10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

An Indiana man, Wade Bennett, and a minor have pled guilty for their involvement in the shooting and killing of a critically endangered Whooping Crane way back in 2009, and been sentenced to probation and the paying of fines and fees. Thee is still no information on the more recent killings of the majestic birds.

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South Dakota Indiana Killing Geese 183

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

Though many people joke that the mosquito is the Alaskan state bird, in fact it is the much more pleasant Willow Ptarmigan. In 1955 – before Alaska was a state – the Territory’s leaders in charge of drafting a constitution allowed schoolchildren to choose what would eventually become the state bird.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2013

When I was kid, I tried to turn every House Finch we had in Indiana into a Purple Finch. Trying to figure out if one is a little bit more raspberry red from another was the id of choice as the local bird ladies told me. The above bird is clearly a male House Finch. Birds House Finch Purple Finch'

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Indiana Birds 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2015

And, here on 10,000 Birds, we have already had our first comment on an old blog post talking about “stamping” the first robin of spring. Birds American Robin spring' Who stamps on robins? What kind of blog is this? I had never heard of such a thing and extensive use of Google didn’t turn anything up at all.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The theme of this particular episode was Sheldon’s fear of birds. While the colors were similar, the actual bird they had on their set was a Black-throated Magpie Jay, native to Mexico ( for a photo, see James’ post on the jays of Mexico ). Of course, Hollywood is notorious for misidentifying birds.

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Alaska Indiana Mexico Canada 126

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2017

We have a lot of mountainous land and it’s way cooler up in them hills than down by the coast or back in the heat-stricken states of Indiana, Virginia, and nearly every other state and province south of Alaska. Bird way up there to watch endemic Volcano Juncos and Timberline Wrens while wearing a jacket.

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Costa Rica Indiana Birds Philadelphia 104

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2018

The country has one eBird hotspot with 200+ and 48 with more than 100 bird species. Among travel guides, due to its extensive coverage of natural history and birding sites, recommendation goes to Laurence Mitchell’s Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide (5th edition, 2017). Autumn migration August to October , 266 eBirded species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2012

Yet again a Whooping Crane has been shot and killed in Indiana. Let’s hope that this time the perpetrator gets more than a $1 fine.

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Indiana Killing 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2011

Julie Zickefoose has a great post about the atrocity happening right now in Indiana. Get over to her blog and TAKE ACTION!

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Turtles Indiana Rights 163

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Gassett, replying to a letter questioning the hunt, opens thus: “ Sandhill cranes are considered to be one of the best tasting of all migratory birds. Their slow wing beat keeps the breast meat from being as dark and strong flavored as many other migratory birds. More than 10,000 people hunt cranes in North America each year.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 256

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2013

As we might have already mentioned here on 10,000 Birds, this year is shaping up to be a historic year in terms of a Snowy Owl irruption. So, what is going on with Snowy Owls in the birding blog world? We here at 10,000 Birds shared some photos and video that shows that Snowy Owls can be stressed by more than just humans.

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Owls North Carolina New Hampshire Indiana 197

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. Imagining birds is not hard for me to do, especially ones hard to distinguish from their little-noticed cousins lingering around train tracks and grain silos, park benches, and the high perch of church steeples.

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Pennsylvania Indiana California Condor 2013 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

” Now the white snow melts away; Now the flowers blossom gay: Come dear bird and build your nest, For we love our robin best. “To 3 , collector card from the Bird Cards series (D16), issued by the White Baking Company, St. To the First Robin” by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). The Robin, No. Louis, Missouri (early 20th century).

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Farming New York St. Louis Belgium 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2016

They feel great, they function beautifully, and they’ve seen me through most of my best birding days. Plus they managed to survive a momentary lapse of reason on the beach at Indiana Dunes relatively unscathed.). The Karma strikes me as a very good entry into birding for a beginner, and an equally good all-around backup.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. The state of Indiana has been soliciting comments for a bill which would make the above scenario legal for 90 days, creating an uproar among those who are licensed to care for injured and orphaned wildlife.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

Both she and her brother Mason love spending time outdoors, but Ivy is more likely to interact with the environment for its own sake, rather than as a setting for a Tusken Raider attack or Indiana Jones adventure. She also has a surprisingly sophisticated sense of humor about birds. Sara : What?

