10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The guy has an apparently endless supply of fantastic bird photos. So it was very pleasant when I went birding the other day and the angels of photography went with me. In the early day, the light was just right. Unfortunately, the reservoir is now starting to look rather dry as well: Still, the birds were still there.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2020

Mkuze Game Reserve is in the Eastern part of South Africa, about 5 hours away from Johannesburg, and one of the best places I have ever been to for bird photography. ” The Red-billed Quelea is regarded as the most numerous undomesticated bird on earth. Some gorgeous looking smaller birds such as. Broad-billed Roller ….

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “By

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2022

The birding in Costa Rica is always golden but some days, you really do strike gold. Go birding in the humid, moss decorated forests of the Caribbean slope and the feathered nugget might take the form of a Bare-necked Umbrellabird. Focus on birds in the southern Pacific region and treasure might be a Turquoise Cotinga.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.” So, still room for improvement. Depressing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Birding in the Caribbean is about islands, beautiful beaches, extra special endemics, rum, and smiles. It could also be much more, maybe less, it all depends on how you want to rock an international birding trip. Go to Costa Rica and you will be looking at other birds but you can still get in some Caribbean slope birding.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish. End of side note.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

The area is one of the most important in Greece for birds, comprising more than 270 species. The best birding season here is the winter when waterbirds come to overwinter in those lagoons, followed by migratory seasons and, to a lesser extent, breeding season.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The latter is possible, as the undisturbed areas of Nanhui keep shrinking, leaving less and less space for birds. Bramblings at Nanhui enjoy staring vacantly into space … … and accusing bird watchers of not paying enough attention to them. Somehow, for this bird it is ok. According to the HBW, they mainly eat fish.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Pied Avocet by Boris Okanovic Next we find ourselves at the famous fish farm in the village of Sakule. Not at all, they are very right to protest, and I have no issue with the farmers – we all share the same enemy, our own President. It is getting hot in the sun, but this place is bursting with birds, I cannot decide where to look!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While Colombia may have almost 2000 bird species, it is a huge country with, still, complicated long-distance travel logistics. On the other hand, small countries with relatively long bird lists offer higher species densities per square mile. The Species per Square Mile Approach. Why 99,999? And why 1000?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2023

They come here knowing that although the official bird list for Costa Rica is replete with everything from Bonaparte’s Gull to Gray-hooded Gull and Least Tern , if they do any amount of gull watching, they’ll be lucky if they see anything more than Laughing Gulls. Marilen and I have made a couple trips to see the birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Last Sunday, 27th November, we went to the Port of Broome to see what birds were about after a few days of teasing weather. Most fishermen know that if you see birds hovering over the sea then there are bait fish just below the surface and ultimately bigger fish below the bait fish, so that is where you need to be.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

So, the next blog post on Shanghai birds may turn out to be a lot more interesting, though of course with regard to bird migration, May is more interesting than June … As I am unlikely to see a live gannet any time soon, I might as well point you to the song “Nigel the gannet” by The Burning Hell now.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2020

It has been a while since I wrote on where to watch birds (unbelievable, I know), and will now focus on the nature reserve of Deliblato Sands and the adjoining Labudovo okno Ramsar Wetland, about an hour east from Belgrade, Serbia. mi after the village of Gaj and spreads at the right-hand (southern) side of the road.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. That is the trickiest moment for him: what if there’s a bear right next to the dirt track? The next morning, through Yellowhammers and Eurasian Skylarks singing all around me, I went birding. Never mind, it’s not a bird.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

Little Tobago, formerly known as Bird-of-Paradise Island (long story) is home to important colonies of numerous seabirds. Each day, the smaller seabirds leave their roost to fish in the rich waters offshore – under the watchful eyes of the frigatebirds. The post Pirates of the Caribbean appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

The Sandhill Crane hunt in Kentucky is over for the season and only fifty birds were killed. While fifty dead birds is still fifty too many, it is better than the 400 that could have been killed under the rules of the hunting season.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

