10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
So what’s so special about seeing the resident re-introduced Whooping Cranes in Florida? According to the ABA, they are not countable. And when you see them – as I have recently – they have massive transmitters and color bands on their legs. Moreover, the pair I saw was feeding from a livestock trough alongside a group of cattle. Hardly the elegant, natural picture deserving of some seriously stunning birds!
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Bringing a dog into the family is no small decision. It’s a long-term commitment that involves an additional member of your household. Dogs come with many different temperaments from mellow to feisty, all of which may suit different personalities. If you’re a homebody who cherishes your quiet time, you most likely don’t want a talkative breed that requires constant exercise, for example.
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 1, 2013
This blog had 2,196 visits during February, which is an average of 78.4 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 104.3.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
The Inaccessible Island Rail is perhaps the coolest bird that neither I nor anyone I will ever meet will ever see. The world’s smallest, still-extant, flightless bird is only found on the aptly-named Inaccessible Island, an island in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago of the south Atlantic Ocean (the largest island in the archipelago is also called Tristan da Cunha but people from the UK will recognize it as St.
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4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Dogs love the great outdoors, don’t they? If there’s one thing that gets most of them wagging their tail in furious excitement, it’s when their owner brings out the lead ready for a walk. Canines love the chance to get some exercise, to explore the world around them. Some like meeting other dogs or sniffing for where their pooch peers have been.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
With the recent addition of the Nanday Parakeet ( Nandayus nenday ) and Purple Swamphen ( Porphyrio porphyrio ) to the ABA list (it was not too long ago that Common Myna ( Acridotheres tristis ) was added as well), I thought an article discussing the potentially upcoming exotic bird species from Florida to be added to the ABA area list would be relevant to the times.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
Imagine coming home after a long day at work, pulling into your driveway, looking up on the roof, and seeing a White Stork perched there. Sure, this is normal occurrence across much of Europe and southwest Asia but this particular tale comes from out on the east end of New York’s Long Island, in the town of Medford, where this happened to an unsuspecting non-birder, Celeste Rovner.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2013
( When Duncan Wright contacted us back in 2010 to say that he thought we might enjoy showing some photos on 10,0000 Birds of Wellington’s big, boisterous parrots, he was 100% spot-on. Three years later, we still look forward to his weekly dispatches from the austral ends of the Earth! Let’s revisit this gem about a nifty New Zealand parrot… ).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
If you have ever visited an area where cattail and/or bulrush thrive, you will undoubtedly have heard the call of the Marsh Wren ( Cistothorus palustris ) in the winter and spring. These vociferous little birds can usually be heard throughout the freshwater and saltwater marshes in North America. The male of the species will rattle off up to 200 songs, his repertoire size varying geographically, with the western males having considerably larger repertoires than eastern males 1.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
I made some uncharitable and in some ways inaccurate comments about the month of February last week which were starkly contradicted by some excellent birding reported in different parts of the world. However, I don’t take any of it back. In any case, we won’t have February to kick around any more once this week moves us into March. During my time in NYC, I had the opportunity to enjoy White-throated Sparrows , which are much more common downstate than in my part of upstate, at the Gr
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
We’re going big with next month’s installment of I and the Bird. The family Ardeidae consists on long-legged, long-necked, long-beaked, water birds called waders in North America or maybe just herons, egrets, and bitterns everywhere else. It’s a massive family with worldwide distribution, so I’ll be expecting a tsunami of submissions for this one.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Mountain Plover and many other grassland birds have populations in steep decline. Private property holders with prairie/agricultural land can potentially make a big difference in maintaining and recovering populations of many of these charismatic species. You all know me as the world’s preeminent ornithologist, and expert birderer (no, that’s not a typo).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Wouldn’t you love to visit Cape Kidnappers in NZ, where Duncan Wright has enjoyed sauvignon and seabirds ? March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb and all that rot. What matters more to me is how this month comes in like decrepit winter and goes out like nascent spring, early migrants and all! Which spring migrant are you most looking forward to?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
In what must be one of the most unusual conservation strategies ever, dead mice laced with acetaminophen, trailing streamers meant to catch on tree branches, will be dropped one-by-one, by hand, from helicopters. Why? To try to manage the invasive Brown Tree Snake on Guam, which has forced many of Guam’s bird species to extinction and as a way to try to keep the snakes from Hawaii.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
In February 2012, a gorgeous Blue-winged/Green-winged Teal visited Brazos Bend State Park in Texas, much to the delight of local birders. Chris Hirsch let me know that this hot hybrid is back in Brazos. As you can see from Chris’s photo, this is a duck worth seeing. For more photos of this beauty and plenty of other hybrid hotness, visit our hybrid teals page.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland was already one of the most important offshore reserves in New Zealand. The island was mostly forested through its history and never had introduced browsing mammals, meaning it had an intact flora. It was for many years the last place you’d find Stitchbirds anywhere in the world, and to this day it still has the largest population of this species and arguably the only stable and secure one.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
Yellow-collared Chlorophonia ( Chlorophonia flavirostris ). This tiny and colorful bird formerly of the Thaupidae (Tanager) family now has its own family the Fingillidae and it deserves it due to its uniqueness and beauty. I have seen it a few times but until recently I had not been able to photograph it properly. This bird is found mostly at the canopy eating tiny berries that mature periodically.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
Though it was first found last weekend the Gyrfalcon at Gilgo Beach was not known by the vast majority of New York birders until it showed up on the New York City Rare Bird Alert email late Friday night. This was due to an abundance of caution: apparently the birders who found and saw the bird last weekend were afraid that a falconer might come and try to catch the bird.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
Point Samson is a small coastal town near Karratha that has a long history as a port for the north-west and the deep water jetty was built in 1902. Nowadays it is a small and quiet tourist town which is very popular in the winter months when people head north in search of relaxation and sunshine. The township has recently established a native garden and park with structures to emphasise the great fishing in the area…… Fish in the Point Samson park.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2013
I cajoled my friends into a trip up to Polson to see the Snowy Owls. Besides the owls themselves, I promised them the best pie in Montana, which is to be found in the Ronan Cafe. These lures drew three of my fellow writing students out of the woodwork – two poets and a fiction writer. None of these people were birdwatchers, as such, before coming to Montana, although one of the poets was outdoorsy in a hiking and skiing way.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Jonathan Franzen gets it right in this interview by Susan Cosier for Audubon Magazine. In response to being asked what got him into birding he said the following: In May of 2000 they came to New York to see us, and we went out into Central Park birding with them. I had walked through the park several times every week for years, and I had the sensation that I didn’t know the park, that there was this whole dimension to the world that I had never been aware of.
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