10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2022

The first title of the ‘official’ series (there were two ‘prequels’) was “ Birds of Thailand “, published in 2018. The most recent was the ninth one, “ Birds of Colombia ” in 2021. One thing I deeply respect is the addition of common bird names in a local language.

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Thailand Colombia 2018 Groups 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2019

Okay, this was a shorter distance observation, but even in such situations I love to see birds through the scope. I have an excellent scope – the very best piece of my birding equipment (oh, this year I should finally get a mobile phone adapter for it), and a rather inferior camera. Why should I sketch it, I am lousy at that.

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Birds Costa Rica Greece Colombia 142

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Bird rehabbers receive calls for injured turtles; veterinarians are contacted about skunks in basements.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Animal Raccoons 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

And since I suspect there may be others out there who, like I, feel something of a personal connection with 10,000 Birds’ regular writers, I feel the need to explain my absence. Now, all of this should not have kept me from seeing, and reporting on, some cool Mediterranean birds. Now I can download them and process them.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Perhaps you don’t know it yet, but with more than 1000 bird species, palm-fringed sandy beaches, developed tourism infrastructure, moderate prices and political stability, Thailand is a country you definitively want to visit. Among them are 20 endemics and near-endemics, and 58 vagrant species. And what do you need to pack?

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 196

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Weekends are much like birds, in that some are more prosaic than others. Were we to ascribe to weekends the taxonomy of birds, our days would likely resemble our lists: for every resplendent songbird or wild raptor would be ten ordinary gulls or pigeons, interesting in their own rights but hardly worth raving about. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

BIRDING WITHOUT BORDERS: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World. The most impressive photograph in Noah Strycker’s new book is not one of a bird, but of the author. He’s standing next to a pile of several dozen birding guidebooks — the stack is fully as tall as the 5’9” Strycker himself.

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Sri Lanka Birds Cleveland 2014 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

When you live by the coast it is always nice to go inland and observe some different birds. We visit Geikie Gorge every year and the bird-life is always good. It offers some birds that we don’t observe elsewhere, so that is an added bonus. We always do all of the walk trails in the park. Little Woodswallows.

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Zebras Birds Ducks Humane 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

They looked out their windows and across their patios and up from their apartment terraces and saw–birds. This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. It is the first bird field guide to every country of Central America (plus the islands governed by those countries).

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2013

The first step was to download The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion files, which are in MP3 format, from the Macaulay Library website to the iTunes program on my computer. The Companion files should be downloadable to other mobile devices, just be aware that the focus here is on using iTunes.

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Sparrows 2013 New Jersey New York 223

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Some people read cookbooks though they have no intention of whipping up a mushroom risotto, some people read bird guide books, even when the likelihood of actually seeing the creatures in those guides is remote. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

Angela Minor has lived, traveled, and birded from the southern U.S. As a freelance travel writer, she authors the state park birding series at Bird Watcher’s Digest, writes for several travel publications including Blue Ridge Country, Smoky Mountain Living, World of Cruising, and serves as a field editor for Birds & Blooms.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

I recently wrote about the ABA , particularly the lack of communication regarding the search for a new president, its financial condition, and its role in the birding community. In my view, the ABA is at a crossroads and must reassess its role in the birding community. The target audience should be new birders and the birding curious.

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Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2014

Since I live not very far from Greece, I have often combined my vacation there with birding. As the time passed on, I started combining birding with vacation. And, finally, this spring I combined birding with – birding. That is a winning combination. Greece is visited by millions of tourists every year (over 19.5

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Greece Birds Macedonia 2014 227

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 15, 2012

Friskies just introduced the first duel-species tablet game, “You vs. Cat,” available for iPad and iPad2 tablet devices. Humans aren’t the only species vying for gaming supremacy when it comes to “You vs. Cat.” Let us know if you download the game! Have you ever wanted to play a game with your cat on your iPad? Now you can!

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Game Cats Species Branding 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2011

It concerns how I watch birds. While plowing through my computer-hard-drive-clogging downloads of recent bird photographs from my various cameras and trying to delete the crummy and enhance (or even just keep track of) the keepers, I noticed that I had a long series of images of a displaying male Ruddy Duck. I think it is!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! It is possible to reach it on the Friday afternoon, sleep there and go birding at the crack of dawn on Saturday. Well, do you really? The Forgotten Road does not exist on the GPS screen either. Am I complaining about it?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

Happily, authors tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle are still supporting The Warbler Guide websit e, which offers free nifty Finder Guides of warblers up close, from the side, from a 45-degree angle and from below, which can be downloaded and carried about for quick reference. This is a guide for all birders. Imagine a world without warblers.

