10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. For humans, you have the drama of sister wives. And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger. Having a harem sounds like a pretty sweet deal. After all, variety is the spice of life, no?

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10,000 Birds

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. Alas, it seems they were already gone from Tianmashan in March.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

Most of the usual birds seem present, a frog or two call from a small wetland, and a few other expected animals are there too. In Costa Rica, the sole tropical breeding albatross is a rare visitor to pelagic waters of the Pacific. Sadly, horribly, we live in an era of mass extinction. Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

It also has one of the highest human population densities in the state. Not surprisingly, this brings Burrowing Owls into close contact with humans across the county. Loss of habitat due to development, disturbance at burrows and negative interactions with humans are some of the threats facing this charismatic species.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

One of the more unusual additions to our local avifauna is the Common Hill Myna (not to be confused with Common Myna, a parking lot obligate in Miami), a popular bird in the pet trade due to its ability to mimic human speech. Common Hill Myna’s range in South Florida.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The Collared Finchbill is found quite commonly in Taiwan, N Indochina and S China, but being present in Beijing would extend its range by over 450 miles to the north and eBird were keen to get some additional details when I tried to submit the sighting. Terry Townsend lives works and birds in Beijing. I admit to having copped out on this one.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Most were introduced, meaning they were brought to Florida by humans. These wild birds migrate out of Florida to northern breeding areas in the spring and are not present in Florida during the mottled duck breeding season. Exotic species are animals that did not historically occur in Florida.

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10,000 Birds

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 123

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s presented here from a different perspective, both more personal and more scientific (those footnotes!). I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s faster than committee work, more direct than bureaucracy, and it presents a clearer and more complete portrait of the range and value of the biodiversity of these countries. These are convincing, smartly presented arguments. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! I love the writing here.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 212

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I saw it in a park in Delhi, and indeed the HBW remarks that it “has adapted well to human habitation, and is common and widespread in the parks and gardens of cities such as Delhi” (I once had a visitor from India here in Shanghai, and he asked me if/why there are no birds in Shanghai.

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South Africa Africa India China 204

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2013

Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. It was made a National Park in the 1980s and is a major breeding and nesting area for over 30,000 seabirds. A male Magnificent Frigatebird in full breeding regalia. Red-billed Tropicbirds nest on these craggy cliffs.

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Whales Whaling Sharks Marine Life 261

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

But there was one more thing I evaluated, the human infrastructure, the potential guides among the national park employees. But your reason to check the canyon is a White-throated Dipper that breeds there and with some luck, you may even encounter a Rock Bunting. Other species include Grey Wagtail and Marsh Tit.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Romania 241

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. Hordes of these delightful black-and-white beauties were present and I did not get tired of photographing them. Also impossible to ignore was the sheer number of Black Guillemots.

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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 19, 2012

It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the west coast of northern South America, and in winter is found across the rest of Central America. The Killdeer is a wide-ranging plover. Beyond that they don’t seem to need much.

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Eggs America South America North America 176

10,000 Birds

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. Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The Kirtland’s Warbler is divided into three sections: The Past, The Present, The Future.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). Forgot to hit "publish now" on this.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour. It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things.

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Albatross Hawaii Seals Parrots 179

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Bird images are numbered to correspond with the text.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

For me, a bird called the California Condor has taken over more of my thoughts lately, and I decided it was time to see one before giving a presentation about it to the Rachel Carson Commemoration at the National Aviary in May. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 207

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Which brings us to the present post, in which we ask “How many birds are there?” In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 181

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Some uncountable species, like Mitred Parakeets , are in fact way more numerous than some of the countable species and they are clearly breeding in well-established populations. The population has been present for at least 15 years. The population is not directly dependent on human support.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

If you have cats, consider turning on the faucet so a soft steady drip is present. Most often pets are not allowed in these shelters due to reasons of human health safety. Make sure you ask if they have any limitations on the number, size, species or breeds they allow. Some dog breeds (e.g. Who can I turn to for help?”

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. At present there may be three reasonable hypotheses to explain this. They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm.

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 191

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JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 209

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. Most importantly, let us remember that the effects of the spill are still being felt and the BP Oil Spill timeline continues until the present and into the future.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

He clearly loves feeders and presents colorful photographs of seemingly every type sold in the U.S., Places for the birds to perch near the feeders? Do you change your feed according to the seasons? from thistle sock to a whimsical snowman stuffed with peanuts.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 1, 2010

She presents the information in a great way. Save $$: Up to $500 or more depending on animal and breed. Contact The Humane Society of the United States to locate a nearby rescue group. And the tips aren’t hard things either, everything is simple to do. Here are a few great tips for future and current pet owners.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The story also presents the complicated political side to conservation, in this case pressure brought on Cyprus to squelch the bird slaughter when it was up for EU membership and the subsequent slide in enforcement, and the poachers’ move to slaughter on British bases, once Cyprus became a member. It is often hard to be positive.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2022

Both Plumbeous Kite and Fork-tailed Flycatcher are present for the southern winter, the former breeds here, the latter tends to bring their young with them. A member of the “trilling” (and thrilling) subspecies group of the Long-billed Gnatwren is present throughout Trinidad, and is yet another headache-inducing species.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

The fields near the Tiaozini mudflats look very much like a lunar landscape, but this does not seem to keep a number of species from breeding there, sometimes directly on dirt roads. But now back to birds … Little Ringed Plovers also seem to like to breed directly on the road. Blandness sells.

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