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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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This can mean some interesting birding, if you can bear the Shanghai heat … Of course, the egrets and herons described in my last post are still around. Cattle Egret … though some of them seem to want to hide (which is really difficult for a white bird). Sanderling: A bird with strong work ethics.

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Tigers Breeding Cattle Bears 180

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

Large and round-headed, smartly-striped, with a gentle gaze of mysterious black eyes, in the European south of its range this species chooses preserved mountain forests, preferably mixed deciduous and conifers. The bird tolerated us for perhaps a dozen seconds before it majestically took off. Absolutely thrilled!

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Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 245

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

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 15, 2012

Friskies just introduced the first duel-species tablet game, “You vs. Cat,” available for iPad and iPad2 tablet devices. You vs. Cat” is the first tablet game designed for human and cat to play together. Humans aren’t the only species vying for gaming supremacy when it comes to “You vs. Cat.”

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Game Cats Species Branding 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This year, a few months after my fortieth birthday, when I saw a Blue Jay in West Glacier Montana I felt only a small bit of surprise – it was an uncommon bird but no longer really extralimital as a wintering species. There’s a certain suburbanization of the natural as well as the human world.

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New York Times Montana Oregon Deer 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

While photographing the Brown Bears in the Russian Far East, a friend of mine, Jovan “Lucky” Lakatos, was with Michio Hoshino, Japanese-born nature photographer specialized in Alaskan wildlife and experienced in how to behave facing this apex predator. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. To these people, we owe our gratitude.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2017

Most long time birders, at some point in their birding career, spent time at a wastewater treatment plant. I am sure there are many reasons why these nasty pools of varying degrees of “black” water seem to be magnets for a large number of species. The amount of insects that are prevalent is, I am sure, a huge one.

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Ducks Mexico Livestock Bears 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

Especially if you can fit in some birding? Many gringos make their way to Baja California Sur every year, although the majority are probably heading to Cabo San Lucas to party and test the human limit of tequila endurance. Of course, the town also boasts some very fun birding.

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California San Jose Birds Mexico 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2013

Mike invented Corey a few years ago to firstly promote the idea of a multi-authored bird blog and secondly so he could make up extremely productive birding trips to make the blog more exciting to read. ” Upon my return to the digital world, I checked 10,000 Birds to find this post by Corey.

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Germany Birds Pandas Kittens 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge : Open to migratory bird hunting (youth only). The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. This is an Urban Refuge !

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

The tendency of birds to alight onto the wooden posts, steel towers, and metal wires that constitute our power and communications infrastructure turns any car ride into exciting and endless game of drive-by identification. A common sight to all birders: the bird on the wire. As Daniel L.

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United States Game North America New York City 117

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

But bear with me for a second: this post presents a different context for a different squirrel. Germany, like most of Europe and very much unlike North America, is home to only one species of squirrel. It doesn’t raid bird feeders. Our winter birds are doing fine. Anyway, the Eurasian Red Squirrel.

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Squirrels North America Germany Europe 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2015

Are we going to bird in the fog? This is my first visit to this area, known as the Madz Brod, where two new breeding species for the country were discovered a decade ago. Scanning carefully, small birds occasionally fly from one tree to the other, but I cannot discover them in the foliage! Still, we are lucky.

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Europe Serbia Russia Breeding 248

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear. canariensis ).

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Kazakhstan Europe Russia Asia 156

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Mark Carter is an independent professional birding guide and wildlife surveyor living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. In 2008 Mark founded the annual Red Centre Bird Week and Twitchathon which occurs each September/October in Alice Springs. Lists, it is often said, are one of the defining features of birding.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. It is a success, despite the heavy burden of poaching and a human-tiger conflict. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' The Telia Lake.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 244

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

It has entertaining stories, includes animals people care about because they like them (and also addresses that concept), and it describes how the numbers of various species decreased to the point of being classified as "endangered" or worse. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. How many wild birds are eaten by either feral Cats or “outdoor Cats?” Which would be even worse.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. 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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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

Strangely, one of the easiest birds to see on Chongming recently is the non-native Black Swan. ” This should make the bird somewhat unpopular with the socially rather conservative Chinese government – maybe the birds in China do not show this behavior in order to adapt to local customs? Homophobia?

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 206

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2023

I also only managed to see rather common bird species at Shennongjia, a nature reserve in Hubei province, China. If this does not put you off from reading this post, you are hopeless anyway, so just proceed … The Brown-breasted Bulbul might well be the most common bird at Shennongjia, so it seems appropriate to start with it.

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China Birds Eggs Woodpeckers 173

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2022

Why under such conditions one would go birding is still slightly beyond me, but of course, I went anyway, accompanying a friend. The main attractions of the Sanming area are some pheasant species. Not sure whether these birds are religious or not, but they certainly like to stay near monasteries.

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Birds China Species Bears 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Originally, I was going to highlight one of the species endemic to the islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean; but once I typed in “Lesser Antillean”, six species popped up. Interestingly, this species has been split into two distinct subspecies, one for each of the islands on which it is found.

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Puerto Rico Grenada Barbados Trinidad 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When out birding, I prefer completely wild habitat. There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Humans have altered their habitat for hundreds of years, creating various new habitats that some aspects of nature have come to colonize. Yellow-breasted Flycatcher.

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Trinidad Family Abandon Abandoning 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter. Good birding and happy drinking! Teal Lake Shiraz (2019).

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2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 223

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. All of the birds within Raphini are highly specialized for island life.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 276

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.” A Harpy Eagle. ”

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

. • The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet – and Ourselves (Leslie Anthony, Yale). • I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic.

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 103

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I’ll be the first to admit the selection of ducks so far at Booze and Birds has been rather paltry. Stumpy Duck is part of Trillium’s Small Bird Series, a collection of lighter, lower-alcohol beers brewed for summer, with each can sparingly decorated with a different bird in miniature. Not exactly a small bird.

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Ducks Houston Boston Fowl 103

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast opens with the unexpected appearance of a Laysan Albatross. She doesn’t know the species till it emerges, almost dreamlike, from the heavy glare of the sun. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds. Do I need to say anything more?

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How when he needed a dissertation topic in 2005 (studying at the University of Minnesota), it was either Hooded Crane or Blakiston’s Fish Owl, both iconic birds of the area. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 135

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. British birder Chris Gooddie, my new birding hero, not only dreamed the fantasy, he lived it. This is the birding adventure book supreme. I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Happy birding, Dale Forbes Tags: accentors , Alpine Accentor , Birds , features , polygynandry • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 210