10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2015
This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. in Antigo, WI: Most of us have our own idea what the phrase “nature takes care of itself” means. My father, a lifelong conservationist, spoke those words with reverence when describing the natural world. We are an integral part of that world, and a connection with it carries responsibility.
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 30, 2015
As we come to the close of another year, it’s fun to look back and see how far we have come. I’ll be honest with you dear animal loving friends. This year was a hard year for our us. When … Continue reading → The post A look at 2015 and best wishes for 2016 appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 1, 2015
This blog had 1,647 visits during November, which is an average of 54.9 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 51.0.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2015
Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post ), this year I invited two more wildlife protection organisations to take part in the annual census of Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade. Here is a joint media release: WWF, Decembar 11, 2015 – This December, 3,800 Pygmy Cormorants are wintering by the river Sava in Belgrade, Serbia, representing 2 percent of the global population and 5.4 percent of their European population.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Winter is one of my favorite times to bird, mainly due to the proliferation of shorebirds that stalk their prey on the sandy beaches near where I live. The Florida Panhandle hosts a range of shorebird species, and it’s not uncommon for me to see half a dozen on a casual jaunt along the water. Friday evening was one such birding trip. I had managed to finagle my way out of work a little early, and still had at least an hour of daylight left when I arrived on the barrier island located in N
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2015
…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively).
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2015
Since this is the season of love and harmony and all things nice, I sincerely and originally had planned to write an equally nice, loving and harmonic post on a beautiful group of birds that’s mostly found in SE Asia, the broadbills. Turns out this post will not be so much about the birds themselves than about the striking disharmonic off-key note that pierces our eardrum the moment we see the birds in the field and then look up their name in our field guide.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2015
Within one week, I saw Bufflehead over 1,200 miles apart, first in Maine, and then along the Florida Panhandle. For my post this week, I wanted to take a moment to marvel at the impressive range of this super cool species. Bufflehead are black and white ducks, the male sporting a large white patch on an otherwise black head. They breed in Canada and Alaska, but in the summer they can be found across the United States, as far south as Florida, Cuba, and into Mexico, and as far north as the Pacifi
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2015
When you’ve got a bed like this one, at the Punta Cana Resort & Club (as visited by James Currie ), why would you ever want to leave it just to bird? . You’ve heard of patch birding. And Big Sits. But what if rousing yourself to stroll about your local haunt, or even just plunking yourself in a lawn chair, is too daunting? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, bedbirding.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2015
The title of warmest year on record currently belongs to 2014 , but the crown may pass in just a few weeks to the present year. Considering how cold the area I live in usually is, this balmy December suits me fine. But I wonder how these trends are impacting every other species on Earth… yes, sometimes I can think of someone besides myself! I sauntered out in the spring-like weather to track down Bonaparte’s Gulls , which had somehow managed to elude me.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2015
If I were to describe my long time wildlife nemesis, my ultimate dip of dips, I would reach for a nemesis cat, not a nemesis bird. For there is no species that I had more comprehensively failed to see than the Leopard. I had, after all, been to 13 countries that were home to leopards, over the course of 14 years, of which in all but one I had been in habitat suitable for this most adaptable of big cats.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2015
Yesterday, Sunday, 20 December, was the 2015 Queens County Christmas Bird Count. With the mild weather we had been experiencing we had high hopes for some good birds and we were not disappointed. I covered the western section of the Rockaways which mostly consists of trying to find birds on the ocean, the beach, and the bays. We did not have a great day on the coast: we missed Surf Scoter , only had three Sanderling , and didn’t get anything particularly rare at all.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 16, 2015
The Marbled Godwit ( Limosa fedoa ) in the photo above, shown landing at Fort De Soto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida, is used with permission from my friend Mia McPherson of On The Wing Photography fame. I didn’t get a shot of the Marbled Godwit near Seal Rocks in flight but I wanted you to be able to see the bird with wings outstretched so Mia came to my rescue.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 16, 2015
It’s the time of the year again, where I leave the sometimes ephemeral Austral summer of New Zealand for a foreign clime. This year I’ve chosen to forsake the summer entirely and head to my parent’s home in Cheshire in England. The skies are grey, the temperatures low, but the house at least is warm (a trick New Zealand has yet to master), the food plentiful and the birds good.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2015
The Australian Painted Snipe – Rostratula australis is one of the hardest shorebirds/waders to find in Australia and very little is known about them at all. In fact we never really expected to observe one around Broome at all and the first encounter could not have come at a better time. I successfully spotted a pair of Australian Painted Snipe on Grant’s birthday 24th April 2011 and I only mention the date, because that is significant to the situation.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2015
