10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Bird races, as anyone who’s competed in one knows, can be big fun. The addition of a competitive component adds a thrilling edge of urgency to the normally relaxed act of chasing birds. Even sitting around watching birds can be charged with adrenaline when team pride is on the line. Yee-haw!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2016

Shaded dark, even when focused – out of focus, like watching some early Charlie Chaplin movie and trying to ID the birds flittering in the background. One bird was flying towards us and, just prior to avoiding us, only slightly raised its head (showing us its yellow throat) before picking up an insect in mid-air. And the view?

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Birds Serbia Eagles Fish 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

The owls return the favor by providing the students and teachers with a rare glimpse into the natural history of these fascinating birds. And then a potentially fatal turn of events took place at the school – a construction and expansion project was started that would use the space where the owls had burrowed.

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Owls Florida Raised Coyotes 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2017

FRIM (Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia) is open to the public who come to bathe in waterfalls, cycle, walk, picnic and attend educational events, but most of this takes part in a small section close to the entrance. The best birding of the day was found along the much quieter roads in the south east section.

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Eagles Malaysia Tail Banding Reptiles 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

My 8-year old daughter got interested in birds from a VERY early stage. By age 2 she could identify over 10 species of birds in our Johannesburg, South Africa, yard by call alone. So I guess for some people birding skills come naturally but, for others, birding skills need to be learnt. And perhaps 20 others by sight.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

When climate changes, causing habitats to move, birds can get up and fly away to a new habitat, so really, they’ll be fine. I’ve been working on climate change lately (not causing it, but reading and writing about it) and birds have come up in a few places. Similar things happen to both fish and birds. Keep watching.

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2017

We had high hopes for our first morning’s birding with our main goals being the two hummingbirds that are most easily found in the east, the Antillean Crested Hummingbird and the Green-throated Carib. In the event, neither of us was correct as a Puerto Rican Flycatcher ended up being the first endemic to cross our field of view.

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Puerto Rico Birds Woodpeckers 2017 108

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

Now, some scientists have started expressing concerns about the North American population of the birds , which is concentrated along the coasts of Maine and Canada. There seems to be an unfortunate series of events, as Lemony Snicket would put it , leading to the threat, with climate change as the ultimate culprit.

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Puffins Seals Canada Breeding 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Ideally, we like to release birds where they came from (as long as it’s not a dangerous area), and with as little fanfare as possible. You open the door, and your fit, strong bird flaps once and plummets to the ground, overcome by the stress of the car ride. Bird people understand this. Regular civilians, maybe not so much.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Killing 2012 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

So they are raising money to buy more. We at 10,000 Birds figured that you, our readers, are getting so much enjoyment out of the Snowy Owls that you would be more than willing to pitch in some money. How about it, 10,000 Birds reader? That is not cheap.

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Owls Research Science Collecting 219

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Buster is the mascot for Strut Your Mutt , an amazing event where dog lovers come together to raise money for Best Friends. But what we love most about Best Friends is that they don’t just help dogs, they help birds, cats, horses, and more! Most recently they had their special event honoring pets who have passed.

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Homelessness Adoptable Horses Pets 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

There are plenty of birds along the edge of the highway still and also on the highway. Black-winged Stilt near and on the highway There are still over forty species of birds to be found along the highway across Roebuck Plains, but the tall vegetation can be problematic. They can easily disappear into the long vegetation, though.

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Pelicans Australia Fish 2019 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Over the past few months there have been a lot of birds breeding around Broome with the excellent rain events that we have been having and the vegetation is at long last revived. The grass is green, the wildflowers are spectacular and now we have numerous species of dragonfly to enjoy as the season starts to change.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

His friend recorded the event. I once raised 5 orphaned blue jays, released them, and was happily watching them fly around my house one afternoon when a Cooper’s Hawk blazed through, grabbed one, and disappeared. The video begins with the cadet shooing a mouse out of a plastic container, saying, “C’mon, Whiskers! You’re free!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Coyotes Wounded Rabbits 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

I recently asked ChatGPT some questions about the best birding locations in the United States and the results were decidedly mixed. Here are the queries and the ChatGPT responses are below: What is birding? What is a “nemesis bird” in birding? What is a “big year” in birding?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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Hunting France Falcons Horses 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

On April 16, 2021, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), had a “ Community Congress on English Bird Names ” to discuss whether certain bird names should be changed and, if so, how quickly. As I have previously written about this topic , I virtually “attended” the event.

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Birds Russia Hawaii Woodpeckers 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

So we have a brown, slender-billed bird in font of us which we now know is a brown warbler, either of the genus Acrocephalus or Locustella. This is a Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) and not a brown bird. This group is so incredibly easy that even I have decided to elaborate on their identification in this post. What is next?

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Europe Kazakhstan Sparrows Abandon 225

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 211

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. This is also present in birds & mammals, however it is not fully present in fish & amphibians. " We're more willing to forgive acts of animal abuse against animals like fish & amphibians, compared to mammals & birds.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

This week, a new study was published about Sparrows in Nebraska, that in some ways resembles the study by Bumpus and may well be a better example of Natural Selection in birds. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Yes, the warbler formerly known as Dendroica kirtlandii , now Setophaga kirtlandii , is one of those birds that make birders’ hearts pulse quicker and their legs churn faster. Look what happened when the bird made the first of three appearances at the Biggest Week in American Birding at Magee Marsh! photo by Lynn C.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. One of the central papers, Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds (Jarvis et al. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? Some are incredibly rare and hard to find.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Counting the Birds I was in my teens when I undertook my first bird-survey: it was field work for the British Trust for Ornithology’s The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. Published in 1976, The Atlas was, I believe, the very first work of its kind.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There are two thoroughly enjoyable events for bird watchers coming up in the next couple of months. The Midwest Birding Symposium is happening in just about two weeks in beautiful Lakeside, Ohio. The bird watching is good along Lake Erie in fall, don’t get me wrong. One of them requires a bit of travel.

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Ohio 2011 Birds Collecting 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

What do the eight birds above have in common? Eight more birds. What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world.

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Mauritius Djibouti Guam Birds 172

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. Like most grand adventures, this one began with a choice.

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San Diego Kittens Emotional Cats 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

For those who happen to be faithful followers of posts about birding in Costa Rica, no, you haven’t accidentally browsed to the wrong place. Today, I am writing about another very birdy place and an event that I was very fortunate to have experienced, the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

The sharp strings are a menace to passing birds – especially kites and other raptors – who cannot see them and sometimes suffer grievous, if not fatal, wounds. The first injured bird Nadeem and Mohammad ever found was a Black Kite.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2015

The event is spearheaded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and has as goal to raise money for bird conservation and to tally 4000 of the world’s birds in a single day. The idea is to go birding wherever you are, for any length of time, on May 9 and enter your lists in eBird. Can the U.S.,

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Peru 2015 Raised Species 163

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Still, like many of the events of the war, its worth putting them in their proper historical context. They were not isolated events, they were in fact two data points among hundreds. Pretty much every rock big enough to sustain land birds has been reached by rails and then colonised by rails. And get angry and take action.

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Hawaii Mammals Guam Fiji 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It flies on.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

Bird “instrumental music&# is bird song. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Thus, the cooing sound of a pigeon is not a bird song.

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Zebras Birds Humane Raised 261

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. … Birding Extinction Week Great Auk' Good, I say.

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California Condor United States Guam Whales 206

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. We’ve lost perhaps 200 birds that we know of since 1500. Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species. A Remembrance of Birds Past: The Lost Bird Project.

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