10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2023

As I sit at my desk writing this post about the latest attempt at breeding for one of our pairs of Pied Oystercatchers I realise I have written 677 posts now for this website. Nothing to do for a few days other than stand around on a rock together and contemplate another attempt at breeding. One large Pied Oystercatcher family !

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Eggs Australia Protection Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and breeding, often in large colonies, on coastlines and islands. They’re also more vulnerable to attack from large cold-blooded predators like sharks. See Cairns et al.

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Penguins Puffins 2008 Sharks 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

About 3 billion of North America’s landbirds, 26 million of its waterfowl, and 7 million of its shorebirds breed here. There are nearly 100 species of which 50% or more of the entire population breeds in the Boreal Forest. Remember, this was back in 2008. Trailings ponds and oiled birds. Fragmentation of habitat from drilling.

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Obama 2008 United States Industry 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y.,

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 263

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. Yours truly counting birds in the Pastures of Great Bustard from the Russian made UAZ 4×4 in February 2008. Bustards are being counted in February because their breeding season starts in March. What treats do they face?

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 104

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

All around Porto Lagos (220 km / 140 mi east of Thessaloniki) lies the largest national park of Greece, Nestos Delta and the Vistonida-Ismarida lakes and lagoons complex, founded in 2008. Its coastline has a total length of 100 km and is basically sandy with smooth, low-relief coasts. Alright, there are also beaches, swimming, sun-bathing?

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Greece Pelicans Birds Otters 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. I love American Avocets and I rarely see them in such marvelous breeding plumage, so I was in heaven. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 211

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

the poor guy must have hit a building window, predawn, while migrating – which is not, unfortunately, such a rare occurrence, see Corey’s October 2008 post here ). In addition to his D.C.

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New Hampshire Washington Virginia United States 225

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

We hypothesized that trends in waterfowl hunter numbers, as indicated by Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Conservation Stamp (duck stamp) sales, have become independent of breeding duck populations, and we assess the impacts on habitat conservation. 4 0.81) and 1995–2008 (r 1?4

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

The Guardian recently published the latest population analysis by the IUCN’s Dhole Working Group that has revealed that the area of occupancy of this species has significantly declined – close to 50% since the previous assessment in 2008! Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 238

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, 3 August 2008 It was while watching flocks of shorebirds on Friday on Cape Cod (an adventure I will soon describe) that I first heard of a Red-necked Stint being found at Jamaica Bay. They both breed in Siberia, which is pretty far from Jamaica Bay. A quick word about both of these birds.

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Jamaica 2008 New York Alaska 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

” They appear on all the continents except Antarctica and migrate anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 miles from breeding grounds on the tundra to temperate and tropical beaches. This post was first published back in October 2008 , but these Sanderlings are too sweet to keep locked up in the archives!)

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North America 2008 Birds Sparrows 197

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This Sunday I will be off the coast of Kaikoura on South Island for the first time since 2008 checking out the amazing albatrosses they have there. Black-browed Albatross ( Thalassarche melanophrys ) Even in winter the species wasn’t the most common of the albatross species I saw back in June 2008, but it was one of the more attractive.

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Albatross New Zealand 2008 Georgia 126

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

I have followed the breeding activity of the Pied Oystercatchers in Broome along Cable Beach since July 2000 when I found the first nest site and the birds have continued to use the same territories, though there have been some partner changes. I can also monitor any movement along the coast during the year when they are no longer breeding.

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2007 Eggs 2014 2002 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Not good, I think – it will probably be another scorcher.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 268

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice. The California population estimate derived from the Survey was 145,000 birds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwi0SF8r8o.

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Blackbirds California 2014 2013 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

2008), but how the bombycillid lineages are related to each other, and whether the various subgroups deserve family, subfamily, or tribe status, all still remains to be seen. Spellman et al. Cedar Waxwings are pictured above in a lovely image by Minette Layne.). Just months after Spellman et al. published their paper, Fleischer et al.

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Saudi Arabia 2008 Indonesia Groups 215

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

At the beginning of the 20th century they were nearly extinct, with no breeding pairs left in the west of Germany and just very few in Germany’s East. The majority of the population breeds east of the river Elbe, from Schleswig-Holstein in the north (85 pairs, up from the 3 mentioned above!) Go Eagles!! all the way to Saxony.