It’s the time of the year when I have better things to be doing than writing this and undoubtedly most of you have better things to be doing than reading what I write. Actually that’s true all year. So I’ll leave you with a quick mystery perhaps you can answer. You’ve heard of manky mallards , well today I came across a mere (glacial pond/lake) in Ellesmere, Shropshire, that was full of manky greylags.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2015
Many weekends come and go without great birds, but during the Christmas Bird Count, most field ornithologists have reason to beat the bushes. Let’s see what everyone found… The arrival of true winter weather triggered my instinct to stay indoors as much as possible, which means I saw nothing more exciting than a Blue Jay this weekend. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was actually a bunch of birds, none of which he saw!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2015
It is probably a safe bet that readers at 10,000 Birds relish field guides irrespective of their subject. Birdie books will obviously take precedence, but a well written, lavishly illustrated guide is a thing of beauty whatever the discipline. Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2015
Some updates from the comments sections! On the Limpkin , the ever-sagicious Rick Wright points out that the ‘gait’ explanation may well be a folk etymology: “I’ve been wondering about this word for a long, long time. The standard etymology limp + -kin doesn’t make much sense to me: by the time this word is attested, -kin wasn’t a productive suffix in English any more, and the bird limps no more than any other long-legged wader.” Further investigation is required!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2015
I saw my first real Greater Roadrunner on a cold winter day in the Southwest. Walking along a dirt track next to a prairie, my friend and I were on the look-out for different sparrow species when a large bird suddenly darted into the clearing. It was large, almost two feet long with a tan look that matched the meadow grasses. After only a moment of sizing us up, it dashed back into cover, leaving only dust in its wake.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2015
I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! This time we were walking the beach near the port in Broome where we regularly encounter large flocks of shorebirds at this time of year. The beach is a popular roost with Bar-tailed Godwits , Great Knots , Red Knots , Common Greenshanks , Grey-tailed Tattlers , Terek Sandpipers , Ruddy Turnstones , Whimbrels , Greater Sand Plovers , Curlew
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2015
The year is nearly over and that’s always a good excuse to talk about our best birds from the past 12 months. With more than 650 on my year list to choose from, it’s hard to pick out the best, especially when several happen to be glittering hummingbirds, tanagers, and trogons. In a sense, I guess that most of what I have seen and heard are “the best” because I appreciate every screeching Crimson-fronted Parakeet , Chestnut-backed Antbird haunting the dark reaches of the r
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2015
Africa has a superabundance of antelopes, and one of the cutest and most unusual is the Klipspringer. Literally ‘rock-jumper’ in Afrikaans, this tiny antelope is rarely found far from rocky outcrops (or koppies) or mountainous outcrops. My only sighting until this year had been a distant speck on a far off koppie in Kenya, but this pair (they live in pairs) came very close to my safari vehicle in Madikwe in South Africa.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2015
Last week I was living it up in beautiful Honduras at the exceptional Lodge at Pico Bonito at the behest of friends at Leica. Ostensibly I was there to check out the brand new line of Trinovid binoculars Leica is releasing (or is it re-releasing?) next month, and I’ll be reviewing those soon on The ABA Blog, but I also had the opportunity to engage in some other fun optics related exploration.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2015
Mike’s weekly call for your birding intentions is a Friday night staple in our house. Then we look forward to checking the comments section in his Monday post to see if you have lived up to your promises. Did you make it, or did that one last drink on Saturday evening weaken your resolve on a cold Sunday morning? Did you get up to brave the elements?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Birders of every faith and philosophy are in the Christmas spirit this weekend, or rather the Christmas Bird Count spirit. We wish you a merry one! I don’t usually participate in the Rochester counts, but I plan to get out in some capacity this weekend. Corey more than makes up for my apathy by contributing to multiple counts; look for him in North Nassau on Saturday and his beloved Queens on Sunday.
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 17, 2015
How cute and fun are these “elves” making toys at Santa’s work shop? OK, you caught us, they aren’t elves but they are shelter pets Santa’s Workshop and Marnie the Dog is Head Elf! And for every share of the … Continue reading → The post Santa’s Elves have furry faces! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2015
Discussing winter birding seems incongruous when we’re experiencing spring weather here in western NY. Better to just enjoy the glorious warmth and wait a while longer for boreal birds! I’m heading down to the Southern Tier hoping something sweet flies my way. Corey will be carousing around NYC. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2015
(Photo by the California Forestry Association). It’s hard to be a Northern Spotted Owl , inhabiting old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. The logging industry has made your existence fraught , and it’s not like you’ve gotten much help from the powers that be. For the past 25 years, you’ve been listed as a Threatened species. Well, now we’re getting a better idea of exactly how hard it is.
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Hey 4 the Love of Animals readers! Morris the Cat, from 9Lives cat food, here. (You may have thought that a cat’s only computer skills involve laying on the keyboard while others are trying to use it, but in fact, … Continue reading → The post Morris the Cat is here with a special message appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
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