10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Construction is still ongoing at Nanhui, there are constant rumors that key birding sites will be made inaccessible … you have to take every Nanhui visit as it is your last (yes, another clichee). Still, there were a few birds there this September. Still, there were a few birds there this September. A juvenile male.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. End of side note.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2023

By David Tomlinson David Tomlinson has been interested in birds for as long as he can remember, and has been writing about them for almost as long. A former tour leader, he has seen an awful lot of birds around the world, and wishes he could remember more of them. It’s a different matter in the spring.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The latter is possible, as the undisturbed areas of Nanhui keep shrinking, leaving less and less space for birds. Bramblings at Nanhui enjoy staring vacantly into space … … and accusing bird watchers of not paying enough attention to them. Somehow, for this bird it is ok. They are just too attractive.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

A characteristic of most but not all Paradise Flycatchers is the long tail of the male bird (tail length is thought to be a criterion by which females select their partners – please insert your own pornographic joke here). not their own). How to distinguish the two species, as they look somewhat similar?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2024

Mid-February is an early start for spring – even this far south – but spring is spring, and birds were waiting. There were birds singing everywhere. The ponds were full of birds as usual with abundant Common Snipe as well as Ruff , some Dunlin , Stilts and a few ducks, including Red-crested Pochards. Tunnel vision? Idée fixée?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One good thing about birding during a pandemic–the forced restrictions on place and time translate into more time to observe what birds do. Bird behavior–endlessly fascinating, but so much still hidden and unknown. Extreme behaviors also push scientists to look at birds in new ways.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. So, I spent a lot of time birding this month, and to keep this post at a manageable length, it mostly only covers the first half of May. The video is notable for the bird basically refusing to move at all.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

His obsession with all things feathered has led him to visit 20 countries around the world in the pursuit of thousands of different species of birds to watch, photograph, and enjoy. Toward the end of a month-long trip to Japan, Andrew Spencer, Tayler Brooks, and I landed at the Kushiro airport in the middle of Christmas afternoon.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To say that an update of John MacKinnon’s “A Field Guide to the Birds of China” (2000) has been highly anticipated by birders interested in Chinese birds is almost an understatement. Mind you, I am not a particularly good birder – I am the kind of birder who really needs a good bird guide.

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MAY 18, 2019

The 2020 Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The new canoeing centre is still under construction at Kasairinkaikoen, so to hide my disappointment, I went birding instead. My first job was to reconnect with the common birds that one might reasonably expect to see on a flash visit to Tokyo. Oriental Turtle Dove.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

Introducing the newest coffeeshop trend: t he bird cafe. The growing popularity of the cafes suggests that they represent a way for busy professionals, or folks whose leases don’t allow pets, to de-stress by interacting with birds. Let’s hope they serve bird-friendly coffee.). From—where else?—Japan.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2020

In the meantime, it played host to my target bird for the trip. The Brown-headed Thrush , Turdus chrysolaus , is a very typical thrush and you may wonder why anyone would get excited about such an indistinguished bird. The post Brown-headed Thrush appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Success was almost immediate.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Scientists have found a variety of mutant butterflies in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. Hat-tip to my mom.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A team of researchers has found that the populations of common birds around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has plummeted. Most disturbingly, the populations of species that the area has in common with Chernobyl has fallen more in Fukushima than they did in the site of worst nuclear disaster in world history.

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MARCH 25, 2014

You’ve no doubt heard about birds being put at risk by nonnative cats, rats, and even goats. Golden Crownbeard spreads like, well, weeds, in thick mats that crowd birds out of potential nesting sites. Yes, that’s what’s happening at Midway Atoll, a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean managed by the U.S. But plants?

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MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. Good birding and happy drinking! Three out of five feathers (Good).

