10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Housemartins were another UK band with good tunes and the heart at the right (left) place – to quote from “Get up off on our knees” : “Don’t shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today” Two Asian Housemartins , one in the house (a true housemartin), one outside (Balangshan, China).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

I might have to add the Dallas airport staff to the list of things Buffon was right about. I was high and happy, not from “420” drugs but from the altitude and the anticipation of seeing woodpeckers and owls I had never seen before. We also saw Prairie Dogs , Bison , Mule Deer , Abert’s Squirrel and Coyote.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

THEY’VE BEEN FEEDING HIM LOW-SALT HAM,” she wrote, all in caps, then added some choice commentary which I can’t seem to locate right now, but which inspired all her rehabber friends to add their two cents. “A People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

They don’t need to be professional bird killers either, predators only need to be in the right place at the right time. Smaller frogs and toads, mice, bugs, worms, dog food, and carrion, you name it. By chance, on October 22, I happened to be in just the right place at the right time.

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Costa Rica Investigation Shelters Illinois 261

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The Okavango Delta is also one of the best places to see the endangered African Wild Dog. Hornbills, Paradise Flycatchers , day roosting Giant Eagle Owls or if we’re really lucky Pel’s Fishing Owl , the holy grail! Those waters never see the sea! While we look for animal tracks, you’ll see so much else as we go.

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

If you see a flyer such as this and you’re unfamiliar with wildlife, you can 1) believe the hundreds of people who write things like “I know for a fact a Barn Owl can carry off a 3-pound Chihuahua!” One might say the heart of the person who wrote the flyer was in the right place.

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Pets Barn Owls Kentucky Bald Eagle 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2018

Kelp Gulls , Whiskered Terns and Neotropic Cormorants flew in determined fashion higher above the water, invariably from right to left. Burrowing Owls had nested in a small clearing of flat ground last year and I was keen to re-find them. I can recommend an owl shoot to anyone with a bad back. An owl a day……

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Owls Birds Battery 2016 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. That’s where I learned that dog food and applesauce is the staple diet for all nestlings!” Do not feed birds dog food and applesauce, do not feed them bread and milk. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 183

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

As it turns out, a useful tool for the amateur phenologist is a dog. Dogs LOVE routine, they love walking the same routes and looking at the same vistas and sniffing the same trees day after day at the same time without fail (if you fail, they will let you know.)

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Bald Eagle Montana Owls Dogs 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. Costa Rica being such a small place, one hardly ever seems out of earshot of roads with rumbling trucks and auditory attacking motorcycles, of dogs hell bent on barking into the night, of occasional music being played. Latin America tends to be loud and Costa Rica is no exception.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A flock of small birds at the dyke, Yellowhammers mostly… I cannot see well because of one enthusiastic hunting dog which takes pleasure in running through the snow and flushing them up whenever the birds land. Yeah, right. Scanning the water for rarer species… S. warns me of two locally rare Bean Geese.

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Geese Hunting Boars Birds 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

I was delighted by the invitation and spent hours going through my photos, printing them out, imagining fifteen 4-year olds entranced by egrets, herons, and Burrowing Owls. Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right?

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Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

Two more shadows in the spotlight, two of the most endangered carnivores of the sub-Saharan Africa are coming along the road, toward us: African Painted Dogs (Wild Dogs). Painted Dogs are already extinct in 25 out of 39 countries that they used to inhabit. The two dogs walk right next to our rover and disappear in the dark.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Africa: Two more shadows in the spotlight, two of the most endangered carnivores of the sub-Saharan Africa are coming along the road, toward us: African Painted Dogs (Wild Dogs). 10000birds.com/the-search-for-the-rarest-owl-of-india.htm. We are observing a Dhole, also called Asiatic or Indian Wild Dog.

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Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Our trusting GPS took us through the dawn hours right to the lake where I had previously programmed some points that I wanted to visit from E-bird maps. Soon we had to decide to go left or right and the GPS had two points, one to the left, and one to the right, so we turned to the right and drove towards a school and then some houses.

