10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. He also blogs at Scienceblogs.com. One could say that knowing the science of birds can make the birds more interesting.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. So, for example, humans are apes. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Another blog has some very interesting remarks about the species, which I will just recite directly as they are well-phrased: “The Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo, a conspicuous black bird with a deeply forked tail, often forages in flocks comprised of up to a dozen different species of birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ).

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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

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc. At the same time, do we have the time to wait for everyone to become vegan to enact laws that will at least allow more humane care in the short term.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

I’m not going to rehash that war here, seeing as how it is a bird blog and not one about foreign policy, but it is perhaps appropriate to note the maelstrom of violence that has been pretty much ongoing since the neocons went in to make everything better. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When I look at all these changes condensed into one mesmerizing blog post, the differences seem staggering. Email lists, blogs, websites, forums, Facebook groups, and of course eBird (see below) has completely revolutionized the way birders get their business handled. Let’s get to it then. 2) The internet has changed everything.

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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. Sounds a bit like some weird Nazi eugenics experiment to me, but I guess it is just science. Yes, I know.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

First of all, I would like to thank Keith for inviting me to be a part of this blog. I had a strong interest in science because of its reliance on reason and skepticism, which struck me as very good tools for truth seeking (which is ultimately what I am interested in). Hi there, I'm Jonathan.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It seems the ones I got decent photos of are all juveniles – it generally seems to be easier to get photos of juveniles as they have not quite learned to avoid humans. Thank god that this does not apply to humans. Sometimes being a member of the human race feels very embarrassing. Not this one though.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

I’ve been sciencing really hard lately. He even writes a crappy blog about… birds. It’s not an exact science, but after a few weeks you get the idea of who is just hanging out on the local thermals and who is actually going north. Yup… everyone needs someone to whisper in their ear…George W.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. This plain used to be little affected by humans, being grazed by just a few cattle, goats and camels.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. And, as we find out in a blogged coda to the episode , they can’t even take care of their eggs. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2011

By joining the staff and walking through these hallowed cyberhalls, I will have, in effect, elevated 10,000 Birds to the status of the indisputable Greatest Birding Blog In The World…and who wouldn’t want to write for that? But, as those who find themselves worshipped are prone to say, we wouldn’t be here without you.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Image source.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. All of them had successfully learned the skills we taught them to forage in “safe&# areas and avoid humans. Here’s the petition. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now.Or

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2023

Another study provides some hope to human males who think of themselves as good karaoke singers. If you choose the latter, your music taste is more aligned with that of Java Sparrows (though the sample size in this study , 4 birds, of which 2 preferred Bach while the other two showed no clear preference, seems rather small).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It seems that like me, Oriental Storks are not that fond of humans. A study found that in areas with intense human activity, their nests were higher, while in safer environments, the nests were lower and closer to food resources, allowing parent storks to invest more in the nestlings. Well, they are birds, not humans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? I did email Jon Gassett with no problem.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

The Latin species name of the Common Greenshank , nebularia , sounds a bit like a science fiction novel to me – however, it means “misty” and apparently is derived from the birds’ misty, marshy habitat (HBW). Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai. If you want to signal to your environment that you a.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Don’t you love it when blog post writers split topics that do not interest you in the first place into two separate parts? Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Which sounds like a species name taken from a science fiction novel for children. Welcome to Birding Tongbiguan, part 1.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Let us know in the comments what your Best Bird of the Year for 2015 was as well and, if you have a link to a blog post, photos, or whatever else you want to share make sure to include it. At least she contributed to science… My Best Bird of the Year was a Snowy Plover , which I first spotted along the Florida Panhandle.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

This remote region of Cryptosepalum forests is little changed by human hands (somewhat of a rarity in these times of devastating habitat destruction) yet this species has not been relocated despite extensive searches by birders (including myself). Image from Budongo Forest, Uganda.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So assuming that these results are transferable to humans, parents should feed their offspring regularly (first finding) but restrict themselves to one child (second finding). But then, maybe not – it seems to be the nature of science that the more you know, the more you want to know.

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