10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Some researchers did an experiment that among humans is only done rarely and only via mistakes made in maternity hospitals. Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Despite the fact that efforts are made to ensure they are not imprinted on humans, they are naturally confiding, even friendly. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Shooting remains a major threat to this population, for the Italians are still passionately keen on hunting.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. It is one of the more commonly seen owls, based on it having a relatively high tolerance for human activity as well as its partially diurnal habits. He took a few pictures and moved on.

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MARCH 11, 2020

And lots of birds, of course. Yes, I know that birding can be turned into a social experience of sorts, but it will still always involve lots of silence and stealth. After all, no human contact need be involved. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well. The bird guides have not worked for over a year now, and of course being a young industry, most of the bird guides had invested in other alternative businesses.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. Apparently, this name is derived from the well-ordered patterns of the male.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

Of course, Tiaozini also has Cattle Egret … … and the usually somewhat depressed looking Black-crowned Night Heron. A juvenile night heron experimented with getting across fences (note: neither fence nor heron were hurt during the experiment). I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Of course, there should be a photo of a Plain Prinia here now, but somehow I did not get one this month). But then, of course, my conscience took over and the truth won, as it should. Personally, I wish the species the best of luck in this endeavor. (Of Common Starlings are still very rare in Shanghai.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. But we frame these birding highlights within a broader, more comprehensive experience, visiting world-class museums, archaeological sites, and cultural landmarks.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Yes, you do, trust me.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The adults presumably have already learned that humans are not usually good news even if not named Donald Trump. Of course, the White-cheeked Starling is even more common in Shanghai and can sometimes be seen in flocks of 20 or more birds. on September 01, so these concerns ended very early in the month.

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JULY 6, 2010

I did go to Babies-R-Us for some odds and ends and here's the Animal Person-related experience. As long as the animals aren't on a farm or otherwise being used by humans, I love the idea of animals in the lives of babies. Much of the baby clothing has animals on it, and animals are of course the focus of stuffies and other toys.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Asian Brown Flycatcher does not count as a season-starting bird – discrimination, of course. Anyway, not a bad look for a juvenile given the bland look of some of the bulbuls I recently saw in Borneo, though of course, the adult bird looks more distinct.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

And of course, birders (at least me) do not care too much for Giant Pandas, which are the main attraction of this area, despite their pathetic habits. For birders, the Wolongshan area is like a poorer cousin of Balangshan – due to the lower elevation, the bird species here are more common and thus less interesting.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience. The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. And of course, there were numerous Rufous-vented T**s. However, it is still worth it, if only for the parrotbills, four of which I encountered here within a few hours.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Bird names say much about human perception, they can also give us insight into the people who invented names for official bird descriptions. In my experience, it seems to sing more during the spring months and this of course is a great help in locating this unobtrusive bird. Pewee is a royal pain.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. 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 had hoped for more.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And of course, there is the incident in Central Park. Nah, sadly, probably not.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This has been looked at in other studies for ectotherms (the most obvious sorts of animals to be affected since they get their heat from ambient conditions) and elderly humans. This is the first study of this kind on birds, or that would relate directly to wild endotherms (the elderly humans do not live in the wild!).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

Of course, there are many different accessibility challenges and a site that is accessible to some may be inaccessible to others. Apart from helping share this much-needed information, it’s a concrete way they can help, and it can be such an amazing learning experience going through the process of a Birdability Site Review.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. How efficient. How surprising.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t. Radio Road, Redwood Shores, CA.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. They were missed. Not this one though.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. The first looked very similar to a Mourning Dove , which of course can be found across the United States. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Of course, the first step is to define what is a ‘vagrant bird,’ a discussion I really appreciated since I’ve noticed that we (as in birders in general) tend to bandy the term about interchangeably with ‘accidental,’ ‘exotic,’ ‘scarce migrant,’ and ‘MEGA MEGA.’

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Just eat the food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. But, just like with human babies, you have to admit that sometimes you anticipate fawning over a baby bird and instead nearly end up retching instead. Can you handle the cuteness? Can you stand the anticipation? Can your blood sugar handle the sweetness?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career. Did the model work?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For those of us with the great good fortune to bird in Latin America, or other less-studied biological regions, my experience suggests that we are much more likely to benefit from the new species created by such splits. I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements.

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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. Eric DeFonso: “I think a ‘good guide’, in the most generic sense, is one who provides for a gratifying nature experience for his or her clients. A teacher.”.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior. This is, of course, because research itself is specific, and developing generalizations from ornithological specificity is tough.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

Of course, this is one of the great boons of traveling for a birder: you get to see stuff that would otherwise be impossible to see on your home turf. The male Pine Grosbeak is, of course, gorgeous, but the subtle shading of a young bird, below, is pretty nice too! Of course, other birds besides finches came down to the tray feeder.

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