10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

I just returned from a glorious birding trip all over Cuba, so I am just going to ignore the pile of spring bird books on my dining room table (most of which arrived while I was gone), and write a bit about my favorite Cuban birds. Like flycatchers, the bird continuously forages for insects.

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Cuba Birds 2015 Bahamas 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2018

A long time ago, before many of you may have been birding, I got my very first camera. With the development of digital cameras we delayed purchasing one for quite some years, but finally we investigated our options. After all, I am birding first and photographing second. This all must seem rather bizarre to some of you!

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Battery Kuwait Investigation Australia 102

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 Birds 235

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

MAY 11, 2012

What we know for sure is that sometime on the morning of September 26, 1981, John Hogg went to investigate the strange noises from out back and he in turn discovered Shep playing with the body of an unfamiliar weasel-like animal. It was the taxidermist who realized what the dog had stumbled upon and alerted the wider world.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

After my first post on arrival in Busan I had a new friend to go birding with when Grant is at work! Jason contacted me to see if I would like to explore beyond the city of Busan as another Birds Korea member had found a great spot for Eurasian Nuthatches by chance. The bridge that no longer gets you across the river!

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United Kingdom Ireland Australia Investigation 157

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. Grey-headed Kite. Broad-winged Hawk.

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Trinidad Birds Tigers Groups 236

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2022

Over the past couple of weeks I have spent some time exploring this section of my home island and have come to realize its tremendous potential in terms of birding. The archetypical rainforest bird – Channel-billed Toucan. It almost looks as if the bird is underwater! Crimson-crested Woodpecker. Collared Trogon.

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Trinidad Woodpeckers Bats Venezuela 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. So how did I manage to lay eyes on the most difficult-to-see European woodpecker? This means that there were nearly thirty of us making our way up the dirt track past long-abandoned quarries to get the area where the woodpeckers are normally found.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Europe Japan 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In retrospect, this weekend at Wuyuan was not exactly my finest hour as a bird photographer – hopefully, I could do better now, and perhaps one day I will, should normal traveling ever be possible again in China. I’d rather see yellow birds than yellow plants. Such a cute bird deserves a better representation.

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China Birds Breeders Species 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2021

You may have heard the news that resonated throughout the international birding circuit some months ago – in case you missed it you can read my gloss-over here. New locations are going to yield new birds, such as this Sooty Grassquit. The Crimson-crested Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in the Caribbean.

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Trinidad Woodpeckers Investigation Birds 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Germany is underrated as a birding destination. We have, for instance, very beautiful birds, like European Bee-eater , Blue Tit , and Kingfisher. Then of course, we have amazing birds such as Wallcreeper , Hoopoe , and Black Woodpecker. And since the year 2000, we have an even greater bird, the… Greater Rhea !

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! In this post, I’d like to focus on a small selection of South Africa’s special endemic birds. In this post, I’d like to focus on a small selection of South Africa’s special endemic birds. South Africa’s national bird is the Blue Crane.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 215

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

Overzealous might be a word appropriate to describe me on a birding morning – arriving there well before sunrise. As I turned off the main road into the access road, I glimpsed a bird fly out from a tree above. But birds (and the thoughts of birds) always prevail in my world. It did not go on the list.

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Trinidad Livestock Groups Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2019

This is a male Pileated Woodpecker. The male seemed keen to be away from the hole, popping his head out to investigate any noise in the hope that the female might have returned to relieve him of this tiresome shift. ” The post Pileated Woodpecker exchange at the nest. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Woodpeckers Investigation Eggs Ducks 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at you LBJs), these accounts are typically written by people who have either gone with groups of like-minded people or those that have gone it alone.

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Birds Bats Elephants Family 180