10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2013
'Broward County has one of the highest densities of Burrowing Owls in Florida. It also has one of the highest human population densities in the state. Not surprisingly, this brings Burrowing Owls into close contact with humans across the county. The Florida sub-species of Burrowing Owl is now classified as a threatened species in Florida and it is one of the rarest sub-species of Burrowing Owls.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 27, 2013
'Project: Pet Slim Down is a free online program designed to help your pet lose weight. Target and Purina have joined forces to create this awesome program which includes downloadable tools, and even a $1 coupon for any Purina ONE brand product. Why? With more than half of America’s pets being overweight, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed.
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Animal Ethics
JUNE 2, 2013
'This blog had 2,060 visits during May, which is an average of 66.4 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 89.2.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2013
'Sitting in a car parked by the roadside, I am observing a distant electricity pylon. It is barely visible, but on it there seems to be an endangered Saker Falcon. March 2007. Gentle March sun, bare oak branches, short grass, and bird migration in full swing. M. and I are following deeply cut tire tracks along a meadow and, despite the drought, we encounter a puddle.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2013
'McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park sits on the eastern edge of the Cascade Range between two active volcanoes, Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak. The Cascade Range, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, extends from Northern California to Southern British Columbia. The park’s landscape was created by volcanic activity as well as erosion from weather and streams.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2013
'Casinos. Showgirls. All-you-can-eat Buffets. Nightlife. Sewage ponds. All of these things can be found in Las Vegas, Nevada. That is, all of them can be found in Las Vegas except the last one on the list. To get to the sewage ponds you have to go to Henderson, which is a quick drive to the southeast of Las Vegas, about twenty minutes from the strip.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2013
'A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. Well! Did I have an answer for him. Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. Sometimes a defrosted chick. Occasionally I’ll give one a defrosted quail, which I have to order for the accipiters and peregrines who can be annoyingly picky; but quail are expensive, so I don’t do it often.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2013
'The AOU’s 54th supplement to its North American bird checklist will be out next month. Based on the proposals submitted to date , here are five proposed splits or lumps U.S. birders should watch for: 1. Whence ‘Barolo’ Shearwater? Will the ‘Barolo’ Shearwater of the Azores, Canaries, Selvages, and Madeira in the Atlantic be split from its current position as a subspecies of Little Shearwater ( Puffinus assimilis baroli )?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
'Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Between finishing one graduate program and begining another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2013
'All photos by Keiller Kyle, courtesy of Audubon California. For a birder, a sighting of a Tricolored Blackbird is a treat. After all, there are only a few hundred thousand left of these birds to gaze at, in a range that’s based mainly in California. For farmers, though, seeing a Tricolored may not be such a many-splendored thing—the birds form sizable flocks that often choose cultivated fields for their nesting spots, thus disrupting planting and reaping.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2013
'Maybe the name of this blog should be 10,015 birds. That would reflect the number of new species discovered in the Amazon rainforest over the past five years or so, according to scientists. The ornithologists considered plumage, voice, and genetics in making their determinations; birds had to differ from known species in in at least two of those qualities to be considered new.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2013
'You may already know how awesome Arctic Terns are. Clocking more than 50,000 miles per year, the birds appear to have cornered the market on the world’s longest annual migration. It probably helps that they weigh less than 5 ounces! (You can learn more about their incredible journeys here.) . Perhaps because of threats to the ecosystems of the many places the Arctic Tern visits (Europe, Africa, South America, and North America), it may be on the decline.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2013
'Blue-gray Tanager is a bird reasonable to expect in the U.S. as a vagrant someday…they are common in many habitats in eastern Mexico. If and when one does show up in a feasible place, brace yourself for the coming “birds have wings” debate. Hello Birdosphere! The last couple of months I’ve used this space to talk about birds…but let’s face it, lots of birders out there are capable of discussing all things avian.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2013
'A mockup of what a Wildlife Conservation Stamp might look like. Duck hunting is big business in the United States. (Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) Of all the dollars spent bagging ducks, a piece of the pie goes to the federal duck stamp program , which just went on sale; anyone over the age of 16 who wants to hunt migratory ducks needs to buy the stamp annually, and the funds raised go toward conservation and preserving a
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2013
'The most flamboyant of all hummers, the Marvelous Spatuletail will be one of the many endemic bird highlights along the route of the Second International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. Photo: Courtesy of Dubi Shapiro. I can’t convey how thrilled I am about the upcoming International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. This is the second version of an event like this in a different region of the country; and this time I will be participating!!!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2013
