10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is presented in two main parts, the “how” – considering the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their environment, and “why” of animal behaviour – examining the evolutionary forces that have shaped the more complex behaviours. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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. As we headed down the trail, we were stopped from taking the long route by yellow tape and a sign warning of bears. I was instantly enthralled.

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Alaska Bears Grizzly Bear North Carolina 167

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 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

For now, I present a story of an excellent day''s birding on a visit to Los Angeles last week.]. It was 7:04am when we saw our target bird. Common birds to the southern California birder, wonderful sights to me. Common birds to the southern California birder, wonderful sights to me. Where to bird next?

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers California Birds 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2012

If you have been birding for any length of time, you will almost certainly have built up a fine collection of field guides. The Management at 10,000 Birds are asking for your participation to help put names to some of these frustrating puzzlers and will compile the results into a new and exciting book. Do we bookcase!

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Collecting Birds Bears Mammals 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips?

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North America 2003 Birds America 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Here is the text, taken verbatim: The eagle has the longest lifespan among birds. Only freed from past burdens, can we take advantage of the present. I hate to be the bird geek who spoils the fun, but: 1) Eagles’ talons are not flexible. 2) Birds of prey ALL have bent beaks. They are smart birds, with healthy self-images.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Eagles Wildlife Bears 251

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

Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.”

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 268

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Ringer Proposition 491, recently submitted to the American Ornithologists’ Union South American Classification Committee (SACC), bears the esoteric title “ Change linear sequence of orders for Falconiformes, Psittaciformes, and Cariamiformes.&# Some of this should sound familiar.

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Even if we couldn’t find time to raise the bins at a favorite patch, it only takes momentary glances into the sky and hearing chip notes from the trees to remind us that birds are on the move. A passage of so many birds is always incredible and yet, since many of them fly way up there near the clouds, they are easily overlooked.

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

Icterus galbula is a handsome bird, to be sure. Baltimore Orioles are surprisingly slight when you get a look at them, but troupials are about the size of a jay, and with the bearing to go with it. There is no doubt about it, this is a striking bird. Birds orioles' The prototypical oriole. But that would be incorrect.

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Baltimore Broker North America Raised 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

But bear with me for a second: this post presents a different context for a different squirrel. It doesn’t raid bird feeders. Our winter birds are doing fine. This is not about feeder competition and chicken wire. Anyway, the Eurasian Red Squirrel. I just wanted to get that out of the way before I continue.

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Squirrels North America Germany Europe 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

This is Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds: Birders were rightly alarmed by the armed occupation of the Malheur NWR in Oregon. One of the nation’s premier birding locations had been overrun by an armed militia and the occupation unexpectedly endured for weeks. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

For many North American birders, wood warblers represent everything exciting, compelling, and immediate about birding. North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. Even worse, such sobriquets obscure insight into the birds themselves.

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Rights Connecticut Tennessee Nashville 113

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 241

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

It’s also not a bad place for some incidental birding while sampling a flight of beers after touring the brewery, as evidenced by my checklist from a visit last summer. Speaking of birds – I was getting to that. non-birders) envision when they hear the word “bird” – but it bears a passing resemblance to the American Robin.

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Belgium New York United States Skunks 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

However early March sees the passage of a vastly underrated migrant to British Shores, or should that be from British Shores as they have probably been present all winter? 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. Get yours today!

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2011 Deer Fish New York 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

But the grasslands of eastern Montana bear a resemblance to their wildlife that goes beyond the mere evolutionary imperative of camoflauge. The steeper slopes have some of the same vitality as the pronghorn (still present, though their numbers are down dramatically after a hard, snowy winter two years ago.)

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Be careful how you Google ‘bird of paradise’! It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

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 224

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As it turns out, many of those very birds that I had hoped to find, all had the same idea, and had moved out of the park as well. Crows, Ravens, Clark’s Nutcrackers, White-crowned Sparrows and assorted waterfowl were all still present, but that was about it. We picked this as much for the location as its chance for some decent birds.

