10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Few American birds have the publicity problems of the titmouse. Even though they are numerous, if not downright gregarious throughout most of their range, despite the fact that the Tufted Titmouse is consistently one of the top ten most frequently reported species in the Great Backyard Bird Count , titmice lack the popularity of other common birds like cardinals, jays, doves, crows, or even their close cousins, chickadees.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
African elephants being poached in unprecedented numbers. They are disappearing from the continent as the poachers become increasingly militarized. Full story here at the New York Times.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
To the Editor: In “ Where Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy ” (column, Sept. 9), Nicholas D. Kristof describes “happy” cows that are loved “like children” by an organic dairy farmer. I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain. The article does, however, gloss over the undeniable fact that even cows with names produce milk only because they have recently given birth to calves who, if male
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
I’ve been learning to band birds at the South Florida Bird Observatory. Nothing like a little bit of mist-net extracting to make you feel like an absolute beginner! But hands-on bird experience has been a major gap in my knowledge to date and I’m astounded at how much more I’m discovering about birds. For example, last Sunday we found an unusually large bird in one of the nets.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. Some of these capacities seem to be linked with language or with complex thinking or inference, and probably evolved in connection with our linguistic and complex social behavior. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2012-2013. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated by birders across the northeastern United States and eastern Canada because it takes into account a vast array of data to figure out which irruptive species might show up where. It is reproduced in full below, with minor changes to the format and with illustrations added by yours truly.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Yet another Red-tailed Hawk ! Two friends were driving down a winding country road in the pouring rain, listening to the radio announcer warn that a tornado could be heading our way. We’re in upstate New York, so this is unlikely, but still disturbing. They saw movement on the grassy area to the side, slowed, and found a young hawk, soaking wet, unable to get off the ground.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
It is fall migration season and the birds are flying. We have had quite a run of birds overhead as they stream down along the Pacific flyway. I’ve been banding birds of prey for 5 years it is easy to put ourselves through endless fog days and cramped quarters when the end result is good research, accurate data, and minimal impact on the raptors we encounter.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
It is that time of year when a birder must keep at least one eye on the skies for migrating raptors. They make their way south in big numbers, especially on days when the winds are right, which generally from the north, though they do tend to pile up very nicely at many hawkwatch sites in the northeastern United States when the winds are out of the northwest.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
Many of us in North America are facing the imminent departure of “our” hummingbirds for the next few months, though across the Gulf Coastal Plain, a few western hummingbirds are staking out winter homes, and hardy Anna’s Hummingbirds will do just fine along the Pacific Coast and in Arizona all winter long. Rufous Hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) wintering in Louisiana © David J.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
My rehabber friend Lisa Acton, who is with Animal Kingdom USA Wildlife Rehabilitation , picked up her phone and heard the voice of an elderly lady. “It’s a Raven ,” said the voice. “He’s hurt and he can’t fly. I’m afraid to go near him, because I think he’s going to attack me and peck my eyes out.” “Run, Tippi!” screamed Lisa. “Get away, before he and all his psycho bird friends tear the roof off your house!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
It has been twelve weeks now since the first pair of Pied Oystercatchers attempted to breed along the stretch of beach that we survey and as with each year there have been setbacks. In theory the eggs are laid, the adults share the incubation of the eggs for 28 days and then fluffy chicks emerge. The chicks are then fed and encouraged to feed themselves and after approximately 35 days they are able to fly and escape danger.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Not an urban legend From the time I was a small child, I would flip through the pages of field guides and imagine the stumbling across this or that amazing bird. My criteria for amazing were less sophisticated in those days — mainly, they required that the bird be different that the ones I saw around every day, and different in a visually striking manner – bright colors, size, oddball crests or gular sacs or long tails.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Nashville Warbler ( Oreothlypis ruficapilla ridgwayi ) photos by Larry Jordan I have been enjoying some first time visitors to my yard this fall, including several warblers, one of which is the western Nashville Warbler ( Oreothlypis ruficapilla ridgwayi ). Click on photos for full sized images. Their are two separate subspecies of the Nashville Warbler , one occurs east of the Mississippi River ( Oreothlypis ruficapilla ruficapilla ) and the other, pictured here, formerly called the Calaveras W
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
