10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

'Be careful if you cross the feral cat freaks – they might protest your business, sue you, and drive you to suicide. Such was the sad fate of a New York City veterinarian who refused to release a stray cat she treated back to a feral cat freak who planned to release the cat back into a feral cat colony. Dr. Shirley Koshi was a woman who devoted her life to caring for animals and sought to prevent a cat from the miseries of living out-of-doors.

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MARCH 19, 2014

'Studies show that as many as 48% of domestic violence victims stay in abusive situations out of fear of what would happen if they left their pets behind, and more than 70% of pet owners who enter shelter report that the abuser has threatened, injured, or killed family pets. Among New York City’s 50 domestic violence shelters, URI is the only one that accommodates pets, filling a critical gap by addressing the unique challenges families with pets face.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2014

'I had the pleasure of heading to the Winter Wings Bird Festival in Klamath Falls, Oregon last month and it was a good time. It’s an area beloved by photographers for all the Tundra Swans and Bald Eagles that hang out in the area and the surrounding habitat makes for a beautiful backdrop. When you go to a bird festival to lead a field trip and you don’t live in the area, you are typically assigned a local guide who knows the best routes and what areas are going to be the birdiest.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

'I was spending the morning this past Sunday checking out some random, out-of-the-way spots in Queens to see if any cool birds were hanging around in what I call my armpit of Queens route. I tend to hit lots of crummy and scummy bits of vacant land, polluted ponds, and other bits of marginal habitat that hides in the city’s interstices. At the north end of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park I was pleased to see what looked like a Green-winged Teal at first.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

'Hopefully, those of you who observe St. Patrick’s Day by doing more than donning green didn’t “celebrate” so much this weekend that you’re suffering today. Enjoy! When I saw a Turkey Vulture soaring serenely over the frozen tundra of Rochester last month, I took the sighting as an example of how confused, in a potentially fatal way, some birds can get.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

'Not one but two scientific studies linking birds to foul odors were released this week. The stinky results may actually have some side benefits for birds, and the planet as a whole. It’s a headline-writer’s dream! First up is a paper appearing in the new issue of the journal Science. It describes a Spanish researcher’s finding that Great Spotted Cuckoos somewhat make up for their brood-parasitism habit.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2014

'The serpent-eagles of the genus Spilornis are an Asian group, not to be confused with two different genera found in Africa or, for that matter, the snake-eagles, a mostly African but also European and Asian genus (simple, right?). The Spilornis serpent-eagles are represented by a number of insular species and one widespread mainland species, the Crested Serpent-eagle.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2014

'This humble blog has been serving people of all nations for over a decade through our online collaborative exploration of birding culture, conservation, citizen science, and amateur ornithology. Also, we’ve bragged a lot about the fancy birds we’ve seen in fancy places. Still, we were extremely surprised as well as pleased when we received the following electronic missive: The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the Library’s historic collect

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

'Keep your eyes to the skies… Ospreys are on the move (or just hanging around in Florida ). Spring has sprung in the Northern Hemisphere! Depending on where you live, the view outside your window may still seem bleak, but despair not. Spring is a seed that blossoms into a green season awash with a cacophony of colorful birds just begging to be watched.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2014

'The birding in Florida is so easy that a kid can do it. Or so I planned to find out. I’m in Orlando for what is supposed to be a family excursion, but as anyone who considers a pair of binoculars to be an every day accessory, if there are birds to be found I’m going to make an effort to see them. Even if that effort is contained, thus far, to walking around the grounds of the hotel.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

'This post is a first for 10,000 Birds. Yes indeed, and hold on to your seats: this post is about a European member of the Paridae, which the British chose to call “t**s”, and it will not contain any suggestive and dingy jokes. There will be no mentioning of how much birders here enjoy closely monitoring t**s, no details about how to propperly handle great t**s during banding sessions, no jokes about pairs of blue t**s, nothing of that sort.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

'Few people can imagine (or even take seriously) the life of a birding guide at a lodge in the tropics, so I thought it would be a nice exercise to outline what an average day for me was like at Cristalino Lodge. I will not detail any negative preconceived notions of the life of a birding guide — rather just the day in and day out activities that make being a bird guide both a rewarding and demanding profession at the same time.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

'We barely started the drive, when a flock of 14 Common Cranes forced us to stop and reach for binoculars and cameras. Belgrade lies on the cranes’ migratory corridor and, especially in Spring, flocks are regularly spotted above the city. Further north, we slow down by the ruins of an old farm… and yes, a Little Owl greets us with its ‘smiling’ face.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

'My husband’s nickname for me is “Analog.” I go to the bank to deposit a check, whereas he snaps a picture of the check with his phone and drops it in our account without leaving the couch. I use envelopes and stamps instead of online billpay, and pay tolls with coins instead of a plastic transponder. I rely on my library of cookbooks rather than Google for recipes, and prefer my cassettes, CDs, and LPs to my iTunes collection.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

'I have been searching through the internet this evening trying to find support for some behaviour that I witnessed at Fort Mason, San Francisco, this week. A Townsend’s Warbler was seen returning to a Red-breasted Sapsuckers’s sap well and appeared to be feeding from it. I didn’t imagine that I was watching a unique occurence, but tried to get some pictures just the same.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

'Broome is well-known for its incredible birding, but most importantly Roebuck Bay is recognised as a Ramsar wetland due to its high concentration of shorebirds. The shorebirds are currently getting ready for their northward migration and so it is even more important to minimise disturbance as they fatten up for their incredible journeys. There are flights heading north each evening and these birds will leave our shores to breed in the northern hemisphere.

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