10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Red-capped Manakin : Seeing a nesting female wasn’t quite as good as seeing a male do its famous and hilarious courtship “moondance”, the star of many nature videos. It would take video to really show the experience, so you’ll have to take my word for it.) But it was close.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. I just happened to be there to experience it. I had the wherewithal to video a bit of the show (below) and here’s the eBird checklist. I had the wherewithal to video a bit of the show (below) and here’s the eBird checklist.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Homework assignment: Is the bird in this video a male or a female? And there is a video here. Anyway, below is the female, and here are two videos. Also available as a video and another video. If you like cute birds, you will probably like the Black-and-yellow Broadbill. My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It is my opinion from personal experience that there is really no point in buying the BTX without the extender. With the use of the ME 1.7x magnification extender, which I cannot praise enough and highly recommend, they can be increased to 50x and 60x respectively. Nearly all extenders affect the quality of the image viewed. This one doesn’t.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. And video resources. The Review: I confess, I don’t always love hawks.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2020

I previewed this post and the video sometimes cycles on to the next one in the best Youtube tradition. It keeps reverting to the wrong video, so I have dropped it in favour of letting you cut and paste the link above. A recent experience in India made me wonder if this enchanting experience couldn’t be improved upon.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The video above, taken yesterday at New Jersey’s Stone Harbor Point by Tom Johnson , is pretty awesome. He was simultaneously filming with two different devices so the video starts with the wide-angle view and then starts over again with the closer look. Can you blame it? All I can say is “Wow!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2020

Though I did my best to take pictures and video I mostly just watched the show. Please forgive the shakiness of the video below: the wind made it difficult to get the tripod not to shake. It was an invigorating experience and an example of my favorite kind of birding, that of the spectacle. That’s a lot of gannets!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Take note of this Greater Yellowlegs on the wall from a screengrab of a video of the Black Skimmer. Animals obviously see death and experience it as we do, so the question is not one of if, but of how. A concrete wall halving one of the ponds was a popular rest spot for several birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. A friend of mine, Juan Diego Vargas also made a fun video about the visit. A Video of the Endemic and Near Endemic Birds of Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Videos illustrating some of the action seen from the “SEC” can be found on a special page on the University of Chicago Press website, linking to 14 examples of penguin and other Antarctic mammal behavior. Little film clipboards in the text indicate the availability of these video clips.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

I walked over to a thick mango tree and sure enough, it flew out, majestic, broad, silent wings spread wide – and just like the Mottled Owl experience I described earlier – eyes fixated on me. You can see the discoverers speaking of their experience (and a brief appearance of the author of this post) in this video.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 km2 / 3.5 mi2 of the proposed reserve was announced. Golden Jackals in Beljarica. Is the Serbian Government turning green?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I read Chris’s story and saw his video a couple of hours after his sister made it public on social media (I had been Facebook friends with Chris for several years, though I had never met him face-to-face). Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. It was the same day George Floyd was killed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

But hands-on bird experience has been a major gap in my knowledge to date and I’m astounded at how much more I’m discovering about birds. I hope to have another experience with ole Bucket Mouth when I’m next out at the nets. Following our experience, we put together the following brief video: [link].

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

It’s a cool set of experiments that have been happening here in Wellington which have demonstrated the amazing mathematical aptitude of the New Zealand Robin. I plan on doing a longer post on the species, and its amazing counting skills, in the future, but the video I linked to is worth a watch in the meantime.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

So sure, taking photos is great, but I was most impressed by the possibility of video. You get across so much more about the life of the bird in video rather than in static photos. To have the power to make mini-documentaries literally in the palm of my hand is a heady experience. I imagined I would fill it up with music.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You may remember back in 2017 when Nate participated in this trip or maybe you followed along in 2018 as the Birdchick dazzled us with her experiences there. We’ll be attending the 3rd African Birding Expo and the pre-Expo familiarity tour. I mean, what even is an alethe? Or a hyliota? ” That helped, right?).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I have put together a video to help you feel the experience I was a privy to on this beautiful fall morning at the refuge. I’m hoping this will give you an incentive to get out and experience a National Wildlife Refuge in your area during this fall migration. It appears that the egret is holding its own.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2014

