10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2011
Short answer: The woodpecker is most likely not crazy and noshing on the house is not what the woodpecker has in mind. Woodpeckers could be pecking on homes for a variety of reasons, all of which can drive a non birder a bit batty. Talk about pesky, a Northern Flicker like the bird above liked to peck foam off of the space shuttle. Yikes! So, why do woodpeckers peck on human made structures?
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 31, 2011
We are giving away one copy of “ What About Daisy? &# so be sure to enter at the end of this post! While shopping for pet food in 2008, Maryam Faresh and her partner Bruce Meade saw a sign hanging on the wall with a picture of a white puppy with spots and strange looking eyes. The sign read, “Blind and deaf puppy needs home.” Bruce looked at Maryam and without a word, called the number on the sign.
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Critter News
MAY 25, 2011
From examiner.com. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is just about ready to chalk up a win against a California seafood dealer who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Califorian restaurants. Today, according to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Ginichi Y Ohira was charged in Los Angeles federal court with selling whale meat in violation of the Federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Animal Ethics
MAY 1, 2011
This blog had 4,563 visits during April, which is an average of 152.1 visits per day. It's the second-best month ever, in the seven and a half years of the blog's existence. A month ago, the average was 134.9.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2011
As part of my effort to keep concerned wildlife enthusiasts informed about the proposal to hunt Eastern Flyway sandhill cranes, it is my duty to tell you that there’s another vote coming up. This time, it’s the full commission– nine members of the Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources—who will get together on June 3, 2011, to vote on whether to open season on Sandhill Cranes in Kentucky.
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2011
I must be home-sick because last weekend I found myself browsing through my “SASOL Birds of Southern Africa&#. This prompted me to compile a list of my Top 10 birds from home. Initially I came up with a list of 64 favorite birds, certainly not a Top 10, and no matter how hard I tried I could not whittle this down further. So I decided to impose a few rules.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2011
On a recent visit to Wave Hill , a public garden in the Bronx, I was amazed by how confiding the resident Northern Mockingbirds were. In addition to watching them forage and sing I also chanced upon a rather violent encounter between two mockingbirds. One came out the fight clearly victorious as the other turned tail and flew off, and the bird that held the field made his dominance clear with what I would call a victory dance.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2011
There are many tales of a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from humans to use as nest-lining material. Watching a titmouse take hairs from a human is something I have always longed to see but I never considered how cool it might be to see a titmouse take hair from another creature. Fortunately, a pair of fellow Queens birders who will be known to those who read my posts about going to Ecuador, Karlo and Alison Mirth, witnessed a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from a Raccoon in Forest Park, Queens, rec
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
The haunting call of the West Indian Whistling Duck has long been a sound synonymous with the ever-shrinking wetlands of the Caribbean. But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2011
New York City is well known as a city of immigrants so it makes sense that the only lizards living within the five boroughs are immigrants as well. Our northern winters and highly developed landscape make New York City inhospitable to most species of lizard and it is no surprise that the two species that do occur in the Big Apple have their strongholds in the outer boroughs.* The best bet for finding either species is to get into the proper habitat on a sunny day and to watch for them sunning
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2011
The New York Times has an article about how Snowy Owls can serve as both harbingers of and ambassadors about climate change. Such a charismatic creature can certainly get attention… a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2011
Digiscoping is really hard. Isn’t that what everyone keeps saying? That it is almost impossible to get a good quality shot. That it is only really for record shots of something sitting still. Digiscoped with a Swarovski STM80 HD, TLS800 and Nikon D300s. Click images to enlarge Well, the winners of the Digiscoper of the Year Competition each year show another picture.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2011
If we can all agree on one thing, it’s that chickadees and tits are terrific birds. Who, after all, doesn’t love a chickadee? Not for nothing did 10,000 Birds readers elect the chickadee as the Most Beloved Backyard Bird of 2008 ; if we had run elections in other years, chickadees would no doubt have been front-runners. These birds certainly have a big fan in Alex Washoe, a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2011
Here in the southeast we have three Mimids of three distinct groups all present more or less throughout the year. The Northern Mockingbird is easily the most famous, celebrated in classic literature and song and deemed notable enough to have the honor of being the official state bird of five southern states. Brown Thrashers , those double voiced lurkers with the angry yellow eye, are honored in Georgia, and always a pleasure to find beneath the hedgerows in my neighborhood, but my favorite of
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10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
Birders up north are no doubt gearing up for the peak of spring migration across the eastern half of the continent. The middle of May is the most exciting and anxiety inducing period of the birder’s year. The mad rush to reach the boreal forest just after the thaw leaves little time for dillying nor dallying. Birds on their way north are on a mission, and the fear of waking up one morning having missed the entire parade is a real one that keeps birders up at night.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2011
