10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. I just want to point out it could be much worse.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

But before we could enjoy the birds there we had to get out to the islands, and our hosts at The Lodge at Pico Bonito had us in more than capable hands with our guide, Olbin Bejarano. Well, it’s a life bird if you consider Salvin’s Emerald a separate species. Of course we had a lot more to do other than look at birds.

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Honduras Birds Butcher Fish 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. However, more and more news stories are popping up this year of communities cracking down on bird feeding. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2011

My dad says he can call a Fish Crow from an American Crow on sight. Ranging across nearly the entirety of North American in almost every habitat, American Crows are easy to find, easy to identify, and easy to disregard as one of the most common birds on the continent. In the other corner, the scion of the southeast.

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Fish Butcher Texas Experience 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

I say they were butchered, face-off. Steven had no binoculars, but impressively sharp eyes and great knowledge of birds. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

So, to claim that I birded Inner Mongolia is a massive exaggeration. Let’s move to the birds). According to an apocryphal story, the painter later turned politician once painted a watercolor of this innocent bird and liked the appearance so much that he copied it for his own style. Third note: no more notes.

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Mongolia Hedgehogs Russia Morals 201