10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2017
A little over a month ago I was hiking up a mountain path outside of Innsbruck, Austria, with birders from around the world. When we reached our destination we were greeted with glasses of champagne. And while the bubbly really hit the spot it seemed like it was a bit of overkill. The hike hadn’t seemed so difficult that we needed to celebrate having completed it with champagne.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2017
Playing off the popularity of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, Petplan’s Tournament of Tails features adoptable pets from 32 shelters across the country vying for the crown of top dog or cat.
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 3, 2017
This blog had 1,903 visits during February, which is an average of 67.9 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 39.8.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
The good people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have agreed to provide three copies of the newly published Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White as a giveaway for you, our beloved readers here at 10,000 Birds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Donna just wrote a review of this excellent book of essays which especially includes a stellar look at why New York City birding is the best birding.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2017
You’d be hard pressed to find a 19th century scientist more despised than Richard Owen. For all his qualities as an anatomist (at a time when the profession was so esteemed) he seemed to lack anything so unbecoming as integrity or decency. Not for nothing has he been cast as the villain in the story of Darwin’s life and the development of evolution, to say nothing of his role as the supervillian in the tragic life of Gregory Mantell.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
Here are some facts to keep in mind about Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: Passionate Birders Share the Joys of Watching Birds: (1) This is not a dress code. (2) This is a NEW book edited by Lisa A. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield, just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2017
We may be mere weeks away from rolling over into a new season, but the one we’re mired in may feel a lot to you like a permanent climatic moment. Worry not. This too, like everything else, will pass! Brutal cold kept me locked up, which offered a perfect opportunity to appreciate the fifty shades of Northern Cardinals hanging around my house. Seriously, cardinals are both gorgeous and interesting , but their familiarity across most of North America breeds indifference if not contempt.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2017
The first weekend of April can prove treacherous for twitchers looking for species far afield. Without getting into details, I’ll simply suggest that you take improbable bird reports on Saturday with a healthy grain of salt. Sunday should bring us back to business as usual. I’m working and waiting for better weather, so I’ll probably just spend my weekend studying the field guide for the extremely birdy Central American country I’ll be visiting in a few weeks.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2017
For those of you who may have forgotten, or some who never knew, we once had rivers in the United States that would catch fire because they were so polluted. The image above is the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland Ohio. The Cuyahoga River caught fire thirteen times between 1868 and 1969. The citizens of Cleveland, and indeed the nation, decided something needed to be done about the pollution of our waterways.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2017
The nature memoir – a blend of place-based writing with life story – has been having a “moment” that’s lasted two decades and counting. From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) the hits keep coming. You might think that this success would eventually make the sub-genre crowded, prone to self-indulgence and increasingly outré angles.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2017
Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm…. A few years back, I birded northern Greece with a couple from Namibia. It had been a while since I saw Greater Flamingoes and was thrilled to see them again. Nicolaas, who can see them back home any day commented that they are the most numerous wading birds in the world (the “most numerous” equaling “the least interesting”).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2017
You only have until the end of the day on Monday, 27 March, to enter to win one of three copies of Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White ! How do you enter? Read on, dear reader, read on! (The third option currently provides the best chance for you to win.). The first and easiest way to win a copy of Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White is to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
Jason A. Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon who loves to share thoughtful , in-depth conservation pieces with 10,000 Birds readers. This is Jason’s fifth contribution to the blog. Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2017
Last year I introduced you to a Tawny Frogmouth family north of Broome and the nest that they built followed by the family that they raised. This year we have been lucky enough to have the pair of Tawny Frogmouths in the local supermarket car park nest and raise one young. There are not many trees in the car park, but they had found one suitable to nest and the advantage of the car park is the lighting that will attract insects for their food.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
The jack pines of Michigan are well-known as the breeding grounds of the Kirkland’s Warbler —and thus, the best place to catch a glimpse of this exceedingly rare songbird. But how do these tiny birds get there? And where do they spend the winter? For the first time, scientists have some solid answers. Through the use of minute, light-sensitive geolocators, the birds’ migration habits have been revealed, from the Caribbean, along the U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2017
Did you ever get a message in a bottle? Completely meaningless gibberish from an entirely unknown guy (from my experience, it’s always a guy, looking like a lumberjack and that’s okay) that, strangely enough, makes you insanely excited? If not, you must try gulling. At the height of this winter, I was staring into many pinkish legs, looking for those with some cheap plastic jewellery… Scoping squabble after squabble of gulls at the city rubbish tip, I have already read five colour rings with lar
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2017
