10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

I was especially pleased that a Virginia Rail (pictured above) was hanging out by a puddle right at the edge of the road when I arrived. We’re sending a team to collect his recently revoked birder card posthaste. There’s always good birds to be found there. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Virginia Birds Collecting Dogs 228

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

And this remnant lake is very, very birdy: The dominant birds, besides those American White Pelicans seen at the right, were Northern Shovelers — hundreds of them. I normally see Ruddy Ducks on the lake’s deepest waters, and as I said, there are no deep waters in the Lake Cuitzeo right now.

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Ducks Pelicans Collecting Species 225

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

All were started from collected seeds. And the rootballs are at just the right point. The melon seedling on the upper right is an inevitable product of using homemade compost.). But last year I was able to double my oak population, with three new gathered-acorn seedlings, so perhaps these fungi are taking hold on our lot.

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Mexico Collecting ALA Sparrows 243

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

These prescriptions are very important to Tuttle-Adams, who takes the perhaps radical approach that a bird’s welfare supersedes a birder’s ‘right’ to take a photograph. A birder or rehabber looking for a comprehensive collection should consider having both books in their collection.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 270

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

While no one questions the religious sincerity of Northern Arapaho tribal members, spokesmen for some conservation and animal rights groups question why the tribe can't meet its religious needs without killing wild eagles. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And birders spend a lot of their time watching the tree-crowns and, in the right place, spotting many other tree-dwellers. cm Pages 173 ISBN 978-84-16728-48-0 Published in May 2021 Published by Lynx Edicions – Lynx Illustrated Checklists Collection. Christoph Schwitzer & Wes Sechrest Weight 0.4 kg Dimensions 14 × 22.8

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 253

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

” Wow, right? Actually, Terra sounds like a device that can integrate a wide array of sensors to provide rich environmental data while automating wildlife identification and data collection. But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter? The post What is the Terra Project? appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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North America Science America Europe 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. And similarly with 99 other birds — raptors, songbirds, ducks, and otherwise.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

Right now, The Warbler Brewery’s beers are only available for sale at their taproom. Their offerings include two IPAs, both in the popular New England style: Dissimulation IPA and Wolfjaw Double IPA. Their namesake beer is an American pale ale named Warbler Ale.

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New York Boston 2019 Collecting 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit. I’m sure it must have been on my list of suggested reading for my tour (I just checked my files, and yes, it was).

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 262

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From the border check station, you can turn to the right and go to the “Highest Bar in Africa” or continue into the unknown. 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 235

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

Among the 23,000 vertebrate specimens collected by the six-year expedition were many birds, but on returning to New York two years later, it became clear that none of their skins sported a feather remotely like the one Chapin had acquired. “But Curious as to the plume’s origins, the American immediately asked if he could keep it.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2022

There are also quite a few orange traffic cones to collect at some stage, which have floated away from the highway. This goanna below is quietly hanging out beside the highway and in the background on the right you can observe a rather vocal Red-backed Fairywren. One solution is to literally hang out in a tree. Goanna in a tree.

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2013 Collecting Hunting Species 221

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The idea was to see how many birds could be collectively identified by folks anywhere and everywhere. Team Northwest , a group of birders and guides based in Guanacaste and the Fortuna area, collectively found more than 400 species including several key additions for the day. Global Big Day (GBD).

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Costa Rica Species West Virginia New York 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2019

The Yellowthroat group is an odd collection of bird species. The Bahama Yellowthroat lives, well, on a collection of Bahaman islands. I live right in the middle of this species’ range, and have seen it ten times so far. Both are marsh-dwelling species. See the difference? Neither do I!

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Mexico Bahamas South America Panama 199

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. I came with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 248

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Indigenous community of El Remanso, right underneath the imposing monoliths of Cerros de Mavecure. Left to right: my guide Edson Moroni and the local shop keeper Daniel Luis.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Without pointing to specifics, it is safe to say that the world seems pretty scary right now, particularly for those of us concerned with protecting nature and endangered animals and ecosystems. Enjoy this festive weekend, but be ready, if and when your time comes, to allay our collective fears by supporting wise environmental stewardship.

