10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So when there is no Lake Cuitzeo on which to winter, where do all these birds go? As soon as we had parked beside the lake, we saw a wide variety of migratory ducks: Canvasbacks, Gadwalls, Blue-winged Teals, American Wigeons , and even a pair of Redheads. Not bad, for a reservoir that normally does not host any wild ducks.

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JULY 29, 2021

The very best wetland birding around Belgrade, Serbia, is not to be found in the locally famous and tourist-promoted Obedska or Carska Bara Ramsar areas, but at Beljarica Backwaters and the fish farm triangle of Centa, Baranda and Sakule villages, in the Tamis River floodplain.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

This bird species is known to travel large distances around Australia. All of the station access is flooded from the highway and the birds are lining the tracks. We expect more and more birds to arrive in coming weeks as we get more seasonal rain. It was keeping all of the other birds alert with its constant swooping.

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Geese Eagles Australia Breeding 248

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2022

This whole area floods during the wet season and water remains throughout the year most years and attracts a lot of bird-life. It is worth having your windows open as you drive slowly in and check all of the many boab trees for bird-life. Ducks at Munkajarra Wetland. Ducks at Munkajarra Wetland. Purple Swamphens.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Not all birds are created equal. These are the kinds of birds even those barely cognizant of nature recognize, appreciate, and aspire to. These are the kinds of birds even those barely cognizant of nature recognize, appreciate, and aspire to. Central Africa has one of those birds.

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Uganda Africa Birds Penguins 251

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each of the dark marks in this photo from August, 2018 was a duck. But such a shallow water depth doesn’t work for our many duck species, and these, along with most gulls, terns, grebes, and larger shorebirds, were nowhere to be seen after the first two weeks of January. And are the birds returning with the water?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

While Mike and Corey – fitting for being real celebrities in birding cycles – get invited to far-flung places such as Uganda, minor local birders sometimes at least get invited to places nearby. The birding life. But now back to birds … Little Ringed Plovers also seem to like to breed directly on the road.

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Birds Uganda Breeding Rats 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2020

I soon encountered many of the local birds that I have become very familiar with over recent weeks. There have been good numbers of Australian Wood Ducks near the dam recently. Australian Wood Ducks and Black-shouldered Lapwings. Two Cattle Egrets with four cows! Approaching Fish Creek from Fish Creek! Australasian Grebe.

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Buffalo Fish Koalas Cattle 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2018

All of our visits since then for a holiday have been during the cooler months and it is interesting to observe which birds remain in the area all year and which arrive later in the year. The drainage channels are a good place to stop and observe a huge variety of birds as you can see in the header photo. Cattle Egret.

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Cattle Geese Birds Australia 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2021

The cattle are clever enough to move across the property and get away from the deep water. Even the Pacific Black Ducks have decided they need to stand on the gate to get out of the water when they have had enough! Pacific Black Ducks out of water! The predominant duck at the moment in that area is the Hardhead.

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Chickens Ducks Cattle Australia 166

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

I’m a big fan of city birding. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy getting away from it all out in some remote forest or desert, but a good city can combine some excellent birding and outstanding diving, drinking, dining and sightseeing. The gardens are so bird rich books have been written about what can be seen in them.

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Penguins Birds Mongoose Ostriches 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

Just under a fortnight ago, I saw a report on the local bird alert of a sighting of a group of approximately 20 Nacunda Nighthawks at a wetland not more than 20 minutes from where I live. It seemed to be good birding judgement to scan the seasonally flooded wetland in the couple hours of daylight available before the storm arrived.

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Livestock Ducks ALA illegal 202

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

An expanse of habitat as vast as Murchison Falls NP in Uganda, as excessively generous in beauty and biodiversity, permits endless ways to experience both its birds and animals. The Masindi Hotel holds the distinction of being the oldest and most historic hotel in Uganda and has some terrific birds on premises. Mind boggling, I answer!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2015

A manicured green lawn in front of the building and an iridescent blue bird on a smallish aloe tree. It was June 1999 and I was observing my first ever bird on African soil. The next bird was some crow-like UFO observed from the shuttle bus. I asked the bus driver about the bird and he asked me back: “The bi’d?” “Umm,

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Africa Botswana Birds Europe 202

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

A local cattle station out of town received 652mm in the same 24 hour period, so we got off lightly! Of course all of the muddy water is already full of tadpoles and therefore the birds are moving in. Meanwhile the birds will make the most of the tadpoles and the large number of grasshoppers that are currently about.

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Parrots Cattle Breeding Ducks 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers, listers and photographers, friends and fellow travelers near and far! Writing a post scheduled for January 1st for a birding blog is a big responsibility. On the first of the year, every bird is a new bird! It was a United States lower-48 birding year for me.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 148

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

The day before we headed south to Perth to circumnavigate Herdsman Lake and see the amazing bird-life there we did a short drive out of town at home in Broome. The road north was closed beyond a certain distance, but the road south remained open and always offers excellent birding opportunities when this happens.

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Barn Owls Seals Birds Cattle 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On that glorious day, I observed ten critically endangered birds, representing 8% of their Costa Rican, or 2% of their global population!! In my previous post , I dealt with Rancho Naturalista Lodge itself and birding within their private reserve. But, let’s start at the beginning. My OCD would not stand that!

