Remove Birds Remove Blackbirds Remove Humane Remove Investigation
article thumbnail

Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

To be precise, “Birding Shanghai from June 10 to June 30, 2022” – but that is even less of an exciting title than the one above. The reason for this post only covering the period from June 10 being that an earlier post, “Revenge Birding”, was about the first 9 days of June. You should try it too.

Birds 193
article thumbnail

Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

10,000 Birds

Bird “instrumental music&# is bird song. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. A bird song is a communication having to do with sexual selection. Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection.

Zebras 259
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Joy of Bird Feeding: A Book Review by a Birder who Loves Her Feeder Birds

10,000 Birds

Happy Second Day of the New Year, 10,000 Birds friends! I came late to bird feeding. Jim Carpenter is the founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, the popular bird feeder and seed franchise. There is a lot of information out there about feeding birds—web pages, pamphlets from bird feed retail stores and Audubon centers.

Birds 179
article thumbnail

First Ever World Series of Birding Triathlon Part 1, Or, Our Dreams Died Early

10,000 Birds

Any birder who has ever visited Cape May and many who have not will recognize these place names that are iconic in the birding world. All of them were on the route of the Triathlon Hawks, our Swarovski Optik-sponsored team competing in the Carbon Footprint category of the 2011 World Series of Birding.