10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2015

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This gorgeous forest at the southern tip of Irondequoit Bay is positively filthy with Yellow Warblers and Eastern Pewees , but I was most pleased by a pair of House Wrens caring for a brood in their birdhouse. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2018

The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W. Red Bead Experiment (a longer video than the excerpts from this that are listed above): 2,100 views (2 years – 5,300). And the great content is not limited to the most popular videos, there are many wonderful videos that receive fewer views.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You may remember back in 2017 when Nate participated in this trip or maybe you followed along in 2018 as the Birdchick dazzled us with her experiences there. We’ll be attending the 3rd African Birding Expo and the pre-Expo familiarity tour. I mean, what even is an alethe? Or a hyliota? ” That helped, right?). (You

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a cooperative Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that contentedly foraged while Corey digiscoped. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

I am disappointed that there are no hyperlinks available; for example, you can’t click on a page in the Table of Contents and go directly to that chapter. The full title of this exceptional book by Marie Read is Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Most people can live with that, content in the knowledge that much of the year was spent in pursuit of worthy goals and satisfied to glide towards year’s end. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. are pretty much set. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

First, we are sad to see Dale Forbes go, at least temporarily, as the pressures of his job are too much for him with the added pressure of producing great content every other week here on 10,000 Birds. We will miss him and his “Looking Out From The Alps” but we do hope that when his job slows down a bit that he will be back.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Nestled between the Huangpu River and the East China Sea, Shanghai offers a captivating blend of urban charm and natural wonders, making it a must-visit destination for birders seeking a unique and diverse avian experience. But anyway, my main point of contention is the style, not the facts.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It was a very pleasant experience. But today I am approaching it from a different angle…I will speak not of whether or not it causes stress or disturbance to birds (the usual point of contention), but rather how it causes stress and disturbance to birders. Florida Canyon, AZ. 7) had a blog post that got me thinking.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

One of the wonderful experiences when birding away from your home turf is the potential to come across creatures other than birds with which you may not be familiar. But I wasn’t content just taking photographs of armadillos: I had to learn what kind of armadillo they are! Nine-banded Armadillo.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2014

I repeat, the sight of a roadrunner moseying around this neighborhood like a contented outdoor cat was a strange one. I don’t expect that any bird down the road will allow for an experience as surreal as this one though. Did I make that clear? Roadrunners of suburbia. Who would have thought? Birding Missouri roadrunners'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2017

At first the Cooper’s Hawk was content to sit and eat. It was a very rewarding experience watching the hawk feed on the pigeon though perhaps not as memorable as one eating shish kebob. Yes, this was much better! I could really take my time and get some decent shots. Note the half-closed nictating membrane on the eye.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. I also love the design of the book itself, credited to Kate Basart of Union Pageworks.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2013

Meade-Izzi’s discoveries — that hummingbirds are tiny, and cute, and part of a remarkable food web that demonstrates the interconnectedness of all living things, that they can inspire a human to follow her instincts and work on contentment in her own life — are those of a nature novice, albeit a wildly enthusiastic one.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Mentorship is an essential part of the birding experience, and it needs to be encouraged. Just go to the boldfaced page number.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

If the vitamins levels are deficient, your pet could experience fatigue or weakness. is not responsible for the content of this article. Potential for a dull, dry and flaky coat. Vitamins support the immune system; minerals help puppies and kittens grow strong muscles and healthy teeth. Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

I was impressed with book’s design and content. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the group and a table of contents of subgroups that includes brief but key descriptions. It made an identification process I had always found challenging into one that was rational, focused, and even fun.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2011

With their high cellulose content and often raised levels of toxins drawn from the ground, mature leaves can be very difficult to digest so a folivore needs specialised equipment and adapted behaviour to be able to live off them. I learned a new word today and am anxious to show it off and share it with the world.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Once I got past the scientific explanations and simply accepted that BBI is an approach worth trying, I found plenty of substantive content in Birding by Impression. I like Birding by Impression.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Ted Floyd took the title How to Know the Birds from a 1949 book by Roger Tory Peterson, but the content is uniquely and wonderfully his own. Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

You can check the table of contents, or browse the “gallery of thumbnail images” in the Introduction (see image above) or use either of the two indexes—a Short Index on the inside back cover flap and a traditional Index of popular and scientific names. There is an important area I haven’t touched on yet—accuracy of visual content.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

They are quieter and often content to just watch what’s going on in the living room or outside the window. When I look into the eyes of a senior dog, I see a world of experience and wisdom. Laid-back lifestyle. For kittens and puppies, most any time is play time. Older pets, however, don’t need to release all that youthful energy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. Visiting this area for the first time after seeing it for month was a crazy experience. It’s a liberating feeling on a tiny island. A view from the West End, an area completely closed even to the biologists during the summer.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Tara Tanaka described the experience of digiscoping this spoonbill as such: Tara Tanaka : Merritt Island NWR was the last stop on a 10-day Florida birding trip last winter. and content (not just what the bird IS, but what it is DOING). Of course, we are always looking to get that “Perfect” image, too.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

After all, birding under a highway is not exactly my idea of a pleasant experience. It fed nonchalantly as I digiscoped it to my heart’s content. So when I saw a small flock of Canada Geese grazing in a grassy area under the Van Wyck Expressway I almost didn’t stop to take a second look. Greater White-fronted Goose !

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Examples of two types of informational aids offered in both guides: Pictorial Contents for Songbirds (Birds of Costa Rica) and Key to Species Range Maps (Birds of Belize). Birds of Costa © 2023 by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine. This is what got me, the incongruity.

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

The PF Chang update, in case you haven't seen the response from the restaurant , is thus, once you incorporate the actual experiences of vegans who have gone through something similar with the restaurant: If you don't eat non-vegan sugar, there aren't many options. If you don't consider the sugar a major transgression, you have many choices.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2010

4 on Forbes’ list of 2009 “Best Branded Mobile Applications” after its 2009 launch as an iPhone application, now provides pet owners an even more engaging mobile experience through location-based utility, entertaining content featuring videos and photos, and relevant pet information. “petcentric,” ranked No.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

I even saw what I think are Dowitchers (thanks to some ID help from Scott and Natalia at Duke), but as there’s no way I can successfully separate the two species with only an average photo, I am content to leave it as just “dowitcher” in my notes.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

This means that if you are looking for a specific species, you need to consult the Introduction, or the Table of Contents (also in taxonomic sequence but scannable since it’s all on one page), or the Index of Bird Names, where Species Account pages are set in bold print. What is in the Species Accounts?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain. Kristof describes “happy” cows that are loved “like children” by an organic dairy farmer.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Now even though I’ve managed to make it through this post without any bit of substance at all I’ll leave you with a bit of Raven content. I live in a spectacularly beautiful place, graced by opportunities that few others get to experience. Yesterday in the twilight of noon, the kids and I went qimiqsaq dog sledding.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Its purpose, chief editor Mickey Long tells us, “is to provide useful information for birders of all skill and experience levels” (p. edited by the Pasadena Audubon Society, chief editor: Mickey Long, content editors: Darren Dowell & Mickey Long; illustrations by Catherine Hamilton, photographs by local contributors.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The Foreword, by writer and Pennsylvania birder Scott Weidensaul, nicely summarizes the book’s contents and brings a little local history into the historic framework, with the story of Pennsylvania’s very first bird census by Alexander Wilson in 1811. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I would love to have a Red-tailed Hawk but with my travel schedule, there’s no possible way I could work with a bird, so I content myself with going out with my friends when they are gracious enough to invite me along like in the above photo when one of my falconer friends let me join him when he was hunting with his goshawk.

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