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. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica.
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
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.
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.
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!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Twitching is a British term used to mean “the pursuit of a previously located rare bird.” Basically, I never had the time to chase birds. My second twitch, during the winter of 2011, was also in the area of McArthur where an American Tree Sparrow ( Spizella arborea ) was spotted during a Christmas Bird Count.
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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