November, 2013

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Thrilling Turkey Facts

10,000 Birds

'With the arrival of another (American) Thanksgiving, it’s time to trot out the turkey facts. This day of thanks is, after all, known as Turkey Day. An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day. In fact, it seems a lot more like Anti-Turkey Day. Yes, the Wild Turkey is North America’s largest game bird.

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Can a NFL player out run a cheetah?

4 The Love Of Animals

'Have you ever wondered if an NFL player could out run a cheetah? Get your tailgating gear together, place your bets, and tune in to Big Cat Week on Nat Geo WILD to find out the answer to that question! During the 4th annual Big Cat Week viewers will be delighted and amazed by nature’s Biggest and Baddest Cats! There are also specials with entertainment’s Biggest names including NFL Superstars, the Best Big Cat Filmmakers in the World … oh, and there might also be a little bit of Betty White too

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Ten Years Gone

Animal Ethics

'I began this blog 10 years ago today. The time has gone fast. Although I rarely post anything substantive, I did so for many years, so the blog still serves a useful purpose. Here are the posts from November 2003. On the first day of each month, from now on, I will link to the posts for that month 10 years earlier. I hope you enjoy the flashback.

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What Happens When A Code 5 Rarity Shows Up At A Bird Festival

10,000 Birds

'I love the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. I love birding the area and I love the people–it’s a fantastic combination of crazy birds and fun socializing. During the festival people come from all over the world and any place you go birding, chances are good you are going to run into someone you know or make a new birding friend. I’ve yet to meet someone who birded the valley and then says, “Meh,” it’s always, “Oh, I love it, I got so many life birds and

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

10,000 Birds

'Wake up buzz at 5.30 am, breakfast at 6 (toast – who can eat at that ungodly hour?) and at 6.30 we’re already in an open 4×4 heading for the salt pans of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, India. With 5000 square kilometres, that “little” is far from small – it should be taken more as a “lesser”, compared to the Great Rann of Kutch. Winter mornings are pretty cold, even without the wind-chill effect of an open Maruti Gypsy.

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The Search for the Holy Grail

10,000 Birds

'Grey Hypocolius is a Holy Grail of Middle Eastern birding. Not because it is rare – it isn’t, just widely scattered and ill-numbered. Or because it is endangered – it isn’t. Part of its attraction lies in it being a monotypic bird in the family Hypocoliidae – there are no other bird species in its genus and family. The other part of its attractiveness may be coming from the fact that it breeds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – countries seldom visited by foreign birders.

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A Rough Day at Sea – a New York Pelagic out of Freeport

10,000 Birds

'Around about the middle of last week there were various and sundry birders from the great state of New York spending a seemingly inordinate amount of time paying attention to the weekend weather forecasts, particularly those that pertained to the marine forecast. You see, Saturday, 23 November, was the day chosen by Paul Guris of Sea Life Paulagics for a pelagic trip out of New York.

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Bohemian Waxwings

10,000 Birds

'Judging by the abundant links on the previously posted articles, it would seem that waxwings send folks all-of-a-flutter. The BBC’s Autumnwatch program have been following the migration here and have asked viewers to be especially on the lookout for Bohemian Waxwings as they cross the North Sea to visit the berry bushes of the UK. The birds we see here mostly migrate in from Scandinavia where they breed during the northern summer.

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Could Radar Help Make Birdstrikes a Thing of the Past?

10,000 Birds

'Birds and airplane compete for right-of-way at Sky Harbor Airport and Seaplane Base (image by Donald Emmerich, Wikimedia Commons). For about as long as people have been flying planes, pilots of all type of aircraft have been experiencing birdstrikes. Sometimes the damage is little more than dented panel or cracked windshield. (The damage to the plane, that is.

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I and the Bird: What is a Booby?

10,000 Birds

'Let’s address, up front, the funny name. We get it. If those 16th Century Spanish sailors knew the kind of grief with which they’d be saddling this remarkable group of birds for all time, perhaps they would have had something resembling empathy for those who will be forced to live with the ramifications of their irreverence. But sailors are notoriously unconcerned with decorum no matter what era from which they come.

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The Last Few Rays Before Extinction

10,000 Birds

'Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with her. The extinct American pigeon plays a pivotal role in her award-winning bio-thriller, Quick Fall of Light and occupies Sherri still, as you can see… . Every now and then I let myself fantasize about the wildest thought of all—about Passenger Pigeons.

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The Medicine Bird

10,000 Birds

'In case you were wondering, it’s difficult to type when your hands are clenched in the shape of a man’s neck. Check out the beautiful white Red-tailed Hawk in the photo above. If she an albino or leucistic? True albinos are unable to produce the skin pigment melanin, although they can produce other skin pigments which can give feathers or skin a pale yellow color.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

10,000 Birds

'There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago? The first two questions were never definitely answered.

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Three Amazing Things

10,000 Birds

'Migration Shift Cause Better Understood. Birds have been migrating earlier. The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. If you know a lot about birds, this might be entirely expected. I’d love to know if you think this is surprising. First, climate change is the ultimate cause. The breeding season is longer, starts earlier.

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A Fish From the Blue

10,000 Birds

'This story comes from Melissa Gillmer, a zookeeper and wildlife rehabilitator at the Bear Mountain Zoo. The zoo is part of Bear Mountain State Park , a glorious expanse of mountainous land on the west side of the Hudson River in New York. When Melissa’s sister Danielle wanted to do some volunteer work at the zoo, Melissa decided to put her to work cleaning out the Black Bear den.

