10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2011
The more I learn about ducks, the more impressed I am with their blatant promiscuity. Mallards , of course, bring new meaning to the term dabbling duck , what with all those wild mallard hybrids and domestic cross-breeds running around. But apparently, all the Anas -species ducks are overly amorous or at least indiscriminate. Consider the teals. Teal is a broad term for a variety of dabbling ducks in the genus Anas.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 18, 2011
SeaWorld Orlando’s Aviculture Team Pair Orphaned Chick with Rescued Sandhill Crane. While caring for two rescued sandhill cranes – an injured adult and an orphaned chick – SeaWorld’s aviculture team put their problem-solving skills to work to create a successful surrogacy. A few weeks ago, an adult sandhill crane was brought to SeaWorld with a rubber gasket around his bill.
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Critter News
MAY 14, 2011
Excellent news! From Forbes.com. The financially troubled VictoryLand in Shorter is ending live dog racing, officials said Tuesday. Chief Operating Officer Lewis Benefield said electronic bingo games subsidized live greyhound racing for many years, and live races are no longer feasible now that bingo is shut down.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2011
There are many tales of a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from humans to use as nest-lining material. Watching a titmouse take hairs from a human is something I have always longed to see but I never considered how cool it might be to see a titmouse take hair from another creature. Fortunately, a pair of fellow Queens birders who will be known to those who read my posts about going to Ecuador, Karlo and Alison Mirth, witnessed a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from a Raccoon in Forest Park, Queens, rec
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10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. The birds do the flying for you. Even if you don’t live in the summer range of a particular species, you may have opportunities to observe it while it passes through, especailly if you live in an active flyway, like I happen to.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2011
The use of digital devices to attract birds is getting more and more attention. It’s been brewing on birding listservs for years. I wrote about it for WildBird Magazine a few years ago and recently David Sibley tackled it in his blog. However, it’s now getting the attention of mainstream media via this article in The Seattle Times. I can’t help but wonder if this article will inspire people who never thought of using taped calls to give it go.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 20, 2011
Have you heard of the Aviarios Del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica? We hadn’t either until we saw it featured on The Cute Show. It’s the world’s only sloth orphanage, home to over a hundred very sleepy urchins whose lives have been saved by legendary sloth whisperer Judy Arroyo. These vulnerable creatures jungle home is being slowly destroyed.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 19, 2011
Millions of dog owners agree that life is best enjoyed with the company of their four-legged friends, and a trip to the local dog park is one of the greatest ways to spend quality time together. To recognize and celebrate these special moments, Beneful® brand dog food is announcing its Dream Dog Park Contest that invites dog owners to share ideas for the ultimate dog park for their daily adventures with their best buddy.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2011
The second-ever record of Eurasian Hobby for lower 48 states has been spotted and photographed by Ian Davies in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was viewed from his yard. Now that is a yard bird that any American birder would kill for! Congratulations, Ian! a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2011
Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. Here is my story about a quest for the Connecticut Warbler.–Bill Thompson III.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2011
A groundbreaking lawsuit has been filed in Ontario , in which the owner of a trio of office buildings that are particularly dangerous to migrating birds (over 7,000 documented dead birds in the last decade) is being sued for failing to prevent the carnage. Here’s hoping that Ecojustice and Ontario Nature have success and that other building owners do the right thing and prevent bird deaths without being sued!
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2011
A most interesting question was posed to me by a birding friend. I could not guess the answer despite some pretty good tries on my part. I open the question up to you. The email, received on May 7 at 6:15AM, reads verbatim: “RE: NEW YARD BIRD ‘This morning – flying with three of another related species (those were interesting enough in themselves).
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Does anybody track how devastating spring migration must be to the global economy? Seriously, I know what kind of hit my personal productivity has taken this week once wood-warblers descended upon trees outside my home office window (awesome, right?) and can only imagine the economic impact extrapolated across birders all over the world. Sounds like the issue deserves further study, and by issue I mean the warblers outside my window!
