10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2022

For some reason that I do not quite understand myself – given that I really rather dislike children and am not too positive about the rest of humanity either – I recently put up a little display of bird photos inside my Shanghai compound, which I share (as the only foreigner) with about 1700 Chinese. Some Birds of Shanghai.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. Europe: The sun is scorching the area, and the birds are nowhere to be seen. No, birds are way too smart for that stupid trick. My first ever Balkan Egyptian Vultures!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2019

Today`s post is a continuation of last week`s – an introduction to Shanghai`s 20 most commonly seen birds. Start with Eurasian Tree Sparrow , an unlikely high-ranked target for anybody watching birds in Shanghai. The Little Grebe is the default bird on Shanghai`s many ponds.

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Latvia Birds Sparrows Abandon 125

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

Once I observed a man walking his two small dogs here, passing by a perched White-tailed Eagle but looking down at grass and not noticing the largest raptor in Europe at all. Reva is also a part of the local Important Bird and Biodiversity Area “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers”. Photo by Branislav Dencic.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2018

It’s been eight months since we added our last new beat writer, Tristan Lowery , to our roster of exceptional talent here at 10,000 Birds. Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to add a “ Birds and Booze ” beat to the blog. Well, that’s kind of what it’s like having Angela join us here on 10,000 Birds. (No

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McDonalds Alaska Birds Europe 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

In front of us, the river is two miles wide… and it is paved with birds: smaller groups of Greater White-fronted and Greylag Geese , numerous Mute Swans and Mallards , plus Eurasian Teals , Gadwalls , Common Pochards , a few Ferruginous and Tufted Ducks , Common Goldeneyes and several Smews. A goose hunt sounds like a WWII battle.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2015

I say weird because this isn’t a bird that I had ever given a large amount of thought to before. For a long time it was treated as a subspecies of the ubiquitous Black Kite, a species of scavenging bird of prey much hated by my grandfather (they used to steal food from troops during the war, if memory serves).

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South Africa Africa Botswana Wolves 160

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

Whiskey Month at Birds and Booze: This January, Birds and Booze at 10,000 Birds is setting its sights on whiskeys all month long. A somewhat more credible selection to be sure, as lions actually do exist, but one that sadly snubs the native Scottish wildcat in favor of a felid that’s been extinct in Europe since antiquity.

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Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

Normally she would be living somewhere in Europe or Asia, but she was born and raised in captivity in the United States. The great thing about raising an education bird,” says Lisa, “is that you can do everything you’re never allowed to do with the wild ones.” At 14 pounds, Xena is a huge bird and makes a huge mess. Absolutely.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Raised Eagles Owls 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is not the synonym for birding and that I can bird without a paddle, although I cannot paddle without a pair of binoculars. Which birds can be seen there? But, more than just quantity, this spot offers some quality birding, too.

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 243

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The domestic dog was once and still often is Canis familiaris as opposed to the wolf, Canis lupus , but the former which is really a subspecies of the latter is now Canis lupus familiaris. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. According to R.D.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 206

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Being part of the magnificence that is 10,000 Birds and getting to virtually hang out with some of the other bloggers can be entertaining and fun but occasionally there are downsides.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Further to the east, Asian Openbill displays the same special feature but is mostly a white plumaged bird.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Olive Sea Snake that has had a dog visit it on the beach Olive Sea Snake with obvious bulge Stoke’s Sea Snake Stoke’s Sea Snake with wounds Dubois’ Sea Snake Dubois’ Sea Snake being returned to the sea! She has lived in the Middle East and the United States and traveled extensively in Europe. Get yours today!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2018

The same full moon, always the last of spring or the first of summer, was known in medieval Europe – no less deliciously – as the “mead moon”. Good birding and happy drinking! Whether the full moon in June invokes honey, fruit, or flowers for you, the message is undeniably one of summer.

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Vermont Germany Europe Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2015

Further on a wire sits a somewhat large-headed small-crow like bird. I am coming closer – the bird is quite tolerant – and taking a few photos. Their scientific name is not turtur for nothing. Checking through the dusty windscreen, I catch a glimpse of bluish plumage – the uncommon European Roller on migration. Deliblato Sands.

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Factory Stray Dog Turtles Serbia 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. Most exotics, at least in the bird world, stick close to their point of arrival and barely hang on – or don’t – over the generations. In 1998 W. And of Wyoming.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 136

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Of course, excellent opportunity to go birding with my friends Brad and Laura. My colleague Doug wrote me an email describing the whereabouts of these “rosy finches” and my wife had to manage my excitement with horse tranquilizer… What a fantastic little birds. This is a simple grey and black bird but I have always wanted to see one.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

In the last several hundred years, this service has been performed by hops, but before their widespread adoption in medieval Europe, brewers relied on a compendium of botanical agents to bitter their beers – some of which contained psychoactive or mildly toxic substances. Good birding and happy drinking! So drink up.

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Collecting St. Louis Dogs Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! In this post, I’d like to focus on a small selection of South Africa’s special endemic birds. In this post, I’d like to focus on a small selection of South Africa’s special endemic birds. South Africa’s national bird is the Blue Crane.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 228

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2021

And fittingly, as a native of this region that straddles the line between the barley-growing, brewing north of Europe and the grape-growing, winemaking south, Medardus is a patron saint of both brewers and vintners. Good birding and happy drinking! The earliest parts of the church date to the Anglo-Saxon era.

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France Eagles Shelters Suffering 237

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2016

This seems to apply especially to birders in North American since most European birders couldn’t discriminate between a Marsh and a Reed Warbler to save their life, but even here in the good old Europe, our hearts are impure – mine included. As breeding birds, Red-necked Grebes are entirely confined to the north-east of Germany.

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Germany Europe Breeding North America 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. ” Many.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

It hasn’t achieved as much attention yet, presumably because people are rather preoccupied with wars brewing in Eastern Europe and missing airliners, but give it time. 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

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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