10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2015
'At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds. Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds. To kick this off, I’ve decided to start with the Northern Goshawk.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 30, 2015
'Oh how humans love chocolate! While it may be a wonderful treat for us, you should never share it with your dog. While there are many “human foods” that are fine to share with our furry friends, chocolate is on … Continue reading → The post Can dogs eat chocolate? appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 1, 2015
'This blog had 910 visits during February, which is an average of 32.5 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 43.0.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2015
'Now that winter’s fury is melting beneath more moderate temperatures here in the northeastern United States my thoughts have turned to spring. It won’t be long until the first Eastern Phoebe returns, an American Woodcock has already been found in Central Park, and Red-winged Blackbirds have been vigorously calling “Honk-a-ree” for over a week.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2015
'There was no snow. That was the first thing we–our New Jersey Audubon group of 11 birders, led by Scott Barnes–noted as we exited the airport. And lots of greenery. And, no snow. And Great-tailed Grackles. And, No Snow. I don’t think there were more heartfelt exclamations of delight and relief. It’s been a tough winter. Honduras was finally a reality.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2015
'Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. We drove for about 290 km through the 400 square kilometres expanse of Pancevacki Rit and found 8 breeding colonies with 252 occupied nests, or a density of 1.6 nests per 1 km2. Without an exception, rookeries were within suburbs, villages or large farms (in such cases – next to buildings), away from the riverine forests bordering the area, tree lines or smaller groves in the open.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2015
'It sure looks like it! Gustave Axelson has a nice breakdown of a recent genetic analysis of redpolls on Cornell’s All About Birds Blog : Mason and Taylor looked beyond the plumage into strands of the birds’ DNA in the most extensive look ever at the redpoll genome. Whereas previous genetic analyses of redpolls looked at just 11 regions of the genome (at most), Mason and Taylor examined 235,000 regions.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2015
'While February offers some good birding (wintering waterbirds, gulls), it is a kind of an anticlimax after the intensive and hectic schedule of the January IWC counts – the International Waterbird Census, that is. (Some time ago, I’ve asked a guy from the Wetlands International, an NGO running the IWC, does it bother him that their main activity abbreviation can be read as the international water closet?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2015
'Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal , Three-wattled Bellbird , Orange-collared Manakin , fancy hummingbirds , tanagers, and literally hundreds of other birds. One of them quetzals. However, as you tick those tanagers, don’t forget to watch birds like House Wren , Nutting’s Flycatcher , and Bright-rumped Attila even if you have already seen them in other places.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2015
'Nearly everywhere in the world, birds are on the wing, not just traveling to and from their daily haunts but returning to their ancestral circuit. Based on the the time of year, many people I know are also on the wing. So best of luck to any and all creatures striving towards a distant horizon right now. Old Man Winter still has my part of the world firmly under his hoary thumb.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2015
'Last weekend, I went on a quest. The adventure was sort of like a search for treasure, except that the jewels were feisty, feathered sprites. Yes, the time had come to see how many of Costa Rica’s hummingbird species we could find, and we had two days to work with. This oh so awesome endeavor was apparently somewhat inspired by a blog post I had written that toyed with the idea of doing a hummingbird big day in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2015
'I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting much from a card game about birding. I mean, birding is about being outside, enjoying nature, the thrill of the chase. Birding is most emphatically not about sitting around a table playing cards. But the idea still intrigued me and the thought of a card game that might further indoctrinate the five-year-old tyrant of our house, Desi, into birding seemed worth exploring.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2015
'As I am a native of Maine, it is only fitting that my first state bird post is on the Black-capped Chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ). This little songbird has a range that extends across the United States and Canada, and is a ubiquitous backyard feeder visitor. As it is a common sight throughout New England, it is no surprise that this chickadee species is also the state bird of Massachusetts.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2015
'Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. If it’s representative, I can definitely see why he’s such a popular author. Tales of Remarkable Birds is exactly what it says on the cover – a series of three-to-four pages sketches, written in a light, yarn-spinning style and illustrated well with color photographs.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2015
'This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. But that was seven years ago. India founded and, along with Managing Director Peter Leon Mmassey, runs the Tanzanian Children’s Fund.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2015
'You might not sense it yet, but excitement is in the air. Somewhere deep in the tropics, a warm, fat, contented bird is beginning to feel the merest inkling of restlessness. Even in the midst of paradise, this itinerant soul cannot remain happy for long. “Is this all there is?” the bird will ask. And in time, just a matter of weeks really, this vagabond and countless more like it will realize that abundance and adventure lie north, towards the poles.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2015
