10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

She starts with the Barn Owl, and proceeds in her book, one owl per chapter, usually informed by an expert guide of some sort, such as Luke, an officer in Britain’s Barn Owl Trust. The Barn Owl Trust places nest boxes on lands of willing farmers who, Darlington says, consider it a “badge of honour” when an owl comes to nest in one.

Barn Owls 113

Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He likes books too, which made him the ideal reviewer for Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic. Mark Gamin, a Cleveland lawyer, likes cats and birds both. This is Mark’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds.

Feral Cats 264

Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

There have been three books written about Pale Male and 2 movies made about him, and saying that he was the bird that sparked my birding obsession makes me feel like I am living out an urban cliché. That wholeness is missing here, probably because it is not clear exactly what is the book’s purpose. The truth is that I was.

New York 111

New York New York City 2013 Collecting 111

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2012

There’s been a bit of excitement around our house lately, because the UPS man rumbled up the driveway on Friday the 13th with a box containing two advance copies of my new book, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds. A book five years in the making, 80,000 words and 320 illustrations, most of them full color.

Raised 223

Raised Boston Rats Experience 223

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2013

In fact, not being able to translate the sometimes vague instructions I find on sites or books into an actual place when I get there is a permanent worry when planning trips. The book says there is a trail in location X, 220 metres past bend Y. That never seems to work for me. It was certainly swimming around a lot.

Albatross 152

Albatross Rats Belize New Zealand 152

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

It isn’t in your book of seabirds? (It But, to Elizabeth Gehrman, the author of Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who Brought it Back from Extinction, and to David Wingate, the man who Gehrman profiles in this excellent book, the Bermuda Petrel is always the cahow. You’ve never heard of the cahow?

Birds 172

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. He often defended that role in his books from animal rights activists who opposed “imprisoning” animals in zoos even if it saved them from extinction.

Animal Rights 267

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 267

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

In the early days of the “modern” world (meaning since some time after the Enlightenment, or later, depending on what you call “modern”) we did get bird books, but the bird books were all words, no pictures. And in those days there were bird books with pictures in them. Which keep eating rat poison.

Birds 171

Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2015

In the light of the (worrying) news that Corey is writing a field guide (yes, I’m up to date now), it struck me as a good time to have a look at the technology that will quickly render his effort, and all other dead tree books, obsolete. And then I almost didn’t pick up the book again for the rest of the trip.

Africa 154

Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Penguins 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The Python Caves, as you’ll recall since you certainly read my article (and in some cases actually did, and even told me so and bought the book!) No one is sure quite why bats host so many dangerous diseases; it may simply be that they don’t, only there are lots of them in close proximity to us (not unlike rats).

Pythons 189

Pythons Bats Uganda Burundi 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

The temptation is even stronger for popularizers, who have to condense and choose a focus that will appeal to the book-buying public. Right away, we have a definition problem — those who hold to any kind of mind-body dualism are unlikely to be swayed by the ideas in this book.

Morals 113

Morals Animal Humane Research 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2012

Yes, Noisy Pittas are predictable here, with two nesting pairs, and, according to one guide book, almost guaranteed at KPBL. There were also massive native White-tailed Rats and the Northern Brown Bandicoot. Most of these were easy enough to find on later dates,along with the smaller native Bush Rats, but I only saw one Striped Possum.

Possums 173

Possums Guinea Marsupials Rats 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic. Among newly published books (the titles of which I sometimes scan), quite a few are titles in the “reverse harem” genre – goodreads even has its own page on the genre. There is (or was?)

Birds 221

Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

After getting his engineering degree from the University of Minnesota he worked in the Standard-American-Rat-Race-Company for fifteen years. YourBirdOasis.com Mar 12th, 2011 at 5:57 pm This post reminds me of a great book I read many years ago and imagine others that frequent 10000birds would also enjoy.

Ecuador 204

Ecuador 2011 Deer New York 204

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2011

We didn’t take the night walk (because we hadn’t booked soon enough), but the day walk was delightful too. The park is popular with tourists as is the sight of a night walk that regularly sees North Island Brown Kiwi , as well as large kauri snails, a carnivorous mollusc that eats earthworms.

New Zealand 164

New Zealand Fiji Protection 2000 164

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. These fabled birds that once filled the skies for days as they migrated over the Midwest. ” You just can’t have both.

Mauritius 102

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 19, 2012

And, speaking of poisons, talk to your vet before putting down any rat or ant poison, which can sicken your pet before it reaches its intended target. Cats, for instance, will do well with scratching pads and cat towers ; in fact, give them a beautiful castle, and they just might stop mounting your book case and knocking down plants.

Pets 100

Pets Psychology Cats Rats 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Lazell who has worked in the Puerto Rican Bank region since at least the eighties suggested, in his book, ‘ Island: fact and theory ‘, that perhaps some of the smaller islands in the Puerto Rican bank could play host to colonies of Guam Rails in lieu of their lost DeBooy’s Rails. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni.

Puerto Rico 195

Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 195

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s a great book, don’t get me wrong. But I’ve spent a lot of time working with kakariki, museum specimens, and the treatment of the genus in the book doesn’t match up with what I know. The illustrations are lovely and the cverage everything you’d expect from world experts.

New Zealand 148

New Zealand Fiji Parrots Tonga 148

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Back home I meticulously planned the perfect birding route based on our explorations, made the bookings and confirmed the first commercial birding tour to Ghana. Blue-moustached Bee-eater is rainforest species occurring in just a few scattered sites in Ghana, it was previously considered a subspecies of Blue-headed Bee-eater.

Ghana 199

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 199

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 1, 2011

He’s only about the size of a rat.”. I made a mental note to get a tetanus shot. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds. This is ridiculous,” I said, more to myself than my family. But mean as a rattlesnake,” Barb’s sister said. I’m calling animal control,” I said finally.

Pit Bulls 100

Pit Bulls AKC Rattlesnake Shelters 100