10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

Well, inspired by the success of this program, 10,000 Birds contributor Larry Jordan is part of an effort to create a Wildlife Conservation Stamp that would share some of the same goals as the duck stamp, but perhaps be a little more palatable to people who don’t hunt birds. Birds Conservation duck stamp'

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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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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Nashville Warbler ( Oreothlypis ruficapilla ridgwayi ) photos by Larry Jordan I have been enjoying some first time visitors to my yard this fall, including several warblers, one of which is the western Nashville Warbler ( Oreothlypis ruficapilla ridgwayi ). Click on photos for full sized images.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

And there were moments during the year when I thought birding was a lost cause. As the year began, I was making plans for a work-related trip which would take us to two of the world’s great flyways, with time spent near Istanbul and Gibraltar, the two greatest crossing points for migratory European birds. presidential elections.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

This Peregrine close-up courtesy of Larry Jordan. Officials explain that the falcons sometimes prey on California Least Terns and Western Snowy Plovers , birds with dwindling numbers. The idea that is refraining from going to extraordinary lengths to rescue Peregrines may help other bird populations recover.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Black-necked Stilt ( Himantopus mexicanus ) photos by Larry Jordan Click on photos for full sized images. The male is the only Black-necked Stilt in the second segment of this video, along with several Greater White-fronted Geese, and the third bird that comes into view in the final segment that is larger than the other two birds.

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JULY 18, 2012

Bufflehead ( Bucephala albeola ) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting from decay (natural cavities), or use holes created by other species in dead or deteriorating trees. Talk about cute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDXIhy9oJA

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Snowy Egret ( Egretta thula ) photos by Larry Jordan (click for full sized images) While visiting Arcata Marsh a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of watching a Snowy Egret ( Egretta thula ) as it skillfully caught several fish in an inlet or tidal channel of the marsh. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Lark Sparrow ( Chondestes grammacus ) photos by Larry Jordan Nearly two years ago I wrote my second post as the West Coast Beat Writer on Lema Ranch, a Northern California birding hot spot.

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JUNE 26, 2012

One of the more exciting birds this summer in this little corner of North Carolina is undoubtedly the King Rail s that have been regularly reported in a still-water back-arm of Jordan Lake in Chatham County, just south of where I live. For me, King Rail resides in life bird limbo.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet ( Regulus calendula ) photos by Larry Jordan If you live anywhere other than Western North America, you may be able to identify this bird by its tiny size, its broken eye ring and its petite bill. These beautiful little birds grace my yard every autumn and I always look forward to their visits.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser ) photos by Larry Jordan (click to enlarge) The Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser americanus ) or Goosander ( Mergus merganser merganser ) as it’s known in Europe, is a large, cold-hardy, fish-eating duck that nests worldwide near large lakes and rivers in northern forested habitats 1.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. • Explore These Related Posts Another California Bird? Larry wanted to share his passion for birds and conservation and hatched The Birders Report in September of 2007.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Western Screech-Owl ( Megascops kennicottii ) photos by Larry Jordan It’s been an interesting winter in my neck of the woods. When we arrived at the house with the “No Trespassing” sign, atop which the bird was perched, it was sleeping peacefully until a couple of rowdy Western Scrub-Jays roused it from its slumber.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We here at 10,000 Birds thought this would be a perfect time to look back and figure out what each of us considered our Best Bird of the Year, just like we did last year. Not only did we not expect to see this seabird this far inland, it was a life bird for me! We would like you to join in!

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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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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Greater Yellowlegs ( Tringa melanoleuca ) photos by Larry Jordan Shorebirds. I photographed this bird at Arcata Marsh , far north of the Lesser Yellowlegs’ normal range. Why are they seemingly so difficult to identify? Plus many sandpipers plumages are very similar.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One beloved bird to keep an eye out for is the Bufflehead , a beauty in black and white. These birds have also been called buffel duck , spirit duck , and butterball. That’s a long list for a little bird. Female Bufflehead by Larry Jordan (Have you ever seen a Bufflehead search for a nesting cavity? Larry has.)

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Brown Creeper ( Certhia americana ) photos by Larry Jordan A few weeks ago I headed up to Lassen Volcanic National Park to photograph a family of Water Ouzels that one of our Audubon members sighted near the visitor center there at Manzanita Lake. This is a photo of one of the adults at the hidden entrance to the nest.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

My wife and I had the privilege of visiting Mexican friends in Jordan in early October. As it turns out, birding can also be slightly delicate in this country. Even upon our departure from Jordan, I was informed that my ever-so-dangerous binoculars could not go in my carry-on bag. So, would I go back to Jordan just to bird?

