10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Nate Swick is a contributor to 10,000 Birds, American Birding Association (ABA) blog editor and event leader, and environmental educator. For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

After experiencing the Rachel Carson Commemorative in Duxbury, MA, she was moved to share some little-known facts about this tremendously influential nature writer’s interest in birds… I was thirteen when my mother and I took turns reading aloud the new bestseller, Silent Spring , on family vacation the summer of 1963.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

In the coming months, Mars Petcare will sponsor family-focused healthy living fairs for pets and people at the following locations: New York City – The Prospect Park YMCA, October 16. The WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition provides the science behind our leading petcare brands. Tags: events. Headquartered in McLean, Va.,

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from a cosmic impact event about 65 million years ago, the ancestors of modern birds were different from modern birds in many ways, but also similar in many ways. Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Here’s the thing.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. ’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

It wasn’t a particularly eventful year in and of itself, but for those who weren’t around, a lot has changed since then. Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., This post is meant to serve as a flashback to 1998, 15 years ago.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It is also about Chris’s personal history: his boyhood in suburban Long Island, college years at Harvard and the struggle to come out, ‘nerdy’ passions beyond birding–namely science fiction books and films, career highs at Marvel Comics, travels to foreign countries, and his complicated relationships with his parents.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

This has happened before, Archaeopteryx and the bird family tree have had an often tenuous relationship. But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&#

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. And, for those birds that rely on magnetic fields, how does a bird deal with secular changes (small changes over decades) in the earth’s magnetic field, and how does a bird deal with the very rare event of a total reversal in the field’s orientation? Image source.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Tags: cranes , poaching , sandhill crane hunting , sandhill cranes , whooping cranes • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

The oft-told tale of its start in 1900 as an alternative to the “side-hunt” which was itself a long tradition in many families warms many a birder’s heart. What’s not to like about citizen science, conservation, and transforming a day of slaughter into a day of enjoying being outside watching birds?

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