10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. Next time, I’ll know why. Is the ship-assisted vagrant a ‘true’ vagrant?

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

Edward’s Pheasant courtesy & copyright Tom Friedel This is an acute concern for the World Pheasant Association (WPA), whose mission is to safeguard all the 286 species in the pheasant group.

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Vietnam 2000 Germany Asia 155

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

My first instinct was that the rarest gull would rank high on the ‘most interesting’ scale, but that’s a lister’s instinct – a sort of stamp-collecting bias, at best. So does the Heermann’s Gull , which looks like it has stolen someone else’s head. And what about lifestyle?

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 222

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2012

Formed in 2007, this organization seeks to promote the humane treatment of animals by promoting effective animal sanctuary management. Led by professionals who have experience with organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States, the group is definitely not new to the issues surrounding animals worldwide.

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Humane Society Of The United States Illegal Trafficking Animal Animal Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. The human world is on the move to where the money is. We will be traveling getting our film into many film festivals, and speaking to Audubon groups, museums and nature centers. This moment is about beginning to see in a new way. You can be a part of this.

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

They roam in family groups varying from eight birds upwards and have a certain confidence about themselves as they strut around the bush. They are inquisitive birds that will take an interest in human activity and seem to have no concerns. If you ever need a bird species to cheer you up on a wet day then this is the one!

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Investigation Australia Family Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

You may not realize it when you look at those bizarre looking waders with the massive bills and the vacant expression, but you’re looking at a group of birds that has inspired humankind for literal centuries. It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part.

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. Perhaps it’s because the topic is so huge, it’s difficult to comprehend in a systematic way. Think about their image.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) Wahlberg travelled even more extensively and amassed a huge bird collection. They discovered Gurney’s Sugarbird during their time in South Africa.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I found those comments insightful and inspiring, valuable experiences and opinions worthy of sharing to a wider audience than the FB groups where they were initially posted. They were commenting where they felt most at home – on their favourite FB pages (predominantly American Birding Association). So, what then makes a good customer?”.

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Greece Birds Zambia Experience 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

A side benefit is that, if you’re an eBird junky like me, you get a cool collection of personal locations out near the continental shelf, a testimony to hours and days spent in this incredible place and the ways changing conditions can affect your route. Conditions, and birds, can be wildly different from one day to the next out there.

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Whales Whaling North Carolina Mammals 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. ” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. b) Recommendation : Work with all groups to identify synergistic opportunities for promoting broad conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

Data were collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Pan-European Common Birds Monitoring Scheme. In essence, the benefits to birds from climate change (global warming caused by human release of greenhouse gas pollution) is neutral, while the negative effects are serious and increasing.

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North America Europe America United States 117

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. And, each essay tells a story.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. And, the parrots almost, but not quite, disappear from the face of the earth. It really isn’t. The birds thrive.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 196

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. I’m surprised that the book doesn’t include images reflecting some of the hummingbird and human history Dunn writes about in such detail.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2011

Collecting nectar is not a random occurrence. Such is the variety of survival strategies employed by the hummingbirds that several authors have attempted to categorize them into well-defined groups. There is no need for modern humans to be 6 ft 10. This is the story of the nectar wars from Tandayapa Lodge in north-west Ecuador.

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Ecuador Giraffes ALA Species 242

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 241

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 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

Recently, an interdisciplinary group published a paper using eBird data in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning. Why are birds a good proxy for broader human-wildlife interactions? “Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.” A: Good question!

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Chicago Research Illinois Michigan 272

10,000 Birds

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 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

Environmental groups are opposed, because it is perceived as a wedge to try and open up the forests to more economic exploitation, and there are concerns about the damage such selective timber recovery might cause. It is passing through a one time bill to allow this, well, windfall to be partly used. And not everyone is happy about this.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. (I copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. Think about it. But here’s the thing.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 138

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. 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. At first one, then two more, then one more, and altogether some 6 or 7 dolphins were coming to the surface.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 261

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. Botibol” (p. There is no effort at context.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 119

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. In fact, Juan Gundlach collected a number of birds from the a flock that regularly came to feed in a group of trees at the town of Zarabanda just outside the modern day boundaries of Cienaga de Zapata National Park.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

He collected in … the Belgian Congo, where he died of hemorrhagic fever at Bangala … According to his obituary in The Times (8 November 1890), he witnessed a cannibal banquet in the Upper Congo and was accused by Stanley of instigating it.”

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

McCown , who first collected it in 1851, but is more known for being a Confederate general in the Civil War. In other words, we might want to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed changes, either one at a time as a group. The species was named after John P.

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Birds Laws 2020 Jordan 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 276

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

The main reason seems to be a better sharing of the workload in the more equal same-sex couples – something that is hardly irrelevant for humans. Apparently , a group of loons can go by many names, including a raft, a water dance, a cry, and an asylum (though I have to say some of these sound a bit made up to me).

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

This time it is the Old World that has misnamed a group of birds, or in fact several groups. Once upon a time, when I started birding, this great family included a wide range of species collectively known as the robins and chats. It all comes back to a split in one of the great bird families, the Turdidae, or thrushes.

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Mozambique Zambia Zimbabwe Namibia 165

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 195

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. Raw honesty is felt throughout.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

If such human food is not available, the Yellow-billed Chough goes back to its original diet of (at least in Europe) grasshoppers, as described here. Or maybe there was just more need to collect food, but I like the first explanation better. At least the second name hints at the higher elevation status of the Yellow-billed Chough.

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Birds China Science Research 130