10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

'It was our third day in high elevation Hemis National Park, we had awakened before dawn and chugged down a mug of life-giving coffee before ascending a few hundred yards to a knoll above our tented camp in the Rhumbak Valley. Our group watching the first Snow Leopard from a knoll above our camp in Hemis National Park. At this very spot, on our first afternoon in the park, and within half an hour of officially beginning our Snow Leopard search, our expert local spotter had exclaimed “ Shan !!

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

'Purina Waggin’ Train dog treats are sure to be a hit with your dog! You will love them because they are made with the attention to detail and high standards you have come to expect from Purina. Each variety of the real meat chicken jerky dog treats are made with very careful oversight, from the egg all the way to the finished product. The three real chicken varieties are slow cooked to make the most delicious snack for your dog.

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Chickens Meat Cooking Eggs 180

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

'The first stop of the morning: young White–tailed Eagle , right next to the road and several dozen Rooks around. Birding that starts with the largest eagle of the continent certainly bears promises… The next stop is the town park in Opovo, north of Belgrade, where local bird expert Ceda Vuckovic reported one, locally rare, Short-eared Owl. I observed this species in the Little Rann of Kutch in India and since then, have been burning with desire to see them back home.

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 246

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

'House Finches are common enough birds at most bird feeding stations. Below is how we are accustomed to seeing the males at the feeder: The males are a bright reddish pink and stand out at the feeder. But sometimes House Finches get a little wonky. I was coleading a bird trip for the Winter Wings Bird Festival. Our trip stopped at that Tule Lake Visitor Center and we saw this: It’s a yellow variant.

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Research Birds 245

Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'When I was 14, I went on an exchange trip to Germany with my high school band. It was a strange time for me, in which I got in a car accident, discovered bathrooms with heated floors, was disgusted with my classmates for going to McDonald’s instead of eating local cuisine, and missed out on drinking beer because no one wanted to hang out with the snotty girl who looked down on people who ate at McDonald’s instead of sampling the local cuisine.

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McDonalds Germany Animal Birds 205

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

'Seth Ausubel, Rich Kelly, and I were getting out of Seth’s car at Breezy Point, Queens, on Sunday, when I declared that the only bird I cared about seeing on our outing was a Lapland Longspur. There had been flocks of Snow Buntings and Horned Larks regularly reported from the dunes at Breezy Point and I figured that with the absurd amounts of snow that the northeast had received this winter it was only a matter of time before a Lapland Longspur was driven from the snow-covered interior to

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Sparrows Birds 2008 Owls 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

'Now that the Great Backyard Bird Count is over, the time has come to dream of birds beyond the boundaries of our backyards, birds in other, more distant yards. Many of you have already taken winter trips to escape the tyranny of the polar vortex or whatever weather pattern has worn out its welcome in your part of the world. If you haven’t traveled recently, no time is better than now.

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Snow Leopard Leopards 2014 Birds 161

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

'The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. There are variations on that theme, of course. Even the non-passerines often follow this pattern. So, when we find a pattern that is different it is reasonable to try to explain this in adaptive terms; what features of this variant pattern provide enhanced f

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Breeders Breeding Birds Groups 215

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

'It was whilst walking along the beach at Kommetjie, a coastal village near Cape Town in South Africa, that I came across a pair of White-fronted Plovers. Charming Charadrius marginatus. This tiny plover is endemic to Africa, south of the Sahara. The female flushed from a patch of broken shells by a mat of beached Kelp weed. She didn’t flush very far until an unleashed dog dashed past.

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South Africa Africa Dogs Birds 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

'One advantage of Grant’s work being unpredictable is that occasionally he has to go to Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. Last week he had to make a four day trip and I was fortunate enough to be able to get a ticket with frequent flyer points. This gave us an opportunity to fly south on the Sunday and arrive at lunchtime. It is easy to get to the city on a public bus and then get onto a train on the Joondalup line going north to go the few kilometres to Herdsman Lake.

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Ducks Birds Australia Pelicans 164

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