10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2018
There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour drive of almost every major American city. Many were specifically established for migratory birds and are strategically positioned along one of the four major North American migration flyways. Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies.
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 5, 2018
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2018
With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left. At home, I may find a new bird, perhaps two, but four? The solution? The Kerkini Lake.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2018
Happy Second Day of the New Year, 10,000 Birds friends! I am still in the old year as I write this. Snow is falling lightly and it is difficult to concentrate on the screen because my feeder birds are turning out en masse for the delights I set out this morning: Northern Cardinals and Mourning Doves at the safflower seed, Carolina Chickadees flying in for one seed per trip, Red-bellied Woodpecker and Carolina Wren at the double suet feeder (the Red-bellied rules and the Wren flies off as he swoo
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2018
Not long ago, I had trouble sleeping because of these small, random explosions going off in my neighborhood. Each one was followed up by a litany of dog barks, some high in pitch, others low, far-carrying woofs. I fashioned ear plugs out of tissue, I tried sleeping on the downstairs couch (that would have worked but Ginger the hamster was running like crazy on her wheel), I did my best to get some sleep.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2018
I had an amazing birding year in 2017 with tons of travel , lots of amazing birds , and some truly memorable experiences. But 2018 is a whole new year and calls for all new goals. My year list hasn’t even been started but when it does it will be as unattractive as the fledgling Yellow Warbler up above. I have similar goals to last year’s but with some new twists.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2018
Stick birds. Rock birds. Plastic bag birds. Leaf birds. Stump birds. Branch birds. Snow birds. Lump birds. Pipe birds. Plastic birds. Every birder has been fooled at least once by inanimate objects masquerading as birds. This has a lot to do with the way the birding mind recognizes patterns: see the correct shape and color in the right context and you automatically think that distant plastic bag shifting in the breeze is a distant Snowy Owl.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2018
And so the next chapter begins. By the time most of you will be reading this, we will be on the road. As of midnight, February 31st, I am officially retired. Let the full time birding begin. At approximately 7:00 AM MT, we will begin our drive north, leaving our beloved La Paz, Mexico after 7 great years. While we have a bit of a deadline to get to Seattle, approximately 3000 miles north of here, we plan on making each driving day a short one, with a stop in some of the Baja’s best birding hotsp
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2018
As we approach the end of the first month of the year, take a moment to consider how challenging January birding can be for many of us. Denizens of the temperate zones begin the calendar year in the depth of winter or height of summer, times when species diversity is sparse. The conditions under which those few available species can be found are often dreadfully hot or painfully cold.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2018
Since we moved into our home in Broome mid 2000 we have kept a weekly bird list of birds that come into our garden or fly over our garden. There are several bird species that we observe daily without fail that come in for water and these include the Bar-shouldered Dove , Peaceful Doves , Brown Honeyeater , Singing Honeyeaters , Magpie-larks , Double-barred Finches , Great Bowerbird and Little Friarbird.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2018
We join proceedings a little way in as it took a few moments to find a good vantage point and find an acceptable camera exposure level. Thankfully, we have already passed the bit where I humiliate myself in front of 22 Brazilian soccer players by tripping on my laces when trying to kick back their stray football. I first noticed the bird as it flew up from the ground and into the tree.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2018
Late Saturday afternoon a Tundra Swan was reported from the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. A regional rarity around New York City, Tundra Swans are only regular at Hook Pond in Suffolk County, way out on the eastern end of Long Island. I’d only ever had two encounters with Tundra Swans in Queens, one in November of 2006 and a flock of thirty-three, believed to have been forced down by a storm, in November of 2014.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2018
Though temperatures have rebounded from the nadir and were temporarily above freezing here in New York City, the mercury has plummeted again and long outings out of doors are distinctly less pleasant than they would be if it were T-shirt weather. What’s a birder to do when weather fails to cooperate? After all, you don’t want to sink to spending time with family or doing chores, do you?
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2018
We’re less than a week into 2018 and already birds (at least those that migrate in and through the United States) are worse off than they were at the end of last year. A new directive from the current administration wipes out protection engendered by President Obama. Namely, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act will no longer be interpreted to include accidental killings (such as from environmental hazards) as crimes, only intentional deaths.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2018
I think most of you know how important our National Wildlife Refuge system is to me. After all, I have written several posts on wildlife conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Pass that my co-founder Ingrid Taylar and I have been encouraging for years. This week I have simply put together a post featuring several of my favorite photos, all taken on our National Wildlife Refuges.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2018
And they’re off! Your 2018 year lists, whether you tally them or not, have already begun to populate, silently bearing witness to your commitment to bird looking or lack thereof. Some eager beavers have already broken triple digits for the year while less industrious sorts may not even be in double digits. No worries… with 51 weekends left in this year, we’ll all have plenty of time to indulge in avian observation.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2018
This new year already appears to be auspicious for eagles. Not only did I pick up my life Golden Eagle on New Year’s Day, but now the Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. Maybe my perspective is biased, but if you’re feeling left out, you should be making 2018 your Year of the Eagle as well. Of course I saw tons of Bald Eagles chilling on the ice at Irondequoit Bay, but the bird that thrilled me most this weekend was my second Northern Shrike for the year.
