10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2012
Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences in North America. Now before any of you think that I must be really old or dying to have a bucket-list I must assure you that before April 9th 2012 I was still in my thirties. That means I used to be very young. Almost infantile. Now I’m just young.
Critter News
MAY 24, 2012
Four fur stories in the Vancouver, Canada, area were vandalized by animal rights activists who sprayed red paint on the windows and doors. The four stores were Capilano Furs, Speiser Furs, Snowflake Canada and Pappas Furs. Credit is being taken by ALF. Read the full story here at the Vancouver Sun.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 17, 2012
Cat Boredom: it’s not a disease; it’s way more boring than that. More than 40 percent of cat owners say their cats are bored some or most of the time, and 25 percent agree their cats are bored regularly. These alarming statistics led Friskies to fight the Cat Boredom epidemic with Friskies cat treats. Concerned cat owners may join the movement at Facebook.com/Friskies.
Animal Ethics
MAY 28, 2012
There is a neglected other side to the anthropomorphic coin. This is human chauvinism. The anthropomorphic side reads: "It is anthropomorphic to attribute characteristics to nonhumans that belong only to humans." The human chauvinism side reads: "It is chauvinistic not to attribute characteristics to those nonhumans who have them and to persist in the conceit that only humans do.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2012
Let’s say you’re at a fast food restaurant and you have a few french fries left over and a gull is eagerly staring at you and the fries. Do you toss the bird your leftovers? What if you are eating a sandwich on a park bench and a pigeon walks over and waits for your crumbs? And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese?
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2012
One of these sentiments is a lie. • Birds are beautiful. • Birds are fascinating. • Birds are always too close, prancing around resplendent in their finery and vexing the close-focus on your suddenly useless binoculars. (perhaps if you turned them around?) Well, go ahead and brush those goldfinches off your laptop and enjoy a closer look some other feathered friends.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Continuing the celebration of commonplace birds we now hail the ubiquitous Great Blue Heron. There are too many images to share so I’ll keep the captions brief and let the pictures do the squawking, er, I mean talking. Their beautiful blue-gray can really pop in the right light. They share our world without too much complaint, adapting to our cities and towns when they can.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2012
When I worked for a wild bird specialty store, I was always baffled by the question from customers in spring, “When do I take my feeders down?” Most people are under the impression that birds “need” bird feeders only in winter and will not eat “natural” foods in summer if feeders are still up and become too dependent.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2012
With the release of the widely anticipated Avengers film this week and the latest Batman film set to hit later this year, I thought it might be fun to look at some comic books for a change. You see, everyone knows the bats, wolverines, spiders and cats get their turn as well known superheroes, but what about the birds? Well, rest assured there are plenty of those, so enjoy a countdown of the (utterly subjective) top ten superheroes inspired (in some small way) by birds!
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2012
Ok so I missed posting in Bird Love Week because I came down with a horrible flu. No wait, that was the excuse I used last time. This time it was because I got a strange double-dose of typer’s block. Similar to writer’s block but different. Mike and Corey (the guys that keep us all in line here at 10,000 Birds) are probably reading this and saying, “Yeah right” Well, it really doesn’t matter what my excuse is because what I’m about to share is freakin owlsome
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2012
Here in Northern California I am fortunate to have at least three of the western hummingbirds of North America visiting my yard. The least common species of hummingbird I see here is the Calliope Hummingbird ( Stellula calliope ). The smallest of the North American hummingbirds at just 3 1/4 inches, and with wings extending beyond its short tail, the Calliope Hummingbird is usually distinguishable from its larger counterparts by size alone.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2012
“Sweet-sweet-sweet I’m so sweet!” “Sweet-sweet-sweet I’m so sweet!” “Sweet-sweet-sweet I’m so sweet” When you are walking through habitat suitable for Yellow Warblers in late April and throughout May you can be forgiven for thinking that the little yellow birds want you to lick them like a lollipop.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2012
This great bird has managed to escape from my sightings until I visited the great lodge of Tundaloma. This Ecuadorian owned business provides a very comfortable and secure lodge to visit the most northern-western Chocó area in Ecuador. It is located on the highway that goes from Ibarra to San Lorenzo and it is approximately 17 km before San Lorenzo.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2012
Anna’s Hummingbird is resident in California, up through Oregon and into Washington and during the colder months will certainly be the most frequently seen hummer in the area. Often it is the only one likely to be seen then. The males pick a prominent perch from which to deliver their scratchy, swizzling song, and turn on the fireworks using their shocking pink head gear to attract the ladies.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2012
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular American poet during the nineteenth century though as the years have passed his star has dimmed in comparison to other poets of the period. Many see his work as derivative of the European poets, unoriginal, and suitable only for children. His most famous work today is probably “Paul Revere’s Ride” though other poems, including “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” “The Song of Hiawatha,” and “Evangeline&
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2012
Tyrannus tyrannus , better known as the Eastern Kingbird , is truly the King of Kings. Or, as you could choose to translate from the Latin of the scientific name, the Tyrant of Tyrants. Kingbirds all have attitude and it doesn’t take many sightings of Tyrannus tyrannus sallying forth to do battle with a hawk, a crow, or a heron to understand why it has the Latin moniker that it does.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2012
Britain might have had new species to add to it’s list, then again maybe it didn’t. Not only seen by hundreds of observers, many of whom are highly experienced and knowledgeable birders, including some of the creme de la creme of British birding, but trapped, biometrics extracted, photographs and video taken, yet the identification of this particular ficedula flycatcher remained a mystery for all of its near two week stay.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2012
“If I sees you I will seize you and I’ll squeeze you ’til you squirt.” -Every Warbling Vireo to every caterpillar ever Warbling Vireos are not much to see. They are bland little birds hidden in the trees, only given away by their loud song, most easily remembered deploying the phrase that caterpillars dread. Even their scientific name is rather boring.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2012
This story comes from Lia Pignatelli, a rehabber with AKUSA Wildlife Rescue in Brewster, NY, who specializes in songbirds. It was six o’clock one June morning, and Lia arrived in her bird nursery room for the first feeding of the day. She checked her brood: a nestfull of Tufted Titmice , a Mourning Dove , a robin, and a cardinal. All eyes turned to Lia, and the begging began.