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Argentina Rights Owls Abandon 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

This years bird number 1300, the Whiskered Screech Owl, was found in the dark, in a snow storm, and no photo was gotten. Wandering the Sydney Australia Botanical Gardens, there were a large number of birds that could have made this list, like the Powerful Owl, but this photo of Little Wattlebird is one of my favorites from the area.

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2018 Costa Rica South Africa New Zealand 168

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

None of my neighbors have cats and I'm only aware of one dog owner blocks away. I think I heard an owl once last winter. I spend a great deal of time outside sitting near where the car is parked, at all hours from early morning, day, overnight, depending on my fluctuating work schedule. or even this city for that matter.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

If we get close enough we might see a pink maw and slivers of white teeth, ready to take a prairie dog by the throat and choke the life out but also rather perversely adorable. Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night.

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Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2016

The old gravel road is not marked, but is very wide and you can see a gate on your left as you follow the road as it sweeps off to your right. When you approach the gate it will still not say where it goes, but will warn you that the property has 1080 dog baits on it in an attempt to eradicate wild dogs. Giant Phasmid.

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Fish Australia Dogs Owls 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

Two kilometre above us, Mount Belles was snow-capped and some two-thirds up the slopes, the thin white cloud sliced up the mountain like a razor in Buñuel’s “An Andalusian Dog”. I am scoping Great Cormorants roosting in their colony in the (now dry) flooded forest, there is one… eagle to the right of them. One done, three more to go.

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

my dog is named Phoebe so I see her everyday — all day. Corey Mar 20th, 2011 at 9:20 pm I should have mentioned that Larry thinks that Tree Swallows signal spring …who is right? Joseph Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:17 pm “who is right? Wicked, right? Audrey Mar 20th, 2011 at 1:17 pm and PS.

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2011 Deer New York Philadelphia 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? The average (responsible) dog-owner does not think of his or her dog functioning on instinct, but as a organism with deep emotional ties to its family that seeks out pleasures and avoids pains… which, fundamentally, is how we people operate.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

Just keep an eye out for the Barred Owl perched on a Mini Cooper and that is where you will find him. The open area (“dog park”) filled with both exotic and native trees on the west side of Old Cutler Road has many dead Royal Palm stumps riddled with cavities dug out by busy woodpeckers ( Red-bellied and Pileated ).

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Miami Florida Birds Pelicans 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. Wicked, right? These Blasts From The Past Mockers Everywhere! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 137

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Olive Sea Snake that has had a dog visit it on the beach Olive Sea Snake with obvious bulge Stoke’s Sea Snake Stoke’s Sea Snake with wounds Dubois’ Sea Snake Dubois’ Sea Snake being returned to the sea! And that was one lucky dog, ey? Wicked, right? I hope you enjoy these photos!

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 152

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. I’ll admit to being momentarily faked out by the plastic owls that people put out in a futile attempt to ward off crows, which demonstrates that decoys work on birders, if not on birds themselves. I suspect it’s quite possible.

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2016 Ducks California Hunters 107

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. Ferrets, stoats and weasels were released and quickly became destructive vermin in their own right, quickly causing the extinction of the Laughing Owl and stymieing efforts to establish game birds.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

The grackles might well be found here anyway as they like the wet habitat in Florida, but as an extra enticement, visitors feed the alligators with hot dogs and there is always a little something left over for a cheeky omnivore. Wicked, right? RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Alligators Florida Deer 117

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2018

Each one was followed up by a litany of dog barks, some high in pitch, others low, far-carrying woofs. In the meantime, I’m still going to keep a year list and maintain said list right here at this post. Spectacled Owl – Pulsatrix perspicillata; Sarapiqui, 2-Jan. I want to help her reach that goal.

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Woodpeckers 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Poe must have sat down and written the whole poem in a burst of inspiration because how else could something so beautiful have been created, right? That it is still one of the most anthologized poems is testament not to sudden inspiration but to dogged determination and careful, thoughtful writing. Wicked, right?

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2011 Fowl Deer Cats 248

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Rapai reprints an editorial from the 1904 Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club that will remind many birders of more recent discussions on the Internet concerning the publication of owl and bird nest locations, its language only a little bit more civilized! Those of us who contemplate the trip need to know how to do it right.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 236

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Indian Scops-Owl – Otus bakkamoena. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113