10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. A juvenile male. The real thing: an adult male. ” Hm.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2022

From one side, the reserve is under the attack of spreading arable fields, from another by numerous wind generators and it is no easy task to support the surviving breeding birds within its borders. Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. You can see why here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

In Sydney, refuse is an important constituent of the diet during the breeding season (HBW), and a study conducted in 1970 describes a number of strategies by which these gulls steal food from Crested Terns. The now sadly retired 10,000 Birds blog writer Redgannet already covered the New Holland Honeyeater in a post published in 2013.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. This species is listed as vulnerable – similar to the Yellow-breasted Buntings, it is trapped on a large scale.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you were an antique Roman reading this blog post, what you see below would not be a Brown-hooded Kingfisher but a white-bellied one ( albiventris ). Among some other species of the kingfisher family, this species is a bit of a laughingstock. .” Thanks for pointing it out though.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

One of the more unusual additions to our local avifauna is the Common Hill Myna (not to be confused with Common Myna, a parking lot obligate in Miami), a popular bird in the pet trade due to its ability to mimic human speech. Images for this week’s blog post are courtesy of Judd Patterson. Birding Exotic Miami birding mynas'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

I know for a fact that a certain birder from the US only joined an esteemed bird blog and blogged like a madman just so he would eventually be invited by makers of fine optics to Austria where he would have a chance at seeing his lifer white-throated dippers. Crazy, I know. And you know what? There are in winter. Fan service:

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. The Hair-crested Drongo is a bit more common here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

So, even though this is a bit much, it seems justification enough to continue this series of blog posts – particularly as I wrote this series under lockdown in Shanghai, with nothing much to do. Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As an older Chills song is titled, “Familiarity breeds contempt” (And no, I do not think NZ band The Chills originally came up with this phrase – I can use google as well as any other person and thus know that the expression familiarity breeds contempt was first used in English in the 1300s by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

He blogs at The Nightjar – The tales of an Upstate New York Birder and otherwise stays busy being an eBird reviewer, taking care of his kids, and, recently, planning a trip to Europe where he hopes to see lots of new birds. Cattle Egret has been introduced by humans to Hawaii and the Seychelles. ibis and the eastern B.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. But no one who has ever cared for another creature – be it bird, animal, or human – can comprehend, much less cope with, this kind of brutal, pointless killing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

It has come to my attention that this blog needs more gulls. Of course this is self-evident as you can never have enough gulls on a bird blog, but this blog here is in an especially dire need of more gull posts for the simple reason that I have a few nice pictures of gulls that would make for a few nice posts.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to how we date some ancient sites. The photograph of Cory’s Shearwater is from this blog post. Birds Navigation Olfaction research Sheawater'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2016

The world is still turning, the blog didn’t crash, no anonymous threats against my family on social media … I guess my small series on gulls may continue with part 2 of 3, which will focus on the Herring Gull ‘s second side-kick: Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans. Yes, there are Caspian Gulls on this picture. And Jackdaws.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. Then there is the fact that indicus sparrows tend to avoid human habitations while domesticus doesn’t, leading to sympatric breeding with a disputed amount of hybridisation.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! I love the writing here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I blame Charlie Sheen. Thanks for visiting!

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. My deconstructions of the language of our relationship with sentient nonhumans in this blog--and the way I approach discussing that relationship--is similar to Dunayer's. I could go on and on.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

Post a picture on Susan Wilson’s Facebook page and explanation of how your dog (or turtle, or human, etc!) She goes to the door, rejects the notion of going out, turns toward her dinner; goes back to the door, because clearly this human is not listening. The work of shelters and breed rescue organizations is vital.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

If you don’t have a blog either give a three-sentence description of your Best Bird of the Year in the comments below or email a description to corey AT 10000birds DOT com by 26 December (you can include an image if you want – just make it a maximum of 600 pixels across). We would like you to join in!

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

Most often pets are not allowed in these shelters due to reasons of human health safety. Make sure you ask if they have any limitations on the number, size, species or breeds they allow. Some dog breeds (e.g. However, some of them will allow cages or crates to be set up outside the shelter if you ask. are not allowed.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. Make up your mind, Ringer!

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

(As you are likely aware, very few people can actually get through the film in one sitting, plus the first third, about "pets," sends the troublesome message that puppy mills are the problem, rather than breeding in general.) Tribe of Heart ) have managed to leave the viewer no option that includes eating animals.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

In the 70s, with the survival of the species in jeopardy, the entire wild population was captured and brought into a captive breeding program in southern California. Panama’s Vulture – Jan Axel, Jan’s Birding Blog. North America’s Oldest New Bird – Rick Wright, The ABA Blog.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Photo by [Clairity]([link] I have no new information or insights to offer you here; as far as I know this issue has been addressed in a number of places including this very interesting if not very current blog post by John Trapp. I did archaeology for 20 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year for a couple/few decades.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). I also blogged about that dreamy day.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

It is kind of unappealing to see blog posts with highly specific and rather boring-sounding titles such as this one. Humans are not always bad for birds, only about 95% of the time. Humans often use a similar concept, for example, by excluding US Supreme Court Judges from following pesky rules regarding the declaration of gifts.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

Breeding pairs sometimes are supported by helpers, but these are not quite as unselfish as it may seem – in one study , in 8.3% These photos were taken in early March – the species looks more attractive in its summer breeding plumage. If you disagree, maybe you should find a blog post about monster trucks.

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