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. Conservation 2014 State of the Birds Report Bank Swallow swallows' It can be distinguish from the Northern Rough-winged Swallow by its dark breast band and the white of the throat curling up behind its ear.

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North America 2014 California Birds 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Guyana South America Washington DC 240

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. Like many humans, the species is “socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous” ( source ).

Australia 186

Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 186

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

written by Richard Garrigues and illustrated by Robert Dean (Comstock, 2014) and Birds of Belize , written by H. © 2007, 2014 text Richard Garrigues, © 2007, 2014 illustrations Marc Roegiers and John K. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! Lee Jones and illustrated by Dana Gardner (Univ. © 2003 text H.

Costa Rica 213

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 213

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.

Alligators 116

Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 116

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

It wasn’t until a later Pino Real trip, back in 2014, that I saw my first Black-headed Siskins. In the end, I would have to say that this trip gave me some added confidence in nature’s ability to fight back against the ravages of humanity. I know, I show too many photos of Crescent-chested Warbers.

2013 160

2013 Emotional Abandon Abandoning 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest. But our ancestors weren’t always so lucky to appreciate birds the way we do. Wood engraving by Joseph Swain after the Sandys original.).

2015 109

2015 Denmark California Fowl 109

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It turns out that the crake had been feeding all morning along the westward part of Ocean Parkway, and birders discovered that the best place to observe it, being skittish to human presence, was from the wide, poison ivy infested median separating the eastward and westward lanes. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G.

New York 156

New York North America France Feral Cats 156

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

At the same time, or ideally shortly thereafter, the science will convince and stimulate popular writings to reach a broad audience, one that eventually enlist the general public to demand reasonable, justifiable changes that will benefit human society, which is part and interdependent with nature. (p. Did the model work?

New York City 254

New York City Birds Illinois Science 254

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

Birds 259

Birds Compassion Eagles Science 259

Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

BRUCE FRIEDRICH Senior Policy Director Farm Sanctuary Washington, March 4, 2014 To the Editor: The humane laws for hens in California that provide them more space in which to live should be countrywide. Chickens deserve to live humanely. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014' That’s the least farmers can do.

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New York Times New York Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages 40

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. You can follow her on Twitter @LizVGreene or dig deeper into her internal musings on InstantLo.

Birds 183

Birds Protection Idaho Bears 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It’s no secret that beer and wine share a common heritage that dates back to the earliest days of human civilization. In 2014, the winery released Besieged, a blend of petite Syrah, Carignane, Zinfandel, Syrah, Alicante Bouschet, Barbera, and Mourvedre grapes. Ravenswood Winery: Besieged (2014). alcohol by volume.

2014 113

2014 Milwaukee California Industry 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. Why do they do this?

Killing 272

Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

Camels 198

Camels Whales Whaling Apes 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds). (In

Birds 115

Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). The photographs were never published. 95 halftones.

Animal 267

Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 267

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. 372 pages, 8.3

Brunei 174

Brunei Birds Asia China 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. Life here is experiencing a boon in the face of encroaching human activity, at least in my immediate vicinity. One of my main projects has been our yard here at home.

Opossums 264

Opossums Barn Owls Hunting Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Open Jarvis et al.’s

Family 279

Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

2014 160

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. What should I expect? In these five years, the hotel remained the same, only this time I met my friend Nikos Gallios.

Greece 194

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Suffice it to say that the numbers predicted on this site by Corey and two commenters, in 2014, when Strycker announced his plan, all were low. And he proves himself, in “ Birding Without Borders ,” to be a charming companion-on-paper, as well.

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Sri Lanka Birds Cleveland 2014 133

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2015

Before 2014, no active, natural roost sites were known; all of the active, known roosts were in bat houses. The Florida Bonneted Bat is vulnerable to a wide array of natural and human-related threats. Further studies used geographic variation and morphology to arrive to the conclusion that E.

Bats 166

Bats Florida Endangered Species Cuba 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

Solomon Islands 275

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the Eponym Dictionary of Birds (Helm, 2014), “James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was an Irish hunter, explorer, and naturalist. Bad developments indeed, particularly as the White-backed Vulture was found to be a good avian biomonitor species – if it does badly, most likely the environment as a whole will do badly, too.

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It describes how, when a veterinary drug used in India killed the vast majority of Indian vultures, the human death rate in affected locations increased by about 4% as the vultures were no longer around to feed on animal carcasses and the sanitation thus worsened substantially.

Los Angeles 185

Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The 2014 season demonstrated the power of cooperation, communication, and determination to save three Chimney Swifts. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 206

Wildlife Rehabilitation Canada Wildlife South America 206

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Once upon a time, back in the heady, innocent days of 2014, I reviewed a book called The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds. Of all the books I’ve ever had the honor of reviewing for this site, it was in some ways the most attuned to my own particular sensibility.

Lovebirds 105

Lovebirds 2014 Eggs Wildlife 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

Corey wrote about the Common Tern chicks of Nickerson back in 2014, so I thought it was time for another post. I know I shouldn’t, these are not humans, but I do.). In June, I go to Nickerson Beach, a place of nesting Common Terns , American Oystercatchers , Piping Plovers , and, later in the summer, Black Skimmers.

Fish 162

Fish North America 2014 Game 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? I know, that’s harsh.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There are two excellent guides to the birds of Borneo: Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan , 3rd Edition , by Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillips, (2014), and Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan by Susan Myers (2009).

Indonesia 126

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 126

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. Unfortunately, their overall nesting success was only 18%. In Elliot’s Laughingthrush , assortative mating is also observed. Indeed, positive assortative mating, based on culmen length, tarsus length, and body mass, was found across breeding pairs.

Pandas 203

Pandas Birds Eggs China 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Nevertheless, 370,000 ticket applications were received from USA, which shows a real enthusiasm if slight confusion about the event which will be contested in Brazil during June and July 2014 and will likely attract television audiences of more than 3 billion over the course of the tournament. The other attraction is Lago Das Carpas.

Brazil 160

Brazil Birds Transported Game 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. Firefly Books, 2014; 528 pages, 6.2 ———— Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide by Gerard Gorman.

Woodpeckers 242

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 242

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. This is not your ordinary reference book, though it was cited as one of the best reference sources of 2014 by Library Journal. Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!). 9 x 12; hardcover: $35.00.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 197