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Eagles Germany Breeding Hunting 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

It is estimated that the total European population is 28,000 to 39,000 breeding pairs. Between 900 and 1,600 pairs of this species breed in Serbia, mainly in the north.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

Germany currently has a population of around 500 breeding pairs, which is a significant improvement over the 50 pairs left in the early 1970s. This bird, a migrant from further North or East in Germany, was the first Black Stork I saw around Heidelberg since moving here in the summer of 2008.

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Germany Asia China Russia 151

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

I understand that this is a complicated undertaking, but a new birder reading this book would have no idea that Bushtits (#92: “Breeding System: ‘It’s Complicated'”) are only found in Western states. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds. In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti. In May 2008, 41 of the 43 rays at the Calgary Zoo’s 37,000-litre touch-tank died. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.

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Zoos Animal Welfare Welfare Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

It has been twelve weeks now since the first pair of Pied Oystercatchers attempted to breed along the stretch of beach that we survey and as with each year there have been setbacks. There was a long stretch of beach that did not have a breeding pair, but it was in amongst the vehicles and nudists that frequent the area at this time of year.

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Family Eggs 2007 2008 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

This next map is data from 2007 through 2008. In warm climates they can breed year round. And the last one shows the stats from 2013 to the present. In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available.

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 178

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Each book is breed specific, sharing stories of those who love the breed and have adopted dogs through rescue. Not only that, but a portion of the book profits are donate to a breed specific rescue group. The company has several other breeds, but is still looking for rescue stories to include in upcoming book releases.

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Puppy Mills Boston Rescue Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2013

The last time I was out there was in January of 2008 and Daisy and I had really enjoyed both the boat ride and the island itself. The ride from Prisoner’s Harbor, where we had spent our day, to Scorpion Anchorage, was uneventful, though Desi did fall asleep and I did enjoy pretty good views of breeding-plumaged Pigeon Guillemots.

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Whales Whaling Dolphins California 150

Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. It applies to breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves. Proposition 2 has been passed in California. From the campaign website : (Nov.

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Prop 2 Wayne Pacelle Proposition 2 California 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

Interestingly, the field guide I’m looking at today, the larger field guide covering all of North America, was not published until 2008, the year Peterson would have been 100 years old. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition is an updated and expanded edition of a field guide first published in 2008.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Indeed, by 2008, when I first really became aware of the issue, the West Coast of South Island was pretty much their only stronghold. I mentioned 2008 as the year I became aware of the issue. Or so it was assumed.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Then rumors leaked out that at this same site the mythical Red Owl could easily be seen, Madagascar Serpent Eagle was breeding and other rare birds and lemurs abounded. As you can imagine, I was champing at the bit to get to this lost paradise and when I finally obtained the necessary permissions in 2008, it didn’t fail to astonish!

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 238

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Black Vulture - Despite a marked increase in Turkey Vulture sightings – nine since March of 2011 when I had my first in Queens - Black Vultures remain stubbornly absent from the borough (only two sightings reported to eBird in Queens since 2008). Sadly, it did not stick around to breed though I thought that it might.

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Connecticut 2011 2012 Jamaica 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Others migrate in about now to set up their breeding territories while still others continue further north to breed. Some birders… … This post was first published in April of 2008 (though I have added and changed a few images) but a post like this is too cool to keep hidden in the archives !

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Sparrows New York City New York Fox 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorants were a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade… until the wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the whole of Serbia. In order to get to their roosts, Pygmy Cormorants have to negotiate various obstacles.

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 193

Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

As of mid-2008, there were 4,777 black men imprisoned in America for every 100,000 black men in the population. Allow me to jump down to the paragraph that startled me into forced contemplation for several reasons: Black people need to roar out their anger at such treatment, lift up their voices and demand change.

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Obama New York Times New York illegal 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

and species breeding in cavities are less affected. It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009). The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

The male Bar-tailed Godwit are the first to show us breeding plumage and then the Red Knot and Curlew Sandpipers have two beautiful reds-red wine rather than cranberry juice! Breeding colour becomes rather obvious! These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008?

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

We filmed these particular birds in early 2008 and this was when my videographer, Aderman, was still getting to grips with bird filming. This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 190