10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Sleeping With The Beast is an intimate look at the canine-human relationship. Full of colorful, and memorable photographs, along with text that explores what it is really like to live, work, and play with our furry companions. And of course, “beast” is used in a loving and playful way here. It’s obvious that the author, Dale Ryan, is a dog lover, after all, she does have five dogs.
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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
I began this blog nine years ago today. ( Here is the first post.) In that time, there have been 245,434 visits, which is an average of 27,270.4 visits per year and 74.6 visits per day. My posting has slowed considerably, but I hope the archive is of use to students (no plagiarism, please!) and anyone else who is interested in the moral status of nonhuman animals.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
President Obama has added 10 new refuges in his first term. Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. Waterbirds eat lead shot while scouring the bottoms of ponds and lakes for food, songbirds ingest lead fragments along with grit and small stones to aid their digestion, and when raptors scavenge gutpiles and carcasses, they can end up with entire bullets, plus fragments, in their system.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
A recent proposal ( 555 ) to the AOU’s South American Classification Committee deals with newly published information about relationships within the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae, and what it means for the classification of these wonderful, fascinating birds. I think it’s likely that next year’s AOU North American checklist supplement will reflect some of the new information.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Cinnamon Teal ( Anas cyanoptera ) pair by Larry Jordan (click on photos for full sized images) Winter is the time to visit the National Wildlife Refuges in California. According to their website , the “Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex consists of five national wildlife refuges (NWR) and three wildlife management areas (WMA) that comprise over 35,000 acres of wetlands and uplands in the Sacramento Valley of California.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
The feeders in the Ramble in Central Park are fully stocked and going strong again this winter. In addition to the expected species, both Pine Siskins and a Common Redpoll have been reported. But on a visit to the park on Saturday morning I was most surprised by the sheer number of Tufted Titmice. Tufted Titmouse (click it to make it big) I don’t ever remember seeing so many Tufted Titmice in the park and the number around the feeders was really impressive.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
Early Sunday morning I was out and about at Jones Beach State Park hoping to track down the hordes of crossbills that I had seen on Saturday for some more photographic fun. But I was distracted by the harsh cawing of a murder of American Crows. It sounded like they were mobbing something and when crows are mobbing something you want to see what it is because they often harass owls and who doesn’t like to see owls?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
I really do like the short birding outings I experience at Van Saun Park in Paramus, New Jersey, once or twice a week before I head in to the office. I’ve gotten to know where to expect to find the common birds and sometimes I spot something new for me in the park, like a Vesper Sparrow or an Eastern Bluebird. One of the species that I regularly hear but only sometimes see is the Carolina Wren.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Barred Owl is not a species that most birders expect to find in New York City, much less Central Park. When reports of not one, not two, but three (!) Barred Owls in Central Park surfaced last week I was more than a little surprised and decided that when I had the opportunity I would make my way to Manhattan and try to see a Barred Owl myself. Saturday morning was my first opportunity and I made my way via the F and the D trains to Columbus Circle, at the southwest corner of Central Park, and wa
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
I spent the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the usual post-hurricane activities—looking for storm birds, making sure my loved ones were o.k., trying to grasp the enormity of what had just happened, and reading this book, The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds by Daniel Lewis. My daughter thought it was an odd choice—nonfiction, on the scholarly side.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Ok, so just to prove that you can do birding anywhere and anyhow, check this out. Two of my favorite pastimes are birding and surfing. Even though I’m probably more accomplished at other pursuits – like table-tennis! – these are my mistresses. These are the two things I like to do more than anything else. When I tell my wife I’m going to the post-office and grocery store , I’m more than likely going for a surf.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Though Blue Jays often manage to avoid letting me get a decent shot of them I managed to outsmart the clever corvids yesterday. I was at Kissena Corridor Park in Queens and noticed a steady stream of Blue Jays flying out of the park to a particular backyard and then flying back in to the park, generally following the same path. Slightly closer examination showed that they were going to fetch acorns!
