10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2022

Every place has its common birds, the species that do very well in a given habitat. As we like to say, these are species that are “hard to miss”, birds that, if you are watching, will be seen. As one might expect, signature birds take many forms. Bird in southern Asia and there are mynas and magpie-robins.

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Costa Rica San Jose Asia Geese 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

There are plenty of birds along the edge of the highway still and also on the highway. Black-winged Stilt near and on the highway There are still over forty species of birds to be found along the highway across Roebuck Plains, but the tall vegetation can be problematic.

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Pelicans Australia Fish 2019 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

It’s clear that birds copulate, procreate, and promote their genes with alacrity. Do birds feel love? While we’re used to declarations that our pet parrots “love” us just as we love them, and they can be quite demonstrative in showing their affection, the evidence is thinner for wild birds. Did Vanna love his cage partner?

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Birds Parrots 2003 Raised 273

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

It’s a common call/email/text that most bird watchers get this time of year: “HELP! I just saved a baby bird! Both of those sites allow you to enter your zip code or state and find someone nearby who has the state and federal permits that allows them to treat wild birds. Do not worry about touching the baby birds.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

Do you toss the bird your leftovers? And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese? Do you feed the birds then? It seems like the people that run an awful lot of parks don’t want you feeding the birds. Wild birds should not be coming up to people looking for food.

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Birds New York City Fast Food Geese 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

When people think of birds and their sex lives…most of us don’t know much, although it’s not for a lack of interest. Within the bird world, so many different strategies and methods of mating and reproduction have evolved, it simply boggles the mind. This is just a small slice of how birds get it done.

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Albatross Birds Lifestyle Raised 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Despite all this red tape stuff, I am still making some time for birding. This refuge came up as #4 on a recent list of the top 25 National Wildlife Refuges that were featured in a great story here by 10000 Birds own Jason Crotty. Over 200 species of birds can be found on the refuge, depending on the time of year. Nisqually NWR.

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 125

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

There are three species of waterfowl that birders in most of the eastern United States are going to encounter on almost any birding outing that includes a pond, lake, or other body of water – The Usual Waterfowl. Pity the hen Mallard that gets abandoned by her mate and left to raise a nest full of ducklings completely on her own.

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Canada Geese United States Abandon 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Several bird species arrived in Broome early in the year and have bred successfully and this has included Plumed Whistling-Ducks , Wandering Whistling-Ducks , Magpie Geese , Australian Painted Snipe , Australian Crakes , Black-winged Stilt , Red-kneed Dotterels, Purple Swamphens and Masked Lapwings. Adult Australasian Grebe.

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Breeding Geese Ducks Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. He has been an avid lover of the natural world since he was a kid, with a strong love for paleontology when he was younger, but he only took up birding in his last year of high school and hasn’t looked back since.

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

birds that we are lucky to have with us today, species that seem to have beat the odds and have been migrating on the long and bumpy road to recovery. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Here are some U.S. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 203

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We had observed 40 bird species by the time we reached Katherine and then Grant had some work calls and emails to deal with. From Katherine we headed west towards Kununurra and we would be covering 829 kilometres (515 miles) in the one day and really could not make too many stops for birding. Plumed Whistling-Ducks and Magpie Geese.

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Geese Australia Parrots Ducks 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Alkborough Flats is an excellent place to go birding and walking and is where the River Trent and River Ouse join to meet the River Humber. Bird hides have been built and two small car-parks and one of these has wheelchair access to the trails. Greylag Geese on the move. Alkborough Flats sign at top car-park.

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Geese Australia 2006 Investigation 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. One of the central papers, Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds (Jarvis et al. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

After a very good Wet Season with substantially more rain than normal over the first few months of 2017 the land was flooded and a huge variety of birds arrived in the Broome area to take advantage of the ideal conditions for breeding. The Australian Painted Snipe nest was positioned on higher ground in between the fence and the highway.

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Breeding Eggs Raised 2017 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It gets interesting here, because the bar manager had no idea it was a rare bird and was just helping out a bird that had flown into a window. There were a lot of birds about at this early hour and we were very surprised to see seven Magpie Geese fly by. He had no idea it was a rare bird and subsequently buried it.

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Australia Litter Geese Cats 119

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

Magpie-larks are a very common bird throughout most of Australia and they are quite at home among the large cities as well as in the country towns and the remote parts of Australia. The young Magpie-larks were eagerly awaiting the return of their parent and one particular young bird was rather more eager than the other two.

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Breeding Australia Collecting Geese 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2013

The actual touchdown is slightly less elegant with a bounce after the first contact and the bird is thrown forward into quite an ungainly landing. I am unable to say why some of the ducks swim with their tails raised while others allow it to trail behind them in the water. I am guessing that it is a sign of virility.

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Ducks Geese Suffering Canada 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Over the past few months there have been a lot of birds breeding around Broome with the excellent rain events that we have been having and the vegetation is at long last revived. The open plains are now busy with young Magpie Geese and numerous other waterbirds and the Sharp-tailed Sandpipers are busy feeding up before migration.

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Breeding Eggs Protection Cows 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2011

Actually, she didn’t necessarily want to tap my ID skills, such as they are, but the aggregated ornithological genius of the 10,000 Birds readership. Certain aspects of this identification are problematic, such as the bird’s shape, location, and limited cinnamon rustiness on its body or breast.

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Ducks North America Denmark America 228