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 223

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2020

And this doesn’t mean you are obsessed or a little bit too much into birds because keeping track of a year list actually comes with some side benefits. Yeah, many of us living the birding life do so anyways because we can’t help it. Go birding! Muscovy Duck – Crypturellus cinnamomeus; La Garita, 8-Jan.

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Costa Rica 2020 Morals Farming 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another paper on Taiwanese birds found that “the urban Crested Goshawk bred 34 days earlier on average than the rural population with significantly higher nesting success”, concluding that “the urban Crested Goshawk population benefits from high food supply and low predation risk.”

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2020

Our three summer Duck species, Mexican, Ruddy, and Fulvous Whistling-Duck , expand to as many as thirteen species. And while all three of our common Egrets ( Great , Snowy , and Cattle ) are to be seen everywhere you look, only the American White Pelicans are as common as the Shovelers and Pintails. How many were there?

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Mexico South America Ducks Groups 139

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

The altruistic vampire, back at the roost after a meal of horse or cattle blood, will regurgitate the blood to feed not only her own pup, but other adults and their pups too, all of this prompted by being groomed by the donee and, in particular, by being licked on the lips. Atria Books, New York, $28 (U.S.); $37 (Canada).

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Humane New York Owls Hunting 227

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I’ve never been one to be overly concerned about whether a bird “counts” People, and organisations, have complex and elaborate rules about whether a bird you saw or heard actually is a bird you saw or heard, which seems a very unnecessary way to add complexity to an already complex hobby. Yellow-billed Stork.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2020

Having observed the Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at the Derby Poo Ponds on June 19th we found ourselves at Windjana Gorge first thing the following morning. We soon added Sandstone Shrike-thrush to our 2020 bird list and it is a great place to find them without too much walking. The bird-life was quite different too this year.

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2020 Australia Cattle Groups 258

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2021

2021 is already well underway, are you birding? During anxious times, birding is therapeutic, it brings us back to center, can wipe away the worries and act as a source of mental fortitude. Watch some birds today and see where it takes you. Watch some birds all year long and enjoy the journey, keep a list.

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Woodpeckers 158

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2012

At least, thought I, Florida would produce some superior birds. So I packed my binoculars thinking that, even if the trip wouldn’t be as bird-rich as my last trip to the Sunshine State (for the mighty, mighty Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival ), at least a few crackers would wing my way. Not Sea World.

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Florida Birds Alligators Turtles 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you like birds on posts, if seeing “little brown jobs” posing nicely in the distance as you drive or walk along a dirt road only to have it fly away as you approach makes you deliriously happy, then North Dakota is the place for you. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state. Scott Barnes, N.J.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 134

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Instead of going on about zip lines and other modern, adventure tourism attractions, the birding crowd talks about taking photos of Resplendent Quetzals , seeing dozens of hummingbird species, and the seemingly odd absence of raptors in Costa Rica but nope, we don’t really talk about extinction. Must be a joke, right?

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Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 211

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Colusa NWR was beginning to fill its impoundments during this drought, and there were quite a few ducks and geese present. There were not only Cattle Egrets and Great Egrets ( Ardea alba ) but Snowy Egrets ( Egretta thula ) as well. The only scuffles I witnessed were between conspecifics.

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Wildlife San Francisco Sacramento North Dakota 158

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

There is very little traffic about at this time of year, but there are a lot of cattle wandering across the road and you need to be alert. We were able to add a few new birds to the 2019 Year List and had a good day out. The actual Poo Ponds themselves were busy with birds and we even observed a pair of Black-tailed Native-hens.

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Ducks 2019 Cattle Species 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2017

When we had our camping/birding trip earlier this year we entered Queensland from the Northern Territory at the border near the small outback town of Camooweal. We chose to camp at the far end of Lake Canellan to be as far away from others as possible and to enjoy the bird-life in the area. Australian Wood Duck.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

There was still a small body of water remaining and among the reeds were Grey Teal, Hardheads, Pacific Black Ducks and Australasian Grebe. There were several Eastern Great Egrets, Intermediate Egrets, Australian White Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Straw-necked Ibis, Pacific Black Ducks and Australasian Grebes. Varied Sittella. White-necked Heron.

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Birds Ducks Species Zebras 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common? They’re all named for livestock.

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Cows Cattle 2011 Birds 141

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2018

The country has one eBird hotspot with 200+ and 48 with more than 100 bird species. Among travel guides, due to its extensive coverage of natural history and birding sites, recommendation goes to Laurence Mitchell’s Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide (5th edition, 2017). With cold spells comes the rare Long-tailed Duck.

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Serbia Geese Owls Macedonia 144

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

Following on from last week’s post about Langi Crossing and all that it has to offer in the way of wildlife with an emphasis on crocodiles I thought I should now expand on the birds that you may encounter during a visit! The only ducks that we have observed on recent visits have been Pacific Black Ducks. Great Egret.

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Birds Pelicans Eagles Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2021

Insects were held back by weird spring weather, but now the warmth returns and the birds are feasting on the late stirring bugs. June saw 8 beats get their birding boots on and share 90 checklists for your pleasure. Flaming June is busting out all over. Between them, they found 389 species in 5 countries.

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Woodpeckers Sparrows Ducks Niger 235

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For many in the birding community, Miami is a destination meant only for ticking off ABA-countable exotics such as Spot-breasted Oriole or Red-whiskered Bulbul. It was truly heart-warming to see the local birding community participate with so much enthusiasm and fervor. This bird was a life bird for him! Mottled Duck: 19.

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Miami 2015 United States Birds 165