10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
'Everyone, the Painted Bunting needs your help. There’s a new proposal before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Classification Committee to split Painted Bunting into two species (yay! — maybe, more later) and to name the new species “Eastern Painted Bunting” and “Western Painted Bunting” (no!).
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NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'The team at Purina Veterinary Diets is igniting a conversation around common #DogProblems, like gas (oh, dog gas can be almost deadly, can’t it?!). The hope is to get concerned owners to talk to their vet about pet food allergies – they even created a Symptom Checker for people to learn more about the topic. They are also taking a humorous approach, creating some funny dog memes about common dog problems.
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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 28, 2014
'I started this blog 11 years ago today. It''s not quite dead, because I still post statistics every month, but I no longer post anything substantive. Evidently, some people still find its posts useful.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
'I wanted Penguins. And Sunbirds. And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2014
'A good friend of my mother’s back in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, is having a problem. She and her coworkers have had their cars besieged by Common Ravens. The ravens rip apart their windshield wipers and destroy the rubber seals that keep their cars waterproof. Now, this is not an unknown problem. In south Florida, Black Vultures attack cars ; in Australia, it’s Black Crows ; in Canada, American Crows.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
'Gujarat, December 2010. Target for today: critically endangered Sociable Lapwing ( Vanellus gregarius ). The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. CR being the highest category in the Red List , if I want to see some of those birds, I better hurry!
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
'Many years ago, back in the 1970s, I visited my sister, who lived in West Yellowstone, Montana, in the dead of winter. We rented snow mobiles and drove into Yellowstone. That was the only way to get into Yellowstone in the winter (other than walking). You either rented a snowmobile or you took the big giant snowmobile bus (called a snow coach as I recall).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
'Well maybe it’s just a Brown Creeper on a wall. But that’s still interesting, right? Right? Fine. It’s not anywhere near as interesting as one of those amazing pink-winged Wallcreepers showing up in New York. But I was still fascinated by the behavior of this Brown Creeper that I observed in the midst of a driving rainstorm on Saturday morning at Jacob Riis Park in Queens.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2014
'On October 29 th 2012, “superstorm” Sandy devastated the east coast of the USA, affecting states from Florida to Maine, with severe damage in New Jersey and New York. That same evening, from his boarded-up garret, Corey posted a gallery of Yellow-rumped Warblers which he had photographed along the coast of New York, just before the storm hit. We know that Corey and his family came through the ordeal safely, but what of the warblers?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2014
'This morning I was out at Fort Tilden on the barrier beaches of Queens at first light, hoping to take advantage of the northwest winds to see some good birds going past. I got up on the Battery Harris platform and enjoyed large numbers of American Goldfinch going past, as well as flocks of Red-winged Blackbird , Common Grackle , and Pine Siskin. But the winds were strong, the air was cold, and my hands were starting to get numb.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
'Yeah, I’m kind of surprised too. After all, while I like to believe that I am a pretty good bird blogger I’ve never written anything like a field guide. But George Scott at Scott & Nix convinced me that I could do it. I’m not sure where his confidence in me comes from but I have totally bought into it. After all, how do you turn down the opportunity to join the likes of David Allen Sibley and Roger Tory Peterson in writing a field guide?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2014
'The survivalist birder scoffs at feeders. I recently became aware of this after an erstwhile interview with one of those wild, bearded purists while looking for mixed flocks in an anonymous, well known site in Costa Rica. As I crept through the forest and wondered where the birds were, a hint of movement caught my attention on the other side of a tree fern.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
'It’s a month to I go traveling in Africa again, but between that date and now I have a massive project to deliver, which has reached the ‘invading my dreams’ level of panic. Consequently my usual pre-travel excitement is a lot lower than usual, and I’m spending much less time than I’d like unproductively daydreaming about the birds I’ll see.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2014
'Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder. They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have had a series of guest posts on 10,000 Birds.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
'Several Gray Catbirds are still in Bryant Park. This one was hanging out on a table in front of Sixth Avenue waiting for, what else, table-service. Though it is getting colder and fall migration is essentially over, I still spend fifteen to twenty minutes in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan on my way to work, just to see what is still around. Some of the same individuals from my last post about Bryant Park are still lingering and a few other interesting birds have moved in.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
'Yesterday I saw a Dark-eyed Junco while I was walking my dog. It was the Slate-colored form, of course. No more candybox Juncos for me, nor Cassin’s Finches , nor Bohemian Waxwings , nor Black-billed Magpies , nor confiding Red-breasted Nuthatches alighting on me as I fill the feeder. No feeder at all, in fact, no American Goldfinch , no Song Sparrows even unless I go looking for them.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2014
