10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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Raised Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Monkeys 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2019

There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. It is illegal to feed wild animals, take animals, birds and insects and it is also illegal to release animals in Singapore. It was proving to be a very good day for birding Pulau Ubin.

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Singapore Birds illegal Eagles 133

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

My third trip was six months spend working on a monkey project in the jungles of Uganda. I bring this up not to boast (well, not much) but because I think that this approach to wildlife travel is somewhat neglected in birding circles. Nothing forms bonds like rolling around in bird…uh… waste. Amazing stuff.

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Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. 1980’s Filmstrip, photo by Eric Liner.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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Raised Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Monkeys 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2015

Over the years and after many visits, I have become familiar with rainforest birds and mammals sounds. It was past midnight when the forest gets rather quite when I started to hear monkeys near my tent pinched by an oxbow lake. But monkeys are diurnal except for Owl-monkeys that make only chip and shrill calls.

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Tigers Monkeys Mammals Owls 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Whether made of asphalt, gravel, or dirt, they help us reach more birding sites in less time. In Costa Rica, one of the best “end of the road” places for birding and getting crazy with biodiversity is the Osa Peninsula. Lots of monkeys there too. Nevertheless, as expected, the birding was damn great.

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Costa Rica San Jose Sharks Monkeys 244

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You may have read my recent piece on Birding the Okavango Delta in Botswana here on 10,000 Birds. If you have never thought of India as a birding destination, I’d urge you to give it a good look. Fly into Delhi and within an hour you can be birding the lovely Sultanpur wetland reserve. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

After wrapping up our time in the highlands of Honduras, Chris Lotz (owner of international bird tour company Birding Ecotours ) and I arrived at the deservedly famous Pico Bonito Lodge. However, for me, there were birds to be seen. Photo by James Adams. For the hardcore birder, Pico Bonito has plenty to offer.

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Honduras Monkeys Birds America 163

Reddit Animals

JANUARY 30, 2024

Frank and Johnny, father and son, both male : Frank is pretty much the leader/ringmaster of this wacky crew. He is Johnnys father, and the two are often seen together.

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Porcupines Ferrets Kangaroos Animal 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year. On the breeding grounds of the north, a small bird flies into the night, takes a bearing for the south, gains altitude and flies onward. During this incredible DIY survival trip, patches of light tempt the small bird to a lethal, unnatural end.

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Costa Rica Investigation Shelters Illinois 256

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa).

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 241

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I was going to have something for you this month about the dinosaur-bird thing, but I never got to it. The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

While entering our double kayak I asked Andrew Hester, a local bird expert, if bilharzia is present in the shallows of the Ngotwane Dam, further down the river. Tree crowns were swaying, branches rocking; a troop of Vervet Monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) was on the move and we were reaching for our binoculars. Vervet Monkey c.

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Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

It was expertly driven and we saw some cool birds en route, for the best of which the driver was kind enough to stop. An excellent and unexpected life bird for me and a wonderful welcome to Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge. Howler monkeys! My first-ever wild monkeys! Monkeys!!!!! It turned out to be pretty cool.

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Honduras Wildlife Monkeys Transported 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds. This morning, I have three interesting scientific findings related to bird for you. First, birds may age more quickly in urban environments. Third, which we already suspected, bird brains are adjusted to provide extra smartness in a way not seen in mammals. urban or rural).

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Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 110

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2017

Birds with white on them are much more likely to take the form of goodies like the Snowy Cotinga , or two species of tityras. Masked Tityra – the most frequently encountered small bird in Costa Rica with white plumage. The Caribbean slope of Costa Rica also differs from the islands in having a lot more bird species.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Last weekend, I went on a birding binge. I spent two full days where the birding was near constant, and, just to keep the binoculars from being neglected, topped it off with another half day of birding on our drive back from Cano Negro, Costa Rica. Like most of my birding weekends, this one began somewhere in the Central Valley.

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Costa Rica San Jose Birds Farming 121

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2015

The bird is so rare and elusive that it was thought to be extinct. Twenty-five Puerto Rican Parrots are being groomed to be pioneers: The Critcally Endangered birds have been transported from existing colonies to the Maricao State Forest.

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Parrots Bahamas Monkeys Transported 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

As is often the case for tropical ecosystems, there may be hundreds of species of birds at a site, but many of them are naturally rare. In Costa Rica, this is the case for many raptors and is why fewer than expected are found during an average birding trip. Basically, a hawk-eagle is kind of like a huge Accipiter with a crest.

