10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

In the last month or two, Americans and Canadians alike have been buzzing about Black Hawks. Discussion of such an uncommon raptor in northern latitudes seems all the more inexplicable when Black Hawks are mentioned in the same breath as Chicago, as if we’ve ever known an ABA-approved sighting of Common Black Hawks in Illinois… Of course, hockey fans know that the Chicago Blackhawks have set the first months of the abbreviated 2013 NHL season ablaze with a record-setting scoring stre

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 12, 2013

Most likely the cutest thing you will see today, pandas playing on a slide! Be sure to watch all the way to the end for a seriously adorable flip.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 13, 2013

According to the Guardian , the new pope (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) took his name from Saint Francis of Assisi (depicted above), who is the patron saint of animals. This would be a wonderful opportunity for the Roman Catholic Church, which has 1.2 billion adherents, to drive home the point that animals are not resources for human use but fellow denizens of the planet, with lives, a good, and a dignity of their own.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2013

Gyrfalcons are big birds. A male Gyrfalcon , the smaller of the pair, can clock in at 24 inches tall and weigh up to 3 pounds. Females can get up to 4.5 pounds and a couple of inches taller. After spending most of my time watching them at an aerie some 150 feet up a cliff I never really appreciated just how big they are until I held an injured one in my hands.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2013

Bushtits ( Psaltriparus minimus ) are the only New World representative of the long-tailed t**s ( Aegithalidae ) and they are primarily limited to the western parts of North America and the highlands of Central America. You can tell from the look of the male in flight above that they are not strong fliers. Lucky for them, they don’t have to be because they don’t migrate.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

At last, we stand on the threshold of a new season, moving inexorably into a period of phenological flux. Nature lovers love those magical months between winter and summer, so get your affairs in order… migration is either coming or may have already come! I took a run up to the lake today to find that most of the winter seaducks have moved offshore, at least for the weekend.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

Ever been to a party where a couple get onto the dance floor and start throwing some moves before the food is served? Dressed up to the nines they just can’t resist the urge to get out there and put on a display for the rest of the party-goers who are often still in the early stages of waking up or acquiring the necessary dutch courage to get out and give it some.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2013

Lilac skies over Tecuitata, one of the most productive coffee plantations in the area of San Blas, Mexico. (According to James Currie, the birding in San Blas is super productive as well.). This weekend, revelers in and out of the United States will be venerating the color green, which is just one of many ways to observe St. Patrick’s Day. Nature lovers, of course, tend to venerate green every weekend though in a more sober fashion.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2013

Yes, suffering readers, it is time once again for a blog post in verse. And not just any verse, but the horrible, vile, lousy verse that I sometimes produce, verse so bad that it isn’t even worthy of being called poetry. It is just doggerel. The one good thing about this post is that it is illustrated with images from recent twitches. If you’re curious about the circumstances of any of them feel free to click on the pictures, which will take you to the blog posts that describe the tw

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2013

A typical Tapaculo is always hiding so most of the time you can hear them over-and-over but never see more than a crawling shadow at the bottom of the bushes. The Nariño Tapaculo has eluded me until I finally was able to lure him out while I called (playback) from my car. It seems that some birds are not as afraid of the cars as they are of humans. This bird jumped out of the shadows to call back and claim his territory like a brave little soldier.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

Pavel Pipek is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology at Charles University in Prague whose current focus is invasion ecology. Pavel and his colleagues have launched some really interesting research exploring the intersection of birdsong dialects and invasion ecology. Since this research has a strong citizen science component, we want to help Pavel spread the word: What happens with birdsong during invasion of a new territory?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

Hey, everybody. Tomorrow is the deadline for your submissions for the next I and the Bird with the theme of Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns. I’ve already received a ton of great photos and posts, but I could always use a few more, particularly of Ardeids from outside North America. Remember! Tomorrow! Send to naswick AT gmail.com with “IATB” in the subject line.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

Few places on earth offer the opportunity to see 30 country endemics within a half-hour’s drive of a scenic coastal town. San Blas, situated on the north-western coastline of Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit is one such place. Here birding is combined with breathtaking natural beauty, a rich and vibrant local cultural scene and tantalizing gastronomical delights.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

As I mentioned a few weeks ago , it was our time to go and find some new birds! We left Broome on 5th February to fly to Brisbane and arrived at 05:30am on the 6th. Due to the fact that we are not interested in city life, but more about the birdlife we headed for Nudgee Beach straight away! By 6am we had our first Australian Brush-Turkey as shown in the above photograph and the list was soon started.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2013

When I first visited New Zealand, back in 2000, the Stichbird was just a rare species of honeyeater (Meliphagidae), one of three representatives of that Australian family to be found here. It was the smallest species and the rarest, and I only saw them on one small island (even today they are only found on a handfull of islands, see below). It certainly resembles one, and has plumage that brings to mind the New Holland Honeyeater , a common bird if you’ve ever been to Sydney.

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