10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2011
While the Rovio Angry Birds game franchise is hugely popular and has even led to a post here on 10,000 Birds that speculated on the identification of what the Angry Birds birds actually are , little attention has been paid to those that came before. You see, Rovio merely capitalized on the underground Angry Birds scene about which well-informed hipsters, insiders, and cool kids – you know, birders – were already aware.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 14, 2011
Many dogs are rescued out of abusive or traumatic situations, causing them to exhibit a wide variety of emotional and behavioral problems. However, that doesn’t mean they can’t make great companions for the right adoptive family. Sadly, however, one of the reasons people are hesitant to adopt these dogs is because of the assumption that such dogs are always “damaged goods,&# and can’t be re-trained.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
What started as me posting a link on my private Facebook page about how much I hate the Transportation Security Administration, quickly turned into a very revealing conversation about race and could be a very large and underlying issue of why we don’t see more people of color in birding or enjoying nature in general. The original link was about TSA officer Nelson Santiago who was caught stealing an iPad out of someone’s luggage and stuffing it in his pants.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2011
( This joke has apparently been making the rounds for years, but just came my way. I hope it goes without saying that we don’t wish to offend anyone. But I wonder how many readers would have answered this question correctly… ) Mick, from Dublin, appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and towards the end of the program had already won 500,000 pounds. “You’ve done very well so far,&# said Chris Tarrant, the show’s presenter, “but for a million pounds youR
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
There are tons of interesting birdy in this world and so, every now and again, I would like to share something of some of the exceptional people I meet along the way. So, meet Hannes: I first met Johannes early last year and his sponge-like desire for knowledge and a deeper understanding of digiscoping was wonderfully infectious: he peppered me with questions I had rarely or never come across, and critically questioned assumptions that I or others had made in their digiscoping.
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2011
Butterflies are often beautiful. Flowers are often beautiful. When both are together, as often happens, the level of beauty increases exponentially through some form of natural world legerdemain. It is impossible to figure out exactly how it happens because it seems like natural beauty would have additive or at most multiplicative powers when combined with more natural beauty, but it is also unnecessary to figure it out.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2011
The big story of the fortnight in Cyprus isn’t about birds, but it crosses the path of birding (kinda). I’ll get to that below. But the biggest story that is about birds is the conference that took place last week. From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. It seems that it came off rather well, and was co-organized by the Cyprus Game Fund and members of the Bern Convention.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
I’ve spoken before about the time I was lucky enough to work on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals. Part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, it is an amazing place to take in the seabirds of the North Pacific. Last time I talked about the amazing Great Frigatebirds , today I’ll introduce the birds that give the island its name, the terns.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2011
Sitting on my folks’ deck on a summer evening, after the sun has already dropped below the Catskill Mountains the song trills from darkened hemlocks. When sleeping with the window open the same song sneaks through the screen impossibly early, when dawn is still merely a thought and no sunlight has cleared the horizon. At midday, when the sun beats down with a force you can feel, snatches of song sound from the saplings in the side yard.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2011
Picus viridis , the European Green Woodpecker is a bird that I longed to see during my early days as a feeder watcher. They never visited my little sack of nuts however and I had to venture beyond my bedroom window to find one. Green Woodpeckers prefer to eat ants and will more usually be found feeding on the ground in fields and rough pasture than at a feeding table.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
The record for a Birding Big Year in Ontario, Canada currently stands at 339. At this year’s halfway mark, Paul Riss is rocking a respectable 211. Will he close the gap? Follow his colorful adventures as he chronicles his Punk Rock Big Year … a.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
Add manatees to the large (and growing) list of things that the Tea Party can’t abide. Apparently, not being able to kill large marine mammals with speeding boats is a violation of the constitution. Who knew? “We cannot elevate nature above people,&# explained Edna Mattos, 63, leader of the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots, in an interview. “That’s against the Bible and the Bill of Rights.&# Sigh… a.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2011
For the first time since 1918 hunters will be able to hunt Mourning Doves in Iowa – but with one big caveat. Lead ammunition will not be allowed. Thoughts? a.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
