10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2014
'The first time I saw a puffin, it was a revelation. I’d seen pictures of them, of course – the stocky, flamboyantly-beaked little seabirds who always seem to be wearing expressions of sympathetic concern – but I’d never seen one “in bird” (the avian equivalent of “in person”). I was returning from Rockport, Maine, having retrieved my daughter Skye and her friend Bau-Hien from a photography workshop.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 6, 2014
'The World According To Cats [Infographic] by the team at Cheapflights Media (USA) Inc. The post The World According to Cats (Infographic) appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
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Animal Ethics
MAY 1, 2014
'This blog had 1,721 visits during April, which is an average of 57.3 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 78.8.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2014
'Thinking of releasing white doves to commemorate your wedding or the memorial of a loved one? Think twice, and do some research. White doves: symbols of love, commitment, peace, hope, etc. However: they are not wild birds, and have no idea how to survive outside captivity. Where do they go after they fly away? This is an important question. If you are determined to release white doves at your ceremony, it is essential to make sure you can afford to hire people who will release strong, healthy b
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10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2014
'Birds have no boobs. Although it might look like they could have a pair or two lurking beneath all those chest feathers, they actually don’t. Birds hatch out of eggs, like some species of snakes, who also have no boobs, although with a snake the fact is more readily apparent. While snakes protect their eggs, and may protect their young for a short period of time after they hatch, baby snakes are very soon on their own.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
'I am half-awake, but keep my eyes closed. Listening to the wheeping of stays and shrouds and screeching of fenders against the next sailboat, I do not want to wake up. Still, we are sailing out of the marina soon and I should have some coffee before that. We are in the village of Finikas on the island of Syros in the Cyclades archipelago of Greece.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2014
'One of the many ancillary benefits of becoming a birder, apart from an elevated social status and encyclopedic knowledge of taxonomy, is a subtle grasp of phenology. But you don’t have to be wise to nature’s ways to realize that spring is mighty slow to fully bloom in some parts of the world. The birds seem to be dragging their proverbial heels this year, but migration still rewards those who would brave the bitter May chill!
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2014
'The National Wildlife Refuge system is one of America’s greatest treasures. It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. and provides diverse nature experiences for visitors from around the world. According to the latest (2013) report by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) entitled “ BANKING ON NATURE: The Economic Benefits to Local Communities of National Wildlife Refuge Visitation 1 , ” recreational visits to national wildlife refuges generate substantial economic activ
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2014
'There’s no doubt about it, we North American birders have it easy. Our warblers are impossibly colored. Our chat is big and weird. Our Herring Gull is only one species. There’s a reason that many of the continent’s best field birders are all European ex-pats who were trained in the ways of Phylloscopus and Acrocephalus and who forsake all that to join the land of Setophaga and Geothlypis.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2014
'We’re a little slow to discuss this weekend’s birding because many of us in the U.S. are still enjoying a beautiful Memorial Day. But if you’re eager to share the spoils of your recent avian adventures, let the bird bragging commence! While I saw some pretty special species this weekend, the most special was the Gray Catbird because my sweet 7-year niece totally got into finding one; I think I’ve found the next generation birder in the family!
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2014
'We birders seem to keep our own arcane calendar, with weeks and months symbolized not by numbers but rather by avian avatars. Each phenological totem evokes the confluence of time, climate, and geography that tells a richer story of a place than simply its position relative to the sun. Most North American birders I know would definitely represent the month of May with a bright and sprightly wood-warbler, though the argument about which bird would best serve would be epic indeed.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2014
'Birding being a visual and an auditory pursuit, it’s not surprising that publishers have taken advantage of the media of its day to produce bird books accompanied by CDs or DVDs. These allow birders to hear as well as see the birds they are studying. (This concept has been totally transformed into the ‘birding app’, which allows birders to view and hear specific birds from their smart phones or other digital appliances wherever they may be.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2014
'… because my husband and I have done some migrating of our own, from Chicago to Philadelphia, over the past few weeks, and bringing 10,000 Birds readers the freshest and best bird news sadly had to take a back seat to packing, driving, unpacking, and furiously scouring Craigslist for Ikea furniture. But our new nest is, at last, well on its way to getting feathered.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2014
'This spring I have probably had more in-your-face wood-warblers than I have ever had before. I am not sure exactly why but I am certainly not complaining. Unfortunately for you, I have gathered up some of the images of these birds, cropped out superfluous parts like faces, legs, and most of the easy field marks. Why? Because it is time for another diabolical identification quiz, in this case, the DIABOLICAL EXTREME CLOSE-UPS OF WOOD-WARBLERS QUIZ!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2014
'What a weekend for those of us experiencing the exhilaration of spring migration! Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler. I regret having no photo proof of a bird this unlikely, but rarely regret leaving that long lens at home; how many of you worked through your photography bug and back to
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2014
'I’ve been a fan of The Mincing Mockingbird since the hoary days of Livejournal. Matt Adrian’s characteristic style features acrylics of birds against stark backgrounds, titled with or accompanied by sly, off-kilter phrases (representative: “I preen for Satan”, “The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math.”) You would think this would become a shtick, but Adrian’s ability to capture expression in avian faces creates the sense that these bir
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2014
'I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. The story is etched into my memory not for my experience with the bird, which was an obstructed view of a singing male through a mess of dense underbrush at about 100 feet, but for the effort it took to get there. I walked though woods, waded into stagnant back channels of the Roanoke, tracked through an entire field of grass to make my offer to the bird gods in the form of stingi
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2014
'According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within the theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago. Most researchers agree that modern-day birds are the only living members of the Dinosauria clade. Click on photos for full sized images.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2014
'Last week might have been the official observance of International Migratory Bird Day along with innumerable Big Days, Big Sits, and Great Texas Birding Classics (well, maybe only one of those!), but spring is still springing and birds still winging towards their breeding or wintering grounds. No matter what events are scheduled where you live, you’ll have reason to celebrate if you get outside.
