10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
If it’s October, then it is time to look up. Look up for migrants, look up for confusing fall warblers, but, most of all, look up for hawks. And, then you see it, a large shape with wings stretched out, gliding on a thermal. High, very high, too high to see any colors. Or a small shape, but clearly more powerful, more steam lined than a gull. Low, moving faster than a locomotive.
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OCTOBER 29, 2012
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Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Dear Professor Burgess-Jackson, I'm a great admirer of your animal ethics blog, which I've found to be an invaluable resource. I just wanted to share a link to Gary Francione's recent philosophy bites podcast. An interesting debate has taken place in the comments section regarding Francione's (mis)interpretation of Peter Singer—hope it will be of interest!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2012
The corner of the blogosphere inhabited by nature lovers circa 2005 was, like most frontiers, an unruly place full of empty spaces and opportunity. Birders online, despite our commonalities, had little sense of connection or community. But what we did have was our own blog carnival! The inaugural edition of I and the Bird featured sixteen bird bloggers from around the world, many of whom are still blogging today (right Sharon and Clare ?!
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2012
A while back I asked the question, How much bird is there, anyway? which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2012
Ecuador was made for birdwatchers! A tiny country filled with biodiversity which can be easily reached in a short drive… Well, maybe that is a little exaggeration but in comparison to other countries like Colombia, Peru and the giant Brazil, our Ecuador seems tiny. This proved to be true this last week when I got news that the Banded Ground Cuckoo had been seen only two hours away from my home.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2012
Saturday of this weekend saw a Le Conte’s Sparrow reported from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Somehow, I have never seen a Le Conte’s Sparrow , which leaves a gaping hole on my life list among many other fine Ammodramus sparrows. I bet you can imagine what I was doing early on Sunday morning! That’s right – I was at the scene at Floyd Bennett Field just after sunrise hoping to see the bird myself.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2012
A few weeks ago I was working out in the garden and noticed a small bird flutter into the garden. It was a Bewick’s Wren ( Thryomanes bewickii ). This bird didn’t look like the Bewick’s Wrens I was used to seeing. It was more mottled looking than others I had seen. It wasn’t very active and appeared to be molting. I believe the bird pictured above (click on photos for full sized images) is possibly a young bird going through its prejuvenal molt.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2012
I was under the impression that bird banding or ringing was universally appreciated as a valuable instrument in the ornithological arsenal. Apparently, not everyone agrees. Help clarify this issue… is there widespread controversy around banding or simply slight opposition?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2012
Every fall and spring for the last several years I have been putting together a collection of wood-warblers spotted on migration. Why stop now? All of these birds were photographed in the last couple of months in New York and New Jersey as they made their way south on their amazing migration. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed photographing them!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2012
September slips away and October is afoot. What fresh fascinations does this month have in store? My best bird this weekend was a spry little Red-breasted Nuthatch consorting with its larger White-breasted kin. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his only year bird that crossed his path, a nice Clay-colored Sparrow at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2012
After spending a couple of days at Parry’s Lagoon Nature Reserve on our recent camping and birding trip we headed to the town of Kununurra. It is an hours drive to the small town, which is on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. The weather continued to be very hot and dry and we were able to visit several water bodies looking for birds.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2012
I’ve been privileged to review some very beautiful coffee-table type books for 10,000 Birds. But when you get a volume from National Geographic, it’s no surprise that it’s going to be in the upper echelons of aesthetic appeal. With everything from two-page Audubon spreads to Roger Tory Peterson id charts to vintage photographs of ladies in elaborate hats feeding pigeons, this book has something for every eye.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2012
Ever since part of assignment at work has involved me spending time in Bayonne, New Jersey, I have found time before or after meetings to get out for short birding outings in a couple of the parks with better habitat in Bayonne. My favorite birding thus far is the combination of Stephen R. Craig County Park and Richard A. Rutkowski Park, both on the east shore of Newark Bay, with the hum of traffic from the turnpike bridge over the bay always in the background. ( Back in the spring I called the
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2012
This is an exceptionally early siskin year. Hundreds and thousands of Pine Siskins were seen migrating along the coast of Long Island and were found feeding across the parks of New York City this past weekend. On Monday I spent the morning watching flocks of siskins fly past at Fort Tilden on the coast and then I had a couple of hours in the afternoon at Kissena Corridor Park where hundreds of the delightful little finches were feeding frenetically on a variety of seeds from the extensive native
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2012
It was a real pleasure to have a friend and colleague, Simon, accompany me on a visit to Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Miami this week. His good company was surpassed only by his keen eye that picked out a Mangrove Cuckoo lifer for me and a roosting Common Nighthawk. My experience of Common Nighthawks had previously been at dusk as they begin hunting for the night.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 17, 2012
