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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Estren said that humans should be mindful of their bias for cute animals, so animals that would not be considered cute are also valued in addition to cute animals. See my blog post on Dulan for photos of the latter. Oriental Scops Owls are quite possibly my favorite bird at Nanhui. Bird-shaped cuteness. Estren, a Ph.D.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Not only are there a host of blog posts simply featuring images of Snowy Owls but there are quite a few out there that tackle a whole host of different issues related to Snowy Owls. So, what is going on with Snowy Owls in the birding blog world? Not all interactions between humans and Snowy Owls are bad.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We humans, being the environmental cue-driven, chronologically constrained creatures that we are, look out a frost-rimed window at a wasteland of ice and snow and think, “I cannot WAIT for winter to end.” If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. Don’t ever say you do not learn anything reading this blog). The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Ala Shan Redstart (which I will not call Przevalski’s Redstart, see my juvenile rants about the evil Mr Przevalski in earlier editions of this blog) is a very attractive bird and – as many attractive birds – listed as Near Threatened. Finally, always good to end a blog post with a vulture as a gentle memento mori.

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JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. .” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). How efficient.

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MAY 6, 2016

Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. Three: Why would anyone , no matter what their species, want to become tangled in human hair? million-year-old early human. The list goes on, but the blog must end. Porcupines throw their quills!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

While many human beings felt anguish and rage at the loss, most avifauna appeared unperturbed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Alas, the team named for a bird fell short of the crown in Super Bowl XLIX. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. This species is listed as vulnerable – similar to the Yellow-breasted Buntings, it is trapped on a large scale. Or duck?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

Such an embarrassingly populist title of a blog post should obviously be followed by some dry facts. It is listed as Near Threatened – the HBW cites the usual reasons that are just other ways of saying that humans do not care enough for other species, such as forest loss and degradation in its winter range. not their own).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Such are the risks you take reading a blog written by birders who sometimes go birding together. People like you might start thinking that 10,000 Birds is a reputable blog or something. I’m just glad that human males aren’t expected to outshine human females. I like this shot, taken without flash, much more.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” Our world has changed, and humans have created that change. The difference seems obvious.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The Port Authority’s goal is to strike a balance in humanely controlling bird populations at and around the agency’s airports to safeguard passengers on thousands of aircrafts each day. Here’s the link to the story, which unfortunately can’t be embedded on the blog.

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JUNE 16, 2022

In the world where increasing human population demands ever more space and more arable land, the largest of birds are the first to lose the battle. The National Bird status would make funds and political will for conservation earlier within reach (it is within reach now, but…).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Via John of A DC Birding Blog , I ran across an article about a recent French study that suggests that urban birds may be changing looks in response to selective pressures caused by city life. Still, it’s up to us humans, as architects and builders, to really put thought into how cities can best serve as biological communities.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That every human on the planet ultimately depends on biodiversity and nature for stable weather and climate, food, water and fresh air; that is, life providing and supporting services. Nature’s Best Hope by American entomologist and conservationist, Doug Tallamy, is such a book. The reason why is that it preaches simple truths: 1.

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APRIL 1, 2013

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions. Please consider donating your time and money.

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JULY 18, 2022

I was looking for a title for this third part of a blog post on the birds of Baihualing, and thought that the made-up term “Trequel” would sound fitting. There goes my claim to fame as an inventor of new words. .”

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2019

It’s been almost five years since the last time I blogged about a visit to midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park. Catbirds seem very quick to adapt to the reality of foraging in busy Bryant Park, fearlessly approaching humans while foraging and often eating whatever is being fed to the House Sparrows and Rock Pigeons.

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New York City Birds Sparrows New York 121

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

I know for a fact that a certain birder from the US only joined an esteemed bird blog and blogged like a madman just so he would eventually be invited by makers of fine optics to Austria where he would have a chance at seeing his lifer white-throated dippers. Crazy, I know. Fan service:

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Another blog has some very interesting remarks about the species, which I will just recite directly as they are well-phrased: “The Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo, a conspicuous black bird with a deeply forked tail, often forages in flocks comprised of up to a dozen different species of birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. ” Somebody should have warned the poor kites not to copy everything that humans do.

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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 ). Among some other species of the kingfisher family, this species is a bit of a laughingstock. .” Thanks for pointing it out though.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

I still know my audience - this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who see the term “squirrel” as little more than a synonym for house sparrow, starling, pest and cholera. Stop and stay, don’t move that mouse. But bear with me for a second: this post presents a different context for a different squirrel.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. The Blue-and-white Flycatcher is one of the few birds in which the young male looks both distinctive and rather nice. A juvenile male.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds. As Macdonald herself amply proves, this is classic projection, another case of the human seeing in the nonhuman only what we want to see. To kick this off, I’ve decided to start with the Northern Goshawk.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

It has come to my attention that this blog needs more gulls. Of course this is self-evident as you can never have enough gulls on a bird blog, but this blog here is in an especially dire need of more gull posts for the simple reason that I have a few nice pictures of gulls that would make for a few nice posts.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. One nice little story for my blog post lost. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well. Blue-throated Bee-eaters build nests on sticks sticking out of the water.

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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. I had also not seen any Common Kingfisher for more than 2 months, a situation that is generally being frowned upon by human rights lawyers.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2018

I have written before of the intersection between the human need for entertainment and the bird need to live bird lives and make more birds: it partakes of both the compelling and the ridiculous at the best of times. This has been reported extensively in my favorite neighborhood blog, E.V. And now is the best of times. Cue scandal!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

The now sadly retired 10,000 Birds blog writer Redgannet already covered the New Holland Honeyeater in a post published in 2013. ” If you want to hear about the equivalent among humans as phrased in a country song, please look up the lyrics to “A boy named Sue” Or watch/listen to Johnny Cash sing it here.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Many species build nests of sticks or mud or spit on human-made structures , or in houses we’ve constructed specifically for their use. That’s probably why they’ve endeared themselves to human culture over the centuries. More Tree Swallow Fun – Dawn Fine, Dawn’s Bloggy Blog.

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JULY 7, 2022

So, even though this is a bit much, it seems justification enough to continue this series of blog posts – particularly as I wrote this series under lockdown in Shanghai, with nothing much to do. Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females.

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MARCH 30, 2012

I like Julie Zickefoose’s art , her writing , her blog , her blog posts here on 10,000 Birds , and, of course, I like birds. So a book about birds by Julie Zickefoose, featuring her writing and art, some of which has been featured in different forms on her blog, is guaranteed to be a hit with me. How could it not be?

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JUNE 20, 2022

The Buff-necked Woodpecker (Taman Negara, Malaysia) is classified as Near Threatened, with the usual rationale of “habitat loss” (which sounds nicer than “evil humans destroying anything that does not immediately bring in money).

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