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United States North America Species 2013 224

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2011

The use of digital devices to attract birds is getting more and more attention. It’s been brewing on birding listservs for years. The bottom line is that we do not have enough information or research to give a definitive answer as to whether to not it’s harmful to birds. But sometimes, using calls can help birds.

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Birds Tenant Seattle Sparrows 187

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2013

The Western Tanager is only one of over 83 bird species that nest in Lassen Volcanic National Park. You can download their bird list here. Birds Lassen Volcanic National Park West Coast Western Tanager' Gotta love that flaming red head. And a look from behind.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Bird vocalizations. If I was going out looking for a rarity or even just for a bird that I hadn’t seen (or heard) in awhile I would play the songs and, especially, the chip notes prior to getting into the field to ensure that if the bird called I would recognize it. Not all species are treated as well.

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New York Battery Hawaii United States 177

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2018

Here, then, are five birding-centered activities you can do to keep you busy when the birds aren’t. It beats wasting time on Facebook and I get to see birds from all over the world! Organize your bird books. Here’s another aspect of my birding life that is kind of messy. Write a birding listicle.

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Dominican Republic New York City Culling Birds 104

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

Sure, there is unlimited potential and every single species can once again be counted, but, nonetheless, birders often put forth the energy to get that list built up again, to erase that zero, and to hopefully put three (or even four) digits in its place before the end of the year. Short-eared Owl is a great way to start off a birding year!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In the beginning, birding apps were all about sound—bird songs, bird calls. The text on birding apps was pretty much like reading a field guide. And, that they want birders to be able to figure out what bird they are looking at by filtering the possibilities by color and feature and pattern.

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United States Species Philadelphia Tennessee 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

We sail into the relative calm of a cliff, the mast takes an upright position, navigation becomes calm and quiet… quiet enough for our bird guide, Andrea Bonetti to pick up a voice of a Western Rock Nuthatch coming from the rock face. We come closer to it, but I cannot find the bird with binoculars. Chukar (c) Marius Bolck.

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Greece Malta Croatia Birds 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2015

Firstly, if you check the wonderful photo galleries here at 10000 Birds, you will find some excellent shots of the female Mountain Bluebird that Corey took in New York, of all places! And secondly, I realized of all the posts I have written on birds of Lassen Volcanic National Park , I have never really given much detail on the park itself.

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United States Mammals Squirrels New York 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Bufflehead ( Bucephala albeola ) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting from decay (natural cavities), or use holes created by other species in dead or deteriorating trees. Talk about cute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDXIhy9oJA

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 222

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2019

With so much of the environment in Australia that is inaccessible at any time of year it does beg the question as to how many different bird species do arrive and then leave and never get observed! A good example of a bird that came and then left unobserved was the Eurasian Hoopoe in 2014.

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Australia Ducks 2018 2014 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.”. The report stated that there were 45 million “birders,” of which 39 million were “around-the-home birders” and 16 million were more active “away-from-home” birders who traveled at least a mile to see birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2014

There are three species of Ibis present in the Broome area and the range of these three species of Ibis is similar throughout Australia. The Glossy Ibis rarely comes right into town and prefers the ephemeral lakes and flooded plains and is the smallest of the three species. Birding Australia Broome Straw-necked Ibis'

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Australia Species Birds Rights 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

I’ve heard plenty of good things about eBird from others, but never felt I needed all the bells and whistles; I also wondered if it would suck the fun out of birding for me, since I like to keep it kind of casual, and also wasn’t sure how much privacy I was willing to surrender. Birding citizen science Conservation eBird'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2014

When we first arrived in Palmerston I downloaded the bike map and then looked for water bodies within the city. It is a good place for the honeyeater species and as each native tree flowers you see the arrival of different species. Birding Australia northern territory' Little Corella roosting. Bar-breasted Honeyeater.

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Sanctuary Ducks Geese Australia 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2018

Download, sort and organize the pictures from the day, dinner and do this all over again the next day. At this point I am at 140 new birds that I have photographed, plus or minus a couple. I have had so little internet that I am way behind on my eBird.org reports, which is the format that I am using to track my birds.

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Lions Buffalo United States Zebras 121

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

Are you sometimes astounded when you are out with another birder who manages to hear and identify many more birds than you? Do you feel like you are missing out on finding lots of species because your eyes are good but your ears aren’t? The “Gallery Game” gives you groups of birds with similar songs.

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Game Rights Groups Breeding 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. The 39 owls include five endemic Caribbean species.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 229