10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Nor are there any birding authorities requiring folks to identify, count and document the nuthatches, titmice and Downy Woodpeckers that come to their backyard feeders. Since this is the closest spot to the bird action, this is of course where we all want to be. Well yes, of course! Watch the birds.

Costa Rica 212

Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Woodpeckers nest in cavities and their young are altricial (born in an undeveloped state), which means there is not a lot of documented information about their young and how they look at different stages. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 263

Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

Do you grow tired of lugging a camera into the field on the off chance you’ll see something you need to document? In my case, I used the window of my car, as the location I used to test the product was the puddles in the parking lot at Big Egg Marsh in Queens.

Eggs 247

Eggs Rights Birds 247

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

I was surprised, however, that there is no mention of one of the dark spots in bird feeding history, the highly publicized application of toxic insecticides to Scott’s Miracle-Gro bird seed from 2005 to 2008 and the accompanying falsification of documents to hide it. Scott’s was fined $12.5 Margaret A. The writers have created a good book.

America 234

America Industry Squirrels Birds 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. “It is not deep enough yet!

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2013

Plus the fact that they only lay one egg per season which is incubated for about four weeks and the chicks don’t fledge for another fifty days gives you some notion as to why these birds are a Species of Special Concern. Of course Black Swifts are not the only reason to visit McArthur-Burney Memorial State Park.

California 214

California North America Costa Rica Niger 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Possibly the first documentation of a ship-assisted bird in history, undoubtedly sailing off the edge of the world. Of course, this fanciful story had been devised to explain the absence of nests in Europe by this Arctic breeder, but Frederick dismissed it as nonsense.

2015 113

2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The compactness of both books (Dragonflies is 208-pages and Butterflies is 224-pages long) of course stems from the small number of each type of insect in Great Britain and Ireland; comparative field guides for Europe and Great Britain are necessarily longer and heavier. The Behaviour paragraph includes flight pattern and mating habits.

Ireland 176

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids. Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!

Pennsylvania 233

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 233

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But, of course, regular 10,000 Birds readers know this from beat writer, Australian birder Clare Morton , whose writings about the birds of Broome and other Australian areas have taught many of us about the joys of Australian birding. Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.

Australia 108

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 108

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

I also enjoyed the breeding photo series, showing Downy Woodpecker eggs and then hatchlings within a breeding chamber in a tree, with only a few wood chips to support them. I say almost-comprehensive because the bibliography is heavily tilted towards scientific literature. The Index lists species by full popular name and scientific name.

Woodpeckers 247

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 247

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. So if you want to see a Kirtland’s Warbler, you go to Michigan in May or June.

Michigan 234

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Green-striped Brush Finch, a Mexican endemic) to 14 pages (Song Sparrow, of course). ’ These are equally detailed and documented and the amount of information in each section of each species account is well balanced (the few exceptions being sparrows about which little is known).

North America 152

North America Sparrows America United States 152

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses. In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S.

Birds 169

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror!

Species 175

Species Australia Birds Parrots 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Although we are not close nor on a direct course, the geese are skittish.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year.

2012 151

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 151