10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

You could say that migration is covered by almost any birding book; I learned a lot about radio transmitters from Jonathan Slaght’s Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020) and Alexander Lees and James Gilroy’s Vagrancy in Birds (2022) is almost a textbook on migration theory (especially magnetic fields, not covered in Flight Paths ).

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Anyway, it is winter and the snakes should be hibernating.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 239

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

Since we collectively shared that day of birding with more than 20,000 people in more than 150 countries, there’s a pretty good chance that more people were out watching birds on May 13th than any other day in history. Could we still see an owl in the rain? Could we still hear one? How could we make it happen?

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Costa Rica 2017 Owls West Virginia 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. I’ll admit to being momentarily faked out by the plastic owls that people put out in a futile attempt to ward off crows, which demonstrates that decoys work on birders, if not on birds themselves. I suspect it’s quite possible.

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2016 Ducks California Hunters 106

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2014

Well, I am here for you…I have always found it fitting that the most beloved birder makes his home at the world’s most-trafficked birding blog…I sit atop a mighty precipice of power birding and bird bloggery…and in my position as being a leading light, it feels only right to give back to all the would-be bloggers out there.

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Birds Salamander Trafficking Litter 241

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. Most of the breeding birds returning here will arrive within the next 10 days to two weeks. And battles.

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Bald Eagle Iceland Owls North America 126

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. They did the right thing. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No

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South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Killing 266

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Sounds good, right? That’s right… you’ve got one week to spread the news, predict the future of bird guides, and describe your favorite Crossley plate. Because it is unlike any other bird ID guide before it with an almost eccentric collection of photos to use for identifying. Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer Owls New York 225

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We’re passing the Dasada village where shop owners and artisans are opening their doors, collecting rubbish in the street and burning it, while standing around those small fires and warming themselves up. Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus. Winter mornings are pretty cold, even without the wind-chill effect of an open Maruti Gypsy.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 226

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 136

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! Wicked, right? @YourBirdOasis: That would make sense… @Pat: It is a good pick, isn’t it? Renato Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:31 am Beautiful picture and bird. Nice post Corey! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America.Or Wicked, right? • Explore These Related Posts Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru Where Did This Cooper’s Hawk Come From? RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 197

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. My friend on the end of the line got right to the point: “What does a Kingfisher look like?” I know you can bird in dark in New York and Newcastle, Weyburn and Walla Walla.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. 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.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

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! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Deer New York Peru 163

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? Wicked, right? All of the shots in this post were taken on 1 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s West Pond as the sun was going down. There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks ! Get yours today!

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

By collecting data and following individual birds it is possible to provide data to both governments and environmental groups to help protect the habitat both here and overseas into the future. Oh, yes, I have a little gull amongst my collection of souvenirs! Wicked, right? Jochen Mar 21st, 2011 at 12:01 pm Bring it on!

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

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. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

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 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

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. Wicked, right?

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

We had collected it to remove from the beach, but it was very useful for sea snakes. 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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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Owls are not included, though they sometimes are in ‘raptor’ guides. Wheeler, Raptors of Mexico and Central America has a two-part structure: (i) Plates—artwork by Schmitt on the right, detailed plumage descriptions on the left; (ii) Species Accounts—two to six page descriptions of each species with photographs and range maps.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. Bird families that resemble each other are combined into one chapter, for example “Owls, Nightjars, and Nighthawks,” and are then treated separately within the chapter. There Is No Left Brain/Right Brain Divide by Stephen M.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 170

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

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. The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right. ” This is fascinating stuff if you collect books.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 211

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 Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Which is not to say that it doesn’t contain striking images of birds parenting the most adorable songbirds, owls, and heron nestlings imaginable. Yellow Warblers are able to recognize Cowbird eggs, and if conditions are right will build a new nest floor on top of the egg and their own eggs, burying them. Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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. Wicked, right? Jochen gets credit for first identifying this quiz picture, even if his guess was at least half in jest.

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

You will either have to leave it at the airport and collect it later (using up precious time), or carry it with you in hot, humid conditions. Spotted Wood-owl. The path along the right (east) bank of the river leads along a cycle path with Asian Koels , Yellow-vented Bulbuls , Laced Woodpeckers and Oriental Magpie Robins all likely.

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Singapore Woodpeckers Parrots Zebras 160

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.

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. ’ Not every species has a GV section, and the amount of description allocated in each section varies from a brief notation on color differences (most species) to the uncertainty of how voice variations relates to color morphs (Vermiculated Screech-Owl). The picture gets complicated.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Hawks At A Distance was one of the first books I reviewed for 10,000 Birds and I’ve decided to rerun it this month, partly to remind us all to read and use it, and partly because I’m preparing for a birding trip out of the country and I need all my brain power to make sure I pack the right camera lenses and hats.

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2011 North America 2005 Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and India, where he chased that country’s rarest owl. right next to us. We look forward to many more missives from Dragan.

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Spain Terrapins Eagles Europe 220

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. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

His recent focus is on bringing the Western Burrowing Owl back to life in California where he also monitors several bluebird trails. Last yr we had flooding rains that got my tree swallows nest wet my grandsons had collected feathers of all my birds that feed here. Wicked, right?

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2011 Jordan Deer New York 200

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? Wicked, right? All of the shots in this post were taken on 12-13 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York. There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks !

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 143

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

This is probably why I number so many hawk books in my collection. Twenty-nine raptor species are covered (no owls): twenty commong migrant hawks and nine additional “Uncommon Migrants and Others.” Many of the full-page photographs are lovely in their own right, not just as teaching tools.)

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Eagles 2011 North America Utah 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2011

The whole 10,000 Birds team has got to be wearing sh*t-eating grins right about now because we actually did it… POOP WEEK was awesome! Our collective goal was to examine every area in which excrement impacts avifauna and their observation. What Do Nesting Birds Do With All That Poop?

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Cyprus United States Suffering Collecting 169