10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2015
'Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. Created by Nancy Brennan, Birdsbesafe looks like a stiff, brightly-colored Elizabethan collar – not the long plastic post-surgical cones that pets occasionally have to wear, but a small donut that fits around the cat’s neck without getting in the way.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 30, 2015
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Animal Ethics
APRIL 1, 2015
'This blog had 1,182 visits during March, which is an average of 38.1 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 49.0.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2015
Instead of waiting for the spring to come to me, I prefer to travel south to greet it. (One may also read this as “those who paddle their own canoe do not have to wait for their ship to come in.”) This time I was lucky enough to join a fam trip organised by Natural Greece, an ecotourism company from Athens, and spend a few days at my favourite Kerkini Lake, which you already birded through my bins ( April and September ).
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
'Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa). These 15 endemics and nearly 40 near-endemics (many of which were endemics until Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1991) are for the most part quite easily observed on the standa
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2015
'Irazu is the name of a volcano in Costa Rica. It’s sort of stuck between San Jose and Cartago and since it’s a volcano, it doesn’t stop at dominating the skyline. In fitting with proper volcanic decorum, it must loom or lord over a nearby populace with either a hint or a fistful of menace. Fortunately, for the moment, Irazu’s menace is diminished to a very welcoming hint.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2015
'Sometimes you get incredibly lucky and get a wood-warbler that feeds at your feet. Today was one of those days. A couple of Pine Warblers were being incredibly cooperative at Forest Park, the sun was shining, and I had my digiscoping rig with me. Numerous times the birds came so close that I could not focus. I actually decoupled my scope from the tripod and lied down on the ground and got some shots that way.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2015
“So what birds have you seen lately,” people say to me when they’ve run out of other things to say and don’t mind listening to me ramble on like the slightly dotty enthusiast I am. And finally, at long last, I’ve found the answer that gets me even weirder looks than “ American Woodcock.” For last week, I saw my life Chuck-will’s-widow.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2015
'A Hooded Crow. Two Feral Pigeons. Three Feral Pigeons. One more Hooded Crow. And so on… not much of a birding day, heh? One more Feral Pigeon. I am inside the city of Belgrade, checking the theoretically possible Peregrine Falcon site. Not that anyone has seen it there, but if I were a Peregrine, that would be one of the properties I would seriously consider.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2015
'California is big. Not just the state itself, which covers over 150,000 square miles, but also its parks, natural areas, and, as I was soon to learn, national seashores and recreation areas. I only had a few days in California while visiting my brother at Berkeley, but we couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to visit one of the most famous birding sites in the country: Point Reyes National Seashore.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2015
'Signs of spring are evident everywhere winter once held sway. Actually, signs that winter won’t release its icy grip so readily are also apparent… my traditional Easter family hike was canceled on account of snow. Sure, we could have survived the blustery flurry, but I’d rather hide until the last remnants of winter blow away! Our travels this weekend took us on the New York State Thruway, which passes through Montezuma NWR.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2015
'I was scanning through a few photographs that I captured recently during a visit to Woodlands Garden near Atlanta and was shocked to find one of a young Red-tailed Hawk with a cigarette in its beak. Does anyone else see James Dean? My own teenage son is testing his boundaries and I had hoped to escape the stress of rebellion for the afternoon. I hadn’t expected to be boldly stared down by a smoking juvenile hawk.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2015
'When I was in high school, We used the word “ridiculous” to describe anything perceived to be foolish, beyond fun, and/or at the upper levels of crazy. It was somewhat synonymous with today’s “epic”, and went way beyond the lackluster “swell” of the ancient first few decades of the twentieth century. I say all of this because I am about to talk about and show some ridiculous looks at members of the Costa Rican avifauna.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
When birders in the eastern United States see a flash of red up in the canopy or deep inside nearby bushes, more likely than not those crimson feathers belong to the iconic Northern Cardinal. Perhaps it was their flashy color or the males’ tall crest that attracted the legislature to the bird, because in 1943 the Northern Cardinal became the official state bird of North Carolina.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2015
'Owls are among the birds with the greatest power to fascinate non-birders, for good and ill. From the ancient Greeks to my ex-boyfriend, people are prone to investing them with both love and meaning. Why? I don’t know. They’re predators, yeah, but so are the most commonplace of hawks. They’re hard to see, but so are rails, and hardly anyone gives a crap about rails.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2015
'One Common Raven is disappearing towards its nest among the branches of the poplar plantation, only to reappear a few minutes later to give a good chase – aerial acrobatics included – to its first neighbour, the White-tailed Eagle which breeds in the vicinity. I am parked at the bridge over the Reva Pond in the suburb of Belgrade, Serbia, mere 150 metres away from the nearest buildings behind me, but facing the fascinating undeveloped 1.2 kilometres / 0.7 miles towards the Danube River ahead of
