10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2013
'This is the story of an attitudinal bunny and the Black Vulture who dared to encroach on her territory. Two years ago I finally caved and told my daughter she could have a rabbit. She had wanted one for a long time, but I was convinced I would end up taking care of it, plus there were carnivorous birds in my house. But Skye wore me down, and in her junior year of high school we went to the local Rabbit Rescue.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Calling all baseball fans! The puppies predict the world series in this adorable video. That’s right! Jimmy Fallon welcomes back his panel of puppies to predict the winner of the 2013 World Series between the Red Sox and Cardinals. The post Puppies Predict the World Series appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
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Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 1, 2013
'This blog had 1,349 visits during September, which is an average of 44.9 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 79.2.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'As I write this note, probably hundreds if not thousands of shorebirds are heading south to the wintering grounds. Some make stopovers along Florida’s coast, others fly straight from stopovers in the northern states to the coast of South America. As shorebirds look for suitable sites to spend up to 9 months in their wintering grounds, biologists with the Pan-American Shorebird Banding Program also start preparing for a new banding campaign.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 17, 2013
'October is a strange month. While it might fall within the autumn migration, if you are in the south of Europe, it isn’t in full swing. The beginning of the month is especially some sort of a mid-migration coffee break. Most perching birds have already left us sometime from late August and September; soaring birds do migrate over Serbia, but there is no known bottleneck site to observe them (it is believed that they follow the main river valleys to the east and south); while waterbirds will sta
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Scientific papers are simply boring. That is why they have sections Abstract and Summary, to allow you to read the digested versions and skip the rest. Somehow, it seems, beginners writing their first papers ask their older colleagues for advice and hear something like: That writing of yours is way too amusing – that is not the way to build the career!
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2013
'For some reason, this post did not go up in August when it was scheduled. My apologies to Mr. Drouin and the readers! As I noted last week , No Other Way is about the search for a ‘grail bird’ Not, in this case, THE grail bird — the Ivory-billed Woodpecker — but for the Northern Stilted Curlew, a stand-in for the Eskimo Curlew (don’t worry — other birds are given their proper names, it’s just the main player who is in the witness protection program.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2013
'Birds may have evolved from an ancestor with four wings. This is an idea that has been around for more than a century, to which recent research has given considerable support. A recent analysis of 11 fossil birds suggests that feathers found on their legs had features similar to primary wing feathers that would be used in flight. Scientists are divided on the interpretation, some suggesting that the hind limbs of these basal birds served as wings involved in powered flight, others acknowledging
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'We here at 10,000 Birds have had many difficult identification quizzes, quizzes that we try to make so difficult that “difficult” is no longer sufficient as a modifier for them. We call these quizzes diabolical. And this one just might be more diabolical than most. It involves sparrows. Just sparrows. You know, those flighty birds that disappear into the underbrush as you approach?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'In preparing for my first trip to see the Marvelous Spatuletail ( Loddigesia mirabilis ), I decided to read as much as I possibly could. I had “The Birds of South America” by Rudolph Meyer de Schaunsee; which described the locality where this bird occurs, and had a brief description that highlighted the long tail feathers with terminal racquets. Back then, there were some odd paintings of this outlandishly ornamented hummingbird, but the graphic material at a time was nowhere near the stunning
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Two days ago, I’ve found the Great Black-backed Gull – the fourth ever record of this predominantly marine species for land-locked Serbia (previous were in 1857, 1993 and 2012): Down at the riverbank in Belgrade, I am mounting the scope onto the window clamp and making myself some coffee in a small water bottle, often used as an instant coffee shaker, while scanning the Danube water surface for gulls.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'I think people who are aware of birds but would never call themselves birders don’t pay as much attention to migration apart from “it’s a spring and fall thing.” I love migration and I love how it stretches from August and well into December where I live. And I love are all the Cedar Waxwings in my neck of the woods. When people ask what they can do to attract more birds to their yard, one of the best answers is, “To plant more fruit bearing trees.” The cha
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2013
'Hidden away on the west side of Central Park, easily accessed from the 81st Street entrance by the American Museum of Natural History, and adjacent to the Diana Ross playground is a marvelous bird magnet. Tanner’s Spring is its name and the small pool of water, really more of a large puddle, is a favorite place for New York City birders and bird photographers to get great looks at and images of a wide variety of birds coming in to bathe and drink.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2013
'The Chukar is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all the partridges that scientists assigned to the genus Alectoris. All these factors combined make for a great bird. Its range is not difficult for an Old World birder to visit, and once there the bird is not hard to find – for a partridge. Then there is the fact that its plumage (the original to the copy-cat New World quails) can easily rival many a spring’s warbler, and there you have it: just look up “marv
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2013
'I miss Eastern Kingbirds. It’s not that they’re not around — I’ve seen them at the National Bison Range, to name but one definitively Montana location — but they’re not AROUND, like they always used to be back on the Olde Homestead. Instead we have other flycatchers, and I am not a fan of other flycatchers. Other flycatchers are not fans of me.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2013