No one pays attention to female Scarlet Tanagers. Decked out in muted shades of green and yellow the best that can be said about their plumage is that it enables them to blend into the forest canopy, an aid in avoiding predation. This is in sharp contrast to male Scarlet Tanagers in red and black which are invariably described with words like striking, brilliant, and amazing.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. The birds do the flying for you. Even if you don’t live in the summer range of a particular species, you may have opportunities to observe it while it passes through, especailly if you live in an active flyway, like I happen to.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2011
What does it look like when there is a true fallout of migrating birds? Check out the shots that Ralph Eldridge got on 24 May at Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2011
If you’re a British birder, or a birder looking in to British birding, you could be forgiven sometimes for feeling it bears all the hallmarks of a good soap opera depending on where you surf. Every new rarity seems to elicit a storm of controversy; they (the birds) are either elaborate hoaxes organised by a secret network of bird hoaxers intent on hijacking the British List and destroying it’s credibility; or were suppressed by the inner circle of the birding equivalent of the Knight
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2011
I got very exited two weeks ago when I finally met face-to-beak with a rare bird that I have wanting to see, the Tit-like Dacnis. This bird is very difficult to find except for one place in Ecuador where you are almost guaranteed to see it: The Cajas National Park. Here is two amazing videos of Cajas National park: DOCUMENTAL CAJAS PARTE I DOCUMENTAL CAJAS PARTE II This amazing national park is listed as an important bird area by Birdlife International and is also part of the Internationa
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. It was chosen as the national bird by dint of its inclusion in the National Seal of the United States, which happened by an act of the Continental Congress on 20 June 1782. The seal had been through multiple iterations by the time it was approved by Congress – three different committees comprising a total of fourteen men had come up with a host of ideas – but it was the Secretary of Congress, Charles Thomson, who
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
The New York Times blog, City Room, will be holding a “ Bird Week &# this week. Why? The city’s avian equivalent of convention season is just around the corner: the second week in May marks the peak of spring bird migration in New York City, with the maximum numbers of species and individual birds passing through town. Check it out – it should be a good week. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2011
The use of digital devices to attract birds is getting more and more attention. It’s been brewing on birding listservs for years. I wrote about it for WildBird Magazine a few years ago and recently David Sibley tackled it in his blog. However, it’s now getting the attention of mainstream media via this article in The Seattle Times. I can’t help but wonder if this article will inspire people who never thought of using taped calls to give it go.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2011
The next seven days, today until the fourteenth, are hereby declared Wood-Warbler Week on 10,000 Birds! Are you excited as we are? It may seem like cruel and unusual punishment for we denizens of the New World to spend an entire week celebrating what is surely the coolest family of birds in the world, a family that is sadly absent from the Old World, but it can’t be helped.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2011
“Jah Man (pronounced Jamon )&# is something you will hear often when visiting Jamaica. You will hear it as a greeting, an affirmation and as encouragement. And, if you are baffled by the Jamaican accent or dialect, you can safely use it as a reply. When our local driver asked me in Patois, an English-lexified creole language unique to Jamaica, if we would like to go and see Jamaican Owl , I had no idea what he was talking about. “Yu wan cu pan da patoo wid dem big eyes?
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2011
Sure, that title is hyperbolic but the results of HB-991, should it become law , would be absolutely horrible for Florida’s environment. It won’t be Florida Republicans destroying the environment but their corporate puppet-masters. The bill has already passed the house and is headed for the state senate where it will hopefully be stopped.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2011
You’ve no doubt heard the famous expression, “If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain.&# The pithy lesson contained herein reminds us that we control our own destinies, that if someone will not come to us, we must perforce go to them. But what if the mountain had come to Mohammed? I’ve just experienced a phenomenon nearly as fantastic.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
All good things, it is said, must come to an end. Of course, we know that so much of what thrills and inspires us survives on a much longer timeline than we ourselves do. Seasons may come and go, blossoms bloom and wither, warblers arrive in full throat only to depart in traveling drab, but still nature abides. We who take so much comfort and joy in patterns traced upon a much younger world than this sometimes miss the forest for the trees.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2011
A few months ago I shared with the 10,000 Birds community the plight of Griffon Vultures in Cyprus , and it has only been getting worse. A census conducted on March 31 indicated that there are in fact only only 6-8 Griffon Vultures left in Cyprus. But there is cause for hope on the horizon. I had written then that… There are rumors of a plan to capture Griffon Vultures breeding in Greece and release them here in Cyprus, to rescue the population.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2011
Seeing one of the world’s rarest birds is not something you’d usually think an easy task. Species with a world population in the hundreds tend to be endangered or critically endangered and confined to remote and difficult to reach locations. And while Takahe ( Porphyrio hochstetteri ) are both endangered and generally confined to remote and difficult to reach areas, there are some in more accessible locations.
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