10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2020

Sure, they’re always a dependable, can’t-miss tick whenever you need them to be there, whether it’s the first day of the year, or the first few minutes of a Big Day or Christmas Bird Count. But there’s no getting around the fact that the starling is likely the most detested bird on the continent – as far as birders are concerned, anyway.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. The idea is to portray one bird for each hour of the day in words and art, presenting the diversity, beauty, and wonder of avian life. Angell’s black-and-white illustrations bring sparks of energy and visual clarity to the fascinating bird behaviors described by Huber.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. End of side note.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

Zach Schwartz-Weinstein is a writer, teacher, organizer, and birdwatcher who lives in upstate New York. The racial politics of bird nomenclature are on the minds of many these days, thanks to a proposal authored by Robert Driver to amend the American Ornithological Union Checklist to change the english name of McCown’s Longspur.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. New research suggests that the phenomenon of contagious yawning can also be seen in birds. In the other study, the birds—which seem to be great mimics of videos—were shown footage of budgies yawning.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

If you’ve ever wanted to understand why warning calls by one bird species seem to spread rapidly, like an avian version of the Wave , to birds of other species, Professor Erick Greene from the University of Montana is your man. And recordings of birds’ frantic calls in response to such.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Knopf, 1994/97.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. Bird communication is a complex and evolving science.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2018

I was returning from a trip to Central Park in New York, tired but flushed with pleasure from getting a good look at a Prothonotary Warbler. Has Black-browed Cardinal ever been described to science? There was no stopping me now. Not all matches are perfect. I have had to put this one down as Oriole sp. Vermillion Flycatcher?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Yesterday morning I was out and about on the coast of Queens looking for migrating birds. When I got home later that day I downloaded my photos and reported the band number to the feds , and then put the photos on the New York Birders Facebook page to ask if anyone knew what the weird little widget attached to the goose was.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There is no doubt in my mind that the annual Great Backyard Bird Coun t (GBBC) is the most impressive citizen science endeavor in the world. Run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Audubon, and Canada’s Bird Studies, the GBBC rallies global birders to go out and bird, submitting checklists of their sightings.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In upstate New York (where I call I home and do most of my birding), Great Blue Herons serve as both augurs of spring and emblems of wintertime perseverance, depending on the year. In my last seven years living here, I’ve seen one on New Year’s Day counts twice. Good birding and happy drinking!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same. Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. So say Kevin T.

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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

I haven’t been birding yet in 2013. Oh, I’ve gotten my first bird of the year ( European Starling – yay?) and a handful more ( Rock Pigeon , House Sparrow , and my first native bird, White-Throated Sparrow ), but for the most part I’ve been sticking to indoor pursuits here in chilly New York City.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Reason #17,411 Not to Own Wild Birds Reason #17,411 Not to Own Wild Birds By Corey • March 11, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Quentin Tarantino might sue you. Thanks for visiting! Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

I have a larger post coming out next week as part of a special 10,000 Birds topical extravaganza, so for now just three little things. First, and this is OLD news, dating to several years go. But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Herpetology Vs. Ornithology Herpetology Vs. Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. Thanks for visiting!

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. I hope that Mr. Steiner’s essay will result in people at least stopping for a moment, before carving the birds on their tables, and giving these ideas some serious critical thought. David Peters New York, Nov. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan. Lawrence S.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat. A “free range” bird eats insects, as well as plants, so it gets more nutrition out of the same amount of land than do her cattle, which eat only the grass.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

European Starlings count as much as any other bird on a big year. Now seems like a good time to look in on the birding big years happening in 2013 to see how folks are doing as they tear around their county or region or state or province or country trying to see as many birds as possible before 1 January 2014.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Inspiration / March by Goethe March by Goethe By Mike • March 19, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Swallows are a sure sign of spring the world over. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2019

Confronted with this dilemma, New World winemaking stagnated for over a century as thirsty colonists turned their attentions to cider, beer, rum, and whisky instead. The Catawba grape, as depicted in The Grapes of New York , published in 1908 by American botanist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick. Good birding and happy drinking!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2024

Looking for a bird book that has appeal to cross the generations, one that will delight both the preschooler and the seasoned birder? Try New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky’s What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest? And What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest? What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. Memoirs are rare in the birding world.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

These were the sounds I heard as I walked around a small pond in Amherst, Massachusetts last week, looking for dragonflies, listening for birds. Now, last December I took my young nephews, Jake and Zach, to a terrific exhibit, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Or, not feeding.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

There are also juvenile birds to confuse a birdwatcher. • Explore These Related Posts Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Good Gully: A Birder’s Oddity Slaty-backed Gull (?) at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

That’s because I’d already seen the conclusions contained in a study that Audubon (my employer) was preparing to release, a study about birds and climate change. And this bird won’t be able to expand into new areas either — its expansion potential totals only 1 percent of its current range.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. There are variations on that theme, of course.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As if eBird, the marvelous citizen science produced database of bird sightings, wasn’t awesome enough, you can now have an eBird profile that is viewable by other eBird users. A screenshot of my eBird profile that shows my New York State total and a heat map for the different counties in New York.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Only, birders don’t require pieces of dead birds to satisfy their desires.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

The second thing to note is that this is an excellent and courageous book that tackles a group of birds whose field identification has stumped the most skilled birders. ” This builds and expands on a classic series of articles by Bret Whitney and Kenn Kaufman that appeared Birding magazine between 1985 and 1987.* known-identity).”**

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is in addition to the many articles and exhibits and even film devoted to the bird, one of the few species whose death was witnessed and noted down to the exact day, Tuesday, September 1, 1914 (though there is some question about the exact time). We have a lot of source material.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In addition to my monthly posts here, I have also written short pieces and feature articles that rely on bird-related scientific literature. Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding.

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