10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Being a mammal myself, I am understandably much less fond of this animal class than I am of birds. But I have to admit that seeing some of the wolves, foxes, asses, and sheep of Dulan county is nice, at least as long as they do not stand in front of some exciting birds. I guess modern birds think this looks much cooler.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While these birds are very much liked by Chinese birders, the species could unfortunately not be named the National Bird of China as the Latin species name of the bird is Grus Japonicus. it would not be the national bird of the USA either. Incompetent photographers can always blame the bird.

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Birds Eggs Bald Eagle Owls 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2021

He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . More Birds Than Bullets: My Life With Birds is his account of the centrality of birds in all of these endeavors, and in his life.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Don’t you hate it when you cannot communicate while birding overseas? Having mobility issues, I still remember birding from a van along a rather productive dirt road in Costa Rica ( Broad-billed Motmot , Lineated Woodpecker , Cocoa Woodcreeper , etc.), While tracking brown bears in Greece some time ago, B.

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Bears San Jose Greece Costa Rica 139

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

The coronavirus has locked us all in, literally, doing something that was totally unthinkable only a few months ago: it has prevented us from birding abroad! I am talking of the very heart of the Balkans and the final birding frontier of Europe: Serbia. Birding overview. Belgrade – weekend birding break. Top-20 birds.

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Serbia Sanctuary Birds Bosnia 317

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The poster bird of this area is the near-threatened Black-necked Crane. Not sure how I (or the bird itself) feel about the bird being named after a bird collector, though. A beautiful bird, but a disastrous name, if even some of the accusations against Przevalski of him being a massive racist are true.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2012

Some cats, like my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Paul’s pet, Pippa, are not bright enough to realize that, you know, that’s a freaking bear! … a.

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Bears Cats Suffering Pets 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Do birds use odors and a sense of smell to communicate with each other? The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. ” (p.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2020

Perhaps the only thing that works is a calm, quiet mind, one that can rid itself of negative tendrils and generate diamond strength hope to help you see where to go and which bearings to follow. I draw quiet strength and hope from birds. It’s all good in this birding hood, the more you look and listen, the more you find.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2011

Out on the Big Meadow in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, the ranger (that is Virginia the state, not Virginia the ranger) drew our attention to an unmistakeable bird call. I had never heard it before, but as soon as it registered, there could be no doubt about which bird was responsible. ps There’s bears!

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Bears Virginia DC Washington 173

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This is common with life-threatening situations and expected; any ancient ancestors who would have not paid heed to close calls would have likely been quickly and savagely selected from the gene pool (just trying to pet the Short-faced Bear again…). These smart looking birds are tropical sparrows.

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Costa Rica Birds Farming Litter 221

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

But does ChatGPT have even a rudimentary understanding of a niche topic like birding? I asked it a few questions about birding locations and the (unedited) results are below, along with some brief analysis. Please note that the availability of specific bird species may vary depending on the season.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

These endearing birds are almost always found in pairs or small family groups, and I often have difficulty deciding which bird to photograph as both males and females are equally beautiful. Please bear with me for these weeks as we have not been out birding due to strict lockdown measures.

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Trinidad Bears Family Groups 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2023

Something that’s irked me more often than I’d like to admit is the inclusion of the word “common” in the name of a bird. It seems almost insulting, sure it allows some insight into the abundance of the particular species in a particular area at a point in time, but all birds are rare and exotic somewhere.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. Anyway, it is a very cute-looking bird if you are big enough not to be among its prey of (mostly) insects. I have written about the hornbills of this area before.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the several Black Vultures that went overhead during a family hike to Anthony’s Nose in the Hudson Valley. The birding wasn’t very exciting but the hike was nice and allowed a nice view of Bear Mountain, the Bear Mountain Bridge, and the Hudson River.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Bearing witness to the cyclical fluctuations of the seasons is a boon to the psyche on a level that tends to go unnoticed and unannounced. In Tobago’s wetlands and forests we see the seasons changing in the faces of the birds. We typically celebrate sightings and not a change in air temperature or moisture content.

