10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

It was an unexpected bird tour, without too much planning and aimed at a few target species, of which we saw most, but the main one eluded us… Early morning, leaving the last houses behind… and a Little Owl awaits us on a traffic sign. That tall poplar, they often stand there… there’s an eagle!” “In A fitting end to a sudden bird tour.

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Serbia Birds Romania Eagles 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The reason that this is relevant here is that, among the creepy glowing red eyes, vengeful burned witches, convenient underground tunnels, and vague warnings from a book constantly referred to a Revelation s even when the characters actually have a Bible in front of them, is of course the portentous bird. People have heard of eagles.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Fox Cows 183

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

On a sandbar in the center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of ducks swirled around each other or lay down to take cover against the punishing wind. February had brought zipping breezes and cloudy skies to this part of coastal Texas, but the birds didn’t seem to mind. I couldn’t believe it.

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Ducks Wildlife Texas Bald Eagle 118

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

I have been there several times last month, but barely ever managed to do any proper birding! Despite mostly guiding them, I still somehow managed to see a European Badger sitting and watching me back for several seconds, before it slipped into bushes and quite a few White-tailed Eagles , e.g. four in just one morning. Investments?!?

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Eagles Campaign Otters Serbia 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2012

On a recent visit to the Poo Ponds we came across a White-bellied Sea-Eagle enjoying lunch. These eagles are generally seen soaring along the coastline looking for food or nesting inland at the ephemeral lakes. They chase and successfully catch shorebirds as well as ducks and can be seen taking fish from the ocean as well.

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Eagles Meat Ducks Fish 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. And while we’re at it, I think it’s time to open a limited season on Bald Eagles. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. I get it now, I really do.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 256

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In the more normal years, I would spend January visiting the very best wildfowling spots along the Danube and seeing the best birds there are, so in February I would be well saturated with birds and feeling: Still winter? I observed White-tailed Eagles likely a few thousand times, and this didn’t strike me as the dark young bird.

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Otters Croatia Eagles Protection 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall coniferous tree across Boothbay Harbor, having arrived at the harbor area seven minutes earlier (I know! Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* “How did that bird get here?” It has wings.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 260

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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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Uganda Senegal Africa Game 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2024

Mid-February is an early start for spring – even this far south – but spring is spring, and birds were waiting. There were birds singing everywhere. The ponds were full of birds as usual with abundant Common Snipe as well as Ruff , some Dunlin , Stilts and a few ducks, including Red-crested Pochards. Could it be?

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Psychology Portugal Japan Eagles 168

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MARCH 26, 2020

LABUDOVO OKNO Ramsar Site and an Important Bird Area represents a section of the Danube floodplain downriver from Belgrade, Serbia, and situated in the south of the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve. The post Finding birds in Deliblato Sands Reserve, part 2/3: the Labudovo okno Ramsar Wetland appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Turtles 2002 Serbia Eagles 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Since then he has traveled the globe, his passion for birds growing with each new encounter. I had just ended my ten-day birding adventure in Ecuador (which is a story for another time) when I decided, since I had an amazing time, to prolong my trip a bit longer before heading back to Europe. Oh yeah, I almost forgot.

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Colombia Birds Raised Ecuador 221

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2019

Now that the Mad Queen is dead, Brandon the Broken, First of His Name, is the King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Six Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm; and peace is restored in all the kingdoms, would you want to bird Westeros? How many birds have you spotted in 8 seasons? Ducks (domesticated). Partridges.

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Chickens Falcons Birds Geese 170

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. The eagle seemed well-used to people and paid no attention either. The post The Reva Situation appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Photo by Branislav Dencic.

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Otters Protest Protesting Protesters 262

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 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Still, this way or another, the year is ending with some glorious species, e.g. a rare Greater Spotted Eagle. Usually only several birds overwinter in Serbia – the biggest count ever was less than 10. There weren’t that many birds at all, they hated the sounds as much as I did. The Slavonian Grebe is also a lifer for me.

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Moldova Birds Serbia Greece 119

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2022

In the previous period I wrote mostly book reviews (but of some really great books ), yet I cannot remember when the last time was that I wrote of birding itself? Perhaps in my December posts on birding Colombian Amazonia ? Driving with open windows (to hear the birds) becomes unbearable and I am heading out of this fish farm.

