10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If there’s a “ trash bird ” in the world of craft beer, it’s unquestionably IPA. Evil Twin Brewing Falco India Pale Ale. . Birds and Booze News: Blue Owl Brewery of Austin, Texas has teamed up with the Travis Audubon Society to create a beer to raise awareness for the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler.

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India Falcons Austin Farming 133

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. It is February and evenings are cold.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. No, birds are way too smart for that stupid trick.

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Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. I am a wildlife artist based in the UK, I have never had a real job! My name is Ashley Boon.

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 200

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. This event was observed during a tour arranged and guided by INDRI – Ultimate Wildlife Tours www.indritours.com. Mammals Blue Sheep Hemis National Park hunting India Ladakh Snow Leopard'

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

Anybody spending a few days in Shanghai for business or tourism may not think that this is a good place for birding. And yet, there are some very interesting birds here – mostly spring and autumn migrants, as Shanghai is on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. I can understand why.

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Birds Protection China Factory 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And where all those birds are? This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? I am talking 600 or 700+ bird species. Why am I here?

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

As has often been said in these quarters, in general us bird bloggers don’t have many quarrels with hunters. This is a bird that’s listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN ; its Pakistani population of 110,000 may be dropping by almost one-third annually. And responsible hunting practices seldom pose a threat to birders’ quarry.

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Pakistan Hunters Hunting India 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2019

Sultanpur National Park is situated approximately 30km to the west of Indhira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi , India. The park is managed for the benefit of the wildlife and made accessible for visitors with a footpath along the lakeshore and out onto spits that allow a closer approach to the heronry.

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2003 India Breeders Eggs 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s also endangered, with populations in India and Cambodia numbering barely around the 1,000 mark. To counter the common image of the birds as unclean pests, the volunteers point out their ecological role in clearing away animal carcasses. They also note the bird’s sacred role in Hindu mythology.

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Cambodia India 2016 Groups 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. Beljarica lies less than 2 km/1.2

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If I were to describe my long time wildlife nemesis, my ultimate dip of dips, I would reach for a nemesis cat, not a nemesis bird. The other three were the aforementioned Tiger, one of the wildlife sightings of my life, a handful of Bobcats I have seen in California and a small Jungle Cat. Afterwards the comedown. Camelopardus

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Cats Leopards South Africa Tigers 109

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2020

Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from personal experience. Bikram Grewal is the author of over ten books on birds of the subcontinent and also acts as a consultant on eco-tourism. India is a huge and logistically frightening country.

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India Lions 2020 Groups 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

We here at 10,000 Birds are pleased to announce that two new Beat Writers have agreed to risk their spare time, their reputations, and their credibility by agreeing to blog here on 10,000 Birds! Dragan will be writing about “Eastern Europe and Beyond” while Alfredo will cover “Neotropical Birds and Ecology.”

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Europe Florida Spain Serbia 157

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 236

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

As New Zealand’s beat writer I think I’ve done an okay job of discussing the birding of an entirely different island for most of the year, so it’s only fair that I keep that winning streak going by talking about my target for the trip. I have been to 11 countries to watch wildlife that this species lives in.

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Sharks Leopards Whales Whaling 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Knowing that there are reserves with long lists of 600 or more species, I set my threshold at more than 600 birds… and found only a few such hotspots. Such places are clearly under-visited, under-birded or eBird isn’t that popular in those parts of the world. Other countries still have to reach the 300 birds threshold.

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Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It was not the first note I have published, but was the only one about a bird I have never laid my eyes upon! Finally, when our SUV broke down in Gujarat, India, some three years ago, my first two Egyptians were flying above the road! However, these birds used to live in my country and I still wanted to see them closer to home.

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 246

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. A common sight to all birders: the bird on the wire.

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United States Game North America New York City 121

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2018

One of my early memories of birds is the abundance of Ospreys I saw after moving from Syracuse, New York downstate to eastern Long Island at the age of eight. Ospreys nesting on platforms like this one in Fort Ticonderoga, New York make easy targets for even the most modestly-skilled bird photographers (this author included).

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New York Falcons Fish New Jersey 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

We here at 10,000 Birds dedicated the month of February to highlighting a variety of birding tourism companies, destinations, and guides. It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India. After all, there are a lot more birding tourism operators who we haven’t posted about yet!

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Costa Rica Uganda Greece Ghana 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. This is a second edition that has been rewritten, updated, and re-invented, and it will doubtlessly become the hawk identification bible of our birding era. Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.)

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 248

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. Most exotics, at least in the bird world, stick close to their point of arrival and barely hang on – or don’t – over the generations. In 1998 W. And of Wyoming.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. The first injured bird Nadeem and Mohammad ever found was a Black Kite.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it to a new edition between the trips. Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. I clearly needed a mammal book.

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Asia Mammals Sri Lanka Bhutan 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds. They are large, noisy birds of drier areas of East and southern Africa.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 228

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia, edited by Yong Ding Li & Low Bing Wen. And now I am holding the “The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia” – an expanded and fully updated second edition of “The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in Southeast Asia”. That is about it – I do not know much more about this region.

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Asia Laos Myanmar Indonesia 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

The trend at this time of year is a downturn in shared lists and birds reported, nevertheless, 12 (is this a record?) Our two newest contributors have shared from Mexico and China, bringing the countries birded this month (also including; Costa Rica, Greece, Serbia, USA, UK, India, UAE and New Zealand) to 10. 02 Jun 2019.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 126

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When you bird afar and wander wide, you carry a field guide to the birds of the region you are exploring, a pair of binoculars, likely a camera, perhaps a spotting scope and a tripod too, plus clothing, medicines, toiletries, electronics, money and documents… Did you notice the missing item? Yet, those bird guides are hefty.

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. We also want to know what YOUR Best Bird of the Year was. Now on to the Best Birds of the Year for those who write on 10,000 Birds! Sound good?

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Orange-headed Thrush Orange-headed Thrush By Redgannet • March 6, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share The Orange-headed Thrush , Zoothera citrinus, is common across much of India and south-east Asia.

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2011 Deer India New York 205

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

10,000 Birds’s collaborative list has not been entered to feature here, but if we did we choose to press our advantage of having beats strategically placed around the world, we would currently be in second place. The year has started well with 10 new birds from India, China, Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica. Lago de Cuitzeo.

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2020 Wildlife Reserve Tigers Wildlife 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

I spent a lot of time at Viera Wetlands while at the Space Coast Festival as an 10,000 Birds attache. The birds are plentiful, diverse, and remarkably easy to see. So not only did I get to bird, I got to spread the word about one of the bird-related topics about which I am most passionate.

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North Carolina Florida United States Zebras 116

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

It’s all very well to advocate the should that tigers should not be poached from a reserve in India. I, personally, deeply believe that wild places and wildlife have an existence value that should be respected. The problem with the how is that it is, in a word, messy. I hear you. I really do. Conservation'

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Tigers Hunting Game Protection 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2019

Without including the new pin in the map, countries this month featured; USA, Australia, Serbia, Bahrain, India, Kuwait, New Zealand, UK, Ghana and of course, Costa Rica. The month of February has produced 838 birds noted by 10 beats who, between them, shared 114 checklists. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. 01 Jan 2019.

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2019 Ghana Australia Jamaica 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2019

9 countries were visited during March by your tireless beats ( 11 of them); India, UK, USA, Serbia, Costa Rica, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. We can use the figures above to compare the birds that cross between the hemispheres. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. That’s just 3.35%.

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2019 Ghana Australia Woodpeckers 113