10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

I have mixed feelings about ranking different bird species. So I kind of feel that I should not talk about which birds are best. This Monday, I went in a group of four to bird around the town of Atzimbo. And yet, anywhere in Michoacán offers some special birds, and Atzimbo was no exception.

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Birds Sparrows Livestock North America 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? As you start birding, you also start to form a clear list of your favorite birds in your mind, such as the Black-backed Grosbeak. That bird to me is a symbol of where I come from as a birder. A tough question!

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Colombia Birds Species 242

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2024

Some birds are especially exciting, because they are so hard to see. Others are unusually beautiful, or perhaps, just plain unusual. And a few are both. When they actually afford you a whole new blog subject to write about, that is certainly an extra bonus.)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? I am Zhang Lin, living in Shanghai, China What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? Eastern China, Sichuan, etc How long have you been a bird guide? That would be the Spoon-billed Sandpiper What is your name, and where do you live? 18 years How did… Source

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China Birds Species 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2024

Bondar’s handsome new book of photographs, Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight, comes in two halves, but it has several subjects and multiple viewpoints.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Bird pellets are wondrous things. Open them up and see tiny mammal skulls, teeny thigh bones, beetle wings, fusty feathers, squirrel hair, reptile scales, grasses, fruit seeds, maybe even bird bands and plastic bits.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

While I have not done that for myself yet (probably ChatGPT would not know me), I have done it for 10,000 Birds. I suspect that in the future, one will not only google one’s name but also ask ChatGPT. See the answers to my two questions below. ChatGPT: Here’s a list of 10… Source

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2024

July is the least interesting month for birding in Shanghai – it is too hot, and there is pretty much no migration. A good month to go abroad and watch birds elsewhere, which I did (Indonesia). Just remember that this does not mean you actually… Source

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

Unfortunately, this makes it sound a bit more interesting for birding than it turned out for me – though admittedly, I spent less than a day there. And the area was recommended to me, so most likely my limited birding skills are to blame, rather than the birds themselves. ” That seems a bit unfair to me.

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Eggs Birds Japan Myanmar 216

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2024

All of us are, or we wouldn’t be meeting here on 10,000 Birds quite so frequently. Birds rule our world. The prospect of encountering birds is what makes us get up early in the morning and leave the comforts of our homes to venture out into nature’s wilds and wilderness. And yet… Source

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2024

The sea is frothing with Great Cormorant and Herring Gull , with more than 100 birds diving into the water. I park the car and walk through a cacophony of bird song to the viewpoint. I spend the next 45 minutes walking around the tree from which Mick is singing but just can’t find the bird. But where’s the bird?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Kinangop Plateau is an area of high-elevation grassland in the Rift Valley region in Kenya. Grasslands are famous for their heated, arid environments, Kinangop differs from most due to the fact that it sits at a comfortable 2,500m above sea level.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For me, selecting a list, even a short one, of favorite birds as a birdwatcher, bird photographer, is an endeavor both enchanting and daunting. The avian world offers an astonishing variety of species, each with unique beauty, behaviors and songs, every bird sighting brings a new thrill and discovery, favourites change almost daily.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? The whole of China How long have you been a bird guide? 15 years How did you get into bird guiding? Reeve’s Pheasant What is your name, and where do you live? Steven An, I live in Nanjing City.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2024

The following male birds dazzle, as they strut their stuff for the females. Spring in Ontario, Canada, is the time for colour and I love colourful things. Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Nothing is more stunning than the ruby flashes from the male’s gorget.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2024

She has a lifelong love of birds, perhaps instilled at birth with her middle name—Burd. If you are searching for a book to draw kids into a love of birding, ornithologist Donald Kroodsma’s Listen to the Birds might be the perfect fit. Listen to the Birds is also a perfect book to pair with a morning hike with children.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2024

In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh. I can also pretty much count on one or more joints to be a bit cranky on any given day — especially after a long day of birding.

