10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2023

White-winged Choughs – Corcorax melanorhamphos are native to southern and eastern Australia and one of the bird species that is likely to suddenly make you jump when you walk through a forest. Once you have been made aware of their presence it is quite enjoyable to just watch them move through the leaf litter.

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Litter Australia Groups Species 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The pair of birds flew directly overhead and on towards Fish Creek. It was so nice to get one more look at these magnificent birds before we came home. I am guilty of paying a lot more attention to the male Gang-gang Cockatoo , but I did get some photos of the female bird. I will never tire of watching these birds feeding!

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Litter Fish Birds Australia 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

I remember it as the one in Niagara where the Arctic would come on down to bring ice for the roads, cold blue for the sky, and, with luck, birds from the north. Looking for Northern Shrikes and redpolls was a test for winter gear and wind chill factors but the birds weren’t going to be there in the hot days of summer.

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Costa Rica 2019 Birds Litter 196

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2020

But it has paid dividends with as many as a dozen bird species breeding or attempting to breed in my overgrown wasteland. As it waited for a parent to return with some food, it picked through the leaf litter to see if it could find something for itself. appeared first on 10,000 Birds. So the whole plot now looks like a meadow.

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Neglecting Litter Breeding Species 163

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

The wing beat of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo always appears very slow for such a large bird. They are a very long living bird and have been known to live over fifty years in captivity. Of course the birds are free to travel and so they do! The post Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos return to Broome appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Litter 2013 Australia Groups 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2020

All terrain vehicle enthusiasts ripped swathes through the wild flowers and fireraisers left the burnt out shuck of a car, so there will almost certainly be work parties to clear the litter and debris. The post Woodland for sale appeared first on 10,000 Birds. And just in time too to lift the gloom that redundancy brings.

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Litter Stray Industry Owls 248

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Those eerie calls come from the Common Loon, the state bird of Minnesota. These black and white water birds are an annual summer presence on freshwater lakes throughout the northern United States and Canada, migrating to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the winter. Loons have many characteristics that set them apart from other birds.

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Minnesota Litter United States Legislation 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2019

During our three weeks of birding in Singapore we spent many hours on forest trails. Blue-winged Pittas can easily be overlooked in dense forest and you may not be able to see the bird in the header photograph above. We never saw the birds fly at all. The post Blue-winged Pitta in Singapore appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Singapore Litter Transported Birds 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

“Gamebirds” to some, cool, cryptic understory birds to the birding people, grouse crouch protected as unfettered winds sway the top of the tall prairie grass. Then there are the ones that live in PA , the state bird, “the grouse” that a great many non-birders are aware of, my Uncle Fred was one of them.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It is undoubtedly the most wonderful time of year – when we don our binoculars and boots and head off on a tradition spanning more than a hundred years – that of the Christmas Bird Count! We soon departed to our various locations, bellies full and eyes hungry for birds. Three of them in fact, rare visitors from the north.

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Falcons Trinidad Ducks Groups 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. Upon arrival we were given strict and non-flexible rules: never go even one inch off the ice paths, never allow the tiniest piece of litter to escape, never interact in any way with the wildlife, and cause absolutely no environmental damage. Who its predators were?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Slowly, the shapes of birds were beginning to materialise. We just needed to find somewhere that was less cluttered to allow us some chance of seeing birds! We observed as this bird methodically peeled off sizeable chunks of bark in search of breakfast. We opted to return to the vehicle, move on, and bird another trail.

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Trinidad Eagles Bears Litter 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2015

Given the chance, I would gladly take the opportunity to berate the world in general for littering and for carelessly discarding cigarettes, but I must come clean and tell you the whole story. The bird had flown passed me a few moments before and I had found it again further along the trail. Birding Red-tailed Hawk'

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Atlanta Litter Reptiles Science 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2014

Among the things that more and more birders have mentioned to me over the years is their urge to start their own birding blog, but they just don’t know how to go about it. Some people prefer WordPress (which is what 10,000 Birds uses), some people prefer Blogger. When there is a will, there is a way. Pick a platform.

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Birds Salamander Trafficking Litter 254

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. The majority of diehard birders do not care where they get their birds. There is a caste of birders, however, that do not subscribe to this way of birding…no. Oh wait, it doesn’t. Portland, Oregon.

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San Francisco Birds North Dakota Oakland 227

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2019

Most family groups of Red Junglefowl included around three young birds being fed by the female. Out in the open the male Red Junglefowl is an obvious bird that even small children recognise as a “chicken” The Red Junglefowl looks like the “chicken” from story books! Male Red Junglefowl. Happy Easter!

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Singapore Chickens Litter Squirrels 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2019

During our three weeks of birding in Singapore in March we were surprised that we did not encounter White-crested Laughingthrush – Garrulax leucolophus more often. We had taken a trail down from the main path in Kent Park to a shelter to discover several bird species in the area including the White-crested Laughingthrush.

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Singapore Shelters Litter Groups 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Prior to their release he arranged his basement with litter boxes, a bed, and places to hide. And Peter, who loves wildlife, has saved hundreds – if not thousands – of birds and small animals from being killed by two more feral cats. Peter, who lives in New York State, noticed two feral cats living near his house.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

The family Picathartidae consists of two very unusual birds; White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes , endemic to the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa; and Gray-necked or Red-headed , restricted to Lower Guinea forests of Central Africa. White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes, Bonkro, Ghana.

