10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips?

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North America 2003 Birds America 152

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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Arkansas Memphis Sparrows Geese 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. There are also certain psychological advantages. Birding New year year list'

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Psychology Livestock North America Adoptable 158

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. I suspect that, like so many of what seem our primal instincts, the real basis is far more psychological.

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Eagles Psychology Primates Montana 134

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 17, 2012

So you’ve got a new pet bird. You’ve got a good cage and included everything your bird should need (newspaper lining the bottom of the cage, some toys, some bird seed, etc.). The height of a birdcage can affect your bird’s psychology. If you place it down low, your bird will think that you’re a predator and panic.

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Psychology Cooking Suffering Pets 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is something not seen in very young children but then typically develops and becomes observable and testable by psychology graduate students who have done innumerable studies on it. Research to determine the ability to understand the HCA vs. UCA distinction has shown this to be rare as well.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Research 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2016

Nearby, in the air, the concentrated solar energy can be so high that a bird flying by can become vaporized. Some estimates suggested that something like 28,000 birds would be killed per year in this plant. So, this solution to global warming would come at the cost of 112,000,000 birds annually. It just turns into gas and dust.

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Killing Psychology Birds California 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

Or, as Dunning and Kruger wrote when they published their results in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. But what, I can hear 10,000 Birds readers asking, does this have to do with birding? Fascinating, no?

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Bald Eagle Eagles Psychology Birds 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2018

No matter how much I want to make sure these stories are all about the birds, there is just something I just have to get off my chest. I have now flown to New Zealand, in search of as many new bird species as I can track down, at a semi-pedestrian pace, mixed with some normal tourist activities. It’s all about March 1st. It is gone.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2012

The film also featured hostile possums and a satisfying variety of angry birds, along with the Australia-requisite menacing snakes and spiders. At the same time, I feel like you have to be comfortable with getting a little lost to really get into birding. At least the way I bird. Dugong photo via OpenCage.info a.

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Possums Cows Psychology Jamaica 116

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

But no, Jim’s eyes only light up when I talk about the Red-tailed Hawk that observes feeder birds from the top of the pine tree behind our building, or the Northern Harriers that in fall kettle over that grasslands preserve. I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty.

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North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, which comprises the twin volcanoes Gede and Pangrango (with gunung meaning “mountain”), surely must rate as one of the birding highlights of Southeast Asia, and is arguably the most important and well-known birding site on the island of Java. Allow for at least three days if you can.

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Suffering Birds Indonesia 2013 158