10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

We should stop naming birds, especially non-European birds, after European and Euroamerican naturalists and scientists, especially if we are committed to making the worlds of birds and birding accessible to more people than the demographics that produced the Audubons, Wilsons, Stellers, and MacGillivrays.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2015

Nadeem Shehzad and his brother Mohammad Saud take in about 1400 injured birds per year in Delhi, India – an enormous number. One decided that as long as Nadeem was coming to America he should visit some of our large East Coast centers, so she made calls, sent emails, and set up an indiegogo campaign to pay for his tour.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Beljarica Backwaters (some August birding here ) is a spacious floodplain of the left bank of the Danube, less than 10 km / 6 mi north of Belgrade, and is an exciting place to bird. If they return a while, we know not if they smile or weep beneath their tan.”. sq mi of the proposed reserve was announced.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2023

Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorant was a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade until most wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the entire territory of Serbia. With the construction of the huge Iron Gates dam on the Danube, the birds returned to breed in newly flooded river islands.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2015

Technically, my first bird of the year was a Laughing Dove which was rudely awakened from its roost in the hotel garden by the midnight fireworks and crash-landed by the pool. As far as eBird is concerned, my 2015 campaign started at 14.30 As far as eBird is concerned, my 2015 campaign started at 14.30 Birds Lesser Moorhen'

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

After all, each refuge has been set aside to permanently protect birds and other wildlife. Nevertheless, if you have not spent much time birding in the area, it is difficult not to find lifers. Trump’s presidential campaign was his promise to build a “great wall” along the border with Mexico. Indeed, The U.S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. In fact, early, photographic versions of several chapters appeared in Living Bird and Audubon Magazine (see the above links). is through the personal and the specific.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

Through next week, it’s running a contest to determine the state’s most bird-friendly burg , considering factors like adequate habitat, laws and regulations that benefit birds, and the general populace’s interest in all things avian. What place do you think deserves “bird-friendliest” honors, and why?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The campaign to provide one of two brothers who almost singlehandedly care for the injured birds of Delhi, India, has been extended. Here’s the campaign. Do you love birds? There’s time left! There’s still time to help! Love the wild world? Do you have a fascination with snakes? No donation is too small to help.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

In addition to birding as much as I can and my full-time job in Okaloosa County, I also work part-time for Voices for Biodiversity , an online magazine. To that end, they have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund ten, full-length, multi-media articles from across the globe (in a style similar to this ). Do you have story ideas?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions. Rats are cute! Imagine a world without rats!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

My readers are already familiar with Beljarica Backwaters, as described in half a dozen posts here at 10,000 Birds. It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak. The post Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2011

The national bird of Estonia is the Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica. Of course, in Estonia the bird is not called Barn Swallow. Since 1995 that same Estonian Ornithological Society has chosen a bird as the bird of the year and this year, 2011, it is the Barn Swallow ! Click on our National Birds page!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

And Gunnar Engblom, a bird guide in Peru, wants it to remain on this Earth, and is running an Indigogo campaign to begin some basic monitoring to provide data to scientists and government officials tasked with saving it. It’s Critically Endangered, and that’s about as bad as it gets before a species is lost.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At the risk of yet again reinforcing our predictable North American slant at Booze and Birds, it has to be noted that this year’s United States presidential campaign season has certainly been an occasion for drinking, especially as we enter the final two weeks before the election. Good birding and happy drinking! Maybe buy two.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The problem is that Republicans are looking for an angry bird instead of a beautiful bird. The Republican birds do not present beautiful plumage. And the current chief bird, Gingrich is the walking antithesis of a pretty bird. This begs the question – if Barack Obama were a bird, what bird would he be?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The sequence of events in the establishment of this exotic tree is one that relates to frugivorous birds. It is a good example of birds dispersing and harvesting their own food supply. Perhaps mockingbirds and other resident birds took a liking to the berries they later spitted nearby.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the Aruba Birdlife Conservation Foundation began a campaign to make the Burrowing Owl the country’s national bird , which was officially named in 2012. The added publicity – the bird now appears on Aruba currency and stamps – will draw attention to needed conservation and protection efforts.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2014

