10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

What finally got me to lug my camera for a before work birding outing this morning was reports of a Prothonotary Warbler yesterday, a bird that was last reported in 2010 in Bryant Park and one which I never mind seeing. Sadly, the bird had flown the coop late yesterday afternoon so I had to content myself with less yellow birds.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The islands of the Caribbean are home to 176 species of endemic birds unevenly distributed across the region. Some islands host one or two species, others more than twenty. For some species, conservation actions are well underway and we are seeing some measure of positive impact as a result.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act. If it was not, there would be no listing, as the overall species was not in peril. FWS released a 5-year review of the species in 2010. The post Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JUNE 2, 2022

Gazetted as the “nature monument” in 2013, one of the few remaining – Bojcinska Forest by the village of Progar covers 670 ha / 1650 ac, with around 108 bird species and some 60 species of mammals. The most numerous birds are Common Chaffinches. We entered an area that was clear-cut in 2010. And that is where Q.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Beljarica Backwaters (some August birding here ) is a spacious floodplain of the left bank of the Danube, less than 10 km / 6 mi north of Belgrade, and is an exciting place to bird. The initiative to protect this area was launched in 2010. If they return a while, we know not if they smile or weep beneath their tan.”.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Having finally found a Black Vulture for my Queens list , an important tick both because it was long overdue and because it was the tenth bird since my last set of predictions, it is time, once again, to look at what might be coming to my Queens list. Black Vulture – The bird that has been reported the most in Queens that I have never seen.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Most years, there are no more than a few dozen reports of this species across the region. Certain kinds of birds, such as finches and Snowy Owls , may go for years without travelling outside of their normal ranges. and Canada, Waxwings are clearly an irruptive species for Mexico. The Hook-billed Kite is a wonderful bird.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Birds know habitat. They don’t read treaties or draw maps or build walls and, as far as we can tell (since we can’t talk to birds, yet), they have no concept of political boundaries. Robert Gallardo’s self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras came out in 2015, and is the first bird field guide dedicated to that country.

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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. 2010; Macaw Recovery Network 2019). But, let’s start at the beginning.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Florida is one of America’s great avian hot spots, renowned for its impressive bird diversity. The official Florida checklist counts over 500 species, and thus Florida citizens had a wealth of State Bird candidates to choose from when they named the Florida state bird in 1927. Northern Mockingbird with fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2015

You know a bird is beautiful when Robert Tory Peterson describes it as a “ sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” ” New Hampshire must have thought the same, for they voted the Purple Finch the state bird in 1957. The Purple Finch officially became the state bird on April 25th.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. Now an international team of scientists has discovered the apparent reason behind the dramatic decline and why young birds are particularly at risk.In

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APRIL 4, 2013

They wanted to put together a book about The World’s Rarest Birds , but were finding that it was pretty difficult locating photographs of the 590 bird species considered Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered or Endangered. Hold not one, but two international photo contests, one in 2010 and one in 2012.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2015

New York, I can say with certainty that you have chosen the perfect bird to represent your state. Though it took you until 1970 to designate your state bird – the last in the United States to do so – the Eastern Bluebird is beautiful, has a distinctive song, and is a great example of an environmental success story.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

A rare bird is one we don’t see very often. However, that doesn’t mean that the bird species in question is necessarily endangered. None of these are rare in their normal haunts but seeing them in Costa Rica would be a major birding event. Oh, how that would be a nice year bird.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

Many states choose their representative bird based on common, native birds spending part or all of the year within the states’ borders. South Dakota went a different way, designating the Ring-necked Pheasant as the state bird in 1943. Males are territorial, and may act aggressively towards other avian ground species.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

After spending the weekend along the South Carolina coast, I can say with confidence that I saw dozens and dozens of South Carolina’s state bird: both the original and the current version. Though South Carolina first chose the Northern Mockingbird as its state bird, in 1948 the general assembly changed its mind.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

My readers are already familiar with Beljarica Backwaters, as described in half a dozen posts here at 10,000 Birds. It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak. The post Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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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. All of 2016 only netted me one new species for Queens, a Greater White-fronted Goose. I will get at least 30 life birds.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The Bronx also has a special place in birding history.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Colorado is unique in many respects, so it comes as no surprise that its residents went in a different direction when selecting their state bird. Unlike many other official birds, the Lark Bunting is not a year-round resident. Lark Buntings are prairie birds, and breed in open meadow, sagebrush, and plains.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. Twenty two species are distributed among six genera, depending on what happens to be extinct, and for the most part one grebe is like another. That of course is true of many birds.) For an order they are neither diverse nor disparate.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. Regular readers of 10,000 Birds may remember Jochen’s posts about keeping taxonomy out of field guides. The 224-page book is organized by habitat and behavior, not taxonomy.

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MAY 3, 2012

Queens, New York, May 2010 At one time there was an airport in northern Queens called Flushing Airport. Unfortunately, developers are hungrily eying the 70-acre parcel despite some local opposition and the fact that it is a wetland that provides excellent habitat to a variety of birds (to say nothing of mammals, insects, etc).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2012

Templehofer Feld, now generally called Templehof Park or just plain Templehof, has pretty decent habitat for open country birds, considering that it is huge, flat, and gradually returning to nature. Not only that, but as of its opening as a park in May 2010, it is the largest public park in Berlin. Read on, dear reader, and find out!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2014

Tambunan was the bookend to my trip to Borneo, it was the first destination I birded and the last. As must see birding destinations go, its hardly the most user friendly location that you can go birding. Road birding. After the eagles, birds started coming thick and fast. Crocker Ranges.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

There’s a new proposal before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Classification Committee to split Painted Bunting into two species (yay! — maybe, more later) and to name the new species “Eastern Painted Bunting” and “Western Painted Bunting” (no!). Gorgeous Bunting.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

I want to alert you to a recent study (from April) that looks at the plight of bird populations under conditions of climate change in Europe and North America. The study looked at common birds, and used data divided by either state (in the US) or country (in Europe). Stephens et al. Stephens, Philip, et al. 352:6281(84-87).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

This pair of birds, which we presume to be the exact same pair, has been laying eggs in this area since 2008. There are numerous species of raptors around Broome including Black Kites and Whistling Kites. I have written a lot about the Pied Oystercatchers along the coast of Broome since 2010 and you can find posts via this link.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2012

Coming into the second weekend of this new year, we’ve all added a few birds — possibly very few birds — to our year lists. I gave up year listing a couple of annums back even though I’ve rung up some banner bird bounties in 2010 and 2011. Share your plans in the comments below.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Conservation / Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? One way volunteers help is by participating in a bird banding workshop called Bird Ringing Forever.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. When he reached out to ask if he could contribute a piece to 10,000 Birds about about the ethics around the current Snowy Owl irruption in the central and eastern United States we were all for it! Species have value.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Gujarat, December 2010. The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. CR being the highest category in the Red List , if I want to see some of those birds, I better hurry!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

Two reactions on hearing that Steve Howell and Brian Sullivan have written a guide entitled Peterson Guide to Bird Identification–in 12 Steps : (1) What? In other words, you don’t even observe the bird closely until Step 7, and that is to observe behavior. Another identification guide?, (2) Howell and Brian L.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) 3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago? The bird guide question was a conundrum.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org). The invasive Burmese Python ( Python molurus ) is well established in the Florida Everglade.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds. We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.” We were ecstatic!

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