10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

Rehabbers are all – well, almost all – connected by the internet. We join listservs so we can talk to compatriots, even if they live across the country, about things like the latest treatment for aspergillosis, what’s going on with West Nile, and who’s had what kind of experience with eye infections. Every once in awhile, though, night will fall and you’ll read some kind of rant, and you know there’s a rehabber out there in cyberspace sitting in front of his/her computer with a great big glass o

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AUGUST 5, 2012

Guest article from Jon of ilovelabradorretrievers.com. For expectant parents who have a pet at home, one of the most common concerns they have is how will their pet cope with the new addition to the family? Babies are a heck of a lot of work and without a doubt require the majority of the attention from mom and dad, which leaves poor puppy in the position of being at the absolute bottom of the totem poll.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

“Peek!” Plunk. “Peek!” Plop. “Peek!” Plip. These were the sounds I heard as I walked around a small pond in Amherst, Massachusetts last week, looking for dragonflies, listening for birds. The “peeks” were loud and high-pitched. I knew the plunks, plops and plips were the sounds of frogs, green and black, jumping into the water, so camouflaged, it looked as if the grass and mud were in action.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2012

John Mark Simmons, the co-founder of Two Birders and Binoculars , has enjoyed birding all his life and has won various birding competitions. John Mark also has an interest in the intersection of ornithology and aberration, as we learn in his first guest post on 10,000 Birds… Beak deformities have baffled scientists for a number of years. They come in many forms: nuthatches with extremely long bills, thrashers with oddly curved bills, and chickadees with many different shapes and sizes of

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Top Techniques For At Home Pet Door Training, guest article from PetDoors.com. Pet doors are the perfect addition to any pet owner’s home. Not only do they help your pet keep its active lifestyle, but they also protect against accidental pet messes around the house. Most pets take instinctively to their new pet door, but others are timid and need direction.??

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2012

Baby recently got a very fun item to review, something super awesome for people who love to take their dogs out walking when it gets a bit darker! Yes, a glowing collar! The Safe Glow dog collar, which is well made from wear-resistant nylon and houses a flexible, light-transmitting polymer core that illuminates when the collar is turned on. Not only does it light up with a press of the button, but there are three different settings to choose from; steady glow, slow flash, and fast flash.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

We are so excited for the new Disney film, “Frankenweenie”! Not only do we enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, but of course, a story about a boy and his dog is sure to be a hit in our household. “Frankenweenie” follows in the footsteps of Tim Burton’s other stop-motion animated films “Corpse Bride” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas”—both of which were nominated for Academy Awards®.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

Hot enough for you? If you’re suffering through a sweltering patch of record summer heat, you may feel much as Ralph Waldo Emerson did when he penned this line: “When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.” But is it ever too hot or too cold to get out and look at some birds?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, 3 August 2008 It was while watching flocks of shorebirds on Friday on Cape Cod (an adventure I will soon describe) that I first heard of a Red-necked Stint being found at Jamaica Bay. I got back-to-back calls that I let go to voicemail from Jory and Will , my upstate birding buddies, and when I checked my voicemail I found out the news.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2012

While those to the north are busy wallowing in shorebirds of impressive diversity and numbers , we to the south sit and wait for the scraps to trickle down into our own scopeviews. I can’t imagine what it must be like to have a bona fide shorebird hotspot minutes from one’s home, the mind boggles at the implications. The mud. The stink.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

As I’ve switched over to paid corporate birding (doing bird surveys for companies that want to put up wind farms or transmission lines), I’ve been fascinated by the world that has been opened to me and differences from the bird feeding world. Whenever I get my hands on a trade publication for any industry, my favorite thing to do is see what is being advertised in the magazine.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

As I mentioned last week we had a few days away birding and camping and I will tell you about some other places that are good to look for birds around the Derby area. Derby is approximately 225kms from Broome and there are a few water crossings before you get there. The first significant water body worth stopping at is about 50kms to the south and you can easily pull over after you have crossed the bridge at Cockatoo Creek.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

