10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2012
Let’s say you’re at a fast food restaurant and you have a few french fries left over and a gull is eagerly staring at you and the fries. Do you toss the bird your leftovers? What if you are eating a sandwich on a park bench and a pigeon walks over and waits for your crumbs? And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese?
Animal Ethics
MAY 28, 2012
There is a neglected other side to the anthropomorphic coin. This is human chauvinism. The anthropomorphic side reads: "It is anthropomorphic to attribute characteristics to nonhumans that belong only to humans." The human chauvinism side reads: "It is chauvinistic not to attribute characteristics to those nonhumans who have them and to persist in the conceit that only humans do.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2012
When I worked for a wild bird specialty store, I was always baffled by the question from customers in spring, “When do I take my feeders down?” Most people are under the impression that birds “need” bird feeders only in winter and will not eat “natural” foods in summer if feeders are still up and become too dependent.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2012
Anna’s Hummingbird is resident in California, up through Oregon and into Washington and during the colder months will certainly be the most frequently seen hummer in the area. Often it is the only one likely to be seen then. The males pick a prominent perch from which to deliver their scratchy, swizzling song, and turn on the fireworks using their shocking pink head gear to attract the ladies.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2012
Kazakhstan, May 2009 During the two days spent out in the steppe in Kazakhstan I couldn’t help but notice the sheer number of flowers that dotted the grassy steppe. It seemed that anywhere one looked some kind of flower, whether it was an iris, a tulip, or something else, was blooming. So when we were on our way out of the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve and it was announced that we were making a stop to see tulips I was kind of surprised because we had been seeing tulips rather regularl
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2012
Tyrannus tyrannus , better known as the Eastern Kingbird , is truly the King of Kings. Or, as you could choose to translate from the Latin of the scientific name, the Tyrant of Tyrants. Kingbirds all have attitude and it doesn’t take many sightings of Tyrannus tyrannus sallying forth to do battle with a hawk, a crow, or a heron to understand why it has the Latin moniker that it does.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2012
This story comes from Lisa Kelly, a wildlife rehabilitator in Tarrytown, New York, by way of Maggie Ciarcia, a rehabber in the nearby town of Somers. Maggie received a call one morning from an elderly woman named Katherine. Katherine lives in a senior residence, which she refers to as “the facility,” near the Hudson River. “My friend and I are standing here in the facility,” said Katherine.
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2012
Seawatching is not my favorite way to bird. Standing on a boardwalk, a beach, or a jetty with my eye in a scope hoping against hope that a shearwater, a petrel, or a jaeger will fly through my field of view is too passive a form a birding for me to get really excited by it. But seawatching is an exciting form of birding in that the ocean, in my case the Atlantic Ocean, is vast, and almost anything could show up when you are staring out to sea.
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2012
In early May, I reluctantly accepted my parental obligation to bring my children to Orlando, Florida. The Disney mystique hasn’t entranced my brood the way it seems to insidiously seize so many others, but various factors conspired to drive us to notorious attractions like Disney’s Magic Kingdom, Sea World, and Legoland. At least, thought I, Florida would produce some superior birds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2012
It has been cold and it has been windy! This may well seem an odd statement from the tropics, but it is true. When there is a high in the Great Australian Bight we get strong easterlies and the temperate falls. The winds have been between 25 and 30 knots for days now and the warnings have been from Queensland right across the top and down the coast towards Perth.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2012
What’s better than a two-day weekend? A three-day weekend, of course, unless you can swing four or more! Here in the United States, we’re in the midst of the Memorial Day weekend. This means that if you see any amazing birds today, you can count them as your best birds of the weekend. The best birds of my undistinguished weekend must be American Goldfinches in their full canary finery.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2012
Familiar birds across the European countryside are suffering precipitous declines. Why? In order to boost food production across Europe, the wholesale ripping up of hedgerows, draining of wetlands and ploughing over of meadows has robbed farmland birds of their homes and food. Numbers of linnets, turtle doves and lapwings have crashed as a result… …These losses were described as shocking by the scheme’s chairman, Richard Gregory. “We had got used to noting a loss of a few
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2012
Good conservation news from the Dominican Republic. a.
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Animal Ethics
JUNE 1, 2012
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2012
The last time I saw a Mississippi Kite was way up in Root, New York, back in 2009. There was a pair that were believed to be breeding and the following year successful breeding was confirmed, the first record of the species breeding in New York State. Many New York birders made the pilgrimage to Montgomery County that year and managed to check Mississippi Kite off of their state checklists.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2012
Forest once covered much of the Atherton Tableland, but while much of that was cleared to create agricultural land some important parts remain. It is these forests, and not the wetlands I have spoken of before , that hold the many endemics that make the Atherton Tableland such a rewarding place to go birding. The Australian Brush-turkey ( Alectura lathami ) is a common sight in the rainforests of Australia.
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