10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Like so many nomads human and otherwise, the Pine Siskins are pleased to call this valley home base. It took me a while to sort out that their Common Blackbird was more akin to our American Robin than it was to our blackbirds (or the robin to their Robin ), that their warblers were not our warblers, that their tits were our chickadees.

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AUGUST 13, 2011

Ditto for the Blackbird Bakery on Bainbridge Island, Fins Coastal Cuisine in Port Townsend, and Ezell’s Chicken in Seattle. Drawbridges are the bane of humanity. Especially humanity trying to make it to the ferry on time. Striking up conversations in the street and not asking for money nice. Eat there. Drink lots of it.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans. Brewer’s blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus. Red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus. Attempting to bluff the bear in believing that they were even bigger bears, Hoshino suggested raising their hands, to appear taller. Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2017

Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. Feature Image By Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren (Rusty Blackbird) [CC BY 2.0 ([link] via Wikimedia Commons. Drew Lanham is a black man. Drew Lanham. 24.00, Milkweed Press.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I imagine I have a pretty good idea of what this does to the human inhabitants of the area, but what does it do to the birds? I was attempting to photograph some Yellow-headed Blackbirds , resting in the cat-tails, when much to my surprise, this Sora , Porzana carolina , just swam right out, and milled around in from of me.

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JUNE 9, 2022

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. Another – much rarer – drongo at Nanhui is the Ashy Drongo. These birds have too much taste.

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JULY 18, 2014

Spring through summer is baby season, and the human population ventures outside and finds little creatures in their backyard, their garden, their porch, the edge of the trail, the sidewalk, the train platform, etc. Blackbird mentality. Belly’s not bruised; skin tone his purplish-red, as is gape. Quiet little “chip” for begging call.

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JULY 23, 2014

The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. To Victorian eyes the fauna and flora of New Zealand was strange, both in appearance and in its apparent paucity.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2012

We humans often understand things by exploring their relationships. Finches didn’t make it across Wallace’s Line into Australasia until humans helped them along, but they did accomplish at least one remarkable transoceanic voyage on their own. More on that in a moment. And back to finches. But not all.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

The nest cam, in my mind, is the perfect compromise — minimally invasive to the bird, while offering even the most unadventureous or house-bound humans the opportunity to get to know a small slice of nature. Perhaps I should hike Mt. Sentinel and check if the Mountain Bluebirds are back on territory yet.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2011

So, why do woodpeckers peck on human made structures? There are several species of birds we enjoy for their songs-- American Robins, Carolina Wrens, Wood Thrushes and maybe even Red-winged Blackbirds. Reason 1: Territory This is the time of year when a variety of birds are setting up breeding territories.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Every part of the world has it’s suite of parking lot staples, those urbanish species that seem to prefer to linger about humanity subsisting in no small amount to the magnanimity, or more likely the laziness, of humankind. The western half of the continent sees a lot of Brewer’s Blackbirds mixed in.

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JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

For some reason that I do not quite understand myself – given that I really rather dislike children and am not too positive about the rest of humanity either – I recently put up a little display of bird photos inside my Shanghai compound, which I share (as the only foreigner) with about 1700 Chinese.

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JUNE 5, 2015

People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started. “I took in a Flying Squirrel they’d been feeding chocolate covered coffee beans,” wrote Letitia Labbie, to which Sandi Lancaster Leonard replied, “OMG!

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JANUARY 2, 2018

A bit beyond the basics but still fundamental are chapters on bird feeding consequences and problems (squirrels and raccoons, too many blackbirds, hawks and cats, woodpecker damage, window strikes, extreme weather, and bird feeding in special situations, including retirement centers, condos, and apartments.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

He knows his stuff and, with the exception of the occasional Red-winged Blackbird call, is rarely fooled by a bird. Next we stopped by The Beanery where an extremely distant singing Veery at the limits of the human ear was the only new bird to grace our list.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^ I think because we, or at least I, have a fantasy of every field guide being created unique and new, that when I gently lift the cover a new guide, I’ll find treasures we’ve never seen before. Fantasy is the key word here.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Even though she’s not keen on commercial aviation, she travels for birding once or twice a year, she says, including, a couple of years ago, to the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, where she saw a number of life birds, including some that inspired songs, such as the Yellow-headed Blackbird: Yellow-headed Blackbird, how you stand out in a crowd.

