10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Corey never figured out exactly what the bird was trying to eat (Some kind of egg sac? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. but the mystery made the vireo his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

They know how to find food for themselves only a few moments after emerging from their egg, and then likely produce a special protein which allows them to harness quantum entanglement for global navigation. Add to that their incredulous migration facilitated by physiological capabilities we can barely imagine. There is still so much to learn!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2016

While so many spent the weekend obsessing over eggs, others cast their eyes to the feathered fruit of eggs… not necessarily Easter eggs, but different, non-chicken eggs. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches. Among the findings: “Canary traders, mostly with primary education level (63.25%) and Muslim (97.5%), were on average 44 years old and an average experience of 27 years.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2014

The featured image above shows a female incubating eggs from my first resident breeding pair back in 2007. Violet-green Swallows will nest solitarily or in colonies and in my experience seem much more mellow than other swallow species. The four to six eggs are white and unmarked.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2020

If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. Sometimes it is the experience that makes them memorable. The variety of their shapes and colors demanded that I turn my camera earthward. It was this perfectly spherical mushroom that first drew my attention. Then I saw its shiny partner.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. .” But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

We nailed down a few lifers for Ivy, the best of which was Yellow-crowned Night-heron at Big Egg Marsh, which we don’t ever see upstate. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

Fortunately, just like when we visited Washington State , Daisy was amenable to taking a boat ride to see some puffins so on the evening of Saturday, 27 May, we (me, Daisy, Desi, and my mother-in-law) found ourselves on a boat in New Harbor watching Black Guillemots swim in the harbor while we waited for our boat to head out to Eastern Egg Rock.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2013

The Pied Oystercatchers are predictable each year and have just laid their first eggs and the Red-capped Plovers already have young. In this situation we always stop immediately because the chicks or eggs may be a lot closer than you think. The bird is leading you away from its eggs or young and you should follow.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

In theory the eggs are laid, the adults share the incubation of the eggs for 28 days and then fluffy chicks emerge. There are other pairs that nest in rather obscure areas, but as soon as the eggs hatch they walk the chicks several kilometres to a better feeding area. If only it was that easy!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2018

The Tern colonies in Queens didn’t produce anything but the expected species but Gull-billed Terns , Corey’s first of the year, were a pleasure to see loafing on a mudflat at Big Egg Marsh. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2017

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the five Atlantic Puffins he saw on Eastern Egg Rock off the coast of Maine. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He’ll be sure to share pictures once he’s back home and has access to his computer again. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. This film could not be made without them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a surprise American Golden-Plover at Big Egg Marsh in Queens, a very good bird for the east coast in spring, as they tend to migrate north through the center of North America. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

the book follows through mating and egg-laying, incubation and hatching, and the rearing of three young to successful fledging. As an experiment, I also ran this book by a non-birding friend. Starting in winter as the adults return to and repair their nest on the outskirts of Washington D.C. with a view of the Capitol, no less!)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2017

So on Sunday morning he looked at Big Egg Marsh, which has a larger amount of saltmarsh habitat. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He didn’t find a Nelson’s so he gave up and went to the East Pond at Jamaica Bay where he hoped to find some late shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Women who like jacanas will probably also like Spotted Redshanks. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Steal and eat their eggs? They want an authentic nature experience, but a relatable authentic nature experience. I get that good nest sites are at a premium, whether you’re in the market for a box along a bluebird trail in Iowa or a ledge overlooking pigeon-rich Central Park. Again, I know you’re just doing what you gotta do.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

This is the time of year when the Pied Oystercatchers breed and already three of the sixteen pairs along this stretch of beach have successfully laid eggs. The first pair to lay eggs this season have only a few more days of sitting and then they will be very busy guarding their chicks from predators.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Since king penguins don’t build nests, the female lays one egg and both parents share incubation duties by placing the egg on their feet. Experience the mysterious land through the penguins’ eyes on a first-of-its-kind family ride, and then, connect with a colony above and below the water and be inspired to make a difference.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Once again Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is fast approaching in Broome and we can expect the first batch of eggs to be laid within the next few weeks. We have also discovered that they are very rarely successful with the first eggs laid due to predation of either the eggs or the chicks.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2012

In this way, the cuckolding Cuckoo can convince its cuckoldee, the Reed Warbler, to back off when the Cuckoo comes around, allowing the Cuckoo to toss out one of the Warbler’s eggs and replace it with one of its own, to be raised by the hapless Warbler parents. However, Reed Warblers are social learners.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

One could have been just another cat-triggered tragedy ( keep your cats indoors ) turned into an unforgettable experience… My wife and I (retired) had a truly wonderful experience at the end of 2011 when our cat brought in a newly hatched Dikkop. A very special experience!! We raised this little fella to a young adult.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

Excellent 10,000 Birds posts have been written about Pico Bonito and Honduras by Corey and Carlos , so I’m going to focus on some of my most memorable experiences. Double-striped Thick-Knee nests are shallow depressions in the ground, with a typical clutch of two eggs. Which is why seeing them was such a great experience.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? However the night before last all hope was lost, the egg now gone, the birds still on the lake. A different Glaucous Gull.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Whether they are altricial or precocial; eggs, nestlings, or fledglings; born in a scrape, a nest, or a cavity; a seabird or a land bird; we here at 10,000 Birds will make sure that they are covered on 10,000 Birds during the marvelous experience that will be Baby Bird Week. Can you stand the anticipation?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

Every spring I look forward to monitoring my bluebird trails when I not only get to watch Western Bluebirds develop from eggs to fledglings, but other cavity nesters as well. This film is condensed from about a three hour fledging experience of Western Bluebirds being coaxed from their nest box.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. Geography is destiny. 188 for that location and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

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