10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

Seeing as it is near the midway point of the year I thought it would be nice to check in on how the blogging Big Year birders are doing thus far in 2012. Josh Vandermeulen is sitting pretty at 317 species for the year in Ontario, only 21 off the province’s record of 338, set by Glen Coady in 1996. It’s quite a list!

South Dakota 194

South Dakota Houston Mammals Birds 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Even the Latin species name soror (“sister”) indicates the similarity to another pitta species (blue-naped). The eBird description of the Small Niltava starts with the surprisingly dull statement that “size distinguishes this species from other niltavas” Who would have thought.

China 216

China Birds Pythons Eagles 216

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

(Even less relevant side note: To my delight, the author has a firmly anti-Trump tone, remarking for example that “A president claims he was being ‘sarcastic’ after, in all seriousness, he raises the possibility of injecting Americans with bleach in order to control a pandemic.”).

Birds 147

Birds Cattle Suffering Turtles 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2021

High up at almost 4500 meters, some Alpine Accentors were posing in the sunshine, justifying the description in the HBW as “large, attractive accentor” (though eBird seems to disagree, instead characterizing the species as a “stocky, stout, and unobtrusive bird”). I side with the HBW on this issue.

China 180

China Birds Sheep Monkeys 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. The African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa).

Ostriches 147

Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2020

The message she relayed made me blurt out a string of words that cannot be repeated on this blog – let’s just say that my priorities immediately shifted. Typical of the species. Both species seemed content to observe each other though. Hopefully they found a suitable place nearby to raise the next generation!

Trinidad 193

Trinidad Birds Squirrels 2012 193

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2018

July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species. Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. Following me here? We may know these birds well, but should we love them? How about you?

2018 100

2018 Zoos Birds Raised 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

On a Big Year, every species counts equally, even the lowly House Sparrow. Priority in all of these blog posts will go to those keeping a blog about their big year, simply because it is easier to track what they are doing. Also, big year blogs are one of my favorite types of blog to read.

2013 190

2013 New Jersey Los Angeles North Carolina 190

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

After returning once more from Nanhui and almost admiring the extent of ongoing destruction there, what better song to start this blog post than with excerpts from the song “Give up” by The Burning Hell? Swinhoe’s White-eye was just promoted to the rank of a full species in 2018.

Birds 147

Birds China Eggs Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It is not particularly big but has a reported 430 bird species including migrants, though during my short stay it seems I missed most of the key attractions among them. Great White Pelican is not just the name of a non-existent glam-rock band but also of a bird species. Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you?

South Africa 147

South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2019

Tom, really raising the discourse of the blog, decided that we need to rename boobies. Carrie came up with a genius way to both rename pretty much everything and raise money for conservation. Joshua, another guest writer, gave us a dialogue about a particularly poorly-named woodpecker. And then the week ended!

Birds 114

Birds Raised China Woodpeckers 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2012

Skimming through the myriad of posts in my blog reader yesterday I came across a post from the ever-watchful guys at the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog that left me cold with anger. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

Industry 188

Industry Research Raised Killing 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For this reason, the species is evaluated as Vulnerable.” The Rufous-tailed Robin used to be called Swinhoe’s Robin but apparently, somebody decided that there were already too many bird species (6, according to the HBW) named after him. The Latin species name, however, is still elegans. And it is still justified.

Birds 190

Birds China Eggs Owls 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

This time around I will only be reporting on big years with a blog component because that is where the interest is. If you are doing a big year why wouldn’t you blog it? By the way, where current numbers were readily available on the blogs big year birders use I took numbers from there.

2013 180

2013 New Jersey North Carolina Canada 180

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. Her determination was further fueled by the fact that this year, the status of this species had been changed to Endangered in Nova Scotia. Chimney Swifts remain classified as At Risk in other provinces.)

Wildlife Rehabilitation 198

Wildlife Rehabilitation Canada Wildlife South America 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. No surprise then that the species is listed as Vulnerable.

Birds 130

Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Yes, you do, trust me. It looks nice 2.

Birds 178

Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

Birds 196

Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 196

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. The eight species above still exist. And if we continue to do nothing more and more species will continue to blink out. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Most species go extinct.

