10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I was at Baranda fish farm, north of Belgrade, following a short embankment without much hope: swans and ducks at the right hand side and a solar powered screamer at the left, meant to scare cormorants with sounds of shooting, reloading, shooting and bird cries (presumably in agony). Their claim to fame?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. It may take just being at the right place at the right time. Interestingly some of these ponds are favored by these herons for foraging and have ducks that are fed by people. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

The Asian Koel is a cuckoo species and thus freed from the obligation to raise its own chicks (though the birds like to refer to themselves as brood parasites, which sounds a bit less obviously selfish). Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). Lucky ducks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press. One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. Actually, when I started to bird, my second ever duck, after the Mallard, was a Ruddy Shelduck! The closer one raises her head, than lies back.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

Magpie Geese were breeding close to the main highway south of Broome and so were the Whiskered Terns , White-winged Black Terns , Purple Swamphens , Comb-crested Jacanas , Wandering Whistling Ducks and Plumed Whistling Ducks. Two birds on the right and one on the left-note the bills! Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. The bird family that got his attention was originally the herons, egrets and other wading birds, but as time went on New World warblers, woodpeckers and ducks fueled the passion further. punch line to a bad birding joke, right?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

Piney Z Lake is separated by Lake Lafayette by another raised berm – this time with no openings for paddlers. Here, scores of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks landed in the waving reeds, only their heads and bright pink bills visible as we slowly moseyed past. Only one kayak and one canoe passed us as we explored.

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AUGUST 30, 2015

In winter a few ducks are likely. There is a raised, walled area to the right (north towards the entrance of the bay). The rocks are all easily visible from here and you might even indulge in a spot of sea-watching, which could produce loons and sea-ducks during the winter.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. He has earned his tip. These are my first wild tigers ever!

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Chickens come in at around 24, pigeons have around 40-50 and some duck species may have a whopping 400. Aptly called the tube-nosed birds, on account of their raised and highly visible nostrils, these species are able to hone in on oceanic food from several miles away, based on smell alone. Ducks are the avian leaders of bill touch.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. No coyotes in sight right now, the Great Horned Owls are off in the cottonwoods closer to the river. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. My friend on the end of the line got right to the point: “What does a Kingfisher look like?” Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives. And now mergansers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

The ugly truth is that this stuff doesn’t usually go public in any big way, but the birding record is filled with references to sketchy sightings, lists that are looked upon with raised eyebrows, and even a few cases of outright fraud. That’s the key to making sure your reputation is always on the right side of the line.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2015

There is a rich assortment of Andean ducks, coots, and other waterfowl. Cesar Zeballos (far right) and friends. A local birding guide born and raised at the very shores of Lake Junin. The best time to visit the lake is outside the wet season. Choosing the driest months to visit Lake Junin is always a good idea.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Not sure that I impressed them, I chose to bluff them and looked left and right for a suitable tree branch to pick. Attempting to bluff the bear in believing that they were even bigger bears, Hoshino suggested raising their hands, to appear taller. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos. Hen harrier, Circus cyaneus.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

On entering the small village of Alkborough from either West Halton or Burton upon Stather you will see two brown signs on the church stone wall with a duck on, which indicate the area you need to head for. Bird hides have been built and two small car-parks and one of these has wheelchair access to the trails.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). Reading to your kids before they go to bed is an easy and simple way to subtly put birding right into their sub-conscious. Birding with your children starts right in your backyard. 10 TIPS TO GET YOUR KIDS INTO BIRDING 1. BIRD FEEDERS.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. Wicked, right? By Corey • March 18, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share The national bird of Honduras is the Scarlet Macaw. Hat-tip to Stella.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Baicich, one of our most passionate proponents of American birding conservation — misguided though he is on the topic of the Duck Stamp — has identified the Bold Ideas presented on the Conserving the Future site that deal specifically with birds and birding issues. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

First published in November of 1843 the tale of a baby swan, or cygnet, being raised among ducks strikes a chord with many people, but in Denmark the works of Hans Christian Andersen bring feelings of national pride. Wicked, right? It is no wonder that the ugly duckling grew up to be the national bird of Denmark.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

Sedge Warbler (left) and Grasshopper Warbler (right – duh!). If the flanks and undertail coverts are plain, yet the head shows a clear pale supercilium and a very dark lateral crown stripe that is so broad it essentially creates a dark cap, you are faced with the other one, the nice Sedge Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. Like the previous park, there were no ducks, coots, or grebes to be seen. Then, around 4:00 p.m., I liked their attitude. Some were quite large.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. More on Species Accounts.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. The two guides make for interesting comparisons–one is full of rich browns and greens and orange-reds and makes your eyes dizzy, the other is cool and elegant, with text on the left and artwork on the right.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The smooth mass of bronze (photographed at right by Jordan Mann) was a stylized version of a Great Auk —a bird that no longer exists. Raised among birders, he was once sculpting an abstract duck figure when he happened upon Hope Is the Thing With Feathers , Christopher Cokinos’ elegy for extinct birds. What a horror!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Must be a joke, right? However, you can’t come to this small Central American country to see the following birds because they are gone: White-faced Whistling-duck : Yes, this cool looking duck used to build nests, breed, and dabble around the wetlands of Costa Rica and this is why you will see it illustrated in Stiles and Skutch.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Our first birding experiences with UK ducks after so long was frustrating when they all seemed to be tail up! Why doesn’t somebody do a field guide for ducks of the world with tail end photos only? Maybe 10000birds.com could make a webpage that covers ducks from that angle?! Tufted Duck. What a great duck!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

A curious Laysan Duck takes a stroll at Midway Atoll. Laysan Ducks don’t seem to be as tied to water as other ducks, which makes sense considering the limited habitat available. Although Laysan Duck is a Hawaiian bird, most birders have never heard of it. That would have been awful. home at Midway Atoll.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

That’s what you do with other game, right? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. Best birds: Common Shelduck , Garganey , Ferruginous Duck , Little Bittern , White-tailed Eagle , Black and Whiskered Terns , Eurasian Penduline Tit , Bearded Reedling , Savi’s Warbler , Common Reed Bunting. eBird checklist. Main eBird checklist.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Amsterdam Duck. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. This dirge for the extinct.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A weird mussel-eating duck. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. A slight, transhemispheric curlew. John Bachman. What a horror!

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