10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2012
The Great Blue Heron nest camera at Cornell’s Sapsucker Woods had essentially been the typical nest camera. Bird lays eggs, sits on eggs, etc. That changed in the early morning hours when a Great Horned Owl decided that, well, watch for yourself! Wow! a.
Critter News
APRIL 30, 2012
Unfortunately, he's also one of the presidents of the World Wildlife Fund whose Swedish chapter supports the maintenance of the wolf population. D'oh! From Wildlife Extra. Wolves kill elk - But King Gustaf wants to kill the elk so he wants to get rid of wolves And why does he want to do that? Because every year the good king runs an elk hunt in Sweden, along with his son Prince Carl Philip.
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4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 30, 2012
Kimpton’s second, annual Paw-parazzi contest , going on now through May 31, 2012. You can upload your photos to the Kimpton’s website for the chance to win playful pet prizes. Every two weeks, the five top pet photos with the most “like” votes will receive prizes and at the end of the contest, one lucky pet will win the “ Ultimate hosPETality Getaway ,” which includes: A three night stay at a Kimpton Hotel of your choice.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 1, 2012
This blog had 3,175 visits during March, which is an average of 102.4 visits per day. A year ago in March, the average was 134.9.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
This unhappy-looking tar baby is covered with a green, environmentally-friendly product called Tanglefoot. It is a non-drying, sticky compound that is used to protect trees by forming a barrier against climbing insects. Normally it might not be a problem, but last October a farmer in upstate New York spread it on an apple tree so thickly that the product slid down the branches and pooled in the tree’s crotch.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2012
Here is another in a series of posts that celebrates the beauty hidden in plain sight, the astounding in the ordinary. Our subject today is the humble Mallard. While we all love birds for their spectacular and stupefying relationship to the air, waterfowl have another element to navigate and they are equally attuned to its demands. Above, a Mallard preens in New Zealand and sends pulsing waves into the morning light.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
This week marks the 2-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. What the world did not know was the unthinkable scale of the disaster to follow. There is no point rehashing the gruesome details of the largest accidental marine oil spill in our history.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2012
How to Be a Better Birder is a very different kind of birding book, and, once you think about it, the perfect book to be written at this particular moment in the birding universe. Reading it might take a little bit of adjustment, because for many of us, being a better birder has meant perfecting our identification skills. We buy field guide after field guide, have long discussions on which is the best, listen to bird song CDs in our cars, and invest in large, expensive handbooks.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2012
I know it’s dangerous to title a post “Birds From Behind” during “Bird Love Week” but I have to admit… it’s kind of the point. I’m getting swept up and unduly influenced by duck anatomy and countless pictures of avian copulation. But in all seriousness, this post is actually about those moments that seem to get away… but don’t.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2012
It’s a beautiful day, you’re out birding, and you come across a bird who, instead of perching 20 feet over your head or winging its way past your face, is standing on the ground with its wing askew, wearing a dismayed expression. What do you do? You pick it up (carefully, if it’s a goshawk) and bring it to me. Or to one of my cohorts, of whom there aren’t nearly enough, and who are hidden across the country in a “Where’s Waldo?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2012
This post comes by way of an assignment. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post , The Management wrote to me suggesting that they would like one of those. Now perhaps the word “suggesting” makes it sound like I have a choice and that would be true in the same way that I have a choice to retain full use of my legs or the accepted complement of fingers.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2012
Purple Swamphens are large gallinules and despite their name they are not actually “purple”, but it’s amazing what you can get away with when naming birds! They are a magnificent blue with a red frontal shield and stout bill. We have discovered that they are more likely to show their “love” for each other in areas where they have some onlookers and can even be quite devious.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2012
I am so sick of the feral cat colonies that infest so many locations that I like to bird. And while I am sick of the cat colonies I am even more sick of the deluded people who believe that by feeding feral cats they are somehow helping them. Outdoor cats live short, ugly, violent lives. They get hit by cars, suffer from parasites, predated upon by coyotes, and die from disease.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2012
Editor’s Note : Though he is a very nice guy and a great blogger Clare Kines, the author of this blog post, might have lived in the far north for too long. Apparently the lack of birds and the abundance of cold has led to him thinking that writing a blog post about bunnies is an acceptable topic for Bird Love Week. We thought about doing an intervention but then decided that this post is so loaded with awesome pictures (boxing hares!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
