10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

Since at least 2009 there has been at least one hypopigmented, or piebald, American Robin living in Alley Pond Park in my home borough of Queens, at least for the breeding season. It (or they?*) is assumed (confirmed?) to be nesting there each year but all I had ever managed were fleeting glimpses and couple of lousy photos.

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2009 2011 Breeding Birds 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

This post was first published in February 2009, but we can’t bear hiding something this good in the archives. Instead, it is likely that these squirrels are leucistic. Whatever they are, white squirrels are just as eager to assault my bird feeders as their gray kin. And Mike still sees white squirrels nearly every day!)

Squirrels 191

Squirrels Rodents Mammals Bears 191

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Machi getting fitted with transmitter in 2009. Suggestions to start a campaign to protect shorebirds from hunters as they migrate through the Caribbean would be appreciated in the comments. Let’s make Machi’s death mean something! Image courtesy of Barton Paxton. Hat-tip to Donna Schulman for the information about Machi.

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Hunters Barbados South Carolina Hunting 229

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AUGUST 20, 2013

During the breeding seasons 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 we monitored 251 lakes on the main plateaus of Santa Cruz province, southern Patagonia, Argentina, where the entire population of Hooded Grebes spends the breeding season. We only observed 6 breeding colonies, two in 2009/2010 and four in 2010/ 2011, totalling 242 nesting attempts.

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2010 South America 2011 Argentina 197

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Reports in 2009 from Nassau County may put the total number of birds as high as 50. But this year I observed a pair copulating in Hillcrest, and in 2009 I observed young birds in the Queens flock, so they probably are breeding somewhere. The flock sighted around Queens over the past several years has 12-17 birds. Are they dying out?

New York City 205

New York City Los Angeles New York South America 205

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2011

Edwin Rist, a 22-year-old from the United States, stole 299 bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring (in England) in 2009 and had been sentenced to a 12-month suspended sentence has now been ordered to pay a fine of £125,150, which is the amount that he had made from the sale of the skins.

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United States 2009 Birds 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

Suzie Gilbert first came to our attention here at 10,000 Birds when she published Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings in 2009. She is also the author of Hawk Hill which was published in 1996.

2009 157

2009 North America Bird Rescue Rescue 157

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Therefore, you can observe them in their hundreds and thousands if you spend the last hour of the day observing the flight corridor and distinguishing distant black Pygmy Cormorant dots from other equally distant and black Rook and Jackdaw dots, all of them melting into tree crowns as the sunset thickens.

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Protection Serbia 2004 Legislation 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2014

Brian Stoneman (1946-2009) was a friend of mine and a top class birder. He grew up in the London East End and spoke hardly understandable cockney.

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Turkey 2006 Europe Pelicans 204

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Birdsbesafe was invented in 2009, has a website filled with testimonials, and has received high praise from St. Bells don’t work; cat bibs sometimes do, but cat owners rarely use them – saying they’re “too restrictive.” The same cannot be said about Birdsbesafe, which allows the cat as much movement as it wants.

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Cats Butcher Pets Battery 260

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2023

I began recording my bird sightings with photographs in late 2009, and since then I have seen (or at least heard) a fair proportion of species recorded within my home country of Trinidad & Tobago. How can one, in what is barely the second week of the first month of the year – even think of suggesting a Bird of the Year?

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Birds Trinidad 2020 2009 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2011

“National Geographic has assumed management of day-to-day operations for Scienceblogs.com, expanding a relationship with Seed Media Group that started when National Geographic took on ad sales responsibility for Scienceblogs.com in 2009.&# That is the entire text of the statement National Geographic put out.

2009 153

2009 Science Groups 153

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2014

2009 – 15 March. Here are my arrival dates for my first Eastern Phoebes of the year for the last nine years: 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March. What about you?

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2014 2006 2007 2008 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. These fatalities violate U.S.

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Farming Wyoming Eagles Killing 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2015

In the northern Backa region of Serbia, in the mid-1970s there were more than 37,000 active nests of Rooks, while in 2009 there were less than 8500, indicating a loss of more than 76% over a time span of 35 years ( source ). The smallest rookery in Pancevacki Rit had a mere 4 nests, the largest 102 – on average, 31.5 nests per colony.

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Experience Experiments Science Serbia 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2015

2009 – 15 March. If you are interested, here are the dates of my first phoebe from each of the last ten years. 2015 – 28 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March. Great, I’m your first phoebe of 2015.

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2015 2006 2014 2007 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As for chasing Black Guillemots in New York, well, the first one that I could have legitimately chased turned up in December of 2009 out east on Long Island. Since 2009 there really hasn’t been a guillemot that was twitchable until two Fridays ago when one turned up at Shinnecock Inlet.

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New York 2009 Birds Farming 160

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

When my book “ Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings ” came out in 2009, one of my favorite reviews was by Corey Finger of 10,000 Birds. At that point I didn’t know about 10,000 Birds; I had been a wildlife rehabilitator and mother for years, with no time to surf the net for amazing birding sites.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Birds 2009 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

My last encounter with a Hooded Crow was in May of 2009 in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan. .* After all, Hooded Crows are a bird of eastern and northern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and are not known as long distance migrants. But the more I thought about it the more I wanted to see a Hooded Crow again.

