seeds straight from the flowers.
    If you write a book or have written one I’d really like to buy a copy. Your common sense approach to identification is hugely helpful.

  • @MaineSWH
    @MaineSWH 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bob is an icon of Maine!!! Keep it up, kind sir 🐦

  • @DaveCollierCamping
    @DaveCollierCamping หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great info, hello from coastal Virginia USA

  • @leobachand8408
    @leobachand8408 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent video and tips!

  • @roymeljoturrentine5774
    @roymeljoturrentine5774 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really appreciate your approach and help in identifying and enjoying the birds! Thank you!!

  • @libertymedicalcommunicatio4908
    @libertymedicalcommunicatio4908 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great stuff! Watched this at high tide in Provincetown, MA. Wish this had been posted last week when it was low tide at this hour!

  • @brighteyedbirding
    @brighteyedbirding 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video! This is super important right now, so I really needed this thanks!

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wish I knew so much of this stuff 30 years ago.

  • @Stukin_The_Pines
    @Stukin_The_Pines 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really enjoy your videos. Love your common-sense approach to shorebird ID.
    Also, I volunteer to follow behind you to pick up & save those torn-out shorebird
    pages from your field guide, in case you decide you need them some day.

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks. I have fun making the videos. It is hard on my field guides, though.

  • @privatename8228
    @privatename8228 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video! Watching from Nova Scotia.

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heading your way in a couple of weeks. I've got Kejimkujik in mind, but may do Kouchibouguac first.

  • @小田島初音
    @小田島初音 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I finally found the greatest channel.
    I'm Japanese though,I could enjoy this video.
    Thanks for giving me great time.

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you. I've got several more videos in mind, coming soon.

  • @janm2473
    @janm2473 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fabulous, Bob !! Thank you!

  • @michaelsharpe4217
    @michaelsharpe4217 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I bird Massachusetts - Marshfield to Plum Island:, VER YHELPFUL!! You should also mentions Sanderlings, Red Knots, Godwits, Hudsonian and Marbled. Other keys to identification, location on beach and feeding style

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, some day I'd like to do a follow up. I often bird NWRs from Parker River all the way down to Pea Island, NC.

  • @Sam-hf8nq
    @Sam-hf8nq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When can we expect "Duchesne's Field Guide to The Birds" to be published? I heard it's only 35 pages and so much lighter to carry around. 😉

    • @janm2473
      @janm2473 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Excellent idea !

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Alternate title: What I Learned From Five Decades of Making Stupid Mistakes.

  • @mituldesai666
    @mituldesai666 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    very useful tips.. 👌

  • @TracyBirds
    @TracyBirds 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your videos! 😊

  • @kalescritters8004
    @kalescritters8004 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Living in SE AZ, shorebirds have always been a distant nightmare.
    Glad you lived the nightmare for me. Now I can walk past mud puddles during migration without fear of being ambushed by a shorb. 🤙

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I spent the first two weeks of May in SE AZ and didn't see a single shorebird. Maybe I didn't try hard enough.😊

  • @rockfishmiller
    @rockfishmiller 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice binos, green with envy.

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should see them up close. I treat my binoculars pretty poorly. What's wrong with me?

  • @oldtimer5045
    @oldtimer5045 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I needed this one about 3 weeks ago! am relatively new at this. have mostly songbirds so far. this fall's goal is shorebirds. here in WV we started getting them about 3 weeks ago. Debby dropped some good ones. semi palmated sandpiper from least is driving me crazy. especially when they have muddy legs 😵‍💫😂😂 thnx

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Took me a long time to get the hang of shorebirds. I'm trying to make it easier for the rest of the world.

  • @mikeanderson4337
    @mikeanderson4337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your channel, we’re traveling to Maine next week from Michigan. We’ll be staying 2 days in Portland and then 6 days on small lake by Ellsworth & Hancock - any suggestions on places to go birding? Thanks and keep up the great work - both informative and entertaining.

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks. You may notice warblers migrating through the lake area. They're on the move, and morning activity can get attention. You won't be far from Schoodic Point. It's quieter than the rest of Acadia National Park. The ocean point can be interesting, but so can the bike paths - easy to walk with good viewing of any birds around. Still a lot of shorebirds moving through. They can even be on the muddy edges of drawn-down lakes. Most will be farther up the coast on the big mudflats, though. If you get on the Bar Harbor Whale Watch boat, it's pelagic birding season offshore. I'm going out on Sunday.

    • @mikeanderson4337
      @mikeanderson4337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks we just booked the whale watch on Thursday next week.

    • @mikeanderson4337
      @mikeanderson4337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And yes on Bar Harbor Whale watch. Thanks again for the recommendations

  • @paulwragg8841
    @paulwragg8841 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi "Fashion" magazine here. Which OR hat is that. Thx

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I know, right? I fished it out of the cellar months ago. Now I can't part with it. The brim can be adjusted for any angle of sun and wind, and the chin strap is useful on a boat. Plus it's ugly!

  • @indyreno2933
    @indyreno2933 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did you know the smallest living shorebird is the least sandpiper and the largest living shorebird is the great skua?

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Umm, is a great skua a shorebird? And if so, isn't a long-billed curlew bigger? And I think there's a curlew in Asia that's even bigger. Or maybe I'm mistaken. That happens.

    • @indyreno2933
      @indyreno2933 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Bob_Duchesne, in case you should know, shorebirds are defined by the order Charadriiformes as a whole, therefore gulls, skuas, sternids, and alcids are shorebirds, the long-billed curlew is not technically the largest living shorebird, but it is of course the largest shorebird that's called a wader, among shorebirds (order Charadriiformes), waders are a paraphyletic group because some families of waders are more closely related to gulls, skuas, sternids, and alcids than they are to other waders, based on here the sheathbills and families most closely related to them are considered the closest living relatives of the gulls, skuas, sternids, and alcids.

  • @MrSpirit99
    @MrSpirit99 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes, it's shorebirds. I let myself out.

  • @queenofdirt9082
    @queenofdirt9082 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    first

    • @Bob_Duchesne
      @Bob_Duchesne  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There should be a prize for that.