10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Louis Hoppmann III has been charged with animal cruelty after hitting a gull with a baseball bat on the aptly named Folly Beach in South Carolina. He claims he was just trying to scare the birds away from his food, but that sounds like a post-hoc explanation to me… a.

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APRIL 30, 2022

Birding can be a real challenge. For some, it can involve hiking into a furnace of a canyon to look for a small yellowish bird much easier to see in other countries. Birding can be spending the night on a boat in the Atlantic so you can wake up to White-faced Storm-Petrels and other pelagic treats. Keep Watching the Feeders.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. The idea is to portray one bird for each hour of the day in words and art, presenting the diversity, beauty, and wonder of avian life. Angell’s black-and-white illustrations bring sparks of energy and visual clarity to the fascinating bird behaviors described by Huber.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Birds of Belize by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. Dale Dyer put in years working on his paintings for Birds of Central America , both in the field and in the museum. Howell utilizes the IOC World Bird List (v.11.2, Why are these issues? © 2023 by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2021

Without looking through polished sets of coated glass, birds can be itty-bitty specks and flying objects that hint at the colors hidden therein. Bring the binos up to the eyes, work the focus, and if the bird is nice enough to still be there, life can take on new meaning. Life is good when you can inspect the plumage of a hummingbird.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

On the birding side of life, winter birds were still around, there will still chances at finding some rare owl or getting binoculars on an undulating bunch of crossbills but mostly, I was tired of the cold and just counting the days until Spring. In Costa Rica, February is a different birding story. Great Curassow. Great Potoo.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2021

The southwest peninsula of Trinidad is unfortunately rarely birded by visiting birders. Bonus points if you figured out that the out-of-focus bird here is a Solitary Sandpiper. We kept our eyes peeled for any birds of prey – Savanna Hawk , Grey-lined Hawk and Common Black Hawk were all expected. Such is birding.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

When looking for birds in Costa Rica, the Central Valley isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Tongues and patches of green space host birds but most birders leave as soon as they can. Why linger when you can go where the birding is better? I can’t blame them, I would too.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Lacking the benefit of heated shelters, birds must heed that warning or perish. The coming cold takes a big bite out of life and is why millions of birds flee south to where summer reigns eternal. Even so, warm, friendly weather can’t stop a birder from choosing Costa Rica’s best birds of Halloween. Laughing Falcon.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. I think we caught perhaps three bats.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

A bat flew over my house a few days ago. That sentence may sound like the beginning of a horror story, but this bat bade well, serving as a reminder to those of us in the frosty north that winter eventually ends. If I’m lucky, I might pick up some of my last birds of this waning season. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As October winds down, dark minds turn to bats and other creatures of the night. Birds are flying fast and far these days, and you don’t want to miss them. Corey will be birding in and around Queens. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

We’ve hit that part of October where bats hold more fascination. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! The post Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of October 2019? appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2019

That’s where Costa Rica is situated of course and is partly why so many birds live here. It’s par for the course in December, Costa Rica, and unfortunately, often coincides with our annual bird counts. But, keep birding because cold fronts also bring in other stuff. It’s also why 60 degrees f. Just kidding!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2021

As with our last Birds and Booze post , we’re in Portugal yet again, this time revisiting what is perhaps the world’s most quenching style of wine: vinho verde. I wish I could find more bottles of vinho verde with birds on their labels, because it’s a wine I’d happily drink all sweltering summer long. Good birding and happy drinking!

