10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2016

Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique to humans, but their results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. Toshitaka Suzuki, David Wheatcroft, and Michael Griesser (2016) Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10986.

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Sweden Research Japan Germany 181

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APRIL 2, 2017

However, dippers here in Germany aren’t too fussy about their habitats and will readily utilize human-made secondary rapids and rocks. To us humans, those “rapids and rocks” are weirs, concrete bank reinforcements, small bridges and other comparable structures often within villages. Luckily they aren’t.

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APRIL 13, 2021

In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS). 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.

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

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APRIL 2, 2024

Sadly, the ‘Alala do not survive, not her birds, not the neighboring wild birds, not the Hawaiian Crows released in 2016 with great hopes for re-introduction. Osborn leaves at the end of her brief tenure with hope that her charges will remain healthy and independent (one crow has already been treated for malaria and survived).

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Sullivan, 2016), B irds of Chile: a Photo Guide (with Fabrice Schmitt, 2018), and Peterson Guide To Bird Identification in 12 Steps (with Brian Sullivan, 2018). Dyer spent many years working on these illustrations; the Preface notes that he visited Costa Rica and other Central American countries annually between 2007 and 2016.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

India was not on my list of places to go in 2016. But, life can be kind, and after getting stuck between two rocks and then, getting unstuck, repositioning the vehicle on the other side of the prostrate tiger (who seemed oblivious to the silly humans), we got a clear view and the tiger decided his nap was over.

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India Tigers Birds Owls 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. But no one who has ever cared for another creature – be it bird, animal, or human – can comprehend, much less cope with, this kind of brutal, pointless killing. They are docile and devoted parents who will not leave their nests.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

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MAY 3, 2022

They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. There were an estimated 13,000 breeding pairs and roosting birds in 2016; additional islands have been created to support the increasing population and a raised (17-feet) walkway with observation platforms allows birders and photographers to enjoy them.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

They’re unquestionably the birds best known for devouring human flesh, at least on a regular basis and in notable quantities. Her charity became so notorious that some friends and I paid a quick visit to her block on New Year’s Day, 2016 for our nicely staked-out, first-of-year Black Vultures.

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Birds New York Turkey Baltimore 114

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.

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New York North America France Feral Cats 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

The other day, Redgannet, when sharing the 10,000 Birds combined bird list for 2016 , mentioned that I had made some sort of notable contribution by submitting 25 checklists in one day. That sounds exciting, like there’s some sort of story there. But the truth is perhaps more pedestrian. I can’t wait to get out there again.

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MAY 17, 2016

In essence, the benefits to birds from climate change (global warming caused by human release of greenhouse gas pollution) is neutral, while the negative effects are serious and increasing. The trend in CII is positive and similar in the two regions. Stephens, Philip, et al. 352:6281(84-87).

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North America Europe America United States 118

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2019

Unlike other forms of hunting, however, medieval falconry was considered a permissible pastime for women of the time as well, undoubtedly because the killing was done by proxy – courtesy of a trained bird of prey – with no exertion or bloodshed on the part of its human participants. Terredora Dipaolo: Aglianico Campania (2016).

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2016 Hunting Collecting Killing 114

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is one of several giant birds that went extinct fairly recently, and in many cases, humans as suspected. Genyornis newtoni lived in Australia, and recent research suggests that humans may have played a role in the extinction of this dinosaur laughingly called a bird, about 40,000 years ago. ka, and likely before 47?ka.

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Humane Killing Australia Eggs 177

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APRIL 21, 2016

The new regulations were open to comments until March 22, 2016 and received 572 comments. Richard Coniff just wrote this article on the same subject https://strangebehaviors.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/how-the-hook-and-bullet-mindset-still-rules-our-wildlife-agencies/ , and it’s fast and furiously making the rounds at TPWD.

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JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. Still, the authors praise more than mourn, emphasizing that the most severe changes occurred before 1955, and that some NYC infrastructure changes have actually helped area bird life.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 152

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.

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Opossums Barn Owls Hunting Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In “Birding in Traffic,” Jonathan Rosen, no stranger to making connections between birds and human elements as he did in “The Life of the Skies,” describes how he took the subway to Union Square Park to see a rare (for NYC) Scott’s Oriole. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2023

The photos in this post were taken in 2015 and 2016 – I was not only an amazingly attractive, almost young person then, but also a surprisingly bad photographer. I also only managed to see rather common bird species at Shennongjia, a nature reserve in Hubei province, China.

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China Birds Eggs Woodpeckers 176

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. 29 Jan 2016. 09 Jan 2016. 17 Mar 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

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JULY 2, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards (backdating has not been ruled out, but logistics make it unlikely) for a particular location or simply study the rest of the checklist from which the link was chosen. 27 Jun 2016. 26 Jun 2016. 26 Jun 2016. 23 Jun 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

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.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 192

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JUNE 4, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

It is threatened by habitat degradation as a result of the human exploitation of natural resources in the taiga and lower tundra regions of its breeding range, and by lake drainage for irrigation and hydroelectric power production (Armenia).” We, humans, seem to be quite hostile neighbours to other life forms around us.

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 202

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. Nevertheless, the 2017 CBC tallied 1,934 birds of 82 species, both of which were low counts for past CBCs ( e.g., the 2016 CBC had 2,579 birds, 97 species). Some plants had started to re-sprout, but recovery was in the very early stages.

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Puerto Rico 2017 2018 Virgin Islands 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior.

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Research Birds Hoarding Sweden 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. 22 Jan 2016. 08 Jan 2016. 01 Jan 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Wildlife 124

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. 27 Aug 2016. 29 Jan 2016. 09 Jan 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With the advent of human development, we can now add “farmland and plantations” to various types of forest, rainforest, and swamps. Mangrove areas are disappearing and there are natural areas of savannah in addition to human-created grasslands. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, November 2016, 496 p. by James A. Brickle, & Frank E.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards (backdating has not been ruled out, but logistics make it unlikely) for a particular location or simply study the rest of the checklist from which the link was chosen. 27 Aug 2016. 29 Jan 2016. 09 Jan 2016. 17 Mar 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. 29 Jan 2016. 09 Jan 2016. 17 Mar 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The posts are on diverse aspects of bird sound, from recording equipment and techniques to taxonomy to identification to hearing loss (human, not bird), and make an entertaining complement to the field guide. Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family.

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North America America Birds New York 173

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Rocky Mountain Books, July 2016. At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

It starts as follows: “Historical variations (1966–2016) in the exposure to inorganic elements in raptors of South West Spain have been little studied.” Presumably, this also leads to income inequality, if parallels to humans are any guidance. ” The feeling of not knowing about this is almost unbearable.

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Finland Birds 2016 McDonalds 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As 2015 comes to a close and birders the world over start thinking about what 2016 will bring we here at 10,000 Birds would like to take a moment to celebrate our best birds of 2015. 2015 was great and here’s hoping 2016 will be even better. Hope your 2016 is as good as our (except for Mike’s) 2015 was!

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 187

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since 2016, the Rustic Bunting has been listed as Vulnerable, as data suggested rapid population declines (HBW). So assuming that these results are transferable to humans, parents should feed their offspring regularly (first finding) but restrict themselves to one child (second finding). led its listing as Vulnerable.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 213