Living in Northern California offers nature lovers many opportunities to view wildlife in there native habitat. Living near the Sacramento River and its many lakes and tributaries makes it even more likely to see the incredible fish hawk or sea eagle we call the Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). Click on photos for full sized images. Osprey can be found on all continents of the world except Antarctica, on or near any body of water allowing them access to an adequate supply of their nearly exclusive
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2012
Though this question is probably only relevant to birders in the midwest and northeast of the United States I feel compelled, like last year , to ask it. Have you seen your first Eastern Phoebe of 2012? When? Was it earlier or later than usual for you? my first decently photographed Eastern Phoebe of 2012 at Bayonne Park on 4 April 2012 This year I had several first phoebes.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
As migration proceeds in fits and starts I find myself torn between wanting to find as many birds as I can on each birding outing and wanting to take my time with each species that I haven’t seen since they left for fairer climes back in the fall. It is a conundrum and one that I don’t mind not being able to figure out, just so long as there are any birds at all around to see.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2012
Whilst leading a birding tour to Sri Lanka, I spotted a flash of bright white in a lily-choked wetland near Ambalantota in the south-east of this verdant island. A bright flash of white caught my attention in this lilly-choked wetland Closer investigation revealed a stunning male Pheasant-tailed Jacana perched atop a female. Our excitement at finding these avian gems soon turned to amazement as the entire tour group became enraptured by the fascinating behavior that we were fortunate enough to
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
Since 2006 a pair of Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) nesting at Turtle Bay in Redding California have successfully raised a dozen eaglets! The past three years the eagle pair dubbed Patriot (the male) and Liberty (the female) have been watched by thousands on an EagleCam installed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). This year when the pair returned to Turtle Bay, they decided to build a new nest in an adjacent tree.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
I have put this post off for a couple of months now because I wanted to avoid dealing with the huge pile of American Bittern images I had after my experience at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival back in January. You see, the Black Point Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is kind of ridiculous when it comes to good looks at American Bitterns.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2012
Nothing frustrates me more than a report of a good bird that reaches me while I am at work or on my way there. And the frustration is magnified all the more when the bird, like the one Thursday morning, is reported from Queens and is also one that I have not yet seen in my home borough. I may have mentioned before that I really like adding birds to my Queens list.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
One of the admirable things about Montana is how it contains prime examples of not one, but two iconic North American landscapes. I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
We here at 10,000 Birds have long wanted to include the best in bird bloggers and feel that we have largely accomplished that goal. Our Beat Writers are awesome! But we would like to add a new Beat Writer on a specific beat – that of Bird Topography. We are looking for a Beat Writer to write a weekly or biweekly post on the parts of birds, one part at a time.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2012
Early April is a special time for most, especially those of us in the Northern Hemisphere that love each emerging sign of spring. The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way! My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker sp
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2012
On Wednesday this week we had a very close encounter with a Wedge-tailed Eagle on the edge of the road. The Blue-tongued Lizard that was also having the same experience was definitely not as excited and was trying its hardest to protect itself. It all looked rather hopeless as it tried to make itself look fatter and wider & arched its back & forced a sound out.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. When he isn’t snapping photos in the field, training local bird guides, or supporting seabird-related conservation initiatives, he runs Avian Leisure , a birding and wildlife safari company out of Cape Town established in 1998, with his wife, Marie-Louise.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
There cannot be many ABA area breeding birds harder to get than those that only breed on the remotest tips of the north of North America and then fly off to places that aren’t on the major continental flyways. One such tricky bird is the Bristle-thighed Curlew , a species that complicates the matter by looking suspiciously like the common or garden Whimbrel.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2012
On our recent trip to Sydney we explored several areas that were easily reached by public transport & we discovered that there are some great walk trails that start near train stations. There are two good day walks that start at either Berowra or Mt Kuring-gai train stations and they can be done in either direction. If you need supplies there is a supermarket close to Mt Kuring-gai station, but as it is a small station not all trains stop there!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2012
In New York, as is the case across most of the area where the “eastern” wood-warblers migrate, there are four species that are almost always the first to appear. Palm Warblers , with their tail-pumping and low-foraging habits, tend to get much of the attention. The Louisiana Waterthrush announces itself with loud chip notes and a clear song.
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