'Forced inside due to various work obligations and a heckuva lot of snow (and the attending unplanned childcare responsibilities that said snow results in around here), my actual birding has been lean these couple weeks. The Piedmont eBird challenge goes on, and I’ve snuck out here and there to add a few birds to my team’s list, leaving us still neck and neck and neck with the other regions two months in, but there’s not a lot to report about that.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2015
'Most folks in the Northern Hemisphere feel a sense of exultation at the thought that spring officially arrives this weekend. Of course, spring weather may not arrive exactly as scheduled. I’m not sure how those of you south of the equator feel about this weekend or, frankly, so many things. What does the third weekend of March mean to you? Corey and I will both be enjoying the incipient signs of spring migration.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2015
'The first time I agreed to join my fiancé Brian on a joint birding/fly-fishing excursion, I wasn’t sure what to expect. While I have known how to fish since I was a little kid, I much prefer my binoculars to a fly-fishing rod, and was worried the pace of the two activities would not fit, the places I wanted to linger would not be those where he wanted to stay, or it would just be, well, not fun.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2015
'This past Friday was the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Not that any of us in New York City noticed as a snowstorm started in the afternoon that ended up dumping about five inches of snow on what become snow-free city streets. It had been a long, cold, and snowy winter and getting a snowstorm on the first day of spring just seemed fitting somehow.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2015
'Here in the United States, we are gripped by March Madness. While this epic basketball tournament can make people pretty crazy, the real madness is how much this weekend felt like winter instead of the gateway to spring. But the season is changing, which offered glossy black Common Grackles squeaking and strutting against the crisp white snow of a Rochester spring day!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2015
'If you’ve given up hope of ever seeing a Zapata Rail , this post is for you. And if (like me) you’ve never heard of the Zapata Rail before, this post is for you too. In either case, your chance to learn more about this super-secretive bird may be in the offing, as scientists recently discovered a Zapata Rail nest after more than 40 years with no sightings.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2015
'Now that we’ve gotten February out of the way, the time has come to face facts: the next mass migration is not that far off. Is it too soon to start reviewing warbler songs? My best bird sighting this weekend was a Red-tailed Hawk , significant not just because these common raptors always command respect but because of what this particular bird had in its mouth: nesting material!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2015
'St. Patrick’s Day weekend teaches us many lessons, more than a few of which concern parades, alcohol, and nationalism as fashion. But this time of year also reminds us that as you stand gazing hopefully at the season ahead, you are still mired in the one that is ending. Transitions, like Irish whisky, can make us moody. My mood kept me from enjoying the outdoors this weekend, since I can’t stand looking at the snow anymore.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2015
'I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of the year today in the same place as last year – Rockaway Community Park in southern Queens – and a day earlier than last year, but still later than usual for me. For me, this means that spring has arrived! (The actual bird is the one in all three images.). As I have for the last several years, I will now ask the same question of midwesterners and northeasterners that I ask every year: When did you see your first Eastern Phoebe of 2014?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2015
'One of the most impressive aspects of the Tropical Rainforests is the incredible array of sounds produced by animals. Interior forest animals, from invertebrates to large mammals, rely on sounds to communicate; the forest is so dense that visual cues are meaningless. I enjoy rainforest animal sounds and like to pay attention to what is making this or that sound.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2015
'So I went to Staten Island, perhaps best summed up by a web comic: Now they’re just makin’ up places. It was a good trip , though, even if I didn’t see a Roc.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2015
'At home in Broome we are often awoken by Blue-winged Kookaburras and their insane chattering, but here in Melbourne the Kookaburra family is represented by the Laughing Kookaburra. The Laughing Kookaburra is a slightly larger bird than the Blue-winged Kookaburra and its “laugh” sounds more like an actual laugh or chuckle rather than the manic raucous noise that we hear in Broome.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2015
'The first weekend of March had me upstate which means that I didn’t get to see the Red-necked Grebe that Doug Futuyma found at Baisley Pond Park. Though Red-necked Grebes are around in small numbers each winter in New York City and Long Island they generally aren’t a terribly cooperative bird: even last winter when large numbers came south because they were frozen out up north the best looks I managed were of relatively distant birds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2015
'St. Patrick’s Day weekend doesn’t feel the same during a long winter; how festive can the wearing of the green be if everything outside your window is still white? If you do indulge this weekend, be safe! Now that spring is on the horizon, I’m eager to round up all those winter birds I’ve missed. Wish me luck! Corey makes his own luck.
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