Mauritius 171

Mauritius Djibouti Guam Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2020

In this case it is you, the innocent reader who should thank me for not setting the title of this piece to “Just Like Paradise” Not that I have anything personal against David Lee Roth but this isn’t a blog post about something that can be likened to paradise. The Trinidad Motmot is the only endemic species on the island.

Trinidad 163

Trinidad Parrots Species Hunting 163

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Long-time readers of this blog probably also know Tai Haku, the scuba-diving, tree-planting, bird photographing nature blogger at Earth, Wind, and Water. That species is the Antillean Cave Rail or DeBooy’s Rail Nesotrochis debooyi , and the reason none of us will ever add it to our lists? It is extinct. What a horror!

Puerto Rico 181

Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 181

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2012

Plumb forgot about blogging, I did. Forgot about my own blog; forgot about my kids (just ask them). The book has 25 chapters, each one treating a different species of bird. Songbird rehabilitation, unlike the vastly more popular raptor rehab, mostly involves raising orphans. The big new book. Baby hummers, not so much.

Raised 204

Raised Boston Rats Experience 204

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. While 6 local species utilized these artificial nests, the Chinese Grosbeak did not, preferring its own construction.

Singapore 147

Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

Tomtits are not a species I have ever talked much about on this blog. They were present in Karori Sanctuary but have declined as other species have prospered. They are a widespread species that shows quite a bit of variation: there are five subspecies that are quite distinctive. I’m not actually sure why this is.

New Zealand 109

New Zealand Sanctuary Rescue Raised 109

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. Like Syngenta’s “Talon,” “Jaguar”s active ingredient is brodifacoum, which has killed mountain lions, bobcats, and house cats, plus all of the species mentioned above. Mr. Riekena, perhaps this blog will fill you in on the concerns some of us have about your products.

Mountain Lions 255

Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Of course, the fun of a bird race increases exponentially by the quality and quantity of the species that might be seen. The species list for this rich expanse of avifauna represents nearly 75% of the Lone Star state’s 600 birds, with some teams spotting over 300 in a very intense 5 days!

Texas 158

Texas United States Houston Birds 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. “The birds” as a whole will be “fine” but many individual species will not. Break just one link of the chain and the entire species is in trouble.

Maryland 214

Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 214

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

With almost 1200 species of birds in the Capital Region, the house and roof steadily filled with Egyptian Vultures, Barn Owls, Hornbills, Black Ibis, Cattle Egrets, Steppe Eagles , a multitude of songbirds and pigeons , as well as the occasional cobra or palm squirrel. Watch this remarkable video about Wildlife Rescue, and read their blog.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 260

Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 260

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Extinction is what befalls the species that fails to adapt, to survive, to thrive. Most species go extinct.

California Condor 193

California Condor United States Guam Whales 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

This post is picture-heavy because I think it is helpful to see everything, but the blog only supports small images, so larger versions (and even more photos) are on Flickr. The refuge is a popular birding location and approximately 230 species have been observed by about 1,400 birders who have submitted nearly 8,000 checklists.

Portland 182

Portland Oregon Laws Experience 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It may be as simple as trying to hit the big white one. The big white one. It flies on.

2011 239

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. The justification was ridiculously laughable: in order to further study the species. How it raised its chicks? The unique behaviors this mysterious species might exhibit?

Collecting 240

Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Editor’s Note : Though he is a very nice guy and a great blogger Clare Kines, the author of this blog post, might have lived in the far north for too long. Apparently the lack of birds and the abundance of cold has led to him thinking that writing a blog post about bunnies is an acceptable topic for Bird Love Week.

Rabbits 201

Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 201

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 12, 2009

The fund raising Web site also offers exclusive content for cat and dog owners which includes information on pet care and safety, information on animal shelters, as well blogs, groups and open forums. The site’s primary purpose is to raise money to help shelters care for homeless pets. About Bring Pets Home.

Pets 100

Pets Homelessness Shelters Homeless Animals 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. Most of the birders in the audience for this blog, and certainly those who record their year lists here , use the Gregorian calendar.

Psychology 158

Psychology Livestock North America Adoptable 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

There seem to be so many that some days the negative stories just seem to pile up in my reader, species lost here, habitat destroyed there, poisoning, illegal persecution, the list can seem endless. It can be difficult not to feel impotent and under attack from all sides. This was a little win perhaps, but hopefully the first of many.

Morocco 171

Morocco Turtles Protest Protesting 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India! The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book.

Bolivia 167

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 167