10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2023

These small crocodilians pose no threat to humans, but I had never before seen one in these ponds. Perhaps the bird was trying to get a closer view, so as to reference the images of possible threats it learned as a young bird? Two immature Least Grebes approach an adult, asking kindly for a snack. And closer.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Their name refers to their habit of eating nectar and pollen, though most of them also eat insects and/or fruit. The book hastens to assure us that “we may safely assume that it referred only to bright plumage” While larger, the White-eared Honeyeater seems to follow a somewhat similar color scheme. .” (HBW).

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I know feral dogs do sport hunts and there was a recorded primate war, but as far as I’m aware, the feral dogs were either directly owned or descended by dogs owned by humans, and the primate war was started by human interferance of food being given to the primates by researchers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

A generalist raptor that can keep on living in a human dominated landscape. Although Broad-wingeds have never been referred to as Mexican Goshawks, it would seem that they still overlap in terms of prey items and habitat. Every place has its hawk. At least it seems that way. I suspect it spends most of its time in our neighborhood.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

However, over time, the term evolved to refer to how they were hunted—they were considered “the right whales to hunt.” However, other human activities—like fishing and shipping—are still killing these whales. Before whaling began, estimates suggest there were 9,000 to 21,000 North Atlantic right whales.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). Apparently, the dissimilis (“unlike, different”) refers to the difference between the male and the female of the species. ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). Well, you could always pretend to fall asleep.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. It certainly does not refer to the status of Nanhui. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. A juvenile male. The real thing: an adult male.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. It is one of the more commonly seen owls, based on it having a relatively high tolerance for human activity as well as its partially diurnal habits. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2019

In most cases, it is thought to come from the Spanish word “Bobo” referring to stupid, or ignorant. In other historical references to this name, it has been used to describe someone (or thing) as being awkward, clumsy, or clownish. Moving on from there, we now get to the heart of this discussion, the name Booby.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

So Clavruel uses the facts of Audubon’s life from time to time, as appropriate, with occasional references, for example, to his, and his wife Lucy’s, diary entries and letters. Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Species formerly referred to as P. Apparently, this is another bird species that feels not so certain about flying (many humans have similar feelings). The HBW delights with exciting information on systematics history: “Specific name sometimes erroneously spelt P. barbata , but present name has priority.

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China Birds Austria ALA 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. This species is listed as vulnerable – similar to the Yellow-breasted Buntings, it is trapped on a large scale. Or duck?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2015

Gulls are often referred as “seagulls” due to their general association to the sea or sea shores. It eats just about everything and tolerates the presence of human and human disturbances rather well. On the series “North American birds with Neotropical Counterparts”, this time I introduce the Andean Gull.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

1978, for reference, was the year of my birth. There’s a certain suburbanization of the natural as well as the human world. I would be the last person on earth to complain about the creatures who have adjusted to living in our cities and towns – they provide a vital link between human and wild.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females. So, I can only give you the sanitized version of the joke, in which humans have been replaced by birds. My late father had a few jokes that he liked to repeat frequently, which in itself was kind of funny.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I’m not saying this is right, I’m saying, as someone experienced in using reference books with people seeking a specific answer, there is a limit in how much preparatory time they’re willing to put in.) ” There is also a listing of “References” and an “Index of English Names.”

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 227

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2019

And the only birds known to actually attack humans, not just try to scare them with screeching and low flights, but to establish a full contact in protection of their offspring, were owls. Such news would usually end up in tabloids with some title reference to Hitchcock’s The Birds. The panicky human parents are the worst kind.

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Protection Elephants Owls Laws 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. Its Latin name, Halcyon smyrnensis , refers to … … Halcyon: “denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Not very interestingly, the species name “squamatum” refers to the scaly appearance of the bird rather than the blue wings. A bit confusing as the Latin name of the Scaly Laughingthrush (see below) is “subunicolor” and thus does not refer to its scales but rather to its uniform color.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I remember a cartoon showing the prehistoric Earth as a vast forest with tiny villages fenced-off due to dangerous animals, and the today’s Earth as a wasteland, with a few tiny forests remaining, fenced-off due to abominable humans. In other destinations, you may prefer a car with a driver (e.g.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. I found this use of ‘regular people’s’ stories initially disjointing; it threw my librarian concept of a reference book out of whack. But, this is not a reference book in the classic sense.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

By the way, and for point of reference) there are some 47 million active American birders. There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression. The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

So great was the social divide that in those days falconers meant strictly those who flew falcons, while those who flew anything not a falcon – back then primarily goshawks and sparrowhawks (also accipiters and not to be confused with the American Kestrel , a falcon sometimes referred to as a sparrowhawk) – were called austringers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Broadly, the term may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems. The whole landscape seemed like something from a Jules Verne novel with weird-looking plants and strange creatures never gazed upon by human eyes. A Colombian paramo is basically a high-altitude moorland nestled in mountains between the treeline and glaciers.

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Colombia Birds Raised Ecuador 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest. Of course, when I write about frightening birds, I mean spooky birds at night in cemeteries – I’m not referring to genuine ornithophobia.

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2015 Denmark California Fowl 112

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Other topics in other chapters include bird-banding (called “ringing” in Britain); the differences between binocular vision (humans and owls) and monocular vision (most other birds); and the talents of outstanding bird illustrators such as Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927). and the Buffalo native Fred Szatkowki.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The Buff-necked Woodpecker (Taman Negara, Malaysia) is classified as Near Threatened, with the usual rationale of “habitat loss” (which sounds nicer than “evil humans destroying anything that does not immediately bring in money).

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 245

Reddit Animals

APRIL 16, 2023

One of their most unique qualities is their self-awareness, which is a sign of higher cognitive abilities that are usually reserved for humans and a few other species. Self-awareness refers to the ability to recognize oneself in a mirror or another reflective surface, and it's considered a sign of higher cognitive abilities.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I'm going to refer to it as just one from now on) is very brave and runs right across the floor when I'm watching TV. Call me a wimp if you want but know I'm 197cm 130Kg and can throw my own weight across the room with one hand. He stops when I turn on the light then keeps moving if I put the TV on.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

This is a book about patterns and relationships, not a strictly partitioned reference book, and you will find material on birds in every chapter. I only wish that the page numbers of photographs were differentiated in some way from text references. Please–do not read this section only!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

Like humans preferring snack food and alcohol at night, these spoonbills also have diet preferences depending on the time of the day: “The diet of Spoonbills appeared to differ between night and day because their prey exhibited pronounced nocturnal activity” ( source ).

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. Another – much rarer – drongo at Nanhui is the Ashy Drongo.

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