10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A Spectacled Thrush foraged among the leaf litter. And yes, there was an official photographer sent to document us documenting birds – see the post here. A pair of Yellow Warblers hunted insects in the canopy, and a Northern Waterthrush did the same just over the surface of the water.

Falcons 260

Falcons Trinidad Ducks Groups 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Unintentional fishing litter can also hurt the birds. To give you one example, they have been documented following anglers. Loons will swallow pebbles to store in their gizzards, but if they mistake lead sinkers for these small stones they could die from subsequent lead poisoning.

Minnesota 167

Minnesota Litter United States Legislation 167

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We are looking for dogs and cats in the New York Tri-State region who are expecting litters sometime from mid-September through mid-October, to take part in this special.

Kittens 100

Kittens Puppies Litter Cats 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Luckily the bird stuck around and was documented by several able observers. The husks of box elder seeds littered the ground, neatly stripped and devoured. We flipped through the field guide together, and he pointed out the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I was amazed — but at the same time, there wasn’t much else it could be.

Pythons 202

Pythons Litter Montana 2006 202

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 249

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 249

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document.

Morals 119

Morals Animal Humane Research 119

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As I gather the relevant documentation for our upcoming CBC this Sunday I caught myself daydreaming of CBCs past. The very first CBC I attended was eight whole years ago – but I remember it quite vividly. I expected to learn a thing or two and possibly see some birds I had never seen before.

Trinidad 194

Trinidad Livestock 2015 Groups 194