10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience. Salvin’s Prion.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We all have them: families of birds that are maddeningly similar, forever leaving nagging doubts about our identifications. Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. New World Warblers in non-reproductive plumage. As is this one.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

This bird, of the Turdus family, can be found on the western slopes of Ecuador and Colombia. This was a very interesting experience with quick breaths, speeding heartbeats, and a few tense moments of not being able to photograph the bird due to fog.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The Buff-necked Woodpecker (Taman Negara, Malaysia) is classified as Near Threatened, with the usual rationale of “habitat loss” (which sounds nicer than “evil humans destroying anything that does not immediately bring in money). Kind of like a diesel version.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

The “ Explores” are only part of the book, and there is much else of value in it, even for the reader who cannot quit his job, sell all his worldly possessions, leave his home and family, and take to the byroads armed only with a parabolic microphone. To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2018

It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. Trust me, we are better off not being able to translate all of that hyperactive sputtering. I would hope not! I’m pretty sure they are!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2013

From Owls in the Family to Wesley the Owl , the narrative in which a human interacts with another species and learns a bit about life along the way has long been a popular and affecting one. This is a pretty good model of the modern environmental ethic of self-restraint and respectful watching.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2011

Phoebes are proud members (at least they seem so) of the Family Tyrannidae , the tyrant flycatchers. Of the more than 400 tyrannids, as birds in this family are sometimes called, only three belong to the genus Sayornis , the phoebes. In fact, this is one species that seems to thrive in the face of rampant development.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2020

American ornithologist and artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) chose to depict the European Starlings with native birds of the family Icteridae — birds it commonly associates with — in his two-volume Birds of New York , commissioned by the New York State Museum in 1904.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. There is so much here!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. However, they do not occur evenly across their familial distribution. In my experience, parrots form a visibly and numerically important component of the Brazilian bird fauna. I am a self-proclaimed psittacophile. Birds Brazilian birding macaw parrots'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2013

Fortunately for attendees, there are around 60 family groups of the charismatic and affable birds scattered throughout the Brevard County area, and many of the field trips at the festival run across them at various times. Florida Scrub-Jays have extraordinarily specific habitat requirements, or at least it seems that way now.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

Incidentally, Italy, Belgium, and Portugal are among the eighteen countries where falconry is inscribed as a living human heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESC0), attesting to the great heritage of this sport in many parts of the world.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 30, 2011

Fortunately, pet foster parents offer a solution to this issue by allowing pets the time to adjust to a home life with human companions before they find their forever home. Slow welcome to the family – If you have other animals or children, make the introductions to the foster pet gradually and only with supervision.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

When staying with Daisy’s family in Yorba Linda, California, I often wake up early in the morning and take the short walk up to the southern end of Carbon Canyon Regional Park to do some birding. Despite, or maybe because of the active human intervention, quite a few species can be seen in a couple hours in the morning. (I

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

When Daisy started talking about a family trip to Maine for the long Memorial Day Weekend I had one thing on my mind: puffins! For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

It will be family friendly and it is well organized. With deep local roots in the New York City activism scene and experience, post Hurricane Sandy, of the damage that climate change can cause , Occupy Wall Street has morphed into an organization with a ton of organizing and direct action talents.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

People ascribe near mythic status to the members of the family Delphinidae (and other related families). I had my first swim with Inshore Bottlenose Dolphins in Northland’s Bay of Islands back in 2000, and it was a tripy experience. Which has always mystified me slightly. South Banks Peninsula.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2009

Together Purina and the Kroger family of stores will donate $150,000 to animal welfare organizations in 2009 and will recognize six exceptional pet lovers’ tales via a national television special this fall. Nestlé Purina is committed to promoting responsible pet care, humane education and community involvement. Television Special.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans. While people with dogs often experience the greatest health benefits, a pet doesn’t necessarily have to be a dog or a cat.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We encounter a family participating in a hawk watch count at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park; birder and activist Madeleine Sandefur, who introduces us to Sabal Palms Sanctuary in Brownsville, on the south side of a border wall built in 2009; and birders who are actually birding, identifying an oriole (Altamira rather than Hooded).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

But I took an opportunity to go down to Manitoba with Travis to see my family. 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?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those of us who chase rare birds for our counties, states, or other human-made geographical distinctions watch birds for more reasons than the twitch. The next day saw us making our way to El Tapir for close views of the Snowcap , a surreal fairy of a creature that stands out in an already surreal family.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

For many birders a highlight of birding the southeastern United States, maybe even the definitive birding experience of the region, is taking in the great numbers and diversity of long-legged wading birds. Modern humans may have little to fear from alligators, but deep in our conscious we remember. Can you find all of them?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? What about being torn from your family? What about all of the elements of being confined and enslaved and killed and watching others meet their untimely demises?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Monte in California agreed: “I’d like some time just to watch healthy wild families.”. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season. Charitable Things.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

My childhood in the 1970s and 1980s was of course shaped by family, friends, playmobil ( very popular in Germany back then), and school but also to a certain extend by the Cold War. Yes, in the face of all the human tragedy the Cold War caused it may seem a miniscule aspect, but to a young boy who was passionate about birds, it wasn’t.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

The conversations with family and friends have already begun about "Turkey Day." I've had family members ask me to refrain from "proselytizing" to not "spoil the day" for everyone and to "give it a rest" and let everyone eat in peace. I haven't had a Thanksgiving with family members in years. Not humans, not animals."

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch. There are few animal rights stories in the news.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

I really enjoyed getting a look into a world that few people will ever really know, and especially getting to know the human dog bonds that go into such work. Our working life together is framed by loss and urgency—a person missing, time passing, a family and community desperate for answers. by Susannah Charleson.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

But the message remains the same, and it's the only such message available in film to my knowledge (and please let me know of any others): there's simply no way to kindly, politely, "humanely" take someone's life when you don't need to. My experiences are unlike any of the film's subjects. For all of us.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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