10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This year, it seems I wrote one post on birding in Shanghai each month – and I am still not even sure anyone is interested in these. Probably the most interesting bird this month was a Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher showing up in the Shanghai Botanical Garden. I know – sexism is very common in the birding world.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. There were no dead birds for weeks. I hoped it was an anomaly.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

To be precise, “Birding Shanghai from June 10 to June 30, 2022” – but that is even less of an exciting title than the one above. The reason for this post only covering the period from June 10 being that an earlier post, “Revenge Birding”, was about the first 9 days of June. You should try it too.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 193

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine. Immediately after hurricanes, surviving birds appear to wander in an effort to find any remaining food supplies and habitat.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

The very last Sunday of the decade heralded our final CBC – with group sizes limited to five persons. Overzealous might be a word appropriate to describe me on a birding morning – arriving there well before sunrise. As I turned off the main road into the access road, I glimpsed a bird fly out from a tree above.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2023

The whole reason I was exploring this area can be traced to a report of multiple sightings of small groups of the migratory Yellow-billed Cuckoo. When one of my friends sent me a message for ID, he let me know that by his estimate there were at least 25 birds in this patch of forest. Naturally, I had to investigate.

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Trinidad Squirrels Investigation Bears 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

In June 2023, I again went to Balangshan, a mountain about 3 hour’s drive from Sichuan’s capital Chengdu – and again with Alpinebirding , fortunately no longer for them to partly deal with confusing covid restrictions but only to help me find birds that I am too incompetent a birder to find on my own. Evidence-based!

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Birds China Science Research 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

a handful of times, only to realize how important it is to have a resource that will help birders differentiate amongst these very similar looking birds. That would be a mistake, these are totally different flycatcher groups with almost totally different features to learn. Introductory Material Sixteen species, 190 pages.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

I just returned from a glorious birding trip all over Cuba, so I am just going to ignore the pile of spring bird books on my dining room table (most of which arrived while I was gone), and write a bit about my favorite Cuban birds. Like flycatchers, the bird continuously forages for insects.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As I have commented on more than one occasion, I have used this pandemic season as motivation to try out a number of new, less populated birding sites. I really thought I had hit the jackpot, when a couple of exciting species turned up: my very first Gray-collared Becard , and a small group of White-naped Swifts.

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ALA Investigation Family Species 159

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2011

There is a lot of bird movement around Australia at the moment due to the weather, so time to go and investigate! Last weekend we drove just out of town to where the road has been flooded and observed thousands of birds that have taken advantage of the very wet “Wet&# that we have experienced and bred like crazy.

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Investigation Birds Cattle Ducks 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

Going birding is even more of a no-brainer now than before. Many moons ago, when I used to work in the (supposedly) booming petrochemical industry in Trinidad, most of my time was actually spent birding. I racked up a staggering number of life birds in the surprisingly rich surroundings during my four-odd years slaving for The Man.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2022

The macaws of the sandpiper clan, these long-billed, long-legged, loud calling birds are large and in charge. Better magnification is always preferred but there’s no need to investigate tiny toe palmations or miniscule feathered details on these magnificant mud probers. Most must surely fly high overhead or well offshore.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2015

And so on… not much of a birding day, heh? The weakest bird from a pigeon fancier aviary gets a dubious honour to be promoted into a Kamikaze. Extensive investigations by the police apparently led to a strong suspicion, but there have been no convictions to date. A Hooded Crow. Two Feral Pigeons. Three Feral Pigeons.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

Happy Second Day of the New Year, 10,000 Birds friends! I came late to bird feeding. Jim Carpenter is the founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, the popular bird feeder and seed franchise. There is a lot of information out there about feeding birds—web pages, pamphlets from bird feed retail stores and Audubon centers.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Derby is approximately 225 kilometres from Broome and has had almost three times the rainfall that Broome has had so far this month and so we thought it would be interesting to go and investigate the various birding areas that we knew of from other visits during our dry months. Birds visiting the puddle in the track!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

