10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

We may be mere weeks away from rolling over into a new season, but the one we’re mired in may feel a lot to you like a permanent climatic moment. Worry not. This too, like everything else, will pass! Brutal cold kept me locked up, which offered a perfect opportunity to appreciate the fifty shades of Northern Cardinals hanging around my house. Seriously, cardinals are both gorgeous and interesting , but their familiarity across most of North America breeds indifference if not contempt.

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New York City 2017 North America New York 134

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2017

Playing off the popularity of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, Petplan’s Tournament of Tails features adoptable pets from 32 shelters across the country vying for the crown of top dog or cat.

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2017 Adoptable Shelters Cats 113

Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2017

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Animal Rights Rights Animal 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2017 this morning, 12 March, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, thus kicking off spring for myself over a week early. Over the last ten years my average first phoebe has been the 21st of March, meaning that this bird was a full nine days earlier than average and beat last year’s first phoebe by six days. It’s also the earliest I’ve had over the last ten years.

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2017 2016 2015 Jamaica 110

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

That’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself. There’s a decent chance you’ve never even heard of it before. I hadn’t until a little over a month ago when while flicking through one of my volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) I came across it. I was looking for a new project to write about on Wikipedia, something unusual, and this species appealed for reasons I can’t quite define.

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Science Argentina South America Uruguay 108

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

Every year, there is a phenomenon that occurs here in La Paz, as well as many major cities across the planet. Carnival just before Lent. Now, I am not going to go into the religious complications of this “event” but to say it can certainly turn a peaceful city into 7-10 days of 24/7 noise, music and craziness. While La Paz, is not really what I would call a tourist destination, but being a waterfront city in Mexico does allow for a certain amount of touristic activities.

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Birds Mexico Game California 106

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2017

While those of us living in the northeastern United States are currently buried under what passes for the current season, you may be in position to enjoy it. Whatever your feelings, this weekend represents the last one of this season as well as an early moment in a wave of migration that will span months. Plus, you can wear as much green (and drink as much alcohol) as you want today.

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United States 2017 Birds 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2017

The air was cooler in the Redwood Grove than the surrounding, sunlit areas of the San Francisco Botanical Garden. The light that did make it through the thick branches of the trees reached the ground in patches, making patterns on the thin, winding trails. My mom and I were visiting the gardens while we waited for my brother to get out of his classes at UC Berkeley.

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San Francisco Agenda United States 2010 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2017

A Pin-tailed Sandgrouse flew across the front of the hide and landed on the other side of a freshwater sluice, just a few meters away under the watchful eye of a Slender-billed Gull. A security guard who mans the hide had spotted it earlier and pointed it out, but at the time it was quite a long way off and in a small hollow, making it difficult to identify.

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UAE France Spain Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

Magpie-larks are a very common bird throughout most of Australia and they are quite at home among the large cities as well as in the country towns and the remote parts of Australia. They are in fact not related to either Magpies or Larks , but do have the black and white colouring of a Magpie and are much smaller in size. Magpie-larks are regular visitors in our garden and they nest in the trees in our street bringing their young into our garden for water once they have left the nest.

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Breeding Australia Collecting Geese 100

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