10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

'Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and, in the instance of this epic report, India.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 5, 2013

'“It’s interesting to learn how different cat and dog owners can be when choosing, and making decisions for, their pets,” said Dr. Brent Mayabb, veterinarian and manager of education and development at Royal Canin. “Whatever factors come into play, understanding an animal’s physical and physiological traits is critical to providing the best care.”. “Matching a dog or cat’s personality with that of your family is essential,” said Steve Dale, certified animal behavior consultant and host of Steve

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 1, 2013

This blog had 2,049 visits during March, which is an average of 66.0 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 102.4.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

'See that gross bug on the Red-tailed Tropicbird ? It’s a hippoboscid, otherwise known as a flat fly. I hate them. Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. Flat flies and vulture vomit: either one can send an otherwise cheerful vet technician running from the room. Why am I posting a photo of a hippoboscid on a Red-tailed Tropicbird, a bird I’ve never rehabbed?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state o

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions. The only issue we really have with the feral cat advocates is that they haven’t taken their arguments far enough.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

'This Wednesday I saw my first of season Osprey soaring over the Clark Fork, not far from the nesting platform at the entrance to Hellgate Canyon. It was flying relatively low, easy to see against Mount Jumbo, and a couple of bystanders spotted it too. “Look,” one said to the other. “Do you see the eagle?” I didn’t correct them — maybe I’m getting old — but it was a tourist mistake.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

'WILDGuides, a British publishing company, had a problem. They wanted to put together a book about The World’s Rarest Birds , but were finding that it was pretty difficult locating photographs of the 590 bird species considered Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered or Endangered. The solution? Hold not one, but two international photo contests, one in 2010 and one in 2012.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

The nesting season is underway and people love to put up nest boxes. It seems an easy thing to do, you buy or make a wooden box and put a hole in it and viola–BIRDS! But it’s not always that simple. And though bird houses are a great addition to a yard to provide nesting habitat, we don’t always have to go the traditional route. Bird houses are great, but in the case of Purple Martins , they have to have very specific habitat and landscape to even get their attention, much less

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2013

In the UK, we have a long-running soap series called ‘Coronation Street’ A set of three flying ducks graced the muriel (sic) on the wall of Hilda Ogden’s back room at No.13, Coronation Street. Greatly loved by Hilda, she credits the ducks and her scenic wall, for keeping her ‘hand from the gas tap’ on her bad days. But to her long-suffering husband Stan, the rest of the residents in ‘The Street’ and to the millions of television viewers, they were the e

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

This weekend had something for everyone: celebrations, congregations, and migrations. And also sports! Please tell me you found something special to do… I took my kids on our traditional Easter morning hike, though the timing this year meant that spring has scarcely sprung. Still, hearing the tricksy triplets of a Northern Mockingbird made my weekend.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

On our recent visit to Queensland we encountered Apostlebirds Struthidea cinerea firstly in Biggenden and then in numerous locations as we travelled west. We had last experienced this cheerful family of birds in Katherine in the Northern Territory over 13 years ago, so although the population is isolated there they had the same characteristics. They roam in family groups varying from eight birds upwards and have a certain confidence about themselves as they strut around the bush.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The many islands of the Caribbean Sea are as unique a place to experience the amazing potential for speciation and diversity as the more famous Galapagos and Hawaiian islands are. The Lesser Antilles not only have a series of unique bird species, like Todys and Antillean Bullfinches, that are unique to individual islands, and for the herpers out there, the adaptive radiation of Anolis and Cnemidophorus (whiptail) lizards is as good as anything Darwin’s finches can throw at you, provided yo

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

'Crossing New Zealand’s Cook Strait. (where Duncan saw albatrosses and other tasty pelagics !). Now that April Foolery is over (but not forgotten ) we can turn our attention to more serious matters. Those of you who have been sweltering in the Southern Hemisphere can feel the heat breaking, while we frozen souls in the North know that the thaw has come.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

It’s been a busy week in bird news–some of it bad, some of it good, and some of it just plain head-scratchin’ Let’s start with the odd stuff first. In a move that brings new meaning to the term “farm team,” one of the min0r-league affiliates of the Philadelphia Phillies has a new mascot. Henceforth, the Reading Fighting Phils will now be represented by two ostriches , who will live at the ballpark and greet visitors to the team’s games.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

My Easter Weekend plans were up in the air until Tuesday evening, which is hardly the best way to do these things seeing as how Easter in New Zealand is still the tail end of summer (especially this year), and it can be hard to make plans so late. But plans were indeed made this late and so it was that at two in the afternoon on Good Friday I was on a ferry bound for South Island.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

There has been a great deal of talk these days about “reviving” extinct species. It seems as though every week brings a new plan to bring back something that has been lost. Perhaps this is a holiday suited for a discussion on resurrection. Setting aside the feasibility of extracting DNA from specimens and fossils, and finding a suitable similar species to donate an egg, there is much debate on whether we should bring back those species we’ve lost.

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