10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

Since this research has a strong citizen science component, we want to help Pavel spread the word: What happens with birdsong during invasion of a new territory? Why Great Britain and New Zealand? British Yellowhammers have been purposefully introduced to New Zealand in the 19th century and quickly colonised it.

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Czech Republic New Zealand Science Research 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

This was at least what I was left pondering this week as read about a rogue swan attack here in New Zealand that almost left a whitebaiter dead. New Zealand was once home to Haast’s Eagle , the largest eagle in the world. Apparently a swan in the US recently succeeded in its murderous attempts.

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New Zealand Birds Goats Gorillas 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As I sat waiting for the bus home there was a wind, hardly a rarity here in New Zealand, but it was a warm wind, and that certainly is. The spring the birds I’ll show you today is far from the seat of New Zealand’s government where I now work. And it really does feel like spring, finally. Long may it last.

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United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. It breeds on the Chatham Islands and some of the islands south of New Zealand, as well as Gough and Tristan da Cunha in the Atlantic.

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New Zealand Vet Collecting Geese 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Collectively, these federal lands and marine sanctuaries are of critical importance to many of the seabirds seen on pelagic birding trips in the Pacific. These sanctuaries include some of the most productive waters in the Pacific.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 139

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

When it comes down to it New Zealand is all about islands. Somes, less interestingly, was a rich backer of the New Zealand Company called Joseph Somes (who never went near the place). At the same location it was possible to watch Spotted Shags collecting nesting material and try and get airborne.

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Penguins Parrots New Zealand Seals 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I like the first one best, especially since the parade of the dead Wren involved collecting money for its burial – hardly what you’d do for a bitter enemy. And, of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that the Stephen’s Island Wren , an endemic species from the coast of New Zealand, is now extinct.

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Ireland New Zealand Hunting Cooking 133

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2013

In his comment in last week’s post on the Marlborough Sounds , Beat writer Jochen described the New Zealand Fantail as one of the best birds in the world. wakawaka, the New Zealand Fantail is a delightful inhabitant of New Zealand, and one of my favourite local birds. Fantails don’t do necks.

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New Zealand Samoa Fiji Killing 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

Earlier this year a cyclone blew through New Zealand and uprooted a lot of native trees on government land on South Island. The focus of the Department of Conservation has seemingly been turned from conservation to extracting maximum economic benefit out of New Zealand’s large amount of conservation land.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

New Zealand has had its share of rediscovered birds too. The most recent rediscovery represents one of the longer absences from our attention, however, that of the New Zealand Storm-petrel. A blurry photo of the New Zealand Storm-petrel ( Oceanites maorianus, or is it?),

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New Zealand India 2003 Collecting 194

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. Curiously, in 1831, McCormick was appointed a surgeon on HMS Beagle under the command of Captain FitzRoy and he expected to put together a sizeable natural history collection.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Kiwi, New Zealand icons par excellence , are rather endangered. The suite of predators introduced to New Zealand, on the whole, can’t do to much damage to adult kiwi. A friend of mine, before she moved to New Zealand, thought that kiwi would be the size of kiwi fruit, a lemon sized speciality of the area.

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New Zealand Raised Endangered Species Rats 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

But when you meet one in the field or as you read our exceptional collection of essays discussing different aspects of invasive species all over the world, have some sympathy and some taste. This is probably too much to think about every time you encounter what we consider an invasive species.

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here. The large room the collection was held in was a profoundly weird place. Bush Wrens.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 227

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Formally now known as African Collared-Dove, this dry country species was also called Barbary Dove and can still be found listed as such in certain fieldguides eg in New Zealand where it exists as an introduced bird. Pink-headed Dove. Pink-headed or African Collared-Dove by Markus Lilje/Rockjumper Birding Tours. Pink-throated Longclaw.

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Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 217

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation by Mike Unwin is a collection of data about birds and their environments presented through words, graphics, and photographs. The Takahe, a large flightless bird endemic to New Zealand, was thought to be extinct, and then was rediscovered in 1948.

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Albatross Birds Campaign Protection 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2016

I didn’t have long to stay at the reserve so I did a quick walk through the ornamental pools near the entrance – as in many WWT reserves these are given over to the breeding collections of exotic species (although these are smaller in London than elsewhere.

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Geese New Zealand Germany Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird that people thought was one but almost certainly wasn’t. It is one of the many species that went extinct in New Zealand, only for once it didn’t.

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New Zealand Pelicans Solomon Islands Palau 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Fighting Over Crumbs Reflections of Ardea Alba Welcome to New Zealand! There’s a new bird ID book out that has birders really excited: The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds. I haven’t gotten my hands on one yet but hope to soon.

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2011 Deer Owls New York 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

In that particular spirit I hope to set the record straight on two separate issues that revolve around a genus of parakeets found mostly, but not exclusively, in New Zealand. The genus is Cyanoramphus , and they are sometimes known collectively as the kakariki (literally little kaka). of the Yellow-crowned Parakeet.

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New Zealand Fiji Parrots Tonga 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Our two newest contributors have shared from Mexico and China, bringing the countries birded this month (also including; Costa Rica, Greece, Serbia, USA, UK, India, UAE and New Zealand) to 10. New Zealand Bellbird – Anthornis melanura. Yellow-billed Babbler – Turdoides affinis. Sanjeevaiah Park, Hyderabad.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 121

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). or birders who live there (but, how can you bird it all?). And, there are many.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 109

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

And reach it I did earlier this year, after I got back from my jaunt up north to Cairns but before I returned to New Zealand. As I had mentioned it had rained the night before, and it was drizzling now, so each of these branches I had to push past dumped their collected water on me. There are plenty o other places to go as well.

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New Zealand Cooking Species Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2018

Redgannet added another splash of colour to the collective profile by falling asleep on a boat and waking up in Uruguay , the 44th country to feature in the list. Tom’s odyssey continued through New Zealand and passes on to Australia. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. Western Australia.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. New Zealand King Shag – Phalacrocorax carunculatus. New Zealand Kaka – Nestor meridionalis. And so to summer. 15 Apr 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2013

This scraggly collection of islands and deep long bays forms the tip of South Island closest to to North Island, but till this point my only experience of the area had been the long passage down Queen Charlotte Sound to reach the ferry terminal of Picton. New Zealand Fantail.

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New Zealand Charlotte Hunting Family 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2017

Redgannet collects up all the data and reports back on the first Saturday of each month. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. BS-Bahamas-Nassau-New Gate Road – 25.0644x-77.3035. New Zealand Pigeon – Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Falcon – Falco novaeseelandiae.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint accont. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. Alphabetic Taxonomic.

2016 126

2016 Sanctuary Australia Wildlife 126

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. 12 Jan 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint accont. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. Alphabetic Taxonomic.

2016 100

2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. New Zealand King Shag – Phalacrocorax carunculatus. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. 26 Mar 2016.

2016 100

2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint accont. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. Alphabetic Taxonomic.

2016 100

2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint accont. New since the last time; Alphabetic Taxonomic. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. 12 Jan 2016. Western Australia.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. 12 Jan 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

She’s produced seven photographic books about the Galapagos Islands and books on the Andes, Antarctica, and New Zealand (her current home). Its title in the Great Britain and New Zealand editions is Penguins: Their World, Their Ways, a better title in my opinion.). and used for travel of the soul. ISBN: 9780691162997.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 205

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Also, for quarter of a century I have been canoeing the Danube backwaters inside Belgrade and collecting data about birds (most of it I have entered into the eBird).

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Agenda Protection New Zealand Argentina 177