There were groups of Western Bluebirds aggressively chasing each other. According to Birds of North America Online ”physical interactions include fights, pecks, supplanting attacks or flybys, chases, and collisions. During fights, the birds face each other, grappling with their feet, and sometimes falling to the ground.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! In this post, I’d like to focus on a small selection of South Africa’s special endemic birds. In this post, I’d like to focus on a small selection of South Africa’s special endemic birds. Starting off with my favorites (I have to say that!),

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 219

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds. This morning, I have three interesting scientific findings related to bird for you. First, birds may age more quickly in urban environments. Third, which we already suspected, bird brains are adjusted to provide extra smartness in a way not seen in mammals. urban or rural).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

Following on from last week’s post about Langi Crossing and some of the larger birds species that you can expect to find I will now let you know of some of the smaller species you may encounter along the Fitzroy River at this location. There’s something special about inquisitive birds! Female Rufous Whistler.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The following emails were intercepted by our crack team of investigative journalists. They are from the internal communication system of a shadowy organization of bird enthusiasts that we haven’t even managed to put a name to as of yet. The bird was released with no living witnesses. You left a band on the bird?

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Ducks 2018 New York City Sparrows 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa). Hamar mother and child.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Birds on their way north are on a mission, and the fear of waking up one morning having missed the entire parade is a real one that keeps birders up at night. A bird so electric yellow that viewing it without safety precautions can cause temporary blindness, or madness, or both. This is not a bird for cubicle farms!

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North Carolina Investigation Jordan United States 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

We still observed 45 species of birds in the reserve in about an hour and there are always raptors to observe as well as the usual water birds. The small crocodile positions itself near the larger crocodile eating the Magpie Goose and a Black-necked Stork comes over to investigate what is going on. Smaller crocodile moving in.

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Pelicans Investigation Raised Fish 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2012

Following Duncan’s post about the Fabulous Fairy-wrens , you may be forgiven for wondering how many exceptional adjectives can be used in naming one genus of birds. The Malurus clan must be a contender as the most gushingly named group, including as it does, the Lovely Fairy-wren , the Splendid Fairy-wren and the Superb Fairy-wren.

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Australia Investigation Groups Breeding 208

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

We had last experienced this cheerful family of birds in Katherine in the Northern Territory over 13 years ago, so although the population is isolated there they had the same characteristics. They roam in family groups varying from eight birds upwards and have a certain confidence about themselves as they strut around the bush.

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Investigation Australia Family Collecting 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

The Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae is Australia’s largest bird standing at up to 2 metres (6 foot 6 inches) tall. They are also inquisitive, so if you observe some near the edge of the road and you want to gain their attention you can turn on your car indicators and they will often investigate rather than run off.

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Australia Investigation Family Groups 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at you LBJs), these accounts are typically written by people who have either gone with groups of like-minded people or those that have gone it alone.

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Birds Bats Elephants Family 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

Whilst leading a birding tour to Sri Lanka, I spotted a flash of bright white in a lily-choked wetland near Ambalantota in the south-east of this verdant island. A bright flash of white caught my attention in this lilly-choked wetland Closer investigation revealed a stunning male Pheasant-tailed Jacana perched atop a female.

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Sri Lanka Eggs Raised Investigation 194

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) 3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago? The bird guide question was a conundrum.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

Bird “instrumental music&# is bird song. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Thus, the cooing sound of a pigeon is not a bird song.

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Zebras Birds Humane Raised 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This blog was written by Sherry Turner Teas, a rehabber in Chattanooga, Tennessee: It started out as a normal day for a wildlife rehabilitator here in Tennessee – giving medicine, cleaning cages, and feeding baby birds. In a soft release, you let the bird you’ve raised go but continue to provide food until they choose to be independent.)

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tennessee Raised Wildlife 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2016

We were soon aware of s small group of Zebra Finch in the tree and although we have seen them drink from the sea in the past we thought some fresh water would be much appreciated! We had not seen any other “bush birds” until this point and it did not take long and we had interest in the fresh water from other species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The bird usually turns out to be a hawk, vulture, exotic chicken, or sometimes a pigeon. It took Maryjane a considerable distance to run him down and grab him, then she had the pleasure of lugging the 12-pound bird back to her car. People who say they have found an eagle have rarely found an eagle. Will he be okay?” Please help!

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