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

'Assuming you have a passing interest in wildlife, or at the least you know someone that does, and chances are in the last week or so you’ve become aware that some lady from America shot a lion. I’ve certainly seen the story plenty in my Facebook news feed, and were I more of a Twitter user I am sure I would have seen it there too. It may even have been mentioned in Google+, although it is unlikely anyone noticed. 99% of the commentary I have seen has been angry bordering on outright

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Wind Farm Company Pleads Guilty to Bird Fatalities

10,000 Birds

'Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013.

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Win a Book From Across the Pond – The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland

10,000 Birds

'Welcome to day six of the “ Crossley Britain and Ireland Blog Tour ,” otherwise known as the American stop. You can check out the previous stop on the tour at The Biggest Twitch or you can check out the next stop on the tour at Mark Avery. There is another fantastic book in the line-up of Crossley ID Guides – and you can win a copy here on 10,000 Birds !

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Gabriel PDF Webinar

Speaker: Gabriel Wagner Presenter

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Rough-legged Tough

10,000 Birds

'Rough-legged Hawks (or Buzzards ) don’t seem to generate much excitement here in northern North America. I suppose I know the reasons why — they’re common enough, and show up every year instead of in spectacular irruptions, and most birders probably associate them with wind-burn and frostbite and long, frustrating stares across snow-covered fields.

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November Shorebirds at the East Pond of Jamaica Bay

10,000 Birds

'It is extremely unusual that we birders can still walk the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in November. By now water levels should be high and the pond should be full as ducks, both dabbling and diving, are making their way south from cooler climes. But this autumn has been seriously lacking in the precipitation department, which means that water levels have not risen much from the summer months, when the water level is lowered to provide edge habitat for shorebirds and the birders tha

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of November 2013?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes to the skies for boobies or booby-related birds ! Now that we’re past Halloween, the holiday shopping season has begun. The signs may be subtle where you are, but if you look, you won’t fail to find insidious Christmas creep. What we don’t hear much of, though, is Christmas Bird Count creep. Yet, organizers are already poring over maps, segmenting circles, and perhaps even squabbling over assignments.

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A Royal Sunangel Spotted at Alto Nieva Reserve

10,000 Birds

'Panoramic view of Alto Nieva Reserve. Woah! They got it on a feeder!!! That was my reaction when I saw a photo of a male Royal Sunangel on a bird feeder. This is really rewarding news for Carlos Calle and Ciro Joel Alegria, who started “Fundo Alto Nieva”, a small reserve in the core of Abra Patricia; one of loveliest parts of the Peruvian Andes. Abra Patricia is one of Birdlife International’s Important Bird Areas for many reasons.

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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Fixing a Hole: The Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finch Saga Begins

10,000 Birds

'So, winter is very nearly upon us, and no, I never did find a Yellow-headed Blackbird. It has snowed in Montana, it has snowed at the Olde Homestead, and I have commenced my annual Andy Rooney-like wails of anguish about the earlier and earlier appearance of holiday decorations in stores. It’s time, if the time is ever, to get serious about this Gray-crowned Rosy-finch mission.

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A Chipping Sparrow Impersonating a Clay-colored Sparrow

10,000 Birds

'Sorting through flocks of fall sparrows is fun and can be rewarding. You never know what might be hiding amid the hordes of White-throated Sparrows , Dark-eyed Juncos , and Song Sparrows. Here in the eastern United States you might find a “good” sparrow, like a White-crowned Sparrow or a Vesper Sparrow , a “rare-but-regular” like a Clay-colored Sparrow or a Lark Sparrow , or, if you are extremely lucky, a real rarity like a Brewer’s Sparrow or a Harris’s Spar

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Bird TV — The Next Big Things

10,000 Birds

'I forgot to set my TiVo! I have to admit that I feel like Duck Dynasty is a tremendous missed opportunity. Oh, not in terms of the characters or storylines — my opinions about those are not entirely germane to this site. In terms of the title. With Dallas and Dark Shadows getting reboots, and whatever this is existing, why shouldn’t one of our seemingly infinite cable channels take a flyer on a soapy show featuring the lives and loves of the Anatidae?

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How to CBC like a Pro

10,000 Birds

'Christmas Bird Count season is right around the corner, and if you’re anything like me you’re pretty excited about it. This year I get to start from scratch, having moved to a new part of the state filled with new birds and birders. After several years of acting more or less as a CBC mercenary, slotting into whatever area had an opening in any of the local counts, I’ve moved to Greensboro ready to put down to bird count roots.

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The Foliage-Gleaner Challenge

10,000 Birds

'A friend of mine, who is preparing for a birding trip to the Amazon Rainforest, called me to tell me he is about to give up on the Ovenbirds; particularly the foliage gleaners. Almost shouting, he exclaimed: “Talk about brown jobs. They actually come in 50 shades of brown – get it? – and their names don’t help! What separates a Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner from a Rufous-rumped ?

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Chooory Kuteew

10,000 Birds

'William L. Dawson was an unparalleled wordsmith when it came to birds. Many have sung songs of adulation and worship for him…I say we are right to do so. If I had the power, I would see him rise from the dead to go birding with me all the time, simply for company and to give a running narration of the birds we see. It would be a deeply enriching experience.

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Hidden Birds and the Birders Who Find Them

10,000 Birds

'While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. Why, when a group of birders stare through a scope at the same flock of birds, does one birder find the different bird before the other birders?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of November 2013)

10,000 Birds

'Oh to be in Texas admiring the celebrity bird du jour , an incredibly unexpected Amazon Kingfisher ! Amazing encounters occur when amazing birders visit amazing places, but serendipitous sightings increase exponentially when so many amazing birders gather for an amazing birding festival. Congratulations to our buddy Jeff Bouton for bringing unexpected joy and a new ABA tick to so many happy birders and congrats as well to our friends at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival , one of the most e

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