There are plenty of stories about all the awful things that happen to birds, like getting covered in oil or smuggled n some dude’s underpants into another country, and about the things we should be doing about it. But what about the things that the birds are doing about it. Yes, your average Winter Wren looks like a perfectly harmless handful of grams of feathers, but is that tiny exterior hiding the heart of a killer?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2012
October in the Northern Hemisphere is a glorious time of transformation. Not only do devoted leaf peepers fully come into their own this month, wildlife watchers have no dearth of diversions. The only way to enjoy October is to immerse yourself in it, especially during its warmer weekends. Following my own advice, I’m hoping to get in a autumn hike somewhere the birds are flying.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2012
Spring is here with a vengeance and I took the opportunity to walk along the waterfront of Wellington Harbour yesterday evening after work to enjoy the war sunny evening and try and get a few birds for my year list (which has not had much action for a while). It doesn’t happen every day, but you can get some interesting birds walking along there, even without binoculars.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet ( Regulus calendula ) photos by Larry Jordan If you live anywhere other than Western North America, you may be able to identify this bird by its tiny size, its broken eye ring and its petite bill. In the far West however, the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet ( Regulus calendula ) can be confused with Hutton’s Vireo ( Vireo huttoni ). Click on photos for full sized images.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2012
Catherine Hamilton has been the first to get all three species correct in the last two diabolical wood-warbler quizzes. If she gets three in a row it will show she is the best birder in the world and Felonious Jive will suffer the sad misfortune of dropping to second place. This quiz is a diabolical to the extreme and if anyone manages all three I will be surprised.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2012
With apologies. My life is hectic right now and I haven’t come up with a proper post for you. So I offer three random photos that are among my favorites. Above, a young Anna’s Hummingbird preens on its last day in the nest. A Burrowing Owl gives me the stink eye just long enough for me to get the message and leave. A mantling Cooper’s Hawk displays impressive control over the feathers on its nape.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2012
For some reason I could not pin an identity to this bird in the field today at Kissena Corridor Park in Queens, despite having point blank looks. Even with the pictures I got I am still not one hundred percent sure of its identity though I have a theory. Rather than put an idea into your mind I thought I would present the pictures and see what you think… What do you think it is?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Of all the billions of things that keep wildlife rehabilitators from sleeping at night, public releases are one of the big ones. Ideally, we like to release birds where they came from (as long as it’s not a dangerous area), and with as little fanfare as possible. Releases are magical, of course, and they’re what make our insane way of life worth it, so you want to share the feeling … but not with too big a crowd.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2012
According to Their Kind Everyone knows this one. Way, way back, during our inuagural game of Gone Birding , my friend Molly developed a theory of birds. There were, in her book, three kinds: Owls, Pigeons, and Ducks. I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. There I learned, among a plethora of other fascinating facts, that Aristotle also divided the avian world in three: land birds (pigeons!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2012
What is up with the birding community in the northern part of the US recently? Have we all gone completely mental? I recently heard Kenn Kaufman refer to the birding community as a family and on the one hand I like that idea, but one the other, I feel like it’s one big uncomfortable Thanksgiving Dinner with odd relatives and awkward conversations and all you can think about is drinking as much as possible or eating extra dessert to keep from verbally exploding.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2012
Old world warblers are difficult for North American birders. That is obvious. Rather than trying to learn them North American birders are well-advised to do all of your birding in areas where old world warblers might be encountered in the company of old world birders. It makes things much easier. But if you are a North American birder and you insist upon trying to learn the old world warblers you can do worse than to start with the Great Reed Warbler.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2012
Sports lovers enjoyed a veritable smorgasbord of superior athletic entertainment this weekend, at least in the United States. Then again, birding culture offered a surprising slate of events as well. From The Big Sit to Focus on Diversity II to the general madness of fall migration, the last few days had something for everyone. I must not be getting out enough, because I was thrilled to find a flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers : usually butter-butts are distractions, not attractions.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Being a birder, in my experience, sometimes means rooting for the avian aggressor in improbable predator-prey interactions. What else can explain the thrilling delight elicited by the story of an African Fish Eagle taking a juvenile Nile Crocodile ? Take a look at the photo and see how you feel!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2012
I’ve been thinking about petrels a lot since last week’s post, probably because I am planning a trip to the Otago Peninsula soon which should get me a whole raft of petrels and penguins. I’ve written before at length about how New Zealand is pretty much the best place in the world to see petrels of all kinds, so with these guys on the brain it seemed natural to write about them today.
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