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Cattle Bears Breeding Animal 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

Many were specifically established for migratory birds and are strategically positioned along one of the four major North American migration flyways. Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. As a result, there are excellent birding hotspots in the system. Bear River MBR (Utah).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

And I love making my little garden (some 1400 square feet) more attractive to birds. But I would never have imagined how important it would be to my emotional well-being to have a bird-friendly garden during lockdown. In recent years, I have moved much more in the direction of plants that attract birds. And nothing more.

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Birds Woodpeckers Madagascar Nashville 155

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2022

Partly due to the paucity of birding missions within the past fortnight, but more so because T&T is one of the few countries within which there are several birds bearing the national colours. I was on the fence about including it here, but it is a difficult bird to say no to. If you’re into frogs, that is.

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Trinidad Woodpeckers Bears Family 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. End of side note.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Slowly, the shapes of birds were beginning to materialise. We just needed to find somewhere that was less cluttered to allow us some chance of seeing birds! We observed as this bird methodically peeled off sizeable chunks of bark in search of breakfast. We opted to return to the vehicle, move on, and bird another trail.

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Trinidad Eagles Bears Litter 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2018

Countless flocks of frigid, sodden birds must be wondering whether they took a wrong turn somewhere. Migrants are on the move, if you can bear to be out looking for them! Corey had a large variety of birds to choose his Best Bird of the Weekend from this week and had a hard time making his selection. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Let me start off with being quite clear, there are no grizzly Bears on the Baja! All of which, was for one a one day shoot with the famed bears, as they dined on the fall salmon run. I had prepared a target list of birds that I had hoped to photograph, which, in looking back now was really quite ambitious.

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Grizzly Bear Alaska Bears Puffins 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The main reason for visiting this site is the White-throated Dipper and soon, one cooperative bird shows itself on a rock protruding from the water. I spot a head of a bird, itself hidden behind a rock in a deep shadow of the lush vegetation at the water’s edge and keep my binoculars focused while waiting patiently. Old plum orchard.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Bears 258

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2018

Your 2018 year lists, whether you tally them or not, have already begun to populate, silently bearing witness to your commitment to bird looking or lack thereof. I enjoyed my first wave of feeder birds for the year, with Tufted Titmouse winning BBOTW honors only because that species appears less frequently than my other local denizens.

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2018 Beavers Industry Bears 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

And, there are 300+ species of birds in this breathtaking region of the northern Rockies. What surprised me was the availability of birds, birds, birds on the ground – a cure for that chronic birding condition that I call ‘binocular neck.’. All of the neck-strain-free birds below breed in Montana.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

What if there was an international multi-day Birding competition? Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 225

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 183

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2018

Just about any part of the world in which birds move in response to seasonal signals now bears witness to birds on the move. No worries, because even the common birds coming through are exciting in their newness. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Being based on this island for the better part of this year has afforded me the opportunity (for the first time) to bear witness to the movement of bodies through these quarters – and it continues to be exhilarating. As I enjoyed this, another, long-tailed bird seemed to follow their route from one tree to another.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

David Tomlinson The recent announcement by the American Ornithological Society that it intends to replace names of all birds named after people has caused quite a stir here in the UK. I have a fascinating little reference book called Whose Bird? Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. We don’t need any more.

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 222

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2023

Most often encountered near to the village bearing the same name, this abundant grasshopper ultimately sprouts large wings and forms swarms which can decimate crops. When one of my friends sent me a message for ID, he let me know that by his estimate there were at least 25 birds in this patch of forest. Naturally, I had to investigate.

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Trinidad Squirrels Investigation Bears 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

But I was driving too fast and passed it, so I had to uncomfortably break on moist and somewhat slippery road to reverse and to stop opposite to the bird, less than 4 metres from it. The bird tolerated us for perhaps a dozen seconds before it majestically took off. Absolutely thrilled! Cover photo by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic.

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Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 245

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Birding best bird weekend' Does your family celebrate a lot of April birthdays?

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New Jersey 2014 Louisiana Bears 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2021

In those early days of the pandemic, the inevitable typos that appeared in the wider public world outside of birding as result of this resemblance caused a good deal of snorting laughter among bird nerds. Good birding and happy drinking! So with that, here’s to corvids, Corvina grapes, and a more hopeful year in 2021.

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