10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

We should stop naming birds, especially non-European birds, after European and Euroamerican naturalists and scientists, especially if we are committed to making the worlds of birds and birding accessible to more people than the demographics that produced the Audubons, Wilsons, Stellers, and MacGillivrays.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Their migration is quite fast compared to many other larger birds – in one study , several birds flew 4000 km within 5–7 days while one individual even flew 5600 km non-stop. That includes breeding birds, as indicated by the presence of some rather cute chicks ( video ). Also as video.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

Being sacred may not have been that great for the Ibis in Egypt though – apparently, mummies of the Ibis are by far the most common bird mummies found there. And it seems that most of these mummified birds came from the wild rather than being specifically domesticated, according to DNA studies. ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

According to a bird guide published in 1911, “Competent authorities have proposed to divide the world, biologically, into two parts – Australia and the rest of the world, and they have considered Australia the more interesting part.” chocolate-bird (??), little fieldwren, and speckled jack.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2009

The following is a guest post from the amazing animal lovers of Adopt-a-Pet.com. Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. For more information visit this page [link].

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for the past few months in anticipation can finally exhale: Canada has a new national bird. Whether the Canadian government will adopt this recommendation remains to be seen; at the moment, there is no official Canadian national bird. Whatever happens, here’s to you, Gray Jay.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2018

A year ago, we presented a barleywine, a very strong beer, as a stand-in for the traditional Champagne in our New Year’s Eve edition of Birds and Booze. And a year later, we find ourselves in the same situation: it seems impossible to find a bottle of sparkling wine fit for New Year’s Eve with a bird on the label.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

It’s tough to make out what species the baby bird is but it sure likes bluegrass. As for the bird? No worries – it was adopted and cared for by a veterinarian in the audience. If bluegrass isn’t your thing the fun starts at the minute-and-a-half mark of the video. … a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. End of side note.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2023

Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorant was a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade until most wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the entire territory of Serbia. With the construction of the huge Iron Gates dam on the Danube, the birds returned to breed in newly flooded river islands.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2022

So I let myself be inspired, instead, by my rotating “Best of Birds” screen saver photos, accumulated over the years. Many simply show beautiful, interesting, or cooperative birds I have seen. After contributing almost 100 posts to 10,000 Birds, I’ve kind of lost track.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Yet another bird that seems to adopt a different personality depending on the environmental conditions. The post Flight of the Ibis appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The Hadada Ibis is another common African species but I can never tire of seeing it. Looks almost like a souped-up Glossy Ibis with all those iridescent feathers!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It must indeed have been a bit kafkaesque for a bird that is clearly primarily purple to wake up one morning, see itself in the mirror and learn that it is now a Grey-headed Swamphen. In 2013, it was even included in the birdwatching list of the American Birding Association. The post The Metamorphosis appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This unique sound belongs to the Carolina Wren , who unsurprisingly is the state bird of South Carolina! Adopted as the state bird in 1948 , the Carolina Wren actually superseded another species: the Northern Mockingbird. ” Those lawmakers took bird protection seriously! Carolina Wrens are impressive little birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Italy has no national bird! How this sad state of affairs could possibly continue is beyond the ken of this bird blogger but it is certainly disturbing that such an illustrious country with such a rich history could lack a feathered ambassador. Here, for example, is the emblem of Italy, adopted by the Italian Republic in 1948.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2014

The snake was wrapped firmly around the hawk’s tail, neck, and wings, and had enough strength to immobilize the bird but not to kill him. Key West Wildlife Center takes mostly birds, but will rescue mammals, marine mammals, and both land and sea turtles as well. It was an immature broad-wing on his first migration,” says Tom.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2016

The birds had already adopted their drab eclipse plumage, unlike the winter warrior featured in the photo above. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. What can I say? I didn’t think I’d need a photo.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2011

When will bird breeding be regulated? How many more stories like this need to come out before it is generally recognized that this isn’t “a few bad apples&# but an endemic problem in the bird breeding industry? If you insist on owning a pet bird, at least adopt one from a shelter.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2015