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
The southeast tip of the Florida peninsula is not well endowed with a wide variety of sparrows in winter like the rest of the southeastern United States. Almost any park, even within large cities such as New Orleans and Atlanta, will host such quintessentially common Nearctic species such as Field , Song , Chipping , and White-throated Sparrow in good numbers.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Why can’t I shut up about this? In 1999, a woman named Jennifer Price published a fascinating — if since largely forgotten — book called Flight Maps. Flight Maps was a collection of essays about the interactions between culture and nature in the U.S., and the most memorable part of the book, the section that inspired the cover art, was the essay “A Brief Natural History of the Pink Flamingo.” This was not about the American Flamingo , or the Greater Flamingos I saw
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
Most Americans are enjoying an early Thanksgiving weekend, for which I’m thankful. My family and many others are looking forward to veritable feasts to honor the fall harvest, for which I am also thankful. I also give thanks today for 10,000 Birds, our awesome writers, and our awesome readers… love you guys! And as I’m digging into my Thanksgiving lentil loaf (and perhaps some turkey too) and considering the many things and people to be grateful for, I’ll be giving a spec
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Andy Avram is a lifelong resident of northeastern Ohio, just east of Cleveland. From the time he can remember, every camping, hiking, or simple trip outside was focused on finding wildlife with herps, mammals, birds and native fish as his primary interests. This passion eventually lead into his chosen career field where for the past few years have been happily employed as a naturalist at a county park district.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
Driving to the eastern extremity of New York State with the hope of seeing a bird, rare for North America, is an odd and entertaining way to spend the predawn hours. When not enough coffee has reached your cerebral cortex so you are in a bit of a fog and there is also a literal fog because of warm weather and cold land in the wake of a nor’easter it becomes a bit more entertaining, at least at the time.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
Owls can fly with incredible stealth thanks to evolution, which caused all kinds of changes to their wings to allow them to sneak up on prey. Now researchers are trying to find a way to use the adaptations owls come by naturally on airplanes to make planes quieter. Hat-tip to my mom, Jill Finger.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
This past weekend in the United States was important for a number of reasons. Much of the Mid-Atlantic is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy with many still awaiting power or roving aimlessly in search of a gas station with, you know, gas. This was also the last weekend of President Obama’s first term. No matter which way the political winds blow come Tuesday, next weekend will feel different.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Red Crossbills are the more difficult of the two North American crossbills to find. At least, that is what anecdotal evidence tells me and nothing is more accurate than anecdotal evidence, right? Right. But, as was predicted , this has been a monster year for winter finches and good old Loxia curvirostra is no exception. They irrupted early this year but few were found along the coast of New York until the last week and then this weekend it seems like the floodgates opened up with birds reporte
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
Primarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing , Asia’s Yellow-wattled Lapwing and the Red-wattled Lapwing of the Middle East. Masked Lapwing Africa is the spiritual home of the Vanellus family, boasting as many as 14 species including the abundant Crowned Lapwing. Crowned Lapwing For such a huge area of land with great expanses of pasture, prairie and field, I find it odd that the Americas only host 2 species of Lapwing.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
You don’t want to miss this tonight on National Geographic at 10 PM Eastern! Here’s a sneak peak at one of the marvelous birds that will be featured. You can also read a review on Round Robin.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
The Virginia’s Warbler that has eluded birders since Eric Miller first found it on 31 October has been refound – and photographed – by Andrew Baksh. This is the first documented record of this southwestern wood-warbler in New York State. Congratulations to Eric for the original find and to Andrew for forestalling any accusations of stringing against Eric!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
Kazakhstan – May 2009 After our excellent time at the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve we bid a fond farewell to its gorgeous grassy terrain and made our way to a location where Sociable Lapwing were known to breed. Now, seeing Sociable Lapwing , a species that is critically endangered and thought to number roughly 11,000 individuals, would be a treat any day but to see several pairs on their breeding grounds?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2012
If you read my mad scribblings here on 10,000 Birds with any regularity you probably know at least two things about me. I am a little bit obsessed with my Queens list. I like wood-warblers. You can imagine my excitement when Eric Miller, a fellow Queens birder, found a Virginia Warbler in Alley Pond Park in, yes, you guessed it, Queens, on 31 October, two days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Lark Sparrow ( Chondestes grammacus ) photos by Larry Jordan Nearly two years ago I wrote my second post as the West Coast Beat Writer on Lema Ranch, a Northern California birding hot spot. I feel really lucky to have this McConnell Foundation headquarters available as a local birding spot because of the number of species that can bee seen there ( currently 125 ) and, because it is a popular local jogging spot, the birds are relatively jaded to people being in close proximity during daylight hou
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
I seem to having my own mini petrel-event here on the blog recently, I think it must be anticipation of seeing some in a few weeks. This time I’m not talking about the petrels of New Zealand, but those of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. I’ve already done a look at the terns of Tern Island, so this is about the many petrels you can find there.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2012
William Blake, the 18th and 19th century English poet, painter and engraver, is most remembered for his two linked collections of poems, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Of all of Blake’s poems, people are most familiar with the oft-anthologized “ The Tyger ” from the latter volume, though he wrote many other poems worth reading (to say nothing of his inventive and delightful illustrations).
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