10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

They are endemic to New Zealand, but unlike many endemic species that have not suffered at the hands of humans, in fact they have expanded their range as forests have been opened up for pasture. They are the only endemic duck species that hunting is permitted for, in fact, the other species being either too rare or outright extinct.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

But global climate change is by no means the only way that humans can throw a wrench into those gears. As a result the sea ice has become more unstable, endangering the Inuit who hunt and work on the bay and the ducks who can no longer rely on their instincts to find open water.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. Wildlife rehabbers are good, but what human can teach where to flip the best leaves to look for grubby larvae? What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Primarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing , Asia’s Yellow-wattled Lapwing and the Red-wattled Lapwing of the Middle East. Masked Lapwing Africa is the spiritual home of the Vanellus family, boasting as many as 14 species including the abundant Crowned Lapwing.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat.

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Honduras illegal Parrots Birds 185

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

Despite all the people, the birds were incredibly active, rarely shy, and a reminder that natural wonders like the cherry blossoms interact with more than just us humans. Stretching over the water, big boughs dangled their flowers below, so a passerby literally had to duck their heads to avoid the bloom. Weather is weird.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

I’d been familiar with the occasional post-breeding wanderings of great birds like Wood Stork s and Roseate Spoonbill s into the southern part of my own state, but to be in an area where both are practically guaranteed and to not be assaulted by Shamu and Donald Duck to see them? Below is a family shot of at least six.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The Little Egret walks in front of her, a dozen Lesser Whistling Ducks flies noisily low above water and through a flooded grass wades one Black-winged Stilt. It is a success, despite the heavy burden of poaching and a human-tiger conflict. The guide continues scanning the far reaches of the lake: “There’s one more tiger.”

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MARCH 16, 2011

In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

He was adopted by the Masson family and was apparently the most loving dog all who met him had ever had the pleasure of being licked by. Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. The point is that, as Chapter 3 is titled, "Dogs Make Us Human."

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. l-r) Brushland Tinamou ( Nothoprocta cinerascens ), Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), Greater Sage-Grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ), Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ). So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. This is why.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Well-represented exotic families include starlings, ducks and doves and there are also many more individual species that now thrive here. The population is not directly dependent on human support. A Carolina Parakeet mounted in a museum in Germany Fritz Geller-Grimm.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter. One of these killers even has the word “death” in its name, for crying out loud.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Taxonomic tweakings and reshufflings of birds on the Family and Genus levels are too many to count. For example, in California, populations of birds like Aleutian Cackling Goose have dramatically increased…but where did our Fulvous Whistling-Ducks go? Whereas checklists used to start with loons, they now begin with waterfowl.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. Its only black plumage is a bold stripe that runs across the bird’s face” Scientific research has found that these ducks get together more closely if you feed them with bread.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). Do they have families too and do they take care of them? How are they different?

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2022

Here in central Mexico, the winter season always seems to begin with the arrival of various members of the sandpiper family. Still, most of the birds were locals, including Fulvous Whistling-Ducks , Black-necked Stilts , and a lone American Avocet (still with a bit of breeding color). Let that be a lesson, to me. And birdy it is.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The latter is half the size of the Grey, but with its stout beak and prominent eyes shows a distinct family likeness. Note the family likeness to the Grey Plover, with big head and large eyes Brancaster is always a reliable site for Black-tailed Godwits, but when I first arrived there were none to be seen. A Ringed Plover.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

We soon added Rainbow Bee-eaters , Grey-crowned Babblers , Brolga , Double-barred Finch , Pacific Black Ducks, Red-tailed Black Cockatoos , Masked Woodswallows , Little Friarbirds , Peaceful Doves, White-gaped Honeyeaters , Striated Pardalote , Masked Woodswallows , Paperbark Flycatcher and Great Bowerbird to our park list.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Peregrine Falcon is certainly more elegant than Duck Hawk. And the use of Long-tailed Duck for a waterfowl whose traditional name I decline to type is a small, but real, improvement in the state of civilization as a whole. Also known as Meat-bird, Moosebird, and Lumberjack. But it sounds so much more sophisticated to say Ouzel.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

The sitting duck of a crow was surrounded by a group of teenagers who were not eco-friendly. A short time later Russell rolled away, safe – if not sound – in the family’s station wagon. Grace and her family had lavished him with kindness and care, so despite his ordeal, he was a friendly, lively crow.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana Compassion Rescue 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2022

There are also many ducks on Chongming Island – they are experienced enough to be very shy. Whenever I find a good spot to see Reed Parrotbill at Nanhui, I can be pretty sure that there will be some human activity within the next three months that will destroy this site.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2020

There is a water trough for the dairy cows, but sometimes the Pacific Black Ducks take advantage of the trough! Pacific Black Ducks. There is a family of feral foxes that I often encounter near Bennison Creek. However, we all understand that the guides are there for human reference and not birds! Bennison Creek Bridge.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

My birding adventures this week, while Western, were far from Interior (three words for you: Black-bellied Whistling Duck ). Hess also, to my pleasure, includes a few pages on citizen science projects like The Great Backyard Bird Count, and encourages his readers to share their new-found knowledge with friends and family.

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North America America Dissection Birds 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Several Ferruginous Duck and one surprising male Goosander , four Glossy Ibises , Common Kingfishers , Eurasian Hopooes , a high note of a Penduline Tit somewhere from the willows along the canal, Eurasian Spoonbills , European Turtle Doves gently purrring …. Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is the only Cholorceryle species I haven’t seen, so observing one would complete a genus in this fascinating family.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) • Explore These Related Posts Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet Sea Snakes of Northern Australia.Or

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

I strongly suspect that the rate of attrition on this Loon family is inversely proportionate to the abundance of ducklings in the bay. Ducks are easier prey for the Eagle. Sometimes that one reaches adulthood, but just as often it disappears. And, every now and then one of the Loons disappears too.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2015

During December and January the temperature is usually in excess of 45c/113f and for more than six months each year the temperature exceeds human body temperature! Intermediate Egret and Pacific Black Ducks. A lone Common Sandpiper was running along the edge of the mud and a family of Masked Lapwings were on the far bank.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Most of the deer and duck hunters I know lament the loss of an old growth forest or flood-plain swamp as much as I do. I think not!

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. Mandarin Duck, Central Park, NYS. Everybody wants to know about the Hot Duck.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

In somewhat dubious English, the abstract of one paper on this species by Chinese authors states that “ Pycnonotus sinens has got used to the city life and become a kind of city bird that are closely associated with human” (of course, my Chinese – spoken only anyway – is far worse than this English).

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