10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Groove-billed Ani is an odd-looking member of the Cuckoo family. Meanwhile, if you get outside of the city center and don’t see at least one Turkey Vulture or Black Vulture , well, you’re just not trying. In contrast, it is always a nice surprise for me to see Mourning Doves down here. Inca Doves , in my garden.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We all have them: our favorite places to take friends and family when they visit, the bird-friendly areas we pop in on when we have the chance, the landscapes that entrance us. Both Black and Turkey Vultures swooped overhead, occasionally upstaged by a shrieking Osprey. Moving means finding your new birding haunts.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Another California endemic, the Nuttall’s Woodpecker made an appearance… As did the family oriented Acorn Woodpecker. A Turkey Vulture was soaring above… And a bit later, a Red-tailed Hawk. There were a plethora of House Finches but not a Purple Finch in sight.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. These turkey-sized birds, named for their raucous calls, can muster an impressive level of volume. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2019

He is the author of an internationally distributed book in Spanish about family finances and has recorded four albums in Spanish of his own songs. Mexicans call Redstarts “ pavitos ” or “ little turkeys ” because of the way the constantly spread and display their white-tipped tails like turkeys do. But it’s the best one I have.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2014

While you can easily find drab representatives of the pheasant family across most of the world – dull uninteresting birds like partridges, quail, francolins, grouse, or, God help you, turkeys, pheasants are usually found only in Asia.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2020

This bird won’t really look like anything you have ever seen because it’s in a family all on its own. This is why it looks so unique and why a birder should be watching for a species around the size of a White Ibis or small heron but with an odd, almost turkey-like body shape. Is it a rail? Know where to look.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

The upside of rehabbing Turkey Vultures is they’re smart, funny, cool, fascinating birds. As I carried him to the car I looked into a towering pine tree across the street, and at least 30 of his friends and family looked back at me. “He The downside is sometimes they’ll bite you and throw up on you. It’s a small price to pay.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Two Purple Gallinules , two Limpkins … Raptors included Turkey Vultures , Ospreys , White-tailed , Grey-headed (so well seen in a nearby tree!) Several Southern Lapwings and American Black Vultures on a small mudbar, and something smaller in front of them – two locally rare Short-billed Dowitchers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

My family and many others are looking forward to veritable feasts to honor the fall harvest, for which I am also thankful. Most Americans are enjoying an early Thanksgiving weekend, for which I’m thankful. I also give thanks today for 10,000 Birds, our awesome writers, and our awesome readers… love you guys!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Too many of us focus on the turkey, but bird watchers know that Meleagris gallopavo means so much more than a meal, no matter how stuffed and savory. Corey and I will both be spending long weekends with our respective families and the avifauna in their respective areas.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

A map of Ontario is reproduced on the inside front covers and the Quick Index, a one-page listing of bird families, is on the back inside cover. I find it amazing that after 19 guides, it is still possible to describe a Great Blue Heron or Turkey Vulture with new words, and Earley certainly does that here. by 1 by 7.5

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

Anhinga , otherwise known as Snakebird , Water Turkey , or American Darter * – and more formally as Anhinga anhinga – is a bird I have long wanted to see in New York State. The other nickname, Snakebird , refer to its long neck but, honestly, I am not sure why it would ever be called a Water Turkey.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2015

Also interesting is that there is a relatively formal connection between historic families (you can think of these as “clans”) and regular use of specific trails or sets of trails. Many families or individuals live in the Twin Cities and have a cabin up north. Turns out this is true of Minnesotans as well. So remember.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

The conversations with family and friends have already begun about "Turkey Day." And of course if you correct someone and say "Dead Turkey Day," you're "buzzkill," or imposing your beliefs or being judgmental. Everyone clearly doesn't include the turkey and the other animals on the table. Is anyone proactive?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2017

Newly re-opened after budget cuts, the park sported one staff member in the office who generously gave us a map, one woman and her dog, and one family in the set of RV camping spots at the edge of the lake. dawn), afternoon naps, and quiet evenings with my husband as he goes after deer and turkey.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2019

