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Wild Turkeys Causing Car Accidents

10,000 Birds

What is up with all the frickin’ Wild Turkeys out there? They are running amok! This is the time of year when I tend to see turkeys dead on the side of the road. News stories of turkeys causing car accidents abound around the US right now. Where I live, a man driving on his way to work in a southwestern Twin Cities suburb slammed into a turkey (follow the link and check out the photos of his car and face–yikes).

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Easter and Bunnies

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Easter is just around the corner, and with it comes bunnies! Sadly, too many people purchase a bunny at Easter on impulse and then realize the pet isn’t a good fit. Bunnies are the third highest animal found at shelters. Here are some great articles about bunnies, and how you can help this Easter: Easter is No Treat For Pet Bunnies. Complete with great tips on how to decide if a pet bunny is right for you. 5 Ways to Help the Easter Bunny.

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Missouri Lawmakers Repealing Puppy Mill Measure Approved by Voters

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This is infuriating. Here's a link to the full story. Months after Missouri voters approved a measure that cracks down on what animal advocates say are some of the nation’s most notorious puppy mills, lawmakers are poised to repeal much of the law, saying the rules are too costly and punish legitimate dog-breeders who generate an estimated $1 billion annually in the state.

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What is the National Bird of Guatemala?

10,000 Birds

The national bird of Guatemala is one of the most magnificent birds in the entire world – the Resplendent Quetzal. Is there any bird more astoundingly jaw-dropping then the electric green, bright white, and scintillating scarlet Pharomachrus mocinno ? I can neither think of a better bird nor imagine what a better bird could possibly look like.

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Mysteries of the Mitred Parakeets

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Seth Ausubel is one of the best birders in Queens, New York, and Corey is ever-so-thankful that Seth does not use eBird because that way Corey can pretend that he is the top lister in the borough. Seth is generous with his knowledge, and, knowing this, Corey cajoled him into providing this post about one of the many avian mysteries of New York City.

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Tree-Eating Swans

10,000 Birds

I learned a new word today and am anxious to show it off and share it with the world. A FOLIVORE is an animal that eats leaves. With their high cellulose content and often raised levels of toxins drawn from the ground, mature leaves can be very difficult to digest so a folivore needs specialised equipment and adapted behaviour to be able to live off them.

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Great Texas Birding Classic: Big First Day on the Upper Coast

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Boykin Spring. Jasper Fish Hatchery. Marvin Dies. Sabine Woods. High Island. Boy Scout Woods. Smith Oaks. Bolivar Flats. Rollover Pass. The Galveston ferry. Sea Rim State Park. Any of these bodacious Upper Texas Coast bird watching destinations deserve hours if not days in order to be fully appreciated. To visit them all should be the work of weeks.

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Disappointed with a Florida Fork-tailed Flycatcher

10,000 Birds

Steve Walter is a New York nature photographer, birder, and long-time member of the New York City Butterfly Club. Readers of 10,000 Birds who pay attention will remember him from when he showed Patrick and me some really cool damselflies out in Suffolk County. This blog post is written by Steve and by writing it he risks inciting the wrath of a horde of North American birders.

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Swift Parrots of Muckleford

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Debbie Wortland is an inspiration and a reminder that citizen-scientists can make significant contributions, even with an endangered species. Her obsession (her word) with Swift Parrots Lathamus discolor , a species that breeds in Tasmania and migrates each year to Australia and is listed as Endangered by BirdLife International, led to some interesting observations and now a 25-minute DVD, Swift Parrots of Muckleford. a.

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An April Weekend of New York City Birding

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This spring has been rather lousy so far. Like, really lousy. Like, really cold, really wet, really windy, and almost completely lacking in days off work. Of course, that is just my perspective and I have been known to think that birds that don’t show up until May are late if they aren’t here by mid-April. Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I wa

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A Ramble Through My Birding Journey

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I often find myself searching my memory as far back as I can go for the spark that started me birding. I know where and when I started being a birder, that bit is easy. A warm summer morning in the late eighties, a fretful baby waiting for a hernia operation and a long calming walk in the hours when only the birdsong and milkman were company. We stopped on a small bridge over a stream, a Grey Heron stalked slowly downstream amongst the streamside vegetation, then a burst of iridescent blue tore

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Chuck Bell’s Birding Adventures

10,000 Birds

ABA Director and world birder Charles Bell recently put together a terrific blog chronicling his bird watching travels across various continents. His trip reports make for great reading, especially if you hope to follow in his footsteps in any of the countries he’s visited. Best of all, each report is lavishly appointed with his wife Nancy’s outstanding bird and wildlife photos.

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Great Texas Birding Classic: Scenes from the Upper Rio Grande Valley

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On the first day of the Great Texas Birding Classic , the Swarovski Roadside Hawks racked up over 180 species on the Upper Coast. But one day does not a Big Week make. The team decided on an ambitious strategy that placed us in the Upper Rio Grande Valley before sunrise so we drove through the night, stopping only for showers and snipes. The rest of the day looked something like this… Sunrise at Salineño for tons of RGV specialties , including a decidedly unmanky Muscovy Duck !

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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of April 2011?

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been barraged by some of those April Showers the poets love to dwell on. I’m also buried by a bunch of birthdays. Birds, on the other hand, are just beginning to build up in numbers. Spring migration has most likely manifested in some form or another everywhere on the planet. The fun this time of year comes in parsing out the phenological signs!

