10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Dutch Island of Texel is well-known amongst European birders due to the exciting number and quality of birds it attracts during spring and autumn migration times. A few Bohemian Waxwings were also a great addition to my life-list and a long-awaited bird. maurus and S. stejnegeri generally have a warmer tone.

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Birds Groups Ducks Rights 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Their migration is quite fast compared to many other larger birds – in one study , several birds flew 4000 km within 5–7 days while one individual even flew 5600 km non-stop. That includes breeding birds, as indicated by the presence of some rather cute chicks ( video ). Also as video.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

The Christmas Bird Count was the answer. The IWC census starts from mid-January following the logic that it is the period when the birds have reached their wintering grounds and are rather static, so the chance of double-counting the same flock is minimal. But it is so frustrating to pass the birds by without IDing them!

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Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 139

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

It is commonly kept in captivity and has therefore established many feral populations world-wide originating from escaped / released cage birds. This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. Very stupid thing to do.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Most perching birds have already left us sometime from late August and September; soaring birds do migrate over Serbia, but there is no known bottleneck site to observe them (it is believed that they follow the main river valleys to the east and south); while waterbirds will start arriving in a month or so. We met at 10.00

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Serbia Europe Netherlands Eagles 218

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Winged Sentinels: Birds and Climate Change falls squarely in the middle of this range: while it is unlikely to be picked up for beach reading, it is written at a level suitable for an undergraduate student or informed layperson. If I have any complaints, they lie not in the information but in the way the information is presented.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

A recent proposal ( 555 ) to the AOU’s South American Classification Committee deals with newly published information about relationships within the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae, and what it means for the classification of these wonderful, fascinating birds. Ruddy Turnstones , Sanderling , and Purple Sandpiper © David J.

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Family North America Netherlands New Zealand 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here is just a small handful of some of the wonderful images that have moved me this year: The subtle brown hues in mclaudio’s (Italy) Dotterel ( Charadrius morinellus ) image wonderfully place the bird within a habitat – and imagined landscape – context.

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2011 Puffins Costa Rica Netherlands 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

While Caribbean has many great and wonderful birding islands, Aruba isn’t really one of them. But dig a little deeper and there are birds nearly everywhere, which is one of the great things about birding. But dig a little deeper and there are birds nearly everywhere, which is one of the great things about birding.

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South America Netherlands America Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2023

Before starting Birdingplaces.eu , Chris van der Heijden worked for BirdLife in The Netherlands. During his birding travels through Europe, he came up with the idea for Birdingplaces: why was it so hard to get good birding info in most countries? habitats and birds to look out for). Yes, it was possible.

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Europe Netherlands Namibia Cuba 194

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. With its deep chestnut-red breast, exquisite head pattern and black and white body it’s an exceedingly handsome bird, and one that never fails to attract admirers when one turns up in Britain.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is one of them. Other contenders are Kookaburra, Shoebill, and Umbrellabird, but people smile when they hear these names because they know a song or because they can’t believe these are real names of real birds. <pause> Do I have your attention now?

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

When I started birding in earnest during the 1980s in south-west Germany, no one talked about Egyptian Geese. The situation was still much the same in 1995, when a friend and I went on a short birding trip to the Netherlands in winter, specifically to see geese. The Netherlands were far away. Then, they had a plan.

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Germany Geese Netherlands Kenya 150

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A new research project using Zebra Finches in semi-wild conditions indicates that for some bird populations a certain aspect of climate change may have a negative effect on the viability of populations by causing increased mortality in a subtle but significant way. DTR has not been carefully studies in birds, which are endotherms, until now.

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Killing Zebras Birds Research 198

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Birds and airplane compete for right-of-way at Sky Harbor Airport and Seaplane Base (image by Donald Emmerich, Wikimedia Commons). The damage to the bird in question tends toward the catastrophic.) During migration periods, conventional radar systems can give birders a helpful heads’ up as to when and where birds are moving.

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Netherlands Illinois Washington 192

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By Peter Penning Peter Penning is a sustainability management consultant who spends many weeks abroad away from his homes in The Netherlands (work) and Portugal (holidays). Although work distracts him regularly from the observation of birds, he has managed to see a great many species regardless. Somehow, he doesn’t care.

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Uganda Netherlands Monkeys Portugal 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By Luca Feuerriegel Family holidays to nature reserves and the abundance of nature books including bird guides at home paved the way for Luca to be a committed birder by the time he was in his early teens. Luca recently completed his BSc in the Netherlands and currently spends his time working (and birding!)

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Sri Lanka Birds Netherlands Namibia 201

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

I also got to spend a few hours in the Netherlands. Birding in Germany was okay during the first half of the year but essentially came to an end in June due to several issues, most significantly a move to a different appartment within Heidelberg. So here they are, my top 10 bird species of 2016, in no particular order except for No.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2016

You will now realise that we were not on a birding holiday in the UK after twenty two years , but visiting my parents. It really has not changed a great deal other than the birding! My Mum will continue to enjoy the countryside and she has always been interested in the birds and wildlife that she sees. Common Redshank.

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Iceland Netherlands France Kuwait 134

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I must ashamedly admit that prior to this mission, I had never been birding on the island before. Sure enough it was a place I always wanted to visit for birding, but things never fell into place. In fact, the habitat on Chacachacare recalls that of the desert islands of the Netherlands Antilles.

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Trinidad Netherlands Columbus Whales 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2023

What a bountiful year it’s been for birding books! For more on best bird books of 2023, the ABA Podcast will have its annual discussion, including our own Donna Schulman, available for listening in early December. There are plenty more book reviews, as well, on the 10000 Birds blogsite.) Howell and Dale Dyer.

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North America Birds Europe America 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week’s beer is Ring Your Mother, a collaboration between the English Buxton Brewery and Oproer Brouwerij and Oedipus Brewing of the Netherlands, that revives an 1832 recipe for an XXXX mild ale originally brewed by the now-defunct Truman Brewery of East London, one of the largest breweries in the world in the 1800s.

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San Francisco Netherlands Nevada Investigation 100