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Raised Indiana Ducks Birds 156

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

Greg Majewski is a relatively new birder but he is not letting that stop him from trying to reach 250 species in Indiana this year. Follow his adventures at Greg and Birds. I’m not at all sure what his goal is other than seeing lots of birds but Canada is a big country so I bet he succeeds!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park! By far, calls about the ‘big black bird” topped all the calls they received each day. Vultures are very intelligent, social birds.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Indiana Game 126

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

European Starlings count as much as any other bird on a big year. Now seems like a good time to look in on the birding big years happening in 2013 to see how folks are doing as they tear around their county or region or state or province or country trying to see as many birds as possible before 1 January 2014.

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2013 New Jersey North Carolina Canada 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A Birds wildlife rehabilitators wildlife rehabilitators wish list' It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Now it is a book from a swank New York publishing house, with a fantastic jacket design and a significant marketing push (I ran across a quote from it in Outside magazine yesterday, and of course it is being reviewed on the premeire birding blog on the entire Internet.)

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Turtles Indiana New York Ethics 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Sophie had serious doubts about whether she was really a bird. August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. Sophie the Scissortail was the most difficult but the most satisfying bird of the season.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

What started as me posting a link on my private Facebook page about how much I hate the Transportation Security Administration, quickly turned into a very revealing conversation about race and could be a very large and underlying issue of why we don’t see more people of color in birding or enjoying nature in general.

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Laws Colorado America Kazakhstan 226

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge : Open to migratory bird hunting (youth only). The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. This is an Urban Refuge ! Why would you open it up to hunting?

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 142

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

“ There is, perhaps, no better place in the world for birds than this country. With this quote I have the pleasure of introducing my home province (state) for this month’s 10,000 Bird’s Africa Beat. Despite discovering dozens of bird species, he is however not remembered in any English names of birds. At 36,433 sq.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2022

For most of my birding life, I birded with 8s, and with NLs and their extreme wide-angle field of view I found myself in a dilemma: should I stick to 8s and gain a 20% wider FOV, or should I keep the FOV I am used to and am happy with, but gain some extra magnification? What should it be? What made me so certain, so quickly, so easily?

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Indiana Game Woodpeckers Experience 230

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since 2016, writers at 10,000 Birds have been contributing checklists to a joint eBird account called the “10,000 Birds Collaborative.” The writers at 10,000 Birds span the globe, but I am particularly interested in the lists for the United States, as that is my “beat.” For the United States, there is also a state list.

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

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 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations. If you want to keep up with what is going on up there you can do worse than The Bruce Mactavish Newfoundland Birding Blog. … Birds irruption owls Snowy Owl'

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Owls North Carolina Rhode Island New Hampshire 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

The only bird we saw in every state was the Turkey Vulture. But the turkey vultures would certainly leave the places we saw them – Montana, North Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and eventually New York – and head south. Birds moving New York turkey vulture' The carrion smells promising here.

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North Dakota New York Turkey Pennsylvania 170

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. Ostrom resurrected the 1868 theory of T.

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 178

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

After a long hiatus that included a new cat, a new apartment, and enough time with the in-laws to last me quite awhile, here’s a rundown of April’s bird news: Funny, sad, and thought-provoking … an African-American ornithologist’s video tips for birding while black. Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. Now you have.

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Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 180

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Most of my family lives in Indiana, but thanks to social media we can easily keep in touch. ” Then my sister weighed in who is as passionate for cats as I am for birds, “Nature is nature. I took my furlough due to the government shut down as a chance to go down to Indiana and visit my family. Birds cats indoors'

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Family 176