10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

As you have probably realized by now, in my posts on 10,000 Birds, I generally scrupulously avoid giving any practical hints for birding at the specified location. However, if you mostly just want to see photos of birds such as this Black-throated Bushtit , you might as well stay here. Or at least like birds.

Birds 147

Birds Humane Family Germany 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

This one is a doozy and your clue is that all of the shots were taken this year in Queens, NY, so a knowledge of what birds can be seen in my fine borough will be of great assistance to you if you have that knowledge. Remember to identify each bird by its full common name in the comment section below. Get yours today!

2011 176

2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. First I noticed a red cap – a male, then striped flanks and pale-red undertail, but couldn’t see its wing because some part of the bird remained hidden by a branch at any given time. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters).

Greece 248

Greece Woodpeckers Boars Eagles 248

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

So now I get to turn my attention back to birds, and blogging about them! With no further ado, then, here’s what’s been happening during the last twentysomething days or so: Tiny delicacy or declining and suffering species? French chefs face off against bird conservationists. Not cool, British raptor hunters.

Zebras 177

Zebras Penguins Research Birds 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. You cannot care about the individual, not at that level of suffering.

Animal Rights 257

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. First recorded in the Cayman Islands in 1916, the birds were described as “not uncommon&#.

Antigua and Barbuda 214

Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Sometimes, when I’m writing trip reports about far off places (relative to most of my readers) I wonder what exactly people make of some of the birds I mention seeing. Is a Coua a bird or a city in Brazil? Is a saw-wing a bird or an engine part? Is a logrunner a bird or a black market timber trader? What a treat!

Australia 170

Australia Fiji Hunters Family 170

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.

Birds 171

Birds Japan Species Singapore 171