10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). I guess it would be wise for Shanghai not to make this species its city bird, as it may not be around for much longer.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 229

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2015

This excerpt comes from a blog of one such Serbian pigeon fancier (the entries had to be translated first): “11 April: first kamikazes flew off and clearly brought a hawk to the ground. APRIL 12: Second flight of a b h and then she hunts. ” Falcons do hunt pigeons, we all know that, but what is a Kamikaze pigeon?

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Switzerland Serbia Feral Falcons 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way!

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2012 Birds Eggs Hunting 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

One – the Takahe is far too cool a species to lose. Two – there is so much distinctness amongst the different forms of the Purple Swamphen that lumping means we may as well lump all the world’s reed warblers into one huge species and be done with it. This is ridiculous for two reasons.

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Spain Hunters Africa Hunting 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2020

In this case it is you, the innocent reader who should thank me for not setting the title of this piece to “Just Like Paradise” Not that I have anything personal against David Lee Roth but this isn’t a blog post about something that can be likened to paradise. The Trinidad Motmot is the only endemic species on the island.

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Trinidad Parrots Species Hunting 175

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2017

This is a bird blog, and my beat is New Zealand, so let me talk about a fish I saw in Australia. Note the beaked mouth, used for hunting invetebrates. In fact, puffers are pretty antisocial, and this species is noted as being that and solitary on the Wikipedia page of the species. Very very close!

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Costa Rica Porcupines Fish New Zealand 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets. These two species are quite similar, with black bodies, pale wing panels, and vary only in their bill color.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some people, apparently unaware the name is taken by a proper European species, call them), and, even worse, no small amount of poetry. And they are always a pleasure to see.

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Africa Feral Ethiopia Tanzania 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

The current header image of my own blog is another Barn Owl, this one a ringed individual I found daylight hunting, and unconcerned by the presence of my car as it hunted from posts presumably feeding young in early summer last year. Above our fireplace is a large painting of a Barn Owl.

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Barn Owls Finland Owls Portugal 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

This post is picture-heavy because I think it is helpful to see everything, but the blog only supports small images, so larger versions (and even more photos) are on Flickr. The refuge is a popular birding location and approximately 230 species have been observed by about 1,400 birders who have submitted nearly 8,000 checklists.

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. A personal encounter with a wild species changes one’s perspective. Lead remains in both fishing and hunting products, with strong lobbies that insist lead poisoning is not real, even as our facilities fill regularly with birds afflicted with it.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The old runway in particular is excellent shorebird habitat, and the open wet woodlands growing up from, for lack of a better word, fields, elsewhere on the property shelter nesting Warbling Vireos , Orchard and Baltimore Orioles , Yellow Warblers , Common Yellowthroats , Tree Swallows , Song Sparrows , and other species.

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New York City New York Birds Homelessness 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2011

By the time this blog post goes live Daisy, Desi, and I will be in the Jet Blue terminal at JFK International Airport waiting to board the plane that will whisk us across the country to the land of temperate rain forests, grunge music, overpriced coffee, and Seahawks. Daisy is excited because she loves travel and visiting new places.

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Seattle Rhinoceros Puffins United States 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Since he retired from being a high school teacher in 2003 he has really focused on getting amazing images and his blog, Feathered Photography , is loaded with them. Ron Dudley is an amazing nature photographer who is based in northern Utah. Seriously, click on through and see some amazing images.)

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Falcons Ducks Utah Ethics 118

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. In any case, our hang-ups with vultures clearly stem from our own issues rather than any inherently bizarre trait of the species themselves. Vultures famously feed on carrion. Dead things. New World Vultures.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

John from A DC Birding Blog , and Patrick from The Hawk Owl’s Nest at Jamaica Bay at 8 AM Saturday morning for some birding. Tree Swallows squabbled and hunted in the air overhead and spent time examining the numerous nest boxes erected for them. Why does this matter? Needless to say, I was a bit groggy when I met up with them.

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New York Honduras Jamaica Geese 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2014

We lose a handful of species, mostly waders flying across the whole Pacific but also a cuckoo flying just half of it. I don’t ski, or hunt, and I sadly haven’t been to the tropical Pacific for a while. But I can’t blog about it too often. A few South Island birds spend the winter on North Island.

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New Zealand Australia Albatross Pigs 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Later, Harry Fuller, President of the Klamath Bird Observatory, led us to an open meadow where we saw a pair of Great Gray Owls hunting in a meadow. Finally, the Similan Islands are perhaps one of the most beautiful islands in the world and form a stunning backdrop to this species, one of the loveliest pigeons in the world.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. The Gray Crowned-Crane is a new addition to the list of the world’s Endangered species, creeping up a category from Vulnerable.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. We watched Purple Gallinules , Pied-billed Grebes , several species of swallow, Great-tailed Grackles , and every other bird that crossed our paths.

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

For starters, Costa’s is a desert species and we were primarily up in the mountains. The hunt was on in earnest. At this point I was cursing the promiscuity of this particular species, it having denied me a full-blooded lifer on at least two occasions. And I wanted the complete set. Now, I knew it was a longshot.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. It often seemed like we had more Flickers come into the center than any other species of bird. The result is the same though — loose Flicker and plenty of fun hunting him down. Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA.

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Woodpeckers Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Seattle 235

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

That for the latter nature went on without them, letting them observe, seems to be proved by the fact that there doesn’t seem to be a big difference in your chance of getting wounded by a small to medium forest mammal if you are hunting them or if you are gathering plant products. Clearly, we need better software.

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Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! What species will be the ten to get me to 289? It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn.

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Jamaica Owls 2010 New York City 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2023

That comes at a price – the HBW describes the species as “stocky and fairly sluggish” and – with a critical undertone – continues to state that the species is “generally less agile in flight than are most flycatchers”. Why the Latin species name is cyaniventer (meaning having a dark blue belly) remains a mystery to me though.

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China Hunting Birds illegal 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. Since the last time it was made fun of in my blog, the Marabu Stork has not gotten any prettier. ” (HBW).

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

The Eastern guide covers 545 species and the Western guide covers 636 species. Each species is depicted in as many or as few photographs as is necessary for identification. I think the quotes do give an idea of the high degree of detail incorporated into each species description.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. Corey: I’m shooting for the numbers of species and number of lists I had in 2008! 12 Responses to “Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of March 2011?&#

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2011 Los Angeles Deer Birds 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. You can see the comments from both sides by scrolling down after the blog’s conclusion.

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Killing Hunting Hunters New York 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 255

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2007

you have a very interesting blog! It is an animated website aimed at educating and inspiring children about endangered species, and all of our characters actually exist in a real-life camp in Tanzania which protects black rhino and wild African hunting dogs.

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Rhinos Tanzania Endangered Species Protection 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Having come back to the blog in whatever form and persistency, the overarching subject of language in birding seemed to be a suitable and deserving theme since bird names were part of my original beat. As a rule of thumb, with quite a number of exceptions, if the species sports feathery ears and is not an eagle-owls, it’s an “Eule“.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 195

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

If you don’t have a blog either give a 100-word description of your Best Bird of the Year in the comments below or email a description to corey AT 10000birds DOT com by 31 December (you can include an image if you want – just make it a maximum of 630 pixels across). My best bird of the year is based on the sighting rather than the species.

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent. “Dull, me?

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. The eight species above still exist. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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Mauritius Djibouti Guam Birds 172