10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers. For some reason, the Mandarin Chinese name of the Scarlet Minivet translates as “Red Mountain Pepper Bird” I do hope a Chinese reader of this blog can explain the origin or meaning of this name.

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Myanmar Sri Lanka Nepal Birds 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2021

A tiny little voice in mind – sounding a bit like my mother’s – tries to remind me that this is a birding blog. In fact, one of my more depressing thoughts of the trip was that there are probably at least 100 times more life-size plastic, stone, and wood pandas in Sichuan than live ones. Well, yes.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Large groups of Little Bustard are not uncommon in winter. The unsponsored suffering I must endure for this blog… Those pastries are amazing, but if you are a bit peckish: at the Casa they serve a good lunch too. Merlin and Short-Eared Owl are almost a “dead cert” in winter.

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Portugal Geese Suffering Farming 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So, while I have my doubts about the complete end of our three-year drought here, the bird blog situation is looking up. But it turns out a Tufted Flycatcher can be even cuter, with just a little hop: Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireos are actually true Vireos, but of a group that is physically larger than the Vireos that reach the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

” a popular group in Facebook where novice birders can post photos of the birds they see and hope others will identify the birds for them. “Wait,” those of you who are more astute might ask, “If you missed the bird then where did the picture at the top of this blog post come from?”

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 13, 2023

Hello, In a bird group I'm in someone complained saying bird food will kill jack rabbits. I've just seen blogs with conflicting information which really isn't trustworthy anyway. I can't find any actual information on this from a proper source. submitted by /u/aibandit [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

Those of us in the United States are celebrating Memorial Day Weekend, normally a time to gather with friends and family for barbecues, beach outings, and other fun group activities. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Gustave Axelson has a nice breakdown of a recent genetic analysis of redpolls on Cornell’s All About Birds Blog : Mason and Taylor looked beyond the plumage into strands of the birds’ DNA in the most extensive look ever at the redpoll genome. It sure looks like it!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2015

Valenzuela Trujillo, started a Facebook group “Aves Del Peru – “Birds of Peru”. Facebook Group: Aves Del Peru. Continued writing for 10000birds, the most popular Bird blog!!!! Along with Víctor Gamarra-Toledo, Diego García Olaechea, Renzo Piana, Juan Díaz, Jorge Tiravanti, Fernando Angulo Pratolongo, and Jaime J.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Why tediously write blog posts when ChatGPT can do it for me? So, I asked ChatGPT: “Please write a 500-word blog post about birding in Shanghai in the style of Kai Pflug for the website 10,000 birds” This is the result: Greetings, fellow birding enthusiasts!

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you were an antique Roman reading this blog post, what you see below would not be a Brown-hooded Kingfisher but a white-bellied one ( albiventris ). The babblers have a sentinel system – individual birds take turns scanning for predators and warning the group.

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South Africa Niger Birds Mice 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” ” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Wikipedia has a paragraph on their interesting mating system : “Home ranges are occupied by breeding groups of 3 or 4 males with 3 or 4 females. The male looks much more interesting, but that does not help this blog post much. I side with the HBW on this issue. ” Sounds like a good topic for a raunchy novel.

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China Birds Sheep Monkeys 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

Howell and colleagues propose a standard sequence of species for field guides based on eight groupings–swimming waterbirds that swim, flying waterbirds, walking waterbirds, upland gamebirds, raptors, miscellaneous larger landbirds, aerial landbirds, and songbirds. I love a field guide that makes usability a priority. Species Accounts.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 231

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2023

Numerous blog posts have been written about the birds I see every day – you can check out the fruits of our rewilding project in a residential area here and the last time we changed backyard here. Regular readers will be well aware that I am a huge fan of sitting at home, sipping coffee, and birding.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2019

Somehow, we managed to flip the script on that by spotting all kinds of birds that the whole group could enjoy. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I spent the weekend with some friends in the Southern Tier, where I’ve always complained about the boring birdlife.

