10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2022

So I let myself be inspired, instead, by my rotating “Best of Birds” screen saver photos, accumulated over the years. Many simply show beautiful, interesting, or cooperative birds I have seen. After contributing almost 100 posts to 10,000 Birds, I’ve kind of lost track.

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Blackbirds Germany Sparrows Adoptable 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2009

The following is a guest post from the amazing animal lovers of Adopt-a-Pet.com. Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. For more information visit this page [link].

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 31, 2023

Yesterday I saw two small ducklings in a group of ducks and geese, but their mom didn’t seem to be around them or attentive. Will ducks “babysit” or adopt ducklings that have been abandoned? Can someone explain a bit more about duck behavior with their babies? Are ducklings generally safe with other ducks that aren’t their parents?

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Ducks Raised Geese Abandon 52

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Double-hyphenates are birds with two hyphens in their common name, which is a characteristic that suggests a high degree of rarity or difficulty. Common birds, you see, tend to have simple names, like House Sparrow, House Finch, or House Wren. Yeah, a lot of birds like hanging around houses.)

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Sparrows Mexico United States Groups 139

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

Or How a Serbian Suave Playboy Promoted Birding the Caribbean. Oh, the joys of slipping through the pages of a new book that has just arrived, the Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle and Sharpe. Having a tropical maritime climate, birding the West Indies comes with a lot of water, from sea spray to humid forests.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same. Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. So say Kevin T.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2011

The national bird of Latvia is the White Wagtail which, it being Latvia, they call Balta Cielava.* Nonetheless, that is the only explanation I can find for how Latvia chose its national bird so there you have it. Wouldn’t you want a bird with such a reputation to represent your country? ……… a.

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Latvia Birds Adoptable Groups 167

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Cuban Trogon, the national bird who wears the colors of the Cuban flag! There is an island of fascinating birds out there, and I want to see them all. birders have been able to visit Cuba as part of survey groups and cultural exchanges for years, but those trips have been few in number and not always easy to find. and Cuba.).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

For those of us in the Americas, nine-primaried oscines are among our most familiar and beloved birds: finches; sparrows, juncos, and towhees; warblers; blackbirds, meadowlarks, and orioles; cardinals and grosbeaks; and tanagers. Above is a beautiful member of this group, the Painted Redstart ( Myioborus pictus ), a warbler.

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Family Blackbirds Groups Sparrows 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2016

Given that it’s a style I myself often adopt (and sometimes fail at), it’s something I’ve thought a lot about. Which brings us to the problem of creating a book by assembling a group of blog posts. Wild Notes: Observations over time about birds and other fleeting things by Mike Lubow, $11.99.

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Chicago Birds Cats Adoptable 105

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2019

I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. I pushed for Wikipedia to adopt them, and then to follow the taxonomy, and given the dominance of Wikipedia in Google search results, this is no small thing. There is only one type of bird in the world called a donacobius.

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Iran Barn Owls New Zealand Europe 132

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights. He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Nor have I overlooked “sightings” of birds in movies mouthing other birds’ calls. I’m not sure why.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 220

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Birds are supposed to have feathers and birds without feathers look incomplete, like they left home with shaving cream on their ear and toothpaste spots on their shirt. The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. T urkey Vulture, photo by Dawn Puliafico.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2015

The early teen years are prime time for kids to adopt environmentalism as a cause. Washashore , by Suzanne Goldsmith, is likely to appeal to that young and earnest group. She’s just discovering the work of Rachel Carson and finds a sympathetic ear in a young teacher who is dating the island’s resident bird rescuer.

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Critter News

JULY 18, 2010

All companion animals including dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, and lizards would be considered as pets. If it passes, San Francisco residents would have to go to a shelter or rescue group to adopt an animal. Pet sales would be banned altogether, except for the sale of pet fish.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Being part of the polyphyletic Larus group ( a group that does not contain the most recent common ancestor and whose common feaure developed seperately), makes them the grit in the cladistic (natural ancestrally related grouping) vaseline however and a new genus has been proposed, making the binomials, Chroicocephalus ridibundus and C.

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Philadelphia Russia Europe North America 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

Proposal 2013-A-3 recommends adopting that split on the basis of a 2009 study (I wrote about it back in the day here ). The proposal author (a Sage Sparrow researcher) argues that multiple factors indicate the birds deserve full species status. acuflavida ). Moving Hawaiian honeycreepers. Shearwater split. Let the hyphen wars begin!)

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2013 Sparrows Owls Stray 191

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

My review copy (well, actually a contributor’s copy—more on that later) was waiting for me when I returned from the ABA birding tour of Thailand and Malaysia (more on that in a separate post) in early March. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Mexico border.

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North America Sparrows America United States 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Greeney was recommended to me as a book I HAD to review by no less than three birding friends. I hesitated because a 496-page book about two skulky neotropical bird groups is a little intimidating. I also wondered if a book like this would be of interest to 10,000 Birds readers.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 146

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, this is the source for the statistic — that approximately 71 million Americans are “bird watchers” — that has been a veritable iceberg to the Titanic of any birding-industry company that took the number at face value. Also since 2006, bird food sales have increased from almost $3.6 Freeloaders 2.

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Ducks Hunters 2006 Wildlife 249

Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2011

So when we adopted a human baby we knew we'd have to teach that human to avoid Violet. We weren't planning to adopt another. but a friend who volunteers for a rescue group told me of a greyhound event around the corner from my house. When we adopted them we made a commitment to care for them for the rest of their lives.

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Family Greyhounds Adoptable Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Though I had a couple in mind I never knew that it would be so easy to find such great quotes about such ugly birds. Huddled on their perches, wrapped in shabby vestments, the birds look like a group of balding monks gathered in prayer. But only if you’re serious about adopting the vulture. They bird.

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Turkey Apes Wolves North America 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I recently asked whether Puerto Rico should be part of the American Birding Association’s ABA Area. Both Puerto Rico and the USVI have active birding communities that are currently excluded from full membership in the ABA family. Although different territories, they are nearby and share many of the same birds.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Sophie had serious doubts about whether she was really a bird. August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Sophie the Scissortail was the most difficult but the most satisfying bird of the season.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 229

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds. They are large, noisy birds of drier areas of East and southern Africa.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 209

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Gazing at Cathy Conheim, a psychotherapist raised to hate cats because they ate birds, and Donna Brooks, a retired physician and sculptor who had never had a cat, but always reached out to heal anyone who was hurting, the kitten eyed them hopefully. Any animal group in the world can use these materials as fundraising tools.

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San Diego Kittens Emotional Cats 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The third argument comes from the Berkeley group. Many birds have no sense of smell, many vultures do (helps to find dead things). The problem with this is that birds are sometimes injured by windmills. One response to this is to make the windmills easier to see, and this apparently works for many birds, but not for vultures.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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