4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 27, 2011
Sneezing, runny nose, headache, even fever: these are the things that we human beings experience when we have a cold. But having a cold is not just exclusive to us humans as our beloved pet dogs can get a cold too. But how do we determine if our dog has a cold? And most importantly, what to do if your dog gets a cold? Below are some facts and tips on what to do if this does happen do your dog.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2011
Have you had trouble keeping finches at your feeder? If so, you’re not alone, it’s a common bird feeding question. American Goldfinches are one of the prettiest reasons to keep your feeders full in the summer. It seems that goldfinches are so pretty they know they can afford to be a bit more finicky than other birds. But by following a few of rules of thumb, you can keep finches around and keep them satisfied: 1.
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Animal Ethics
JULY 1, 2011
This blog had 1,873 visits during June, which is an average of 62.4 visits per day. The average for the previous month (May) was 106.0. Readership always decreases during the summer months, when people spend less time at the computer.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2011
Besides my 3rd grade teacher, I had never encountered a witch before. That is until a recent Nikon’s BATV film trip to Jamaica revealed a unique avian femme fatale, the Crested Quail-dove -- also known colloquially as the mountain witch. Widely regarded as the toughest of the 28 Jamaican endemic birds to find, this charismatic dove is somewhat of an enigma.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Back in 2006, Problogger Darren Rowse proposed a fun Group Writing Project challenging bloggers to put together a good “How To&# post. Up to that point, I’d offered Great Reasons to Become A Bird Watcher in an effort to encourage the uninitiated to try bird watching. The next logical step was to explain the right way to get started. So I did… When you’re offering reasons to pursue a particular course of action, more is often better.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2011
The next time a bird poops on your car, think carefully before you act. Consider who the rightful owner of this rich resource might be and weigh the consequences of hasty action. Now a car manufacturer might suggest that you remove the caustic substance immediately with a soft cloth, but are they really the right people to be giving advice on such a sensitive issue?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2011
When my friends over at YourBirdOasis sent me a super squirrel-proof bird feeder to review, I had to think about who I knew who could really put the device to the test. After all, I have my local white squirrels well in hand. My good buddy Seth, on the other hand, does not. So here’s his erudite, unvarnished impression of the Squirrel Buster Plus : According to Seneca myth, Squirrel is traditionally jealous of Bird’s mastery over song and flight to a point that his envy-fueled and hard won
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
From a post on the New York State Birding listserv (NYSBirds-L): …two people who had traveled from PA to see the bird. The PA people had found the Hooded Crow approx 6am entangled in fishing line around its feet, and it was stuck in a tree. The younger person had thought at first the crow was flycatching, but they soon realized it was stuck in the line and the line was somehow wrapped around the tree.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2011
We monitor the Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach each year and it can all be covered on foot or by bicycle-tide dependant! They usually have their first eggs in place by the first week in July each year and they sit on them for 28 days. The first egg is laid followed by the second the next day and then they sit fairly continuously despite the warm day time temperature.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Last night I saw my second plover species of the year, a Common Ringed Plover. The first I saw was its doppelganger, the Semipalmated Plover. Interestingly, until a couple of years ago conventional wisdom held that the north end of Baffin Island was only populated by Common Ringed Plovers , the south Baffin by Semipalmated. Somewhere in the middle, there was supposedly a small zone of hybridization.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2011
A waterfall on the St George’s Society Cliffs. We have an embarrassing richness of cliffs up here where I live. The landscape is dramatic to say the least. We also have a richness of falcons. Within 4 kilometres of where I live there are two active aeries, a Gyrfalcon’s and a Peregrine Falcon’s. Extend that to thirty kilometres and you can add at least one more Peregrine aerie and another cliff nesting raptor, the Rough-legged Haw k.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2011
Have you ever tackled a project so ambitious, yet potentially ill-advised that, when the dust finally cleared, you still couldn’t believe you nailed it? The whole 10,000 Birds team has got to be wearing sh*t-eating grins right about now because we actually did it… POOP WEEK was awesome! Our collective goal was to examine every area in which excrement impacts avifauna and their observation.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2011
The first time I saw a Western Tanager , it was in New York. In Central Park , to be exact. It was exciting — to a degree. A lifer is always exciting, and a vagrant is always exciting too. Moreover, at the time I had no inkling that I’d be moving to Montana in two and a half years – in fact, it would be nearly a year before I decided to go to grad school and entertained the notion of leaving New York at all.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2011
It was only just a few days ago that I was poking fun of twitchers in Alan’s post about White-throated Robins and such. The Gods of Birding, being both capricious and wrathful, decided to punish my insolence by washing up an Emperor Penguin on the coasts of the island upon which I make my home. This was not initially a problem for me. I first saw it on Sharon’s Facebook page (well, actually her Birdchick blog page on Facebook, I’m not actually cool enough to be friends friends