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2019 Birds California Raised 125

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2012

But what we did have was our own blog carnival! The inaugural edition of I and the Bird featured sixteen bird bloggers from around the world, many of whom are still blogging today (right Sharon and Clare ?!) As the web matured, the traditional blog carnival lost its relevance. But all good things must come to an end.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

Corey got into some great shorebirds and hungry muck at Jamaica Bay , where a group of Hudsonian Godwits proved well worth the cost of a boot full of mud. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 Jamaica Birds Groups 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

I would lay odds that we birders geek out to all manner of natural phenomena at a higher rate than almost any other group. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Did you see the supermoon eclipse last night? If you didn’t, you missed something very special. What do you think?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

We are sad to say that two of our beat writers, one of whom joined in the first group and the other of whom joined in the second wave of beat writers, will be leaving 10,000 Birds. We wish both of them the best and strongly encourage you to visit Dan’s original blogging home where his blog posts will still appear, Migrations.

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Cyprus Groups Birds 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2023

I talk about my “best” year birds at my blog. Lovely Cotinga – Once again, the continuing male at Rancho Naturalista was shared with the same group from Buffalo. Despite a fair degree of effort, I also had some unexpected misses. These were some of the other many highlights of this past birding year.

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Costa Rica Buffalo Birds Endangered Species 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. The photographs, many by the author, are credited at the end of the book.

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 207

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are countless field guides and other birding books, websites, blogs, tour companies, and podcasts. Nevertheless, I believe there ought to be a group that represents birders, so I renew my membership every year.). As I wrote in 2019 , the informational shortages that prompted the creation of the ABA no longer exist.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

is now a group blog. Robert Mortensen’s Birding is Fun! Joining up to write on Birding is Fun! are Heidi Ware, Rob Fergus, Pat Bumstead, Bill Schiess, Robert Ripma, Donald Morse Jr.,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2016

Sketches served over the internet – blog posts, if you will – can still function much as they did in Dickens’ day, but between the covers readers want more. Which brings us to the problem of creating a book by assembling a group of blog posts. after a bit of repetition.

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Chicago Birds Cats Adoptable 107

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

Now that we’re later in the season, they are grouping either in family clusters or anticipation of migration. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Either way, they signal fertile flux on the horizon! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2013 United States Birds Family 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above). The Species Accounts follow the ‘modern guide’ format, with illustrations clearly labeled and arranged in species groupings.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 233

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2022

This is how blog posts would ideally start. The Nonggang Babbler shown earlier is a good illustration of the Wikipedia statement that “this group [Old World Babblers] is among those Old World bird families with the highest number of species still being discovered.” “Mother died today. Unfortunately, they rarely do.

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China Birds Asia Vietnam 229

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. These subspecies can be divided into two major clades, the domesticus group and the indicus group, with the indicus group occupying south and parts of central Asia. The House Sparrow is a highly variable species, and no less than 12 subspecies are currently recognized.

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Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. He also blogs at Scienceblogs.com. It has been almost six months since we introduced the Beat Writer concept to 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2013

Maybe the name of this blog should be 10,015 birds. The 15th is grouped in the Bucconidae family and appears similar to a Striolated Puffbird. That would reflect the number of new species discovered in the Amazon rainforest over the past five years or so, according to scientists. Of the bunch, 14 are passerines.

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Bolivia Brazil Peru Birds 193

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Click the links for Episode 1 , Episode 2 , or binge blog the box-set. Today had been especially noisy and they had waited to emerge until the cries died in the distance as the school groups headed towards the exit. Aramides – Episode 3 – The Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail. Aramides saracura.

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Brazil Groups Birds Species 113

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 27, 2012

Now in it’s third year, the program has generated 650 blog posts and 6.5 And you can help simply by writing a blog post before June 30, 2012 (midnight EST). To help, simply write a blog post about Pedigree’s commitment to adoption and finding shelter dogs loving homes. TONS of food to help feed shelter dogs.

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Pedigree Dogs Shelters Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2011

“National Geographic has assumed management of day-to-day operations for Scienceblogs.com, expanding a relationship with Seed Media Group that started when National Geographic took on ad sales responsibility for Scienceblogs.com in 2009.&# That is the entire text of the statement National Geographic put out.

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2009 Science Groups 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. in Antigo, WI: Most of us have our own idea what the phrase “nature takes care of itself” means. My father, a lifelong conservationist, spoke those words with reverence when describing the natural world.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

While many worked on the issue, we here at 10,000 Birds like to believe that Julie Zickefoose’s heartfelt and powerfully written blog post here on 10,000 Birds in October of 2010 had a lot to do with the tabling. The initiative for this hunt comes from a small group of hunters.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

While nations, groups, and individuals all over the world observe time in their own particular ways, the world comes together under the idiosyncratic structure of the Gregorian calendar. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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