10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Birding that starts with the largest eagle of the continent certainly bears promises… The next stop is the town park in Opovo, north of Belgrade, where local bird expert Ceda Vuckovic reported one, locally rare, Short-eared Owl. Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute. Once perched, it is easy.

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 246

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? 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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2013

Clocking more than 50,000 miles per year, the birds appear to have cornered the market on the world’s longest annual migration. And that’s just the birds–you can spy on everything from panda bear cubs to beluga whales. Plus, we’re told, the brown bear cam features frequent cameos by Bald Eagles !).

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Bald Eagle Pandas Puffins Bears 193

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. sports championships ).

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2021

I got back into birding less than a decade ago, long after moving to Mexico in 1983. So I can hardly speak with authority on birding in the U.S. A quick study as I researched this post revealed that fully 37 Arizonan “specialties” are common birds right here where I live. Consider the striking Berylline Hummingbird.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! It is possible to reach it on the Friday afternoon, sleep there and go birding at the crack of dawn on Saturday. Well, do you really? The Forgotten Road does not exist on the GPS screen either. Am I complaining about it?

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep. We spent our evenings cooking, playing cards, enjoying adult beverages, and listening to Barred Owls duets.

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New York Cooking Chipmunks Owls 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

I’ve even paid a few calls to Massachusetts in the dead of winter for finches and owls. I had some friends in the Anchorage area who were generous enough to offer to put me up, and I made plans to arrive a day early so I could take in at least 24 hours on on-land boreal birding. What an incredible experience.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year. On the breeding grounds of the north, a small bird flies into the night, takes a bearing for the south, gains altitude and flies onward. During this incredible DIY survival trip, patches of light tempt the small bird to a lethal, unnatural end.

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Costa Rica Investigation Shelters Illinois 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Flashy of look, brash of attitude, and strident of voice, they bomb around announcing every discovery – ripe acorns, sleeping owls, snakes in need of scolding – to the world. The post Shifting Baselines and Sneaky Jays appeared first on 10,000 Birds. 1978, for reference, was the year of my birth.

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New York Times Montana Oregon Deer 140

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

Especially if you can fit in some birding? But others actually do some birding, and they paved the way for this Great Ornithologist to do a little bit on a recent vacation to Todos Santos. Of course, the town also boasts some very fun birding. What better way to start the year than with a visit to Mexico?

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California San Jose Birds Mexico 237

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

Xena is a Eurasian Eagle Owl. 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.” But raising an ed bird means you can coochy-coochy them to your heart’s content. At 14 pounds, Xena is a huge bird and makes a huge mess. Do I love her?”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Raised Eagles Owls 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. You can see the world’s smallest passerine and the Western Hemisphere’s biggest flying bird.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

But “Hawk”’s active ingredient, a deadly second-generation anticoagulant, bromadialone, has been implicated in the deaths of Red-tailed Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, and other raptors : American Kestrels, Barn Owls, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and Turkey Vultures. And their pest control services are free.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2018

Saw Whet Owl , Superior National Forest. The Bears Ears National Monument (a protected public lands designation given to sitting presidents under the Antiquities Act) recently lost 1.1 Bears Ears National Monument ACTION. Minnesota’s Superior National Forest is now on the radar for underground mineral mining. Horned Lark.

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Colorado Protection Bears ALA 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for owls. Wander through my front door and glance upwards and you’ll find at least two watching you, a Tawny Owl and a Barn Owl , both sadly gathered as roadkills. Above our fireplace is a large painting of a Barn Owl.

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Barn Owls Finland Owls Portugal 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2015

A literal wild goose chase had led to a cascading series of errors in which I missed nearly every bird I sought. I was not tremendously optimistic as I returned to Forest Park for a second shot at the Northern Saw-whet Owl that our beloved host Corey had tipped me off to back at the beginning of January.

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New York City Squirrels New York Owls 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s cold enough in Chicago—where our high temperature for the day was –2 degrees Farenheit—that the polar bear at the zoo spent the day inside. Midwest (and, soon, the East) bad for birds? Most birds will probably fare just fine, if the cold snap is as short-lived as predicted. So I’m grateful that birding has steeled me.