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2015
'What’s so great about April? A better question might be to ask what isn’t great about April. This month introduces change for the better, movement from one state to another, and a season that unfolds magically week after week. Also lots of birthdays in my family, which is cool. And also birds, also cool! I finally got my eyes on my first Eastern Phoebe of the year, pumping that tail in the cold spring sunshine.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2015
'What is H5N2 Avian Influenza? H5N2 is a bird influenza virus that is making news. This mainly affects domestic fowl, and in this sense is not a topic central to 10,000 Birds. But, wild birds are part of the story, and the virus itself has changed and has been known to make wild birds ill. And, of course, the reputation of certain species of birds as troublemakers for humans is a problem in bird conservation, so this is worth watching.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2015
'Here at 10,000 Birds we take great pride in bringing you the most exotic and challenging stories of birding around the world. At my other blog, I explain how hard it is to see Great Horned Owls by city bus. I can’t claim that I haven’t gotten a bit of cabin fever here in New York as winter drags on, but with spring finally arriving in earnest, I am filled with high hopes.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2015
'Keep your eyes to the skies for exotics like this Red-masked Parakeet ! Here in the United States, we’ve just observed (not celebrated, mind you) Tax Day, the annual IRS tax filing deadline. I point this out not to engage in a debate about the merits or flaws of taxation in America, but simply to point out that a heavy burden has been lifted off of our collective shoulders.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2015
'I don’t know if you have ever tried to bird with a cold, but it’s not easy. All your senses are dulled, which makes finding one of those fast-flitting warblers or other songbirds especially difficult. Still, we are in the midst of spring migration here in North Carolina, and I wasn’t going to let a little cold stop me from seeing some birds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2015
One of the earliest wood-warblers to arrive each spring here in the northeast is the Louisiana Waterthrush ( Parkesia motacilla ). Just like with Pine Warblers and Palm Warblers , we birders go out of our way to make sure that we see them as soon as they show up while the later-migrating and very similar Northern Waterthrush gets nowhere near the same amount of attention.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2015
'Enjoy the view at Moorcroft Manor in South Africa. Waking up to snow at the end of April is uncommon even here in western New York. My immediate reaction this morning was not fit for print, while my second was to wonder if April Fools Day fell twice this month. While I gave a moment’s thought to our new spring arrivals, they are probably much better equipped to cope with the cold than I am at this point.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2015
'Florida is one of America’s great avian hot spots, renowned for its impressive bird diversity. The official Florida checklist counts over 500 species, and thus Florida citizens had a wealth of State Bird candidates to choose from when they named the Florida state bird in 1927. Did they choose the delicately pink Roseate Spoonbill? The brilliantly blue and endemic Florida Scrub Jay?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2015
I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox. But it is in Africa that the group reaches its most diverse, from the enormous Eland to the diminutive Suni, and a whole range of body types in between.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2015
'No matter how nice this weekend gets, I’d still rather be in a dry forest in Honduras ! Well, April fools, early indications suggest that the long, lingering winter plague that has infected many northern territories won’t be enough to keep birds away. As they’ve done for generations upon countless generations, migrants are trickling in from the south.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2015
'We’ve entered that portion of the year where one season loosens its grip enough for the next to begin to peek through. In many parts of the world this weekend, spring felt like spring and fall felt like fall, or at least a recognizable harbinger of days to come. Did you see what I mean? I appreciated the muscular grace of a Sharp-shinned Hawk filtering effortlessly through tall trees, no doubt practicing for all those tiny migratory morsels on their way to the great boreal forest.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2015
Because I know that you are a cultured bunch and because you probably won’t have time to stop and smell the roses for the next couple of weeks, I call William Wordsworth to my aide to help usher in spring. He, daffodils mostly spent by the end of April, turns to the Lesser Celandine for his inspiration and to feed his yellow fetish. To The Small Celandine.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2015
'Last weekend I finally caved and bought a new laptop to replace the one that swan-dived off my bed last November. My desktop simply can’t cope with the number and size of images that modern digital cameras produce, and this meant that I was finally able to start sorting through my many photos I took on my trip. And the weirdest thing happened.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2015
'Three White-faced Whistling Ducks showed up in Villa Marshes in Lima-Peru. Villa Marshes is an Ebird hot spot and popular site among Peru’s fast growing birding community. The hype about these unusual birds grew fast to judge by the number of posts and photos on Facebook. However, the ducks’ behavior killed the festive mood for some and left others with a glimmer of hope.
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