By the time the cigar smoke cleared and the port had soaked through the tablecloth, the Robin had taken its place as Britain’s National Bird. A popular vote shall be held” announced David, “and whosoever wins the poll shall be acknowledged as Britain’s National Bird”. It started as a discussion over the Stilton and walnuts.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2022

In fact, it was birding that brought them into our lives. I happen to have visited that country twice (both for ministerial purposes and, alas, before I started my second birding period). But finally, three weeks after their arrival, the day arrived when Ricardo and I could go birding together. I was born in 1958.)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2016

I’m one of those people who thinks all birds are beautiful, from the drab House Sparrow to the pink Roseate Spoonbill. Yet, there is one bird that looks like a piece of fallen sky as it zips around eating summer insects, one bird whose blue color is so perfect that birders and non-birders alike can’t help but stare.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2013

This story will puzzle those who still assume my ability to fix a broken wing means I can always identify the bird from which it is drooping. Boris once told me a hysterically funny story in which he discovered his ex-wife in the process of adopting a Russian orphan without telling him. We’re walking through the Bird Park.”.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Walking along a dirt track next to a prairie, my friend and I were on the look-out for different sparrow species when a large bird suddenly darted into the clearing. In fact, they are central to many Mexican and Native American spiritual beliefs, and have been named the state bird of New Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2011

The national bird of Latvia is the White Wagtail which, it being Latvia, they call Balta Cielava.* Nonetheless, that is the only explanation I can find for how Latvia chose its national bird so there you have it. Wouldn’t you want a bird with such a reputation to represent your country? ……… a.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 31, 2023

Will ducks “babysit” or adopt ducklings that have been abandoned? For a little more context these are wild ducks and geese, but live on a shallow canal in an urban area where there a lot of people and generally the same group of birds, if those things can affect their behavior in any way.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Cuban Trogon, the national bird who wears the colors of the Cuban flag! There is an island of fascinating birds out there, and I want to see them all. ” birding destination.* The full name of this unique volume is Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide Including West Indian Endemics Living in Cuba.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2020

Later in the summer, I like to head even further north and west into the heart of the Adirondacks for even higher-elevation birding in true boreal – and fly-infested – habitat. Good birding and happy drinking! The post Bolton Landing Brewing Company: Paradise Bay IPA appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I was poking around my eBird checklists recently and came across one from one of my more intriguing days birding. Like many birders, I’ve had “patches” where I routinely go birding. Patch birding is rewarding because the birds become familiar, as do the changes across the seasons. There is satisfaction in the everyday.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

The big story of the fortnight in Cyprus isn’t about birds, but it crosses the path of birding (kinda). But the biggest story that is about birds is the conference that took place last week. From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

Fortunately, I didn’t have to go far to see my best birds of the weekend. Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a Grasshopper Sparrow in Queens, his first ever in his (adopted) home borough. Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a Grasshopper Sparrow in Queens, his first ever in his (adopted) home borough.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

It’s not our first encounter with juniper at Birds and Booze, but this is our first gin, surprisingly. Of course, we had to wait until I found a gin decorated with a bird, rather than, say, a portrait of Queen Victoria (as found on bottles of Bombay Sapphire) or one of those burly Beefeaters that guard the Crown Jewels.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. To readers and to baby birds, its author, Julie Zickefoose, is a treasure.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Nor have I overlooked “sightings” of birds in movies mouthing other birds’ calls. I’m not sure why.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2012

But eastern Zimbabwe is an almost mythical place and a highly productive birding destination. I have had the privilege of birding Zimbabwe on a handful of occasions. The country is also famous for its regular sightings of that most wanted of birds, the African Pitta. Just be prepared for well…almost anything.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2016

Given that it’s a style I myself often adopt (and sometimes fail at), it’s something I’ve thought a lot about. For text descriptions of bird walks the bar is even higher before the reader is going to invest the effort required to move the eye across the page.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same. Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. So say Kevin T.

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