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Polar Bears Illinois Chicago Zoos 166

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In our times, it seems foolish to be fearful of birds. There’s nothing to be afraid of: Landscape with Grave, Coffin, and Owl by Caspar David Friedrich. But our ancestors weren’t always so lucky to appreciate birds the way we do. Good birding and happy drinking – and happy Halloween! *

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2015 Denmark California Fowl 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

It seems an easy thing to do, you buy or make a wooden box and put a hole in it and viola–BIRDS! And though bird houses are a great addition to a yard to provide nesting habitat, we don’t always have to go the traditional route. I saw this at Bear River Migratory Refuge in Utah. But it’s not always that simple.

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Minnesota Barn Owls Ducks Utah 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

14 countries were birded this month by 13 beats; a record participative effort! Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Lake Panic Bird Hide. Lake Panic Bird Hide. Lake Panic Bird Hide. Lake Panic Bird Hide. Gray Go-away-bird – Corythaixoides concolor. Japanese Scops-Owl – Otus semitorques.

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2019 China Battery Jamaica 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India. If interested, there are a few more places left.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 248

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It seemed to draw you in and I could easily imagine standing beside him, staring as he did at the bird, watching it curve its neck downwards. The title read “Birds of the Northern Forest”, paintings by J.F. Livingston, and on the dust jacket was a drawing of three Pine Grosbeaks ( Pinicola enucleator ) standing on a cone-bearing tree.

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Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I am a birder, and I love birds. I don’t mind that they share the world with other creatures, and I have even developed an appreciation for mammals, reptiles and amphibians – but only so long as watching them doesn’t collide with my finding birds. This small pine tree was very recently demolished by a brown bear.

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 166

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.

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United States Game North America New York City 119

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The most exciting of these is the Mantanani Scops Owl, a species named for the island but the majority of whose range is actually the Philippine island of Palawan. This critically endangered seabird is not an easy tick, but this site is fairly reliable for them, which, along with the owl, make this place an attractive draw for birders.

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Philippines Turtles Owls Fish 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Even the ones that bear the same plumage as their progenitors, however, can usually be distinguished by their larger bulk. I’m still getting the hang of this particular breed of avian madness, and so defer to more enlightened readers to tell me if this bird is ganky or not: Are ganky geese even interesting to birders?

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2016

That’s January for birding. Coming from Niagara Falls, New York, it also means freezing, bitter cold, watching for imaginary Polar Bears while pretending to walk through an Arctic landscape, and looking for owls. This Long-eared Owl from Golden Hill was a bonus. So was this Snowy Owl. White-eyed Vireo!

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Costa Rica 2016 San Antonio Sparrows 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

littoralis is a regular winter visitor in Britain that remains relatively undetected due to the similarity in plumage of most wintering birds to our own resident Rock Pipits A.petrosus. Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! The Scandinavian Rock Pipit A.p.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 159

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

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 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2018

Where to go birding without the crowds in our busiest national park. In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, over a half million acres visited by more than 11 million folks, you can still bird in relative solitude. Come enjoy some terrific birding areas, absent the hurried ‘tourists’! Black Bear cub. Cades Cove.

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Louisiana Tennessee Bald Eagle Bears 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I had high hopes for the 5th Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit this past Saturday at Fort Tilden. We had persevered through four years at the top of Battery Harris Platform and could bring our experience to bear on the task of trying to record as many species as possible on a single day from that single spot.

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2018 Bald Eagle Battery Birds 216

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Last week I had the privilege of taking a group of Queens middle-schoolers birding in Forest Park as part of an after-school program. We practiced using binoculars and field guides, talked about migration and how important New York’s parks are in providing habitat for exhausted birds, I even worked in a plug for keeping cats indoors.

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Blackbirds Owls Sparrows Ducks 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The Collegiate does define the word “ birder ” (“a person who birds”) and “ bird watcher ” (“a person who watches and identifies wild birds”). Of course, a “person who birds” begs the question of what “ bird ,” as a verb, means. That’s not all: bird words abound in the dictionary.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 107

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Orange-headed Thrush Orange-headed Thrush By Redgannet • March 6, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share The Orange-headed Thrush , Zoothera citrinus, is common across much of India and south-east Asia.

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2011 Deer India New York 197