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 261

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Recently, I’ve reviewed a number of well-designed and interesting books on birds. People who are into birds. The Birding Life is another coffee-table-worthy affair, rich with color photographs and brief vignettes that encourage browsing. But not, mind you, on any shelf of popular science or ornithological memoir.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Reason #17,411 Not to Own Wild Birds Reason #17,411 Not to Own Wild Birds By Corey • March 11, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Quentin Tarantino might sue you. Thanks for visiting! Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer New York Birds 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Nor have I overlooked “sightings” of birds in movies mouthing other birds’ calls. I’m not sure why.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 205

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

Shorebirds (in Europe: waders) must be an acquired birding taste. No one starts birding dreaming of drab-coloured, unobtrusive and, far on a mud-bar, largely invisible little mud-skippers. Who even spots a Woodsand without deliberately searching for birds? Who even spots a Woodsand without deliberately searching for birds?

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Herpetology Vs. Ornithology Herpetology Vs. Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer New York Owls 152

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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. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

.&# Traditionally, of course, falcons have been classified with other diurnal raptors, parrots have been positioned between doves and cuckoos, and seriemas have been lumped with cranes, rails, and other birds in the order Gruiformes. (If Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids).

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

“ There is, perhaps, no better place in the world for birds than this country. The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). Wahlberg travelled even more extensively and amassed a huge bird collection.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since I go birding every Monday, I decided that perhaps it was a sign, and asked if I could participate. This is more than clear from the data they wish to collect, which emphasizes waterfowl over shorebirds, and seems to completely ignore the other birds that occur around bodies of water. (It

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Pelicans Blackbirds Ducks Hunting 206

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

I recently wrote about the ABA , particularly the lack of communication regarding the search for a new president, its financial condition, and its role in the birding community. In my view, the ABA is at a crossroads and must reassess its role in the birding community. The target audience should be new birders and the birding curious.

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Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 202

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MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

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MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is in addition to the many articles and exhibits and even film devoted to the bird, one of the few species whose death was witnessed and noted down to the exact day, Tuesday, September 1, 1914 (though there is some question about the exact time). We have a lot of source material.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

February 2023 was a slow month for birding in Shanghai, at least for me – so slow that I almost put the Spotted Dove , possibly my least favorite bird here, on the cover. Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. Maybe those should be protected too?

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

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MAY 19, 2011

To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. The birds do the flying for you. But what is migration, why do birds do it, and how is it accomplished? Image source.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In my runs through the dinosaur halls with Jake and Zach, I’m pretty sure I saw Deinonychus , the small fossil that inspired the velociraptors in Jurassic Park and, more importantly (in some minds), revived a 19th century theory that birds are descended directly from dinosaurs. Like birds. There is a lot of science here to explain.

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

It’s September and time for birds to start their southerly journeys. The migrants face many perils, hunters, predators, adverse weather conditions and lack of refueling opportunities due to habitat loss. Please remember to give migrating birds the space that they need. Gray Go-away-bird – Corythaixoides concolor.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2024

Learning irrelevant things while reading about birds. Of the female, the website Birds of Singapore says that it “resembles male but has greyish-brown upperparts”, which is a strange way of stating that its color is completely different. The coloration of the bird subspecies is mainly similar to that of L.

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