The noble Blue Tit once ranged from Iran through Turkey and Europe to the Canary Islands (the Spanish Islands off North Africa – the other bird was named for the islands incidentally) and North Africa. But a split has annoyed me. A nice, compact, descriptive and above all long standing and widely known name has been… complicated.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

But, they still occur, the most common species being Black Vulture , Turkey Vulture , Gray Hawk , Short-tailed Hawk , and Yellow-headed and Crested Caracaras. Some members of this family always do well with people and Costa Rica is no exception. Blackbirds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Large picnic pavilions border one side, and while I was there the largest was commandeered by a family party. Tricolored and Little Blue Herons provided diversity, while an Osprey and group of circling Turkey Vultures were the only shapes that broke the constant blue of the sky.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Four families are often recognized: storm-petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels , and diving-petrels. But several studies suggest that the storm-petrels actually belong in two different families and that diving-petrels are embedded within the rest of the petrels and shearwaters.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This is one of several families of Western Grebes stayed out in the middle of the lake all day. A couple of old Ponderosa Pines, killed in a recent fire, served as a gathering spot for nearly 100 Turkey Vultures. It was good to be back! I am pretty sure that they were staging here for their trip south.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. Until turkey size or so. And smaller.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2017

While in Belize for my family vacation one of the birds I most wanted to see was a Jabiru. That might not sound scary but when your whole family is tooling along in a golf cart and a giant dump truck comes roaring up behind you and overtakes it is a bit unsettling. Snowy Egrets. Great Egrets. Yellow-crowned Night-Herons.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. Turkey Vultures , American Crows , and Red-tailed Hawks continue to patrol the skies.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2014

I’m in Orlando for what is supposed to be a family excursion, but as anyone who considers a pair of binoculars to be an every day accessory, if there are birds to be found I’m going to make an effort to see them. The birding in Florida is so easy that a kid can do it. Or so I planned to find out. Nothing, that’s what.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is worth pointing out that titmice belong to the family Paridae , an expansive international clan made up primarily of what we call “chickadees” in the states but are known as “t**s” in the Old World. What do you expect of those decadent, debauched Europeans? Just don’t make fun of its name.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

Birders from the Western Palearctic are very favourably positioned for such a split because three of the six suggested species occur within the WP at various sites around the Mediterranean: The African Swamphen occurs along the lower Nile and its delta into the Mediterranean, while the Grey-headed Swamphen makes southern Turkey its home.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2018

This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. I think I’ve recorded Turkey Vultures like the one at the top of the post in most of the counties of the eastern seaboard at this point! Two years ago it was Culebra, Puerto Rico. Last year it was New Providence in the Bahamas.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Aside from the obvious meaning, it does NOT mean Black Vulture or Turkey Vulture. In Costa Rica, when speaking English, we use a combination of words associated with both North American and UK birding communities. So, if you hear a guide say, “There’s a raptor!”,

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky's first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn't eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we'll be correcting). There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. But they always have their desire to not be killed.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

No turkeys up in here, just a big wild and crazy Cracid! This former aberrant wood-warbler is so weird, it has been given its own family. Taking the above-mentioned factors into consideration and whether the bird had a unique appearance or behaviors, here they are, a suggested top 25 target species list for Costa Rica: Great Curassow.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It’s that magical time of year when a turkey themed thanksgiving and a candy heavy Halloween on the horizon make us more than happy to swap our sexy swimsuits for sweaters. Likewise, the four-legged member of the family is equally happy to see the leaves hit the ground. But why stop there?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. top: Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ), bottom: Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know? Open Jarvis et al.’s Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

As birders, we tend to spend more time in wetlands than most of our peers, neighbors, and family members. Along with the other two members of the finfoot family, the Sungrebe is a super cool weird bird. Such sites being wonderful habitat for mosquitoes and other little biting nasties, we can’t really blame them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. That’s kind of weird because that is where I got my first Turkey Vulture in Queens from too. I must stare at the ocean a lot. Sooty Shearwater – Ditto. 7 out of 10!).

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