10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2023

The Collared Finchbill is not a rare bird, and it is not endangered, but it is a particular favorite of mine. So, in order to show a few more photos of the bird than the usual two or three had I included this bird in a post of birds seen around Wolongshan, Sichuan), here is one dedicated to the species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to Wikipedia, the national bird of Australia is the Emu – which I have not seen yet. Duncan – in a 10,000 Birds post – apparently also thinks it would make a good national bird. Duncan – in a 10,000 Birds post – apparently also thinks it would make a good national bird.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2019

There are a lot of birds in Washington, DC. Oh sure, you can go to Rock Creek Park or the Tidal Basin to seek out living avian species, or visitors can head to the Smithsonian museums for a dose of past and present bird lore from all over the world. In early June, I took note of each museum bird I spotted. An original John J.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

Have you ever wondered what birds were flying overhead while you slept or what critters crept through your yard unnoticed? The Terra Project is an exciting collaboration between bird guide author Scott Whittle , wildlife tracker manufacturer CTT , and non-profit Conservation Science Global. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Without pointing to specifics, it is safe to say that the world seems pretty scary right now, particularly for those of us concerned with protecting nature and endangered animals and ecosystems. Enjoy this festive weekend, but be ready, if and when your time comes, to allay our collective fears by supporting wise environmental stewardship.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

The American Birding Association has declared that 2022 is the year of the Burrowing Owl, but if Rosemary Mosco has her way, it will also be the year of the Rock Pigeon. And when we stop thinking that animals are useful, we find it a whole lot easier to hate them” (p. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

Although most of the threats to the Spotted Owl relate to its dwindling old growth forest habitat, it also faces potential threats from another bird. They argued that the scientific research exception only applied to research on the animal to be taken. The cases are: Friends of Animals v. Friends of Animals v.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” ” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles. There are changes in where to find the birds.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Don’t you hate it when you cannot communicate while birding overseas? Having mobility issues, I still remember birding from a van along a rather productive dirt road in Costa Rica ( Broad-billed Motmot , Lineated Woodpecker , Cocoa Woodcreeper , etc.), The post Foreign Languages on a Birding Trip appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Bears San Jose Greece Costa Rica 135

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

There are plenty of stories about all the awful things that happen to birds, like getting covered in oil or smuggled n some dude’s underpants into another country, and about the things we should be doing about it. But what about the things that the birds are doing about it. Which led me to wonder, just how dangerous are birds?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

This week, a new study was published about Sparrows in Nebraska, that in some ways resembles the study by Bumpus and may well be a better example of Natural Selection in birds. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons. However, rainforest birds live in specific microhabitats and are often much easier to hear than to see in the dense multilayered rainforest. This Birding Rally’s competitors were companies that specialize in birding and nature tours.

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Peru Birds United Kingdom South Africa 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. This is truly a bird-lovers dream-destination.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Known at the time as ‘ terms of venery’ , we know them today as collective nouns. Most of the collective nouns would have been used to describe animals that were hunted for sport which is disturbing when one considers a Parliament of Owls for example, a Herd of Wrens or a Stand of Flamingos.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

It’s always risky to say what separates humans from other animals — tool use, self-awareness, and the perception of morality no longer being as obvious a set of distinctions as they once were – but I will go out on a limb and say that narrative is at least as characteristic of humans as feathers are of birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

Ranging in color from off-white to dingy black, with pastel to gelatinous shades of yellow, orange, purple, and brown in-between, found in moist crevasses, decaying trees, rain-soaked pastures, mushrooms lack the beauty of butterflies and wildflowers cannot equal the action of bats, or flying fish, and certainly lack the spiritual zest of birds.

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North America America Species 2018 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. One Nilgai – the largest of Asian antelopes and a few Sambar deer later, we hit a jackpot: there is one jackal-like animal sitting among the dry leaves!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

Thus opens the first entry in On the Nature of Animals , written by Claudius Aelianus in the days of imperial Rome, now freshly translated by Gregory McNamee and presented in an attractive, modern-looking edition by Trinity University Press. Despite the last group, this is not merely a collection of just-so stories.

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Hedgehogs Egypt Animal Fur 117

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 241

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. Still it is always nice to add to the evidence of animal intellect. I thought to myself “strange, I didn’t know they ate kelp.”

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Raccoons Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 201

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 6, 2023

The research used data collected by coastal residents along beaches from central California to Alaska. The study showed that a warmer ocean, particularly during marine heatwaves or El Niño events, resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands to millions of marine birds within one to six months of the temperature increase.

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Washington Alaska Wildlife 2014 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Timothy Barksdale is a birder/biologist turned filmmaker , passionately pursuing birds with a television camera for the last 24 years. His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

And as the windblown birds settled down for the summer breeding season and the wind subsided, I found any concern for which way it was blowing died down with it. Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. And living birds still seem to appreciate weathervanes as perches!

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

While no one questions the religious sincerity of Northern Arapaho tribal members, spokesmen for some conservation and animal rights groups question why the tribe can't meet its religious needs without killing wild eagles. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Conservation / Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas By Mike • March 16, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share The U.S.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. Good birding and happy drinking! Three out of five feathers (Good).

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2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 125

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

Yellowhammer is a widespread, small and conspicuous songbird that ideal for studying functions of dialects in animal vocal communication. Most birds at a locality sing only one dialect, which seems locally stable over years. Why Great Britain and New Zealand? During two years, more than 1,700 recordings were obtained. Want to help?

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Czech Republic New Zealand Science Research 141

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

Interestingly, the birding lexicon uses other terms to describe unanticipated arrivals in more positive terms. For example, to irrupt , at least as far as animals are concerned, is simply to enter a region suddenly and in very large numbers. … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week.

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. The bird takes a mouth-ful of water and then forces the water through them, trapping the planktonic organisms which it eats.

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New Zealand Vet Collecting Geese 185

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

You know the captain’s name already: the Ross’s Gull was named after Ross who collected the type specimen in 1823 on Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Curiously, in 1831, McCormick was appointed a surgeon on HMS Beagle under the command of Captain FitzRoy and he expected to put together a sizeable natural history collection.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

I’ve tackled Texas, collected in California, fooled around in Florida. I had some friends in the Anchorage area who were generous enough to offer to put me up, and I made plans to arrive a day early so I could take in at least 24 hours on on-land boreal birding. Because that’s what animals do in Alaska.

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Alaska Bears Grizzly Bear North Carolina 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals. and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

Outside of hardcore twitchers looking for specialty birds and after speaking to thousands and thousands of birders, I have concluded that most people really do not put much emphasis on our prairies. However, organizations like Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory spend much time looking for more evidence of this species’ decline.

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Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 162