10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins here! <pause> There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is one of them. I’ve been fortunate to see two Penguin species in the wild (African and Galapagos) and have dreamed of seeing more–maybe even all! <pause> Do I have your attention now?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. But this is more than a coffee table book. There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly.

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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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JULY 24, 2021

Not about the City of Brotherly Love, not about the Steelers or Penguins, but about forests with deer, birds, and elbow room. One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. And I need you to vote for me and send me to Antarctica, so I could write wildlife blogs on Adélie Penguins and Leopard Seals.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). The penguin fanatics.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I wanted Penguins. The African Penguins (formerly known as Jackass Penguins) were pretty much a “gotcha”, but I was still tremendously excited to see them on two field trips–the Boulders colony by False Bay and at the Stony Point colony at Betty’s Bay in the Western Cape. And Sunbirds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2011

The Gods of Birding, being both capricious and wrathful, decided to punish my insolence by washing up an Emperor Penguin on the coasts of the island upon which I make my home. Which brings us back to the Emperor Penguin. Besides, it’s an Emperor Penguin. This was not initially a problem for me. But the thing was news.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

and having them in your pocket makes a huge difference in your birding experience. You can zoom right into the photos, illustrations and maps, to enlarge the details. The calls are sorted by type (song, alarm, etc.) In the upper right corner of every species entry is a pencil.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

A Crowned Cormorant by Adam Riley African Penguin by Adam Riley Rooiels truly is one of my favorite destinations on the planet. Even leopards still live here and occasionally terrorize the African Penguin colony at nearby Betty’s Bay. So close to Cape Town and yet still so wild.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. But at any rate, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that was just incomparable; I hope I never repeat it, but was glad to have had it happen, just to enjoy the amazing encounter and horror movie–type buzz. Donna’s BBOTY – an African Penguin.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You can end up basking in a rare bird bliss that may linger for weeks, or you basically experience a living hell. There are few things worse than being extremely seasick, particularly if you pay close to $200 for the experience. Who cares if they nest in the Antarctic and eat penguins? Pelagic trips. South Polar Skua.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Apparently, species like Sand Martins and Emperor Penguins develop distinct parent-child vocalizations. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. How do they know?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

I found out about it while looking for information on the unfortunate penguin I discussed last week (which is still alive in Wellington Zoo), and so I stopped by on my way home to have a look. As I mentioned last week I enjoyed the little guys a great deal more than twitching the penguin (does that sound wrong?).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I’ve been thinking about petrels a lot since last week’s post, probably because I am planning a trip to the Otago Peninsula soon which should get me a whole raft of petrels and penguins. But perhaps they are not a species you are ever likely to see on it’s own! …

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

This large picture book features simple, yet clever, rhymes, most of which begin with “Mama build a little nest…” and go on to describe a wide variety of bird nests–a small hummingbird cup, a woven weaverbird sac, a floating Grebe’s nest anchored to water plants, even the foot of ‘daddy’ Emperor Penguin.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This is a good place to see the endangered and beautiful Yellowhead and the endemic Yellow-eyed Penguin. Along with the Northern Royal Albatrosses the peninsula also has a good population of Yellow-eyed Penguin, and you don’t have to get on a boat to see either! Yellow-eyed Penguin at Otago Peninsula.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

White-tailed Lapwing by Jochen Roeder Duncan made a surprising choice: While the twitchers might have gone with the lost Emperor Penguin that washed up in June , my heart belongs to another. White-tailed Tropicbird by Nathan Swick Renato chose an impressive parrot: Birding is a wonderful experience in itself.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Well, sort of, as there are no penguins in Madagascar, indigenous or otherwise. Yet, those bird guides are hefty. Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales.

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APRIL 5, 2011

There are quite a few to choose from but some of the better ones include “ Happy Feet “, a film about Emperor Penguins, and “Hoot&# , a great story about saving Burrowing Owls in Florida. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially the live raptor display by well-known Master Falconer, Jonathan Wood.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Some (but not most) killer whales beach themselves on land or ice to get at sea mammals or penguins, and some dolphins do similar things. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) Archer fish spit at invertebrates resting on overhanging vegetation to knock them into the water. As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.

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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. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Jean Loscalzo is a penguin buff (Can you blame her?) and would love to watch Rockhopper Penguins. My Brazilian wish bird would be Rockhopper Penguin: raucous, feisty birds with really cool haircuts, a sort of disheveled yellow-black shaggy look that they wear well. It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day!

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). Additional measurements are given for certain species, like penguins.)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

clockwise from top left) Common Loon ( Gavia immer ), Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ), Black-footed Albatross ( Phoebastria nigripes ), Brown Pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis ), White Ibis ( Eudocimus albus ), Marabou Stork ( Leptoptilos crumeniferus ), Pied Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax varius ). Jarvis et al.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

More advanced birders will probably want to consider more traditional approaches, and there are a surprising number being published this year: Jennifer Ackerman’s The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Penguin Press, 2020), Marianne Taylor’s How Birds Work: An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of Form (..)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It was a startling but forgivable experience, and not nearly as unsettling an attack by nesting goshawks (or so I’ve heard): it seems an encounter with Haviken involves a certain amount of risk in either case. Penguin Hops is brewed with hops grown around the aquarium grounds and its sales benefit Rockhopper Penguin conservation.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Last month woodpeckers, this month penguins. None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. King Penguins heading out to feed, Macquarie Island (beginning of book). The introductory Penguin Who’s Who introduces each species visually.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Elizabeth’s experience and ingenuity, for example, can be seen in her lithograph of Langsdorff’s Aracari; there was only a single specimen in a German collection and its tail was mutilated, so she obscured the tail in her plate by placing it behind a large leaf (pp. but not too large, and not overwhelmingly heavy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions. Major species names (i.e.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2013

This scraggly collection of islands and deep long bays forms the tip of South Island closest to to North Island, but till this point my only experience of the area had been the long passage down Queen Charlotte Sound to reach the ferry terminal of Picton. Lochmara Bay with Queen Charlotte Sound in the background.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The answers are: (1) the definition is what the authors have decided based on their experience and knowledge of taxonomy, and (2) the terms ‘oceanic birds’ and ‘seabirds’ are interchangeable (so, I will use both in this review).

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