10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

The answer is: no. No hawk can carry off a 12-pound pet. No hawk can carry off a 3-pound pet. The largest hawk in North America weighs about four pounds, so leaving the ground carrying three – let alone twelve – would be aerodynamically (not to mention logically) impossible. That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 30, 2016

SoulPancake has teamed with Puppy Chow to release their new #PowerofPuppies video and help raise pet food donations for shelter dogs in need. For each video view, Purina will donate one pound of Puppy Chow Natural to Rescue Bank (up … Continue reading → The post Can Puppies Fix Boredom? #PowerofPuppies appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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MARCH 2, 2016

This blog had 1,157 visits during February, which is an average of 39.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 32.5.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Jason A. Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon. He has visited more than 40 National Wildlife Refuges in 20 states and frequently visits NWRs in his travels, most recently Buenos Aires NWR in southern Arizona. This is Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds: Birders were rightly alarmed by the armed occupation of the Malheur NWR in Oregon.

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

India was not on my list of places to go in 2016. But, when I heard that it was the destination for the next American Birding Association Safari, and when I found out that many of my friends from the incredible ABA South Africa Safari were participating, as well as ABA hosts Jeff Gordon, Liz Deluna Gordon, and George Armistead, and that the trip was once again being coordinated by Rockjumper Birding, and that Rockjumper chief honcho Adam Riley (also a 10,000 Birds family member) would be one of

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. They were probably just checking if I am already dead and possibly edible and not admiring me, but I admired them for their guts and curiosity to approach a creature so much bigger.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

Tom Brown grew up in the high desert area of Central Oregon. His love for birds and photography started at a young age. Thru the course of time, travel, and a lot of different occupations, he ended up living in Seattle, and met a girl with a sailboat. They’ve been traveling the world ever since! After collecting nearly 70K bird photos, he felt that it was time to share them, so he now has his bird blog in order to do just that!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2016

This guest blog was written by Mikal Deese, Wildlife Educator, Rehabilitator, and founder of On A Wing And A Prayer in Corrales, New Mexico. Back in October, ON A WING AND A PRAYER was brought an injured Great Horned Owl who had been found on the median of a rural interstate highway several hundred miles away She was a great big female, presumably hit by a vehicle.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2016

You don’t know how hard it is to see a common bird until you try to get someone else to see one. This is the lesson I learned at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival back in January when a young birder, Noah Kuck, let me know that he really wanted to see a Carolina Wren. He let me know this at the end of a field trip to Salt Lake Wildlife Management Area during which I had heard several wrens doing their “Teakettle Teakettle Teakettle” song but hadn’t really trie

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2016

The world is still turning, the blog didn’t crash, no anonymous threats against my family on social media … I guess my small series on gulls may continue with part 2 of 3, which will focus on the Herring Gull ‘s second side-kick: Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans. Amongst all the species that were split off the Herring Gull, the Caspian Gull is my favourite one, and its existence alone is our fair reward for the identification crisis we had to endure during the dark ages of the 199

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2016

Tis the dry season in Costa Rica and on this side of the mountains, we are under the direct rule of the glaring sun. I walk outside and move from shadow to shade, keeping to the edges of walls and houses. If there were more trees in the Central Valley, the walks would be more leisurely, and, I dare say, with a bit more moisture in the air. But, at present, there’s not enough room for trees in most of the urban zones, only cement, asphalt, and houses.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2016

I almost missed it, but New Zealand lost another endemic species recently. Now I’ve written before about how careless this country is with species, having lost around 60 endemics since the arrival of man to introduced species and hunting. Progress has been made in stemming the flow (it has been, so far, a great year for Kakapo breeding ), but against some enemies of species there are no defences, and so it is with no small amount of surprise that I must let you know that the Red-billed Gul

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2016

In the Northern Hemisphere, at least, spring has sprung. Which means spring fever. Which, in the bird world, means babies. And who doesn’t love cute baby birds? Luckily, with March Madness almost over (go ’nova!), there are plenty of nestcams competing for your workday procrastination. I won’t go so far as to put together a bracket, but here’s a list of just a few of the coolest nestcams you can feast your eyeballs on: Rosie the Hummingbird , a hybrid Rufous/Allen’s hummer (that’s her above) …

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2016

I admit that sometimes I am pretty negative about ducks. They’re a bit creepy. I mean, I’ve had occasion to link this notorious paper no less than three times so far this year. But this, this above all redeems ducks: they sit still long enough that you can show them to your non-birding friends. It doesn’t matter how beautiful the warbler, how majestic the raptor, how iridescent the hummingbird: if they insist on flying up or across or away and out of your field of vision before