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2014
'The forecast said „rain all day“ and with a mug of coffee in the morning, seeing a bright blue sky through the window I was thinking some not so nice thoughts about meteorologists and their trustworthiness. Sharing our thoughts at Facebook and looking for a place to go now, without a prior plan and early start, the four of us ended up at the nearby Veliko Blato fish farm, swallowed by the city’s recent spread.
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2014
'Spring migration may be dwindling to a trickle by now, but vast movements of mammals are about to commence. I’m speaking, of course, about summer vacation! Summer in the United States unofficially begins this weekend. Are you on the road? I’m on my way down to NYC, which apparently so unnerved Corey that he fled the country. Look for him somewhere in Canada!
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
'I’m a biogeography buff, and I’m seriously disappointed when I get a guide book that doesn’t have maps in. One of the interesting things I noticed in my Birds of Borneo guide was the seeming pattern of lowland endemics in the area of Sabah. Most endemic species in Borneo are either found across the whole island or are restricted to upland areas in the central and northern mountains.But there are a handful of species that are found in the lowlands of Sabah but not across the r
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2014
'As Nate pointed out on the ABA Blog yesterday , we North American birders, especially those in the east, are a tad bit obsessed with wood-warblers. I am certainly no exception. But I have tried my best to give some attention to passerines that are not wood-warblers this spring, and I think I have been at least moderately successful in taking my eyes and my optics from the gaudy wood-warblers and focusing them on gaudy birds that are not wood-warblers.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2014
'Caribbean dry forests with trees such as Gumbo Limbo, Pigeon-Plum, and West Indies Mahogany; remote breeding colonies of Sooty Terns , Brown Noddies , and Masked Booby ; a cast of over twenty species of wintering warbler such as Black-throated Blue , Magnolia , and Worm-eating ; an assortment of West Indies specialties such as Black-whiskered Vireo , Antillean Nighthawk , and Mangrove Cuckoo — this could easily be a description of the birding on a Caribbean island.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2014
'At this time of year with every manner of bird on the wing, one needn’t ask whether you’ll be birding this weekend. A better question, then, might be with whom are you birding? Many civilized nations will be honoring over the next few days those women who have birthed and raised us. What better way to thank your mom than to show her the splendors of spring migration?
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
'The first weekend of May is not a time to ask if one will be birding; that avian observation will ensue is a foregone conclusion. Birds are on the wing AT THIS VERY MOMENT. Even better, many of them, adorned in fresh breeding plumage, are at peak pulchritude. Obviously, you will be birding. But where? Corey and I are covering different parts of New York State.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2014
'Earlier this month I had stopped at Forest Park for a quick, late-morning, visit as we birders in Queens tend to do, especially in May, and was impressed by the diversity and number of birds singing. This was before full leaf-out, especially on the taller trees, so many birds were feeding low to the ground and the understory was not as thick as it would be even a week later.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 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 a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2014
'As the wood warblers swarm north, it may seem odd to have a post that does not concern itself with birds at all. Instead it will celebrate one of the UK’s most spectacular natural events. Our own avian migration cannot compete with that of Northern America, but we can take comfort in the fact that we have Bluebells. Restricted to northern Europe, their real stronghold is in Britain where more than half of the world’s flowers can be seen during early May.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2014
'In spring migration most of the attention that birders pay to birds is given to males. There are two basic reasons for this. First, male birds sing. The singing, of course, draws attention to the males, which, considering that song is used to attract mates and to defend territory, is kind of the point. Second, male birds, with a few notable exceptions, have much more showy plumage.
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