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2011
Wind farms are an emotive and divisive issue, especially amongst birders. A badly sited wind farm can lead to devastating consequences as we know only too well for many large birds, particularly raptors. In the UK the visual intrusion caused by the huge turbines is a hot topic with many believing they are ruining the beauty of our wild landscapes and natural heritage.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2011
Part 3 The birder walks across the bridge. She’s not birding. She’s headed for the farmers’ market. She read that it’s supposed to rain, maybe thunder, any time now. That’s one of the reason’s she’s not birding. But she’s birding even when she’s not birding. Right now, while she’s not birding, it’s not raining.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Higbee Beach. The 2nd Avenue Jetty. The Beanery. The Meadows. Hidden Valley. The Hawkwatch Platform. Any birder who has ever visited Cape May and many who have not will recognize these place names that are iconic in the birding world. All of them were on the route of the Triathlon Hawks, our Swarovski Optik-sponsored team competing in the Carbon Footprint category of the 2011 World Series of Birding.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2011
Mother’s Day weekend was deeded over to Daisy long ago. I had no say in what we were doing or where we were going. Considering Mother’s Day is in early May and I am a birder this situation nearly gave me nightmares. Fortunately for me I was only subjected to shopping for one afternoon and it was a necessary trip. But this post isn’t about shopping it is about visiting Caumsett State Historic Park and not birding.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2011
As entertaining as it has been reading about the lovely spring migrations in North America recently, it might be worth remembering the fate of Southern Hemisphere types for whom the days are getting shorter and colder. A chilly southerly that felt like it could have blown straight the ice-sheets of Antarctica hit me today as I stood briefly outside, and winter, which had seemed to first arrive early and then relent somewhat, is here.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2011
It really has been great to see such beautiful pictures of wood-warblers all week, especially when it has been so long since we saw any in the USA. It made us reach for our field guide for North America, but that really does not compare to the real thing. I had spent several holidays with my family in the USA in the 1980′s and then worked in Maine during the summer of 1985-beware the poison ivy and the snapping turtles!
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2011
Brown-headed Cowbirds evoke strong feelings in many birders, some of whom can’t abide a bird that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, often to the detriment of the nest owners’ offspring. But there is much to like about cowbirds. Though the female is bland the male is quite snappy with his glossy black body and brown head. And while a thriving cowbird population pretty much demands the destruction of at least some individuals of other species one really can’t blame the
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Everyone knows what a jinx bird is. It is a bird that dodges you like sanity does Michele Bachmann. No matter how hard you try to find a jinx bird it eludes you. They are frustrating, annoying, anger-inducing, and, when you finally find one, amazingly rewarding ! Jinx birds are one of the aspects of birding that makes birding fun. Anyway, the point here is, well, that Clapper Rails are not a jinx bird for me.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2011
Wood-Warbler Week is finally over for 2011. Will it come back in 2012? We’ll see… But there is one more thing to do for Wood-Warbler Week, and that is to figure out what wood-warbler is represented in the Wood-Warbler Week logo, which was created by my wonderful sister-in-law, Stephanie Chung. Below is the logo. What species is shown?
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2011
Wood-Warbler Week has drawn to a close here on 10,000 Birds , yet all around the world the warbler watching remains hot and heavy. Why is it, then, that I had such a tough time finding one this weekend? Ivy and I visited a new hiking trail in hopes of decent birding, but got completely skunked warbler-wise. Luckily, I crossed paths with a Common Yellowthroat in full “witchity-witchity&# later in the weekend!
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 17, 2011
Tia Torres knows what it’s like to be unwanted. Coming from a broken home, as a child she longed for a forever family. As a young teenager, Tia created her own family by helping people and animals who were lonely, lost and in need.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Who doesn’t like hornbills? Make sure to check out Hornbill Week at The Green Ogre. a.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 17, 2011
Road Dog Tales: PAWS UP! to Mountainair and Artist Dee Melaragno. Please visit and read about the Mountainair studio, and while you are there be sure to have a look around the rest of the Road Dog Tales blog, they are doing some wonderful things for our furry friends!
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