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2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 125

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

When a Cooper’s Hawk flew over the birds closed ranks and when they dispersed after the danger had passed, a small black and white bird was left in the middle of the pond. A second bird flew in to join it for a short while before flying out, leaving the first bird alone again. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

In the human psyche, owls can be cuddly signs of good luck and benificence (as they are in Japan, and Harry Potter movies) and, at the same time, eerie and unsettling. Either way, they are perhaps more central to our stories and lore than other birds, a familiar example, as Darlington reminds us, being Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2012

This is one of those weekends where actually watching birds gets in the way of writing about them, so I’ll cut to the chase. See any nice birds lately? The best bird of my weekend was Japanese Waxwing spotted where else but in Japan! What was your best bird of the weekend? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2021

In Shanghai, May is the month with a chance to see the regional popstars of the birding world – male Japanese and Amur Paradise Flycatchers. It is on its way to breeding grounds mainly in Japan and thus only briefly stays here. The female is less impressive but still a nice bird to see. But that is fine. Dusky Warbler ?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2016

Sometimes birds are just a lot smarter than we give them credit for. The Carrion Crows , of Japan are known for gathering nuts, and then leaving then on the paved roads for the cars to run over and crack the tough outer shells. So, while they might be our smallest bird, it appears that they might have the very best memory.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The mundane details that actually allow a trip to happen are tedious, but researching all those potential birds… huge fun! Because I’ll be birding Japan this weekend en route to Singapore! Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Who doesn’t love that feeling of endless possibility?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

With the Audubon Christmas Bird Count season in full swing here in the Western Hemisphere, one of the birds on my mind is Golden-crowned Kinglet , a bird often heard and seen on the counts I do every year, and thus one that holds special seasonal significance to me. Birds kinglets taxonomy and systematics'

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Family Guatemala Mexico Japan 181

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). Absolutely thrilled!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2014

The majority of the individually marked birds in Broome are birds that have been marked locally with either a plain yellow flag, an engraved yellow flag or colour bands and a flag. There are many site faithful birds, but also shorebirds that pass through the area before they head off to the north again.

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APRIL 12, 2014

The Long-tailed Tit , Aegithalos Caudatus , is one of the most endearing of British birds. In Japan, it is represented by the A.c. There were two birds in Mote Park, near my home in Maidstone, Kent and this one looked as if it was collecting spiders’ webs and tiny pieces of moss and lichen. Birding Long-tailed Tit'

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2017

Countries birded were Australia, Costa Rica, UK, India, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, Serbia and USA. Actually, I might admit to a twinge of jealousy that I didn’t get 50,000 checklists to play with. This month’s results in number form are; 10 beats (a new world record!) shared xxx checklists producing xxx species.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I’m headed to Singapore in a week with stops in Japan and I hope Malaysia. If you live in any of those places, I’d love to go birding with you! Of course, everything required to get away for a week has kept me extremely busy, so I don’t even have a best bird for this weekend. His Best Bird of the Weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2017

On a recent visit to Tokyo, Japan, I came across a beautiful bird that I took to be a White’s Thrush , Zoothera dauma. My Japanese field guide, published in 1982, calls my bird White’s Ground Thrush and prefers the Turdus genus. Where there is a description of one of the birds, the author fails to mention which one.

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JULY 18, 2013

You may not realize it when you look at those bizarre looking waders with the massive bills and the vacant expression, but you’re looking at a group of birds that has inspired humankind for literal centuries. It’s hard not to be taken in with the green-glossy plumage of these highly migratory and social birds.

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MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Usually, it’s “Bird eating fish” but here we have a case of a “Bird-eating fish.” It has also found its way to Japan where it is considered to be an invasive species. So, the modal catfish is a fish that hunts from below, can take large prey, and occasionally eats a bird.

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MARCH 19, 2014

This species ranges from India to Japan and south down Borneo. Birds birds of prey Borneo eagles' The Spilornis serpent-eagles are represented by a number of insular species and one widespread mainland species, the Crested Serpent-eagle. In this shot you can see the crest. The banded tail is much clearer in this shot.

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JULY 20, 2014

In the early 1900s this plant was introduced to the beaches of New Jersey from Japan and subsequently planted on many beaches there as an erosion control plant because its prolific rhizomes stabilized the sand. A new invasive plant is threatening the beaches of Long Island, Asiatic Sand Sedge or Carex kobomugi.

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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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JULY 2, 2013

Whither the wayward bird? But sometimes, the bird would have been better off staying home. Well, the early bird(ers) on Harris were the ones lucky enough to get the tick, because a mere two days after it was reported, the Needletail flew into a wind turbine and perished. Photo by Steve Duffield/ The Telegraph.

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