10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

” Indeed, there is one distinctly birding connection to this country: a famous birder Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond, visited the Seychelles in 1958 looking for inspiration for his then-latest collection of stories, For Your Eyes Only. . ‘… Just go and have a look.’ ‘Don’t get sunstroke.'”

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Seychelles Wildlife Tortoises Fish 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. The idea is that brilliant colors will warn birds that something is coming, and they’ll fly away. Birdsbesafe was invented in 2009, has a website filled with testimonials, and has received high praise from St.

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Cats Butcher Birds Pets 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Watching birds, birding, is inexorably tied to autonomous motivation. Maybe that’s why birders just might be obsessive about it or at least, very much into the hobby, the birding way of life. We get serious about quality optics and spend hours studying field guides about birds because we really really want to.

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2023

Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorant was a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade until most wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the entire territory of Serbia. With the construction of the huge Iron Gates dam on the Danube, the birds returned to breed in newly flooded river islands.

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Protection Serbia 2004 Legislation 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I was tired, as if it were my shoulders that held the sky suspended… So much so that I made no birding plans for this vacation. With the EU funds, the restoration started in 2009 when embankments were built to create one large and six more small reservoirs. The lake IBA has about 230 so far eBirded species.

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Greece Eagles Turtles 2019 217

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2017

I know I will be doing my best to make it so, especially from a birding perspective. I’ll bird my butt off and see what happens… I will add at least three new birds to my Queens list. Seawatching, searching out birds in migration both spring and fall, and hoping for rarities is really all I can do. Who knows?

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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. Despite all of the restrictions on our travel we are fortunate that it does not stop birds from entering Western Australia.

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Australia 2009 Rights Birds 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the state’s nicknames is “The Pelican State,” the bird is on the state’s flag, the state seal, the state painting (yes, apparently states have official paintings), as well as on one of Louisiana’s bicentennial coins. They are large birds, with a wingspan that can reach over 78 inches.

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Louisiana Pelicans Legislature United States 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013. The settlement comes as attention is increasingly being paid to the impact wind energy has on birds.

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Farming Wyoming Eagles Killing 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2016

Now that the balance between night and day is shifting, no matter how imperceptibly, we can anticipate new birds in our immediate vicinities. Corey could have chosen his first Piping Plover or Eastern Phoebe of the year in New York as his Best Bird of the Weekend and either would have been an understandable pick. How about you?

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2016 New York 2009 Birds 100

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

There are advantages to being a “Pelican Partner” for International Bird Rescue ! Their release process began with inspecting and banding the birds. Here they are applying the metal leg band… then measuring the bill to discern the gender of the bird (males bills are about 10% longer than females).

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Bird Rescue Pelicans Rescue Birds 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2013

First of all, one has never just shown up in front of my scope when I was birding, which isn’t terribly surprising, but considering the amount of time I spend at the coast in winter it also wouldn’t be terribly surprising if I had found one by now. Though the one bird I did twitch at that time was pretty nice.).

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New York 2009 Birds Farming 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

An Indiana man, Wade Bennett, and a minor have pled guilty for their involvement in the shooting and killing of a critically endangered Whooping Crane way back in 2009, and been sentenced to probation and the paying of fines and fees. Thee is still no information on the more recent killings of the majestic birds.

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South Dakota Indiana Killing Geese 183

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 199

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2017

I first met Robert Gallardo in 2009, when I made my first visit to the Neotropics for the Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras. He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. I bet we number well into the hundreds of thousands.

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Honduras Missouri Birds Panama 131

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

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. And, just for the heck of it, let’s add that there is a serious amount of rain falling from the sky. What would you do?

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On that glorious day, I observed ten critically endangered birds, representing 8% of their Costa Rican, or 2% of their global population!! In my previous post , I dealt with Rancho Naturalista Lodge itself and birding within their private reserve. But, let’s start at the beginning. 130 mature individuals, in 2019 (Monge et al.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 225

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 15 March 2009 It was at about 1:30 AM on Saturday morning that I startled awake and found myself sitting in an empty subway car in an unfamiliar location. John from A DC Birding Blog , and Patrick from The Hawk Owl’s Nest at Jamaica Bay at 8 AM Saturday morning for some birding.

