10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2019

Today`s post is a continuation of last week`s – an introduction to Shanghai`s 20 most commonly seen birds. Start with Eurasian Tree Sparrow , an unlikely high-ranked target for anybody watching birds in Shanghai. The Little Grebe is the default bird on Shanghai`s many ponds.

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Latvia Birds Sparrows Abandon 122

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

With the lockdown lasting until the end of May (ironically thus pretty much including the whole spring migration – the divine sense of humor is a rather malign one, I am afraid), June still had the freedom of birding anywhere in Shanghai, not just inside a smallish compound. Accessorizing for birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

Personally, I wasn’t happy, but I do not live there and do not have a septic tank in my backyard, so I felt that I have no right to complain against something that would obviously improve the lives of local inhabitants. Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. and after the road construction (June 2018).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2019

I was describing the area we were going to and the target birds ( European Rollers – cover digiscoped in the rain in the same area, Ortolan Buntings , etc.). Rollers were cooperative, several birds including a pair in an old oak tree. had every right to feel worried, with or without a reason. was mostly silent.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. You like birds,” he said, giving me a winning smile. Birding apps? I gasped. “I

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Mongoose Chickens India Wildlife Rehabilitation 183

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2018

Stick birds. Rock birds. Plastic bag birds. Leaf birds. Stump birds. Branch birds. Snow birds. Lump birds. Pipe birds. Plastic birds. Every birder has been fooled at least once by inanimate objects masquerading as birds. Yes, a coconut, abandoned on the ice of Meadow Lake.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Owls 120

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

The toughest thing for me, as a local birder, was to choose the most attractive birds because those that attract my attention are generally all too common in the northwest of Europe, from where most visiting birders are coming. In no particular order, here they are: Where to watch the top-20 birds of Belgrade. Serbia Birding calendar.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 248

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

That’s right…I used the punchline from one of the worst jokes in history for this one, but it seems strangely apt. One thing I’ve learned birding south Texas this spring is that birds are extremely fond of oranges, including birds you just wouldn’t expect to be into citrus (like the Swainson’s Thrush above).

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Baltimore Texas Tennessee Woodpeckers 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping my eyes on the road. But I was driving too fast and passed it, so I had to uncomfortably break on moist and somewhat slippery road to reverse and to stop opposite to the bird, less than 4 metres from it.

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Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2015

June is an interesting time to bird in northwestern Maine. Sure, the birds are out there, but to see them you have to face…the dreaded…black flies. We arrived at Kennebago Lake – where we would stay for a week – at night, so I had to wait until the next morning to get out birding. Big mistake. Kennebago Lake. Ruffed Grouse.

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North Carolina Birds North America Woodpeckers 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2020

10,000 Birds is having trouble with our website platform. When you are an American expatriate who lives, and birds, in Mexico, it is a topsy-turvy world. One or or two of these cute birds visited me every day throughout the winter. The post There goes the neighborhood appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

They were commenting where they felt most at home – on their favourite FB pages (predominantly American Birding Association). Eric DeFonso: “I was thinking about one particular quote from the blog post today while guiding, pertaining to recounting special bird sightings. ‘ Making sure that all trip participants see all the birds.

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Greece Birds Zambia Experience 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. This is Hannah’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Hannah and Erik ready to see some birds! I love to go on cruises.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? It hasn’t been a summer to remember.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

Why am I posting a photo of a hippoboscid on a Red-tailed Tropicbird, a bird I’ve never rehabbed? Also called louse flies, they’re squat little parasites that hide in the plumage of birds and suck their blood, especially sick or compromised ones. I had her wrapped in a towel and was giving her the once-over when … right!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

Birding in Florida is unique in that so much of that state’s plenty is evident even to the casual observer. It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. One had a cluster of recently fledged birds and their nonplussed parent.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 196

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The loss of the Passenger Pigeon stings because of the impossible descriptions of the bird’s abundance. But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course). Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out.