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

thanks to Larry Jordan for sharing this moment and photo) Now look at this gorgeous little creature. No birds are evil. Happy birding (or turtling), Dale Forbes a. But it took a few years before I saw through my happy-go-lucky optimism to fully appreciate the black hearts of these beasts. The locals would call him a Lora.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

That’s how the limbs of the Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, were first described to me, and that’s what I’m going with for 10,000 Birds Pink Bird Weekend (or, as I call it, Think Pink Week). They make a bird that is quite watchable to begin with, totally irresistible. Bubble-gum pink legs.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

I realize that listing is a reviled in birding culture as it is celebrated, and more listing even more so, but hear me out here. I mean to make the argument that county listing is birding at its most pure, the ultimate combination of the two warring angels that sit upon each one of our shoulders. A fine bird for the county.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Cinnamon Teal ( Anas cyanoptera ) pair by Larry Jordan (click on photos for full sized images) Winter is the time to visit the National Wildlife Refuges in California. Fish and Wildlife Service; they serve as resting and feeding areas for nearly half the migratory birds on the Pacific Flyway.” By 1985, approximately 3.2

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Northern Pintails ( Anas acuta ) photos by Larry Jordan (click on images for full size) It was a dark and stormy night … OK, it was a dark and stormy morning when I got to the photo blind (also known as a hide) an hour before dawn, as is required by the refuge rules. These two birds pictured below were obviously a pair.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

Ring-necked Duck ( Aythya collaris ) photo by Larry Jordan. The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act , which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1, 1934, authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Duck Butts Duck Butts By Corey • February 28, 2011 • 7 comments Tweet Share We here at 10,000 Birds believe that every bird is beautiful and, moreover, that every part of every bird is beautiful.

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MARCH 5, 2023

I recently received a kind letter from a 10,000 Birds friend, who was worried that my recent irregularity in contributing to this website might indicate that something was wrong. First, we had our five-week trip to Spain, Turkey and Jordan in September and October. (My I assured him then, and assure you now, that I am fine.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Eventually, the pigeons, as it were, may come home to roost and the waterfowl and other wildlife, as well as hunters and bird watchers, will be sitting ducks. And, of course, bird watchers are in a sense free-loading on the duck stamps as well. Would you, as a bird watcher, buy a stamp like this even if you were not required to?

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MARCH 9, 2011

This post has been submitted to Bird Photography Weekly #133. … If you liked this series of images you’ll love 10,000 Clicks , our photo-galleries page here at 10,000 Birds. It’s always interesting to find a leucistic bird. Go check it out! Get yours today! Thanks, Corey! I for one missed it.

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MARCH 14, 2011

And, sure enough, as the sun set birds came over in ones and twos and fours and fives, adding to what was already a pretty darn big flock of birds spread out on the West Pond. Mostly the ducks were Red-breasted Merganser and Greater Scaup , the two most prevalent species on the pond, but there were a few other birds mixed in as well.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The birding world has been debating whether honorific common bird names ( e.g. , Clark’s Nutcracker or Baird’s Sandpiper ) should be changed. An op-ed in the Washington Post by Gabriel Foley and Jordan Rutter is a fine summary of the arguments, and there is a good background article at Birdwatching magazine.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. To know a grebe is to take your bird awareness to another level. To cast your eyes to the cattails on the edges of the pond or the raft of birds at the lake’s center and to know what you are likely to find. Not enough for you?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

There are few birds in the sprawl of suburbia or the sylvan ideal of semi-rural existence as appreciated as wrens. The name wren first entered language to refer to that bouncy bird we now call the Eurasian Wren in the 8th Century as the Old English wraenna. like a snake through grass. Carolina Wren, photo by Nate Swick.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For the last two decades, Europe and the greater Mediterranean have been covered by one of the best field guides anywhere: “Collins Bird Guide” by Lars Svensson et al., published in the US by Princeton as “Birds of Europe”. Unlike “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG) with 416 pages and 1.7 And my first impression is: Wow!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The smooth mass of bronze (photographed at right by Jordan Mann) was a stylized version of a Great Auk —a bird that no longer exists. These forlorn figures, I learned, are the work of The Lost Bird Project. Each bird has been placed at the spot associated with its extinction. the epicenter of U.S. and elsewhere.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Melanerpes lewis is, to put it simply, a really cool bird. Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. In fact, the bird is the fifth recorded in the history of the state,* and the first spotted in the Empire State since 2001. What a bird! Really well.

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