10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
'One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 11, 2014
'Hopefully you will never need to know how to perform CPR on your dog or cat, but it is important to know how should the worst happen. Pet choking and cpr [Infographic] by the team at Kurgo. The post Pet Choking and CPR Infographic appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 20, 2014
'To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. Despite the claims made in the letter, circuses like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2014
'This is a story of how an evil corporation was … I’d like to say “was brought to its knees,” but will settle for “was forced to endure a setback.”. Last week the poison manufacturer Reckitt-Benckiser announced it would pull 12 of the most toxic forms of D-Con, its popular rodenticide, from store shelves. This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2014
'Nature lovers, rejoice! The National Park Service is finally going to remove the feral cat colony from Plumb Beach, part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. Signs like the one above went up late last week. Seeing as Plumb Beach is a known stopover area for large numbers of shorebirds, a known breeding area for a variety of saltmarsh species, including Clapper Rails , and habitat for a wide variety of mammals, reptiles, insects, and other bird species, this is a long overdue move.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
'Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. : Come to Peru, they said. There’s this World Birding Rally that’s going to blast across 1,500 kilometers of northern Peru.
Animal Rights Zone brings together the best content for animal advocates and activists from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2014
'It is mid-day of the mid-summer day in the Balkans. And it is hot. My wheels are rolling down the dirt track in the Carska Bara Ramsar site, through the meadows and arable fields interspersed with depressions filled with water and overgrown with reeds. A small flock of European Bee-eaters is in flight around their nesting hillock and on the hillock – stands a pair of adult White-tailed Eagles !
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2014
'It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps fortunately tend to go together in birds, evolved more than once. The original story is that emus and ostriches and moas and such evolved as a separate group of birds from all the other birds, from the basal birdish thing that gave rise to all the living birds, and became a large land bird.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
'As of this post, our Facebook page is only 42 “likes” away from reaching 10,000! We’re pretty excited by this news as it means that, well, people like us. We’ve never spent a thing on getting more attention on Facebook which means that our fans find us organically. So, if you have already liked us on Facebook, thanks! We appreciate it a great deal and we hope you appreciate the extra content that we share over there as well as the links to the posts here on the blog.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2014
'I thought I would talk about our team’s performance in the World Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru and the side attractions along the route. Then, I saw Hugh Powell’s superb post. I thought of maybe topping Hugh’s “ Be Careful What You Wish For: A Punter’s Guide To The World Birding Rally ” post, but I quickly realize, there is no way I could even come close to match the depth and writing quality of his post.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2014
'Yellow-throated Warblers are a rarity in New York State and as I mentioned earlier this year they are usually considered an “overshoot,” that is, a bird that usually breeds further south that occasionally flies past its breeding grounds during migration before realizing what it has done and turning around to go back to where it belongs.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2014
'Keep your eyes to the skies for hunting falcons ! Is it that time already, when a young birder’s fancy turns to, um, non-birds ? Indeed, those long hot stretches between migratory periods can try a bird watcher’s soul as surely as a cold, dark, birdless winter. Fortunately, once you get tired of your local residents, you can expand your interest in nature towards everything else that blooms and bustles in summer.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2014
'Can the best bird of your weekend be one you didn’t see? Obviously, not seeing a desired bird can place the offender in the Worst Bird of the Weekend category. We’ve all been there, right? But search your soul… could you possibly take pleasure in a special bird like the tasty vagrant that popped up in the most unlikely place or maybe one far from home that a friend just added to the life list?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2014
'These days I am busy with something called the “avitourism product“ of Belgrade, Serbia. Yes there are birding sites and there are birds – but hardly much info about them (beside Fat Birder ). When discussing this topic for local media, I often say that because of their White-tailed Eagles , the Scottish island of Mull makes 2 million pounds per year from birders alone.
