10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2013
'I had an interesting email come in this winter: “I have been photographing birds for the past 8 years and have been confronted by numerous “Rude Birders.” My question that I hope you can help me with is what would be considered a safe distance to photograph Northern Saw-what Owls? My practice has normally been 6-10 feet from the subject since i have a 300mm lens.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 23, 2013
'An organic bamboo dog collar? That also looks great? Yes please! Just in time for summer too, because as you can see, Baby’s new bamboo collar is super spunky in blue and lime green. I love bamboo material for myself, my favorite sheets in the whole world are bamboo! Not only is bamboo a quick growing resource, but it is super soft, and Earth friendly.
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Animal Ethics
MAY 1, 2013
'This blog had 2,364 visits during April, which is an average of 78.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 111.3.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2013
'Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. There are certainly some stunners involved. Pink-throated Twinspot. Definitely my personal favorite of Africa’s pink birds is the delicate Pink-throated Twinspot. This species is a southern African endemic, restricted to, but fortunately not uncommon, in dry woodland and sand forest habitats of northern Zululand, Swaziland, scattered
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10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2013
'Are invisible. I mean, I know they’re out there. The Montana Field Guide, a helpful online compendium provided by the state government, lists seven species. Three of those — the Black-chinned , Calliope , and Rufous Hummingbirds — breed in the Missoula area. That is, in extremely precise mathematical terms, three times more species of hummingbirds than breed near the Olde Homestead.
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2013
'Learning bird calls is essential to improve your bird watching skills. But sometimes it’s not a matter of learning different species, but learning the different calls of the most common species. American Robins have a distinctive territory song (sometimes sung at 4:30am much to the chagrin of those of us who like to sleep with our windows open).
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10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2013
'Extinction is sometimes more confusing than it looks. It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome George dies and there are no more, not now, not ever (until science fiction kicks in.) But for species that didn’t meet their end in captivity, that were always rare, that lived in remote areas, had retiring habits, or bore confusing similarities to their relatives, or simply lacked publicity — well, we can say we haven’t seen them in x numbe
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2013
'For some reason pale red is an extremely attractive color when it is applied to feathered creatures. Why? Who knows? What matters is that pink birds are amazing. Whether you like big wading birds, parrots, finches, wood-warblers, or any other kind of bird you know that when you see one that is pink that you will remember it. There is just something about pink birds that make birders take notice like no other color on a bird.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2013
'Well, that brings a new meaning to the phrase “ the eagle has landed.” In the case of two Bald Eagles at the Duluth International Airport in Minnesota, the landing was of the not-so-smooth variety. The birds had locked their talons during a mid-air battle and plummeted to the tarmac together. When they hit the ground, both were alive, but unable to separate themselves.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2013
'It’s always good to be reminded that when you are looking at birds you are actually looking at dinosaurs. And xkcd is excellent at just this type of reminder.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2013
'Plush-crested Jay. Birding outside my home country is expensive but the current black-market for the dollar exchange rate to the Argentinean Peso help us save money. Also we found some cheaper flights going to Santiago de Chile and leaving from Buenos Aires so we decided to put together a birding trip to take advantage of all of these savings. After reading many trip reports and searching the weather patterns we decided to go during the southern fall just after memorial day weekend which is a
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2013
'Splits, splits, splits. Birders, for the most part, love them. While many of us anxiously await the AOU’s decisions on some recently proposed splits (spoiler alert: I’m getting an armchair lifer and state bird in the form of a second species of Sage Sparrow ), we are always looking on the horizon for future splits…and their dreaded counterparts, the lumps.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2013
'Ah, late spring. You hear a loud, unfamiliar chirp from near the ground. Over the years you may have learned to know better but it’s spring and you’re hopeful and maybe this time it’s an unfamiliar sparrow of some kind… but after maneuvering carefully around to a line of sight, it’s that furry little air-raid siren the Eastern chipmunk again.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2013
'We here in New York City (and in much of the northeastern United States) are dealing with a pretty major cold snap for late May, with temperatures last night falling down to 46 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius). Strong wind and lots of rain has only added to the misery. As bad as a cold, wet, and windy Memorial Day Weekend is for people it is even worse for birds, especially species that rely upon flying insects for sustenance.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
'That vultures get a bad rap is something of a given. There’s no getting around the fact that they’re weird looking. Birds are supposed to have feathers and birds without feathers look incomplete, like they left home with shaving cream on their ear and toothpaste spots on their shirt. Of course, this raptor pattern baldness exists for a good reason, which is another of the distasteful aspects of vulturine biology.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
