10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. I just want to point out it could be much worse.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 216

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Not the strictly protected bustards, but Red Foxes, Brown Hares, Pheasants , as well as Hooded Crows and Rooks. I will keep you posted in the part two of this blog. Last but not least, the Special Nature Reserve is being managed by the local hunting club – the reserve occupies their hunting ground. Lots of it.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The subject is one that comes up a lot in this blog and other bird blogs, the subject of cats and their effect on wildlife. Cats, along with other introduced mammals, are genuinely a problem in New Zealand in a way they aren’t in most of the rest of the world (Australia has similar problems mostly with foxes and cats).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

One wouldn’t tether a rabbit out to get a shot of a fox or a coyote, or is that somehow different? A few years back, Mike McDowell in his blog The Digiscoper , covered baiting owls in Not Baited. I am well aware of the debate that this is no different than photographing birds at a feeder, but for me it feels different.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Here is a sneak peek: Mark Thompson, the former host of Guinness World Records Primetime and Fox’s Emmy Awards red-carpet coverage, will co-host Shark Attack Experiment LIVE with Anna Gilligan, former Fox News Channel personality, from Rocky Bay, South Africa, commonly referred to as “Shark Park.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. 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. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

At the same time, reading When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers, set me wondering about viewers’ reactions, especially New Yorkers who have never seen an owl outside of a zoo or a picture book. When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

So, there are separate descriptions for birds normally grouped in the Savannah Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, and Dark-eyed Junco complexes. In perhaps the most audacious of several audacious decisions, Rick covers a number of subspecies at the species level, stating that these are distinctive birds.

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North America Sparrows America United States 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. You can see the comments from both sides by scrolling down after the blog’s conclusion. A late-posted blog comment was both revealing and chilling.

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Killing Hunting Hunters Possums 258

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Having come back to the blog in whatever form and persistency, the overarching subject of language in birding seemed to be a suitable and deserving theme since bird names were part of my original beat. Nevertheless, I felt it was time for a new post.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 183

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

Sooner or later I will borrow a card reader and get those pictures downloaded but in the meantime I think I have some pretty decent shots, like the Peregrine Falcon at Jones Beach that led off this blog post. This one was hanging out near that Fox Sparrow , but on the sunny side of the tree. Click to embiggen.). Click to embiggen.).

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2014 Fox Birds Owls 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

The index is comprehensively excellent, including notable subspecies such as Dusky Seaside Sparrow and Sooty Fox Sparrow. They also author a popular birding blog featuring Lillian’s enviable photographs of birds, butterflies and landscapes.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

For some time, I have had a dream: to follow their migration across Africa and to blog about that flyway (sponsors are more than welcome!). A young Red Fox visits the garden night after night, passing a mere 2-3 metres from me, taking a glimpse in my direction – then I freeze, not to look like a threat, so it gets used to me.

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Greece Falcons Madagascar Africa 226

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

My favorite sighting was a trio of Sandhill Cranes along I-71 in Ohio, but since that didn’t occur on the weekend, I’ll go with fetching Fox Sparrows at our cousin’s Kentucky farm. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

You can follow their blog, Flight to Freedom , to get updates on how the lions are doing, and to read the full story and see videos like the one below.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2011

There has not been a dime of money spent by Fox, the studio releasing The Big Year , on promoting the movie in the birding world. No ads in birding magazines or birding blogs. What’s worse than Fox’s stinginess with the birding world? emphasis mine] Of course Fox finds Audubon’s efforts very gratifying!

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Fox Campaign Industry Birds 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2018

No peace for the blessed (Are you all as impressed as I am that Tom is in Africa and still finding time to review photos, share checklists and write blog posts?). Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. But the beats go on in Southern climes and our intrepid little-big-year beat, Tom enters Africa. Near San Luis. 12 Jan 2018.

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