10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Nick Sly, a friend of 10,000 Birds who writes intermittently at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings , is an ornithologist who graduated not so long ago from Cornell only to be cast out into the real world where he keeps a wry eye on all things biological! Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2012

From the Huffington Post. Invading rats with bodies up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long have begun eating eggs and chicks, and some experts fear that unless the rats are eradicated, they could tip the Humboldt penguin toward extinction.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the constitution) of the society in which they live. In some countries (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. Moreover, even in those countries that give this right to its citizens, the requirements are not always the same and are subject to change.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

From time to time during the filming of our TV series we come across something totally unexpected. Mostly the unexpected event is caused by Aderman, my trusty videographer. Like the time he dropped his 12-inch knife at the door of an Australian nightclub in full view of the biggest bouncer I’ve ever seen. Or the time in Suriname that we drove 3 hours to film Capuchinbirds only to learn that he left our video camera back at the lodge (next to an empty vodka bottle!).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2012

Hi, Birdie here! I have a complaint. The human beans left me a few weeks ago to go to BlogPaws. I don’t know what that is, but it meant that instead of being on MamaBean’s knee, I was stuck with Grandma and Grandpa bean instead. I can’t believe they didn’t take me with them! I even heard that pets got to go! In fact, I even saw evidence that there were pets at BlogPaws in MamaBean’s photos.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Hot on the heels of recent mainstream birding movie The Big Year comes another new ‘birding’ movie A Birder’s Guide to Everything (ABGE). ABGE is currently in pre-production and is being produced by Rob Meyer. It would appear to be a ‘coming of age’ movie aimed at the teen market, more background is available at Rob Meyer Films here or from the teaser video below.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

It is not every day that a birder gets to play with a prototype scope made by one of the premiere optics companies in the world. Yet, somehow, that is what I found myself doing on the grounds of Tisza Balneum, the gorgeous hotel on the shore of Lake Tisza in Hungary where Swarovski Optik had decided to unveil to a gathered group of European and American birders the scope for which we had all been waiting, even if we didn’t know we had been.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Any worthwhile discussion of baby birds will wisely lean heavily towards young shorebirds, which are surely among the most adorable of all immature avifauna. And despite our evident New World bias here at 10,000 Birds, we have a fondness for Old World shorebirds like thick-knees. We’ve shared plenty of pictorals of adult thick-knees, also known as stone-curlews or Dikkops, from Senegal Thick-knee ( here ) to Beach Stone-curlew ( here ) to Bush Thick-knee ( here and here ).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Bufflehead ( Bucephala albeola ) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting from decay (natural cavities), or use holes created by other species in dead or deteriorating trees. Such trees, commonly called snags, have often been considered undesirable by forest and recreation managers because they are not esthetically pleasing, conflict with other forest management practices, may harbor forest insect pes

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Several years ago, I was asked to visit my nephew’s preschool class and talk about birds. I was delighted by the invitation and spent hours going through my photos, printing them out, imagining fifteen 4-year olds entranced by egrets, herons, and Burrowing Owls. Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2012

When most people think of Broome and Roebuck Bay they think of migratory shorebirds. There are thousands of shorebirds that visit Broome each year and the majority of them are now in the northern hemisphere hopefully sitting on eggs. Not all of our shorebird species migrate and those that reside here are also currently sitting on eggs, or thinking about laying eggs in the upcoming weeks.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2012

Eurasian Wrens are very common in forests throughout Germany. They owe their awful name to the fact that the former holarctic ”Wren” or “Winter Wren” was recently split into several New World and one Old World form, producing the need to add a geographic reference to the new forms’ respective names. Clearly, the “Eurasian” wren came off worst, with the most boring of names imaginable.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and not require weeks of constant feeding and attention? I suspect they CAN do this but just refuse to in order to steal parental investment, which is, after all, a very valuable resources. Baby turtles and crocodiles are born as miniature versions of adults.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Baby Bird week couldn’t come at a better time for someone in the High Arctic, suddenly there are birds hatching everywhere. Baby birds here, as everywhere else fall into two broad categories, altricial and precocial. Precocial birds hatch in a relatively developed state. They are covered in down, mobile and able to feed themselves immediately.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Do you know what the luckiest little bird in the world is? It is a fledgling Song Thrush being attended by a parent outside of the wonderful Nomad Hotel in Hungary’s Bükk Hills. Food for a fledgling thrush is abundant in June with everything from ripe cherries on the trees to loads of snails crawling through the leaf litter. A diet of perfectly ripe cherries and escargot sounds great for humans and for a baby bird it is practically paradisaical.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 16, 2012

