10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Most readers here will be familiar with the plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper , a critically endangered wader that nests on the Russian tundra and winters in Southeast Asia. Said team of experts brought along a video camera. Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper is the result.

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Eggs Russia Research Breeding 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

The spoonbills are a collection of six species from around the world whose facial accouterments have reached their terrifying bizarre zenith. Southern Bald Ibis , photo by Adam Riley. If you want to really talk about bizarre facial adornments, though, you need to look towards those almost-ibises, the spoonbills.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

And consider collecting stamps or other indoor hobbies. There are currently 10 species of Treecreepers that form the family Certhiidae, nine in the genus Certhia and an additional oddball in another genus, Salpornis. Of course, and as usual, the UK birders are late to the party and just won’t get it.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

Let’s take Singapore’s Changi International Airport as an example; it is a huge hub airport with large numbers of people passing through in transit to Australia, Indonesia and south-east Asia. You will either have to leave it at the airport and collect it later (using up precious time), or carry it with you in hot, humid conditions.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2021

I would welcome suggestions, in the comments below, for collective nouns to describe this agglomeration. By the way Woodswallows are chunky little insectivorous birds found in the south Pacific, Australia and southern and eastern Asia. The photo was taken last year in the middle of winter on the western sides of the Conondale Range.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2022

When you think of the best birding in the south of Asia, it is Malaysia that comes to mind, although you are likely not to even think of the country as such: you are dreaming of the (Malaysian) province of Sabah, in the north of the island of Borneo. And yet, it easily fits the largest pocket of my reporter’s vest.

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Malaysia Singapore Asia Birds 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

carrie – just to add to Clare and/or Grant’s answer, if you are at sea in south east asia you may also see snakes which are sea kraits rather than the sea snakes shown here (you can see one on my blog here: [link] ). We had collected it to remove from the beach, but it was very useful for sea snakes.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

For example, I have birded 4 continents, Europe, Southern Africa, South Asia and Central America and have seen 200-300 species in every region, yet, due to overlapping, they do not even sum up to a 10% of all bird species! And there may be two thousand and quite possibly fewer birders who fit the aforementioned positions. I take my hat off.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

Note from a grumpy ex-scientist: It is absurd that such a highly specific paper has 10 authors – it seems anybody who collected feathers, analyzed them, owned the equipment that analyzed them, or just found them pretty got on the list of authors. But that is science in hierarchical institutions).

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Litter China Species Abandon 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. The maps on the inside front and back covers help a lot.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. This wiki looks good too.]

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2021

My Facebook page, imaginatively titled, ‘Birds and Birding Sunshine Coast 2021’ challenges all participants to a Big Year challenge; to see how many different species that can be collected via photographic image within the greater Sunshine Coast area, aka the Zone of Happiness. I live within this Zone of Happiness. Ken Cross].

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Birds 2020 Australia Species 264

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The research is outlined as a three-step process, also utilized as the structure for the book: (1) Baptism by Ice: learning the techniques needed to locate the owls; (2) Fish Owls of the Sikhote-Alin: identifying a study population; (3) Captures: capturing fish owls, tagging them with radio transmitters, and collecting data.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

For those that don’t remember, diclofenac is the veterinary drug that just about wiped vultures out completely in Asia. The internet is great at collecting information, but it is at best so-so at working out what’s actually important. (It’s

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

and in Asia, and his photos and articles have been published in many publications, including Birding and Birdwatcher’s Digest. Tom Stephenson is a professional musician who recently retired as director of technology at the Roland Corporation. He has been birding since he was a kid, led birding trips across the U.S.

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United States North America Species 2013 237

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Elizabeth spent two years in Australia, traveling there with John and her oldest son, then living with acquaintances and relatives in Tasmania, Sydney, and Yarrundi while John traipsed across the continent shooting birds, collecting skins. And I’m so happy I did. Issues of authorship are also explored.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2020

Being a European birder, I find it particularly interesting to discover which of “my birds” extend their ranges through Asia all the way into this Pacific island country, and it is especially fascinating to see the diversity of stilts, woodcocks and snipes as one goes further east. What I don’t like?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Apparently, as captain of a ship, he collected specimens in Southeast Asia including Borneo, and sent them to a museum in Germany. Storm’s Stork is one of the relatively rare examples of a bird named for a German, specifically, Capt. Theodor Hugo Storm (1850-1927), a German mariner who later emigrated to the USA (source: HBW).

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San Diego Zoos Malaysia Eggs 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

is based on a study of specimens and tape recordings collected during one visit to each of two localities in central China in 1997 and 1998 and their own tape recordings and specimens from Nepal; in all, 196 specimens were examined. In contrast, the paper by Martens et al. Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not.

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Hamburgers Birds Science China 229

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Since Craig Robson’s “Birds of Thailand” (2002) is taxonomically outdated, the choice was Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia” (the updated second, 2014 edition of the 2001 classic). Yet, if you already have Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia” – taxonomy aside, do you need this book? Or tertiary. Or who cares. Yes, you do.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

and in Asia, and his photos and articles have been published in many publications, including Birding and Birdwatcher’s Digest. Tom Stephenson is a professional musician who recently retired as director of technology at the Roland Corporation. He has been birding since he was a kid, led birding trips across the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2011

One day I will get some time to sort through all my images and collect out the good ones and post-process them as they deserve to be treated… You can read A Bird Photo Hide in Thailand (part 1) here. I had no time to do any editing or cropping (except for the really wide treepie which got its top and tail chopped).

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Thailand Birds Asia Collecting 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). But, what if you already own Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America and/or Gulls of the Americas ? Wherever you travel, there will be gulls.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Chestnut-winged Babbler is known as one of the host species of the Asian Drongo-cuckoo in Southeast Asia ( source ), a claim to fame that most bird species would probably prefer to avoid. Why anyone would examine a specimen collected in 1888 for mummified chewing lice is a mystery to me, but so is the appeal of Donald Trump.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

They occur in three biogeographic regions; the Neotropic, Afrotropic and Indo-Malaya ecozones, basically tropical South and Central America, Africa south of the Sahara and tropical Asia. Benson to collect birds. These American barbets are now considered more closely related to Toucans than they are to the barbets of other continents.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Prior to this Lynx edition – the first ever bird guide devoted specifically to Cambodia, the choice was Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia” (the updated second, 2014 edition of the 2001 classic).

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Cambodia Birds 2001 Groups 167

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections. A mid-book extension of the introductory section on Aging and Sexing Waterfowl, this is a unique tool that advanced birders will love.

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