10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2014
2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. That’s Redgannet’s BBOTY at the top of the post.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
One would think that a bird named Grey Butcherbird is a shrike or at least related to shrikes (which are commonly called butcherbirds), but one would be wrong, as Duncan already explained in a 2014 post for 10,000 Birds. “She monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot.”
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant. © 2007, 2014 text Richard Garrigues, © 2007, 2014 illustrations Marc Roegiers and John K.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
The recently released 2014 State of the Birds Report lists the Bank Swallow as one of the common birds in steep decline. These birds have lost more than half their global population, and the 33 species combined have lost hundreds of millions of breeding individuals in just the past 40 years. Click on photos for full sized images.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2016
For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
The rise in drone popularity over the past few years has been meteoric — and in our typical human arrogance, we’ve once again ignored the fact that for the past 150 million years, the sky has belonged to the birds. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
…maybe there’s a secret Corn Crake breeding farm out in Gilgo Beach. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G. No, I’d remember that, I didn’t see that many birds in France. What if it’s an escapee? Do people keep Corn Crakes?…maybe I should go. America but going undetected.”
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