Advertisement
Navigated 360° tours, like YourVRTours, advance pipelines by engaging clients further along the sales funnel. These immersive experiences provide comprehensive property insights, increasing buyer intent and readiness. By embracing navigated tours, agents can optimize property exposure, better qualify leads, and streamline the sales process. Stay ahead in the ever-evolving real estate landscape with innovative technology that elevates buyer journeys and progresses pipelines more effectively.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2014
'The solstice serves as a sunny reminder of the mutable nature of our days. Some of us enjoyed our year’s longest stretch of daylight this weekend, while others endured their longest night. To paraphrase an insightful innuendo, it’s not the length of the day but how you spend it. I hope you spent your solstice well. I enjoyed all manner of early summer entertainment and look to the Barn Swallow s that bombed us as we picked strawberries and soared daringly along the lakeshore as my B
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
'If you are a young birder, or have helped mentor one, Leica Sport Optics wants to reward your enthusiasm. The company is holding an essay contest aimed at drumming up interest in youth birding. All the details are here , and the deadline is June 30th , 2014. To sum up, adults (age 22 or older as of June 30) should write a short essay describing a “memorable birding experience while mentoring one or more young birders.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2014
'On Wednesday morning, 18 June, I had some time for birding because my job is such that sometimes I have to work a later shift. No one heard any complaints from me about this, as I was out at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with the rising sun. By 8:00 AM I had finished up my walk around Jamaica Bay and decided to head out to the Rockaways to check out a few birding spots out there.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2014
'The Impala is an slim, elegant antelope which is seen over most of sub-Saharan Africa, wherever there are a few Acacia bushes or some grass. Young males are turned out of the maternal herds once they reach an age at which they begin to compete with the dominant male. They form bachelor herds where they test their strength against their peers, finding their natural place in the hierarchy.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2014
'While we are away in the Southern Highlands trying to keep warm and enjoying the bird species of that area I will share with you some of our local Broome birds. The most common Honeyeater that visits our garden is the Brown Honeyeater and it visits from before dawn until dusk. We have managed to attract this species quite easily by planting a lot of native flowering plants in our garden and they are also attracted by the constant supply of fresh water.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2014
'There was a time when albatross taxonomy was quite simple. Actually, I lie, albatross taxonomy has always been a mess, but there was a period of relative calm, from the sixties to the ninties, when there were about 12 species in two genera. Then taxonomists started using DNA to look at albatrosses, and everyone knows nothing good comes from that. Suddenly there were lots of species, and most confusingly of all, never the same number or types in each book or resource you looked at.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2014
'Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. I am a self-proclaimed psittacophile. For one, they are remarkably diverse with a little over 380 species spread over every continent except Europe (only introduced) and Antarctica. Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2014
'Keeps your eyes to the skies. Maybe you’ll see albatrosses ! Many civilized nations choose the third weekend in June to honor fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. In response, many fathers elect to celebrate their paternity by ditching their progeny. Is this civilized behavior? I wouldn’t go that far but will point out that you’ll see a lot more birds if you leave the kids at home!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2014
'After our first leg of this birding trip we took a couple of days to visit Buenos Aires and to soak-in some of the local culture; BA is a beautiful city and our stay was very memorable. Costanera Sur was an old riverside resort which was restored to and Ecological Reserve back in the 1970. Today it is a protected reserve in the middle of the city just east of Puerto Madero which also was an old port build in the late 1800s and is now restored into a 21 st century waterfront project.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2014
'Yes, that’s right. I’ve got bad news for you, provided you do or have or will live and bird and list in North America. But sit down first. Before we turn our attention to your various bird lists, let me tell you a story about some wheatears of the genus Oenanthe that are found in Kazakhstan’s Mangghystau province. A variety of wheatears occur there, in fact, such as the beautiful Finsch’s Wheatear.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2014
'Greg Lawrence is an ace New York birder who is one of the lucky (?) few who has birded with both Mike and Corey. He is a former President of the New York State Young Birders Club and a guy you want with you if you are trying to identify a rarity. We are lucky enough that he agreed to share the story of how he saw the latest addition to the New York State Checklist.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2014
'Earlier this spring I spent some time exploring some parks in Queens that I had never visited before. I know, I know, it is hard to believe that there were parks left in Queens that had never been graced by my presence but somehow a couple of locations had escaped my notice. One of those parks, Brookville Park in southeastern Queens, was noteworthy to me because I saw several early Yellow-crowned Night-Herons there, the first that were reported in the state this year.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2014
'Nickerson Beach is an amazing place to visit when the breeding birds are back. Though it is an active beach at which people fish, swim, and otherwise recreate, it also hosts an impressive array of beach-nesting birds that are readily accessible though protected. It is a mecca for nature photographers and weekend mornings during the season often see a score or more photographers taking advantage of the early morning light (and that by getting there before 8 AM you can avoid the $30 entrance fee)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2014
'Every few years I am lucky enough to have Violet-green Swallows ( Tachycineta thalassina ) take up residence on one of my Bluebird trails. This year I have two pair nesting on two different trails! The featured image above shows a female incubating eggs from my first resident breeding pair back in 2007. Violet-green Swallows will nest solitarily or in colonies and in my experience seem much more mellow than other swallow species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2014
'As I bird, walk the dog or run errands, puffs of white float down on the breeze. Up on Higgins near the book store it’s just the occasional bit of fairy floss angling down across my vision. Near the river it’s a blizzard, complete with drifts on the sides of the path and white flotillas on the water. The cottonwoods, a division in the larger clan of poplars, are named for these unmissable seeds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2014
'In winter Dunlin are bland birds, the color of sand on a gray morning. Don’t get me wrong, they are nice to see, mostly because in winter we have so few shorebirds around in New York, but they are definitely not going to be the red-letter bird of an outing. But when spring comes and they get into high breeding plumage, wow! Suddenly, when they are in their nuptial finery, they can rival the brightest wood-warblers with their colors.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
267 
Let's personalize your content