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JUNE 6, 2023

And I think the non-birders reading this book would like photos of birds, particularly his spark bird, Red-winged Blackbird, and his beloved Blackburnian Warbler (the drawing is lovely but the bird really needs to be seen in color). Nah, sadly, probably not. exploring birds, their habitats, and conservation.

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JUNE 24, 2021

And of course, there are Chinese Blackbirds breeding – ignored by the local government as they are unlikely to attract birders. I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too. Another aspect of Tiaozini that the local government prefers not to highlight is its teeming red-light district.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

As humans we place exceptional value in the beauty of an individual’s eyes. Eye color is even more varied in birds than it is in humans. In fact, many birds exhibit more pigment coloration in their eyes than humans (for the scientifically-minded these pigments are called pteridines, purines and carotenoids).

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AUGUST 19, 2020

This pervasive pandemic we’re currently experiencing has squashed everyone’s travel plans – humans that is. A Pinnated Bittern gets escorted to another hiding place by a squadron of Yellow-hooded Blackbirds. Migration (in particular bird migration) is well underway, however.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Gray Jay : This drab but charismatic species demonstrates that the more a bird interacts with humans, the more colloquial names it will tend to pick up. Once known as the Canada Jay, but more interestingly by such tags as Camp Robber and Venison Hawk for its habit of hanging around humans and viewing them as a food source.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The modal bird song is a song, but not all ‘songs’ are song-like, in the sense that we expect song to come out of the ‘mouth’ (bill) and to consist of modulated air currents (like human voice). Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Sure, migration was in evidence — both Kinglet species present, Hermit Thrushes everywhere, White-throated Sparrows tuning up their songs in such abundance that they provided an ongoing soundtrack, American Robins and assorted blackbirds on the move. Those pesky metaphors cropping up everywhere. Photo courtesy of the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Yellow-headed Blackbird. To protect our wild spaces and all the flora and fauna (including humans), add your voice! As the first U.S. national park (1872), birding records date back to its establishment. There are 258 species documented; half of which nest in the park. Canada Goose family. Photo by © Robin Edwards. Mountain Chickadee.

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JUNE 6, 2017

It includes sounds made by American Goldfinch, Bachman’s Sparrow, Hooded Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, and Red-winged Blackbird. The posts are on diverse aspects of bird sound, from recording equipment and techniques to taxonomy to identification to hearing loss (human, not bird), and make an entertaining complement to the field guide.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Blackbirds foraging in the dead of night? Get read for another round of mass bird flu hysteria , complete with conflicting opinions about the risk to humans. News Aplomado Falcon big year Bird Flu Bohemian Waxwing Conservation European Blackbirds Great Bustards Gunnison Sage Grouse hummingbirds Magee Marsh South Island Saddlebacks'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. Do all the males provide food for the few nests, increasing the chance for all of them to transmit their DNA to the next generations?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

So, winter is very nearly upon us, and no, I never did find a Yellow-headed Blackbird. Like many mountain birds, Gray-crowned Rosy Finches are said to show little fear of humans, so hopefully all the hustle and bustle will only be in my favor as rescue will be on hand if I run out of oxygen or fall down.

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MAY 1, 2023

The captor monkey killed the bird … by biting off its head” Eurasian Woodcocks are much more likely to be killed by humans than by snub-nosed monkeys. . … One sub-adult male caught the bird when it ran into him, and at this time, the other hunting males stopped their chase.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus. Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus.

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APRIL 2, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus. Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus. Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus.

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