10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2015
July morning in the Balkans, early enough to create an illusion of a cool morning, umm, almost. Wheat fields around me were harvested in the previous days. In the short, golden-brown stubble, one Brown Hare is hopping. Just for fun, it seems – joie de vivre? I am driving down the dirt track in the Carska Bara Ramsar site (Serbia) and a cloud of dust closely follows me, like a rider on a pale horse.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 28, 2015
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Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2015
Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. A recent Gallup poll (conducted May 6-10, 2015) found that 32% of Americans believe that "animals deserve the exact same rights as people to be free from harm and exploitation," while only 3% of Americans feel that animals don't need much protection from harm and exploitation "si
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2015
India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings are cold. We have rented army-style tents erected on concrete platforms surrounded with shallow but steep-walled ditches. “What are these ditches for,” I asked my friend Nitin Bhardwaj. “Against snakes,” he said.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 31, 2015
This post is from Lisa Beth Acton, a wildlife rehabilitator in Accord, NY. She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl. Lisa brings her to all kinds of gatherings to spread the word of wildlife (see Xena’s Facebook page ). This summer Lisa raised three orphaned Common Ravens. In her words: You all know how it goes, the phone rings and the caller says I have these baby birds….
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds. This is interesting right now because the AVian Phylogenomics Consortium has just announced the Bird 10K project, which ties together a pile of previously done research with some exci
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10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2015
After the birding bugs bites, the abundance of new and colorful birds makes it easy to overlook or even blatantly ignore sparrows, “seagulls”, female ducks, and flycatchers. Nevertheless, sooner or later, the need to twitch forces us to be honest with ourselves and admit that those confusing birds are also deserving of binocular time. Good field guides, fellow birders, and patience can help us come to grips with the ones that seem to look the same but even then, it’s hard to ge
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2015
The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the North Carolina coast, and to the unpracticed eye it looks scarcely different that the expanse of blue water it courses through. But there’s something about this mass of moving water. And more specifically, there’s something about this part of this mass, where the Gulf Stream rubs up against the inshore colder Labrador Current at the part of the ocean where the depth drops off to more than a mile.
10,000 Birds
JULY 29, 2015
I’m writing this post for a couple of reasons. Firstly, if you check the wonderful photo galleries here at 10000 Birds, you will find some excellent shots of the female Mountain Bluebird that Corey took in New York, of all places! I figured that it is only fair and right to include the male Mountain Bluebird ( Sialis currucoides ) for comparison.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2015
Back in early March, Andrew Spencer asked me if I would like to go birding in western Mexico with him and another friend in May. The thought of seeing Red Warbler , Tufted Jay , Black-throated Magpie-Jay , and other spectacular Mexican endemics danced within my imagination. Many of these species were very high on my life bird wish list, and the country itself would be a totally new experience: a vibrant and enchanting culture, a varied and tasty cuisine, and stunning and new landscapes.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2015
I learned a new word today: Diel. I’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t already know that. I will now use the word in a sentence. Diel changes in the environment, such as when sunrise occurs, can affect an organism’s Darwinian fitness. Therefore, we would expect natural selection to shape behavior to account for diel changes. Great T**s ( Parus major ) and many other songbirds mate within monogamous pairs, and may mate at any time during the day.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2015
It’s bad. Very bad. Germany is currently experiencing its hottest June and July ever, and temperatures in the last few weeks have rarely been below 33°C (91°F), sometimes reaching nearly 40°C (103°F). German offices and appartments, as a general rule, have no air conditioning – because we’ve never had the need for it – and there is therefore neither rest for the weary nor escape from the sweat.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2015
Ah, sweet summer, how I love you, despite your lack of migratory birds. Henry James understood how sweet this time of year can be in the Northern Hemisphere: “Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Can you think of two more beautiful words? I’ll be birding around Western New York this weekend.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2015
Lately, it’s been raining in Costa Rica. Mike and Corey would probably say, “So what else is new?” but really, it’s been raining for two or three weeks…and the rain hasn’t exactly stopped. It does seem to be slowing down, though, and, to be honest, the non-stop raining part seems to be restricted to the mountains and the Caribbean slope, and yes, it has stopped now and then even in those areas.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2015
The Barn Swallow ( Hirundo rustica ) is one of the most widespread and popular birds. Most everyone with an eye for the natural world can recognize them and has a name for it, often a name used only at the regional level. Many literary references are based on the Barn Swallow’s migration as a symbol of a change in seasons. They are easy to notice and seem rather consistent regarding the time or arrival at the many regions and countries they fly through.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2015
No, these are not highly-trained nestling Blue Jays posing artfully on an American flag. They’re just really cute orphaned Blue Jays who were raised and eventually released by Kim Doner of WING-IT in Tulsa. And Kim – besides being a great rehabber – knows how to Photoshop. It’s summer, so rehabbers all over the country are being deluged with babies as well as the usual injured adults.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2015
Corey Callaghan is working on his Master’s Thesis and would like to hear from birders about their opinions on exotic birds. Or, as he writes: As part of a continuation of my thesis, which was focused on nonnative birds in Florida, I have created a survey in which I’m interested in capturing birders’ opinions on exotic birds. I would really appreciate it if you could take the survey!