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2016 Collecting Birds Protection 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Last Monday, I collected Jamaican Nettletree seeds. Look to the right… A bit more to the center… There, just right. Seeds sprout, cuttings root, and apparently moribund plants suddenly produce surprising growth spurts. I feel brilliant!

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Owls Investigation Mexico Collecting 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For my selfish purposes of collecting threes, I’m not including this mystery here. Over the course of the next decade, they have been fairly regular visitors to a wetland in the south of Trinidad and are one of the easier nocturnal species to observe during the right time of year.

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Trinidad Bats Falcons Groups 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Magpie-larks collect “mud” from our garden where the water we provide for the birds overflows. Their parents really do have plenty of hunting to do, but having got them to this stage of development they must be doing something right! They build their nests out of mud. Magpie-lark nest. Juvenile Brown Goshawks.

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Breeding Australia Family Collecting 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. Those are Dunlins on the right and in the middle; longer bills, darker breast, and much larger than the much more common Western Sandpiper on the left. Most winter in the U.S. and Canada).

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Blackbirds Shelters Ducks Mexico 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. And interspersed with these artworks is one of the more curious digressions in the book, the life of William Brunsdon Yapp, a 20th-century British ornithologist who studied medieval iconography in retirement.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 234

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In fact, Juan Gundlach collected a number of birds from the a flock that regularly came to feed in a group of trees at the town of Zarabanda just outside the modern day boundaries of Cienaga de Zapata National Park. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 252

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

There is a thing parents know very well – how important it is to choose the right name for a child. E.g. one Croat birder I know, Vedran – I never met a guy so well described by his own name, which loosely translated as “joyful”. Or Fleming – he has chosen “Bond”. I take my hat off. Winkler, Shawn M. Billerman, and Irby J.

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Family Birds South America Breeding 297

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book. Her first birding book, When Birds are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers (2020), is a smartly curated collection of essays from new and experienced writers.

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

And in my customary environmentally friendly approach to recycling bird photos, I have collected some of them in this post. Raptors are not really the main attraction of Nanhui for birders – and given how things develop here recently, soon there will be no attractions left anyway. Well, the female is attractive, too.

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Falcons Japan China South Africa 253

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. The following photo sequence depicts a territorial Band-tailed Gull “collecting its protection service fee” from a Red-legged Cormorant nesting within the territory the gull protects on the Palomino Islands in front of Lima-Peru.

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 199

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. Note the blackish area around the eyes – apparently, the size of the mask is also an indicator of the sex, with the male having a bigger mask, but to me, the bird in my photo seems to fall right between the two illustrations provided in the HBW.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 235

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Los Angeles 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I drove out a bit late because of an almost-flat tire that needed attention, and then managed to drive right past the reservoir without seeing it. Would Las Mesas, the closest to Morelia of these sites, join their ranks as a prime birding spot? Not the most auspicious start to my day!

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2020 Birds South America Reptiles 280

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But then, the Black-naped Monarch has never claimed to reign by divine right, nor has it ever been responsible for large-scale wars, slavery, colonialism, etc. Why anyone would examine a specimen collected in 1888 for mummified chewing lice is a mystery to me, but so is the appeal of Donald Trump. the Black-naped Monarch should not.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 222

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

The chick is just to the right of the adult bird in the photo below in the shade. The Pied Oystercatchers moved around the vegetation and collected food for the chick. We sat well back for some time and watched the area until we worked out where the Pied Oystercatcher chick was being hidden. Pied Oystercatcher and chick.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Fox 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

This is a rather scattershot collection of aspirations, some of which are addressed by other, larger non-profits ( e.g. , conservation and education, the focus of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and American Bird Conservancy ). Nevertheless, some criteria will obviously be important.

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2019 Legislation 2017 2018 292

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

One of the issues along the river is rubbish and it is a tidal river, so rubbish can be collected using a barge system. Not only is it a useful tool for collecting rubbish, but it makes for a perfect roost for many birds along the river as in the pictures above and below. The river is brown due to silt, but it does not deter the birds.

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Ducks Collecting Sparrows Australia 157