And so it’s July, which for this North American birder means a couple of things: 1. southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. I, like many of you, eagerly await the release of the AOU 52nd checklist supplement, even though these days, the contents are already pretty well known in advance.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2011
Perfect weeks like the hot (but not too hot) one we’ve just enjoyed here in western New York remind me how good summer is for so many things other than birding. In terms of bird watching though, ’tis not the season to be jolly unless you’re either utterly devoted to your local resident species or on vacation in a place you might enjoy someone else’s local resident species.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
Reader Jay Richmond just sent me a mess of mighty Muscovy Duck photos to add to our gruesome gallery. If your day has thus far been lacking in caruncular charm, get your fix of Manky Muscovy Ducks ! a.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
Times are too busy around here for my usual soliloquy (lucky you!) so I’ll cut to the chase: Where are you birding this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below. What’s my deal? For 13 years now, an ever-expanding group of friends and family have looked forward to the third weekend in July for spectacular rural revelry culminating in our inimitable brand of poultry-themed pyrotechnics.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
Inspiration arises from the simplest of things. Who would have thought that a far-flung group of photographers sharing inspiring images of our ever-changing atmosphere would coalesce into a site that aggregates hundreds of sky shots every week? Congratulations to the entire Skywatch Friday team as well as its founder for creating and cultivating such a cool site.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
We at 10,000 Birds have mentioned before the unpopularity of the Wild Turkeys of Staten Island. Sadly, it seems that someone has taken the hatred to a whole new level. Police are looking for a driver who apparently intentionally drove into a flock of turkeys in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, on Monday. Won’t somebody think of the poults? The poor little poults?
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2011
Harper Lee famously wrote that it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird. Because they don’t do nothing but sing for us all day long, she said. With all due respect to Ms Lee’s prodigious literary talent, she’s never had to deal with the Northern Mockingbird s in my neighborhood. Not that I would ever go so far as to kill one – me and Atticus Finch have that much in common – but the Mockingbirds of Orange County, North Carolina, are hardly the innocent naifs Lee nee
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2011
July, as all northern hemisphere birders appreciate, is the month when the egg timer flips and everything starts pouring back out again in a steady stream south. Ponds and estuaries fill up with passage waders and the birding gets good after the summer lull as we rise slowly and surely towards the fever pitch of autumn. In recent years though July signals the start of another return and increasingly it seems to come from several different directions.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2011
Julie Bass should be lauded and should not be facing jail time. But in Oak Park, Michigan, it is apparently a crime to have a vegetable garden in your front yard. Where are the Tea Partiers? Or does freedom not apply to vegetable gardens? And are we so insane as a culture that “suitable&# plants for the front yard excludes vegetables? a.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
“An island in the Adriatic Sea, called Diomedea, is home to a great number of shearwaters, which, it is said, neither harm the barbarians who live there nor come close to them. If, however, a Greek comes ashore, the shearwaters approach and stretch out their wings as if they were hands, welcoming the stranger.&# Thus opens the first entry in On the Nature of Animals , written by Claudius Aelianus in the days of imperial Rome, now freshly translated by Gregory McNamee and presented in an at
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 11, 2011
Tonight! Monday, July 11 at 10PM ET/PT on Nat Geo WILD! Africa’s big cats are among the most iconic predators. Steve travels to Namibia, a land of rolling dunes, sand and plenty of dangerous wildlife. Steve dons a camouflage suit for a once-in-a-lifetime experience that gets him closer to a wild leopard than he ever hoped. At night, he catches up with a pride of lions to witness their hunting and killing skills in the dark, proving just how deadly and vicious lions are.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2011
Having shown you all the beautiful ducks at Herdsman Lake in Perth, Western Australia, last week I thought I should show you some more of the birds that we saw on June 25th. Although we were only in Perth for a few days we were not going to miss an opportunity to see some birds that we never get here at home in Broome and others we do get, but in a totally different environment.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2011
On Independence Day, the 4th of July, I was sitting in the kitchen of my parents’ house drinking some coffee and sharing some homemade pancakes with Desi while my mother talked to my aunt on the phone about plans to meet at the Saugerties 4th of July parade. After hanging up my mother mentioned, offhand, that my aunt had a pile of young Wild Turkeys in her yard.
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2011
Michael Buckland, who was on holiday in Gower, South Wales, found a distressed Northern Gannet on the beach and picked it up thinking to rescue it. The bird became panicked by an approaching dog and started lashing out, nearly blinding Buckland in both eyes. The story, and a picture of the victim, can be found here. a.
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