10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2022
The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong). Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds.
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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10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2020
The real upside is that it is right by my house and the Tawny Owls occasionally stray into my oak tree at night. 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.
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.
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.
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. Be committed. When there is a will, there is a way.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2016
Last month we went camping and birding north of Broome and headed into the Northern Territory in search of some bird species that we had not seen yet this year. It is a great time of year for camping and birding and we had not been beyond Timber Creek in the Northern Territory since 2014. White-browed Crake. Apostlebird.
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