10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2012
One of these sentiments is a lie. • Birds are beautiful. • Birds are fascinating. • Birds are always too close, prancing around resplendent in their finery and vexing the close-focus on your suddenly useless binoculars. (perhaps if you turned them around?) Well, go ahead and brush those goldfinches off your laptop and enjoy a closer look some other feathered friends.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 25, 2012
Don’t say we didn’t warn you, but you are about to hear a very cute sound. The sound of a baby sloth! Enjoy the cuteness!
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Critter News
MAY 24, 2012
Four fur stories in the Vancouver, Canada, area were vandalized by animal rights activists who sprayed red paint on the windows and doors. The four stores were Capilano Furs, Speiser Furs, Snowflake Canada and Pappas Furs. Credit is being taken by ALF. Read the full story here at the Vancouver Sun.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2012
This great bird has managed to escape from my sightings until I visited the great lodge of Tundaloma. This Ecuadorian owned business provides a very comfortable and secure lodge to visit the most northern-western Chocó area in Ecuador. It is located on the highway that goes from Ibarra to San Lorenzo and it is approximately 17 km before San Lorenzo.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2012
While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,* I was entertained by the strafing runs that the Red-winged Blackbirds were taking at every Fish Crow that flew by. The Red-winged Blackbirds are just protecting their eggs and young from a known nest predator but I still couldn’t help but feel a bit sorry for the harried crows that just seemed to be trying to get from place to place only to have shrieking blackbirds attack the
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2012
Sure it is a Plain Titmouse, or at least it used to be. The Plain Titmouse ( Parus inornatus ) was split and reclassified in 1997 as sibling species, the Oak Titmouse ( Baeolophus inornatus ) and the Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ). The Oak Titmouse , pictured above (click on photos for full sized images), would be a California endemic if not for its spill over into Southern Oregon and Baja California.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2012
This is just a quick post to share two of the latest birds that made it onto my year list after a quick run to Doodletown and to Mine Road on Saturday morning. The Orange County / Rockland County border by the Hudson River, where Bear Mountain State Park, Harriman State Park, and the United States Military Academy all come together has the best variety of woodland breeding birds to be found within an hour of New York City.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2012
The spill that keeps on giving – now petroleum compounds and the chemicals used to clean up the oil from BP’s massive spill two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico are showing up in eggs of breeding birds in Minnesota. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2012
so, while everyone else in the world was hanging out with the Kirtland’s Warbler ( Setophaga kirtlandii ) on the beach at Magee Marsh last week, I was off on a Biggest Week tour through the beautiful Oak Openings Metropark Preserve looking for Lark Sparrows, Blue Grosbeak, Red-headed Woodpecker and other great local birds. The first few hours of the morning were fantastic and I count my blessings for only haven gotten wind of the warbler of all wood warblers rather late in the tour.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2012
For most Canadians the Victoria Day (or May) long weekend heralds the start of summer. Everywhere people gather up the water skis and bathing suits and head out to campgrounds and cottages. Here, it is a little different albeit no less anticipated. We take to our snowmobiles and head out on the land to dig through seven or eight feet of ice and go ice fishing.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2012
When Francois sent me an image of a presumed Snowy Egret he got at Jamaica Bay this weekend I immediately set about trying to turn it into something else. It turns out that sometimes Snowy Egrets in breeding plumage have pink lores. And this bird had really pink lores! Check out the awesome shots Francois got. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2012
The magical month of May draws to a close, leaving all good birds ensconced in their breeding territory and getting down to the business of making more good birds. We fortunate humans who live on the upper half of the planet can finally acknowledge the onset of the most sultry season of the year. Yes, after this weekend, summer will have unofficially arrived.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2012
The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small distinctive shorebird that is usually found near fresh water and is often heard before it is seen. It is present both in Broome itself and also surrounding ephemeral lakes and appears to breed throughout the year if the conditions are right. We often come across their nests by accident and always drive slowly near fresh water bodies for this reason.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2012
The Edwards’s Pheasant is a rather smart blue-black member of the pheasant family and it may be on the edge of extinction. It has recently been reclassified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List; this category is reserved for only the most threatened species in the world. It has not been seen in its small home range in central Vietnam since around 2000.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2012
Hawaii’s state bird, the endangered goose known as the Nene , has recovered from a population of a mere 30 birds in 1952 to over 2,000 today. The problem is that they seem to find the area around Lihue Airport irresistible so they have to be moved. Clearly there aren’t too many Nene but more habitat is needed. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2012
Jim Coufal, writing for the Madison County Courier in upstate New York, shares his thoughts on the feral and outdoor cat problem. a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2012
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Critter News
MAY 22, 2012
Pro-foie gras chefs seem to think so. Here's hoping that they are right! Read about it here.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2012
Broad-winged Hawks are one of the most abundant northbound migrants at Swainson’s Hawk Bird Observatory, often with over 100,000 (and sometimes many more) being counted on their way north every spring. One cannot rule as The Greatest Birder In The World on his own. Sure, if you were to kidnap me, blindfold and drug me, push me out of a plane with a parachute over somewhere in, say, Malaysia, I would be able to figure out my exact latitude and longitude within minutes simply by recognizing
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2012
Skimming through the myriad of posts in my blog reader yesterday I came across a post from the ever-watchful guys at the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog that left me cold with anger. A UK government department had announced funding for a research project into the ‘Management of Buzzards to Protect Pheasant poults’ (poults are young Pheasants being reared specifically to be released for shooting).
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2012
The southwestern most part of Queens, at the end of the Rockaway Peninsula, is Breezy Point. The small community out there is lucky to have a large Common Tern colony that also hosts breeding Black Skimmers and Least Terns , to say nothing of the Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers that breed out on the barrier beaches as well. May is a great time to visit, before all of the birds have completely finished pairing off and getting down to the business of nesting, not only because this reduc
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2012
Last year, vigilant Saudi Arabian officials detained an Israeli spy vulture yet apparently failed to foil the “Zionist espionage plot.” How else to explain the highly suspicious European Bee-Eater Turkish authorities are currently investigating. Damning evidence includes an Israeli bird band and unusually large nostrils. Birders of the world: if you see something, say something. ( Hat-tip to Suzie Gilbert !
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2012
Here in the U.S., we’re still on the more temperate side of Memorial Day, after which summer unofficially begins and one may wear white shoes with impunity. Yet if you roasted this weekend like we did in western New York, you’re probably a little scared of what July and August will look like! Save your fears for another day, since May is as magical a month as there is.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 21, 2012
Saturday marks “100 Days to the Republican National Convention,” and preparations are already underway at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. Earlier this week, Busch Gardens’ elephant team added some “colorful” enrichment to the elephants’ day by making “elephant footprints” with non-toxic children’s poster paint at the park’s new Elephant Interaction Wall. The unique prints will be framed and shared with special guests and members of the media who visit Busch Gardens during the RNC.
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