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Wyoming Wolves Grizzly Bear Mountain Goats 111

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2014

I have been relatively fortunate in my birding life in that I don’t have a single nemesis bird that has vexed me. But I had seen one in 2006 and I have since seen them twice more so the species never rose to the level of nemesis bird for me. Below I share my five nemesis birds to be. A nemesis bird is frustration.

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Costa Rica Hungary Honduras Birds 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. So the thought occurred to me that there is a lot of bird on the landscape, in terms of numbers of individuals as well as sheer biomass. Paul islands, studied by Darwin.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2011

One of the things I like best is squeezing a little birding in on non-birding trips. In short, as ways of birding go, it’s low-impact. In short, as ways of birding go, it’s low-impact. Writing AND birding (AND, inevitably, a *ahem* few glasses of wine with fellow creative types)? Sign me up!

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ALA Bald Eagle Mules Turkey 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Stamper presents a compelling argument that the time between the 10th (1993) and 11th (2003) editions of the Collegiate was barely enough time to methodically wade through mountains of material in the English language to: (1) add new words, and (2) update all of the definitions of existing words. (In 1843, G & C Merriam Co.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 109

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

I have never before had a true nemesis bird. Sure, occasionally a bird has given me problems, like Black-backed Woodpeckers back in 2007 when I was doing an alleged Big Year in New York State, but not seeing a bird for a single year does not make it a nemesis. Well, that doesn’t even bear thinking about. What happened?

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Woodpeckers Austria Europe Hungary 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2018

And, with all due apologies to those who have yet to acquire a taste for tartness, please bear with us and rest assured it won’t be long before we move into less summery fare. . ” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose appeared first on 10,000 Birds. So it goes? Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose.

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Germany Utah Adoptable Stray 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. We learn about their unique vocalizations, a duet in which they are in such harmony they sound like one bird. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. But I can admire people who, even knowing of their depredations (on other birds, on crops, and on home siding – i.e., mine), nevertheless appreciate and celebrate starlings and starlingness, including their excellent mimicry. Prum, Doubleday).

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 107

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2011

That’s all fascinating from a historical and biogeographical perspective, but how much bearing should our understanding of the past have on our taxonomic treatment of populations in the present? Let’s assume for a moment that there is currently extensive gene flow going on between Mexican Ducks and Mallards.

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Ducks North America Texas Mexico 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

My first internet search was an attempt to sex the bird. I changed to a position further up the slope which allowed me to get a better angle on the top of the branch and bear out my supposition. When the sapsucker was present, it retreated out of sight, but on one occasion, I noticed it on another sap grid higher in the tree.

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San Francisco Maryland Jordan Lifestyle 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2022

. “In a fairground in the middle of Paris You tried to prove to me your manliness By winning me a teddy bear” or. Instead, I can just present another bird, the Greater Coucal. It seems his middle name Lvovich did not get used as a bird name though [I did not make this bit up, honest!].

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Bangladesh Birds China India 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

After all, each refuge has been set aside to permanently protect birds and other wildlife. Fish and wildlife Service has a legal mandate to manage national wildlife refuges for “the benefit of present and future generations of Americans.” Indeed, The U.S. It was hot and most of the ponds and wetlands were dry.

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Texas United States Mexico Campaign 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I must ashamedly admit that prior to this mission, I had never been birding on the island before. Sure enough it was a place I always wanted to visit for birding, but things never fell into place. Tobago of course bears a closer geological relation to the aforementioned Netherlands Antilles than it does to Trinidad.

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Trinidad Netherlands Columbus Whales 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

I don’t know of any other association with birds beyond the label, so I’m inclined just to move on to the tasting notes because there’s a lot to cover in this one. Good birding and happy drinking! __. The Ogden Nature Center of Ogden, Utah will feature its second annual Birds & Brews event on September 29th.

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Georgia Colorado Tennessee Atlanta 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2012

This is the crazy winter period, the time of Christmas Bird Count scouting, birding, counting and compiling. 10,000 Birds has reviewed a lot good books over the past 12 months , many of which would make excellent holiday gifts. Some interesting coffee table-type titles have been reviewed in 10,000 Birds.

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New Jersey Porcupines Delaware Birds 118