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Parrots Hunters United States North America 220

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

You (or your child/friend/etc) have just found a seemingly parentless baby bird. Here with the answer(s) is Maureen Eiger, a bird rehabilitator in Roanoke, VA: . Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

The landscape changes too: buildings get smaller, vistas are altered, developments go up or abandoned shopping malls fall down. But in listing the dangers of creeping nostalgia, to the best of my knowledge no one has ever mentioned what happens when the birds change. This year has brought a lot of new birds at the Olde Homestead.

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New York New York City Ducks Baltimore 155

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2012

Most readers of 10,000 Birds know that nature is full of surprises and that we aren’t the only ones with a lock on intelligence and creativity. When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. More in a couple weeks.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

A month ago I visited this site, right at the edge of Belgrade for the first time, only to discover that I cannot get into the overgrown area in my low-clearance city car. Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Serbia 139

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

I’m not sure if I already was claustrophobic , or if the circumstances merely traumatized me to the point I became one, right there and then. The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. Fogged up as my bins where I managed to see this beautiful little bird.

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Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s most attractive and desired bird species: the Great Bustard Otis tarda. Never mind the slight over-exposure: look at this bird!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Capuchin monkeys, macaques, Cotton Top Tamarins, Chimpanzees, and many other animals, including various birds, have been investigated and found to be unable to make inferences about HCAs. The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Flamingos have been reported to abandon their nesting sites even when mining was initiated after the establishment of nesting colonies when the birds were expected to be engaged in a breeding attempt and were less likely to leave the colonies. Andean Flamingoes and Chilean Flamingo (far right) (Photo: Ron Knight – Flickr).

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

“The estuary and the delta of the River Kalamas form the most important wetland of northwest Greece”, so the “ Birding in Greece ” guidebook claims for the area where I am heading, a bit late since I overslept this morning. Yet, beside a few Little and one Great Egret , a raft of Eurasian Coots , no birds. It is getting a bit hot.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2018

When I began reviewing beers for 10,000 Birds, I knew I would eventually get around to writing about the Mendocino Brewing Company. While I’m happy whenever a brewery has just one bird-inspired beer, Mendocino offers an entire range of beers named for birds, with each bottle handsomely adorned with a namesake bird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2017

However, no problem there because any pangs of loss or longing to lay eyes on a MEGA bird is quickly assuaged by glassing good birds, and that’s pretty easy to accomplish in Costa Rica, especially at El Tapir. Tapirs do occur on the trails at El Tapir but cool hummingbirds are more likely.

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Costa Rica Unwanted Honduras Panama 124

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Continued from: Birding Humauca and Abra Pampa – Northern Argentina Trip Report. After a goodnight sleep in a simple and clean hostal in Abra Pampa, we got up early so we could reach Laguna de Los Pozuelos at sunrise for a full day birding at one of the iconic places in Northern Argentina. Andean Flicker. Puna Miner.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

If we can all agree on one thing, it’s that chickadees and tits are terrific birds. Not for nothing did 10,000 Birds readers elect the chickadee as the Most Beloved Backyard Bird of 2008 ; if we had run elections in other years, chickadees would no doubt have been front-runners. It was still alive.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The threat of extinction of such iconic Florida bird prompted State and Federal agencies to find solutions to stop and reverse the declining trend. Eggs of the native apple snail (left), and the exotic apple snail (right). Kites now nest there and are fairly common. Snail Kites now favor these ponds and breed around them.

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Florida South America Eggs Bolivia 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First amendment rights? Does it solve it?

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

So we have a brown, slender-billed bird in font of us which we now know is a brown warbler, either of the genus Acrocephalus or Locustella. Sedge Warbler (left) and Grasshopper Warbler (right – duh!). This is a Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) and not a brown bird. What is next? This is green! What’s next?

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Europe Kazakhstan Sparrows Abandon 208

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York Harbor and vicinity looking for good birds. A surprise was a Common Merganser , a bird we don’t see much in New York City and especially not flying over the coast in Brooklyn. That’s right, we birded! It seemed liked an innocuous idea.

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