10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Described in the “Territoriality and aggression” chapter, this is a sublime example of behaviour from the “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman, an Emeritus Chair in Behavioural and Environmental Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The higher elevation also attracts more rainfall, broad-leafed trees shed their dying leaves onto the floor to make a playground for species like White-necked Thrush, Grey-throated Leaftosser and Black-faced Antthrush. We heard some animal trundling through the bushes but got no visual.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

I can hear a Great Spotted Woodpecker calling. In those few days in the park, I observed about 35 birds, including European Honey Buzzard , Grey-headed Woodpecker and the numerous Mistle Thrushes and Eurasian Bullfinches , and half a dozen mammals, European Pine Marten among them. An hour later, I add another layer of clothing.

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 262

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2023

This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

Promotional flyers and signs often show animals and birds that do not exist here on the Baja. On last Saturdays trip, we ran across one of the many signs within the Biosphere, that list the unique bird, animal or plant of that area. We are so far from any kind of habitat or plant life that would possibly support the Acorn Woodpeckers.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

These are the plants and animals that strive to persist in the realm of Homo sapiens. Some local populations of birds and animals couldn’t adapt to the radical ecosystem-wide changes and just died out but a fair percentage did survive and continue to persist where green space lingers. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker.

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Sparrows 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2019

However, we did note signage that said if you travelling with an animal you would have to pay for twelve passengers and travel alone with your animal! It is illegal to feed wild animals, take animals, birds and insects and it is also illegal to release animals in Singapore. Shorebirds on Pulau Sekudu.

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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. Many of those species also nest in the park. One of my favorite species is the Water Ouzel , more commonly known now as the American Dipper ( Cinclus mexicanus ).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

It’s a frustrating thing, knowing there are exciting animals out there to be seen and being stuck back at base. And it did so in spectacular fashion, in the form of a mixed-species feeding flock, or a bird wave. They are large groups of birds of all different kinds of species. Cardinal Woodpecker.

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South Africa Tortoises Woodpeckers Birds 145

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. Woodpecker Finch using a tool. The behavior was inherent.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

I wondered, last August, how animals endure it — the tiny ever-pumping lungs of hummingbirds, the lungs of bighorn sheep shouldering their way up mountains, they must get filled with smoke too, right? Conservation black-backed woodpecker endangered species fire olive-sided flycatcher'

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

When choosing the top birding area of Serbia for a weekend visit, head for lowlands, Deliblato Sands and Labudovo Okno complex with 250 bird species. If you have 5-7 days, combine these two zones, adding wetlands around the village of Baranda (220 species). Serbia – the big picture. Birding overview. Top-5 hotspots.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Your trip will take you from the Amazon rainforest into the peaks of the Andes—with plenty of opportunities to take in Peru’s over 1,700 species of bird (the second most of any country) along the way. A twilight cruise then introduces you to the rainforest’s nocturnal animals. In the meantime enter to win the trip ! …

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2021

Although I knew that most of the birds and animals were in some wild, far off place, that didn’t stop me from looking for them closer to home. Blue Jays and Northern Cardinals , Downy Woodpeckers. Brown Jays also flutter by and those are just a few of the species that still occur. Foraging here, they become urban birds.

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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. About the size of a hare, it is more clumsily jumping, than running… and that tail… It was the European Otter !

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Some say plain suet keeps starlings away, but I’ve yet to find animal fat that they won’t eat. The above style of suet feeder works well if you get a lot of larger birds like Red-bellied Woodpeckers because the long piece of wood on the bottom gives woodpeckers something to prop their tails on and hold their bodies up.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this 25 years before I appeared in Audubon magazine myself) birds gripped my attention. Not all the birds, of course, but many of the distinctive and conspicuous species. T&T has five recorded species of woodcreeper, all resident.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2015

I have been rescuing animals, both wild and domestic, since I was a child. Can your hearts be so species-specific? It’s so much easier to delete a picture than to end the life of a mortally wounded cat-caught bird, like this Downy Woodpecker … who is alive, but not for long. It sickens me. It’s natural.”).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2018

Just stepping away from the birds for a minute, because you can’t really do any kind of story about Kruger National Park, and not at least mention the animals. The best I could do to mix both the birds and the animals was in the picture at the top of this story. The mighty rhino along with the Cattle Egret.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Today, he talks about a crazy woodpecker… A couple of years ago there was a big controversy on NPR about woodpeckers. Well, especially about one woodpecker — probably the most famous woodpecker in the world — Woody. Unlike other woodpeckers, you often see them foraging on the ground.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. While larger animals like deer and elk are usually able to escape the fire’s path, smaller animals like squirrels, foxes and snakes are not always so lucky. What Do Wild Animals Do in a Wildfire? So what do these facts mean for our wildlife?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ).

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Lions India Mammals Boars 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Actually, I visited the Two Towers twice, had about 50 bird species each time and about 60 in total, so this is sort of a composite tour description. However awkward this seems, I am using both British and (American) names – I wouldn’t be surprised if they do become different species in years to come.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2018

There are many species that captivate those looking at them: Burrowing Owls , Barn Owls , a variety of fishing-owls, Stygian Owl , Elf Owl , the list goes on and on. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. Well, except maybe you.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. In the 1950s the species was unofficially regarded as extinct by most biologists, a small part lost in the general tumble and disarray of the entire ecosystem they’d inhabited. You couldn’t see it. But the ferrets kept dying.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US. But birds and all animals need proper habitat. Cut down the virgin forest and lose the Orangutans or Spotted Owls or Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. This species is in trouble. This moment is about beginning to see in a new way.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

“I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA. I still think about and worry about so many of the animals I’ve worked with. When I release an animal I immediately want to pull them back to me. .

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Each of the six species in Costa Rica sports beautiful plumage with green and blue hues highlighted with rufous tones, and several also have long, racket-tipped tails. It was tough to pick out just one tanager species, many are downright stunning. The Halloween party never ends for these feathered Fae folk. Green Honeycreeper.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The word titmouse descends from the Old English terms, tit (any small animal or object) and mase (small bird), essentially meaning one small, small bird. bicolor ), like the Red-bellied Woodpecker and Turkey Vulture , has expanded its range dramatically to penetrate northern reaches. Tufted Titmouse Perhaps it has to do with the name.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. The animal slowly walked away from us, stopping every now and then to check on our behaviour.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2017

In upstate New York, sparrows, doves, woodpeckers, and cardinals fall into this category and are probably why we see more of those backyard birds (and their semi-psychedelic stylized versions) on Christmas cards, napkins, and other random types of stationary. How this species is often seen inside the forest.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Plants, animals, as well as birds. There were Ladder-backed Wood peckers, as well as Gilded Flickers and Gila Woodpeckers like this one. I am reasonably certain that the average person, sees an oasis as that beautiful body of water, surrounded by palm trees, in the middle of miles and miles of barren desert sand.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

There are also dry areas but this great diversity has resulted in an incredible bird list of over 900 species including Africa’s 2nd highest count of endemics (after South Africa). A two-week birding tour could expect around 400 species and up to 550 in 3 weeks, including sightings of most of Ethiopia’s endemic and near-endemic birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The highlight of the hike, and the day inn fact, was a new Lifer for me, in the form of three Black-backed Woodpeckers. As I was walking back to join my wife, one of the Pacific Northwest’s most secretive animals ran out across the part. Little Big Year Species : 850. US Species : 148. eBird Reports : 265.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

They have been a crucial part of the culture of the islands and forests where they are found for the last 50,000 years, and were amongst the first animals of the East to make it back to Europe with the earliest Portugese and Spanish explorations. There are, however, two species that are more accesible than the rest of the family.

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