10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.”

Falcons 202

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. But special.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. However, they usually explain the process in the introduction and describe how the text has been updated. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Novice birders will have to look elsewhere for tutorials on the overall process of bird identification, diagrams of bird anatomy, or outlines of British and Irish habitat diversity. The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group. There is an important area I haven’t touched on yet—accuracy of visual content.

Ireland 160

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which.

Bolivia 194

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring.

Breeders 222

Breeders Breeding Birds Groups 222

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

The guidelines that apply to name changes were barely discussed, nor was there any discussion of the process by which scores of names might be changed, or whether the NACC has the bandwidth to change dozens of bird names on top of its other work. Did the process work?) Is ornithology more inclusive?

Birds 264

Birds Russia Hawaii Woodpeckers 264

Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

It's hard to say because the government still has not instituted a comprehensive MRSA inspection process, but independent research conducted by Tara Smith, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa, suggests that MRSA-infected animals may be widespread indeed. Just how prevalent is MRSA-infected meat?

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Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Ayres discovered Orange Ground Thrush , Ayres’ Cisticola and Ashy Flycatcher in the process. This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590. It was discovered in KwaZulu-Natal province by Dr Andrew Smith.

Mozambique 206

Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 206

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The basic premise is that observation of traits such as size, shape, structure, and behavior, the same traits Dunne writes about in his hawk books, could and should be used as the basic blocks of a ‘holistic’ identification process. The process doesn’t totally ignore plumage. These vary according to species.

North America 212

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 212

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. Complete resolution of the ID process is nowhere near though.

Trinidad 278

Trinidad Welfare North America Emotional 278

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Gazing at Cathy Conheim, a psychotherapist raised to hate cats because they ate birds, and Donna Brooks, a retired physician and sculptor who had never had a cat, but always reached out to heal anyone who was hurting, the kitten eyed them hopefully. Like the Just Me Project, Henry’s girlfriend Tink has defied expectations.

San Diego 100

San Diego Kittens Emotional Cats 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

Owls 237

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

During the breeding season, adult males split from the flocks they normally live in and begin to advertise their availability to females by calling and performing body contortions. After the females lay so many eggs, they move on and continue looking for other suitable males and harems to join in and repeat the process.

Eggs 156

Eggs South America Raised America 156

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2018

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay. They are quite a rare breeding species in Serbia, declining as we speak, but one pair breeds nearby.

Serbia 141

Serbia Eagles Falcons Farming 141

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

There are three things that will go wrong: 1) The inland zones that would become the new wetlands are already, in many cases, occupied by human-built things that will severely interfere with this process. Migratory birds are at particular risk, requiring multiple and specialized habitats to breed, raise their young, migrate and overwinter.

Maryland 245

Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

2011 229

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 229

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Each Species Account includes one to three drawings of the bird, a range map, common and scientific names, and a one to three sentence description of the bird, which may or may not include its migratory and breeding habits, feeding behavior, plumage, habitat, and demographic status—whatever helps identify the bird quickly.

North America 185

North America America Birds New York 185

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

This week at 10,000 Birds, it’s all about how birds get around to bumping uglies (I’m talking about cloacas here), who they do it with, and how this actually leads to raising chicks…the birds and the bees of birds, you might say. Believe it or not, this is what “fidelity” looks like.

Albatross 215

Albatross Birds Lifestyle Raised 215

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Of course, the evolutionary processes that produce this variety generally take place on a scale that prevents us from noticing any change at all over the course of our lifetimes. Birders are generally happy when this happens. More birds mean more potential lifers.

Ohio 113

Ohio India Hawaii United States 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

It is at the breeding season, however, that the Western Gull accomplishes real mischief. While he effects a passable truce with his own kind at that season, it is that he may the better combine with his fellows and terrorize all other breeding sea-birds.” Did I say firm? I meant squishy. Warm, damp and squishy.

Breeding 181

Breeding Collecting California Hunting 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Once they have laid, the females take no further part in the process and the male is left to tend the nest. There may be something in what he says as the breeding season and hence the saggy collar season, coincide with the approach of the southern summer. This individual was seen at Mount Coot-Tha near Brisbane.

Turkey 205

Turkey Birds Eggs Family 205

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2012

We all get a kick from seeing a fine example of a male bird, adorned in his breeding finery, singing his own praises from on high, but spare a thought for the reserved and retiring birds for whom such self-promotion and self-adulation would be inconceivable.

New York 206

New York Game Birds Raised 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

In addition, there may be some built-in (genetic) processing ability. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Loons hardly ever fly when they are on their breeding grounds or their winter-water, but the migration is for many loons a non-trivial distance. Those two questions are not mutually exclusive.

Research 212

Research Humane Compassion New York 212

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The auk identification process is pretty straightforward. The following section encapsulates a chapter of biological facts into one dense paragraph–breeding location, breeding time of year, nesting notes, timing of fledging, migratory routes to and from breeding areas, staging locations, foraging locations, and more.

Albatross 279

Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Many of the most peculiar aspects of birds are involved with mating, whether it’s for attracting mates, defending nests against predators, or raising chicks. One of the more interesting aspects (in my opinion) of breeding in birds is their mating strategy. of all bird species, is polyandry. 1996, Nakamura 1998). 1996, Nakamura 1998).

2002 177

2002 North America 2000 2009 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.

Ghana 209

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 209