4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 23, 2017
The World Health Organization declared April 7th, 2017 as World Health Day, a day focusing on mental health, but it’s also a year-long campaign which aims to educate, raise awareness and help people suffering from mental illness.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2017
I just returned from a glorious birding trip all over Cuba, so I am just going to ignore the pile of spring bird books on my dining room table (most of which arrived while I was gone), and write a bit about my favorite Cuban birds. Of course, it’s the colorful and tiny birds that get the most attention when one thinks of Cuba. There’s the Cuban Trogon, majestic (the national bird of Cuba), brilliantly colored, and surprisingly common.
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Animal Ethics
APRIL 4, 2017
This blog had 1,549 visits during March, which is an average of 49.9 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 44.0.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2017
With all the crazy stuff going on in the world these days, I thought it would be nice to put a smile on some faces with some photos of some baby birds. Above are Oak Titmouse ( Baeolophus inornatus ) nestlings just hatching out. These little birds can be steadfast and obstinate, as is this female seen here incubating eggs. Most birds will fly from the nest when checking in on them, not these tough little ladies!
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2017
It has been a long time since I’ve put up a diabolical identification quiz. Too long, in fact. In order to get back into the swing of things I thought I would start small, with just one image. Do you know what the bird in the image below is? If so, share your answer in the comments! If you get it right you be lauded by all of birder-kind and are guaranteed to succeed on your next twitch.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2017
Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why field guides that arrange species in a more or less strict taxonomic order regularly frustrate me. I gave a number of reasons in a great number of paragraphs and got an enormous amount of comments, many of which were highly critical of what I had said. The original post is here , and if you have some left-over time, spending it on going through the comments is time well spent.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2017
I have no doubt that most of the regulars on this site have similar driving habits as mine. For better or worse, my head is always on a swivel, looking here and there to see what is flying about, or in my case sitting on top of a cactus. While I don’t consider myself an inattentive driver, I mean it’s not like I am texting, or looking up a bird species on my phone app.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2017
Rainy Sunday morning, the type of weather that will keep most people in bed, but those who know the secret would have the entire river for themselves. Calm surface of the Danube in front of our canoe reflected willows and tussocks of bright-yellow Flag Iris. Black-crowned Night Herons were foraging from roots protruding from the banks. From a dry tree above the river branch came the deep and throaty call of a pair of Common Ravens.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 30, 2017
The weather is warming up for most of us now, and it’s time to get outside and spend more time with our pets! Awhile back I got to attend a super fun tech afternoon for bloggers.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 18, 2017
Pet loss is a hard subject for all pet parents, but it can be especially hard for children. Being Brave for Bailey is a sweet book that helps children prepare for and deal with pet loss.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2017
As you might have seen mentioned previously , last weekend the illustrious Corey Finger and I broke the Queens record with our sighting of fifteen Wilson’s Snipe at Willow Lake (we also proved the extraordinary merit of my water-resistant hiking shoes, but that’s beside the point.) Wilson’s Snipe seems almost too straightforward for What’s In a Name post – it’s named after good old Alexander Wilson , with the Latin name coming into play because it’s appa
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2017
With its bright yellow eyes, and bold arrow shaped breast markings, the Gray Thrasher , Toxostomsa cincerum is one of my favorite photography targets. This relatively large bird, 10-11 inches, makes for a pretty easy identification with in its region. The size, larger down curved bill, and the fact that it is the only thrasher on the southern Baja certainly helps.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2017
My very first story ever posted here on 10,000 Birds was about the interesting habit of our local Costa’s Hummingbirds, using the sailboats in Marina Palmira, here in La Paz, Mexico for nesting sites. Each and every one of these boats have a myriad of lines, rigging and other places to establish their new nest. Ever since that first year, the number of nesting Costa’s on boats has multiplied.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2017
A large concentration of eagles makes for spectacular viewing and I wanted to share my excitement with you after a morning at Boundary Bay to the south of Vancouver in BC. It was an early start and the Bald Eagles were evident before I even alighted from the bus at 96 th St. I was already into double figures as the bus pulled up at Matthew’s Interchange.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2017
The second weekend of April definitely sits among my favorites of the year, and not just because this is my birthday weekend. Birds that have been away for a while tend to come back around this time. I’m looking forward to seeing them! Depending on which expected species arrive first, I’ll either be heading up to Lake Ontario or down to Conesus Inlet.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2017
For most readers of this blog, Pete Dunne hardly needs an introduction. As far back as the late ’70s he’s been entertaining and enlightening birders with his essays and books on the hows and why of birding. The latest from his pen is Birds of Prey , a hybrid between an identification guide and an essay collection, a book of lore that provides a comprehensive overview of the raptors of North America.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2017