'In the words of a Magic 8-Ball , “Outlook not so good.” Alan Tilmouth reported in these pages a few months ago that due to extreme weather conditions, Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds were washing up on the shores of Great Britain. (That’s his snapshot of a victim above.). Now, some scientists have started expressing concerns about the North American population of the birds , which is concentrated along the coasts of Maine and Canada.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2013
'Before this lovely June weekend began, I bemoaned the evident end of spring migration. What I failed to recognize were all the great things that happen around here when the waves of migrants subside. For example, the local farmers’ markets are back in action! If you can’t get fresh birds, at least enjoy fresh produce. My favorite sighting this weekend was a House Wren at my house.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2013
'Back in 1979 New York State birders were pleased with the first record of Mississippi Kites in the state when two visited Staten Island and spent nearly two weeks fattening up on the periodical cicadas that emerged in great numbers that year. At least one astute Staten Island birder, Seth Wollney, predicted that this year’s cicada emergence, 34 years after the first state record of Mississippi Kite , might lead to another visitation by the fabulous southern raptors.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2013
'Once again Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is fast approaching in Broome and we can expect the first batch of eggs to be laid within the next few weeks. We have monitored a 23 kilometre section of beach in Broome for several years now and have discovered that they are not as site faithful or as monogamous as you read in text books. We have also discovered that they are very rarely successful with the first eggs laid due to predation of either the eggs or the chicks.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2013
'Is it coincidence or conspiracy that Father’s Day falls on a weekend where very good birding can still be found in most areas? You be the judge… I got into a bunch of great grassland and forest birds this weekend. Honors go to American Redstart which somehow escaped me for the year until now. Corey was very pleased to finally find a Bell’s Vireo this weekend in Carbon Canyon Regional Park in Orange County, California.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2013
'There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to say the least. It’s been a great birdbath for me to watch over the years as the roof puddles like crazy making a nice area for everything from Cedar Waxwings to Cooper’s Hawks to use as a birdbath. In the last few months, Downy Woodpecker s and squirrels have added some holes to the cedar siding of the building.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2013
'I have a confession that I hope won’t get me kicked off this blog: I have no idea where my life list currently stands. Since I moved to Montana I’ve been updating it sporadically at best, and over the past year or so, not at all. Part of this is a simple technology problem — my official list is stored in a clunky, outdated format at an internet location I rarely visit any more.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2013
'Perhaps my greatest handicap as a birder, aside from not driving, the whole being lazy thing, and the poor eyesight, is my +10 weakness against sun. I’ll stand in the cold and damp on, say, a pelagic trip until I just about fall over, hoping for one more good alcid. But even a moderate amount of sun causes me to wilt and turn pink, despite my copious investment in SPF 100 sunscreen and floppy hats.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2013
'Much like how Everglades National Park flanks the western border of metropolitan Miami, Florida, Saguaro National Park flanks both the eastern and western outskirts of Tucson, making for easy access to residents and tourists alike who spend time in that city. Originally established by President Herbert Hoover in 1933 as the first national park or monument set aside to protect a species a plant and made into a national park through legislation passed by Bill Clinton in 1994, Saguaro National Par
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2013
'Erika Zambello is a self-proclaimed ’new birder,’ still equally excited by Robins, Blue Jays, Mergansers, and Flamingos alike. She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2013
'Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. But we naturalists notice them no matter what we’re doing. Aren’t we lucky? The birds I admired most this weekend were Barn Swallows swooping over strawberry fields.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2013
'Chasing the mystery elaenia which showed up in Chicago in 2012—where my girls at? That’s the question asked by this very detailed and thoughtful post to the ABA blog. It quotes a number of prominent birders (including our very own Julie Zickefoose) weighing in on why there are plenty of women who bird, but few who rise to the highest echelons of birding (whether you take that to mean leadership in birding organizations or just plain listing).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2013
'Continued from: Birdwatching Santiago de Chile – Trip Report. We stayed at the foot hills of La Campana National Park with the hopes to get a look at the Rufous-legged Owl. By the time we had dinner and arrived to our hotel we were so exhausted that it became impossible to go search for this endemic bird. The next morning we began a slow climb through the brushy trails of the park, I was unfamiliar with most of the bird calls, so we proceeded with caution making sure we looked at everyth
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
'Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. These relics of times gone by now cling to a precarious existence on the sheer cliffs of Ethiopia’s mountains, from which each morning they materialize, to forage on nearby moorlands, before disappearing down the precipices in the evening.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2013
'Keep your eyes to the skies, but don’t forget to look out below… excellent advice when visiting Australia’s Blue Mountains ! As if fatherhood isn’t rewarding enough, we lucky paternal units enjoy high honors during the third weekend in June. Whether you fathers out there celebrate the day surrounded by proud progeny or as far from your offspring as you can get, make the most of your dad’s day!
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