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Birds Livestock Sparrows Mexico 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? This is a real hard one, but I would have to say the stunning Pel’s Fishing Owl as this was my Spark bird-it’s the bird that got me into birding. Also, a firm favorite is the prehistoric-looking Shoebill from Uganda. Marc Cronje.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? North-eastern South Africa including the Kruger National Park and the Western Cape How long have you been a bird guide? 5 years How did you get into bird guiding? René Rossouw, I live in Nelspruit, South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2024

It is the kind of small place that still offers some living space to birds right in the town – witness this Chestnut-tailed Starling nesting in a lamppost. Di Linh is a town and district in South Vietnam a bit less than 2 hours southwest of Dalat.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? My favorite bird species is the Gray-throated Chat (Granatellus sallaei) an endemic bird of the Yucatan Peninsula. What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? What is your name, and where do you live?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2024

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness is about birds and taxonomy, history and art, the birding god we have revered and torn down, the ornithological originals we’ve ignored or simply don’t know.

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Birds Philadelphia Investigation North America 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2024

So, here is my list of the 10 things I hate most about birding. I hope you did not expect any list of favorites from me – liking things is not really my core competence.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2024

Though the birding around Lake Kerkini may be outstanding, it’s inevitably the lake itself that is the centre of interest. The Greylags are interesting, as they are of the eastern race, rubrirostris , with distinctive pink legs and beaks, unlike the orange of our birds at home in Britain.

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Pelicans Greece Fish Birds 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

I admit this is not quite on the level of fellow writers’ posts describing birding as an extreme sport. The bird has now started using its scientific name, Hemipus picatus , as it is substantially shorter. Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2024

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. On the bird recording site Waarneming, I saw that a Great Northern Diver ( Common Loon ) was found on a lake just south of the city.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2024

The Black-winged Cuckooshrike is breeding in several Shanghai locations – I suspect that some trees near the Nanhui hotel might be another one, given the vigorous singing of this bird. The Silver-throated Bushtit is a species in which the juvenile birds seem to be more colorful than the adults, in a reversal of the typical situation.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2024

I was especially looking forward to take some better photos of the birds I saw last time, which I only managed partly. After all, I’d rather call myself a birder than a bird photographer, although I have to admit that I enjoy doing both more or less equally.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

In this second post on the birds of Tan Phu Forest, let’s get the bulbuls out of the way first. Even for a bulbul, it is a “bulky, very noisy, conspicuous” bird (HBW). Even for a bulbul, it is a “bulky, very noisy, conspicuous” bird (HBW). Three seem to be particularly common here.

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. Birders biking around Mission Bay Each year, the San Diego Audubon Society hosts their annual birding festival in the third week of February.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2024

Winter birding in Bonn generally appears to be rather bleak, but I can’t really complain with the Wallcreeper that spent several weeks just outside the city. Now that this bird has seemingly moved on, I had to find other species to distract me, but fortunately that was not too hard.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2023

Perhaps a little more shock-inducing and paradoxical than concepts of birding at sewage ponds or graveyards, an oil refinery seems to be the antithesis of a desirable place for a birder. From Yellow-hooded Blackbirds to Purple and Common Gallinules , there are almost too many birds to focus on!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2024

The month starts with many birds and ends with very few – but some of those are quite spectacular. If there ever was a misnamed bird, it is the white-faced morph of the Black Bulbul. Apparently, the bird can warm itself if it gets cold. This bird is still at least 1000 km away from its breeding grounds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

National Wildlife Refuges provide valuable habitat for birds and other animals, and because they are protected that habitat persists despite increased urbanization and agriculture. Plus, they offer excellent birding. The post Birding Southeastern Washington (McNary NWR) first appeared on 10,000 Birds.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 21, 2023

Pilny presented sessions on July 15 at AVMA Convention 2023 in Denver about the consequences of wildlife trafficking on wild bird populations and the difficulties with rehoming unwanted birds. Latas and Anthony A.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2024

All birds have value. Let’s face it, some birds are more popular than others. There are bird species with the power of personality and feathered friends with super migratory prowess. In a lot of places, this backyard beauty is the most popular bird on the block! I wonder which birds are most popular in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2024

For more bird-related public art in Portland, check out Tweets and Chirps. The post Golden-Crowned Kinglets are Trash Birds first appeared on 10,000 Birds. Photo: Golden-crowned Kinglet by Mick Thompson.

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