10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

” Indeed, there is one distinctly birding connection to this country: a famous birder Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond, visited the Seychelles in 1958 looking for inspiration for his then-latest collection of stories, For Your Eyes Only. . ‘… Just go and have a look.’ ‘Don’t get sunstroke.'”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. It also currently works with two other bird and mammal hides in Europe.

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Wildlife Greece Mammals Reptiles 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. I just want to point out it could be much worse.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 229

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. Regular readers of 10,000 Birds may remember Jochen’s posts about keeping taxonomy out of field guides. It sounds simple, but I wonder how it works in practice.

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. It illustrates the bird richness per country. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. Focus on the wider triple border area – the birding top of the world.).

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2013

Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field. The birds of Fallon were amazing, but I’ll also remember this trip for the incredible animal encounters. Birding Lizards Mammals Reptiles Trips animals'

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Nevada Coyotes Rattlesnake Chicago 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Once upon a time, bird field guides included nests. Decades later, Richard Pough’s Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds (I happily own the 1948 edition) included nest and egg descriptions for each species as well. There are many reasons to inquire about bird nests (and eggs) and how to identify them. Harrison. (A

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

Reddit Animals

APRIL 7, 2024

I'm making a list of the ones I'm missing, but I have no idea how many cards there are per group. If you have any knowledge, please let me know.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. We partner with the best guides in the area to provide unapparelled birding experiences.

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Costa Rica Reptiles Research Industry 156

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Mark Gamin, a Cleveland lawyer, likes cats and birds both. This is Mark’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. In Oregon, the Barred Owl is taking over Northern Spotted Owl territory and threatening that smaller bird’s survival. Agonizing quandaries concerning invasive species are well-known to wildlife biologists.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. How would people react?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2014

Seeing as Plumb Beach is a known stopover area for large numbers of shorebirds, a known breeding area for a variety of saltmarsh species, including Clapper Rails , and habitat for a wide variety of mammals, reptiles, insects, and other bird species, this is a long overdue move. … Conservation Brooklyn cats Plum Beach'

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Reptiles 265

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

I Love Birds!: 52 Ways to Wonder, Wander, and Explore Birds with Kids. Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics. How many birds do you see?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. So the thought occurred to me that there is a lot of bird on the landscape, in terms of numbers of individuals as well as sheer biomass. Paul islands, studied by Darwin.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2014

(The fraction of the TV-watching public that would want to gaze at birders birding is probably pretty small. If you’ve got mad bird-scoping skillz, now’s your chance to prove it. Entries are accepted until September 30, 2014 in four categories: Behavior and Action, Portraits, Mammals, and Videos. Except for the Mammals category.

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2014 Mammals Reptiles Game 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Some birds, reptiles, and sharks have nictitating membranes as well as a few mammals. Though many mammals have a vestigial nictitating membrane that does not cover the whole eye.) The membrane provides protection, but it also allows the eye to be moisturized without the bird loosing sight.

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Sharks Mammals Reptiles Florida 210

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

If you enjoyed this post and would like to see more great images of birds (there are snakes there too (and mammals and butterflies and dragonflies and plants… )), go to our 10,000 Clicks section where you will find our big (and growing) gallery page here at 10,000 Birds. Reptiles Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake Texas'

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Houston Reptiles Texas Mammals 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2019

This week, I have been pondering the value of bird rehabilitators. Let me assure you that I have no doubts about how much they contribute to individual birds and to the ravaged conscience of modern man. A world without bird and/or mammal, fish and reptile rehabilitators would be a very sad one.

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Owls Brazil Reptiles Mammals 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2013

It is built to reach out into the water when the dam is full and is reached along a raised walkway, screened from the mammals, reptiles and birds that may be roosting, resting, feeding, drinking or waiting in ambush close by. Mammals visit the dam as well as the birds.

