10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. 27, August 2018, Vol. As a youngster who loved to read, I thought the best way to stop this assault was with words. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right?

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Texas Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Protest 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

2018 proved to be one of my best birding years ever. For many women, pregnancy gives them a burst of energy, the joy of creating new life the boost they need to continue their daily activities while growing a human inside them. Not so much. I did not fall into that category.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

People often think of human caused climate change as something that has happened over recent years, or the last couple of decades. But human effects on the climate are much older than that. During the first half of the 20th century, human induced warming accounted for a measurable percentage of change in global temperature.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has published two more novels in his terrific “Birder Murder” series, the fifth and sixth – respectively, A Tiding of Magpies and, now the latest, A Dance of Cranes. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. © 2003 text H.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This is the last post covering my time birding the Kruger Park in November 2018. It seems this African Harrier-Hawk just caught something here. No clue what it is though. A study on the diet of the African Harrier-Hawk starts rather pompously: “Feeding is an indispensable activity in the life of birds.

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JUNE 12, 2018

It shall provide full and fair discussion of significant environmental impacts and shall inform decisionmakers and the public of the reasonable alternatives which would avoid or minimize adverse impacts or enhance the quality of the human environment.”. The public had until April 20, 2018 to comment.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

This Loggerhead Shrike ( Lanius ludovicianus ) was a life bird for me at the Salton Sea in California in 2018. Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day. As Daniel L. Yet they are ours.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. ISBN-10: 1781316546; ISBN-13: 978-1781316542.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 119

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine. The 2018 CBC tallied 2,492 birds of 87 species.

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MAY 8, 2018

In the case of the Hawaiian Goose ( Branta sandvicensis ), the public notice was published in the Federal Register on April 2, 2018. Habitat has been improved and conserved in some areas, though Hawaii’s increasing human population has made that a challenge.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. The Wrinkled Hornbill is now listed as Endangered, having been listed as Near Threatened until 2018 – it seems to have more specific habitat requirements than some of the other hornbills, and exactly that habitat is shrinking rapidly.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 126

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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. But there’s at least one night on the Scottish calendar when the grouse enjoys a reprieve, at least from human appetites.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Anybody that has spent some time birding and using field guides will soon realise that the field guides are written for humans. There had been a couple arrive in Broome when we had a very wet start to 2018 , but with very little rain this year we did not expect to observe any at all.

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Ducks Australia 2018 Humane 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements. Western Mexico’s Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater , split since 2018. But in Michoacán’s deep woods, the richly colored “Brown-throated” House Wren is a year-round presence. But, so far, the split has not occurred.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. As we entered the harbour, Nikos explained the state of ecotourism in the national park: “The previous 2018 was the record year with, I estimate, about 3000 birders visiting the lake. Over time, an unusual bond of mutual likeliness was created.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

For me, it’s one of the most exciting days of the year, and so I’m going to put aside the book review I’ve been crafting and talk about my favorite, best, top ten birds of 2018 (with a personal addition at the end). But, 2018 was a very special year for me, as you’ll see if you read to the end. [If,

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

This is the bird formerly known as Gray Jay (from 1957 to 2018). To protect our wild spaces and all the flora and fauna (including humans), add your voice! Common Raven. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Clark’s Nutcracker. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Canada Jays. Photo by © Robin Edwards. Black-billed Magpie. Photo by © Robin Edwards.

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Canada 2018 Birds Protection 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book that rethinks the way Darwin, and we, think about evolution—a very specific part of evolution, the way beautiful features and behavior have developed amongst birds and, by extension, amongst humans. By Richard O. Doubleday, 2017, 448p.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

But while that holiday has come and gone, 2018 remains the bicentennial year of the first export of Guinness to the United States, an anniversary the brewery is commemorating with a special release of Guinness Draught in cans decorated with its famous Guinness “Zoo” advertising art from the 1930s. They thought it would be vulgar.

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JULY 2, 2019

Natural History is another favorite section, descriptions of behavior–how it forages for food, whether it tends to be solitary or part of a group, if the species can be trained to receive food from humans, method of movement (hopping or running), what time of day the male bird tends to sing, and more. Antpittas and Gnateaters.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

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. This is not an exhaustive list as a few of the beats do not use compatible listing software, or have reservations about revealing sightings of sensitive birds.

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