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Wood Ducks in Central Park

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In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of most fair, and the Harlequin Duck is just too much of a trollop to really compete. Wood Ducks are essentially in a class of their own and seeing a drake in good plumage is usually the highlight of any birding outing. When I heard that a pair of drakes were wintering in the pond at the south end of New York City’s Central Park and were rather confiding, well, how cou

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False Pregnancies In Dogs

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A false pregnancy is a term used to describe a female dog showing signs of pregnancy, lactation and nursing, but never produces any puppies. This may be because there were no males to mate with, or she did not have any eggs fertilized. The symptoms of a false pregnancy in dogs usually occur after the estrus stage has finished, and in some cases, may last up to 2 or 3 months.

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Washington Town to Become Horse Slaughter Capital?

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Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. I can only imagine how they feel. From the Sky Valley Chronicle. A new report in the Staug News of St. Augustine, Florida doesn’t mince any words when it comes to what’s afoot in the Stanwood area. The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying s

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2012)

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Some weekends are sublime and others mundane. Obviously, we cannot survive one transcendent weekend after another, but this stretch of late winter seems to require more than the usual routine. I found little inspiration in the usual birds, so I turned to the great Herman Melville for some grand avian allegory: And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.

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4 Things to Consider Before Adopting a Dog

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Choosing to adopt a dog rather than get one at the pet store (or what some like to refer to as “puppy mill”) is a beautiful thing—essentially you are saving a poor pup from euthanasia and you’re providing a an animal with a good home. But adopting a pet is a huge responsibility and is very similar to adopting a child. You want to make sure that you are truly ready—returning a dog can leave the animal with even more post-traumatic stress and may even be put to sleep if no one el

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Kereru, the New Zealand Pigeon

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The New Zealand Pigeon , often known by its Maori name Kereru , or colloquially as woodpigeon, is a large and conspicuous part of New Zealand’s avifauna. As pigeons go it is very large, measuring up to 50 cm, and it is one of two species of pigeon endemic to New Zealand. Together with the other, the very closely related Parea of the Chatham Islands, it comprises the genus Hemiphaga.

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Little Owl (Athena noctua)

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This post comes courtesy of Mrs Gannet who became rather taken with the Little Owl when we found him in Mote Park last month. It has recently been sitting proudly outside his hole in a great oak on the lawns in front of the big house and gave me the opportunity for some photos at last. Mrs Gannet insisted on seeing the pictures and gave them her usual effusive appraisal “Uh huh… ” before suggesting that they should be the backbone for a 10,000 Birds post.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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Wallace Stevens’ “ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird ” is a marvel of modernist poetry. It is only 246 words long, divided into thirteen sections, each labeled with the corresponding Roman numeral, and a surface reading will show that it is about, not surprisingly, thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird. Reading deeper, though, will allow the reader to understand that much more is going on in those scant 246 words.

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Learn To Love This Face

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In my first trip to the West Indies , I learned that the Bahamas boast an impressive array of wild native doves including the Caribbean Dove and White-crowned Pigeon. The various islands also support more adaptable civilized species like Mourning Dove , Common Ground-Dove , and Rock Pigeon. But one columbiform has clearly conquered the rest: in the Nassau area and perhaps beyond, the Eurasian Collared-Dove reigns supreme.

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The Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)

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It is not every day that one gets to see a pair of Green Iguanas sunning themselves on a bush from close range. But, as I have already shown in one of my two posts about visiting Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, that is exactly what the boat load of birders I was with got the chance to see way back at the beginning of March. Well, we got to see the iguanas until they both suddenly realized that a whole boatload of people was drifting right up to them at which point they skedaddled, but by that

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Plumed Whistling-Ducks

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One of the most common ducks that you see in Broome are the Plumed Whistling-Ducks and they are exactly that! They have beautiful plumes and in flight they really do whistle. We often have them fly over our house and it’s an unmistakeable call. They are on the Golf Course or in the ponds at the Waste Water Treatment Plant-Poo Ponds-throughout the year, but once it rains they can be anywhere.

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Kids Chasing Birds

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How would you handle the situation in which Dawn recently found herself ? To me, that type of behavior is unacceptable, but let he who is without sin cast the first stone …of course, the two situations are very different but is the difference merely of degree? a.

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Screech-Owls are Grumpy

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Eastern Screech-Owls sleep all day. That makes why this bird had its head poking out of its box when we drove by it in Vosburgh Marsh in Greene County, New York, a good question. Wouldn’t you be grumpy if a carload of birders pulled over and decided to take your picture while you were sleeping? … a.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2012?