'Doves tend to get a bad rap when it comes to birding. A lot of those anti-Columbidae tendencies probably stem from a certain species frequently referred to as a “flying rat” In raptor enthusiast circles, “Peregrine fodder” is also used, and when a Mourning Dove gets naturally selected by a Cooper’s Hawk , some hawk watchers can’t hide their look of glee. “No respect!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
'The year 2014 is approaching its imminent end, which means different things for different people. For those of us interested in observing avifauna, the last six or so weeks of a year offer enough time and opportunity to finish up with the year list we’d love to look back on. Have you been working on yours? I was both surprised and pleased to spy a Bald Eagle flying over my house, which is quite uncommon so far from the lake.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
'So the massive project I’m working on reaches its climax this weekend, and my laptop is still broken… so here is a New Zealand bird story that is in the New York Times of all things! It’s seems the media has learnt of the amazing Counting Robins of Zelanadia. It’s a cool set of experiments that have been happening here in Wellington which have demonstrated the amazing mathematical aptitude of the New Zealand Robin.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
'I initially bought iBird Pro in one of its earlier versions for one reason and one reason only. Bird vocalizations. If I was going out looking for a rarity or even just for a bird that I hadn’t seen (or heard) in awhile I would play the songs and, especially, the chip notes prior to getting into the field to ensure that if the bird called I would recognize it.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
'As it turned out the month of October brings some of the common migratory waterfowl to our local water treatment plant ponds in Indian River County, Florida. Coots, Blue and Green-winged Teals are staple at the ponds throughout the winter time. Other ducks such as American Wigeons , Northern Pintails , and Northern Shovelers are as common at the ponds as the frequency and duration of each cold front.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'On Saturday morning I was exploring the newly-mowed Edgemere Landfill, one of my favorite birding spots in Queens, enjoying birds like Eastern Meadowlarks and American Pipits , both of which seemed to appreciate two years of brush being removed. There were Northern Harriers hunting low over what portions are as of yet unmowed, Cooper’s Hawks using some of the berms as cover for sneak attacks, and American Kestrel feasting on cold grasshoppers.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
'Look in the middle, just over the trees: there’s a big flock of birds up there. Same thing with the photo below. So: on a beautiful fall afternoon, my friend Ardal and I decided to go to for a bike ride. Bike rides with Ardal are not for the faint of heart; certainly not for those who haven’t ridden a bicycle since they were 12. The first time we rode together, with me on another friend’s mountain bike, the “short ride” turned out to be ten miles.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
'//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpM1LwKaak. When doing some research for a presentation on cavity nesting birds of Northern California, I came upon a reference titled “ Cavity Nesting Birds of North American Forests.” The book listed the Peregrine Falcon as a cavity nester which I thought was curious. It reads “Although the peregrine falcon is currently considered a cliff-nester, records indicate that it once nested in tree cavities.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'Sunny days sound like oh so pleasant weather but they just don’t jive with birding in the tropics. Walk out there beneath the blazing sun and it feels like the non-stop beat of a laser-mallet right on top of the head. This is why we wear hats, especially the wide-brimmed ones, and we wear them with pride. This is also why we don’t expect to see many birds on a sunny day in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2014
'With this weekend consumed by Halloween excitement, bats were more easily encountered than birds. How did you fare? Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a relatively common species though it was uncommonly cooperative. A juvenile White-crowned Sparrow is an expected bird in late fall in New York State but it is always nice when one sits still for a digiscoping session.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
'No snow here! As someone who lives close enough to Buffalo to feel both tremendous fear and relief regarding the 7 feet of snow that engulfed that part of Western NY, I can assure you: November weather is WILD. If this weekend affords you a window to get outdoors, you should take it… who knows when a snownami or similar calamity will blow your way.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
'My best bird of the weekend was a Great Black-backed Gull , a rarity in a land-locked Serbia, with less than 10 observations so far. Could it be the same individual that I observed here last winter ? It was at the same spot, but this time I have found a way to get much closer. At first, I made a few record shots, digiscoping through the Swarovski 25-60×65 STX with a hand-held mobile phone, until the battery went flat.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
'The Spotted Towhee ( Pipilo maculatus ) is probably the most common of the five western Towhees of North America. They occupy the scrubby thickets of the northern Great Plains, middle elevations of mountains and intermountain plateaus, and Pacific coastal lowlands and offshore islands. I spotted this male recently in a friend’s yard (click on photos for full sized images) … along with several Steller’s Jays ( Cyanocitta stelleri) … Golden-crowned Sparrows ( Zonotrich
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
'I’m not quite sure why I started thinking about Sooty Terns today, but once I did couldn’t get them out of my mind so I may as well harness that and do a post on them. They are, I think, the most numerous species of seabird in the tropical Pacific I haven’t done a post on yet. If not, then certainly the loudest. Their name in Hawaiian is ewa ewa, literally “cacophony”, and another name for the species is wideawake tern, which is how they’ll leave you at first
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