I spent both mornings this weekend visiting local birding spots in Queens from the coast to the forested parks. I love birding in the fall because of the sheer number of birds that come through after breeding season and because with molting birds and juvenile birds things can sometimes get a bit challenging.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies. .” The court also rejected the notion that Dr. Zink, would have standing to bring a claim in his own right. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. It illustrates the bird richness per country. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. Focus on the wider triple border area – the birding top of the world.).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Those eerie calls come from the Common Loon, the state bird of Minnesota. These black and white water birds are an annual summer presence on freshwater lakes throughout the northern United States and Canada, migrating to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the winter. Loons have many characteristics that set them apart from other birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

A straight shot to my bird feeder. My yard is a birding hotspot. The feeder dangles from a clothesline between two pine trees, beckoning a range of bird varieties. Eastern Bluebirds called from the branches above my head, while Ruby-crowned Kinglets buzzed in the holly bush a few yards to my right.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

My lobbying must be more effective than I thought because the Green Heron has been named as the American Birding Association Bird of the Year for 2015 ! After all, Green Heron is the bird that made me become a birder. Any bird with a neck this extendable deserves some kind of recognition. They go fishing.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Winter is one of my favorite times to bird, mainly due to the proliferation of shorebirds that stalk their prey on the sandy beaches near where I live. Friday evening was one such birding trip. The Gulf side is good for birding too, but lately I had had better luck with birds on the much calmer Santa Rosa Sound.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

It was when I searched for migrant birds on gorgeous days of September, usually near the Niagara Gorge, sometimes while fishing for salmon in the powerful green waters. The muted colors of Blackburnians, Black-throated Greens, and Blackpolls fit right in with the dull greens and golden highlights of the early fall vegetation.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

One of those ornithologists is Jonathan Vargas, with whom I went birding on the first Monday of this month of May. Jonathan also works as a birding guide up in Baja California, if anyone is interested.). I met Jonathan because his mother-in-law lives here in Morelia, and when he visits her, we sometimes find a space to bird together.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

So, I birded India, land of Indian Peafowl , Saag Paneer (my favorite Indian dish) and Tigers. Neither are birds, but both involved a lot of birding.). Once we donned our booties and took the brief tour of the tomb, we climbed up to a terrace overlooking the Yamuna River and started birding in earnest.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

His obsession with all things feathered has led him to visit 20 countries around the world in the pursuit of thousands of different species of birds to watch, photograph, and enjoy. Several more hours of driving on icy roads took us to Washi-no-yado, a traditional Japanese B&B near Rausu, the ‘place to be’ for Blakiston’s Fish-Owl.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

“That bird! That bird, chase it! ” In a flash, our small deep sea fishing boat went from casually bobbing on gentle waves to flying over the waters of the Pacific. As the prop motor revved and ocean spray flew by, I wondered, “Which birds”? “There!

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

Fish and Wildlife Service granted a permit March 9 to the Northern Arapaho Tribe allowing it either to kill or capture and release two bald eagles this year. They say the tribe could raise captive birds, or accept eagle feathers or carcasses already available from a federal repository that collects birds killed by power lines or other causes.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2019

I said in my last review that it wouldn’t be long before we saw yet another New England India Pale Ale (IPA) at Birds and Booze – and here we are with one more. And as long as brewers keep slapping birds on the labels, I should be happy, right? Some kind of bird-of-paradise? I have no idea what they are. (Yes,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

While entering our double kayak I asked Andrew Hester, a local bird expert, if bilharzia is present in the shallows of the Ngotwane Dam, further down the river. A few paddle strokes down the river and on the right bank there were four Impala antelopes ( Aepyceros melampus ). or a croc was swimming right under the bottom of the kayak….

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

But a small colony of them have made an exception for Elton Reed, who has fished off Chincoteague Island, Virginia for almost five decades. Initially wary, the birds came to accept his quiet presence as he checked his traps and floats. She said she would take the injured egret, and Elton caught the bird with a net.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2017

I was itching to get out of the car and bird. My binoculars were on the seat right next to me, so close and yet, so far. Birds were literally everywhere. A Belted Kingfisher chattered as it dive-bombed fish from the air; Willets and Spotted Sandpipers scurried amidst the mud. Scallop success!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Perhaps even more interesting is how Green Herons and its relatives have learned to use bait to attract and capture fish.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

Jeff Gordon resigned as president of the American Birding Association, effective November 30, 2021. In my view, the ABA faces other questions too, including its role in today’s birding community. There are countless field guides and other birding books, websites, blogs, tour companies, and podcasts.

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