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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Costa Rica Morals Rights Guatemala 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

They also remind me why I love birding in Michoacán. I would love to know how the order spread across these regions, since that spread must have involved either crossing oceans or the frigid regions that these birds avoid. Both are large, stocky birds, with a large head and long, squared-off tail. Those are good numbers.

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Mexico Indonesia North America Arizona 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2017

It is not always obvious which side of a bird-related conservation lawsuit is the right side. Audubon thought there should be some wild condors to serve as “guide birds” for condors that would eventually be released from the captive breeding program. But they disagreed on the means to obtain that shared goal. Hester , 801 F.2d

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California Condor California District of Columbia Utah 104

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

Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I'm going to refer to it as just one from now on) is very brave and runs right across the floor when I'm watching TV. I've talked to him and I swear he looked right at me. Dad has been feeding it cheese so they're tight I think it watches aircrash investigations with him on TV. So here's my thoughts.

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Mice Pets Livestock Rats 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests.

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Fish Woodpeckers Ostriches Eggs 163

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 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Conservation / Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? One way volunteers help is by participating in a bird banding workshop called Bird Ringing Forever.

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2018

My neighbour chose this moment to keel over and by the time we righted him, the caterpillars had wandered off and I had to use soaked meal worms instead. It didn’t take long for a robin to come investigating, but it kept its distance and only came down to ground very briefly.

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Fox Investigation Rights Birds 101

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 191

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 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2012

Hermit Crab heading for the sea Hermit Crab at the tides edge It didn’t quite get the height of the tide right and got dumped, which actually has advantages if you use plastic as you float quite well! Christmas Hermit Crab makes a friend! I would appeal to people to not take shells home that are suitable homes for other creatures.

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Investigation Australia Rights Birds 149

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).

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

His love for birds and photography started at a young age. After collecting nearly 70K bird photos, he felt that it was time to share them, so he now has his bird blog in order to do just that! Of course, that certainly piqued my interest, so I closed the store immediately and went to investigate. Mom on nest.

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San Diego Seattle Eggs California 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It didn’t take long for a Gray Jay to go from not there to suddenly there, look, right on that branch! It took some patience but, eventually, the jay came down to investigate more closely. I had prepped Desi, my eight-year-old son, for the likelihood of seeing Gray Jays up-close-and-personal. Can you blame him?

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Investigation Meat Canada Rights 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

We’re always interested in what he’s up to and pleased that his research and our collective interest in cool birds can come together in such an opportune manner. Would you support research on birds with just a click on Facebook? Basically, we want to learn the molecular mechanics of how birds function and evolve.

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Panama Research Investigation Chickens 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2012

The winds have been between 25 and 30 knots for days now and the warnings have been from Queensland right across the top and down the coast towards Perth. As a result of the cold weather we decided to do some birding from the car for a change with the air-conditioning off.

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Investigation Australia Breeding Rights 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2019

But every Monday, he explores the wonderful habitats and birds found within an hour of his house. This is Paul’s first post for 10,000 Birds. My first birding period was over 40 years ago, in the San Francisco Bay Area. I continued to bird off and on through my university years in Santa Barbara.

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San Francisco Mexico Turkey California 116

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2018

But I really would’ve jumped at a chance to try this beer, if only to review a beer infused with the world’s best-known bird-inspired candy. So, the next best thing, and arguably a slightly more palatable option for me, was to investigate beer and Peep pairings. Happy drinking and good birding! “Fat free”?

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Fort Worth ALA Texas Investigation 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

At some point, perhaps in the middle of class, perhaps after class, perhaps in an email I receive later, this question gets asked: “How do migratory birds not get lost when the Earth’s magnetic field reverses?” But also, birds certainly use multiple cues to get around.

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Investigation 2013 Research Humane 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

The puddles right against the highway had Glossy Ibis on them and they were unconcerned about the traffic-though there really isn’t much in the outback! We had both seen it go into the hollow and decided to go and investigate from a distance to see what it was. We waited to see what would happen-the bird flew straight at us!

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Investigation Cattle Australia Humane 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Alkborough Flats is an excellent place to go birding and walking and is where the River Trent and River Ouse join to meet the River Humber. Bird hides have been built and two small car-parks and one of these has wheelchair access to the trails. Alkborough Flats sign at top car-park. Pied Avocet in front of the hide.

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Geese Australia 2006 Investigation 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups. Oh, if I didn’t have a day job!).

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2018

And yet…take a closer look and you won’t find any hummingbirds acting like cute little singing birds ready to perch on the finger of some lost, happy princess. And that begs the question, anthropocentric comparisons aside, what makes a bird a jerk? So easy to love, admire and cherish! Maybe even pyschos.

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Humane Neglecting Investigation Birds 159

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Birders know that the pairing of farms and birds represents more than mere bucolic romance – it’s a match borne out of a real avian dependence on these man-made landscapes. Note the two birds flying over the wheatfield on the lefthand side. By the early twentieth century, however, saison was sliding into obscurity.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

Phoebe, Liam and I went down to work (and play) in January 2011 at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , and it was the highlight of our winter. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay. What an oddly proportioned bird!

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Florida Tail Banding Ducks Ohio 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2012

Birding blog trip reports usually are rousing stories of success against incredible odds, or at the very least spectacular failures that make the reader laugh. A pretty place no question but not very bird. The objective wasn’t even birds, it was fur seals. Which brings us to yesterday. This time I was determined.

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Seals New Zealand Fur Marine Life 156

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 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The problem of free-roaming cats — and their predation on birds and other wildlife — is hotly contested in communities across the country, and it triggered a lively exchange in the hearing room. But it’s something in the right direction.”. And she has a North American bird book that has so far taught her how to recognize a sparrow.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

This special place in a birder’s heart or on a list of best birds of the year certainly pertains not only to their extravagant lifestyle but also to the fact that most birders – particularly visiting birders – often struggle with finding them. Crazy, I know. And you know what? Ridiculous really, but there you go.

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Germany 2016 Hamburgers Austria 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

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. Europe: The sun is scorching the area, and the birds are nowhere to be seen. No, birds are way too smart for that stupid trick. My first ever Balkan Egyptian Vultures!

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Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

It may seem like an unnecessarily recurring theme in my posts about birding within Trinidad & Tobago, but the more I write on the subject the more it becomes apparent that the number three must have some significance, somewhere. Its inaccessibility has led to it not being birded often. Broad-winged Hawk. Slowly, we continued.

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Trinidad Birds Tigers Groups 236

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

American scientists, realizing belatedly how embarrassing it was to know so little about a species right in the heart of their own continent, rushed to study this remnant population. The first resurrection, or more properly resurfacing, of the black-footed ferret happened in 1964, in Mellette County, South Dakota.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 180

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Last year I reviewed The Feather Thief , an enjoyable tale centering on the use of feathers in the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying, and how that led to the theft of priceless bird skins by one obsessed young man. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names ? … – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Yes, the warbler formerly known as Dendroica kirtlandii , now Setophaga kirtlandii , is one of those birds that make birders’ hearts pulse quicker and their legs churn faster. Look what happened when the bird made the first of three appearances at the Biggest Week in American Birding at Magee Marsh! photo by Lynn C.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 221