10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2021

On the other hand, in April, some other species start breeding here in Shanghai. Interestingly, these heronries frequently seem to be near highway exits – either because these relatively ugly places are less likely to be disturbed by humans, or because this shortens the commute of those birds working in downtown offices.

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Birds Farming Alaska Breeding 202

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. In fact, the family name Lanius derives from a Latin word for “butcher”, though the “butcherbird” was a butcher long before humans even developed the language to describe these activities.

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2019 Butcher Livestock 2006 251

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MARCH 19, 2022

Bird names say much about human perception, they can also give us insight into the people who invented names for official bird descriptions. Three live and breed here, two migrate through the country in large numbers (one of those also breeds here in small numbers), and another migrates through and winters in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Pennsylvania South America Panama 277

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APRIL 25, 2022

Of course, being a proud German, I prefer this thrush as its Latin species name is heinei for the German Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (time was not precious in the olden days, and there were fewer forms to fill out, so people could afford to have much longer names). So, as a preemptive strike, I present to you the Golden-headed Cisticola.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 217

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APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 229

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. I guess the whole point about this band name is to suggest -ironically, of course – utter blandness. A juvenile male. The real thing: an adult male. ” Hm. Advice to them: Things can only get better.

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Birds LACS France Japan 256

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JUNE 26, 2023

It is listed as Near Threatened – the HBW cites the usual reasons that are just other ways of saying that humans do not care enough for other species, such as forest loss and degradation in its winter range. not their own). Fear not, science has an answer: about 1.16 How to distinguish the two species, as they look somewhat similar?

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Japan China Guinea Germany 130

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JUNE 13, 2022

Readers with a pornographic mindset will enjoy the following information about the Dusky Moorhen: “Simultaneously promiscuous, forming breeding groups of 2–7 apparently unrelated birds; individuals sometimes switch groups between seasons. Which of course is the perfect transition to that bird, the Common Myna. ” (HBW).

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 228

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That every human on the planet ultimately depends on biodiversity and nature for stable weather and climate, food, water and fresh air; that is, life providing and supporting services. While reading the book I kept muttering, “Of course”; indeed, there was little to surprise or disagree with.

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Wildlife North America Mammals Breeding 264

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JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. How efficient.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

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APRIL 2, 2024

She explains complex and sometimes controversial topics including captive breeding, environmental toxins, feral cats and other invasive predators, Hawaiian avian extinction, avian disease, California Condor distribution and history, legal loopholes, and lead poisoning.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 210

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APRIL 1, 2024

I am sure some people will hate this photo of a Eurasian Hoopoe , framed as it is by human artifacts. Of course, me being me, this is a good reason to show it. They still mix with Black-faced Spoonbills , which otherwise would presumably feel rather lonely given their low global numbers.

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Chicago Birds Asia China 159

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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. The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. The Hair-crested Drongo is a bit more common here.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

My Dark-eyed Juncos are trilling in preparation to retreat to quieter breeding grounds, the Black-Capped Chickadees sing their two notes, and the Song Sparrows absolutely will not shut up. Of course, in real life this cannot be so simple as good news. The Varied Thrushes came back. Then the Western Bluebirds and Meadowlarks.

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Geese Montana Breeding Pelicans 191

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MAY 31, 2015

In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. required. ” Now, it doesn’t take much to notice a “mouse gradation year”: of course you’ll simply see them, much more frequently than in non-gradational years. No “gophers” etc.

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Fox Rodents Gophers Germany 165

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. Of course, he could not care less about the majestic look of the buzzard, probably thinking it is a bit of a show-off.

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Birds Humane Japan Ducks 259

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JUNE 16, 2022

From one side, the reserve is under the attack of spreading arable fields, from another by numerous wind generators and it is no easy task to support the surviving breeding birds within its borders. Well, busy observing the Great Indian Bustard, of course. He asks if the wind generators can influence the bird numbers?

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Gazelles India 2012 Endangered Species 264

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JULY 7, 2022

Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females. So, I can only give you the sanitized version of the joke, in which humans have been replaced by birds. ” The alternative for people on a limited budget is of course the Little Black Cormorant.

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

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APRIL 27, 2016

So let’s celebrate some good news today; Kakapo are having one of their best ever breeding seasons since European settlement. . The world’s largest parrot is also a flightless inhabitant of the night, because of course it is. Kakapo are a lot of things, and in particular they are sulkily disinclined to breed.