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New York Honduras Jamaica Geese 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

I came late to bird feeding, and when I was finally able to put out a “thistle” sock and a seed feeder (or two or six), I was amazed by the learning curve. There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation by Paul J. And conservation.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

That will be the opening day of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. Who knows what great birds 2015 will bring? Like this past January, I will be leading field trips and spending the rest of my time birding. So, basically, I’ll be birding all the time.

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2015 Wildlife Florida Birds 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2016

The lack of rain has also resulted in the local ephemeral lakes not filling up and birds having to move to town for both food and water. One of the best places to observe birds in Broome apart from the Poo Ponds are any of the sport ovals. Straw-necked Ibis, Masked Lapwings and Little Curlew in the shade of a light tower.

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Birds Zebras 2009 Species 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. 1980’s Filmstrip, photo by Eric Liner.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2018

A couple of weeks ago a group of New York’s better birders were out birding in Suffolk County when one of the four found an interesting shorebird, one which she couldn’t identify immediately. I drove up, parked my car, walked up to the very extensive scope line, and spotted the bird. My first Wood Sandpiper since 2009.

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New York Kazakhstan 2009 Groups 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

I was recently reminded of how heavy (in my mind and heart) that second reason weighs when I got a copy of “Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago” by J. Phillipps: A field guide to the birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali (1993): based on taxonomic order from 1975 with some changes on colour plates for practical reasons.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

This is a poor photo I took of this pair’s nest back in 2009. That is what the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is meant to do. The new nest is still but a ghost of what the old nest looked like. You can see that the nest came up above the top of the post and was wedged down in the framework between the lights.

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Transported Eggs Birds Killing 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. However, more and more news stories are popping up this year of communities cracking down on bird feeding. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 237

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

There should be thousands of birds at this time of the year, Dimitris Michalakis from the Karla Lake management authority told me. With EU funds, the restoration started in 2009 when embankments were built to create one large and six more small reservoirs. The birds appeared plentiful here and I climbed the dyke to scan the shallows.

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Greece Killing Pelicans Eagles 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

That circular, uninviting body of water marks the main crater of Poas Volcano, a mountain that hosts the most accessible and nearest area of quality bird habitat to the Juan Santamaria airport. That always makes me wonder just how many birds occur on the slopes of Poas. This Red-faced Spinetail was one of them. Two hundred?

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal , Three-wattled Bellbird , Orange-collared Manakin , fancy hummingbirds , tanagers, and literally hundreds of other birds. This bunch of possible Costa Rican crypto birds can be grouped into four main categories: (1). Bird species that require further research.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 205

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. That changed on a recent visit when the partially leucistic bird and its mate decided to cooperate for me and my camera. It (or they?*)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2015

The actual bird is the one in all three images.). My average over the last ten years is now 21 March and it would be much later if not for the early bird I found in 2006 on 03 March. 2009 – 15 March. 2009 – 15 March. Birds Eastern Phoebe migration phoebes' For me, this means that spring has arrived!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2012

And, given the unstable political situation (slightly improved since the unified government of 2009), paucity of fuel, high crime-rate and dire poverty, it is probably last on the list of many traveling birders. But eastern Zimbabwe is an almost mythical place and a highly productive birding destination.

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Zimbabwe Buffalo Mozambique Birds 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

For now, I present a story of an excellent day''s birding on a visit to Los Angeles last week.]. It was 7:04am when we saw our target bird. Common birds to the southern California birder, wonderful sights to me. Where to bird next? We did see what I suspect was Luke’s favorite “bird” of the trip.

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers California Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

Jersey has always gotten a bad rap in general (the smells of the turnpike, the Jersey shore, the governor), and in the world of birding, the state often seems to be symbolized by two words: Cape May. The New Jersey Bird Records Committee (NJBRC) documents 465 species of natural origin. Press, 2003). It does so with authority and style.

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New Jersey Birds 2009 Bald Eagle 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2012

Before arriving in the town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras, on February 27, 2009, I had only ever heard Inca Doves. This post has been submitted to Bird Photography Weekly #32. This post was first published on 4 April 2009 but doves like this are too cool to keep hidden in the archives! ……… a. Go check it out!

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Honduras 2009 California Species 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2012

Rather than risk missing it, we decided to stop and see the amazing and bizarre bird as soon as possible, which was on the ride in to the lodge. Once the coaster stopped, we were out in a flash, and Robert wisely decided to let us find the bird for ourselves. It is hard to believe that such a bird even exists.

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