10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

The mission and the mission statement may need a makeover, particularly if the current activities exceed the financial capacity of the organization. An organization under threat of financial collapse cannot be effective. Experience developing and executing a strategic plan seems essential as well, as are communication skills.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

And if you take this phrase, “stamps in weathered passports,” my interpretation is that the experiences from travel are the “stamps” as sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, on your “passport,” or soul. Hannah overlooking a valley Traveling into Lesotho from the Sani Pass is an experience more than just the journey to the top.

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DECEMBER 5, 2009

PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. These thirty-eight years of experience went fast but that is what happens when you have fun, right? We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. The company is based in Athens, but organizes in detail nature photography trips around the world, mainly gravitating towards a specialization in birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. In the next year I visited the British Birdfair for the first time, which turned out to be the experience that changed my life. My name is Nikos Gallios.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2023

I experienced this first hand while attending last year’s CBC , but because I’m motivated by feelings I didn’t consider this a true experience. Nature is an infinitely unpredictable organism and I’m happy to bird naturally. Which brings me to the happenings of yesterday morning.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. It was a fantastic experience. With over seventeen years of experience studying birds and guiding all over Ghana, I am one of the most experienced active birding guides in Ghana today.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Corey spent the weekend at a union retreat, organizing with his colleagues with the plan to improve his day job, so he didn’t get much birding in except on Saturday morning on his way there. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Seriously, this bird was sleek and stylish!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

The bird was such a hit with residents that Kasia, who went on to found the rescue organization Kasia’s Ark Bird Rescue , continued the effort once she returned to New Orleans. The seniors get a positive experience from interacting with the birds. Scooter is now getting on in years and has suffered health setbacks.

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MAY 9, 2023

I’m wondering if y’all went to school for animal science, veterinary science, just have a general love for taking care of animals or have experience through volunteering with such organizations?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

From my experience, the gulling season is definitively winter. Mars Muusse is a Dutch birder specializing in gulls and the founder of a famous gull identification website Gull Research Organization. Detailed range maps with a textual range description for each species are included. The colder – the better. I hate the cold. Philippe J.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Babita Tours has many years of experience organizing tailor-made wildlife tours for private groups in this wonderful country. We travel from Delhi via Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, a truly magical experience with the added bonus of Black-winged Stilts and River Lapwings on the Yamuna River.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2021

As with previous counts in Cano Negro , many thanks goes to Tatiana and Renato of Cano Negro Experience for doing a fantastic job of organizing and coordinating the count. If you plan on visiting Costa Rica, think about visiting Cano Negro for birding. I bet you will see a lot.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

His topic was the report recently issued by the Audubon Society where the organization claimed 314 species of birds in the United States and Canada are threatened by climate change. It will be family friendly and it is well organized. The action will be fluid – organized chaos – and will undoubtedly lead to mass arrests.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

With no avian-themed organizations representing, the Patriots won yet again. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Remember way back to last year when a team named for a bird won the Super Bowl? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. Because eBird has so much data that can be organized and displayed in so many ways, it is easy to find fascinating information. One way to view the data is to organize your “World Life List” by date. It continues to roll out new functionality.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of technology, development, and globalization, but which still shines bright, fewer in number but brilliant in quality, thanks to birders and birding organizations that believe in knowing your patch and your state.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We partner with the best guides in the area to provide unapparelled birding experiences. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. As an independent traveler when you book your tours directly with us you will experience the best Peru tours and by doing so, you will be helping in the maintenance of national parks and reserves of Peru.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2023

As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A couple of presentations were also given; one by Diego Quesada of Birding Experiences regarding count routes, and another given by Juan Diego Vargas of Lifer Tours that provided interesting and novel information about the count species, the Keel-billed Motmot. Count Totals and eBird Trip Report.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2017

I have just returned from Costa Rica, the country about which I knew very little, despite it coming under my radar all the way back in 1999 when the “Africa – Birds & Birding” magazine published some of John Graham’s experiences from his visit in 1993. My hopes of ever visiting it were not particularly high. It was true!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2024

For my next visit in the following summer, we decided to organize a company birding trip to La Estanzuela – another treasure spot in the Cumbres. Amazingly, everyone showed up at dawn except for one person, who’d had a near-death experience with me on Colombia’s Sumapaz paramo, an acceptable excuse for a no-show.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2012

Before I get into the nitty-gritties of my awesome birding experiences in Hungary I thought I would just share a few of the shots that I got during the trip. … My week-long trip to Hungary was a familiarity trip organized by the wonderful folks at Swarovski Optik. I’m baaack! And what a trip to Hungary it was!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2012

My wife and I took a little vacation back in February to scout this river boat service; it was one of those experiences that will always bring back many good memories and great birds. These day tours are also very good to see wildlife and experience the deep jungle beauty with its noises, smells, and mysteries.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

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.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

Many thanks goes to Pirjo Laakso and Wilfredo Villalobos of Cabuya Bird Watching for organizing this special trip and to fellow birders Alex Montero, Diego Quesada, and Roger Rodriguez Bravo for sharing the experience. Most photos in this post were taken by Diego Quesada of Birding Experiences.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

No matter where you are in the world, chances are that an array of organisms are responding to climatic signals by, among other things, growing, dying, blooming, fruiting, fattening, nesting, or migrating. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

Describing trails – or organized bird outings – as “easy” just isn’t enough information. Apart from helping share this much-needed information, it’s a concrete way they can help, and it can be such an amazing learning experience going through the process of a Birdability Site Review. Easy for who…?!).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2018

The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W. Red Bead Experiment (a longer video than the excerpts from this that are listed above): 2,100 views (2 years – 5,300). Other videos with more than 500 views in 2017 or over 2,000 total views: Managing the Organization as a System by Dr. W.

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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. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience. All that planning, preparation, shopping, organizing, and now it was over.

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