10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2016

They let schoolchildren vote too, which must have been a fun class exercise! Historically, Mountain Bluebirds nested in tree cavities created by woodpeckers, but now more commonly choose artificial nest boxes. During breeding months they are usually found in open areas, from sea level all the way up to 12,500 feet.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Gila Woodpecker. 360 miles of National Park land at the border! My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. 50-mile Border Impact Zone.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2017

Costa’s Hummingbirds, Gila Woodpeckers , and Hooded Orioles are all nectar eaters, so the hummingbird feeder sees steady traffic all day. The majority of the species are based on a water related existence, like herons, egrets, and sandpipers. The few that are not, are usually hanging around the feeders right out side my office door.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A group of dead but still standing trees… a pecker… an Acorn Woodpecker … one more… and a few more… about ten Acorn Woodpeckers!! Acorn Woodpeckers by Niklas Aronsson. The higher up we went, habitats looked more like mountains of Europe than the tropics. I have never seen that many peckers at the same spot.

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Costa Rica Woodpeckers Farming Owls 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Our native bluebirds, woodpeckers, owls, and flycatchers have paid the price of bardophilia ever since. Like others of his class and time, Schieffelin may well have been a Shakespeare fan. There’s an elegance to this story and a captivating weirdness, and we relish the retelling of it even a century and a quarter later.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. The Master Naturalist class gave me a first look at this. almost everyone knows a Bald Eagle and a dove, a woodpecker and a Wild Turkey. In the U.S.,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

Buff-streaked Chats and Cape Rock-Thrushes sing from boulder tops, and family huddles of Ground Woodpeckers emit their rather gull-like shrieks. Another typical Sani Pass bird, the strange Ground Woodpecker, a remnant of an ancient woodpecker lineage, by Adam Riley. A lovely male Cape Rock Thrush by Adam Riley .

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

That is class, my friends. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. Just take a closer look at a LeConte’s Sparrow ‘s ear coverts, with the fine contrast between orange and grey. Or that dapper yellow spot on W hite-throated Sparrows.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. If you or your children face elephant extinction during your lifetime, do not accuse solely the rise of the middle classes in the Far East, fueling a new demand for ivory.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

And second , when a man marries, it is recommended that he take a wife from his own class, one who looks just like him. Given that the Great Spotted Woodpecker can also be seen in Shanghai, it was hardly necessary to pursue it in Inner Mongolia at -20 degrees Celsius. This applies even more so to the Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2020

The species are illustrated in 154 plates, showing the local subspecies, plumage variation between sexes, seasons and age classes, as well as the upper side and underside of birds in flight. There’s an issue with spotted woodpeckers: the comparative sizes are wrong. Common, scientific and Mongolian names are given for each species.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

Unfortunately, due to the fog in the morning I photographed this Bay Woodpecker , the flame color indicated in the Latin species name pyrrhotis was not that visible. As we all know, among the animal classes, mammals are the ones responsible for the largest number of wars. Animal Class. American Civil War? World War 1?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

World-class surfing, fishing and birding may not seem to go together but in Riviera Nayarit the three pastimes are what draws throngs of visitors every year. Some of the more common endemics and specialty species include Golden-cheeked Woodpecker, Yellow-winged Cacique and Sinaloa Wren.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Long-tailed Pipit is classed as a Winter Endemic and its story is a fascinating one. My final bird for this post is another of my favorites, the Ground Woodpecker. This is the largest of South Africa’s woodpeckers, and in appearance and behavior it is completely different to other members of its family.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A young couple caring for an injured Common Nighthawk; a college professor insistently taking a class of New York State undergraduates to see a Lucifer’s Hummingbird in an isolated part of Arizona; an ornithologist venturing into a terribly dangerous part of Mexico to find the probably extinct Imperial Woodpecker; a volunteer steward tracking (..)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

They had two world-class datasets on which to draw the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, and the North American Breeding Bird Survey. White-headed Woodpecker. The list of most-threatened birds continues; all of these birds could lose more than 99 percent of their current range in at least one season by 2080: Baird’s Sparrow.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Age-dictated color changes are found in a wide variety of birds including raptors, woodpeckers, grebes, thrushes, ducks, gulls, loons and vireos. It could function as a “badge”, distinguishing between different age classes. For example, a first cycle Western Gull has dark brown, almost black, eyes.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The traditional definition (Stamper tells us that lexicographers call this a “sense”) of the noun “bird” (“any of a class (Aves) of warm-blooded vertebrates distinguished by having the body more or less completely covered with feathers and the forelimbs modified as wings”), comes first.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Sepilok is a good place to see a number of woodpecker species. As among consultants, it is a cardinal rule to always follow some kind of ordering principle, here are five Sepilok woodpeckers in order of size, starting from the smallest one. Makes them sort of the renters of the woodpecker world rather than homeowners.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Arguably the high point of my digiscoping career was in 2012, when I won the digiscoping class in the British Birds Bird Photographer of the Year awards. I was always pretty quick at pointing the scope at my quarry, and I became equally speedy at taking my photographs.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Golden-tailed Woodpecker shares something with the German flag – it is called golden-tailed even though to me the color of its tail is yellow, not golden. No doubt the woodpecker has similar considerations. I have to admit that I also tend to feel a bit itchy after a long flight in economy class.

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