10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.

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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

MAY 24, 2013

For instance, one could have to cope with many different screaming mammals, living in many different habitats, making many different noises, all of which sound enough like bird noises that maybe, just maybe, you should check. Mammals ground squirrels rodents' Montana has four species of chipmunk and six species of ground squirrel.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat. It’s not only the fact that you see more birds of prey than in “normal” years, they also show a different behaviour.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2020

But I am interested in what birds eat at my local patch here at Nanhui in Shanghai. Vegetarian food seems less interesting, or maybe it is just more difficult to capture on a photo … Many birds seem to regard Nanhui as a seafood restaurant. Similar to the Chinese, birds do not seem to mind eating frogs and toads.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

In front of us, the river is two miles wide… and it is paved with birds: smaller groups of Greater White-fronted and Greylag Geese , numerous Mute Swans and Mallards , plus Eurasian Teals , Gadwalls , Common Pochards , a few Ferruginous and Tufted Ducks , Common Goldeneyes and several Smews. A goose hunt sounds like a WWII battle.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. In any case: joining the already-packaged food items in my freezer are wild birds who didn’t make it. Birds raptors turkey vulture wildlife rehabilitators' He ate my last quail.

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Reddit Animals

JUNE 5, 2023

Wondering if it’s rodents, birds, ants ??? For context, my neighbour has a cherry tree basically right next to us. Lately I’ve been finding these pit remains on my porch stashed away between the stones and I’ve noticed little holes in the pits! Any help is greatly appreciated !

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2011

While the Rovio Angry Birds game franchise is hugely popular and has even led to a post here on 10,000 Birds that speculated on the identification of what the Angry Birds birds actually are , little attention has been paid to those that came before. Real Angry Birds? This bird has one simple reason to be angry.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

This is a key feature of birds. Not all birds fly, but all birds have flight related anatomy and at least descend from those that did. ” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are. An integrative approach to understanding bird origins.

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

idk), i put it in an old bird cage lined with a damp towel, a dish of water and an apple slice because i dont have anything better rn, im not sure if im going to be able to keep it or not but i want to at least get the lil guy up and running for now, can anyone tell me what to do?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. Scroll to the bottom for a list of products you can boycott.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Carolina Wren pictured above was caught in a Walmart in a trap set for rodents. But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My The grocery manager at a local store was using them to catch the birds that got in the building.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2011

And I would like to thank Keith Blackmore for pointing that out. Keep cats indoors!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2015

A bird species battling an onslaught of invasive rats just got a glimpse of hope. That’s because these birds won’t breed when rats are around. If no signs of rats are found by 2017, the island will be determined rodent-free for the first time since humans set foot on it more than two centuries ago.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Green Bay, Wisconsin, will put up nesting platforms and boxes in an attempt to lure birds of prey. The nesting program isn’t to benefit the birds but to try to contain a serious rodent problem. How cool is that?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

Safe Rodent Control will tell you how to rodent-proof without poison. Birds D-Con owls poison birds reckitt benckiser' Raptors Are The Solution (RATS) has a list of poisons still allowed for over-the-counter sale , as well as their manufacturers, active ingredients, and known impacts. But now it’s back to work, everyone.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

Most of the time when we think of birds, we think of the things that make them birds, and not the things that make them dinosaurs. You’ll hear people tell you that birds are dinosaurs, and that is supposed to blow you away and make you go all gaga about birds and evolution. are convenient secondary uses.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago. Midway’s birds are also protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Most bird species are discussed individually, with estimated risk and mitigation methods, if appropriate. This will focus on the requirements of NEPA.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2012

On the main Islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, and Isabela it is found near the garbage dumps where food (rodents) is plentiful. I have only seen this bird near wide open “fields of lava” where I suspect it is easier to see their prey. Driving at night near the dumps is a good way to find it.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2017

Loggerhead Shrikes are well known for their hunting skills, chasing down lizards, various insects, small rodents and even an occasional snake. A couple of weeks ago, I was in one of my favorite arroyos, when one of these beautiful birds landed right above my head. The first bird now had a Stick-bug in its bill.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2013

I was reading Carrie’s post last month and got to thinking about car birding in general. Personally, I am a big fan of car birding, despite the necessary fossil fuel burning that is involved. For many birders, the thought of car birding is as natural as using a field guide. In many places (i.e.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Common throughout India with a range that covers much of South-east Asia, it can often be seen around habitation where it catches small rodents, insects and invertebrates. Birds Birds in Religion owls' Its Latin name, Athene Brama, obliquely acknowledges it’s importance in Hindu culture with a hat-tip to Brahma.

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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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

Our standard Sciuridae is the Eastern Gray Squirrel ( Sciuridae carolinensis ) and while most of these rambunctious rodents are indeed gray, they sometimes come in other flavors. Whatever they are, white squirrels are just as eager to assault my bird feeders as their gray kin. So black squirrels have never been a surprise to me.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner. When I was cutting my birding teeth in southern Missouri lo those many years ago, Greater Roadrunner was limited to a couple distant glades, cedar glens on the south side of Ozark mountains, in the far south of the state.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Audubon chapter leaders meet once a year for these council meetings to share their ideas and successes with other chapters and discuss ways to improve members participation and enjoyment of birding and conservation activities. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Click on photos for full sized images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tVjohOIdI.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Birding that starts with the largest eagle of the continent certainly bears promises… The next stop is the town park in Opovo, north of Belgrade, where local bird expert Ceda Vuckovic reported one, locally rare, Short-eared Owl. Sakule is almost fully enclosed by its fishfarm and it is a tranquil home for numerous birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

All of the sudden we have bird multi-media everywhere. Meantime, I got a copy of an iAuthored iBook on birds that I’ve reviewed here. And all this has caused there to be musings in my head about multi-media technology, birds, and birding. The very first multi-media resource for leaning birds were birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

A while back I asked the question, How much bird is there, anyway? I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. And some of them would be hiding behind bushes waiting for a chance to jump on some of the birds. 3) Some of these birds were going to die anyway.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. Some counters are unfailingly resolute in their dedication to this thankless graveyard shift of the birding world, marching headlong year after year into the bleak winter landscape in search of their heard-only, nocturnal quarry. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

Few people can imagine (or even take seriously) the life of a birding guide at a lodge in the tropics, so I thought it would be a nice exercise to outline what an average day for me was like at Cristalino Lodge. While setting up my scope, I immediately start to call out birds. “ Scarlet Macaws to the left about 300 feet out.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

There’s even video proof of a Red-shouldered Hawk eating earthworms on Flickr and there’s been discussion about this on MD bird listserv. When I worked at a wild bird store, one of my customers had her own Red-shouldered Hawk Feeder. What kinds of things have you seen a red-shouldered hawk go for?

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Chickens Meat Rodents North America 234

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Plants, animals, as well as birds. This area, with its year round water supply, supports a huge amount of life, with coyotes, fox, bobcat and many different rodents, like this Mexican Ground Squirrel. The is no refridgeration, so if you do visit, be sure too include a cooler with ice. Then a White-winged Dove showed up.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Baby owls swallowing large rodents were called to mind as the gull wrestled with its lunch. Do birds not have a gag reflex? Gulping and simultaneously snatching, the meal was gradually being forced into the bird’s crop. I suspect that the starfish was actually brought up to re-position it ready for another attempt.

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