10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting. The refuge is already open to sport fishing.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2016

It’s tough to beat calling red-shoulders interrupting the kickball game with the kids! 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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2016 Eggs Chickens New York 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guide’s index, and the last. It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

In fact, a game is on even as I write this, which means I’ve got no time for idle banter. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How was your weekend? Mine was fun and footballtastic. The best birds of my weekend were Seahawks, Eagles, Falcons, Cardinals, And Ravens.

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Bald Eagle New Jersey 2011 New York 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

Don’t think we’ve noticed that most of you don’t play along with this game of sharing the best–meaning the coolest, rarest, fanciest, or dearest–bird species you’ve spotted in a given weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

If owls have traditionally eluded you, get back in the game… your luck may be turning. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Owl Woods and Short-eared Owls from New York to the Galapagos Islands. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Barn Owls 2012 Owls New York 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

In my eyes, what counts is how someone plays the game. If you cannot share the bird with your guest, try not to share the experience because it makes everything they have seen a little league birding, compared to your mega tick. He suffered from the lack of experience as a traveler and someone who has hired guides himself.

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Birds Botswana Free Range Leopards 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

One such surprising experience happened with grouse. I daresay Fred wanted to do the hike more than we did but being kids before the digital age, we were always game for outdoor adventures. 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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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. We arose each morning at 4:30am to find out that we were late to the game. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2011

While the Rovio Angry Birds game franchise is hugely popular and has even led to a post here on 10,000 Birds that speculated on the identification of what the Angry Birds birds actually are , little attention has been paid to those that came before. Now, not all Carolina Wrens are angry. In fact, most are pretty happy.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 16, 2023

The Research on Elephant Self-Awareness In the 2000s, a team of researchers led by Diana Reiss conducted a series of experiments on Asian elephants using the mirror test. The mirror test has been used to test self-awareness in several species, including elephants.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The best birds of my weekend were Double-crested Cormorants winging over New Jersey’s Meadowlands as I left Sunday’s Giants game. 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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

During a two-year long moratorium on hunting in T&T, I had some of the most incredible birding experiences. Photographing hummingbirds outside of a hummingbird garden is a different ball game, especially skittish species like this Rufous-breasted Hermit which we caught on its rest perch.

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Trinidad Hunting Venezuela Woodpeckers 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Nestled between the Huangpu River and the East China Sea, Shanghai offers a captivating blend of urban charm and natural wonders, making it a must-visit destination for birders seeking a unique and diverse avian experience. The clash of nature and urban progress creates a bizarre and sometimes frustrating experience for birdwatchers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

While Uganda does not have the international reputation of its neighbors Kenya and Tanzania, the experience there is no less extraordinary – and in many ways, particularly for the birder, it’s even more so. The diversity of habitats in this country that is approximately the size of Oregon is particularly notable.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2011

I took my son to his first baseball game and my first exposure to the local minor league franchise, the Rochester Red Wings. 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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2011 Falcons Blackbirds Game 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

GAMES AND APPS. What kid does not love games? Thankfully there are several really excellent family board games that you can play as a whole family. A few to try out are as follows: The Great North American Birdwatching Trivia Board Game and Bird-opoly. Many of these festivals have live bird displays.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off. It really looked like a game of tag. As the weaker juvenile became stronger, its flight mentor stepped up the game, though I didn’t realize it at first. They would feed a bite to one.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 191

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. Game was not plentiful but the highlight was finding a beautiful female Leopard with her cub next to the road, and along the Mago River, a Da Brazza’s Monkey gorging himself on figs.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.

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Animal Research Florida Research AETA 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

So it is the dying seconds of the game, 3rd and long and I still haven’t come up with an idea for a post. It is game day for the 99th Grey Cup , Canada’s annual football party and championship (46 Superbowls? My team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are in the game, after finishing in the cellar of the league last year.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

The bird eluded me for nearly 20 years until I stumbled across one at Phinda Private Game Reserve , where I worked in northern KwaZulu-Natal. It was early afternoon and myself and a few of the other game rangers were out birding a productive fig forest close to Mkuze Game Reserve, our neighbor to the north of Phinda.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 10, 2012

Dr. Goodall will ride in the 124 th Rose Parade presented by Honda and themed “Oh, the Places You’ll Go! ” She will then toss the coin before the 99 th Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO. New Year’s day symbolizes the opportunity to work toward new goals, experience new beginnings, and make a difference.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

In the outfield, I was entertained by the mechanical song and flight antics of a choice meadow bird, I can still recall my best friend’s mom telling me, “Patrick, don’t go watching those Bobolinks during the game!” ” During migration, I also see Eastern Wood-Pewees in Costa Rica.

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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!). They live for up to 100 years.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2019

Getting to actually see four species, in the last two weeks, and to hear two more is almost unheard of in my experience. Several times, a couple of the juvenile owls would take off in a game of chase. The last couple of weeks have really been a boom for me personally, as far as spotting our local owls goes.

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Owls Arizona Tucson South Africa 159

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

And while the scientific species name kasumba sounds like some frightening new fitness trend or a dancing game performed on cruise ships, it is apparently just the Malay term for red. My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. Trust me, the species name makes sense for the male, though not for the female.

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. Fortunately, some birds seem to be ok with a concrete environment – like this Blue Rock Thrush.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 226

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Experimenting on animals is fun and it helps everyone.even animals! The AALAS Foundation has teamed up with the Whyville Web site to launch the Community Animal Research Environment (CARE), a series of educational games in a virtual laboratory. It's sponsored by (surprise!) Also, it's a great way to get girls interested in science!

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Medical Research Animal Research Medical Science 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

My woodcock experiences in the state have exclusively been of the inadvertent variety. Peent ing from the hedgerows, whistling overhead, and prancing about on the paths as if they own the place. For all this simple Bogsucker viewing, it was outright embarrassing that I’d never taken the opportunity to indulge.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

If you are a bad hunting partner and do not flush enough game, the raptor will fly off when released and not return. If the bird was starving or if you are a bad hunting partner who doesn’t flush lots game, that raptor will fly away when you let it go and not come return to the you. Not always.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Friskies is always looking for new ways to enhance play experiences for cats,” says Alison Coburn, assistant brand manager for Friskies. There is a large built-in aquarium, touch floor to play Friskies® Games for Cats and many unique climbing spaces. Starting today you can watch as 10 cats play and live in the Friskies Plus Playhouse!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Visiting this area for the first time after seeing it for month was a crazy experience. It was astonishing, like a game drive in the savannah of Africa. 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. A Humpback Whale.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). I stand with my jaw open, stunned by the rawness of nature.

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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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