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Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. My participation in the Proexport Colombia Avistamiento de Aves familiarity trip brought me to the Otun-Quimbaya Reserve for a day of absolutely thrilling tropical birding.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Birds are supposed to have feathers and birds without feathers look incomplete, like they left home with shaving cream on their ear and toothpaste spots on their shirt. The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. T urkey Vulture, photo by Dawn Puliafico.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 180

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2018

Both the online world and the birding world are full of disputes, arguments, disagreements, squabbles, and quarrels. Rather than hide from conflict, ignore controversy, and pretend everyone gets along about everything we here at 10,000 Birds decided we would have a week where we writers welcome wrangling. 7AM – Intro Post.

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Bald Eagle Battery Monkeys Hunters 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2016

and dreaming of a place where the heat is moderate, beer snake-cold and birds innumerable… Let’s say, where the average annual maximum varies from 22 to 24 degrees Celsius / 72 to 75 Fahrenheit and where some 700+ bird species – 24 of them endemic – are waiting for an intrepid birder… Answer to the riddle?

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Africa Uganda Gorillas Rwanda 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

I suppose there a hypothetical life list of all the birds I have seen, but I have no idea how long that list is. But to review a list of a day, a site, a trip, a year, a county, a country, a life even, is in essence the story of the birds you saw and the birding you did. I honestly have no particular memory of these birds.

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Monkeys Argentina China Pandas 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2011

When a pelagic trip is short of great new birds to watch there is almost always the chum scrum to entertain the despondent birder. Chum monkeys are those who are paid to keep the chum flying off the back of the boat.* Chum monkeys are those who are paid to keep the chum flying off the back of the boat.* What, exactly, is chum?

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Monkeys New York Albatross Fish 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2018

Just stepping away from the birds for a minute, because you can’t really do any kind of story about Kruger National Park, and not at least mention the animals. The best I could do to mix both the birds and the animals was in the picture at the top of this story. This Kori Bustard was one of my target birds.

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South Africa Africa Rhinos Mongoose 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2014

The lodge is unusual in having a raised walkway behind the lodge, allowing those of us keen to bird or watch wildlife when most normal people are resting in the middle of the day. The birding was pretty ace too. This species was my bird of the year last year. What a bird! Trips apes Birding Borneo'

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Rhinoceros Apes Elephants Monkeys 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2018

I haven’t got a story behind this week’s beer, and I’m not even sure what to make of the name or the artwork beyond its obvious avian inspiration – but there’s enough here to qualify it for a “Birds and Booze” review. Happy drinking and good birding! _. Just enjoy the beer. Half Acre Beer Company: Lead Feather.

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Barn Owls Chicago Monkeys Owls 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. The reasons for this perceived lack of birds are threefold. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now. Of the 130 or so birds brought to New Zealand 39 managed to establish themselves here.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

Sort of like the mega birds, these aren’t your average worm-eating, seed-feeding, chirping guys with brightly colored plumage. It’s a fine selection of birds for a place the same size as West Virginia but it also comes with a catch commonly found in tropical forest ecosystems. King Vulture. Barred Hawk. Black Hawk-Eagle.

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Costa Rica West Virginia Eagles Monkeys 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2012

The short-sighted monkey creatures in charge of our planet have long equated “cold-blooded” with “evil”, and while amphibians have generally been rehabilitated into the cute/charming category — except in Australia — reptiles still get short shrift in the world of ecological marketing.

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Reptiles Spain Monkeys Cows 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is not the synonym for birding and that I can bird without a paddle, although I cannot paddle without a pair of binoculars. Which birds can be seen there? But, more than just quantity, this spot offers some quality birding, too.

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2012

My friends, knowing my interest in birds, were eager to show me. In European folklore particularly, birds (that is White Storks ) bringeth babies, and birds (specifically various types of eagles) taketh babies away. Everyone knows you bait eagles with babies in Alpine meadows, DUH.

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Eagles Psychology Primates Montana 135

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2011

Tree leaves have a reputation for being hard to digest and animals, such as monkeys, that feed primarily on leaves, spend most of their time either eating or resting while their guts, with their specialised bacteria, break down the cellulose and extract the goodness from the meal. I was walking with Simon who knows about such things.

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Monkeys Raised Animal Experience 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2018

Now, going into this trip I knew it wouldn’t be a birding-centered journey. And while the weather dampened the bird activity quite a bit we still managed to enjoy ourselves immensely. But readers here aren’t on 10,000 Birds to hear about my drinking or Desi’s sand castles. No, you want to hear about the birds!

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