10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. The following photo sequence depicts a territorial Band-tailed Gull “collecting its protection service fee” from a Red-legged Cormorant nesting within the territory the gull protects on the Palomino Islands in front of Lima-Peru.

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2017

The latest from his pen is Birds of Prey , a hybrid between an identification guide and an essay collection, a book of lore that provides a comprehensive overview of the raptors of North America. Fish and Wildlife Service. Raptors being raptors, the material itself is also compelling enough to justify all the verbiage.

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North America Falcons America Eagles 103

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible. They also prey on frogs and crabs.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 241

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. A few of my own observations of birds perching on Albany, New York’s weathervanes (clockwise from the upper right): A pair of Fish Crows ( Corvus ossifragus ) perched on a “fish”vane (what else?)

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New York Farming Belgium Fowl 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Sure, it’s been well over a month since I returned from my fun-filled, family vacation to Honduras but that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to blog about it, right? We had the pleasure of eating whole fried fish in a small Garifuna village that is on one of the cays. Good times in the water. Lunch time!

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Honduras Birds Butcher Fish 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

You know the captain’s name already: the Ross’s Gull was named after Ross who collected the type specimen in 1823 on Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). Enough History – Back to the Future.

Russia 174

Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

Ranging in color from off-white to dingy black, with pastel to gelatinous shades of yellow, orange, purple, and brown in-between, found in moist crevasses, decaying trees, rain-soaked pastures, mushrooms lack the beauty of butterflies and wildflowers cannot equal the action of bats, or flying fish, and certainly lack the spiritual zest of birds.

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North America America Species 2018 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. Braunfield, just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (3) Braunfield. Braunfield.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 142

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

I enjoy fishing almost as much as I enjoy birding. For me there are few experiences more satisfying than releasing a fish that has put up a great fight. In fact, a Giant Antpitta had even been recorded coming right into the lodge buildings but this bird had not been seen recently. You see for me, birding is all about the quest.

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Ecuador South Africa United States Hunting 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. 3) Action : Identify demographic information that is currently being collected by e-stamp states and additional information required for improving sales.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2011

Beneath these patches young fish and shrimp find refuge, seahorses wrap their prehensile tales around the tangle, and, most obvious to anyone paying attention, mass quantities of garbage coalesce. That weather-beaten stuff is really popular right now, I think this sort of wood goes for a pretty penny over at Pottery Barn.

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United States North Carolina Fish North America 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 183

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.” Individually, all of the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight. Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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Wildlife Portland 2002 Collecting 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Considering the four main federal agencies, the combined state-owned lands, and the collective non profits falling in the category of land trusts, there are 1.038 billion acres of wildlife habitat under conservation management, of which about 4.9% were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

I also like that 200-córdoba note, if every country had a note like that then I would cenrtantly collect them all! Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Wicked, right? @YourBirdOasis: That would make sense… @Pat: It is a good pick, isn’t it?

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. Oh, and horrifying insect things were everywhere.

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Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Right now it is almost all male birds, staking out territories, filling the tundra with song. Breeding is well underway and everywhere you look the Glaucous Gulls are, ahem, engaged or collecting grasses and sedges for nests. Last weekend, as we do every long weekend in May we took in the annual fishing derby. And battles.

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Bald Eagle Iceland Owls North America 126

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 169

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. Wicked, right? Get yours today! Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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2011 Deer New York Peru 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Wicked, right?

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 197

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? Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Wicked, right? There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks ! Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

2011 150

2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The gull was showing no intention of moving, so I went home to collect a camera. winter waterfowling at fish farms), but always preferred to leave it behind. It is not merely sharpness of image, but sharpness from-edge-to-edge right up to 60x magnification! Consequently, I carried it only when I absolutely had to (e.g.

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Greece Battery Experience Experiments 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2019

Arriving in Singapore we soon collected our bags and got ourselves a NETS card for travel on public transport and to also use in supermarkets. We were met by several Cattle Egret in beautiful breeding plumage feeding on the grass right next to the train station. There was something “not right” about it.

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Singapore Transported Boars Malaysia 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. Early morning is of course birding prime time and a pre-breakfast stroll around our lodge produced sightings of the lovely Orange-bellied Parrot , which we tracked down to a nesting hole right next to the restaurant.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. Wicked, right? More important, they WANT your feedback! Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Even collecting one piece after another, I didn’t manage to see the whole picture, but after a lot of effort, I collected enough pieces to ID the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , only the first of a dozen that will be chock chock chocking from fruiting mulberries. Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 196

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Are these flies actually used for fishing?

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Indigenous community of El Remanso, right underneath the imposing monoliths of Cerros de Mavecure. Left to right: my guide Edson Moroni and the local shop keeper Daniel Luis.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 261

Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

And, in a world where there is too much hate, the judgment of many earnest moralists is overwhelmed by the charms of love; and there are those who come to accept it at its own valuation and are thus led to assert that people have an obligation to increase the collective total of all value in the universe.

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Lamb Fowl Morals Animal 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was. Slaght in the film version?

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Owls Russia Fish Research 136

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. I studied biology but just like him was mostly busy being outside and looking at birds – which is what got me a job after all, so both Mayr and I were doin’ it right Okay, this is where the analogy ends – Mayr was an absolute scientific GENIUS.

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

And in my customary environmentally friendly approach to recycling bird photos, I have collected some of them in this post. The Chinese name for Osprey is fish eagle – appropriate given that apart from spaghetti and pineapples, the diet of ospreys consists mostly of fish. Well, the female is attractive, too.

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Falcons Japan China South Africa 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. There were probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of species of fish-with-feet, and one population gave rise to the so-called “tetrapods,” animals with skeletons, arms, and legs, including modern snakes and living gorillas. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right?

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 138

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Fish are mostly silent on the matter. Left-right bronchial asymmetry, as seen in Vegavis, is only known in extant birds with two sets of vocal fold sound sources. Very few other vertebrates use sound so socially and so critically. That is a fair thing to say about any find like this.

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Groups Collecting Primates Bats 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The vast majority of nuclear rays that hit you from any given source will simply pass right though most of your tissues (depending on the exact kind of energy and the tissue) but if one of these tiny slappy things gets a molecule in your cell, you might end up with broken DNA or some other highly localized but very bad result.

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Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 235

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? Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Wicked, right? There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks ! The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 143