A campaign was launched this week to vote for Britain’s National bird. This is one of Britain’s best known birds and is well regarded as a problem solver and acrobatic crowd pleaser. A strong publicity campaign will keep the Robin at the forefront of everyone’s mind during the winter.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right? appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Image by USFWS.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Finally, many of us not struggling to pull it all together after the storm or campaigning in crucial swing states were granted one extra hour this weekend to do something fun. My Best Bird of the Weekend was a lone loon, probably a Common Loon , winging swiftly along the Lake Ontario shoreline. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2015

I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting much from a card game about birding. I mean, birding is about being outside, enjoying nature, the thrill of the chase. Birding is most emphatically not about sitting around a table playing cards. A bird from each habitat group – I particularly like the Varied Thrush card.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2014

When birds go from Least Concern to Near-Threatened to Vulnerable to Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature scale of species viability, people often race to raise awareness and save the at-risk species. That’s the message of “Winged Warnings,” a new campaign by Environmental Health News and National Geographic.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York by Corey Finger, birder, blogger, and co-emperor of 10,000 Birds, with photographs by Brian E. We at 10,000 Birds are so excited, we’ve decided to give away a copy of this excellent guide. It’s here! It’s here!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Be warned, The Atlas of Birds is not a map book, though it does contain maps, lovely orange and purple and green bird distribution maps. It is not an encyclopedia, though it does summarize research, explain basic concepts, and ends with a section on bird statistics. Intriguing, isn’t it?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Timothy Barksdale is a birder/biologist turned filmmaker , passionately pursuing birds with a television camera for the last 24 years. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2012

We’re in the midst of the Pledge 2 Fledge , an international grassroots campaign to introduce friends and neighbors to the dizzying delights of birding. Have you pledged? If you have any Pledge 2 Fledge stories, share them in the comments…

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

Ten years ago, those flocks were reduced to a few hundred birds. Nowadays, the flocks are even smaller, merely a few dozen birds. As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. Then comes summer and the birds start migrating. More campaign photos at the FB page of the BPSSS/BirdLife Serbia).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2012

After a brutal colonization that included genocidal campaigns against the Herero (80% killed) and Nama (50% killed) tribes, the Germans lost control when South Africa invaded soon after the declaration of the First World War. Over 700 bird species occur in Namibia, many of them range-restricted and highly desirable southern arid zone species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2013

You are out birding on a crisp fall day. An interesting bird catches your eye but you are unable to get a defining look. You set yourself to get a good view, eyes in binoculars, intent on where the bird disappeared. When you refocus yourself on where the bird you were trying to figure out disappeared to you never spot it again.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

But that tragedy is compounded when the species at risk is a country’s national bird. Fortunately, scientists now have proof that the bird, which lives only on two Samoan islands and is distantly related to the Dodo , isn’t yet extinct. The Manumea isn’t the only Samoan bird on the brink, however.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

After Jason recently asked ChatGPT for birding advice, the management consultant in me – constantly thriving for efficiency improvements – immediately thought of the next step. The Seasonal Spectacles: Shanghai’s birding scene comes alive during the spring and autumn migration seasons.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

I first met Robert Gallardo on my first trip to the neotropics, a wonderful experience at the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras in 2009. Robert was briefly a Beat Writer on 10,000 Birds and he has also contributed a guest post. Why are you creating a field guide to the birds of Honduras? Is it safe to bird Honduras?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

Anyone who has set foot in an Irish pub at any point in the last several decades has undoubtedly seen these vintage ads featuring a colorful and clownish menagerie of bears, sea lions, turtles, kangaroos, crocodiles, lions, and many birds – including the famous Guinness toucans. Good birding and happy drinking! John Gilroy, the S.H.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

After a long hiatus that included a new cat, a new apartment, and enough time with the in-laws to last me quite awhile, here’s a rundown of April’s bird news: Funny, sad, and thought-provoking … an African-American ornithologist’s video tips for birding while black. Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights. He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

This year there’s been a concerted campaign in Congress to hobble major regulations that safeguard animals, land, air, and water. If in 2016 the Republicans hold on to the House and Senate and manage to take the Presidency the damage that will be done to our environment will be disastrous.

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