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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JUNE 4, 2025

Then, they analyzed the distribution of 3768 bird species in 137 cities, which resulted in what they call an… Source They combined data from eBird (to see which species are where) and data showing nighttime illumination (to identify urban areas).

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AVMA News

APRIL 6, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is establishing welfare standards for birds, which were previously excluded under the Animal Welfare Act.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2024

I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. of the birds I encounter. It’s satisfying to come back from a day’s birding, download my photographs on to my iPad, and relive the excitement of each encounter.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2024

I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated on 40 species. So one day, in search of new birds, I drove from my base at Agios Nickolas, south of Kalamata, to the Gialova Lagoon, on the west coast.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

In that very demanding category, Sarah Pedry and David Obuchowski’s award-winning How Birds Sleep is a gem. They are books that children will love and adults can read, and re-read, over weeks, months and often years. Of course… Source

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2024

This is a slightly self-centered post – less about birds and more about the 10,000 Birds website. Who reads 10,000 Birds? A slight majority of visits (56%) come from the USA, where 10,000 Birds was founded. You have been warned.

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The ongoing epizootic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1) has sparked concerns among health officials because of the viruss ability to infect diverse animal species, including pigs, big cats, and humans, raising fears of a potential pandemic.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Birding Nanhui these days is far more troublesome than it used to be, as the seawall road is blocked for cars. So, the intrepid bird photographer parks somewhere, unloads a foldable bicycle, curses the tires for being almost flat again, and sweats from inflating them before having even seen a single bird.

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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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JUNE 7, 2025

It is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalog of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so. Birders derive “value” from birding.

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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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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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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2024

A quick bus ride brought us to the border crossing near the International Birding & Research Centre, a fantastic birding site in Eilat. I was panicking and working through in my head how we would maximize the day without our gear – all those birds just too far away, the pictures we would not be able to take.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The blogger in Toronto asked if he would like to spend a day birding together. That is how Fitzroy and Leslie became possibly the first writers in recent times from 10000 Birds to meet up. Then, the blogger in Panama mentioned that he was going to be in Toronto in early October. White-crowned Sparrow My husband… Source

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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

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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APRIL 8, 2025

What is your favorite bird species? I have no favorite bird species. To me, every bird species is worth studying and conserving. What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? Straw-headed Bulbul What is your name, and where do you live? My name is Lim Kim Seng but you can call me Kim.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Author Jessica Stremer set out to write a picture book about all the dangers faced by migrating birds. The result—Lights Out: A Movement to Help Migrating Birds—was published this spring by Paula Wiseman books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

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JUNE 1, 2024

In a recent post, I already covered some impressions of birding in Bonn in spring. But since this is easily the place where I go birding most frequently (if you’re allowed to call a stroll around the block birding!), The post Backyard Birding in Bonn first appeared on 10,000 Birds.

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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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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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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Statistics elude me at this point, but I believe it is a safe statement to make that the majority of visitors to the very famous Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya are not necessarily interested in birds.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ours, as always, are birds. When you ask someone what they know about Brazil, you will likely hear answers about the world-famous Rio de Janeiro Carnival, the vast Amazon River, or even Iguazu Falls along the border with Paraguay and Argentina. Brazil ranks fifth largest country by area, occupying about half of South America.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Of course, there are things that we hate about birding, as per Kai Pflug’s blog of August 15, 2024. Otherwise, why would we be getting up early, baking in the sun or shivering in the cold, to get that one special bird? But, I think there are so many pluses. Spending time with the nice birders.

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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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MARCH 21, 2024

So Eduardo set aside the afternoon to show me some of the city, and take me birding in two city parks. Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. Two other birds, both residents, surprised us.

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MAY 19, 2025

Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge (please only name one species)? The King Eider What is the name of your lodge, and since when has your lodge been operating? Båtsfjord Brygge Arctic Resort, since 2014 How best to travel to your lodge?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By John Hague John moved to Leicester in 1993 to start training as a mental health nurse and recently retired after 30-odd years in the NHS to start Shrike Birding Tours.

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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

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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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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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

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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