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Breeders Mules Farming Fish 210

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Those Eagles you’re hearing everyone talk about right now aren’t the ones you typically seek while birding, but rather the ones from Philadelphia that just won Super Bowl LII. To get in the mood for the big game, I took a run up to Irondequoit Bay in search of Bald Eagles. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Bald Eagle 2018 Philadelphia Game 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

While there are some two dozen birding spots in Belgrade, Serbia, that stand out, in this guideblog I will focus on the river Danube and its floodplain, inside the Important Bird Area “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers”. The next winter bird spot lies some 4.5 In March and November, Common Cranes are a possibility.

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Serbia Birds Ducks Eagles 235

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. However, more and more news stories are popping up this year of communities cracking down on bird feeding. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2016

Oh, the joys of urban birding… Add half a dozen Ferruginous Ducks (cover photo), two Whiskered and 40 Black Terns to the previous picture, plus an eagle, an immature White-tailed Eagle. A man walking his two small dogs is passing by the eagle, looking down at grass and not seeing the largest raptor in Europe.

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Europe Otters Eagles Birds 156

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

My readers are already familiar with Beljarica Backwaters, as described in half a dozen posts here at 10,000 Birds. White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1

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Serbia Deer Protection Boars 276

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

Greetings, 10,000 Birds readers! Birds have already begun making their presence known on the court. The Round of 64 boasts a healthy contingent of teams with bird mascots.* For the record, here are all the bird-related teams who made it to the tournament: Oregon Ducks. Florida Gulf Coast Eagles. Temple Owls.

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Louisville Bald Eagle Kansas Oregon 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It was also great to finally travel overseas again, meet a lot of people I did not know (and some I did), to be in a new country… and not just the new country, but its best birding area, where almost all local hotspots are yellow (150+ species) and several are ochre (200+ sp.), impressive for Central Europe.

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 297

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

There should be thousands of birds at this time of the year, Dimitris Michalakis from the Karla Lake management authority told me. In the northern section, the water was deep, interspersed by reed-islets, but the only birds were a few Little Egrets and Black-headed Gulls. Lesser Kestrel. These two were only the first of several I saw.

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Greece Killing Pelicans Eagles 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of technology, development, and globalization, but which still shines bright, fewer in number but brilliant in quality, thanks to birders and birding organizations that believe in knowing your patch and your state.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 198

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Actually, I visited the Two Towers twice, had about 50 bird species each time and about 60 in total, so this is sort of a composite tour description. A few dozen Common Goldeneyes and several Smews are among them but it takes a scope to locate these diminutive ducks. White-tailed Eagle by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic.

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Serbia Geese Eagles Louisiana 264

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MARCH 8, 2018

I hope everyone participated in at least one day of the four day Great Backyard Bird Count of 2018. As I walked out on my back porch on Friday morning, the first day of the count, it was a cool, clear day and the birds were very active at the feeders. Fun birding! Here is a male Lesser Goldfinch taking his turn.

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2018 Bald Eagle Woodpeckers Turkey 100

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The “ Class of 1967 ” includes 36 species of birds, and they range from those delisted due to recovery to those lost to extinction. The class also includes some of the most iconic endangered birds, including the California Condor, Whooping Crane, and Puerto Rican Parrot. Laysan Duck – Anas laysanensis.

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California Condor Endangered Species Bald Eagle Parrots 102

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

But we have splendid birds in Western NY all year long. This weekend, we all enjoyed the sight of a Bald Eagle perched in a farm field along the highway, an uncommon spot for an uncommonly charismatic avian. Corey had a pleasing plethora of good birds from which to choose his Best Bird of the Weekend from this week.

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Bald Eagle 2016 United States Birds 134

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

A rare bird is one we don’t see very often. However, that doesn’t mean that the bird species in question is necessarily endangered. None of these are rare in their normal haunts but seeing them in Costa Rica would be a major birding event. Oh, how that would be a nice year bird.

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Costa Rica Birds Panama Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2015

Passing a Red-backed Shrike … one adult White-tailed Eagle flies by. One Purple Heron in flight and, on a dry willow branch, another White-tailed Eagle, but this one is young, very dark and with almost black beak – this years’ fledgling who has left the nest perhaps two weeks ago and still hangs around with its parents.

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Serbia Horses Eagles Birds 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Early February brought a brisk wind to the region, and we mostly birded from the car as we drove a slow loop around the shallow wetland. American Coot and Common Gallinules paddled serenely in the canals nearest the road, occasionally mixing with flocks of Ring-necked Ducks and Northern Shovelers.

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Louisiana Wildlife Bald Eagle Geese 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. Earrings are toast with my Wood Duck and Wild Turkeys. that although her cockatiel is obsessed with her silver feather earrings, the only wild bird ever interested in them was a Brown-headed Cowbird. As for nice clothing … right!

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Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Vet Birds 224

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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 155

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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