In all of North America, only one avian species serves as both the beloved mascot of seven states as well as the totem to two professional sports teams (and an infinity of amateur ones!) Ironically, this feathered figurehead is neither a bird of prey nor particular distinguished athletically. Rather, this icon is extremely adaptable and eye-catching.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Birders in fall look forward to cold fronts the same way a toddler looks forward to Santa Claus. With anxious days, sleepless nights, and the inkling in the back of your mind that the man can’t quite measure up to the myth. We in the south get migration some weeks after Corey and crew and, like Tom Petty said, the waiting is the hardest part. I spend my mornings veering wildly between the too infrequent joy of stumbling across a mixed flock and wandering around in a misanthropic haze wond
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
A day spent with Sanderlings is surely a day well spent. Even when they are not feeding in their endearing manner, chasing the waves back and forth, Sanderlings are still one of the most watchable birds that you are ever likely to see. I missed my OCD therapy session today and do you know, it didn’t matter. My travels this week took me to Miami , where the ocean could barely summon the energy to lap gently against the sand.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
It’s snowing back home. That’s not unusual this time of the year, nor is it guaranteed that this will be the snow that stays. But it is likely. And I’m a long ways from home, at the opposite end of the world’s fifth largest island, some 1200 kilometres away. I’m missing my family and that probably doesn’t leave me in the best frame of mind to write.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
The brilliant orange coloration and rich, haunting song of the Spot-breasted Oriole ( Icterus pectoralis ) makes this species one of my favorite permanent residents in southeastern Florida, even though it is an introduced exotic. How can an introduced species be a favorite among birders? Don’t they compete with native birds? Aren’t introduced species somehow in the wrong for existing where they should not be?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Just for the heck of it I thought I would share some recent shots of some relatively common birds from my pre-work stops at Van Saun Park, mostly because if I don’t use them in a post like this I don’t know what I would use them for. Enjoy! House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus (click for a bigger version) Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinal
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
So, I think I found a weird way to get my non birding co-workers to learn bird identification. My current job requires that I have an office with a desk. Most of the time, I’m outdoors but some days, I do have to report to a desk. Fortunately, there are windows so I can look outside. We get lots of birds passing through, like our regular band of Wild Turkeys that roam our parking lot.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a vagrant that ABA Area birders unashamedly lust for. This bird was photographed a few years ago in Connecticut, by Corey Finger. Recently a Fork-tailed Flycatcher was reported from a park in San Francisco, a long ways away from its home in Central and South America. This is not only a MEGAVAGRANT, it is also an absolute CRIPPLER and hard to misidentify on top of that.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
September has been flush with weekends this year, but all good months must come to an end. But worry not… regardless of weather conditions, this month goes out like a lion when it comes to birds on the move! This weekend, I’ll continue searching for local fall migrants, hopefully not in vain. Corey told me where he’d be birding this weekend, but I already forgot; apparently, his plans aren’t that exciting.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
The beauty of Amazonian birds is always a welcome element of surprise. Many birds are very secretive and this has allowed them to survive in such predator filled places like the Amazon. That is the case of this handsome toucanet. Golden-collared Toucanet In the past I have struggled to get good looks at the Golden-collared Toucanet until a few weeks ago when I visited the Sumaco Biosphere and was utterly surprised by the beauty of this bird.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
September, as you’ve no doubt heard time and time again, is a season of flux. No matter where you are in the world, chances are that an array of organisms are responding to climatic signals by, among other things, growing, dying, blooming, fruiting, fattening, nesting, or migrating. Believe it or not, the usual birds on the brain are not what calls this frenzy of activity to mind.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
It has been far too long since the last of the diabolical quizzes. And this quiz is truly diabolical. Horribly diabolical. Diabolical squared. At least, I think it is. I tend to judge these things rather poorly. As always, you are to use the comments to provide the common name of the bird in each image. The winner is the one who gets the most correct answers soonest and wins the adulation of everyone.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Like it or not, fall is falling all over the Northern Hemisphere and spring is sprung to the south. But what’s not to like about either season? These magical months of transition feature flora and fauna in flux, which can lead to your year’s best bird watching. So embrace change and get out there! I’ll be hanging around Rochester waiting for Red Crossbills to fly overhead.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Pelagic birding off the Atlantic coast of Florida can be a frustrating experience, usually involving long waits of up to an hour or more interspersed with brief flurries of activity — a far cry from pelagic birding off of coasts blessed with cold water currents and nutrient rich upwelling such as California, southeast Australia, and Peru. In the pelagic ‘deserts’ of Florida, as in deserts on land, specialist bird species manage to carve out an existence.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Before this morning I knew that I had never seen a Bell’s Vireo. After this morning I was sure that I had seen one. Now I am not so sure, but think that I didn’t. Why not? Read on! Yesterday morning Dick Veit reported a Bell’s Vireo , what would be the third in history of New York State, at Mount Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island, the forgotten borough of New York City.
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