The first two years of a dog’s life are critical to its longevity and lifelong health. The food a puppy eats during this crucial time frame will make a huge difference to not only its energy and happiness as an adult dog, but to the health of the coat, teeth, and vital organs. There are many choices available today for puppy foods, from meaty puppy chow to hard, crunchy kibbles.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

Baby birds are on the brain this week. I recently helped out with an American Kestrel nest box program and got some close encounters with the beautiful baby birds while checking their health and banding the ones who were old enough. Here are a few photos from that lovely day in the hills. They are slightly too cute to band at this stage of development.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Somehow it seemed fitting that after our last theme week – Bird Love Week – that we should spend a full seven days examining what could be the results of that theme. It’s Baby Bird Week on 10,000 Birds and the adorable, fuzzy-wuzzy, itsy-bitsy, baby birdies will be everywhere! Can you handle the cuteness? Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2012

Midway Atoll has hundreds of thousands of Laysan Albatross …it is the biggest nesting colony of Laysan Albatross in the world. During my legendary tenure there, I saw a lot of albatross chicks. They are pretty much everywhere. I can’t even really fathom how many I saw. But there is one that I remember better than most…Moby Dick, The Great White Albatross Chick.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2012

The Killdeer is a wide-ranging plover. It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the west coast of northern South America, and in winter is found across the rest of Central America. Their insistent calls help explain their scientific name, Charadrius vociferus , and are an easily recognizable sound to most birders in the Americas.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 20, 2012

Eric Stonestreet , Emmy Award-winning actor on the hit TV show Modern Family and one of TV’s most playful personalities, is helping to inspire more play by inviting dog owners across the country to enter the third annual Beneful Dream Dog Park Contest. Dog owners know how much dogs enjoy playing! And now you can help create an amazing space for them to play in.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

The wonderful Tien Shan mountains south of Almaty / Kazakhstan, with Big Almaty Lake in the background. Aside from its astounding landscape and a plethora of highly sought-after alpine species, this is arguably one of the best places to go and see the mythical and charismatic Ibisbill. The alluvial fan south of the lake is the place to scan for Ibisbills, unless of course it is largely covered in snow , which is a very unfortunate thing to endure.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

The Barred Warbler , otherwise known as Sylvia nisoria , is one of those species that is aptly named if you only ever see an adult male. Should you have the misfortune, or rather, good fortune (they are rather skulky) to see a female or an immature you might wonder why they are called Barred Warbler rather than Bland Warbler. Of course, that latter name could be applied to most of the Old World warblers, Jochen’s deluded thoughts about which warblers are best notwithstanding , but it parti

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Mute Swans are large, white, and decorative, and as such their natural range has been significantly altered by humans who generally enjoy having them around. Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. Within its European range, it was heavily hunted until the late 19th century, and the Mute Swan was subsequently a very rare bird to encounter in the wild.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 17, 2012

Purina ONE® beyOnd® brand dog and cat food and GOOD have teamed up to host the Shine a Light on a Shelter challenge and award a $10,000 grant to an animal shelter doing great work. Do you know of a shelter that is doing good work on behalf of homeless pets? Nominate them today, they could win the $10,000 grant and you could win too (the person who submitted the winner shelter will win a year’s supply of Purina ONE beyOnd and a one-year subscription to GOOD magazine)!

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 20, 2012

Going on holiday is a great time for all the family but it can always cause stress because either you, the kids, or the dog aren’t organized. While you can’t really blame the dog for not packing his/her own toys and bedding, you should really be making sure you choose the best kit for your pooch whilst you’re away from home. To do this you just need to simply think about the environment you’re going to.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Life is hard for baby birds, as the world is filled with reasons why they might not make it too adulthood. Starvation and predators make it hard to grow up, and birds have evolved a lot of strategies to give (at least some of) their chicks the best chance in life. One strategy that varies among birds (and other animals) is the number of offspring. Some birds pump em out by the dozen in the hope that at least one or two survive.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Cotton Carrier is a company that manufactures camera support systems. In particular I like a holster that can carry up to two cameras and leave your hands free. I purchased the two-camera holster and modified it so I can carry my binoculars and my camera in the holster. This setup leaves my hands free and distributes the weight of my equipment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2012

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere seems to be leaving few areas unscathed. Whether you’re getting too much rain or not enough, you’re probably spending at least a few moments of each day thinking about unprecedented weather patterns and climate change. Global warming seems a boon in my part of the world, but one has to wonder how these dramatic, unpredictable swings are affecting the local flora and fauna in the short and long terms.

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