10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The quacker in question was named Ripper, a drake Musk Duck raised at the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near Canberra. Though many bird species are capable of imitating human speech, Ripper made headlines for being the first duck ever known to have done so. Kookaburras don’t cuss, do they?

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2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The HBW even mentions the importance of Ruoergai for this species: “Key sites for migrants include the Ruoergai Plateau (China), which is also an important breeding area” Common Mergansers also seem to use these wetlands as breeding area. Understated elegance is also something the White-browed Tit is rather good at.

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China Mongolia Birds Russia 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2013

The non-profit Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) does not want to see this bullfinch go the way of the dodo, so it is raising funds to maintain the laurisilva or laurel forest this species requires. This bird is also highly endangered, with a known population of just over 1,000 birds.

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Raised Rights Species Birds 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. By the way, if you google “Black Kite”, the very first result you get even before the Wikipedia entry on the bird is a company named Black Kite. No surprise then that the species is listed as Vulnerable.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Despite this, it looks like this has been no barrier to his company getting federal contracts. Block pleaded guilty in February to felony conspiracy to violate the Lacey and Endangered Species Acts by conspiring to smuggle orangutans. If so, what is his role in the company that he founded? Worldwide Primates Inc. from the Dept.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

There seem to be so many that some days the negative stories just seem to pile up in my reader, species lost here, habitat destroyed there, poisoning, illegal persecution, the list can seem endless. Further research revealed two more companies in Britain and several others across Europe all engaged in the same shooting tourism.

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Morocco Turtles Protest Protesting 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Raimat notes with pride that the sight of these storks and their nests is a common one in the Catalan wine country northwest of Barcelona where the winery is found, a circumstance it attributes in part to the sustainable land practices of the company. The post Raimat Saira Albariño (2017) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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2017 Spain California Condor California 114

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Link it (if possible) to balloon company and funeral home sites, which both push balloon releases, so it pops up whenever either is accessed. Raising money? No buying invasive fish from the pet store and tossing them into a pond, where they will grow into behemoths and devour the native species. Need something quick?

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Wildlife Agenda North Carolina Raised 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 220

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Swinhoe’s White-eye was just promoted to the rank of a full species in 2018.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. I am a birder and I can claim that out of Serbia’s total of 350+ bird species, highly urbanised inner city areas of Belgrade hold almost 100 birds, while the outskirts have more than 200 species. The question is, where to see them?

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Birds 2017 Eagles Otters 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

After writing this last sentence, I looked up the species in the HBW and found the sentence “Song poorly documented” in the appropriate section, while with regard to calls, the description is that “call is a two-note raspy nasal ‘ryeeh-reh’”. In New Zealand, the Spotted Dove is an introduced species.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

Like my two previous visits I spent one day that I didn’t have to lead any field trips doing a run through central Florida looking for some of the specialty species of the region. On my previous trips I was successful on each and every species except for the crane. I sat for quite some time, scoping the bird.

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Cattle Florida Bald Eagle Endangered Species 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

We see indirect but very compelling evidence of this when insurance companies, government agencies, and other big players act as though they considered climate change to be real. “The birds” as a whole will be “fine” but many individual species will not. That would be very, very annoying.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 228

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Famous Grouse brand was founded in 1896 in Perth and adopted its now-legendary grouse logo sometime in the early twentieth century, an image first drawn by Phillippa Gloag, the daughter of the company owner. The controversial management of Scotland’s grouse moors for these hunts is discussed in last week’s edition of Birds and Booze.).

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Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 206

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The justification was ridiculously laughable: in order to further study the species. How it raised its chicks? The unique behaviors this mysterious species might exhibit? Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Like Syngenta’s “Talon,” “Jaguar”s active ingredient is brodifacoum, which has killed mountain lions, bobcats, and house cats, plus all of the species mentioned above. Perhaps not surprisingly, the poison companies seem to be hiding behind Teflon shields about the problems with their products.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 265

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

While one farmer grows hops, another raises grain destined for the malthouse. For birders who know the importance of being in just the right habitat in finding a particular species, this isn’t at all an unfamiliar idea. Of course, habitats of all sorts attract wildlife.

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2014 Milwaukee California Industry 113

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I recently got the chance to try out a t-shirt from a company called Rare Tee. Their mission is to raise awareness on threatened and endangered species through their fun and contemporary apparel. I chose the Philippine Tarsier Tee, which is a very fun shirt indeed! are made from 100% post consumer products.

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Lemurs Philippines Primates Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India! The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

My company, Bird Watcher’s Digest , has been lucky enough to host the MBS three times previously, and each time we’ve tried to create an event that is friendly, engaging, and that sends attendees away wanting more. The bird watching is good along Lake Erie in fall, don’t get me wrong.

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Ohio 2011 Birds Collecting 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 148

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Nineteen days later we had racked up an amazing list of 436 species, including some of Africa’s least known birds such as Congo Serpent Eagle , Yellow-footed Honeyguide , Tessmann’s Flycatcher , Yellow-bearded Greenbul , Black-collared Lovebird and much besides. We also knew we had discovered Africa’s next hot birding destination.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

At the same time the field is somewhat lacking in people unconcerned with habitat or wild animals, but if Linda says that they do more damage to permafrost than oil companies dumping 94 thousand gallons of oil laced water on the environment, who am I to argue? How it raised its chicks? Enter the Villain of the Piece (Dramatic Music).

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 163

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

By age 2 she could identify over 10 species of birds in our Johannesburg, South Africa, yard by call alone. Companies like Nikon who, Disclaimer alert -- you will remember sponsor my show, produce some affordable and quality binoculars that the whole family can enjoy… www.youtube.com/watch? And perhaps 20 others by sight.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 279

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

With June 1 marking the first day of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season, it’s crucial to raise awareness about the importance of planning for pets’ safety before it’s too late. Make sure you ask if they have any limitations on the number, size, species or breeds they allow. VCA veterinarian Donna J. Some dog breeds (e.g.

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Pit Bulls Pets Shelters Medical 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The island is also the largest colony of the species anywhere in their range, making it the capital of their tyrannical empire. Says Dawson of the parents “ A company of some hundred adults, fathers perhaps, lay offshore and watched proceedings; but the mothers gave me earnest attention. Second, “Can I get away with it?” (Ans.,

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The new edition adds 11 species, birds such as Zone-tailed Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, and California Condor that are only seen in specific areas of North America. Individual species accounts follow, featuring a description of the hawk’s range, a little of its history in North America, sections on Identification and In Flight.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Open from dawn to dusk 7 days a week, it has an eBird hotspot list of 79 species from 16 submissions. It has an eBird score of 197 species from 25 checklists. It is possible to gain access to the forest during the week in the company of a guide employed by the forest authority. Timings are 08.00 ‘til 17.00. on a weekday.

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Brazil Birds Transported Game 160

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. It’s no coincidence that the two species that pass Hare’s pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond. Ones that came up to the scientists did.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. Consider Victoria's Secret, a company who makes much of its money by exposing women's breasts. Never mind that the bulk of the fat in Starbucks's beverages comes from the milk -- yes, milk ! -- of another species. How sick and twisted is that. Never mind all that.

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