New York 209

New York Kazakhstan New York City North America 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2013

One proposal, citing a 2009 paper, suggests that North America’s three rosy-finch species be lumped into Leucosticte tephrocotis. Photo above by Matt MacGillivray). Lumping Rosy-Finches? Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch ( Leucosticte tephrocotis ) by Corey Finger.

North America 185

North America Sparrows 2009 America 185

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

We spent two months in Portland, Victoria in late 2009 with Grant’s work and whenever we could we were birding. Due to the fact that we will still be camping and birding when this goes online I thought I could share some photos of a well-known marsupial in the southern parts of Australia.

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Koalas Marsupials Portland 2009 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

Kazakhstan, May 2009 During the two days spent out in the steppe in Kazakhstan I couldn’t help but notice the sheer number of flowers that dotted the grassy steppe. It seemed that anywhere one looked some kind of flower, whether it was an iris, a tulip, or something else, was blooming.

Sri Lanka 189

Sri Lanka Kazakhstan Portugal 2009 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Since 2009, International Bird Rescue has released over 1,100 California Brown Pelicans with blue bands from their wildlife hospitals! I follow my friend, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for International Bird Rescue, Cheryl Reynolds to the release site where we document the event.

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Bird Rescue Pelicans Rescue California 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2012

… This post was originally published on 24 May 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! … If you liked these images make sure to head on over to 10,000 Clicks , the 10,000 Birds photo-galleries page, and see our growing collection of galleries. ……… a.

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Jamaica Collecting 2009 Breeding 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But I did chase one back in 2009 that I dipped on. The first, back in 2009, was when I was in Honduras. No, I will persevere and see each of these birds at my next opportunity. Otherwise, they will become true nemesis birds. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – I haven’t made a ton of effort to find one of these.

Costa Rica 188

Costa Rica Hungary Honduras Woodpeckers 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

These two points are discussed thoroughly in Tom Schulenberg’s 2009 account for Neotropical Birds Online: Painted Bunting: Distribution. Eastern birds are thought to winter in Florida and the Caribbean; western birds, in Mexico and Central America, but winter distributions are not yet fully understood. Photo by Andy Morffew.

Mississippi 263

Mississippi Mexico Alabama North Carolina 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? My personal favorites are three photos of the 2009 Cape May Ivory Gull. Development, conservation, and climate change have affected bird distribution in good ways (a record 282 Bald Eagles found on the January 2009 official count!) No wonder people were excited by it.)

New Jersey 186

New Jersey 2009 Bald Eagle New York City 186

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With the EU funds, the restoration started in 2009 when embankments were built to create one large and six more small reservoirs. It was only then that the local farmers learned the soil was too salty for good yields. And all that water and the environmental services coming with it, were lost.

Greece 215

Greece Turtles Eagles 2019 215

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

Birds of Borneo (2009): based on taxonomic order from 2008, with some changes due to practical reasons, review here. In the book from 1993 they are at the beginning of the songbirds, in 2009 three quarters towards the end, in 2014 almost on the last pages and in the most recent 2016 guide they are right in the middle. Phillipps, Q. &

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Brunei 2009 2014 2016 149

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

I haven’t seen him since our trip to Honduras in 2009–pre-Desi! I love watching that, sending them back up into the sky with a kiss on the top of their flat little heads. Delighted to say that as you read this I’ll be hanging with Corey at the Midwest Birding Symposium. And as I write this, I cannot wait to see him!!

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Honduras Kittens 2009 2013 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. … This post was originally published on 08 March 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! ……… a.

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Is this the same individual that tracked south through Britain and France in Autumn 2009? It’s been interesting to note that a solitary Sandhill Crane first seen in Finland in recent days migrating with Common Cranes has now provided Estonia with its first record of Sandhill.

France 214

France Estonia Ireland Finland 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In 2009 when the Semi-palmated Plover came to Broome for its first visit it was initially thought that it may have been a Ringed Plover , but it was finally identified as a Semi-palmated Plover.

Australia 182

Australia 2009 Rights Birds 182

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2011

Whilst ‘Med Gulls’ have now been breeding in Britain since 1968 it was only 2009 when they finally managed to successfully breed in Northumberland, England’s most northerly county. The legs and bill have deepened in colour and are closer to adult too.

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Poland 2009 France Europe 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

Mike photographed this Unmarked Dagger ( Acronicta innotata ) at his family’s annual “Chicken Inferno” in 2009. Wonder what he’ll find this year! Are you a birder who hates summer?

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United States North America Chickens 2009 150

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The author, Chris Mason-Parker, has lived in Seychelles since 2009, where he is an active member of the conservation community. He is the author of Underwater Guide to Seychelles (2015), Underwater Eden (2019) and Reef Fishes of Seychelles (2021).

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Seychelles Wildlife Tortoises Reptiles 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. It must be hard to work your fields next to the reserve a big cat for whom you are merely a tailless mouse.

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Tigers India Killing 2006 236