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Sierra Leone Ghana Cameroon Equatorial Guinea 273

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2016

There is a regular birding route in Costa Rica that hits every major habitat in the country and makes an easy, logistical friendly loop. Those time honored sites are always good and result in fantastic, birdy trips but they aren’t the only places in Costa Rica for birding. The view of the forested hillside.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls Litter 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

However, the vast majority of Java’s endemic bird species inhabit what is left of the island’s rain forests, and birders therefore tend to limit their visit to Java to a few selected national parks in mountainous regions – which is where the Brown Prinias are not to be found. A small brown bird. Yes, indeed.

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Burma Laos Birds Indonesia 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2018

I myself mostly poke the internet and watch other people play video games and ask myself questions like “Could cat litter be the most important invention in the history of modern environmentalism?”*. That said, I do manage to get some birding in even so.

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New Jersey Litter Game Hunters 102

Reddit Animals

JUNE 22, 2023

There's now a litter in my yard and still no sign of Mama, although they may just be exploring their territory. The birds know my voice and this one beat up looking squirrel actually comes right up to me. They're hiding on my patio, behind the recycle cans. All of them are tiny and impossibly cute.

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Skunks Stray Cat Litter Stray 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

I was ostensibly taking a day off from birding. But the birds soon asserted themselves on the day. Oriental Greenfinches used the wires to perch and a Plain Laughingthrush picked through the leaf litter on this cold November morning. This was to have been my target tick for the next day’s birding trip.

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Obama Litter China 2014 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2013

I told her that I had three target birds left to see, and she gestured at a tree near the guesthouse where three Jamaican Owls were roosting. Arriving back in Mandeville, I had finished the serious birding portion of my trip. Trips birding trip Jamaica parrots' The entire grounds of her property were extremely birdy.

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Jamaica 2013 Parrots Birds 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2012

Well, I didn’t really so much as take a stroll through Forest Park as I took a stroll to the water hole in Forest Park and sat and looked at the birds. Then I strolled to the area with some bird feeders and sat and looked at the birds. And then I strolled back to the water hole and sat and looked at the birds.

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2008 Litter New York Sparrows 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2011

Fortunately for me, there were birds around too! An outing with an eighteen-month-old and two non-birders as participants can’t be focused entirely on birds, of course, but as we walked along I could certainly listen to what was singing. Make a visit – you won’t regret it! … a.

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Kentucky Agenda New York Wounded 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Do you know what the luckiest little bird in the world is? Food for a fledgling thrush is abundant in June with everything from ripe cherries on the trees to loads of snails crawling through the leaf litter. A diet of perfectly ripe cherries and escargot sounds great for humans and for a baby bird it is practically paradisaical.

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Hungary Litter Humane Experience 191

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

With limited time and preferring to bird alone in a natural environment we headed into the nature reserve and away from the springs. It was a very hot day and there had been a bush-fire right to the reserve border only a few weeks prior to our visit and as such we did not have particularly high hopes for a lot of birds.

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Litter Pelicans Wildlife Australia 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

If there is one order of birds that is guaranteed to draw involuntary gasps and odd keening noises, it is the Strigiformes. Alert calls from a small patch of woodland at Tyson’s Corner, VA, near Washington DC, prompted me to take a look and see what was upsetting the flock of scolding birds. Birds Barred Owl'

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Owls DC Litter Reptiles 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

After all, while I like to believe that I am a pretty good bird blogger I’ve never written anything like a field guide. The book I am writing is the New York edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. Yeah, I’m kind of surprised too. And the references I use!

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New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2013

There are many wonderful things to see at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , but the Florida Scrub-Jay is as close to a “must see bird” as you’re likely to find down here. Prior to the development boom in the state, the upland scrub favored by the birds stretched unbroken across much of the state.

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Sanctuary Florida Litter Wildlife 199

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. It included surveys of nocturnal and marsh birds, and a point count survey of songbirds.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Woolly bears overwinter under leaf litter in a sort of hibernation. The wooly bear, known also as the woolly worm , fuzzy bear , banded woolly bear , and black-ended bear , is reputed to signal the severity of the coming winter to those who understand the riddle of its bands.

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Bears Tigers Mississippi Litter 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2014

Wildlife concentrates at the Floe Edge, and although we just missed Narwhal as pack ice moved in just after we arrived, the place was littered with Polar Bear. Birds, though, were there by the thousands. The bird life is astounding, both in sheer number and in their nearness. Still, with that many bear you have to stay vigilant.

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Polar Bears Seals Bears Laws 197

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2014

The website gives you an idea of the birds you can hope to encounter and there have been ongoing studies taking place since 1986. We also had Eastern Whipbirds hopping along the edge of the road tossing the leaf litter about in search of food. Satin Bowerbird -female. Satin Bowerbird bower. Bell Miner.

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Turtles Australia 2012 Litter 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Not an urban legend From the time I was a small child, I would flip through the pages of field guides and imagine the stumbling across this or that amazing bird. Unlike the hobbits, space aliens, and vampires in the other books I read, the strange birds tucked away in the Peterson Guide sometimes came to life.

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Pythons Litter Montana 2006 196