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To twitch or not to twitch… that is the question facing many listers in the northeastern United States this weekend. The directionally-challenged Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch that Corey documented so lovingly continues to abide where rosy-finches never do. As long as it persists, this Western species will prompt every birder within 400 miles to consider, however briefly, taking a run to see it.

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Awesomeness of Owls

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Fresh off one of the most adrenaline-pumping posts about eagles I’ve ever read , Goldeneagle Cooper at Tezini turns his ornithological eye toward the awesomeness of owls. What’s not to love? a.

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Color Me Olivaceous

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While green is rather common color in avian plumage, it rarely attains the flamboyance of a parrot’s chartreuse or the emerald of a hummingbird. More birds are adorned in more practical, which is to say muted tones. One rather colorful name for a stock yet sober shade of green is OLIVACEOUS. Olivaceous means just what you probably think it does: of or like the olive.

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Checking out the Forest Park Feeders

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As I have done all too infrequently of late I spent almost an hour yesterday at Forest Park’s waterhole where intrepid Queens birders feed the birds all winter long. Because I have a two-year-old and a job in New Jersey I have not been one of those making sure the birds get their servings of suet and sunflower seeds this year which also means that I have gotten to the park in winter less this year than I have since I moved to New York City four years ago.

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By My Calculations It Is Now Spring

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If I see either of two things I officially declare that spring has sprung. One of them, my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of the year, has not yet happened this year. (Though I did see an overwintering bird way back on the eighth of January.) Yesterday I did see the other of my two signs of spring, an American Robin pulling a worm out of the ground.

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A Tale of Two Hummingbirds?

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Over-wintering hummingbirds have been a staple of birding in the southeast United States for the last 30 years or so, and in my state of North Carolina, it seems that a dozen or so are reported over the course of nearly every winter. At first glance, the idea of hummingbirds in the winter seems to be an odd one. There are few birds in North America so obviously tropical, so necessarily tied to flowers and sunshine and balmy summer afternoons on the back porch with some sort of gin-based mixed

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Montana is Owl Country

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Things you may not know, but should: 1.) There is an International Festival of Owls. 2.) They give out a “Champion of Owls” award. 3.) This year, that award was presented to Denver Holt , a Montana scientist and bird guide and thus, if I may be presumptuious, my homeboy. I like to imagine his expression was something like this upon receiving the award.

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Bringing Back the Classics

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There are over eight years of 10,000 Birds blog posts in our archives and we like to believe that at least some of them are really awesome. Unfortunately, they don’t get the attention that they deserve because, well, who is going to go looking at a post written on a bird blog five years ago? We have been sharing some of our archive on the 10,000 Birds Facebook page but thought that some readers would like to see some of our classic posts right here on the blog.

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Artist Sentenced for Wildlife Trafficking

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Artist Enrique Gomez De Molina was sentenced to 20 months in prison and a $6,000 fine in Miami on Friday for trafficking in illegal and threatened wildlife. The artist used parts of animals to create his art: De Molina’s Miami attorney Ben Kuehne said the artist was “extremely remorseful and apologetic,” while fully acknowledging his actions which were opposite to what he meant to express with his art: that humans menace the rich diversity of wildlife. “In promoting tha

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If You Die…

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…I WILL EAT YOU! Black Vulture at the Circle B Bar Reserve, Lakeland, Florida This somehow seemed suitable for a Monday morning. Forgive me. … a.

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Nice Shots of Black-necked Stilts

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Over at The Birder’s Report Larry has some really nice images of Black-necked Stilts. Check them out ! a.

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The mysterious international Lesser Scaup

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Over much of North America, the Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis is more than just common. Rather, it could be considered the aythyian background noise against which to discern the other, more appreciated species. But one man’s trash bird is another man’s treasure, and the Lesser Scaup is a species that inspires awe and wonder in a birder’s mind on the eastern side of the Atlantic, where it turns up as a vagrant on rare occasions.

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New York’s Rosy-Finch Makes the Local News

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How Do They Know The Exact Time?

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I had no idea that migration predictions were so accurate ! a.

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Cute Puppy Rescued From Drainpipe

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An adorable puppy got stuck in a drainpipe, but not to worry, this story has a happy ending! Thanks RightThisMinute.com !

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Birding the Battlefields

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Nick Lund , formerly at birdDC and then the Birdist , should be no stranger to readers of 10,000 Birds. He’s previously shared his surprisingly strong feelings about the bird logos of NFL and MLB teams. Now, he’s sharing some information sure to improve your experience of American historical sites… When I’m not writing about sports teams and bird logos , birding ephemera , or stumbling into first state records , I’m helping protect Civil War-related national parks with the

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