10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'Wake up buzz at 5.30 am, breakfast at 6 (toast – who can eat at that ungodly hour?) and at 6.30 we’re already in an open 4×4 heading for the salt pans of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, India. With 5000 square kilometres, that “little” is far from small – it should be taken more as a “lesser”, compared to the Great Rann of Kutch. Winter mornings are pretty cold, even without the wind-chill effect of an open Maruti Gypsy.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'I began this blog 10 years ago today. The time has gone fast. Although I rarely post anything substantive, I did so for many years, so the blog still serves a useful purpose. Here are the posts from November 2003. On the first day of each month, from now on, I will link to the posts for that month 10 years earlier. I hope you enjoy the flashback.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'Around about the middle of last week there were various and sundry birders from the great state of New York spending a seemingly inordinate amount of time paying attention to the weekend weather forecasts, particularly those that pertained to the marine forecast. You see, Saturday, 23 November, was the day chosen by Paul Guris of Sea Life Paulagics for a pelagic trip out of New York.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
'Rough-legged Hawks (or Buzzards ) don’t seem to generate much excitement here in northern North America. I suppose I know the reasons why — they’re common enough, and show up every year instead of in spectacular irruptions, and most birders probably associate them with wind-burn and frostbite and long, frustrating stares across snow-covered fields.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 23, 2013
'Sorting through flocks of fall sparrows is fun and can be rewarding. You never know what might be hiding amid the hordes of White-throated Sparrows , Dark-eyed Juncos , and Song Sparrows. Here in the eastern United States you might find a “good” sparrow, like a White-crowned Sparrow or a Vesper Sparrow , a “rare-but-regular” like a Clay-colored Sparrow or a Lark Sparrow , or, if you are extremely lucky, a real rarity like a Brewer’s Sparrow or a Harris’s Spar
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'A European Starling in New Zealand made the news this week. This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America). The woman in the video found it as a chick at a few days old and hand reared it. The bird is now bonded to humans and an ambassador to her class and the bird has quite the vocabular y. In areas where starlings are introduced, the laws for keeping them as pets are relaxed.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'Continued from: Birding Humauca and Abra Pampa – Northern Argentina Trip Report. After a goodnight sleep in a simple and clean hostal in Abra Pampa, we got up early so we could reach Laguna de Los Pozuelos at sunrise for a full day birding at one of the iconic places in Northern Argentina. This is a 25 kilometer long and 9 km wide water-foul nesting ground that covers 16,000 ha (160 square km) of lake and wetland.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'Did you find your weekend restful? Hope so, because the rest of the year tends to race to the finish line. We’ve all got a lot of eating, shopping, giving, receiving, traveling, celebrating, and giving thanks ahead of us. Hope you’re ready! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an incredibly cooperative Northern Fulmar photographed from the back of the boat during the pelagic trip he enjoyed on Saturday.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'We have been experiencing some monsoonal weather recently and many a day we are faced with the encroaching black sky as shown above. We have started to carry an umbrella on our shorebird walks, but have yet to use it! Invariably the storm swings around over Roebuck Bay and we return home without getting wet… beyond the perspiration from the high humidity!
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'Nor is it true that the worth of an animal''s life, any more than of a man''s, can be measured simply by the amount of "agreeable sensation," a fallacy often put forward by those who cage animals in menageries, on the plea that they are there well tended and saved from the struggle for existence. To live one''s own natural life, to realize one''s self, is the true moral purpose of man and animal equally, and the wrong done by the unnecessary cramping and thwarting of animal individuality, as in
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 23, 2013
'I grow more fond of eBird as each day passes. This week it brought a bird to my attention that I had never heard of, though it seemed that other eBirders had been seeing it at a prime site near New Delhi, India. I was planning a trip to the city and this made my choice of birding venue a very simple one. Actually, let me be honest, given the chance I would go to Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary every time and there would have to be a good reason for me to go elsewhere.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'Christmas Bird Count season is right around the corner, and if you’re anything like me you’re pretty excited about it. This year I get to start from scratch, having moved to a new part of the state filled with new birds and birders. After several years of acting more or less as a CBC mercenary, slotting into whatever area had an opening in any of the local counts, I’ve moved to Greensboro ready to put down to bird count roots.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'With the arrival of another (American) Thanksgiving, it’s time to trot out the turkey facts. This day of thanks is, after all, known as Turkey Day. An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day. In fact, it seems a lot more like Anti-Turkey Day. Yes, the Wild Turkey is North America’s largest game bird.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'On a day most seem happy to kill turkeys, few consider whether we should also be killing lions. Thankfully, Duncan’s thought the issue through for us ! Like it or not, this weekend may be the busiest of your year. Even if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving or Hanukah, you can’t hide from Black Friday or Cyber Monday. But nestled between those two high holy days of commerce lies a lovely late fall weekend rich with leftovers and possibilities.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'You may know, or may have known and have forgotten by now, that Germany has had federal elections to the Bundestag this year, on September 22nd. As was the case in all elections I have witnessed so far, the opposition – this time mostly formed by the Greens and the Social Democrats ( SPD ) - had high hopes of kicking out the ruling coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU and the increasingly ridiculous Free Democrats ( FDP ).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'To trot, or not to trot? Many Americans will spend part of their Thanksgiving holiday participating in “Turkey Trot” fun runs, followed by the annual feast at which turkey is the star attraction. But what to do when the turkey fights back? A recent news story (OK, the word “news” is stretched here, as it’s more of a roundup of local “turkeys on the rampage” stories) documents close encounters of the nasty kind between wild turkeys and humans, from Massa
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Assuming you have a passing interest in wildlife, or at the least you know someone that does, and chances are in the last week or so you’ve become aware that some lady from America shot a lion. I’ve certainly seen the story plenty in my Facebook news feed, and were I more of a Twitter user I am sure I would have seen it there too. It may even have been mentioned in Google+, although it is unlikely anyone noticed. 99% of the commentary I have seen has been angry bordering on outright
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