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New Zealand Parrots Breeding Humane 128

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JUNE 25, 2022

In Costa Rica, the sole tropical breeding albatross is a rare visitor to pelagic waters of the Pacific. A more surefire way to witness this long-winged bird is by visiting breeding grounds on the Galapago Islands. They can also show in other places including parts of the Central Valley (try the Cariari golf course!).

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Costa Rica Parrots Albatross Birds 276

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

We watched the bird for awhile as it foraged and though the injury was painful to contemplate for we humans the bird seemed to be getting by alright. Of course, injured animals have a very difficult time making it in the wild. It will never make it to the Paramo in the high Andes for winter nor return to the tundra to breed.

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Culling Falcons New Jersey Killing 157

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MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. It is probably all downhill from here.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Still, a bird that has its moments – and I am always surprised how this sparrow really seems to enjoy human presence, however destructive it may be. It looks fairly flashy in its breeding plumage, much less so in winter. It is much more likely to be found in larger flocks, at least outside the breeding season.

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Latvia Birds Sparrows Abandon 134

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JULY 5, 2015

The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the North Carolina coast, and to the unpracticed eye it looks scarcely different that the expanse of blue water it courses through. A place where we humans can travel to in hopes of seeing things we may never expect to see from shore. We went out again the next day.

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North Carolina Mammals Breeding Fish 185

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Blame human intervention in the form of breeding programs so that there would be more to hunt. Of course, I have reported both birds and when I hear where they came from I will share the information. Birders tend to ignore them, non-birders tend to loathe them, and few defend or admire them. That is really a shame.

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Geese Canada New York City Birds 162

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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Killing Cats Fish Birds 274

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AUGUST 21, 2018

He was the first director of that museum, edited that journal, invented the niche concept, and, of course, came up with the Grinnell system. Sites lost on average 43% of their species, and occupancy probability declined significantly for 39 of 135 breeding birds. But human effects on the climate are much older than that.

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2018 Science Humane Species 102

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Luckily for them, even though they nest on the ground, they usually breed far from human habitation, under heavy vegetative cover. They form a monogamous relationship with a female each breeding season, but attempt (and sometimes succeed at) extra-pair copulations with other females. Of course this leaves him free to preen.

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Ducks North America Hunters California 180

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APRIL 2, 2017

Here in central Europe, dippers – more precisely the White-throated or European Dipper – are rather common breeding birds in many areas. In Germany for example, they are breeding in practically every hilly or mountainous region south of the North German Plain and are not really rare if they occur in a certain region.

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Germany 2016 Hamburgers Austria 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2017

The dog days of July, when birders desperately seek out south-bound shorebirds, odd breeding records, or anything else to keep themselves from losing their minds in a lousy birding time in the northeastern United States, is not my favorite time of year to bird. Such an ugly little creature has to beg in order to get any attention or food!

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Jamaica Wildlife United States Breeders 102

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MARCH 31, 2022

The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Wuyuan) is listed as Critically Endangered, as there are only about 250-280 birds spending the breeding season in Northeastern Jiangxi (and according to the HBW, it is not clear where they spend the non-breeding period). And of course, I would have been wrong.

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 238

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MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. Though they breed on the tundra, Pomarine Jaegers spend most of their lives at sea.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 241

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

He tells me that finchbills have been seen in the gardens before and it is suspected that they might breed there. Will you take the liberal view and include a bird that has not been positively downgraded as an escapee, or be literal and discount any bird that cannot be proven to be present without human intervention?

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Taiwan China Humane Breeding 100

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FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Of course this is self-evident as you can never have enough gulls on a bird blog, but this blog here is in an especially dire need of more gull posts for the simple reason that I have a few nice pictures of gulls that would make for a few nice posts. But of course this post is not the place where you want to go to discuss gull ageing.

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Europe Spain Italy Ireland 142

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Back to birds.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 241

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

Speaking of birds in nests, five Chilean Flamingo chicks who were raised by a human “surrogate dad” at a British wildlife center have now graduated to joining the adults in the center’s colony. The hope is that their presence while inspire the grown-ups to breeding success. Of course not!

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Michigan Chile Tennessee North America 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 169