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2019 Blackbirds Portugal Bats 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2016

At least one weekend a year, bats–particularly the vampiric kind–command more attention than birds, at least from most people. I saw lots of different kinds of woodpeckers this weekend, but that big, honking Pileated always wins out over the others for Best Bird honors. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

The graveyard shift is on duty: several bats are chasing insects through the evening coolness. The next morning, through Yellowhammers and Eurasian Skylarks singing all around me, I went birding. Yes, yes, I know, not countable – it’s not a bird. Never mind, it’s not a bird. The Song Thrush becomes silent.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

An expanse of habitat as vast as Murchison Falls NP in Uganda, as excessively generous in beauty and biodiversity, permits endless ways to experience both its birds and animals. The Masindi Hotel holds the distinction of being the oldest and most historic hotel in Uganda and has some terrific birds on premises. Mind boggling, I answer!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

With this weekend consumed by Halloween excitement, bats were more easily encountered than birds. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a relatively common species though it was uncommonly cooperative. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend' How did you fare? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2023

All fades under the blinding lights of new backyard birds, however. Regular readers will be well aware that I am a huge fan of sitting at home, sipping coffee, and birding. The benefits of long-term observation of the same birds have fertilized my psyche in ways I never thought possible.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Birds evacuate waste in many ways. Birds will barf them back up out of their mouths. Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. But the jawbone…that was from a bat!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2014

Keep your eyes to the skies for raptors attacking bats ( it happens !). But now we ease into a different phase in the phenological calendar, one focused more on the birds that stay than the ones that simply pass through. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Birding May weekend' How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

I have a larger post coming out next week as part of a special 10,000 Birds topical extravaganza, so for now just three little things. But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. Birds research'

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The Durango Highway is arguably one of North America’s great birding roads due to the great variety of habitats, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the numerous Mexican endemics one can target. There are many dusty side roads in this area, many of which offer productive birding.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2013

Birds are on the wing in a big way. Keep your eyes to the skies and you may see more than you expect (like bats against a bright blue sky !). Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Birding May weekend' How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2020

And this doesn’t mean you are obsessed or a little bit too much into birds because keeping track of a year list actually comes with some side benefits. Yeah, many of us living the birding life do so anyways because we can’t help it. Go birding! Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis; Curu, 4-Jan.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2016

While I did not go NOLA to bird specifically, I always keep my eyes out. However, I did love the Chimney Swifts that dotted the dimming sky; or, as my cousin called them, “those bat-looking things.” In the hush of a Sunday morning, even “common” birds seemed special. Bird graffiti near Magazine St.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2021

2021 is already well underway, are you birding? During anxious times, birding is therapeutic, it brings us back to center, can wipe away the worries and act as a source of mental fortitude. Watch some birds today and see where it takes you. Watch some birds all year long and enjoy the journey, keep a list.

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Woodpeckers 158

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2019

Although that may sound as if we stand out there at all hours like a bino wearing sentinel watching the trees, most of our birding is typical yard list stuff; just keeping eyes and ears out for whatever avian things come our way. Up in here, those choice birds have come in the form of: Scarlet Tanager and Eastern Kingbirds. Bat Falcon!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

Memorable encounters with Mammals: Part I Most birdwatchers enjoy seeing mammals, but the trouble with mammals is that they tend to be much more challenging to see than birds. 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.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2013

After we had collected the mangos that we could reach and brought them into the house to ripen we then started to enjoy a variety of birds eating the remaining mangoes that are too high to reach. Overnight the fruit-bats have been coming to the tree and invariably knock down the mangos from the top of the tree.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I was wishing I had a birding buddy with me as a mixed flock overwhelmed my abilities. Suddenly, a large bird, which seemed to have a bright yellow breast and black head, flew overhead to a point behind multiple branches. And then the bird was gone. Of course, I can’t bat a thousand on the bad photo rankings.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

With 18 species of native Psittacids to choose from, birding in Costa Rica is always a thrill, especially for someone who grew up in parrotless Niagara Falls, New York! Fancy bird like this Brown-hooded Parrot are common in many forested parts of the country. Like 99% of parrots, this is a colorful bird with a loud voice.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights. He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. Feel free to vent!”.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

It’s a beautiful Spring morning… humming insects, calling birds. Maggie Ciarcia, a solo wildlife rehabilitator in Carmel, NY specializing in small mammals and game birds, received a notice from New York State Electric and Gas that tree trimming was scheduled for her neighborhood and someone would contact her.

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