10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. What are the mechanisms by which this occurs? And what cues do they use to do so? A junco thermoregulating in a snow bank.

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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 ).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

What about the people around the world who are mesmerized by nesting birds, thanks to blogs and nest cams? According to state and federal investigators, they caused over $200,000 worth of damage. What about others who work tirelessly to repopulate and protect wildlife, who live in fear this may happen to their colonies?

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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

JULY 16, 2013

In order to investigate the nature of the cues exploited for oceanic navigation, Cory’s shearwaters, Calonectris borealis, nesting in the Azores were displaced and released in open ocean at about 800 km from their colony, after being subjected to sensory manipulation. The photograph of Cory’s Shearwater is from this blog post.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

“It’s bad enough that these dogs were treated cruelly and raised in horrible conditions,&# said Tim Rickey, the ASPCA Senior Director of Field Investigations and Response. To read the full story, and for ways that you can help, please visit the ASPCA blog. It is believed that the dogs were part of a dog fighting ring.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2012

Birding blog trip reports usually are rousing stories of success against incredible odds, or at the very least spectacular failures that make the reader laugh. Instead we turned back and investigated the rock pools along the coast. The fact is that we seldom write about the more mundane everyday failure of plans and circumstances.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

If you haven't seen the latest discussion about the perils of using AdSense, check out HSUS' Michael Markarian's Blog on Huffington Post is Advertising Fur , and its comments, which include a defense by HSUS. Nothing personal, but I have to blog about this. All the evidence you need is on [link] -- there is no investigation required.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

So, to cut things short, there is sickness all around me, and I have thus decided to have my February post whistle to that tune as well and give an update to the mysterious die-off amongst our Eurasian Blackbirds that occurred around my home turf in Heidelberg last summer – blogged about here.

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Critter News

JUNE 1, 2009

From the ALDF blog. I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and am familiar with Tulare County. That's why this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund strikes a cord with me. Arrested in June 2007, Michael J. Sargeant, William R. Harmon, and Ron C.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

After collecting nearly 70K bird photos, he felt that it was time to share them, so he now has his bird blog in order to do just that! Of course, that certainly piqued my interest, so I closed the store immediately and went to investigate. They’ve been traveling the world ever since! Mom on nest.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) Our primary concern is the advancement of investigative methodologies that lead to effective cures and treatments for human diseases. Here's a group I've never heard of. These scientists are NOT an animal rights group.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

He had gone there to investigate whilst his wife had a work commitment nearby and it was on a promise of a Brown Dipper that we both jumped at the chance! So, you are wondering where the Brown Dipper photo is, well it is over to Mike for that and you can check out what Jason had to say on the Birds Korea Blog about our trip!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

As he turned his head to investigate, a flash of lightening cast its cold white light onto a tall hooded silhouette, veiled in a cloak of darkness and decay. Wanting a wider field of view, he slowly, reluctantly pushed his head through the gap and into the rain. He had come at last to take him, too.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2016

The behavior described in this blog post is observational, not the result of a rigorous, extensive testing. Still, it is the result of long-term, close behavioral study, and points toward areas scientists might want to investigate further.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On the other hand, these exact same photographers – by buying food and asking for accommodation – also make the birds valuable for the local villagers who might otherwise be tempted to trap the birds and sell them. This Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker in particular is a species I would like to get much better photos of.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

Seth Wollney has posted video and audio on his blog. But he never investigated further and the frog remained shrouded in obscurity. The range of the Richmond Ribbiter is still being investigated, but it is likely that only a small fraction of its former range still supports the frogs.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

territory of Puerto Rico, an American territory where researchers have numerous ongoing investigations, including many studies in El Yunque National Forest. He also answered questions for a Q&A on the ABA Blog. However, there are few long-term avian studies in the Caribbean. Much of what exists is from the U.S. Wunderle Jr. ,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2023

Side note: Should anyone involved in discovering new species enjoy reading this blog, please refrain from naming any newly discovered species after me – particularly if these species are of the itchy or vaguely disgusting kind. End of side note). I only saw the female taking a bath – coincidence?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

For some time, I have had a dream: to follow their migration across Africa and to blog about that flyway (sponsors are more than welcome!). How old are they as a species? Madagascar must have separated from Africa long before they evolved. And deep inside I feel it was the Audouin’s.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

In one simple blog post, it is impossible to address even the most basic questions about bird migration. For instance, birds that never before navigated anywhere (because they were just hatched) seem able to know, from magnetic data, that it is necessary to stay around and feed up before a long ocean crossing 1.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Over the course of nearly 15 years, James Paruk of the Biodiversity Research Institute and his colleagues used a combination of methods to investigate winter site fidelity at four locations across North America and found that birds had an 85% chance of returning to a site in subsequent years. Thus, in light of recent marine oil spills (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

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? Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below?

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