10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

” In that document they speak of a strategy for new opportunities stating that “the team will work with States and other conservation partners to complete a strategy for developing new opportunities for hunting, fishing, WILDLIFE VIEWING AND PHOTOGRAPHY , with special emphasis on youth and people with disabilities.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Interestingly, “Getting Close,” a fieldcraft topic, is wedged in the middle there, after image sharpness and before light, emphasizing the importance of strategy, preparation, and awareness in the midst of thinking about ISO and exposure. I found that there were surprises in each chapter. The last two chapters point us to the future.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises. This is a smartly written book.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope. I think this is unique in the Big Year Narrative genre and I appreciate it.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

Teams were composed of experience birders in their respective countries, but levels of expertise among birders varied from those with plenty of experience in the Neotropics, including some of the authors of the book “The Birds of Peru” to those for whom coming to Peru was their first time in Latin America. Photo: Peru Birding Rally.

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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). If Japan Can Why Can’t We : 17,000 views (2 years – 39,000).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

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. These “grouse” could be too sneaky for such heavy-handed, accidental strategies.

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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. Salvin’s Prion. Just get rid of the mice. Our Flock to Marion was no different.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Much to my amazement, my strategy worked. It was an awesome experience and one that I wish that everyone could have! Instead of even trying to fight the sun I decided to do a loop around the bird, which looked to be feeding on something, with the hope that I could get the sun at my back and the buzzard in front of me.

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Meat Experience Experiments Birds 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

Plus, I usually bird alone, so sharing the experience with a friend is that much better. Second, they are usually organized by species groups, and thus point out holes in one’s birding strategy. As we walked, my friend would periodically exclaim, “That’s a new entry in my checklist!”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

It was during these long evening sessions that I allowed my mind to wander to far-away destinations, making plans and coming up with strategies on how to see them all with a minimum amount of trips. As cheesy as it may sound, these experiences with what I was taught all my life were foes wanting nothing more than my demise were life-changing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Our strategy on each day was to be the first people on the road in the morning. There are certain birding experiences that stay with you forever. In 2013, Dalcio Dacol and I paid a visit to this reserve as part of an independent, month long birding trip in southeast Brazil. And that was it.

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Brazil California Condor Parrots Texas 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2016

The nation was launching its official National Birdwatching Strategy, which is a pretty cool thing for a nation to have, let alone one that can offer so much to that end. It’s an incredible experience to see these cotton balls on stilts as they hop out from the dense mountain forest underbrush and dance around in front of you.

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Colombia Primates Reptiles Experience 153

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The complexity of the ways in which they use their voices, find food sources, and attract mates belies the often anthropomorphic view of birds as sweet, pure beings with tiny brains (it turns out that these brains are full of neurons).

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Pelagic birding off the Atlantic coast of Florida can be a frustrating experience, usually involving long waits of up to an hour or more interspersed with brief flurries of activity — a far cry from pelagic birding off of coasts blessed with cold water currents and nutrient rich upwelling such as California, southeast Australia, and Peru.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

But for millions of years up until now you haven’t had an international audience of thousands of highly social mammals with their own particular quirks and evolutionary strategies watching your every move around the clock. They want an authentic nature experience, but a relatable authentic nature experience.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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Puerto Rico Animal Legal Defense Fund Primates Research 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I’m fairly certain that it was the deliberate strategy of the bird to kill the duck on the water and wait for it to come ashore. My time with this falcon was an experience I won’t soon forget. Here she is making one of her very low passes over the duck. The closer the dead duck came to shore the closer to the shore the falcon perched.

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Falcons Ducks Utah Ethics 118

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? Well, they weren’t so much of a flock as they were a group of birds all following their own foraging strategy in the same area. Birds, of course! ( As Clare well knows! )

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

A bite from an army ant can really pack a punch; I speak from experience. Being quiet and patient and letting the birds move around and reveal themselves is usually the best strategy. If you are lucky, you will find an ant swarm before they find you, which is a preferable method for sure.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Green boxes offer Natural History and Taxonomic Notes.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

In addition, since their prey lives underwater where hearing is not a defense strategy, the owls lack the soft edges to their flight feathers which provide other owls with quiet flight. Our Pel’s experience deep within the heart of the Okavango was unforgettable. What a beauty! The ginger phantom is a phantom no more.

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Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 253

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. Jim Carpenter is the founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, the popular bird feeder and seed franchise.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 5, 2010

Every animal is different, so what I do with Violet won't be the ideal strategy for everyone. Last night, my vet called to update me. He he had just gotten off the phone with Intervet/Schering-Plough and so far, a recall of Vetsulin isn't planned, but it also hasn't been ruled out. Supply is limited.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. The good included the development of a new, more open, conservation strategy that embraced communication and education of the community.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 238

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2015

Unfortunately, perhaps because of drier than normal weather, or because big ideas tend to be learning experiences, we couldn’t find any flowering Heliconias at a restaurant or even along the road. Amazingly, the strategy paid off when a tiny hummingbird materialized on the tip top of a twig just like coquettes love to do.

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Costa Rica San Jose Species Owls 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

From the abstract of that paper: The behavioral strategies developed by predators to capture and kill their prey are fascinating, notably for predators that forage for prey at, or beyond, the boundaries of their ecosystem. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) Here is a video of some Wels Catfish foraging on Pigeons.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

Up north, strategies for a Big Day have to include knowledge of sites for breeding birds, the best places to find migrants, driving times, and the ability to identify by sight or sound, anything that peeps, flies, or pops into view. That said, this year, it barely happened, and that disturbing experience brings me to my next point.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. It will likely take me over a year from now to get there so I can’t take the strategy that I did previous years and try to guess by what season is coming. Of course, as the list grows it gets more and more difficult to add something new to it.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2020

At the top are the keynote and plenary speakers, who generally have decades of experience and impressive backgrounds. The general schedule truly begins today and I will report my experiences at my first virtual ornithology conference. The presenters are generally graduate students and perhaps a few undergraduates.

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Puerto Rico 2020 Experience Experiments 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

The years passed and I had several similar experiences with this cryptic species. Only then I realized that it was an adult with a juvenile – and the experience took on an entirely new dimension. I was on a Christmas Bird Count and none of the other more experienced birders even attempted to get a good view of it.

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2012 Bears Experience Experiments 200

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 258

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For New Zealand, he describes each of the Subantarctic Islands and mainland islands and beaches where its nine Penguin species are found, including endemic species like Snares, Erect-crested, and Royal, and suggests strategies for seeing them all. Plantema has travelled to every penguin location, some multiple times, over the past 42 years.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

Fortunately, in science, there is often a way to turn a defeat into a victory – in this case via the author just coming up with a new hypothesis, “if black eagles use the frequency or intensity of mobbing as a clue to locate nests, a lack of seasonal difference in mobbing behavior by drongos may be an evolutionary adaptive strategy.”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This post isn’t a claimed expert speaking from on high but more of an attempt to explain 10,000 Birds’ social media strategy, such as it is, and a jumping off point for what will hopefully be an insightful discussion in the comments. What is your social media strategy?

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