10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2015

A beautiful country on Central America’s coast, Belize boasts spectacular diving and snorkeling, immense cave systems, beautiful rivers, dense jungles, and of course, hundreds and hundreds of birds. We were all set for a full day of combining our two loves: fishing and birding. The birding was relatively easy.

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Belize Fish Birds Pelicans 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

Birding in Florida is unique in that so much of that state’s plenty is evident even to the casual observer. It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. One had a cluster of recently fledged birds and their nonplussed parent.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa).

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

No doubt he reads that bio and goes “It’s good, but what I really want to do is kill some f ing birds” Linda doesn’t waste any time in deciding which camp Chris belongs to. He’s in the truly arrogant camp before Chris’s reasons for collecting the bird are even discussed. Or how gracefully it flew?

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 163

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve seen Forster’s Terns and Common Terns , but one particular species was fast becoming a nemesis bird: the Black Tern. I adore all protected areas along the barrier islands. Because of this, they have been listed as a “Common Bird in Steep Decline.” Black Tern in Breeding Plumage.

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Breeding South America Florida Protection 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2020

Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from personal experience. Bikram Grewal is the author of over ten books on birds of the subcontinent and also acts as a consultant on eco-tourism. India is a huge and logistically frightening country.

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India Lions 2020 Groups 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

When I was just a wee’ lad, in my formative birding years, I was introduced to the plight of the Western Snowy Plover. A bird, which thru the years took on a mystical component. There is little doubt about the serious nature of the threat to this bird.

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 103

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2016

For the last few months the sloping sides of the bridge met the water with no birds dotting its sand other than a few pigeons or gulls. I quelled the urge to jump in the air for joy, as I didn’t want to disturb the birds, but contented myself with a big grin and lots of photos.

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Eggs Florida Mexico Protection 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2017

I was on a workshop field trip, learning about marine protected areas as my group snorkeled on one of the area’s famous coral reefs. Their populations have grown about 5% every year since 1966 , and their global breeding population is now larger than 120,000 birds. Still, they are sensitive to human disturbance.

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Pelicans Sharks Florida Groups 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2016

Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon who love to share thought-provoking pieces with 10,000 Birds readers. FWS is a federal agency, so naturally it has issued detailed regulations regarding how a CCP is developed, contents of the plan, and public notice requirements, among many other requirements.

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Wildlife Oregon Endangered Species Portland 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.*

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 208

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Anything posing a risk to their nests or young will be met by swift action with parent birds dive-bombing any potential threat and raising such a noise as to make the predator choose an easier option. Then I saw the reason for their protective behaviour. The road took me past the vultures which flew as I approached.

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Brazil Protection Family Africa 132

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Analyses of stomach content of dead pelicans during a die-off found that their digestive tracts were either empty or contained fish the pelicans don’t normally eat. The Brown Pelican is Louisiana’s state bird. Pelicans are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. They had to be reintroduced to that state in 1968.

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Pelicans North America Peru Fish 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Snowy Owls are iconic birds. The three of us, Seth, Pat, and I, were the only ones there looking for birds except for one photographer, and the owl seemed content to sit in the dunes and we left it where we found it, undisturbed and unmoving. Sure, I would’ve liked a better shot of this bird. … a.

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Owls New York illegal Protection 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

I had already walked nearly eight miles, feeling tired but content. The forests of Eglin are currently protected from destruction because they are essential to the base’s mission, and as a result they host one of the region’s largest colonies of these unique woodpeckers.

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Woodpeckers Rhode Island Florida Endangered Species 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

There are sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers and they have varying success at raising young birds. The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. Pied Oystercatcher chasing a Black Kite.

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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge : Open to migratory bird hunting (youth only). The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. This is an Urban Refuge ! Why would you open it up to hunting?

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

From the WTF files.and reported by the Associated Content news site. Channel 8 News raised more than a few eyebrows when it reported on a Shelton canary fighting ring that caused 150 birds to be placed into protective custody and thrust 19 suspects with their first and last names into the public eye.

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Animal Cruelty New Jersey Boston Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Sometimes, when I’m writing trip reports about far off places (relative to most of my readers) I wonder what exactly people make of some of the birds I mention seeing. Is a Coua a bird or a city in Brazil? Is a saw-wing a bird or an engine part? Is a logrunner a bird or a black market timber trader? What a treat!

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Australia Fiji Hunters Family 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

The cactus are not the only things down here that are protected in this manner. The Elephant Cactus , puts out a white tubular flower that open from late March, until early, June, and are visited by nectar feeding bats at night and many birds during the day. Once the fruit is ripe, it becomes a primary source for many species.

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Elephants Woodpeckers Squirrels Shelters 107

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

That’s interesting from a weather point of view, but not so good when it coincided with my graduation birding trip. Yes, I had officially graduated from the Duke Nicholas School of the Environment, and I was not going to let a little rain keep me from birding! Still, we were in for another birding surprise.

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North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Yes, cute little Skylarks were all well and good, but what Kiwis really wanted were birds they could shoot and fish they could, uh, fish. New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa. We have Grallards. A pure female Mallard.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 168

10,000 Birds

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. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. How many wild birds are eaten by either feral Cats or “outdoor Cats?” ” Many.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

It can’t be because of the content of the column Ted Williams wrote. No, to me the saddest part of this whole situation is that the National Audubon Society has been missing in action for years on what is one of the most crucial conservation challenges facing our native birds, mammals, and herps.

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic By James • March 1, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share Endemism is special.

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Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley Guide bursts with bird images, photographic plates that verge on the surreal of birds in all plumages and poses against real-life habitats, informing, sometimes overwhelming us with visual and, if you can take your eyes off the images, textual information.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is in addition to the many articles and exhibits and even film devoted to the bird, one of the few species whose death was witnessed and noted down to the exact day, Tuesday, September 1, 1914 (though there is some question about the exact time). What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. In this epic post, Patrick depicts just how dynamic the pelagic birding is off Cape Point in South Africa.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

We can bird all over the world, and although we are not guaranteed a field guide to every single region and country in the world, there are a whole lot more of them than in the mid-1970’s, when world birders like Phoebe Snetsinger often had to put together their own checklists and guides. I couldn’t wait to give names to all my new species.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 177