10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. Birders seem to be a fairly modest group: “Respondents rated themselves as somewhat skilled in identifying birds. This is not a surprising result.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2013

Most readers of this blog will certainly appreciate an out-of-season tropical post at the beginning of January, a post based on what was almost my best bird of the year 2012 – if it wasn’t for the Bearded Vulture I saw a bit later. You see, these were the little expectations. Little did I realize… And boy, was I mistaken.

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Rhinoceros 2012 Industry Africa 175

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2012

The risk of extinction for Amazonian birds has increased substantially: 07 June 2012 The risk of extinction has increased substantially for nearly 100 species of Amazonian birds, reveals the 2012 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ update for birds released today by BirdLife International.

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Parrots 2012 Birds Humane 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2013

One Pygmy Cormorant by the noisy group of Black-headed Gulls fighting over something edible carried downstream, a pair of Mute Swans by the other bank, widely scattered flock of Yellow-legged Gulls … Taking a sip of coffee and… one Lesser Black-backed Gull is among them.

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Serbia Croatia Hungary 2012 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. They define geographic range as encompassing “something like 99.99

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

I was happy to read that the wood stork ( Mycteria Americana ), a bird near and dear to me, was down-sited from the status of endangered to threatened species. Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As a biologist working for the U.S. Photo: U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 242

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Looking through this compact yet extensive guide, I realized that I have been amiss in not reviewing the first book of this series, the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America by David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie (same authors, order reversed), published in 2012. There are over 11,000 species of moths in North America.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 103

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

“The Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected bird species in Serbia, as well as in the European Union. It belongs to a group of species of special conservation concern, which under the European Birds Directive requires Member States to designate Special Protection Areas (Annex I species).

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. It is an intriguing choice of species. These are bird groups that have been covered extensively by other guides. Armistead and Brian L.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the Aruba Birdlife Conservation Foundation began a campaign to make the Burrowing Owl the country’s national bird , which was officially named in 2012. Though not based on the Aruba populations, the movie portrayed a group of friends from Florida trying to save Burrowing Owl habitat from destruction.

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Prairie Dogs Tortoises Owls South America 106

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

My first year on eBird, 2012, exactly 20 people submitted checklists for the entire state. I also presented this site and species in my first two posts on 10,000 Birds.) As I mentioned in my previous post, to this day no one knows where the species spends the winter. To date, eBird has only 561 registries for the species.

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Mexico Birds 2013 Lamb 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2017

He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012). But there’s still something missing. A Spanish edition of my field guide.

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Honduras Missouri Birds Panama 182

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) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? .

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

©2012 Donna L. There are now multiple sites where people can contribute data on window strikes and bird deaths, including NYC Audubon’s dBird , FLAP’s Global Collision Bird Mapper , iNaturalist, and, on a social media level, the Facebook group Dead Birds 4 Science , run by the indefatigable Heidi Trudell.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

If those 16th Century Spanish sailors knew the kind of grief with which they’d be saddling this remarkable group of birds for all time, perhaps they would have had something resembling empathy for those who will be forced to live with the ramifications of their irreverence. Let’s address, up front, the funny name.

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Birds Buffalo New York Pelicans 242

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2012

Tucson, AZ, August 2012 – When you get a bunch of bird bloggers together, which you do you imagine comes first: birds or blogs? Swarovski Optik confirmed the obvious answer rather quickly when the SONA group invited a bunch of us to Tucson for a Social Media Summit. Where else can you see something like that?!

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Tucson Arizona North America Sparrows 154

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 7, 2013

These births are critical to help preserve the species. These newborn cubs will add to the genetic diversity of the Malayan tiger population and contribute to conservation efforts for the species. The births are part of park’s partnership in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan® (SSP).

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Tampa Tigers Thailand Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Tours groups that I guided to Ethiopia ten years ago had to endure very basic accommodation, almost no surfaced roads and low levels of service. There are also dry areas but this great diversity has resulted in an incredible bird list of over 900 species including Africa’s 2nd highest count of endemics (after South Africa).

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Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 275

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

where and when the species is likely to be seen on the east coast, flight style, size and structure as compared to similar species. Of the 426 species on the official state checklist, this guide covers 252. The brief, concise text paragraphs for birds give status (common, uncommon, scarce, etc.),

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Take, for example, the group of the goatsuckers Caprimulgidae – the nightjars, and nighthawks, and whip-poor-wills, and widow-chuckers. Here, I show you a few images of Savanna Nightjars , a Southeast Asian species I was able to observe nicely and commonly on Java and South Borneo in 2012 and 2013. Legs: The Expendables 2.

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Goats Indonesia Science Experience 237

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

It has also found its way to Japan where it is considered to be an invasive species. Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. Or, it could just be some weird thing one group of catfish do. Cucherousset, J.,

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

I wrote of some birding areas around Derby in August 2012 and we hoped that we would be able to get to some of those this last week. The Plumed Whistling-Ducks were the duck species most heavily represented, but Grey Teal, Pacific Black Ducks and Wandering Whistling-Ducks were also present. Red-kneed Dotterels.

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Birds Ducks 2015 2014 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Eight days with 20 of the world’s top birding guides looking for some 1,000 species and three dozen endemics. You can see as many hummingbird species as the folks at Magee Marsh are seeing warbler species—during 25 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. As the rally tore through its itinerary, the species piled up.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. million acres of Refuge lands.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 238

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

The Eastern guide covers 545 species and the Western guide covers 636 species. Each species is depicted in as many or as few photographs as is necessary for identification. I think the quotes do give an idea of the high degree of detail incorporated into each species description.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2018

Thankfully due to the long life span of this bird species the population appears to be somewhat stable at the moment. The Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the header photo has used that particular area of Cable Beach just north of the rocks since 2008 and the pair has only successfully raised one chick and that was in 2012.

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Breeding 2018 Eggs 2016 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. The new edition adds 11 species, birds such as Zone-tailed Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, and California Condor that are only seen in specific areas of North America.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa). Over a dozen distinctive ethnic groups exist here, many of whom live lives little touched by the modern world. Yellow-billed Stork.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 255

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. Their mortality was huge, but I realised how huge only when we did the December 2012 census to find only 1300 PCs.

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 235

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Try Bermuda Petrel, Pterodroma cahow , one of the group of seabirds called gadfly petrels. The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. Beacon Press, 2012.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 199

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

2011 is about to become 2012 and birders the world over are taking a look at their year lists and reminiscing about the awesome sightings and devastating dips that they have experienced. This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 227

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

For example, the panel (see below) included three members of the pro-change Bird Names for Birds group (more representation than the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and the U.S. Some species have taxonomy that is in flux while others are stable. Some names have issues, but many do not.

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Birds Russia Hawaii Woodpeckers 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It was late December, 2012, and I slotted into a sizable group under the joint leadership of two highly respected birders. As prolific as the area was, the group was on the move. The group was significantly smaller, only myself and one other person. By 2015 I was assigned to lead a CBC group for the first time.

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Trinidad Livestock 2015 Groups 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2022

A Trip Report is a way to separate out a group of checklists within certain dates to obtain a comprehensive single-page summary, including the number of checklists submitted, number of species observed, number of lifers, and a map. Virgin Islands in July 2012 , which was our honeymoon. were new to me.

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District of Columbia Virgin Islands Maryland Delaware 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214