I stayed there for about half-an-hour and took over three hundred images and several videos. Unfortunately, the videos are shakier than I would like because of my lack of a window mount for my spotting scope, though I think the one below is relatively decent. What a wonderful experience it was digiscoping it! Is it just me?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 9, 2014

Blogging has brought me some truly amazing and fun experiences. He was struggling with his music career and then suddenly a video went viral. This was such a great day, and I think the video shows how much fun we had making it. Please take a moment to watch the video, and then pass it along. Yes, all because of bloggers!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. It is an eye-opening experience to view a familiar place from a new perspective.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

In one experiment, yawns were observed when birds in neighboring cages could see each other, and again when views of adjacent birds were blocked. In the other study, the birds—which seem to be great mimics of videos—were shown footage of budgies yawning.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I really enjoyed the experience and I would say that these looks narrowly beat out the looks I got several years ago in Philadelphia. Video was nice too! But on my way back past the same spot I found the cuckoo again, this time sitting out in the open sunning itself, completely uncaring that I was busy digiscoping it.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Then I had the genius idea to shoot some video! And who doesn’t like video of an apex predator? Goodwin, so I left the owl to its hooting and continued to the west down Fellsmere Grade Road, happy for having had an excellent owl experience. …. The ISO was cranked way up to get this shot but it was worth it.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

” In the meantime, this is a video/slideshow I put together of what was one of the most memorable experiences in my birding life, my International Bird Rescue Pelican Release. Even more importantly, right now you can become a member of International Bird Rescue and double any donation you make!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

On a recent filming trip with Tropical Birding in Ecuador I had the awesome experience of getting up close and personal with two bizarre manakin species. The best explanation comes from observations of slowed-down high speed video by researcher Kimberly Bostwick. A further example of the stunning and enchanting world of manakins.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This way, you can easily look up images and videos of the many fantastic birds described. This is a bit of a rabbit hole, however, and you may find yourself, as I did, spending the day watching videos of Superb Lyrebirds singing and Kea Parrots making snowballs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 25, 2012

Along his journey (as with most of his adventures) he stops to hang with local animals, and to share his experience in his blog. Andrew is hanging with some adorable baby Antarctic fur seals in South Geogria, and has posted a video of his encounter. Check the video out here.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Here’s a video of Ted Cruz agreeing with the ultra right-wing crazies and promising to grant them their wish. This video was published by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers during the refuge occupation. What has been the Republican response to this illegal occupation ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=flLFQnW7CUc. v=flLFQnW7CUc.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

If I was preparing for a birding trip to Papua New Guinea (and, I hope one day to be doing that), I would supplement these plates with the Laman/Scholes videos available online. (I Attached to the project since its beginnings, Allen has painted these birds using specimens, photographs, and videos as his source material.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2017

I love that I had plenty of time to shoot some video. You might notice that during the video you can hear a Ring-billed Gull call: something put up the flock that had been roosting on the ice. It was a very rewarding experience watching the hawk feed on the pigeon though perhaps not as memorable as one eating shish kebob.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

I mean, I have never heard of birds needing sex videos of their own species just to procreate … Anyway, there are a few interesting bird species here, at least for visitors from Shanghai. One is the Chinese Babax , with its characteristic piercing eyes. I think I pointed out in previous posts that mammals are kind of evil.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. In another experiment, other species of Darwin Finches were kept next to Woodpecker Finches that used tools. Over time, experienced herons might have expanded on this by finding bait near ponds and bringing them into the water for a more rewarding fishing experience.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career. 101(4), 1989, pp.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The thought of which takes me way off topic to think about this crazy cool video of a crazy cool bird: [link] Anyway, back to Laem Pak Bia… and like most birders dashing through Bangkok, we made a quick detour in to the salt pans and wetland systems to see what was about.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

” Then, I heard a Ruffed Grouse drumming with its wings and only its wings, and watched a video of ornithologist Kim Bostwick moonwalking with Red-capped Manakins and heard my friend John describe a Bowerbird enticing a mate with home decoration techniques, and I thought, “Birds!

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