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2012
Tomorrow is the first day of June, yet the complaints have already started. Have you heard them yet? “Now that migration is over, all I can do is look for local breeders.” “I guess I’ll go to the beach… maybe I’ll see a shearwater or something.” “Summer (birding) sucks!” Wah wah wah. Summer happens to be one of my favorite seasons, except for the whining.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2012
While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,* I was entertained by the strafing runs that the Red-winged Blackbirds were taking at every Fish Crow that flew by. The Red-winged Blackbirds are just protecting their eggs and young from a known nest predator but I still couldn’t help but feel a bit sorry for the harried crows that just seemed to be trying to get from place to place only to have shrieking blackbirds attack the
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Sorry for banging on about black-footed ferrets, but here’s a bit on why this trip was so special to me: Forty years ago the black-footed ferret was a bit more like the Loch Ness Monster than it is today. You couldn’t see it. The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. Though it was well-known to the Native American populations that shared its space, the black-footed ferret was overlooked by Lewis and Clark and all subsequent Euro-A
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
The Biggest Week in American Birding – on the shores of lake Erie, Ohio – is going really nicely. Sure, this is my first trip to North America, but still, who could find fault with 20+ wood warblers in a day? On my first day, we had found an American Woodcock ( Scolopax minor ) along the Magee Marsh board-walk, but the views were singularly unfulfilling in that the woodcock was buried deep in the undergrowth vegetation – probably on a nest – and if you craned your neck in
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2012
Sure it is a Plain Titmouse, or at least it used to be. The Plain Titmouse ( Parus inornatus ) was split and reclassified in 1997 as sibling species, the Oak Titmouse ( Baeolophus inornatus ) and the Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ). The Oak Titmouse , pictured above (click on photos for full sized images), would be a California endemic if not for its spill over into Southern Oregon and Baja California.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2012
Now that landbird migration is largely done here in the northeastern United States we birders have to have something on which to focus our attention. Shorebirds and seabirds will serve nicely for a couple of weeks until we hit the summer birding doldrums when birders consider things like butterflies and dragonflies, as heretical as that may sound. It is in the spirit of the season then, that I share with you these shots of Least Sandpipers Calidris minutilla.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2012
Well, what is odd about this picture? It was taken in Paramus, New Jersey, at Van Saun Park earlier today. Spotted Sandpiper Actitus macularia Figured it out? No? Scroll on down to learn the answer. … … … … … … … … … Keep On Scrolling! … … … … … … … Here Is The Original Image.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2012
This is just a quick post to share two of the latest birds that made it onto my year list after a quick run to Doodletown and to Mine Road on Saturday morning. The Orange County / Rockland County border by the Hudson River, where Bear Mountain State Park, Harriman State Park, and the United States Military Academy all come together has the best variety of woodland breeding birds to be found within an hour of New York City.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2012
Being a birder and living in Queens as I do I can’t help but be drawn to the waterhole at Forest Park during spring migration. The waterhole, an unassuming little vernal pool, is often the only water in the eastern half of Forest Park which means that any bird that wants a bath or a drink has to visit. This is advantageous for birders because instead of suffering warbler neck trying to identify birds high up in the treetops you can just bring a lawn chair and sit and wait for the birds to
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2012
Carrie wrote a thought-provoking post on the perils of being named after Georg Steller, but noted that his Jays were still doing very well thank you. Though Steller’s Jay is usually associated with western coniferous forests, it can be found in many different habitats as well as town parks and gardens were they will take advantage of food left out during the winter.
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2012
Seawatching is not my favorite way to bird. Standing on a boardwalk, a beach, or a jetty with my eye in a scope hoping against hope that a shearwater, a petrel, or a jaeger will fly through my field of view is too passive a form a birding for me to get really excited by it. But seawatching is an exciting form of birding in that the ocean, in my case the Atlantic Ocean, is vast, and almost anything could show up when you are staring out to sea.
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