10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Feeding the wrong diet will result in feathers like the ones on the right. On the right are the feathers of an orphaned grackle fed, said the finder, a diet found on the internet.

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Raised Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Monkeys 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Feeding the wrong diet will result in feathers like the ones on the right. On the right are the feathers of an orphaned grackle fed, said the finder, a diet found on the internet.

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Raised Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Monkeys 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

Then again, why would anyone name a bird after a botanist, let alone one I only just made up right now? In the right light, the male Common Pheasant can look ridiculously attractive. I should also point out that contrary to popular belief, the Common Starling is not named after Edward Common (1858-1892), the English botanist.

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Birds Research Science Europe 199

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Photography & Ethics & Me.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 197

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Ostensibly I was there to check out the brand new line of Trinovid binoculars Leica is releasing (or is it re-releasing?) He could not have been more right. Like I imagine is so with many birders, some of my first truly gob-smacking experiences with wildlife were in the form of PBS nature documentaries I watched as a kid.

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Honduras Branding Experience Experiments 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. The experience also inspired my column this month at 10,000 Birds, so check that out when you’re done: Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds.) [.] Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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