10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

Driving slowly along the track towards the levee separating this area from the Danube backwaters, a largish marten-like animal once ran across the track. Reva is also a part of the local Important Bird and Biodiversity Area “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers”. The post The Reva Situation appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This is Liz’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. The rise in drone popularity over the past few years has been meteoric — and in our typical human arrogance, we’ve once again ignored the fact that for the past 150 million years, the sky has belonged to the birds.

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Birds Protection Idaho Bears 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. No, birds are way too smart for that stupid trick.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments.

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Fish Woodpeckers Ostriches Eggs 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2017

One of the best things about our annual Lassen Park campout is that we get to see several species of birds that are rarely, if ever, seen in the Sacramento Valley. According to their website , Lassen Volcanic National Park provides habitat for approximately 216 species of birds in which 96 have been known to actually breed in the park.

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Woodpeckers Sacramento Raised Squirrels 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

Birds are singing and migrating, freshets are running, and trees are budding – yes, it’s time for all those things. And given what these birds have been through, this caution is certainly warranted. The same can’t really be said of a confusing Orange Bishop or gaudy Mandarin Duck loose in a city park.

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

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AUGUST 3, 2013

It is built to reach out into the water when the dam is full and is reached along a raised walkway, screened from the mammals, reptiles and birds that may be roosting, resting, feeding, drinking or waiting in ambush close by. Mammals visit the dam as well as the birds.

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South Africa Mammals Reptiles Elephants 172

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 4, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / What is the National Bird of Denmark? What is the National Bird of Denmark? It is no wonder that the ugly duckling grew up to be the national bird of Denmark.

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 163

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The closer one raises her head, than lies back. The Little Egret walks in front of her, a dozen Lesser Whistling Ducks flies noisily low above water and through a flooded grass wades one Black-winged Stilt. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. These are my first wild tigers ever!

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Tigers India Killing 2012 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

One would display one’s credentials as a sporting gentleman by correct use of the terms and knowing that a flock of duck might be called a raft or a skein , depending on whether they were floating or flying, was essential. Never having seen more than one at a time, I had not previously thought of them as flocking birds.

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Hunting Collecting Groups Fox 151

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates. Also ferrets are curious animals, explorers, willing to take risks; they’ve had to be.

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Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

The haunting call of the West Indian Whistling Duck has long been a sound synonymous with the ever-shrinking wetlands of the Caribbean. But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. West Indian Whistling Ducks are the largest of the eight different whistling duck species.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 220

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

birds that we are lucky to have with us today, species that seem to have beat the odds and have been migrating on the long and bumpy road to recovery. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Here are some U.S. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It flies on.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It gets interesting here, because the bar manager had no idea it was a rare bird and was just helping out a bird that had flown into a window. There were a lot of birds about at this early hour and we were very surprised to see seven Magpie Geese fly by. He had no idea it was a rare bird and subsequently buried it.

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Australia Litter Geese Cats 119

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

February 2023 was a slow month for birding in Shanghai, at least for me – so slow that I almost put the Spotted Dove , possibly my least favorite bird here, on the cover. Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. Maybe those should be protected too?

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

To be precise, “Birding Shanghai from June 10 to June 30, 2022” – but that is even less of an exciting title than the one above. The reason for this post only covering the period from June 10 being that an earlier post, “Revenge Birding”, was about the first 9 days of June. You should try it too.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another paper on Taiwanese birds found that “the urban Crested Goshawk bred 34 days earlier on average than the rural population with significantly higher nesting success”, concluding that “the urban Crested Goshawk population benefits from high food supply and low predation risk.”

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