'New Zealand can generate some interesting yard birds. We may not have huge numbers of species, but we can find some real specialties. I’ve managed a number of globally endangered or vulnerable species in my own backyard, from Saddlebacks and Stitchbirds to the irrepressible Kaka (which I’m listening to right now). This isn’t too surprising I live a hundred metres away from Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, and birds spill out.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2013
'It is 6 May. We New York birders should be awash in migrating wood-warblers, flycatchers, vireos, tanagers, and a host of other birds right now. Instead, the spring migration of 2013 has been largely a bust. Sure, the expected wood-warblers that overshoot their breeding range are showing up and even the occasional rarity has appeared, but this spring has largely been dreadful for we northeasterners.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2013
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10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2013
'Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field. In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2013
'No need to draw this question out. Many of us are still enjoying the final weekend of May, so let’s cut to the chase and talk about our best birds. Deal? My best bird this weekend was an Eastern Wood-Pewee calling from a bare branch. When it comes to New World flycatchers, empids tend to irritate me for the same reasons they irritate everyone, but species in the genus Contopus make me much happier for inexplicable reasons.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2013
'The most widespread of all cockatoos in Australia is the Galah Eolophus roseicapillus and we have them here in Broome, though we don’t always see them in town. They are incredibly pink fronted with grey wings and you really appreciate the brightness of the pink when you see them alongside the more subtle Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo. The Galah varies in colour throughout Australia and the birds we have around Broome are much paler than the birds we observed in Queensland earlier this y
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2013
'The bill of the Greater Flamingo is a marvel of nature that would make any baleen whale turn pale with envy. Indeed, they are the avian equivalent to baleen whales, feeding exclusively on brine shrimp and blue-green algae using their highly specialized bills as filter devices. The long legs and neck allow them to feed near the ground in relatively deep water or near the water surface, depending on where the largest concentration of food is found.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2013
'To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to watch. The munias, or mannikins, or silverbills, as the genus’ members are called, are finches belonging to the Estrildidae , and the 40-odd species range from Africa throughout South and Southeast Asia to Australia. The Indonesian island of Java, which I was both lucky and happy to visit a few weeks ago, is what 5 species of munias call their home, the White-capped Munia ,
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2013
'You see those white things at the edge of the marsh out there? They’re either Great White Egrets or White Storks. I don’t know which. This story will puzzle those who still assume my ability to fix a broken wing means I can always identify the bird from which it is drooping. Ten months ago my friend Boris and I arrived in Paris for an eight-day vacation.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2013
'So as many of my loyal readers know, I have a very mixed relationship with vagrants and the chasing thereof. Nevertheless, when a Baikal Teal was reported by the illustrious Radd Icenoggle just outside Missoula, I couldn’t very well ignore the siren call. Especially once the bird made the front page of the Missoulian and my friends started asking me about it.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2013
'Ah rose, the color of swanky gardens and rampant optimism. Rose by any other name also appears prominently in the plumage of some very perky birds. Rosy , a proper adjectival form of the word, describes a selection of finches from the genus Leucosticte. Of the four rosy finches, lovely earth-toned birds anointed with stark pink around the wings and lower parts, three ( Grey-crowned , Black , and Brown-capped ) are found in the western United States.
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2013
'Despite the rings, the happy couple pictured above are not married – they’re just friends. More on this later. “Look,” said my daughter Skye, holding out her cupped hand. “I found him all alone on the beach! There were snakes everywhere, they must have eaten his family!”. She held out a tiny mouse. As in, really, really tiny. Eyes closed. “We have to take care of him,” she said firmly.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2013
'On a recent filming trip to Emeralda Marsh in Lake County Florida we managed to film and photograph a suspected hybrid between a Tricolored Heron and a Snowy Egret. Hybrids between separate species are rare. But they do spark an interesting and somewhat controversial debate that inevitably leads back to the same old question of what constitutes a species.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2013
'It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like to mention one that we all know about but has been recently studied more closely. The results of this research paper appear in the Journal of Zoology. You know that birds carry various parasites in their blood, and often, these parasites are transmitted to and from the birds via ticks or other ectoparasites.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2013
'How’s May migration treating you so far? We’re early in the month, but many birds are late compared to last year, at least in my part of the world. Then again, migratory birds arrived very early last year. So I frankly have no idea what to expect. Feels slow though… I headed up to Lake Ontario to spy my first Caspian Terns of the year.
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