10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. Published in 1966, it is a collection of brief profiles and magnificent portraits of 56 of the region’s most characteristic birds. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist. It caught my full attention and entranced me.

Birds 205

Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. Baicich and Colin J.

Eggs 218

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 218

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Barnacles are attractive geese that have long been popular in wildfowl collections According to the Atlas , the combined population for the Russian, Baltic, Netherlands population is around 770,000 individuals, which is an awful lot of geese. A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find).

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Netherlands Geese Birds Denmark 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2023

If you are more interested in feather mites than in birds, a paper describing two new species of pteronyssid feather mite species (one of which was collected from Collared Finchbills) may be more attractive to you than this post, despite the lack of photos. So, I guess maybe Shanghai is just too cold for it in winter.

Vegan 168

Vegan Cats Animal Friendly Eggs 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 213

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.

Falcons 198

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 198

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Next is the already noted “Illustrated Glossary” is a unique collection of photographs and drawings illustrating scientific terms for parts of the mouth and beak; bones of the leg, feet, and wings; feather tracts; feather development; as well as the standard bird topography diagrams.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2019

We continue to have egg predation at many of the nest sites and chick loss, but one pair of Pied Oystercatchers is being successful in raising two chicks so far. There has never been two eggs hatch and two chicks survive for more than about ten days since we started to keep an eye on them in 2000.

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Eggs 2000 Family Breeding 127

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 197

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Rock Hyrax Stuart provided a wonderful field lunch alongside a stream with samosas, a field-standard hard-boiled egg, and other snacks. We did not make too many other stops other than to head back to the “Highest Bar in Africa” for a celebratory beer and I was able to add to my foreign currency collection with a $20 Lesotho Loti.

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Lesotho Sheep South Africa Africa 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2019

Last year not a single chick survived and there is much predation of both eggs and young birds along the length of beach. The first pair of Pied Oystercatchers to lay eggs this year was the same as last year. The first egg laid is not necessarily the first to hatch and often there is a day in between when they hatch.

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2019 Eggs Camels Family 122

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. The initial decline in the Andean Flamingo’s population appears to have started as early as the mid 20th Century.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. Here are the picks of the 10,000 Birds reviewing team (Tristan, Donna, Dragan, Mike, Corey, Carrie, and Mark) for 2021 bird books and other things with high quality, uniqueness, and giftability. *

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 238

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is listed as vulnerable, though its rather rigorous treatment of the second, smaller chick in a clutch (it starves to death within 1 week, rarely a month, according to the HBW) offers the potential for collecting second-hatched chicks for reintroduction programs. They are not much into flying. Is it boredom or depression, or both?

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South Africa Africa China Seals 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Indeed, most cuckoo eggs are accepted by the babax ( source ), although a small proportion of hosts reject cuckoo eggs and often boast about this capability when having a few too many drinks. Some Chinese Babax waste part of their lives feeding chicks of Large Hawk Cuckoos, which parasitize the babax species.

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Hamburgers Birds Science China 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. In the all too brief introduction to the book, they state, “This book aims to shed light on the family lives of birds, a topic that has captured our collective imagination and enriched our language despite being shrouded in mystery.”. Egg biology, from Part I. Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). The Wikipedia entry for Pierre Médard Diard ( 1794 – 1863), a French naturalist and explorer, sounds like he was cheated by Sir Raffles.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 201

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

The Red List category is justified as follows: “This poorly known species qualifies as Critically Endangered because it is estimated to have a tiny population, which is in decline owing to egg-collection, disturbance and the loss of coastal wetlands” So it was quite exciting to see 3 of them at Nanhui, Shanghai – two adults and one (..)

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2000 Eggs Collecting Breeding 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.

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Penguins Argentina France Stray 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. Interestingly, only about half of the helpers are related to the breeding pair … … and only the ones not related to the pair gained some parentage, either by sneaking in some sex with the breeding female or by adding an egg.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2016

If we had been predators, their actions would have (hopefully) led us away from the nest, keeping their eggs and chicks safe. Next to it lay an egg, the baby inside fervently pecking and tapping until it too could break the shell and emerge onto the dunes. While not as adorable as chicks, I still love to see bird eggs!

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Eggs Long Beach Abandon Abandoning 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In most every one of his books (or articles, like those that were collected in his last book, A Naturalist At Large ) he poses a question about the natural world — often a question, like the central one in White Feathers, that no one else has thought much about — and then solves it. I saw it because I looked up.”

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Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

The two have built up a devoted following through years of triumph – like last season, when they fledged three young – and tragedy – like the season before, when their eggs didn’t even hatch. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood.

Montana 184

Montana Eggs Horses Morals 184

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

The Wryneck is full of stunning photos of Wrynecks–anting, flying, nesting, writhing, being ringed, their habitat areas, nests, eggs, and closeups of museum specimens. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman. Many photographic images are full or half-page, allowing us to enjoy the elegance or weirdness of the image. Merriam-Webster, [link].

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 223

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

We had a nice collection of birds of prey for the day. In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. But this photo is just good enough to show a total lack of white on the bird’s rump, confirming that it, and all its companions, were Tree Swallows rather than Violet-green Swallows.

Falcons 176

Falcons Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Isla Rasa was declared a sanctuary in 1964, and egg-collecting and disturbance during the breeding season are discouraged. Heermann’s Gulls form large breeding colonies on arid islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico, from March through July.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco North America Seals Sanctuary 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The use of eBird data is interesting and it shows just how valuable the collected reports of birders can be in figuring out the status and distribution of species. Just as interesting is the nugget that Pin-tailed Whydah , an introduced species itself, has adapted to using Nutmeg Mannikins as a host for its eggs.

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California Los Angeles 2013 Eggs 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The text is divided, not taxonomically or chronologically, but with a weirdly visual bent – one section is devoted to what birders do, while roughly twice as many pages go to matters like decorating with a bird theme or collecting bird memorabilia and art. As I read, I realized that I had encountered books very much like this before.

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Collecting Science Hunters Parrots 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

Eggs 163

Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2011

They usually have their first eggs in place by the first week in July each year and they sit on them for 28 days. The first egg is laid followed by the second the next day and then they sit fairly continuously despite the warm day time temperature. On rare occasions we have had three eggs in a nest, but this is unusual in this area.

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Breeding Feral Cats Eggs Feral 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2012

Corey, who undoubtedly spent his entire weekend in the field just to trump me, includes not just Willow but the entire suite of downstate New York breeding flycatchers – all eight of them – as his collective Best Bird of the Weekend. Admire the modest scrape and speckled eggs of the Killdeer a.

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2012 New York Fish Birds 158

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Indochinese Green Magpie is one of four species of green magpie (it used to be only three, but one of the subspecies collected enough frequent flier miles to get an upgrade to full species). Altruism, fortunately not of the Sam Bankman-Fried variety, though probably not very effective either.

China 216

China Birds Pythons Eagles 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

In Grey-backed Shrikes (at least those breeding on the Tibetan plateau), the eggs laid during one breeding attempt get larger with time – presumably an attempt to at least partly overcome the disadvantages the last chick faces ( source ). malayana had been collected. hardwickii and C.

Burma 180

Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. On the mainland they face predation from domestic cats, dogs, genets, mongoose and Cape Gulls which steal their chicks and eggs.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 179