10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

According to an article in the Guardian , “nearly a quarter of black swan families are parented by homosexual couples, the males sometimes mating with a female simply to have a chick. My possible birdwatching highlight this month was Short-eared Owl at Fengxian. It seems they kept a pheasant as a pet for the chick.

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

Earlier this afternoon my small family made a drive out to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. We went because Desi, my four-year-old son, wanted to see a Snowy Owl after hearing about and seeing pictures of all of the owls his dad had been seeing this winter. Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow. That is not cheap.

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Owls Research Science Collecting 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

A two-page portrait of Cuban Trogon is next, its blue, green, red, and white plumage shining, then a two-page depiction of three Ruffs in male summer, male winter, and female plumage, and finally the Galapagos Short-eared Owl on the alert, facing the title page. And I’m so happy I did. and died 15 August 1841.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 202

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

As I explained to my nephews when they were younger, “The Burrowing Owls don’t think we’re their friends. People on one side of the rope, owls on the other.” Substitute Snowy Owl here if you’d like the modern version). It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls will also sometimes do so.). It is not that close of a relative of the Northern Mockingbird , being in the same family, but a different genus. I also used to hear wild-collected caged Solitaires in suburban neighborhoods, but am delighted to report that that terrible practice seems to have mostly disappeared.

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Trinidad Emotional Transported Mexico 191

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. Snowy Owl, Long Island, NYS. It was, indeed, a Snowy Owl. ” [[link].

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

I know you all want to see Powerful Owls like the one below, so it is always worth a look! Tom saw a Powerful Owl on his visit and so did we, so go and look! Powerful Owl. Powerful Owl in the Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney. Great Bowerbirds collecting blue items. Pied Oystercatcher family. Black Bittern.

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Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

Identifying White-eyes in Australia is easier than here in China, as the Silvereye is the only family member present in most parts of the country. The bird mostly feeds on nectar … … and only collect sufficient insects to satisfy its protein requirements ( source ).

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Dipping for fish An extinct endemic form of pelican in New Zealand would have represented another family lost, like the odd form of owlet-nightjar and New Zealand’s lost members of the hawk and eagle family. But it seems the story wasn’t so clear cut. And the fossils themselves were vanishingly rare.

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New Zealand Pelicans Solomon Islands Palau 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

I’ve never been on an “owl prowl” before, and was thrilled that the one we joined turned up the promised quarry, and then some. Great Horned Owl babies peering out from their nest! Barn Owl babies peering out from their box! A Burrowing Owl peering at us from beside his burrow, and then making a hasty escape!

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 182

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Wenfei Tong’s Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds addresses such topics as courtship, mating systems, raising chicks, sex role reversals, and others. Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays is Helen Macdonald’s Wunderkammer , which, every few pages, will make you laugh in delight (even when she, herself, might be crying).

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2020 Birds North America Italy 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection. So many birding books talk only about birds, it’s fun to read about us for a change.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. I also like that 200-córdoba note, if every country had a note like that then I would cenrtantly collect them all! Surfing for Birds at Pipeline Road The Doctor Bird.Or

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Many thanks to Jason Kopp for the photos above taken during last year’s courses held at Explorer’s Inn Tags: banding , peru , tambopata • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? Wicked, right?

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives. In the last couple of weeks I’ve seen over 20 new species.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

If you liked this post featuring Bufflehead images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Get yours today! Wicked, right?

2011 150

2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade. Through the course of the paper, Mayr puts a slew of recent studies (including Hackett et al.’s

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison. The Marginal section is very brief, citing vagrants that have been reported or collected or photographed once or twice.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In many cases, our waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds are the same as those overseas – or only slightly different – and there are many other corresponding species in nearly all the shared families. I remember the talking (Song?) thrush cracking snails on the gray stone in J.R.R. It all seemed too fantastical to be true.

2017 118

2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 118

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Hearing and seeing a bluebird bring to his mind the process of tapping trees and boiling the sap collected down to syrup. … *From his essay, also called “The Bluebird&# that appeared in his famous collection of nature essays, Wake-Robin. Get yours today! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Wicked, right?

2011 166

2011 Deer New York Peru 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

If you liked these images make sure to head on over to 10,000 Clicks , the 10,000 Birds photo-galleries page, and see our growing collection of galleries. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

2011 150

2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

A rundown of my year is below, broken down into the integral parts which, collectively, allowed me to see what I saw. I did finally get Snowy Owls in Queens , even if they did cause a bit of controversy. We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding.

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Duck Stamp) for wildlife observers (81 votes, 12 comments) Create a photography permit allowing regulated off-trail access to refuges (80 votes, 15 comments) Christmas Bird Count for Kids – A half day free family event with partners @ all USFG visitor centers (46 votes, 5 comments) Establish partnership(s) with national birding conservation orgs.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. The bird family accounts are wonderfully informative, especially if you are a birder (like me) who knows enough to know what family a bird belongs to, but still has trouble differentiating amongst specific species within the family.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

If you liked this post featuring Ruddy Duck images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? Where do Cook’s Petrels go to forage in the summer? But I digress.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

I am also writing it on the tails of an excellent review by Corey who, although he termed his post a collection of “impressions,” really did nail down the great content of The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , by David Allen Sibley, as well as the minor items that need to be improved. But, always to the right.

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North America Birds Species America 247

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

By the way, the Queens Zoo has a very nice collection of ducks that are certainly not countable for a birder’s life list but are useful in terns of studying and learning field marks. Jochen gets credit for first identifying this quiz picture, even if his guess was at least half in jest. Wicked, right?

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The guide presents 69 species and 1 subspecies, from “NEW WORLD VULTURES: Cathartiformes” to “OSPREY: Pandioninae” to “FAMILY: Accipitridae” (Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Hawk-Eagles), to “FALONIDS: Falconidae” (Falcons, Forest-Falcons, Caracaras, Kestrels, Merlin). Owls are not included, though they sometimes are in ‘raptor’ guides.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 174

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! This wiki looks good too.]

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157