10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Back then, there were some odd paintings of this outlandishly ornamented hummingbird, but the graphic material at a time was nowhere near the stunning photos and videos now available on the internet. My good friend Walter Mancilla put together this amazing video that shows adult males on display. Featured Photo: Dubi Shapiro.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

It included a video that a production company took with a drone in our park’s corridor. Then there are the other uses and a question of ethics: Let’s say you know where Kirtland’s Warblers or Whooping Cranes are nesting and you want to document it with a drone…is that harassment? What if there’s an injury?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2011

Here is two amazing videos of Cajas National park: DOCUMENTAL CAJAS PARTE I DOCUMENTAL CAJAS PARTE II This amazing national park is listed as an important bird area by Birdlife International and is also part of the International Important Wetlands by RAMSAR .

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

A field team recently discovered a juvenile Manumea (and documented it with photographs). For more info on both species, check out this video from Samoa’s Ministry of Environment. Fortunately, scientists now have proof that the bird, which lives only on two Samoan islands and is distantly related to the Dodo , isn’t yet extinct.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I follow my friend, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for International Bird Rescue, Cheryl Reynolds to the release site where we document the event. ” In the meantime, this is a video/slideshow I put together of what was one of the most memorable experiences in my birding life, my International Bird Rescue Pelican Release.

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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? Have you dreamed of an adapter that would let you easily attach your iPhone to optics for no-fuss, no-muss, still photographs or videos? Look no further. Using the MeoPix is easy, intuitive, and fun.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Sounds like she watched a harsh video. Deka, director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after watching a video allegedly exposing animal cruelty at the New Delhi centre. "It I don't always know how I personally feel about Pamela Anderson, but I can't argue with her (non-acting) work.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA. From PETA's site: A new PETA undercover investigation inside a Land O'Lakes supplier facility in Pennsylvania has revealed routine neglect and cruelty to cows who are milked for the Fortune 250 company's products.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 2, 2012

Her run was photographed for a November 2012 National Geographic magazine article that will include never-before-seen high speed photographs and video of cheetah movement. Learn more about National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative, which helped fund the documentation of the run by visiting CauseAnUproar.org !

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012).

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

They have video. The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. I couldn't get the video to work for some reason. Actually, it's more then allegations. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2016

There have been many documented cases of American Crows solving complicated puzzles in order to get food. I am sure that many of you have seen the U-Tube video of the Green Heron using a small piece of cracker to “bait” a fish in to their range. Sometimes birds are just a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

These fully double-blinded tests document a reproducible effect of anthropogenic electromagnetic noise on the behaviour of an intact vertebrate. Here is a video from the research team discussing the results: [link]. So, there you go. Birds EMF migration Navigation research'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

The occurrence of just about every lifer is engraved in the neural banks, like a snatch of digital video uploaded to my own personal cloud. As far as I know, there aren’t any documented reports of it from coastal waters aside from the birds that showed up this year. This isn’t a species that shows up from time to time.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 6, 2012

Video: Terrier vs. Terrier sneak peek from: Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan: Why Dogs Fight. Just moments after they document a critical meeting between the suspect and a known dog breeder, a neighborhood “scout” marks their vehicle, forcing them to quickly flee the scene. Video: Fight Dog Rescue. Video: Busting Breeders.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

Black-backed Woodpeckers are non-migratory, although there have been documented intermittent irruptions of the species outside their normal range. I’ll leave you with this video by the US Forest Service that sums up the situation pretty well, plus it starts out with a Black-backed Woodpecker nestling that is really cool.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. I will be sharing videos and info for Big Cat Week each day this week! “In Yes, you read that right, this has been 30 years in the making, and you don’t want to miss it!

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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. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. for migratory birds. Wicked, right?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 25, 2010

Future episodes of Expedition Wild will focus on the wild wolves of Yellowstone; a journey with Casey trekking through Yellowstone during two key seasons — winter and spring — documenting every living thing he encounters; and a one-hour special with the complete history of his relationship with Brutus.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals. If not, be sure to set your DVR for Friday and watch, it’s a great show about an unlikely group of animal heroes.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

BBC has the story as a video. They believe it is the first documented case of birds making detours to avoid destructive weather systems on the basis of infrasound. There has been a die-off of pacific coast sea birds, along the US northwest coast.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2018

One of which is documented here. Though I didn’t bring my digiscoping rig with me because of the predicted rain and what would have been the annoyance of lugging a tripod on multiple subway rides and to a meeting, I did manage to get a short video of it singing through my 100-400mm lens.

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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

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The Hudwit edged out more than 650 other birds on my Costa Rican year list by a large margin because unlike Resplendent Quetzal , Maroon-chested Ground-Dove , Ornate Hawk-Eagle , and even Unspotted Saw-whet Owl , the last and only documentation for Hudsonian Godwit in Costa Rica occured in 1975. Donna’s BBOTY – an African Penguin.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

He describes the change model he was using as follows: From my orientation, background, and bias, scholarly work must come first to document and establish a need for change. There is also a video of Dr. Klem talking about his work on the website of the Acopian Center for Ornithology, Muhlenberg College. 101(4), 1989, pp.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

I choose not to watch videos or bombard myself with images of suffering. When a new video is released on YouTube of abuse at a slaughterhouse (as if it's not all abuse, by the way), I don't watch. And I know that, for instance, I simply don't have the skill set to be an undercover person who documents abuse.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2021

It may seem strange that I am choosing to write a video review in one of my first ever blogs. It is also strange, perhaps, that the subject of this short excellent video series, is not from Australia but from the true ‘land of birds’ across the ditch from Australia – New Zealand or Aotearoa.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Just think, if no one was there to document this, would it really have happened? 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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video. Apparently, he was the first documented person to reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I don't frequently use photos, I rarely use video, and my posts are often long. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that. Lesson #13 Design and multi-media matter. The design of Animal Person is probably as uninviting as it could possibly be.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Some of this adventure is captured by Mullin on video (he was masquerading as a National Geographic photographer), a part of which can be seen on YouTube. These are interesting, even provocative worlds. But, it is the sections about Lendrum that crackle with the tension of truth that is weirder than fiction.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

It is one of my most ‘liked’ videos on social media (though, sadly, not taken by me) because–a stick! Targeted for children 4 to 8 years old, the book offers a variety of activities aimed at encouraging children to observe, document, and learn about birds, their habitats and their behavior. How many birds do you see?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2015

I tried to capture this behavior in the video below but it was difficult to stay with the bird and to keep it in focus! It was also much easier to get video of! Single observer records are alright too, provided they are well documented! They dash frantically, leaning forward in a crouch, before suddenly lunging.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

If I was preparing for a birding trip to Papua New Guinea (and, I hope one day to be doing that), I would supplement these plates with the Laman/Scholes videos available online. (I Attached to the project since its beginnings, Allen has painted these birds using specimens, photographs, and videos as his source material.

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