10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

Normally she would be living somewhere in Europe or Asia, but she was born and raised in captivity in the United States. The great thing about raising an education bird,” says Lisa, “is that you can do everything you’re never allowed to do with the wild ones.” Xena’s specialty is raising funds for pediatric cancer.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Raised Eagles Owls 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2017

The crest can appear as a black cap when seen from the front, but the edged crown feathers show best when slightly raised and viewed from the side. Spilornis cheela , can be found right across tropical Asia, preferring forested habitats.

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Eagles Malaysia Tail Banding Reptiles 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2017

Asia, but have been introduced elsewhere. The dorsal fin has stiff spines which can pierce a clumsy angler’s palm, but when raised they can be a defensive mechanism to avoid being swallowed. First there was the Glaucous-winged Gull and the starfish , next, the Neotropic Cormorant with a plecostomus catfish.

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Fish Asia America Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

At least they seem to understand that raising chicks is hard and annoying work and have found at least a partial solution for this problem: “co-operative breeder, up to four individuals attending chicks at one nest, at least three seen to feed chicks” (HBW).

San Diego 238

San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

It is an adherent to fresh water lakes, canals and swamps from India through East Asia, Indonesia and New Guinea. The classic bittern habit of freezing when alarmed with its bill raised can be seen in this species, though it allows very close approach or flushes if you get too close without seeing it.

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Singapore Indonesia Asia Guinea 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

There are only a few birds for whom their names have changed little since the dawn of the written alphabet itself, but ibis, named by the Greeks a few thousand years before, is one of them. Anyone with a passing interest in Egyptian mythology has seen the man with the ibis head, the god Thoth.

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 237

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

Its the only member of the genus Mycteria in the New World, the rest of its cogeners, a handful of other bald and nearly bald Storks with long curved bills, hail from East Africa and South Asia. They’re beautiful birds, and an example of the way birds and humans can coexist more or less prosperously for centuries.

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North America Pedigree South Carolina Brazil 171

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

David Sibley (yeah, the one ) recently raised the question visiting birders (particularly from Germany, not so much from the UK – I am told!) 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. This may change.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? And where all those birds are? This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. Map by BirdLife International.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We were in the remote Amazonian forests and not a sound was to be heard except for the rhythmical dripping of water from the raised paddles. I was as quiet as a church mouse, waked the camera and let the lens rest on my lap. Do you hear that song?” At first nothing. Then I heard it. But still new species are found.

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Solomon Islands Ecuador Colombia Brazil 241

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

They are also believed to be related to the Rail-Babbler of Tropical Asia. The friendly children of Bonkro village will soon have a school which is currently being constructed from conservation funds raised as a result of the nearby picathartes colony.

Sierra Leone 274

Sierra Leone Ghana Cameroon Equatorial Guinea 274

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). Ostriches originated in Asia. Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are).

Owls 238

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 238

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There are antwrens of South America, wren-babblers of South East Asia, the New Zealand wrens and the multitude of scrubwrens, heathwrens and fernwrens of Australia. They are also highly social, living as pairs with a number of helpers that aid in raising the chicks.

Australia 184

Australia New Zealand South America Asia 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. In contrast to their grey-faced relatives, Eastern Buzzards are not uncommon in Shanghai in winter. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ).

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Birds China Eggs Owls 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.

Feral Cats 257

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The beginning of each chapter begins with a stunning, full-page photograph of a gull on the left; each photo shows the gull with wings raised, facing right as if in expectation of wonderful things. And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids. Because this isn’t a field guide! ”).

North America 213

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We are familiar with the story, birds flying north in the boreal summer, taking advantage of the warmth, long days, and abundant insect life, to raise their young. The population that nests in the western reaches of North America’s Arctic will cover about twice that distance, through Asia and down in to Africa.

Africa 217

Africa Somalia North America Nigeria 217

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

There is a Linnet at Kissena Corridor Park in Queens, and though I bird this park regularly, the Linnet, a bird regularly found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and also named in a sweet song by Stephen Sondheim (Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeny Todd) has eluded me. I needed a book showing a Linnet.

Ireland 176

Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Born in Gambia, raised and living in Sweden , Larsson illustrated three major guides before this one, all authored by Klaus Malling Olsen: Terns of Europe and North America (PUP, rev. 1997), and Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004). 1995), Skuas and Jaegers (Yale Univ. 8) and seabird homes like South Georgia.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

And the answer to the question I am raising here is, yes, I would travel to Sri Lanka in the next period. Those large international agencies use reputable local ground agents, and in my experience this creates a safety cocoon around the travellers. And now is the time to go back to the Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs.

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Sri Lanka Ghana Uganda Eagles 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. I sat for hours, dreamily watching those rocks raising to the sky, covered by the dense primary vegetation of this subtropical area. Having earned both a Master’s Degree in Engineering and in Law, Germain works as a manager for the construction industry. Where are my binos?”

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Birds China Emotional Vietnam 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

A paper titled “Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus may adapt well to life in urban areas across its range in Asia” already made the same observation in 2018. The likely explanation is that she may still carry sperm from a previous mating with another male, and he wants to avoid raising chicks he has not fathered ( source ).

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147