10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2013

Southern California is loaded with parrots. Many escapes and introductions have taken place over the years and some species have found the warm, dry climate to their liking. Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. Red-crowned Parrot in Irvine Regional Park Despite the number of species involved only one, the Red-crowned Parrot , is considered countable by the California Bird Records Committee.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2013

This blog had 2,533 visits during December, which is an average of 81.7 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 87.5.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 29, 2012

We are pretty excited to watch The Rose Parade this year. Not only is it a beautiful parade, featuring floats made of flowers and other plant materials, but this year is extra special for animal lovers. We have two very special announcements to share with you! Dr. Jane Goodall will be the Grand Marshal for the parade! Not only will Dr. Goodall ride in the 124th Rose Parade she will also toss the coin before the 99th Rose Bowl Game.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2012

While eating lunch with Daisy and her family at a picnic area in Joshua Tree National Park the other day a small chipmunk-looking creature ventured out of the rock formation we were eating next to. The cute little critter was clearly looking for a handout which we did not provide. Nonetheless, it stuck around, hoping perhaps that one of the four kids aged six and under would drop some of their lunch accidentally.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

Happy New Year everyone! In early December we had the privilege of filming the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , a six day, five night event where teams from around the world compete to see the most species of birds. A detailed post on this incredible rally is already overdue but in the meantime I felt the need to share a once-in-a-lifetime sighting of one of the scarcest mammals in South America.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ) is probably one of the most misunderstood birds in North America. Some people think they are ugly, but not I (click on photos for full sized images). Their odd looks serve very important purposes. The adult Turkey Vulture’s head and distal neck is reddish bare skin with blackish bristles, which not only helps keep their heads clean when partaking of a carrion meal, they use that featherless head to help regulate body temperature.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

Mark Vance took advantage of the Razorbill invasion of Florida to get this video of a Razorbill swimming in crystal clear water. You always hear about how birds underwater look like they are flying and here is some proof! How awesome is that?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 2012 – Ask any birder where you should go birding in Singapore and the short list will always include Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , this city-state’s finest wetlands. Winter can be particularly auspicious, since that’s when migratory shorebirds descend upon the area. Since I was in Singapore in winter, Sungei Buloh seemed like the best place to kick off my introduction to Southeast Asian avifauna.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Time to put another year in the books! You are undoubtedly reviewing the best and worst of everything you experienced in 2012 as we prepare to ring in the New Year. But for now, let’s focus on some specific highlights from just this past weekend… My Best Bird of the Weekend was Red-breasted Nuthatch , many of which were emboldened to visit my feeder in the midst of mountains of snow.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Utah Birders site is up and running and it is pretty darn nice. What will likely draw the most attention is that they have decided to include a “Rarity Database” with the following explanation: It is 2013 and there is no need for a committee to decide what sightings are relevant. Introducing the Utah Rare Birds Database, where ALL rare bird sightings are stored for you to interpret for yourself.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

On this final day of 2012 it is time, just like it was on the final days of 2010 and 2011 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Well, actually, your Best Bird of the Year will only be shared here if you took the time to respond to the post in which we here at 10,000 Birds shared our Best Birds of the Year. A whole bunch of you responded and shared your best birds either in blog post form, email form, or in our comments.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

In contrast to last year, when I began my year in tropical Cairns in Queensland, Australia, I began this year’s birding in my parent’s rural house in Cheshire in Northern England. Where Cairns was hot this place isn’t, but where Cairns was new Cheshire is familiar. It was particularly nice for the first bird to be one of my favourite birds here, a flock of Long-tailed T**s feeding on some peanuts.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

My spark bird was the Red-tailed Hawk that lives next to Central Park, the one named Pale Male I’ve always been a little embarrassed about this. There have been three books written about Pale Male and 2 movies made about him, and saying that he was the bird that sparked my birding obsession makes me feel like I am living out an urban cliché. The truth is that I was.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2013

Happy New Year! Yes, I understand you may feel that 2013 just began and its first weekend comes too quickly, but that is old-fashioned 2012 thinking. This year, the weekends arrive fast and furious. Make the most of them! This weekend, Corey and I will both begin the cold, careful work of adding local birds to our burgeoning year lists. Many others, no doubt, will do the same.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

I haven’t been birding yet in 2013. Oh, I’ve gotten my first bird of the year ( European Starling – yay?) and a handful more ( Rock Pigeon , House Sparrow , and my first native bird, White-Throated Sparrow ), but for the most part I’ve been sticking to indoor pursuits here in chilly New York City. One of those indoor pursuits was movie-going; specifically, on Tuesday I saw West of Memphis.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

When staying with Daisy’s family in Yorba Linda, California, I often wake up early in the morning and take the short walk up to the southern end of Carbon Canyon Regional Park to do some birding. To say the habitat there is disturbed would be a serious understatement: from the giant dam which I assume is meant to stop any flooding or mudslides that might occur in the canyon to the planted grove of redwoods it seems like very little in the park came about naturally.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2012

If you are near Quito, Ecuador and want to see the female Andean C**k-of-the-Rock nesting then you must go to the Pauma Orquid Reserve. This place is on the Calacali La Independencia highway which is the main road that you take to go to Mindo. The nest occurs mostly in the month of November, December and January and once in a while during June and July.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

If so, you should check out these pictures !

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Whenever possible we have used our Christmas Day to see how many bird species we can get in our local area and this year was no different. It is a great way to spend the day together, especially if work commitments have prevented birding trips together for a few weeks. We usually try and plan a route prior to the day with particular bird species in mind and also taking into account the tidal range for the day.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 1, 2013

7 years ago we started this blog. Time sure has gone by quickly! We have learned a lot on this little journey, and hope that we have brought something fun, useful, and of value to you our dear readers. Thank you for your visits, comments, and for being part of this. With a new year ahead of us, we have been trying to think of ways we can make our blog better, help more animals, and have even more fun.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

There were quite a few big years that took place in 2012. Here are the final results, so far as I was able to figure them out. Did I miss anyone? Please let me know in the comments. There were a couple of big years that I reported on back in June that I can’t find final results from and there were a couple of others that were happening that I never managed to find any details about at all.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Looking for something fun to do during your New Year’s Eve party? Searching for something crazy to do with all those holiday photos? Just want to have a chance to see what you might look like as a cat? Then the Purina Friskies Catify app is just what you need! The Friskies “Catify Yourself” app is free to download and allows you to send photo messages to your friends from a cat-like you!

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