10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This is Liz’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. The rise in drone popularity over the past few years has been meteoric — and in our typical human arrogance, we’ve once again ignored the fact that for the past 150 million years, the sky has belonged to the birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

Spring through summer is baby season, and the human population ventures outside and finds little creatures in their backyard, their garden, their porch, the edge of the trail, the sidewalk, the train platform, etc. Hence: Name That Bird. Birds identifying birds nestling birds wildlife rehabilitators'

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Georgia Kentucky 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

A characteristic of most but not all Paradise Flycatchers is the long tail of the male bird (tail length is thought to be a criterion by which females select their partners – please insert your own pornographic joke here). not their own). How to distinguish the two species, as they look somewhat similar?

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Japan China Guinea Germany 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Returning to New York, however briefly, has been a joyful reunion — not just with old friends, but with my beloved, quirky New York City birds. And, oddly enough, he was also very impressed by a bird we encountered as we left his apartment near King’s Highway – a bird we didn’t even see.

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New York City Bald Eagle New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

After Jason recently asked ChatGPT for birding advice, the management consultant in me – constantly thriving for efficiency improvements – immediately thought of the next step. The Seasonal Spectacles: Shanghai’s birding scene comes alive during the spring and autumn migration seasons.

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

So, when Carnival season gets here, the entire waterfront becomes a glut of food booths, silly carnival games, nightly Mardi Gras style parades, and nearly two miles of vendors hawking a large variety of wares for sale. Now, at this point you are probably asking your self, what does this have to do with birds.

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Birds Mexico Game California 108

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We assume natural selection has shaped birds to avoid predators. Noticing predators, reacting to them perhaps with an alarm call, and escaping them, as well as other behaviors, keep the bird alive and thus allow it to reproduce. We would expect, then, that natural selection favors birds that are good at these things.

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Birds Research Humane Pets 127

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. Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

The tendency of birds to alight onto the wooden posts, steel towers, and metal wires that constitute our power and communications infrastructure turns any car ride into exciting and endless game of drive-by identification. And we move on to the next speck looming ahead and the game repeats itself, over and over. As Daniel L.

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United States Game North America New York City 118

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The recently released 2014 State of the Birds Report lists the Bank Swallow as one of the common birds in steep decline. These birds have lost more than half their global population, and the 33 species combined have lost hundreds of millions of breeding individuals in just the past 40 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWptY0dfDsU.

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North America 2014 California Birds 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

For being a girl that beat a guy in a computer game. For being a feminist with an opinion on comic books, or games. But we mustn’t let go of our humanity or forget the humanity of the people we disagree with. For speaking out about bullying. For being trans. Or make us better people.

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Hunters Hunting Animal Cruelty Game 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2017

Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game. In the previous 50 Super Bowl match-ups, only twice has a football team named for a bird emerged victorious. Teams named for Homo sapiens historically do better in this game. Will the Atlanta Falcons actually win the Super Bowl? Based on team name alone, NO.

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Falcons Atlanta 2001 Game 110

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. This is Hannah’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Hannah and Erik ready to see some birds! I love to go on cruises.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park! By far, calls about the ‘big black bird” topped all the calls they received each day. After school and on weekends he’d attend soccer games and hang around playgrounds, preferring to spectate from the playground equipment. Vultures are very intelligent, social birds.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Indiana Game 142

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

For humans, you have the drama of sister wives. female birds for every male. But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger.

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Game Europe Groups Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2014

As I bird, walk the dog or run errands, puffs of white float down on the breeze. Humans have not helped. Letting cattle trample upon the riverbanks, or promoting game animals and eliminating predators until the populations of elk and deer munch the stream-sides bare, also cut back on the replacement rate of the big trees.

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Montana Cattle Deer Humane 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. We’ve traveled to lots of places, seen lots of great birds, and met lots of great birders. So, as we’ve done for the last several years we thought we would share our Best Birds of the Year with you. Below are our Best Birds of the Year. What was yours?

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 197

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

My initial reaction was, “Really, dude, of all the birds that you’re allowed to have in Wisconsin, you choose the bird that is going to make birders who don’t understand falconry angry?” They’re not known to be the easiest birds to work with , especially when the temperatures are high. Go home now!”

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Growing up, you may have been told that a baby bird doesn’t need flying lessons. After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. It really looked like a game of tag.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 192

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. The reasons for this perceived lack of birds are threefold. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

The Snow Geese in particular are popular with viewers all along the flyway, inspiring much comment even in bird-rich areas like Bosque del Apache (as shown below.) At Freezeout they may number 300,000 – in fact, the majority of the individual birds making their way up this flyway will stop at Freezeout on any given year.

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Geese Montana Breeding Pelicans 184

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

JUNE 6, 2018

If you like birds and you also like. I already know that you like birds — that’s why you’re at this blogsite. But the special delight for readers who love birds is the centrality, to the stories, of avifauna, and the sophistication and precision of the bird-prose. Let me start again.

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Collecting Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 120

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays.

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Africa Hunters Goats Wolves 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. Good birding and happy drinking!

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2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2016

The key to solving the puzzle of Germany’s large white-headed gulls was banding juveniles of all forms in their breeding colonies and the fact that some humans find immense joy in driving around garbage dumps, looking at birds with pricey scopes and trying to decipher tiny codes on plastic or metal rings of various shapes and sizes.

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Kazakhstan Germany Ukraine Asia 119

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 247

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) should work with NAWMP/bird conservation community to identify and target specific messages and product(s) to the various market segments and identify the most appropriate and effective methods for sales and distribution. 1) Action : U.S.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. And there aren’t just cool birds rocking up, migratory bats do too. It was astonishing, like a game drive in the savannah of Africa. Birding bats California Farallon Islands seabirds whales' A Hoary Bat.

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Whales Whaling Sharks Bats 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

I’m not going to rehash that war here, seeing as how it is a bird blog and not one about foreign policy, but it is perhaps appropriate to note the maelstrom of violence that has been pretty much ongoing since the neocons went in to make everything better. she’s Texan. she shot a rhino (auctioned for conservation).

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Mark Carter is an independent professional birding guide and wildlife surveyor living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. In 2008 Mark founded the annual Red Centre Bird Week and Twitchathon which occurs each September/October in Alice Springs. Lists, it is often said, are one of the defining features of birding. I go further.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 203

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Early starts are the rule when monitoring endagered species in Mkuze Game Reserve, in South Africa, but there’s a particular urgency to this morning’s start. There are a lot of reasons why Painted Wolves are struggling, and many of them are human caused. Fala, on our way back, was gone.

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Wolves Lions Dogs Vet 192

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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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Hello my birding sons and daughters. A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. Not since the advent of the field guide (thanks Roger) have we seen such rapid change in the world of birding. 1) Rare bird reporting has come a long way.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 174