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 30, 2018
Did you know that every year, of the 8 million dogs and cats that enter animal shelters, 3 million of these healthy and treatable pets are euthanized? It is such a sad statistic, you can read even more about the.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2018
The first month of 2018 is nearly in the books. At the conclusion of every month, we might ask ourselves, “Did I see enough or well enough these past weeks?” With hope, our answers improve with every month. I saw nothing this weekend I hadn’t seen earlier in January, but White-winged Scoters earn respect every time they turn up. The common scoters of Lake Ontario, these seaducks bring a strong, dark presence to our winter shores.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2018
When I began reviewing beers for 10,000 Birds, I knew I would eventually get around to writing about the Mendocino Brewing Company. While I’m happy whenever a brewery has just one bird-inspired beer, Mendocino offers an entire range of beers named for birds, with each bottle handsomely adorned with a namesake bird. And these aren’t kitschy or ironic cartoon birds, or highly stylized logos, or some other over-the-top exhibition of artistic whimsy – as much fun as these designs can be – but sincer
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 23, 2018
Walking up the ramp, from the docks here at Marina Palmira, on my way to the adjacent sidewalk that border the marina, I was literally blasted with an amazing flash of blue! Please understand, my eyes are always trained in a downward angle, not only to assure that I stay on the dry portion of the dock, nearly but all of the birds to be seen, are in close approximation to the water.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2018
Three weekends into a new year should see everyone still taking their resolutions seriously. Whatever birding momentum you picked up from a fresh year list should still be strong, driving you to seek out new ticks for 2018. If your enthusiasm is flagging, pick it up… we’ve got a long year ahead with a lot to see. Without intending to, I’ve been birding assiduously this month, hitting both reliable haunts and new hotspots.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2018
Two weekends into the new year, I’m already wondering if the weather will be this volatile every month. This crazy climate change must be wreaking havoc on birds. In between arctic blasts, I got up to the lake at Hamlin Beach State Park, where I found a very confused and noisy Red-Headed Woodpecker. Well, maybe I was confused at the appearance of this unexpected bird, but it was definitely noisy.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2018
Last year we had an odd observation concerning a Greater Sand Plover. This marked individual had completely normal plumage when it was captured and marked in 2012 during its second year of life, but over the period of mid-November 2016 until December 29th 2016 its plumage changed dramatically. The skin on the Greater Sand Plover’s legs became very orange/pink and the bill also changed colour from black to orange/pink and I documented this here.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2018
I haven’t got a story behind this week’s beer, and I’m not even sure what to make of the name or the artwork beyond its obvious avian inspiration – but there’s enough here to qualify it for a “Birds and Booze” review. Lead Feather, a “black ale” by the Half Acre Beer Company of Chicago, comes in a one-pint “tallboy” can decorated with a bizarre, pseudo-heraldic black-and-white raptor of indeterminate species depicted “spread eagle” (or “displayed”, to use the correct heraldic attitude), chained
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 11, 2018
A new year inspires in birders the same mad ambition a fresh canvas ignites in painters. No matter how many phenomenal years you have behind you, the best one is the next one. What works of birding genius will you wreak upon the world in 2018? In between blizzards, I’ll be trying to track down winter buntings and larks in the areas south and west of greater Rochester.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2018
A new year is upon us, my friends! Maybe 2018 is starting off too cold or too hot or with too much bomb cyclone for your tastes. What does it matter? We still have birds. As long as we have them, we should be looking at them… I’ll be watching birds mostly through the rime-crusted windows of my office, though–after kicking off the new year with my life Golden Eagle –I’m eager for another chase.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2018
Once upon a time, in the hazy past of 2013, I was asked to write a zombie story. This happened to a lot of people at the time; in fact, by the point when my zombie story ended up between pages, the species had exceeded the carrying capacity of its habitat, resulting in a population crash and near-extinction. As a result my story was seen by few eyes.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2018
I didn’t intend to turn over a new leaf with my first review of the new year, but this week’s beer represents a few firsts for the “Birds and Booze” beat here at 10,000 Birds. This the first drink I’ve reviewed featuring a bird not yet on my life list – and it’s not one I’m counting on adding any time soon. It’s also the first drink featuring a non-North American species (I’ll admit there’s a bias in my selections that’s largely dictated by geography).
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