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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Science Minnesota Monkeys Groups 146

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). That means that.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

Such an embarrassingly populist title of a blog post should obviously be followed by some dry facts. Fear not, science has an answer: about 1.16 Here goes: Paradise Flycatchers are a genus in the broader (and rather large) family of Monarchidae.

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Japan China Guinea Germany 130

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. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Science , 345 (6196 ), 562–566.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 198

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

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. No blog, but you can check out this post on the New Jersey eBird portal.

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2013 New Jersey Los Angeles North Carolina 197

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But, every so often, the call is sounded, and the sharpest eyes and ears on the planet are pressed into service.

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2013 Science Ducks Birds 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2013

To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Winter has come early and often to Western NY. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2013 Shelters Birds Science 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2011

Here’s hoping that some of the best science blogging on the web doesn’t get censored… a. What does this mean for Scienceblog bloggers? PZ Myers and Ed Brayton are concerned about possible attempts to tone down their language.

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2009 Science Groups 153

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

As you flip through the pages, you encounter names that every reader of this blog is likely to know, at least in passing: Julie Zickefoose and Bill Thompson III, Charley Harper, Kenn Kaufman. But not, mind you, on any shelf of popular science or ornithological memoir.

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Collecting Science Hunters Parrots 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

Can you remember the world before blogs? I’m tempted to say I’ve been blogging for all of my adult life, but if you’ve seen the gray in my hair, you recognize that statement as, at best, exaggeration. And yet the nature blog feels like something we’ve always had and enjoyed. Just like Facebook.

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2003 2000 Reptiles 2008 261

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It is a true rail ; and besides this there is nothing specifically like it known to science, although it may be that certain rails living on islands in the Pacific Ocean may have sprung from the same original stock. The bird will therefore now be known as. Atlantisia Rogersi.

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Science Transported Shelters South Africa 204

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.

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2013 New Jersey North Carolina Canada 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” ” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds.

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Birds Research Groups Investigation 229

Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2011

I'm reposting what I wrote as I rarely do any original writing for this blog anymore. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures. Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. I responded.

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Humane Rights Stray Dog Stray 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people. This lake is close to the cave.

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Humane Animal Africa Ukraine 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Great Cormorants can immerse into the water much more deeply than ducks, as their feathers are not waterproof … … but unfortunately, that requires some feather drying time afterward, which looks kind of stupid (yes, it is kid’s science hour at Kai’s bird blog …).

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Birds Humane Japan Ducks 234

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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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 213

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2012

The American contingent on the trip will consist of American Birding Association President, Jeff Gordon, Science Editor for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , Gus Axelson, and U.S. Oh, and me, the guy who writes for a bird blog. Naturalist Markets Manager for Swarovski , Clay Taylor.

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Hungary Europe Woodpeckers Birds 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And of course, what you see in the background of these two photos is a Bronze Mannikin , giving me what is perhaps one of the best links in the personal history of my bird blog writing (low standards, admittedly).

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

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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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Nate Swick is a contributor to 10,000 Birds, American Birding Association (ABA) blog editor and event leader, and environmental educator. He is a current member of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee and an eBird coordinator for North Carolina.

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Birds North Carolina North America Science 263

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. If I have any complaints, they lie not in the information but in the way the information is presented.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 158

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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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 168

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

Melody McKinnon holds 52 certifications revolving around nutrition, biochemistry, general sciences, business, marketing, and writing. Visit Melody at AllNaturalPetCare.com and read her articles on the All Natural Pet Care Blog. She specializes in natural pet care and also produces her own line of natural fish food.

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Chickens Dogs Pets Seals 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2016

Working my way thru college towards a wildlife sciences degree, and ever since, rarely has there not been a bird book close at hand. In fact you can go to last weeks BBotW on this site, as well as my personal bird blog. I sent them a photo, but never did hear back, so I guess they agreed.

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Mexico Science Research America 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

A full review of that film would be far outside the scope of this blog, but the use of birds, while very minor, got me thinking and I haven’t shaken the thinking yet, so now I will think aloud (well, in print) at you, my loyal readers. One of those indoor pursuits was movie-going; specifically, on Tuesday I saw West of Memphis.

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Arkansas Memphis Sparrows Geese 101

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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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. Birding juncos manakins ornithology science' Thanks for your support!

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Panama Research Investigation Chickens 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2012

The internet, don’t forget the internet, HTML, blog formats, photo upload, RSS Feeds, which browser, broadband speeds ( does anyone ever get what is promised?),

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Morocco Birds Science Tagged 191

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. I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Factory Farm 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Please be sure to use 4 The Love of Animals as the referring blog to ensure proper entry! If you want to learn more about the ‘Science of Sleep’ be sure to take part in the Sleep Better Chat (taking place on September 23rd). To enter, simply fill out this form.

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Fur Pets Protection Science 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

In the four-part ABA Blog series on subspecies , published in 2012, he argued we know too little about subspecies to use the term, and that birders should “show the characters of humility” and adapt alternative ways of articulating geographic differences. Species are useful handles (p. 16, below).”

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Birds North America 2012 America 143

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

My impression is that most young birders are eBirders, a trend that will surely continue due to its convenience, accessibility, and contribution to science. It is online, with its website , blog , podcast , rare bird alerts , Facebook pages , and Twitter feed. The ABA is part of this golden age.

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UCLA North America Los Angeles America 125

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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Birds Australia Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The Royal Sunangel Looks as Impressive as It Sounds – Cornell Lab blog. In the Valley of the Endangered, Endemic White-winged Guan – Cornell Lab blog. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even the lyrics of the song echo the art and science of hawk watching, “Link by link, making the connections…”) Chapters are strategically illustrated with David Sibley’s drawings. David also writes Sibley Guides , a blog in which he talks about natural history subjects. These are not just drawings of hawks per se.

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North America Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

More Science for the People Berry Go Round Comin’ Round Birdscapes Tuesday Trivia Link from the New York Times About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Or These Blasts From The Past Transitional Fossil?

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Deer Owls 2011 New York 141