10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2020

No, I haven’t lost track of the calendar — though that’s quickly becoming a more common experience in our new reality — but occasionally life gets in the way of blogging, which is what happened this week. I don’t have a proper post ready for you today, meaning there’s no customary Birds and Booze story and review for now.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. There are countless field guides and other birding books, websites, blogs, tour companies, and podcasts. If anything, birders confront too much information rather than not enough.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2019

Better, though, is finding a way to raise the quality of your bird sightings and enjoyment of them. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Those of us north of the Equator should be enjoying our summer weekends no matter how boring the birding might be. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2018

Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Following me here? We may know these birds well, but should we love them? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2023

As you can tell from this post starting with leaf warblers, the ornithological equivalent of watching paint dry (ok, a bit unfair and not really a good comparison anyway, but hey, write your own blog if you do not like mine). You figure it out yourself.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2016

However, I did learn that the Carolina Wren that raises a family in my yard during warm months decided, perhaps unwisely, to stick around for the holidays; I hope my garage is providing enough cover! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

I raise this perennial issue because I found myself twitching a rare ABA bird this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. One question every self-described birder must grapple with is to twitch or not to twitch. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. It is an eye-opening experience to view a familiar place from a new perspective.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2012

Plumb forgot about blogging, I did. Forgot about my own blog; forgot about my kids (just ask them). I’ve been working on it so long that holding it in my hands was a completely surreal experience. Songbird rehabilitation, unlike the vastly more popular raptor rehab, mostly involves raising orphans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2017

The second way to win a copy of Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White was to share this blog post on Facebook while using the hashtag #GoodBirders. Cliff was raised in the Central Valley of California and discovered a love of birds at 14 when he found a male Vermilion Flycatcher in his yard.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

After returning once more from Nanhui and almost admiring the extent of ongoing destruction there, what better song to start this blog post than with excerpts from the song “Give up” by The Burning Hell? ” I do not know how people wrote blog posts in the days before the internet. ” Very easy to add to this post.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

If you don’t have a blog either give a three-sentence description of your Best Bird of the Year in the comments below or email a description to corey AT 10000birds DOT com by 26 December (you can include an image if you want – just make it a maximum of 600 pixels across). We would like you to join in!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. Sounds a bit like inbreeding to me, but the bird I saw had only one head, so it should be ok. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ). Not this one though.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

In a recent article on birding in USA Today, I was quoted as saying the following : Nate Swick, editor of the ABA’s blog, says some people compare birding to golf, in that everyone keeps their own scores, relying on the honor system. What sets birding apart: No one cheats, “because that would be cheating yourself,” he says.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

When I started blogging in May of 2006 I was very snarky. Snark defined blogging back then. While other people might trade barbs or even turn to fisticuffs, I'd dig deep for the most hurtful thing I could say, in the fewest words, and deliver it without even raising my voice. Not a great quality, but dreadfully effective.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

With June 1 marking the first day of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season, it’s crucial to raise awareness about the importance of planning for pets’ safety before it’s too late. VCA veterinarian Donna J.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

So, for example, the section on the flight patterns of Swainson’s Hawk is illustrated with a drawing of four Swainson’s Hawks flying head-on: wings raised in a dihedral, gliding with wings slightly arched, gliding with wings strongly arched. David also writes Sibley Guides , a blog in which he talks about natural history subjects.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name). The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings. 675 color photos.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Mwahahahahaaaaaaaarrrrhh *cough, cough* *sips at his coffee* Right… I am told candy is a virtue and have thus lured you into this post with a bit of eye candy before unveiling to you my virtuous scheme of turning 10,000 Birds into an all gulls , all the time blog. He first became famous in the bird blog world on Bell Tower Birding.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

and share their expertise , or do big years or write excellent blog posts. The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. There is an important area I haven’t touched on yet—accuracy of visual content.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. Sadly, Gillette's experience is not unique. Fourth, post fair and accurate descriptions of the incident on blogs and encourage readers to boycott the offending business. When breast-feeding is not possible, commercial soy formulas are nutritionally adequate.

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