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2015
At the end of June we loaded up the car with no plan other than to head north and see what was about. This is a typical situation for us, where we make sure we are self-sufficient and pick a general direction, but are quite happy to deviate off any side-track at whim. A few days north of Broome, after a few side-tracks, we made a decision to head down the Tanami Road.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2015
Picture this: you are on a lake, with dusk just beginning to fall. The surface of the water is calm, and a light breeze ruffles the thick leaves of mid-summer. Suddenly, a loud, lonely call reverberates across the water. A ghost? A banshee? Nope! Those eerie calls come from the Common Loon, the state bird of Minnesota. These black and white water birds are an annual summer presence on freshwater lakes throughout the northern United States and Canada, migrating to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2015
New York City in July provides limited opportunities for birders to see birds. The often oppressive heat and humidity means that most birds have quieted down shortly after sunrise, shorebirds haven’t really started to move in large numbers yet, and mosquitoes and biting flies can make visiting coastal saltmarshes and other wet habitats more of an ordeal than an outing.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2015
I am starting a series of posts where I introduce little known birds we can relate. These would be mostly Neotropical birds that have a North American counterpart most are familiar with. Today I introduce the cool Andean Avocet. The Andean Avocet is not a rare bird, but not a lot of folks have seen it. This is partly because it leaves at such high elevations (11,811 – 15,090 feet above sea level) along the high Andes of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina.
10,000 Birds
JULY 31, 2015
The most recent addition to my life list is the Northwestern Crow , but its name is boring and it probably isn’t even a proper species anyway. The second-most-recent addition to my life list, however, is the MacGillivray’s Warbler , which is a bird named after a dead white guy, yes, but it also illustrates several interesting things about the rough-and-tumble process of ornithological nomenclature, to whit: 1.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2015
July is almost over, which means summer is almost over, right? Of course not, but those of us who live for the warmest months feel these moments slipping away as soon as they begin. On the bright side, birds will be back on the move once summer ends! I’ll be enjoying gorgeous weather here in Western New York this weekend, while Corey wings his way to serious tropical birding in Honduras.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2015
A nasty little virus and a failure of my internet at home has left me at another deadline with nothing to show for myself. Rather than incur the wrath of Corey and face the shame of a no-show, I thought I’d quickly share some images I got of a striking African bird, the Southern Pied Babbler. Southern Pied Babbler ( Turdoides bicolor ). While there as some very attractive members of the family (or families, scientists can’t make up their minds) in Asia, in Africa the babblers tend to
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2015
In a nice moment of serendipity, my review copy of Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast by Steve N.G. Howell and Brian L. Sullivan, in collaboration with Todd McGrath and Tom Johnson, arrived at my door the day before I was leaving for southern California. ( Birds of California , the new volume in the ABA series, arrived the day I returned. Every bird book seems to be about the west coast this month!
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2015
While on a top-secret mission, I found the following at the bottom of a box filled with Petersonania and cheaply-printed knockoff Fuertes prints. The first half appears to have been torn away, and the second half was scorched and smelled faintly of gasoline. I present what I could recover in the interests of literary history. ~~~~~~~. Finally, after much tribulation, you land in Seattle.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2015
Was your weekend pleasingly full or pleasurably empty? We measure our happiness not in moments of activity but rather memories of satisfaction. I was well satisfied to travel through farm country this weekend and count the many American Kestrels perched predatorily above the fields. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bushy-crested Jay , one of quote a few fine species he spotted while exploring the area around Copan Ruinas in Honduras.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2015
I had never visited a real jungle before. Sure, I had seen countless television program, sat glued to Planet Earth, and read accounts of research ecologists and explorers, but I had never seen the wonders of a hot and wet climate. Belize gave me my first opportunity to see the jungle for myself, as well as its avian treasures! Because I had never birded in a truly tropical climate, our first morning in the Belize rainforest my husband and I went out with a guide at the Sleeping Giant Rainforest
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2015
If you’re a regular reader of 10,000 Birds, you may remember a remarkable video posted some months back of a Great Horned Owl swimming in Lake Michigan. The amiable nature photographer who preserved this special moment was Steve Spitzer, well known in Chicago’s birding community for taking spectacular pictures of even the most common birds. (Anyone who has the ability to make Ring-billed Gulls gorgeous and fascinating has a considerable talent.).
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2015
If this post goes up, then it means we are still away from civilisation and without computer, internet, electricity and running water. It means we are hopefully finding some new birds for the year list off the beaten track somewhere north of Broome… can’t be too specific can I!!?? When we have had the very big tides in Broome during June there are a few beaches worth checking out for the remaining migratory shorebirds and the resident shorebirds alongside other water birds.
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