Your first weekend of spring or fall may have been uneventful in terms of birds, but pace yourself. We still have months of blissful migration ahead of us! Rochester is still wintry, but bird activity among the common species has picked up quite a bit. My best sighting was a Hairy Woodpecker puffed up to fight the cold. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the easiest to decide that he can remember.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2017
I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2017 this morning, 12 March, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, thus kicking off spring for myself over a week early. Over the last ten years my average first phoebe has been the 21st of March, meaning that this bird was a full nine days earlier than average and beat last year’s first phoebe by six days. It’s also the earliest I’ve had over the last ten years.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2017
Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White is the kind of book that every birder should–and likely will –own. Luckily, not everyone will need to pay for their copy. Our friends at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt gave us three copies to share with readers through a triple-tiered giveaway. Let’s find out who the lucky winners were… The first way to win a copy of Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White was simply to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds free daily email newsletter, a prize in and of
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2017
That’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself. There’s a decent chance you’ve never even heard of it before. I hadn’t until a little over a month ago when while flicking through one of my volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) I came across it. I was looking for a new project to write about on Wikipedia, something unusual, and this species appealed for reasons I can’t quite define.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2017
Last Saturday, the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center received an adult male Red-tailed Hawk that had been found on Cornell University’s campus. The bird’s injured wing proved, when x-rayed, to be badly broken – so badly that even with treatment he would never be able to fly again. On Sunday May 19 2017, he was euthanized. A few days later the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology contacted the Wildlife Health Center to ask if they’d received any red-tails recently.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2017
Every year, there is a phenomenon that occurs here in La Paz, as well as many major cities across the planet. Carnival just before Lent. Now, I am not going to go into the religious complications of this “event” but to say it can certainly turn a peaceful city into 7-10 days of 24/7 noise, music and craziness. While La Paz, is not really what I would call a tourist destination, but being a waterfront city in Mexico does allow for a certain amount of touristic activities.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2017
For those of us who live full time on a boat, we use a nickname for those who do not, “Dirt Dwellers” Now don’t get me wrong, a very good portion of our friends all fall into that category. Many of those said “Dirt Dwellers” are also birders, who just cannot understand how I go without a backyard or similar area to enjoy the birds that tend to congregate around houses.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
Spring is in the air, and all around the Baja desert I am seeing a plethora of species, all looking for love, in what appears to the right places. Last Sunday, it was never as obvious as it was with the small group of Phainopepla , Phainopepla nitens. I thoroughly enjoyed watching them swoop erratically from tree to tree to cactus. Males chasing males, males chasing females, much like a complicated, erratic dance routine.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2017
As we are preparing to bid farewell to all of our winter time migrants, I took a three day break from work, and went to the Pacific side of the Baja. Conquista Agraria, along the Pacific Ocean, is a beach front area, bordered by arid sandy desert. There is a nice mix of rough, rocky outcrops, along with flat, almost white sandy beach sections. During the winter this area has a couple of pretty nice surf breaks that attracts quite a few surfer dudes and dudettes.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2017
May 2009. After a wakeup call at highly uncivilized 3.45 am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting in a car by the Suslik (European ground squirrel) pasture. It is still cold. No Susliks are to be seen – they are waiting for the sun. Actually, I am not waiting for them, but for the Eastern Imperial Eagle to come here to hunt Susliks – an eagle from one of the last two remaining nests in Serbia.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2017
If your part of the world is dealing with the levels of meteorological turmoil my part is, you’ll remember the wild weather of March 2017 for a long, long time. But even if your local breezes are balmy, let’s hope they’re blowing beautiful birds in. I can’t see myself braving this weekend’s predicted blistering cold just to admire the birds of late winter, so I’ll be watching my feeder.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2017
When I was just a wee’ lad, in my formative birding years, I was introduced to the plight of the Western Snowy Plover. A bird, which thru the years took on a mystical component. You see, up to this point, let’s say 1972, perhaps 1973, I had never really been exposed to a “Threatened, or Endangered” species of any kind. Even our local Greater Sage Grouse , which now are receiving a huge effort at habitat protection, and restoration, were just those really cool birds out in
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2017
While those of us living in the northeastern United States are currently buried under what passes for the current season, you may be in position to enjoy it. Whatever your feelings, this weekend represents the last one of this season as well as an early moment in a wave of migration that will span months. Plus, you can wear as much green (and drink as much alcohol) as you want today.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2017
From 20 February through 25 February I was on a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas. More specifically, I was on Paradise Island, the small, resort-laden and heavily developed island on the north end of New Providence, adjacent to Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. This was not a birding vacation but a beach-and-water-park vacation.
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