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 2, 2011
Did you know that 63 percent of Americans have a pet? Not only do we love our pets as part of the family, but many times our pets become guides and even therapy aids. It’s even been shown that having a pet helps us live longer, happier, lives. However, for millions of families across the globe, a pet is more than just a trusted companion – an animal in their life can be their lifeline to food, sustenance, owning a business and providing for their family.
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Critter News
MAY 5, 2011
Well, you know how they are.going for the emotion and oversimplifying the issue. Certainly not showing what they do, how they are funded and how the licensing of their "altruistic" work nets them a tidy sum. This billboard poses the issue as an either/or.save the child or the rat. Bullshit. It's not that simple. How many of these experiments are even necessary?
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 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.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 2, 2011
LocalPages is a great website where you can find coupons and deals for businesses in your area. They have offered a $25 giftcard for one of our readers, which can be used at any of the pet stores found on their site! Would you like a chance to win? To enter, just leave a comment on this post before midnight on Sunday, May 8th. Let us know what you would like to buy for your pet!
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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 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 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 4, 2011
Hey, British readers! Want to help save the Cerrado, the amazing savannah of Brazil, from destruction do to conversion to soya production? The WWF has some easy steps you can take, as well as an educational hand-shadow film that is well worth watching, on their website. Check it out and help save an extremely endangered ecosystem. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2011
Although the only pine forests found in New Zealand are recent plantations of Northern Hemisphere Pinus species like the Monterey pine, the country does have native conifers. Some of these are found throughout the country, but the most impressive species is found in the north of the island, around the Coromandel and in Northland. This is the kauri , Agathis austalis , the largest tree in New Zealand.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
On a recent visit to Central Park I chanced upon a singing House Wren Troglodytes aedon and followed it back to a hole in a dead stub of a tree. It was actively removing tiny wood chips that had probably been there since the hole was excavated. If I had to guess I would say that the hole had been excavated by a Downy Woodpecker as a winter roost hole, but that is raw speculation and I really have no idea, though at one point during the five minutes I watched the wren drove a female Downy Woodp
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2011
The small and remote island of Skokholm, in Wales, hosts an amazing bathroom well-decorated with paintings of rare birds seen on the island’s nature reserve. Unfortunately over 100 images were lost in a recent renovation but pictures of the paintings are well worth checking out. The BBC has a small slideshow of some of the finest. a.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
On a recent visit to Prospect Park one of the many wonderful sights was a nest belonging to a pair of American Robins in the Midwood. Probably one of the most familiar nests to North American birders, their eggs are known well enough to have a color named after them and many individuals are acclimatized to people, which means that they are comfortable enough to nest near our buildings.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
On Sunday, 8 May, we will start celebrating Wood-Warbler Week on 10,000 Birds. Get your binoculars cleaned, your gear packed, and your beer chilled – this is going to be great! Wood-warblers galore! Wood-warblers for everyone! Huzzah! a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
After last week’s big Brit wedding bonanza I couldn’t help but chuckle at the news that one of the RSPB’s premier nature reserves in the North of England has opened itself up for weddings. Leighton Moss lies within the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is more famous for its breeding Bitterns and Marsh Harriers than any connection with weddings but it is opening itself up as the venue for small intimate affairs (that kind of ruled William& Kate o
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
It might not be a good time to be a bird near one of New York City’s two busy airports. JFK Airport has announced that it will not continue its contract with Falcon Environmental Services Inc. and will instead hire marksmen to shoot at birds. This announcement follows on the heels of the announcement a couple of weeks ago that the New York City Department of Sanitation is going to spend $175,000 a year to hire a biologist to track “wildlife hazards.&# a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2011
Now that we’re past May Day, the next month promises some of the most spectacular migratory action of the calendar year. If you’re reading this, that’s probably what May means to you. May also means, as I’ve learned this weekend, the beginning of Little League, which my son will be doing a whole lot of in the next six weeks. Phenology aside, what else does the month of May mean to you?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
Birding, like so many other things, is bigger in Texas. How else can you explain the 312 species the Swarovski Optik “Fabulous EL Fifties” racked up in a frenetic five days to win the 2011 Great Texas Birding Classic Big Week? As their driver for the Fabulous EL Fifties’ phenomenal first 48 hours, I was well poised to report on the team’s Big First Day on the Upper Coast and share choice Scenes from the Upper Rio Grande Valley.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2011
The Philippine Eagle , which has a population that numbers less then 500 birds in the wild, is still being targeted by trappers and hunters. The Independent has the story. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2011
Though it is a butterfly blog Butterflies of Singapore had a recent post about rescuing a White-bellied Sea Eagle that is worth a look. Check it out! a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
The bane of North American birders in spring is the painful malady known as “warbler neck&# that is caused by spending too much time staring nearly straight up into the tree tops trying to spot the colorful creatures that we all want to see. Fortunately we here at 10,000 Birds, after exhaustive and exhausting research, have come up with a solution to “warbler neck&# that still allows one to appreciate every member of the family Parulidae.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
Many times over the last couple of days a blog reader viewed a page on 10,000 Birds. One of those readers, whom we sadly have no way of identifying, provided 10,000 Birds with our 5,000,000th page view! Thanks, readers! a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2011
I don’t know if I am just really lucky this year or more observant but I found another oddball Ruddy Duck recently. Instead of a leucistic female this time a male with black cheeks and small white lines beneath its eyes crossed my path. The dark-cheeked Ruddy Duck was in the same spot as the leucistic female – Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond – and I even spotted and digiscoped it from the same vantage point.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2011
Last Sunday was Grant’s birthday and we decided to bird our local area in search of something special. We drove out of town a bit, as we had not seen Black-tailed Treecreepers yet this year and wanted to! There’s a good spot for them and we had several climbing up tree trunks looking for food. We often get Varied Sittella in the same area and they are half the size, but also spend much of their time on tree trunks looking for food amongst the bark.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 5, 2011
We always love reading books about animals, and from time to time we get to review new books to share with our readers! Here are the latest: The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years. This book explores the special connection and bond between humans and dogs. It’s a very interesting read, and anyone who has had a love of dogs, or any other animal for that matter, will enjoy this book.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. From what I read, birds are the class of Aves [feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying and vertebrate animals]. Also, and this is pretty cool, there are extinct birds that have different characteristics [no wings, for example. Who knew?]. No surprise: there have been debates about how all the birds should be organized within this structure.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
Philosophy and I have always had a rather fraught relationship. I love grappling with big ideas, but dislike the tendency to extrapolate endless sky-bridges of thought and constantly redefine terms. You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 5, 2011
A bit of cuteness for your Thursday from Nat Geo Wild! Enjoy!
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