With one American birding magazine already having closed its doors this year it would be a real shame to lose another. Julie Zickefoose explains what Bird Watcher’s Digest has meant to her and why they are doing a subscription drive. a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Apparently Alley Cat Allies only wants to protect feral cats, an introduced predator that decimates native wildlife communities. And should a group dare question the wisdom of domestic cats being outdoors they are “extremists” in the eyes of the crazy cat people. a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

Carlos Sanchez is an excellent birder, a Miami resident, and a polyglot. Corey was lucky enough to meet Carlos while birding in Ecuador , where Carlos was dragooned into accompanying the horde of Queens birders for the day, an encounter that somehow didn’t turn him off of all things New York. If you have been out birding in southeast Florida there is a good chance that you have run into him in the field.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

A new species of barbet was discovered in 2008 in Peru by a team of ornithologists that were recent graduates of Cornell University. The Sira Barbet has as its scientific name Capito fitzpatricki , in honor of the director of the Lab of Ornithogy, Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick. The new species is described in the July 2012 issue of The Auk. a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Having jumped around a bit while writing up my trip to Hungary – sharing a few galleries , a trip to find an elusive woodpecker , and the most exciting news in optics since Galileo discovered Jupiter’s moons – I thought it was time to go back to the beginning of the trip and proceed chronologically. We Americans on the trip – Clay Taylor, Jeffrey Gordon, Gus Axelson, and I – landed a day before our fellow travelers to give us a chance to adapt to the big change in t

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2012

Is it possible to travel too much during the summer? My typical response any season would be a resounding NO, but then again I’m usually battling a chronic case of wanderlust. But I’ve been on the move a lot lately at a time when responsibilities in my home territory continue to mount. One wonders how birding tour leaders and industry reps manage to embrace life on the road.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

Kapiti, a predator free island near Wellington that I’ve spoken of before , came close to receiving another mammalian invader recently. Fishermen out near the island spotted a possum riding a floating log close to the island. It seems unlikely that the possum made it to the island, but it shows how vulnerable even the most important reserves are and how important it is to move towards a mammalian predator free New Zealand. a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

We’ve had a lot of discussion recently on the pros and cons of interfering with ‘nature’ on behalf of an individual animal. But sometimes, when you’re actually confronted with a situation, theory gets all muddled. I like bats. Always have, even before my goth phase kicked in. So when I spotted a large, handsome Hoary Bat grounded at the side of the path while I walked Muir early one morning, my first thought – after I determined that it was not dead – was R

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

Molly Laich has an article ruminating on crows that is worth a read in the Missoula Independent. Hat-tip to Carrie. a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

The Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator can be found all around the Mediterranean, including many parts of North Africa, and its range extends East into Iran. Within this range it is not hard to find and enjoy, with the latter aspect based on its fine colouration. It also used to be a rather common bird in the South of Germany, but the German population has crashed and collapsed (almost?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Or so The Onion would have us believe. Hat-tip to Mark Heddon. a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

When you live in Queens and you only have one morning of an August weekend to go birding there is only one place to go – the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Even a bad day on the East Pond in August is better than a good day at other locations that can be reached from Queens or a morning’s birding. What makes it so good? Shorebirds!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

Grey-headed Flying Foxes have been roosting in a large colony in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens for many years now and their popularity with visitors is matched by a reciprocal loathing from the garden’s curator. They are very destructive to the valuable trees and the garden’s management have been trying to move the bats along with varying rates of success.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird that people thought was one but almost certainly wasn’t. It’s a species that I was able to see and photograph while visiting Australia last Christmas, or at least it would have been, had it ever existed.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 6, 2012

Getting a gift that is made just for you is one of life’s great pleasures. I remember the first time someone gave me a personalized gift ! There is just something really special about gifts that include something personal, and as pet lovers we love items that feature our furry friends! I was first introduced to Pinhole Press during ALT this past January.

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