Way back in February when I was enjoying a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas I wisely hired the best – and the only – bird guide on the island, Carolyn Wardle , for half a day to show me around some of the hotspots and help me find endemics and other species I wanted to see. Within ten minutes of picking me up Carolyn was pulling over on the side of the road at a completely nondescript spot.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2017
Small, delicate, graceful, the Least Tern embodies all we love about birds and then some. Have you seen their chicks? Adorable. Every spring, we birders along the Emerald Coast wait for their arrival with bated breath, grinning from ear to ear when they patrol the beach once more, diving for food in the shallow waves. For me, that moment came last week.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2017
Shorebirds are part of the avian scene in Costa Rica, pretty much all year long. During the winter months, thousands of small wading birds frequent the mud flats of the Gulf of Nicoya as well as estuaries on both coasts. Even more pass through Costa Rica during spring and fall migration, and in summer, you can cross paths with an errant Whimbrel and other shorebirds that opt to extend the vacation in Costa Rica rather than heading way north to the boggy breeding grounds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2017
I’m still recovering from several days of blisteringly good birding in Panama, including a jaunt down Old Gamboa Road. This legendary trail connected to Summit Ponds hosts all manner of Canal Zone specialties, including an abundance of hawks, kites, falcons, and owls. So I wasn’t entirely surprised to spot something raptorish but unfamiliar perched high above the trail.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2017
April showers still fall, but many flowers can’t wait for May. This weekend may be blowing in spring or fall or a rainy season or a dry one, but hopefully you’ll enjoy whatever you’re getting. We staggered in last night from a very successful Panama vacation, with success marked both by memories made and birds seen. With so much to unpack literally and figuratively, I’ll be locked up for a while.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2017
April is here, carrying with it the first waves of birds you may not have seen in a while. Even if you were fooled by some improbable reports this weekend, you can expect real wonders all season long. Corey spent all day on Saturday blitzing across Queens with Carrie Laben and it was a wildly successful day with 87 species spotted including a Great Horned Owl that seemed not to know that owls are supposed to be hidden away during the day, fifteen Wilson’s Snipe (a new high count for Queens
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2017
Around here, we’re getting the last of April showers and the earliest of migrants. Everywhere else, other things are happening. But no matter where you are, you undoubtedly have good reasons to get out and enjoy nature right now. But did you? Every year, I look forward to the arrival, brief as it is, of White-crowned Sparrows to my feeders; this weekend, a gorgeous pair dropped in for breakfast.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2017
After all the rain in the northern part of Western Australia in recent months it is not too surprising that there has been an eruption of Black-tailed Native-hens. We have yet to encounter any around Broome this year and our last sighting here was of the one lone Black-tailed Native-hen last year. No doubt they will soon arrive as the smaller ephemeral lakes and swamps start to dry out, but for now there are large flocks of them to the south in the Pilbara.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2017
Spring, at least in these parts, is busting out all over. That means lots of blossoms and lots of birds. This time of year, even Mondays look pretty good. We all pick up certain phenological signs of seasonal shifts; around here, calling Killdeer usher in the sweeter half of spring. Now that I’ve heard one, I’m willing to believe winter is (almost) over.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2017
This year has been very wet and the local birds have taken advantage of the situation. Not only have the Magpie-larks been busy building their mud nests and the Tawny Frogmouths been breeding at the supermarket car park, but other birds arrived and started to breed. Magpie Geese arrived in the Broome area and bred close to the main highway and have now moved off to deeper water.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2017
This year has been a good year for me in terms of travel. Austria, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and a brief visit to California have kept me in new birds and it has been wonderful. But there is still little more in birding that I like than birding my local haunts and seeing what there is to see. At Forest Park on Good Friday I caught up to a Red-breasted Nuthatch and got to watch and digiscope it as it foraged through the understory.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2017
The third weekend in April, when we birders in the northeastern United States start to go stir crazy, convinced that the wood-warblers should all be back by now and lamenting the species that we have not yet seen. Fortunately, we New Yorkers were blessed with a marvelously warm wind out of the southwest from Saturday through Sunday, leading to some seriously warm weather and nice pulse of neotropical migrants.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2017
Over the past few months we have not only encountered some wet days , but also some days when we just had to get out there and explore the bush tracks. The birding has been rewarding as always and we have been able to add several birds to the 2017 year list that we may not see around Broome every year. The humidity has been very high until recently and not always ideal for being out for several hours at a time, but we have seen the some wildflowers that have been absent on drier years or in very
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2017
I went to Tortuguero National Park last weekend. Shortly after arrival, I saw a bird that had me yelling for Robert to come down from his room in the Casa Marbella and look in the scope. Knowing that I wouldn’t yell for him to come quick if we were seeing regular species like the endangered Great Green Macaw , toucans, or even a Bare-crowned Antbird , Robert wasted no time in racing down the stairs.
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