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South Africa Mammals Reptiles Elephants 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. It is likely that the population of African Pythons was started the same way as the Bird Drive Area is bordered by major highways and is adjacent to urban areas. Reptiles'

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Pythons Florida Mammals Reptiles 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. We’re here for the birds!”. The largest reptile is the Indian Mugger Crocodile.

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Lions India Mammals Boars 236

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’ll be attending the 3rd African Birding Expo and the pre-Expo familiarity tour. Uganda boasts a checklist of well over one thousand species of birds and host of mammals, reptiles, and interesting insects. appeared first on 10,000 Birds. ” That helped, right?). Want to follow along on our adventure?

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Uganda Africa Gorillas Reptiles 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

It is hard to pick one single item that stands out in Panatanal, let alone one single bird. Although there are no endemic birds in this area of Brazil, there are soooo many birds (650 residents) and lots of them are restricted range birds. It is an eye opener which every birder must see before it its gone.

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Brazil Otters Reptiles Birds 116

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. It was later re-published on the All About Birds website.) In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” with binoculars, field notebooks, smartphones, and field guides” looking for birds. Think about it for a minute.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Continuing the celebration of commonplace birds we now hail the ubiquitous Great Blue Heron. They do like to supplement their diet with small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects. There are too many images to share so I’ll keep the captions brief and let the pictures do the squawking, er, I mean talking.

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San Francisco Gophers Reptiles Hunters 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2017

The best birding of the day was found along the much quieter roads in the south east section. However, the crest is not always obvious and its diet is likely to contain birds and small mammals as well as reptiles. The majority of the forest is off-limits to the casual wanderer/birdwatcher. The mate did not look impressed.

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Eagles Malaysia Tail Banding Reptiles 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

This portal has compared data on the percentage of a total global number of species of birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fishes and vascular plants per unit of area, creating a biodiversity index. Best timing here is the dry season, June to September, when most birds are breeding (3).

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Rwanda Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Costa Rica 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I’ve never been one to be overly concerned about whether a bird “counts” People, and organisations, have complex and elaborate rules about whether a bird you saw or heard actually is a bird you saw or heard, which seems a very unnecessary way to add complexity to an already complex hobby. Red Lechwe.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. I had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!”

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

One of Desi’s favorite things to do when we are visiting his grandparents is wander around the yard looking for bugs, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals – basically, anything living thing.

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Salamander Chipmunks Reptiles Cooking 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

I am so sick of the feral cat colonies that infest so many locations that I like to bird. Mr Kerridge says it is a misconception that cats kill a huge number of birds. Birds are a long way down a cat’s food chain so well-fed cats tend not to hunt at all, he says. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2013

Today we take a brief reprieve from birder commentary to talk actual birds, specifically those of Santa Cruz Island, where my lowly-esteemed colleague Seagull Steve is currently doing field work on some of the nearshore seabirds there. The fundamental question is, where is it? is concerned.

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California Birds Sea Lions Whales 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. And for rodents and reptiles as well. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. This means that they eat a lot of rodents and birds.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I am a birder, and I love birds. I don’t mind that they share the world with other creatures, and I have even developed an appreciation for mammals, reptiles and amphibians – but only so long as watching them doesn’t collide with my finding birds. So what is one to think of the former?

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

One of the joys of being able to sit quietly for a few moments is the opportunity to enjoy birds going about their normal business. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects, make sure to check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and growing) page of galleries here at 10,000 Birds.

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Reptiles Fish Mammals Birds 102

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2018

It has been my privilege to bird in the ‘Glades – the largest US wilderness east of the Mississippi River. This fragile ecosystem is home to 344 feathered species, 300 fish species (salt- and freshwater), 50 species of reptiles, 40 mammal species, and 36 listed species (threatened and/or protected). Everglades National Park.

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Miami Las Vegas Alligators Minnesota 148

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2012

It is possibly heretical to admit as much on such an ornithologically biased website, but one good snake can often be the highlight of my birding day. I will always take a few moments to check out a likely spot or follow the threat calls of birds in case a snake might be found.

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Singapore Reptiles Asia Mammals 112