AVMA News

JANUARY 15, 2025

A new source of exposure highly pathogenic avian influenza is affecting cats: raw diets containing poultry such as duck, turkey, or chicken that were contaminated with the virus. Cats appear to be particularly susceptible to severe illness from H5N1, often resulting in death.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2024

We all know and use the derogatory term trash birds link. When I recently put in a comment of “ wanting to write a post about my least favourite birds ” link that’s what I was thinking. An easy list of trash birds. Well, it’s never easy… What is a trash bird? Humourless and referring to competing websites.

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Lions Birds Namibia Portugal 193

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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2023

Another year of birding in Costa Rica has come to an end, another one begins. I bet some tanager flocks will be in the cards; birding in Costa Rica tends to deliver. It’s 2023 already and I have already started this year of birding. A male American Redstart flashed its Halloween finery and other birds flitted into view.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia, offers several great birding spots and here are some recommendations for areas to go birding in and around the city, how to get there by public transport, and some of the bird species you might expect to see. It is home to almost a hundred bird species, including woodpeckers and songbirds.

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Transported Woodpeckers Serbia Birds 246

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

August started how July ended – with a few birds spending their summer in an extremely hot Shanghai. Or finding a dead fish but deciding it is too big or too smelly to eat … … making the bird shiver in… Source

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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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Philadelphia Birds Investigation North America 240

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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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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 217

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2024

As a little child, I´ve always liked watching birds fly around and imagined, what it would be like flying around on my own whenever I feel like it and not having to sit in an airplane full of nice people. The only reason for it being in fifth place is the unpleasant noise this bird tends to make, which greatly differs from its appearance.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

You want to do some serious birding? And yes, Sable Antilope is very cool, but birds are sub-zero cool! And yes, Sable Antilope is very cool, but birds are sub-zero cool! And it was birds we came for, so his customer service wasn’t great. Consequently, he would drive too close to any bird party we came across.

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Mozambique Zimbabwe Birds Mammals 211

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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Livestock Sparrows Birds North America 199

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Collins Bird Guide covers Europe, North Atlantic islands, much of North Africa and the Middle East. The Collins Bird Guide 2nd edition from 2009 was a much hated taxonomical revolution/nightmare, changing just about everything. I am still annoyed that no birds are where they used to be. the Corn Bunting plate).

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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 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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Livestock Birds Sparrows Mexico 189

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

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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Kenya Buffalo Lions Sparrows 217

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AUGUST 27, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? My favorite bird species is the Great Blue Turaco. What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? I’m based in Nyungwe National Park and am a bird guide there and at Akagera National Park… Source What is your name, and where do you live?

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Rwanda Birds Species 225

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Most of us have bogey birds – certain species that for one reason or another elude us for years. Forty years ago my bogey was the Bohemian Waxwing, and by 1986 I was sufficiently keen to see one that I was prepared to resort to twitching.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? The bird that I’m seeing or hearing at the present moment. Too tough to choose a species but if I could choose a family it’d be a tight finish between shorebirds and vultures. Trinidad Motmot What is your name, and where do you live?

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Trinidad Birds Family Species 241

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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Netherlands Birds Ducks Hunting 211

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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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Birds China 201

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? Eurasian Bullfinch What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? I am a full-time bird guide, mostly in Berlin and the surrounding area… Source I don’t have a favorite. What is your name, and where do you live?

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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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Mexico Birds Species 192

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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South Africa Africa Eagles Fish 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Point-tailed Palmcreeper is a strange bird in all senses. It was almost as if the bird was made for the tree. Point-tailed Palmcreeper Another bird I had seen many photos of and consequently really wanted to see was Black-capped Donacobius – a name which I embarrassingly would often mispronounce.

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Farming Guyana Birds Trinidad 208

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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

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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Hunting Birds Barn Owls Owls 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2023

As the rice paddies near Kota Kinabalu described in an earlier post , Tanjung Aru beach is not really a major birding spot in its own right. However, it is only a short taxi ride away from the airport where most travelers will arrive at – better to see birds instead of just eating fast food while waiting for a connecting flight.

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Malaysia Philippines Parrots illegal 232

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

AUGUST 1, 2024

These birds are out here creating architectural masterpieces while we struggle to assemble flat-pack furniture without swearing. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the top five bird nests that will put your DIY skills to shame. These birds construct intricate hanging nests that resemble high-end condominiums.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Asia Uruguay 211

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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DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Dutch Island of Texel is well-known amongst European birders due to the exciting number and quality of birds it attracts during spring and autumn migration times. A few Bohemian Waxwings were also a great addition to my life-list and a long-awaited bird. maurus and S. stejnegeri generally have a warmer tone.

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10,000 Birds

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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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 183

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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Indonesia Birds China 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The first half of September (covered in my previous post ) was very productive, but the second half delivered some even better birding. These birds were omnipresent on the bushes and fence posts on the upper land of the island during the first weeks of my stay. We did see Eurasian Skylark , in addition to Horned Lark , as well though.

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