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2016

We all know the feeling. We’re birding in the summertime, when a beautiful whistling calls catches our attention. We turn our eyes and binoculars to the canopy, where we peer through the thick, green foliage. Suddenly, we catch a flash of bright orange: a Baltimore Oriole. Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

Are they stork raving mad, or just smart cookies? Either way, Europe’s White Storks seem to have found a year-round food source, and it’s changing their migration habits, according to new research. Move over gulls, you’ve now got competition at the landfills. The paper, published in the journal Movement Ecology , describes a striking change in White Storks’ migratory behavior.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2016

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2016 on 18 March at Kissena Park, thus kicking off spring for myself two days early. Over the last ten years my average first phoebe has been the 23rd of March, meaning that this bird was five days earlier than average and beat last year’s first phoebe by ten days. (That’s last year’s first phoebe in the image above.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2016

On Saturday morning I decided to look for early migrants and lingering winter birds out at the southeasternmost part of Queens, the tip of Breezy Point. This barrier beach habitat is often where Snowy Owls , Horned Larks , Snow Buntings , and other winter birds find food and shelter and it also serves as nesting grounds for American Oystercatchers and Piping Plovers , both of which arrive in March.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2016

Let’s start with a confession. I had never heard of Jankowski’s Bunting before last week. But once out in the open spaces of Miyun Reservoir, it occupied my every thought. Backtrack a couple of days and I was heading out to Beijing. Terry Townsend’s website, www.birdingbeijing.com is the prime resource for anyone planning a trip to the city with intent to bird and Terry offers guiding services.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2016

In theory we are supposed to be experiencing tropical storms at this time of year, but like last year the rain just isn’t falling across this part of northern Australia. It is hot and humid and we do get the occasional teasing rumbling clouds, but the rain storms are isolated and not bringing the rain to the land that needs it so desperately. The ephemeral lakes are struggling to fill up this year and the birds are dispersing in search of water and places to breed.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2016

A couple of years ago Adam posted a story on this site that so entranced me that when I went to South Africa a bit over a year ago the location he described was top of my bucket list. That birding Mecca was the Sani Pass, and his article is all you need to read so rather than rehash it I’ll just link to it. But I did visit it, and saw many of the incredible species he described, one of which, my major target of the day, was the Drakensberg Rockjumper.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2016

As I opined in my post back in 2010 (and continue to preach) the Western Burrowing Owl needs a conservation plan. Above is a photo of the only Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia ) seen at Tuscan Preserve back in February of 2010 when a group of concerned birders installed eight artificial burrows on this property, to be preserved in perpetuity. That original installation (pictured above) was part of a series of 40 artificial burrows created at three separate locations, all made possible by a gr

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2016

This might be the perfect weekend to visit a local National Wildlife Refuge ! No matter where you live, you have been caught between astronomical and meteorological seasons. The equinox approaches, but until then, we in the Northern Hemisphere live in a twilight between meteorological Spring and astronomical Winter. Those denizens of the south share a similar shadow season.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

I had already walked nearly eight miles, feeling tired but content. It was a warm afternoon on the Florida Panhandle, and my husband and I were exploring the recreation areas of Eglin Air Force Base, which is the size of Rhode Island. For an annual $20 fee, I could roam the open areas of the base all year round, though each day all hikers and recreationists are required to check which sections were open and which are closed.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2016

Depending on where you live, you may have the feeling that April is making fools of all of us. When one season crashes into another, you can expect volatile weather. Hopefully, wild winds will blow some superb birds your way. I’ll be exploring the newest species of the season here in western New York. Corey will be birding in the southern reaches of the state… hopefully, his new field guide serves him well!

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 30, 2016

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2016

One of my ambitions for this year is to do more birding around New Zealand, and in particular try and knock off a few of the possible species here I haven’t seen yet, perhaps with a mind to breaking 100 species here in a year. Most of the species I need have small or highly restricted ranges in places I simply haven’t been yet. With that thought in mind I decided to hit the Marlborough Sounds over the Easter Weekend (we get Good Friday and Easter Monday off here in New Zealand, take

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2016

That time of the year has come! The magnificent, adorable, and dangerous breeding season for both shorebirds and seabirds along the Florida Panhandle. It’s during these months when I cringe anytime there’s a dog on the beach (though usually dogs aren’t allowed at all), for fear it might go after a fuzzy chick or adult sitting on eggs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 28, 2016

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2016

While so many spent the weekend obsessing over eggs, others cast their eyes to the feathered fruit of eggs… not necessarily Easter eggs, but different, non-chicken eggs. Maybe this whole comparison falls apart upon closer scrutiny, but these are still fine days to be looking at birds! I enjoyed observing Wild Turkeys , clearly feeling bolder on Easter than Thanksgiving, foraging openly along the Palisades Parkway.

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