10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2015
'While February offers some good birding (wintering waterbirds, gulls), it is a kind of an anticlimax after the intensive and hectic schedule of the January IWC counts – the International Waterbird Census, that is. (Some time ago, I’ve asked a guy from the Wetlands International, an NGO running the IWC, does it bother him that their main activity abbreviation can be read as the international water closet?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2015
'I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting much from a card game about birding. I mean, birding is about being outside, enjoying nature, the thrill of the chase. Birding is most emphatically not about sitting around a table playing cards. But the idea still intrigued me and the thought of a card game that might further indoctrinate the five-year-old tyrant of our house, Desi, into birding seemed worth exploring.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2015
'Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. If it’s representative, I can definitely see why he’s such a popular author. Tales of Remarkable Birds is exactly what it says on the cover – a series of three-to-four pages sketches, written in a light, yarn-spinning style and illustrated well with color photographs.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2015
'Most folks in the Northern Hemisphere feel a sense of exultation at the thought that spring officially arrives this weekend. Of course, spring weather may not arrive exactly as scheduled. I’m not sure how those of you south of the equator feel about this weekend or, frankly, so many things. What does the third weekend of March mean to you? Corey and I will both be enjoying the incipient signs of spring migration.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2015
'St. Patrick’s Day weekend teaches us many lessons, more than a few of which concern parades, alcohol, and nationalism as fashion. But this time of year also reminds us that as you stand gazing hopefully at the season ahead, you are still mired in the one that is ending. Transitions, like Irish whisky, can make us moody. My mood kept me from enjoying the outdoors this weekend, since I can’t stand looking at the snow anymore.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2015
'Stop and stay, don’t move that mouse. I still know my audience - this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who see the term “squirrel” as little more than a synonym for house sparrow, starling, pest and cholera. But bear with me for a second: this post presents a different context for a different squirrel. This is not about feeder competition and chicken wire.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2015
'Struthionidae (Ostriches). Ostritch ( Struthio camelus ); Wakkerstroom, South Africa, 22 February. ANATIDAE (DUCKS). White-faced Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna viduata ); Kasane, Botswana, 1 January. Lesser Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna javanica ); Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore, 25 February. White-backed Duck ( Thalassornis leuconotus ); Wakkerstroom, South Africa, 22 February.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2015
'Birding after long flights is a double-edged sword. On the one hand you’ve flown halfway across the world, or all the way across the world, and all you want is to get off that plane as quickly as possible and start adding lifers and being dazzled by birds you’ve until now only read about. On the other hand, you’ve just flown halfway across the world and even if your luggage hasn’t been rerouted to Helsinki or Osaka your mind certainly feels as if it was.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2015
'White Ibis flying in to roost along Biolab Road at dusk. Few things are as nice as being at Biolab Road at dusk with hundreds of waders going over. Yes, it’s been nearly two months since the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival and, yes, I am still writing blog posts about it. In my defense, while I was there I took thousands of pictures and it would be a real shame to let them molder on my external hard drive unshared.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2015
'Ecology is amazing. We see interrelationships between plants, animals, and other features of a biological system that can be very complex and in various ways make sense. But we also know from basic evolutionary theory that evolution works mainly at the level of the individuals (more or less). So these complex ecological interactions and systems must emerge as a result of individual behaviors, which also means to some extent, at levels within (below) the species we see interacting.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2015
'I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to bird this time round. That was largely due to the vagaries of a single rental car and two young children, but it wasn’t so bad. Florida is perhaps the one place in the United States where you can rack up a pretty great list of birds, including some of North America’s most impressive species, simply by walking down the sidewalk for an ho
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2015
'I mentioned last week that there were supposed to be snakes present at Westgate Park , though I did not see any. There had also been a report of a Latham’s Snipe present on the recent bird survey and it made sense to return to look for a snake and a Snipe ! I don’t normally go chasing anything and I am satisfied with whatever shows up on a day that I am out and about, but surely there would be snakes out on a sunny afternoon!!
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