10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

The book covers 77 species; 105 taxa (species and subspecies): 45 Birds of Paradise species, 4 species formerly classified as Birds of Paradise (Satinbirds and MacGregor’s Honeyeater), and 28 Bowerbird species.* Introduction. It is, he says, “probably the most extreme examples of sexual dimorphism” (p.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to eBird , I have been an eBirder since December 23, 2009, so today is my 10th eBird anniversary. During the decade, I submitted 1,219 checklists and observed 555 bird species, all in the U.S. In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. and Canada.

Puerto Rico 144

Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 144

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At the very least appreciated for their hard-shell adaptation, the way they quietly survive in ponds, rivers, oceans, islands, forests, even, for a few species, deserts, and, if you are of a certain age, their cultural depiction as ninja warriors. Turtles are the reptile everybody loves. 84 © Getty Images/Resschke, p.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Travel to Tiquicia for birding is high on the list of most birders because it’s not too far from Canada or the USA, there is good tourism infrastructure, and most of all, it’s pretty easy to see hundreds of eye-catching bird species. Watch that one and keep an eye on the others because all sorts of species can show at any time.

Costa Rica 198

Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 198

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! If you spot one of these blue banded birds, you can help by reporting it and contribute to this important citizen science project helping the conservation of this amazing species.

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Bird Rescue Pelicans Rescue Birds 191

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Oddly enough, the Common Redpoll ( Acanthis flammea ), my first ever twitch back in the winter of 2009, was spotted within a mile or so from the Snow Bunting on the same road in McArthur. I make this statement with this addendum; I would not post the location of a species that could be targeted during hunting season.

California 100

California North America Wildlife Campaign 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Florida is a great place to bird in January because in addition to the year-round species there are a host of birds that winter in the relatively balmy climate that Florida has in winter. Ever since I met Julie in Honduras back in 2009 I have wanted to get out birding with her again. Get my Florida list to 180 species.

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2015 Wildlife Florida Birds 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

February 12 is Darwin Day , the birthday of the brilliant author of On The Origin of Species. We find reasons to praise Darwin on this blog all the time and explain why in this post, first published in 2009. 10,000 is the approximate number of bird species in the world but certainly not the actual number.

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Groups Branding Species 2009 177

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Or was I, like so many birders, doomed to eternal restlessness, always investing somewhere else with the glamor of new birds and new experiences? In honor of fall, and of the Chipping Sparrow that just smacked itself (thankfully not too hard) against my balcony window, here’s a blast from the past: Oct. Dawn is getting later and later.

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San Diego Sparrows Breeders 2009 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Most of these birds are small, finch-like species with thick, conical bills for cracking seeds or eating insects. They include the seedeaters ; the grassquits and other “quits”; the yellow-finches, warbling-finches , and mountain-finches ; and the wonderful assemblage of Galápagos finches (“Darwin’s finches”)!

2003 206

2003 Sparrows Family South America 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2011

The sighting was easily the best I have ever had of the species, and it was in and out of view for about twenty minutes, foraging in small circuits but always coming back to the stand of thick brush where I had first spotted it. Read about them here but also get out and experience them.

Tigers 158

Tigers United States Jamaica Pennsylvania 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The guide covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species. Honeyeaters are “active, noisy and pugnacious” and there are a lot of them–76 species–in Australia. The colored font is also used to indicate measurements, voice, and notes.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 106

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

Catbirds are not the unfortunate result of unwise experiments with radioactivity. Catbirds are a group of rather distantly related species all named for the fact that they make sounds that remind some of a cat meowing. We can start first with what catbirds are not. They are not flying cats nor birds with whiskers.

Papua New Guinea 179

Papua New Guinea Ethiopia Guinea Cats 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

In this book, rare birds are species “for which, on average, only 5 or fewer individuals have been found annually in North America since around 1950.” Species that were once seen rarely and have now become more common, like Clay-colored Thrush, are not included. Rare Birds of North America covers 265 species within these parameters.

