10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Enough History – Back to the Future.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

I’ve been to the Sounds before, but I had never visited them specifically to bird, which means I hadn’t seen the specialities there. New Zealand Fur-seals are the most common pinniped found in New Zealand. The reason Alan had come was to film another endemic, a critically endangered species, the Orange-fronted Parakeet.

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Charlotte New Zealand Seals Fur 112

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago. Midway’s birds are also protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. They are also disease vectors.

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Mice Albatross Honolulu Endangered Species 102

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and breeding, often in large colonies, on coastlines and islands. All alcid species alive today can fly, but with difficulty. Birds alcids taxonomy and systematics'

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Penguins Puffins 2008 Sharks 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Birds of California , the new volume in the ABA series, arrived the day I returned. Every bird book seems to be about the west coast this month!) With the boat speed what it was, and being the only birder on board, to stop watching meant I might miss an interesting bird. That’s 22 Marine Mammal species and 43 Seabirds.

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

It is commonly kept in captivity and has therefore established many feral populations world-wide originating from escaped / released cage birds. This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. Very stupid thing to do.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

You (or your child/friend/etc) have just found a seemingly parentless baby bird. Here with the answer(s) is Maureen Eiger, a bird rehabilitator in Roanoke, VA: . Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

I’ve written before about the two near identical plovers that breed here in Arctic Bay, The Semipalmated Plover and the Common Ringed Plover. I live in one of the few places in North America where both species breed and occur regularly. Even with the birds that close it is challenging to tell both apart.

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Seals North America Breeding Species 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. Most birds will follow a set group of behaviours, building a nest a certain way, courting a certain way, eating a certain set of food. Most birds will follow a set group of behaviours, building a nest a certain way, courting a certain way, eating a certain set of food.

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Albatross Hawaii Seals Parrots 177

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Come September most of the summer seabird people had left, but there were a small number of seabirds still breeding and so I stayed behind for three years to continue their monitoring and do the migrant landbird surveys, as well as the Great White Shark surveys. And there aren’t just cool birds rocking up, migratory bats do too.

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Whales Whaling Sharks Bats 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York Harbor and vicinity looking for good birds. A surprise was a Common Merganser , a bird we don’t see much in New York City and especially not flying over the coast in Brooklyn. A bunch of Harbor Seals of Swinburne Island was a nice consolation though.

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New York City New York Jamaica Seals 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 227

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

If there is one thing that Kiwis care about, it’s birds. No, wait, not birds. One thing visitors love to see in New Zealand is Kiwi, the national (sort of) bird, and they also enjoy seeing some of the other birds the place has to offer. Kiwis care about rugby. A good place to see the enigmatic Kokako.

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Birds 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds&# but they do in fact fly; They just do it underwater. The evolution of the living penguins is one of the best known cases among birds, or even vertebrates in general, mainly through the study of DNA, bio-geography, and anatomy.

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Kooyman (co-author with Jim Mastro) spent decades studying Emperor Penguins and can be considered the world’s foremost expert on the species. Empire Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are the largest living penguin species, almost four feet tall (taller when they stretch), and the least likely to be seen on birding or nature trips.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 152

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Sophie had serious doubts about whether she was really a bird. August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Sophie the Scissortail was the most difficult but the most satisfying bird of the season.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 216

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. In this epic post, Patrick depicts just how dynamic the pelagic birding is off Cape Point in South Africa.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 178

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And whether the return is a permanent one or not remains to be seen as those factors sealing my fate as a regular contributor are still binding me to this day. Now, the names different languages give to birds are peculiar indeed, but that is a subject very specific to those who seek out and identify birds. No birds required.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 174

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In total, there are eight species of hornbills in Borneo – the best place to see them seems to be the Kinabatagan River area (also known as Sukau). Another item they feed on is hunting edible bird nest swiftlets, which are quite common in edible swiftlet houses in Sabah, Malaysia ( source ).

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 125

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

(In which the author, rather than jumping out of his 13th-floor window out of his frustration over his long lockdown, describes a final 15 Australian birds, whether or not anyone is interested). This photo of a pair of Little Corellas looks like it could easily be on the cover of a romance novel published specifically for a bird audience.

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Birds Pelicans Falcons Parrots 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

I have been working in the avian world for 25 years, but last summer I was out-birded by a 14-year-old girl. I was there for Arts and Birding , a five-day adult course in photography, videography, sketching, painting, writing, or any combination thereof … plus lots of birding.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 248

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

The birdlife in the Cape is nothing short of spectacular, with a healthy dose of charismatic endemic species. Over 40 species of South African endemics can be found in the Cape – Cape Sugarbirds, Cape Rockjumpers, Orange-breasted Sunbirds to name but a few. A pair of birds nested at Boulders Beach for the first time.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

There is a very distinctive smell found on seabird colonies, where thousands upon thousands of birds come to breed and, coincidentally, deposit large quantities of waste. A waterproof raincoat is essential in even the hottest sunniest days of summer. As well as gulls the islands home large colonies of Brandt’s Cormorants.

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Breeding Stray Seals Whales 179

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I thought after my recent look at the more angelic end of the avian spectrum it would be illustrative to descend into the circles of birding hell in order to regard, through the safety of the Internet, one of the baser demons in the pantheon of the birding gods. The effect, a feathered maelstrom, is genuinely disconcerting.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

Most people have heard of Lake Eyre , which is well-known for the variety of bird life on years that it floods. It appeared that Lake Bindegolly National Park could also offer us the same birding opportunities if there was water present. We carried ample water and spent 4 hours walking and birding. miles long. Orange Chat.

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Feral Pelicans Ducks Pigs 146