10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Tanzania has an enormous variety of exquisite birds but unfortunately it has an equal number of distractions that can interrupt your birding experience. Take these pesky Lions for instance. Some signal passed between the two Lions and they both rose together and began circling each other.

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Tanzania Lions Birds Cats 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2014

While March earns a reputation for coming in like a lion, the season rarely seems as wild and cold as Winter Storm Titan threatens to be over the next few days in the American Northeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

It’s the only park I have ever been to that not only have I seen all five of the Big Five (Lion, Leopard, African Buffalo, White Rhino and African Elephant) in, but seen them all on the same day. Lions are boring and should be avoided on safari, but I quite liked this one, even if he had ticks.

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South Africa Leopards Giraffes Africa 159

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2020

Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from personal experience. Together with 4 bird photos and one of the Asiatic Lion , for which Gir NP is famous, there is very little text on the park. But that is not the only thing.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 8, 2023

On more then one occasion I've seen cat prints on the sandy banks by the reservoir while fishing but always assumed them to be mountain lions or bobcats now im thinking they've been panther tracks all this time. I can tell you from first hand experience you're not crazy.

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Los Angeles Mountain Lions Cats Fur 52

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

This diversity makes for a very unique birding experience. In addition to the hundred or so species of birds I regularly find here, there are Desert Foxes, Bobcats, Mountain Lions, Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mule Deer. Box canyons, long arroyos, and rolling desert vistas, accented with several different kinds of cactus.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

What this land-locked country lacks in endemic birds it more than makes up for in accessibility of tough species, numbers of birds and the overall wildlife experience. We are currently filming in Botswana. have basically focused our filming efforts on three regions of northern Botswana: The Okavango Delta, The Chobe and the Makgadigadi Pans.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Four lions, rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI) from a Bolivian circus when the country banned the use of animals in circuses have a new home, and a life of luxury at the ARK 2000 sanctuary in Calaveras County. These lions really are home for the holidays.””. What a way to start memorial weekend.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

She turned, looked, and by the expression on her face I guessed she was thinking “Goodness, I’m glad that was not a lion.”. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do).

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 11, 2011

Steve dons a camouflage suit for a once-in-a-lifetime experience that gets him closer to a wild leopard than he ever hoped. At night, he catches up with a pride of lions to witness their hunting and killing skills in the dark, proving just how deadly and vicious lions are. And, who says small spiders are harmless?

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Cats Leopards Namibia Lions 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:26 pm Corey, I am jealous of your Red-breasted Merganser experience at JBWR and the flight shots. I suspect though that once we get past the Ides of March (beware!) we might have a shot at another spring. Get yours today!

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2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

This allowed them to carry out experiments such as giving some bones to the hyenas to see what they would look like after being munched on for a while. This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes. Photo by Mikebaird.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For 9 months of the year, this great, bellowing herd can be found in the Serengeti and watching the long lines of grunting wildebeest moving across the plains is truly a remarkable experience. Sunset over the Ngorongoro Crater, a sight to behold! Only bull African Elephants reside in the Ngorongoro Crater The birding is equally astounding.

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 228

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

They have also been known as Lion Baboons and Bleeding-heart Baboons, due respectively to the males’ lion-like cape and tail, and the bare patch of red skin on both sex’s chests. Their scientific name is Theropithecus gelada, the former word meaning “beast-ape” in Greek. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2016

The following pictures were taken at Hannover Zoo recently, showing just that – feeding and preening, for a family-friendly birding experience. No, the usual birding opportunity at zoos and parks is one of watching feeding and preening behaviour, or parenting and social interactions. Beware of Crocodiles.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Merely a month later, I was camping in the Central Kalahari, at the unfenced site that is now closed for campers because the local lion pride became too curious. Birding a different continent allowed me to put all my experiences and knowledge into perspective and to discover how much more fun birding could be.

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Serbia Bosnia Research Lions 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

They’re looking to win their first championship in 21 years, against the heavily favoured BC Lions. I have faith and I’m sure that my brother, the Lion fan, will be wearing a Winnipeg Blue Bomber “Swaggerville” t-shirt after I win my bet. They seemed to relish the run as much as the dogs and my children.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

If I want my children to be birders, or at least to appreciate birding, I need them to have good experiences doing it with me. After we’d looked at this plain gray bird long enough, we headed to the nature museum and gawked at Black Bears and River Otters and search unsuccessfully for the Mountain Lion.

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North Carolina Mountain Lions Otters Lions 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few. The rabbit is dispatched in seconds Although I’m sure that there are readers that will disagree with my sentiments, I must confess to being enthralled by my experience with Harris Hawks.

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s the same reason so many people now cut up their plastic six-pack holders — because the connection between their soda and the strangled sea lion becomes obvious, visual and intimate. If the experience of handing over that box can be transformative instead of alienating or shaming, there’s a possibility of change.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 218

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Visiting this area for the first time after seeing it for month was a crazy experience. California Sea Lions porpoised through the clear water. It’s a liberating feeling on a tiny island. A view from the West End, an area completely closed even to the biologists during the summer. And there where whales.

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Whales Whaling Sharks Bats 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Growing up in central Oregon, allowed me to experience such a diverse amount of habitat, and the wildlife that resides there. Many refuges in this part of the state, like Malheur refuge, Summer Lake Refuge, and Tule lake Refuge all get the lion’s share of acclaim, and publicity, and deservedly so.

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Sheep Oregon Mules Livestock 119

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

(How do you find lions in Africa? I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. Watch for parked 4x4s! This was pretty much the same thing.) With one Black Stork near them, some 80 LWfG were foraging in the distance, where the sun was just now clearing the mist.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. This is largely due to the remoteness and prior near inaccessibility of the area, forming a natural barrier to modernization and the detribalization of the Omo Valley. Yellow-billed Stork.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The Big Five–lion, leopard, African buffalo, elephant, and rhinoceros–are impressive, but my heart lies with the patterned mammals, giraffes and zebras. That was easily fixed by adding a post-Safari trip to Eastern South Africa, led by dashing Rockjumper guide Clayton Burne, to my itinerary.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Knowing this, we were certainly far from disappointed by our experience but we of course all dreamed of a closer view. View of our camp in the Rhumbak Valley.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Tumblr seems like it would be an ideal way to have a secondary blog feed a primary blog but Mike’s experiment with the format did not work terribly well in terms of driving traffic to 10,000 Birds. We get a slow but steady trickle from Twitter, mostly people, it seems, who get the lion’s share of their content via that medium.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 200

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2012

By “super carnivore” I mean top-of-the-food-chain kinds of critters, like lions or wolf packs, etc., Consider this thought experiment. Ask yourself this question: Why don’t the super carnivores in a given ecosystem just eat all the prey? and in the world of birds, a pair of eagles qualifies.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Coyotes Mississippi 179

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? by Marc Bekoff.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

At sea there are also New Zealand Sea Lions and Southern Right Whales. Whangarei New Zealand’s most northerly city and smack bang in the middle of the Northland region, those seeking to experience wild New Zealand have a dizzying array of choices here. Also within reach are the greatest surviving expanses of kauri forests.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Marabous have also learnt another trick, and that is to follow vultures and scavenge off the remains of Lion and other large predator kills. It is quite a sight to experience hundreds of Abdim’s Stork dropping out of the skies from seemingly thin air, to gorge on burnt or fleeing insects and rodents.

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