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Ferruginous Hawk in Vermont?

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An interesting report from John Thaxton of Adirondack Dispatches. John certainly seems to know his birds and he describes a Ferruginous Hawk well but seeing one in Vermont would be beyond absolutely amazing and buteos are known to have a variety of plumages. The comment thread is interesting as well. Thoughts? Maybe this bird escaped? a.

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Swarovski Optik Team Wins the 2011 GTBC 5-Day Event

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I’ve already regaled readers with the Swarovski Optik “Fabulous EL Fifties” heroic first and second days in the 2011 Great Texas Birding Classic 5-Day Event. More of the story remains to be told, but we needn’t wait to announce the foregone conclusion… Hail the victors (from left) Brian Bielfelt, David Simpson, Joel Simon, Andy Bankert, and Captain Clay Taylor Yes, the Swarovski Optik “Fabulous EL Fifties” won the Great Texas Birding Classic 5-Day Event with an approved list o

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Fresh Scaled Antpitta Caught Today

10,000 Birds

I enjoy fishing almost as much as I enjoy birding. This is not a surprise as both pastimes tap into my primeval desire to hunt. I would argue that most Homo Sapiens males -- and many females -- have this desire in them. Although for some, it is buried deeper than others. In many cases, myself included, the desire manifests itself in less apparent ways than going out and killing something for the trophy wall.

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Return to the Poo Ponds

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In January I introduced you to the Poo Ponds in Broome and after all the rain we have experienced in the recent months I thought I should let you know about the changes. The Water Corporation are currently building new larger Poo Ponds and we can’t access them at the moment. We are unsure as to what the bird population is there, but there are a lot less birds present at the old ones.

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Saving Pelican 895

10,000 Birds

The April 2010 Gulf oil spill was obviously devastating to the region’s wildlife. However, oiled birds would have suffered even more were it not for the relief workers attending to as many as they could. Now HBO Documentary Films presents Saving Pelican 895 , the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this life and so many others.

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And the Beats Go On…

10,000 Birds

It has been almost six months since we introduced the Beat Writer concept to 10,000 Birds. Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. After all, if you, our regular readers, don’t know who is where what hope has a random new visitor of figuring it all out?

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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

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O beautiful for whistling ducks! a tropical delight! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Phoebe, Liam and I went down to work (and play) in January 2011 at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , and it was the highlight of our winter.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of April 2011)

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Ever have one of those weeks so full of unbelievable birding that the prospect of ogling even one more avian seems untenable, if not entirely insane? My experience of just half of the Week Competition of this year’s gtbc utterly drained me. However, even that didn’t stop me from noticing that the American Tree Sparrows at my mother-in-law’s feeders have given way to cute little chippies; a Chipping Sparrow here signals spring even when the weather still says winter!

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Raptors Can Interrupt Work

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Sure, everyone thinks that Angry Birds is the time-suckingest, productivity-killingest, time wastingest thing out there but nothing beats an actual bird, especially if it is a hawk or an eagle, showing up outside the workplace. Just ask palantir, a diarist at Daily Kos. a.

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“Elsa’s Lullaby”

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NEeMA wrote the song “Elsa’s Lullaby&# about her dog Elsa, a former stray she took in from the cold streets of Northern Canada. The song is an endearing depiction of the relationship between pet and owner, and a testament to the triumphant spirit of rescue animals everywhere.

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Gyrfalcons!

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So, Gyrfalcons. White-form Gyrfalcons. Copulating. Also some nice flight shots. Need I say more? a.

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Japan Pet Aid

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To Dog With Love: Japan Pet Aid: P&G Pet Care to match donations. Until April 3oth (or $50,ooo) P&G Pet Care will match all donations. This is wonderful for those pets, and the people who love them, that were affected by the tsunami and earthquake. Please click the link or image to read the full story and if you can, make a donation before the deadline so it can be doubled.

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Lost on the Space Coast

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There are a handful of sites in North America that can justifiably be considered must visits for birders. It’s only a small surprise that a significant proportion of those sites are in Florida. It’s no small bit ironic that between the sprawling developments and golf courses and theme parks of the general public’s perception of the southeast terminus of the continent lies some of the best birding in the world, particularly for anyone who likes their birds big, flashy, and app

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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“They charm the females by instrumental music of the most varied kinds&# And thus, Charles Darwin adapted the phrase “Instrumental Music,&# previously used to mean humans with instruments making music, to name one of the most important “secondary sexual characters … diversified and conspicuous in birds&# which, added to “all sorts of combs, wattles, protuberances, horns, air-distended sacs, topknots, naked shafts, plumes and lengthened feathers gracefully springing

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Roadside Birding and Flathead Lake

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One of the things I like best is squeezing a little birding in on non-birding trips. It appeals to my sense of efficiency and environmental responsibility and presents the chance to check out places that may be off the beaten birding path, not to mention that it saves my non-driving self from having to beg people for rides just to indulge my hobby. In short, as ways of birding go, it’s low-impact.

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“African Cats” Giveaway!

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Win a copy of African Cats: The Story Behind the Film! See African Cats, Save the Savanna! An epic true story set against the backdrop of one of the wildest places on Earth, “African Cats” captures the real-life love, humor and determination of the majestic kings of the Savanna. Narrated by Oscar®-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson, the story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of fiv

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