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Louis Hoppmann III has been charged with animal cruelty after hitting a gull with a baseball bat on the aptly named Folly Beach in South Carolina. He claims he was just trying to scare the birds away from his food, but that sounds like a post-hoc explanation to me… a.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
Poop Week was a lot of fun around here, but for some people it never seems to end. A reader contacted me with a serious bird feeder problem: I wanted to get your professional opinion. I’m an avid bird watcher/studier/lover. I mounted 11 six-gallon bird feeders on my deck and have managed to snap some wonderful photos. Unfortunately the birds-while beautiful-have just shit a ton all over my deck.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
Until recently I had only ever seen a single Sandwich Tern. It was back in July of 2009 , the day that I saw more species of tern than any other day of my life, and I have no pictures of my first Thalasseus sandvicensis because I had managed to forget my digiscoping adapter that day. You can imagine my joy then, when on a recent visit to Cupsogue Beach County Park, just after having finished a delicious lunch and even more delicious margarita, Seth came up to me and said “There is a Sand
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2011
There are many reasons to visit Doodletown Road in Bear Mountain State Park, a jewel of a park in Rockland County, New York. Perhaps it is the history of Doodletown that interests you? Maybe you are hoping for an encounter with Crotalus horridus , otherwise known as the Timber Rattlesnake ? Or could the steep uphill climb be what entices you out of your air conditioning?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2011
On the same day that I tracked down and digiscoped Cerulean Warblers at Doodletown Road I had the genius plan of also getting over to Sterling Forest State Park and digiscoping some of the Golden-winged Warblers that breed there.* Now those who bird in New York State regularly are probably shaking their heads right now thinking that poor Corey had gone off the deep end because, really, one might as well try to spot an Eskimo Curlew as a more likely accomplishment then getting decent images of b
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2011
When I was in sixth grade I went on a field trip to Storm King Art Center, a huge (500+ acres) outdoor museum loaded with cool sculptures that were very fun to climb on and swing from until we got yelled at and threatened with all kinds of dire consequences if we didn’t behave ourselves and appreciate the sculptures the way they were supposed to be appreciated.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Don’t click through to The Freiday Bird Blog if you want to avoid seeing the grisly end of a Seaside Sparrow. Instead, look at the cute baby owl from last spring. Hat-tip to Donna S. a.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2011
After the annual series of false starts – end of spring migration, first scorcher of the season, etc. — the longest day of the year has come and gone, leaving true summer in its golden wake. At least that’s the story on this side of the equator. You may be battening down for imminent winter storms, but around here we’re waxing our surfboards and gorging fresh strawberries.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
Nackawic, New Brunswick, Canada will cull up to 250 Canada Geese that are leaving too many droppings on the waterfront. This story broke just in time for Canada Day too… a.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 27, 2011
Such happy news from Joplin! The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) and Joplin Humane Society successfully found permanent homes for 745 pets during its weekend adopt-a-thon event on June 25 and 26. More than 5,700 people from 24 states rolled into Joplin, Mo. to adopt hundreds of animals in the aftermath of last month’s devastating tornado.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
Here in the United States, we’re looking at a long and hopefully lovely Independence Day weekend. Ironically, we only call this holiday by its proper name when addressing an international audience; around these parts, we just call it the 4th of July! So how are you spending your July 4th weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2011
Sometime in the last week here at 10,000 Birds we reached 3,000,000 unique visitors, to say nothing of 2,000 followers on Facebook. Huzzah! Not too shabby for a bird blog… If you want to keep up with every 10,000 Birds post on Facebook just click here. a.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2011
From the perspective of the shore, the ocean looks featureless. A pancake flat expanse of blue and green and blue-green (with some green-blue thrown in). From your vantage point at approximately 6 inches above sea level you can see clear to the nearly infinite horizon without squinting. Compare this to birding on land, where desirable warblers and vireos and the like hop around in the very tops of trees obscured by foliage and hidden by knotty limbs and trunks.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Crows, no matter the exact species being talked about, are typically recognized as being among the most intelligent of birds. Crows are crafty, keen, clever. They are trickster gods and crop-plundering pests, harbingers of war and users of tools. Crows fascinate people because of their plumage, their behavior, their play. Almost everywhere in the world has crows (or ravens) and they are always well worth watching.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2011
Today’s quiz is all about birds. Every clue is about birds. Birds, birds, birds. The answer, however, is not about birds. I give clues to 4 words, a phrase. Your task is to figure out the next word in this sequence of words. 1 st two words: Birdsong I am hearing now, near the end of June, in the suburbs. I am in upstate NY and it’s pretty common hereabouts.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 30, 2011
“I Touched a…&# is a fun way to make memories with children! As they meet new animals you can easily record the experience, including a place for a photo, and more importantly, how the animal felt to the child. Coming in contact with animals can foster a love for them that will last a lifetime. On the New Animal Friends website there are tips on how to approach animals safely (very important, especially for kids), in addition to information on how you can order this special scrapbook
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