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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

'One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.

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Paws For The Balkans

4 The Love Of Animals

'Catastrophic floods following three days of extremely heavy rain this month have left large portions of Bosnia and Serbia submerged and millions of people and animals in desperate need of help. Thousands of animals have died from the immediate impact of the floods, but many more livestock and companion animals require urgent assistance. Image: Reuters.

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Animal Ethics

'This blog had 1,513 visits during May, which is an average of 48.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 66.4.

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The Devil Is In The D-Con

10,000 Birds

'This is a story of how an evil corporation was … I’d like to say “was brought to its knees,” but will settle for “was forced to endure a setback.”. Last week the poison manufacturer Reckitt-Benckiser announced it would pull 12 of the most toxic forms of D-Con, its popular rodenticide, from store shelves. This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children.

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Be Careful What You Wish For: A Punter’s Guide to the World Birding Rally

10,000 Birds

'Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. : Come to Peru, they said. There’s this World Birding Rally that’s going to blast across 1,500 kilometers of northern Peru.

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10,000 Birds Is Close To 10,000 Likes!

10,000 Birds

'As of this post, our Facebook page is only 42 “likes” away from reaching 10,000! We’re pretty excited by this news as it means that, well, people like us. We’ve never spent a thing on getting more attention on Facebook which means that our fans find us organically. So, if you have already liked us on Facebook, thanks! We appreciate it a great deal and we hope you appreciate the extra content that we share over there as well as the links to the posts here on the blog.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of May 2014)

10,000 Birds

'Can the best bird of your weekend be one you didn’t see? Obviously, not seeing a desired bird can place the offender in the Worst Bird of the Weekend category. We’ve all been there, right? But search your soul… could you possibly take pleasure in a special bird like the tasty vagrant that popped up in the most unlikely place or maybe one far from home that a friend just added to the life list?

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Calling All Kids! (And Those Who Bird With Them!)

10,000 Birds

'If you are a young birder, or have helped mentor one, Leica Sport Optics wants to reward your enthusiasm. The company is holding an essay contest aimed at drumming up interest in youth birding. All the details are here , and the deadline is June 30th , 2014. To sum up, adults (age 22 or older as of June 30) should write a short essay describing a “memorable birding experience while mentoring one or more young birders.

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New York State’s First Kirtland’s Warbler

10,000 Birds

'Greg Lawrence is an ace New York birder who is one of the lucky (?) few who has birded with both Mike and Corey. He is a former President of the New York State Young Birders Club and a guy you want with you if you are trying to identify a rarity. We are lucky enough that he agreed to share the story of how he saw the latest addition to the New York State Checklist.

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Breeding Plumaged Dunlin

10,000 Birds

'In winter Dunlin are bland birds, the color of sand on a gray morning. Don’t get me wrong, they are nice to see, mostly because in winter we have so few shorebirds around in New York, but they are definitely not going to be the red-letter bird of an outing. But when spring comes and they get into high breeding plumage, wow! Suddenly, when they are in their nuptial finery, they can rival the brightest wood-warblers with their colors.

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Double-barred Finch

10,000 Birds

'While we are away in the Southern Highlands trying to keep warm and enjoying the bird species of that area I will share with you some of our local Broome birds. I was quite surprised that I have not actually done a post on Double-barred Finch as they are often the first birds in our garden each morning and often the last to leave. I suppose it is quite easy to overlook a bird species that is common, but recently the numbers have increased and up to forty birds have been feasting on the seed in

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of June 2014?

10,000 Birds

'June, depending on where you find yourself, ranks among the most magical of months. Here in the northern temperate zone, spring has truly set in and proceeds quite nicely to summer. Such is the cycle of life, where June is as sweet now as it was in the 19th century when Nora Perry wrote sweetly of its abundant natural charms: So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see; So blithe and gay the humming-bird a going.

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An Osprey is an Osprey is an Osprey

10,000 Birds

'Today we named the three Osprey chicks that hatched out at Dunrovin ranch. It was a complex process, involving a selfie contest, voting by the site members, and fabulous prizes. I have to confess that I got a bit caught up in the whole contest. As a Dunrovin employee I didn’t submit a name or vote, but I was passionately in favor of some names, and passionately against others.

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Getting out of Wellington

10,000 Birds

'Eagle-eyed readers of my posts will have noticed that I haven’t been talking about New Zealand much lately. When I’m not too sick or bone idle and actually post something I’ve been talking about Borneo mostly. In part this is because I still have an enormous amount of material to cover from Borneo. But really, the reason I haven’t had much to say about New Zealand lately is because I haven’t seen much of it.

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Ten Years Gone

Animal Ethics

'Here are the posts from June 2004.

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Being a Tolai Hare’s life Human

10,000 Birds

'One of the pleasures of birding through a landscape no man has gone before is that one has frequent encounters with individuals – birds, mammals, herps, whatever – that have never seen a human in their life. Such has frequently been the case in my survey area deep within Kazakhstans barren Mangghystau province, and the most memorable reverse-lifer experience has been with a Tolai Hare just recently.

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