'This morning – 26 October 2013 – at Jacob Riis Park in coastal Queens, New York, I was very pleased to see hordes of sparrows in every bit of brush, long grass, and anywhere else that you could fit a sparrow. Overnight, northwest winds had been blowing which made for perfect migratory conditions and the number of sparrows around showed that the birds had taken advantage of them.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. parks and preserves. (Photo by the National Park Service). If you’re in the U.S. and you’ve got good weather forecast this weekend, you’re probably looking forward to some birding. After all, we’re in the peak of fall migration. (Disclosure: the White-throated Sparrows and Brown Creepers have started invading Chicago this week, and on my morning rounds I spotted a first-of-season Dark-eyed
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2013
'Hello my birding sons and daughters. Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in between. A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. This post is meant to serve as a flashback to 1998, 15 years ago. It wasn’t a particularly eventful year in and of itself, but for those who weren’t around, a lot has changed since then.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2013
'Even the solo birders out there have to appreciate that birding together is often better than birding alone. Corey and I don’t get out in the field together much, since we’ve determined that the ongoing security of 10,000 Birds requires the two of us to live in separate cities. Blog security is serious business! But when I do get to go birding with him or any of my other friends and colleagues in the natural history space, I remember what about this hobby I enjoy so much.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'What happens when a bunch of Mallards and Manky Mallards invade a CVS? Nothing much, but it is entertaining to see a bunch of ducks wandering around in a drugstore in Saratoga Springs, New York. Hat-tip to Gothamist.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2013
'When I was a preschooler, I wasn’t allowed to watch much television, but I did get a double-dose of public programming — the PBS station out of Buffalo and the CBC beaming across the border from Ontario both showed a lot of material that met with my mother’s approval and my own. Children’s programming concocted by educators instead of marketers was ok, and so were nature programs.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2013
'When citizens of the United States tout the superiority of our country, we tend to focus on debatable issues of culture, economy, and government. However, if we’re being fair, one of the irrefutable elements that makes America great is our proliferation of Northern Cardinals. In fact, we lead the world in these ubiquitous red birds, a fact that undoubtedly chafes terrorists and freedom haters everywhere.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2013
'The cahow is one wild and crazy bird. Born in a burrow, it first sees daylight when it is time to fledge, and then spends years at sea, flying, flying, flying with speed and acrobatic agility on thin wings that may take it thousands of miles from its birthplace, till it is time to come home to Bermuda to mate. There, it courts at night, the less moonlight and the wilder the winds, the better.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'Wastewater Treatment Plants are known to birders all over the country as great birding spots. If constructed properly, these facilities can be not only a boon to birders and other wildlife enthusiasts but an obvious benefit to their local communities. One of the best examples in the world is the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary on the northern California coast.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2013
'Waterthrushes are birds that have frustrated me for some time. They don’t like to sit still for long and my attempts at photos are commonly blurred by movement. Not only are the birds perpetual fidgets, they also like to flirt along the edges of shady streams, so the movement is also compounded by the low light shakies. A recent trip to New York’s Central Park brought an opportunity to catch one out in the open by the shallow end of The Pond in the southeast corner of the park.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'This spunky little finch is the smallest member of the North American genus Carduelis. I caught this male pictured above harassing a female Ruby-crowned Kinglet as she was bathing in the water feature. Unlike the more common American Goldfinch, the Lesser Goldfinch’s ( Spinus psaltria ) plumage does not change color during breeding season. The male (seen below) has a black cap and, in Washington, Oregon, California, and Baja California, nearly all males have green backs.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2013
'Maybe, maybe not. But he just played one on TV. (Though not in the movie Cop Out , despite the binoculars in the scene above with Tracy Morgan.). That’s right. Willis talked about what happened when “me and my girl birdwatch” during a sketch on the most recent edition of Saturday Night Live. His character, a barber who seems slightly out of place amongst the other tall-tale tellers in the barbershop, also speculated on why robins’ eggs are blue (while displaying a rema
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'On a couple of recent visits to Kissena Corridor Park I have really enjoyed watching wood-warblers against the backdrop of autumn. Though the birds’ colors are muted from their gaudy spring finery the fiery colors of fall more than make up for what the birds lack. Anyway, here are three shots I feel pretty happy about and thought I would share – if you feel so inclined please feel free to share some links to your autumn wood-warbler pictures in the comments.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Halloween weekend has passed, but the big day is yet to come. Has anyone seen any noteworthy bird costumes recently? The best bird I saw this weekend was a lone Yellow-rumped Warbler , though it was not the bird that briefly appeared on the field during the World Series! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Clay-colored Sparrow at Jacob Riis Park in coastal Queens, the only really noteworthy find among the hordes of sparrows that were around on Saturday morning.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'I’m not a big fan of working hard to separate birds. This isn’t just because I’m lazy. That’s part of it, for sure, and it wouldn’t do to just discount that idea, but it isn’t the whole story. It just seems to me that the harder you have to work for the bird, the more likely you are to get it wrong. I once worked with banders who used to use the ratio of the lengths of the primary projections (or some other voodoo like that) and an alchemical tome known as th
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