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North America America Birds United States 249

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2014

million tourists in 2009, funding 16% of the gross domestic product) and among them, quite likely – tens of thousands of birdwatchers. The book ends with a country checklist, 449 species long, and the contacts of the managing authorities of protected areas. Greece is visited by millions of tourists every year (over 19.5

Greece 214

Greece Birds Macedonia 2014 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2012

Nassau County, New York, March 2009 After having fully explored the trail around the West Pond at Jamaica Bay , we four bird bloggers agreed to load up Patrick’s car and head over to Jones Beach to see what kind of birds we could find there and some other locations in Nassau County. ……… a.

New York 160

New York Butcher Birds Geese 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2012

Copan, Honduras, February 2009 A word of warning: this is going to be a rather long post so go grab a snack and make yourself comfortable before you start reading. If you ever go I hope you have as good an experience as I did. What were these birds competing for? … a.

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Honduras 2009 Falcons Guatemala 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. 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.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

So defined, bird songs are the sounds, often but not always loud and musical, that (mostly) male birds make as part of that species’ mating system. The bottom two are the songs of individuals raised in isolation, representing only their “built-in&# template unaffected by the experience of hearing normal adults.

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Zebras Birds Humane Raised 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Press in 2009), active participation in the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and leading dragonfly trips to Costa Rica and, hopefully this summer, Panama. I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name). Yes, 675 photographs.

United States 227

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 227

Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

Instead, it brought a new bat species into the exact place in the year 2009 — twenty-five of those creatures also passed away. There were also reports that the zoo may have concentrated too hard on enhanced visitor experiences without being sure that exhibits were up to par — something that could have led to many of the deaths.

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Zoos Animal Abuse Bats Goats 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Data collection for the Second Breeding Bird Atlas Project of Pennsylvania took place from 2004 through 2009, roughly twenty years after the first official atlas project, 1983 through 1989. You can see the Species Account for Henslow’s Sparrow above, in the banner photo. The second page is the map page. Brauning and Andrew M.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The emphasis is on everyday birds seen in North America, though some of the more exotic and local species are thrown in for the color and romance of it all–Atlantic Puffin, Roseate Spoonbill, the poor extinct Heath Hen. 167, Meadowlark line of sight–not p.67). copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 263

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago covers 1,417 species, 601 endemics, 98 vagrants, 8 introduced and 18 undescribed species. Only one bird species has become extinct (Javan Lapwing), but many others are endangered, with some considered close to extinction (not surprising in an area with species restricted to one or two small islands).

Indonesia 122

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 122

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. If you are about to embark on your first trip to the Neotropics and are strapped for time, I highly recommend chapter 4, “Finding Animals in the Rain Forest,” with its suggestions on observation (how exactly do you SEE species that remain in the canopy?)

South America 145

South America Ecuador Reptiles America 145

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. I can speak from experience that this place should only be accessed by a 4 x 4 vehicle.

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Zimbabwe Buffalo Mozambique Birds 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2012

This make sense in a certain way; a species of carnivores that over-concentrated in space would go extinct. A little bit of prudential restraint is good for the species as a whole, and thus it evolved. Consider this thought experiment. Any of them, really, not just the one I saw today. The eggs or chicks would not survive.

Eagles 173

Eagles Bald Eagle Coyotes Mississippi 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

I first met Robert Gallardo on my first trip to the neotropics, a wonderful experience at the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras in 2009. He is a great birder and has found over thirty new species in Honduras since he moved there in 1993. Why are you creating a field guide to the birds of Honduras?

Honduras 157

Honduras Campaign Birds Missouri 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Read Tim’s account and enjoy his (and the Tambopata Macaw Project’s Alan Lee’s) photos judge for yourself… (NOTE: we first published this post in January 2009 but have to run it again because it is so good!) Licking Clay’ Text and Photographs copyright T.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. It’s no coincidence that the two species that pass Hare’s pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Redgannet (the blog) fledged in February 2009 and the 100th post was published as he was invited to become a beat writer for 10,000 Birds. Very interesting species. The former British colony’s Z.c. Married to a Canon?

2011 177

2011 Deer India New York 177