10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2016
I spent an hour or so at the feeders in Forest Park, Queens, yesterday morning and was pleased that the birds coming in were even more willing to tolerate my presence than they normally are. The year-round residents were all in attendance and I was pleased that both an Eastern Towhee and Chipping Sparrows were enjoying the spilled seed on the ground.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of names to collective nouns for groups of birds. One can only assume that somehow they were unaware that a perfectly good word, flock, existed, and then plundered an innocent thesaurus to find whimsical (read:idiotic) terms like an unkindness of ravens, a flamboyance of flamingos or (worst of all) an exaltation of larks.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2016
April showers, the farmers of old maintained, bring May flowers. Whatever winds are blowing through this month also bring lots of birds. Wherever you are on Earth, you’re likely to see some species come or others go this weekend. Only, however, if you’re looking… I still haven’t given up on spotting a rare duck around Consesus Lake, so wish me luck this weekend.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect. And it’s not just for the free rations of birdseed. The scientists, who studied bird populations in Europe and China , speculate that urban areas may have some appeal for passerines that rural areas otherwise lack.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
I don’t know which legislative branch to appeal to, but there ought to be a law that mandates life birds on a birder’s birthday. Perhaps we should require lifers on anyone’s birthday. Sure beats cake! I spent several hours of an otherwise excellent weekend dipping multiple times on a rare ABA Tufted Duck. Fortunately, Conesus Lake holds all manner of superb waterfowl, including more Common Loons in breeding plumage than I’ve ever seen at one time.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
For a couple of years now, I have been chasing a bogey bird whenever I visit Dubai. The Arabian Babbler is a reasonably common bird with a preference for arid, scrubby areas. The best place to find them in Dubai is Mushrif Park, slightly west of the international airport, but four visits there had so far been unrewarded by Turdoides squamiceps. Whilst this would be my fifth visit to the park, the babbler had been relegated to “hopefully also”, rather than the prime target bird on two
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
I have been fortunate to bird Florida many times, and over the years I’ve seen most of the specialty birds that people travel from all over to see. I’ve walked among Wood Storks , looked at Limpkins , scrutinized dozens of Snail Kites , even managed to come across a White-crowned Pigeon or two. Florida has revealed a great many of its birding secrets to me, but it has yet to provide me with the dainty little neotropic Buteo I have sought since my first trip way back in 1993.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2016
Reaching for bins, watching, reaching for bins, watching… that repetition of the same moves, over and over again, makes this blogging more like writing porn and not birding! How to make a distinction between the two? Or perhaps I shouldn’t? Many check the Internet for porn, anyway. So, here it is – my latest piece of porn birding: One of my favourite local patches – the canal, lake and the forest at the outskirt of the city – is a fine habitat full of birds… well, for a city spot tha
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