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APRIL 25, 2022

It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. would be cats for me, but you get the general idea).

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 181

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JANUARY 4, 2022

The American Birding Association has declared that 2022 is the year of the Burrowing Owl, but if Rosemary Mosco has her way, it will also be the year of the Rock Pigeon. This is an arguable statement, especially when you think about cats. Mosco’s birds (and other creatures in her comics) carry an air of insouciance.

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2018 New York City Birds Abandon 209

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

After we had collected the mangos that we could reach and brought them into the house to ripen we then started to enjoy a variety of birds eating the remaining mangoes that are too high to reach. This gives us the opportunity to open the mangos up and place them on the grass for the other birds that visit our garden.

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Parrots Birds Australia Bats 163

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AUGUST 1, 2021

We have to understand, though, that this was a natural predator and not one of our introduced feral cats or foxes. The chick is just to the right of the adult bird in the photo below in the shade. The Pied Oystercatchers moved around the vegetation and collected food for the chick. Pied Oystercatcher and chick.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Fox 255

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

There are plenty of stories about all the awful things that happen to birds, like getting covered in oil or smuggled n some dude’s underpants into another country, and about the things we should be doing about it. But what about the things that the birds are doing about it. Which led me to wonder, just how dangerous are birds?

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New Zealand Birds Goats Gorillas 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 181

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The subject is one that comes up a lot in this blog and other bird blogs, the subject of cats and their effect on wildlife. As most people know cats, both feral and domestic, have a pretty big impact on wild birds and other wildlife, and the effect of mammals is particularly profound in New Zealand.

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MARCH 19, 2013

This week, a new study was published about Sparrows in Nebraska, that in some ways resembles the study by Bumpus and may well be a better example of Natural Selection in birds. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 191

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The Bronx also has a special place in birding history.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 147

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MARCH 7, 2011

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 190

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MARCH 15, 2012

After all, there is no hunting and while I watched the turkeys they routed a feral cat that dared come near the flock of twelve which consisted of two tom turkeys and ten hens. They are now common and doing better than the rest of the game birds of the eastern United States. Keep an eye out for gobblers and enjoy their strutting show!

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Turkey New Jersey Feral Cats New York City 162

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are bird feeders and then there are squirrel feeders disguised as bird feeders, a fact known well by those of us who have committed a part of our lives to our yard birds. And, although I grew up in a house with a great yard, my parents were not of the bird-feeding persuasion. At least, feeder birds.

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Squirrels Birds Factory Raccoons 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

The vast majority of guests that visit these “birder-friendly&# lodges are birders and the primary target market of these places is the birding segment. This is not a birding lodge. Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Punta Cana means birding in style!

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 181

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AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 242

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MARCH 16, 2011

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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JULY 9, 2015

Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. During the Pleistocene, Dholes were found across the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America, sharing their space with sabre-toothed cats.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 233

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JULY 26, 2014

Interestingly, the birding lexicon uses other terms to describe unanticipated arrivals in more positive terms. What would birding be without the prospect of twitching the occassional vagrant, which is by definition an uninvited, though in these cases welcome, guest. Birds exotics invasive species Invasive Species Week irruption'

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

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MARCH 7, 2011

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2011 Deer New York Peru 160

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FEBRUARY 23, 2013

The current situation with exotic bird species in Florida is in a state of flux, particularly southeast Florida where the bulk of exotic bird diversity in the United States resides — and much of it “uncountable.”

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Florida Miami Bolivia Parrots 189

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MARCH 13, 2011

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

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MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

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MARCH 20, 2011

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

How about you… would you like to get your hands on the Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds ? Our dear friends at Princeton University Press , home of so many indispensable and inspired birding books, has graciously offered three copies of the new Crossley ID Guide for 10,000 Birds readers. Want a copy? Read on… 1.

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2011 Deer Owls New York 217

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AUGUST 10, 2018

In that deviant spirit, this week’s beer is Mash Up the Jam, a new dry-hopped sour beer by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. I’m glad that Collective Arts Brewing agrees. Good birding and happy drinking! Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam. Your move, Budweiser.). So drink up.

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Collecting St. Louis Dogs Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

This involves the sighting of these birds both here and overseas resulting in some incredible life stories. She hopes to spread the word about the dangers the shorebirds face as they migrate north each year and the changing bird seasons experienced throughout the year. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 150

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MARCH 19, 2011

But it wasn’t all that diabolical when you consider that it was the Queens Zoo that served as the setting and I also left this clue: “a knowledge of what birds can be seen in my fine borough will be of great assistance to you.&# Those who are really familiar with Queens should know what birds are in the zoo named for our borough.

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

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MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. There are also juvenile birds to confuse a birdwatcher. • Explore These Related Posts Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Good Gully: A Birder’s Oddity Slaty-backed Gull (?) This wiki looks good too.] Get yours today!

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

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JULY 21, 2011

I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. So the thought occurred to me that there is a lot of bird on the landscape, in terms of numbers of individuals as well as sheer biomass. Paul islands, studied by Darwin.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

All of the birds within Raphini are highly specialized for island life. It’s a spectacular pigeon with long neck plumes and blue, green, and copper iridescence in its feathers (I mean, look at this bird ), and it lives on islands from the western Indian Ocean all the way out through northern Melanesia. ” Beehler et al.’s

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 273

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

I have hope that in the next couple of weeks I will be able to get enough decent shots to share a gallery of birds in transitional plumage and then another of birds in alternate plumage. Until then, enjoy these basic-plumaged birds* and make sure to check back between now and mid-April for further galleries of Oxyura jamaicansis.

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 142

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APRIL 8, 2012

They are not flying cats nor birds with whiskers. Catbirds are a group of rather distantly related species all named for the fact that they make sounds that remind some of a cat meowing. The Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis is a common bird across most of North America, excepting the far west and northern Canada.

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Papua New Guinea Ethiopia Guinea Cats 179

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MARCH 26, 2014

There was a story this morning that did make my blood freeze, and it had nothing to do with four big cats biting the bullet. The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

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JULY 16, 2013

But there is one Cape bird that stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to character – the African Penguin. The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 209

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MARCH 5, 2011

This post has been submitted to Bird Photography Weekly #132. If you liked these images make sure to head on over to 10,000 Clicks , the 10,000 Birds photo-galleries page, and see our growing collection of galleries. … Tags: digiscoping , ducks , redheads • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

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2011 Jordan Deer New York 192

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Whenever possible we have used our Christmas Day to see how many bird species we can get in our local area and this year was no different. It is a great way to spend the day together, especially if work commitments have prevented birding trips together for a few weeks. Such are the vagaries of birding! Target set!

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Feral Cats Zebras Feral Ducks 116