10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The higher elevation also attracts more rainfall, broad-leafed trees shed their dying leaves onto the floor to make a playground for species like White-necked Thrush, Grey-throated Leaftosser and Black-faced Antthrush. A tree that is loved by birds is also loved by the birder.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

Geographic patterns of species richness for birds (1,558 species) in East Africa at 0.25° resolution (blue indicates low species richness, while brown indicates high species richness). At the time of writing, Uganda has 16 hotspots with 400+ so far eBirded species, of which one has almost 600 species.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 16, 2023

One of their most unique qualities is their self-awareness, which is a sign of higher cognitive abilities that are usually reserved for humans and a few other species. Most animals, including dogs and cats, cannot recognize themselves in a mirror, but a few species can, including chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

It sounded birdy and I was game. Other species include Grey Wagtail and Marsh Tit. Easy species here are Corn Bunting , Hawfinch , Spotted Flycatcher , Red-backed Shrike , Woodlark , Eurasian Golden Oriole , European Turtle Dove. Somewhat harder but realistic finds may include Ortolan Bunting , Red-rumped Swallow , Sombre Tit.

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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. For those who are not in the know, may I present you with some images of actual Angry Birds?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

It seems that it came off rather well, and was co-organized by the Cyprus Game Fund and members of the Bern Convention. But the most talked about issue throughout was the ambelopoulia problem in Cyprus, with relevant presentations from the Game Fund, SBA Police, Terra Cypria and of course BirdLife Cyprus.&#

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

They lurk ever-present in our sub-concious as sacred items on an unobtainable, yet highly desirable, list. 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. Birding’s Holy Grails.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

By age 2 she could identify over 10 species of birds in our Johannesburg, South Africa, yard by call alone. 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. And perhaps 20 others by sight. Can we beat our record?&#

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As Claudia Wilds wrote : “If you ask the founding fathers what the birding scene was like before ABA, they present a world heavily dependent on friends and friends of friends and marked by a lack of information available to most birders about finding birds or identifying the difficult ones.”. Of course, that world no longer exists.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

It was a Benguela Nino year, and pelagic seabirds were in super-abundance in the south eastern Atlantic, with the total of species by variety and number exceeding all expectations for the birders on the inaugural trip as we pitched and wallowed about in the rolling swells on our way out to the trawling grounds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

True, there is what looks like a dove sitting with a fox in silhouette on the Rare Vos label, and in 2015, Ommegang released a dark saison called Three-Eyed Raven as part of its licensing partnership with the hugely popular HBO series Game of Thrones.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

there may be any number of restaurants serving game. However, with lions the story is different because they are a vulnerable species in the wild, and their numbers are declining. But I don't feel like I was presented with a compelling argument for not eating lions. Lions aren't food in our culture. But that wasn't it either.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The core of the book are the Species Accounts, 190 accounts by 52 authors, some names that readers will easily recognize, others birders and ornithologists well-known in Pennsylvania. You can see the Species Account for Henslow’s Sparrow above, in the banner photo. The second page is the map page. Brauning and Andrew M.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in between. A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. Hello my birding sons and daughters. This post is meant to serve as a flashback to 1998, 15 years ago. 9) Birdfinding.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. We have both resident and migratory species, and this post will briefly discuss each of the 20 species of African bee-eaters.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2022

In the light of all this, I needed to up my game. Assuming that several of the observers involved had made multiple observations, that probably represents only around one hundred people having ever reported this species, even though it breeds in a country bordering the United States. Mexico boasts ten Swift species.) They could!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I recall the words “game-changer” and “unprecedented” bandied about as enthusiasts across North America pondered where to place their Sibley Guides to make room for the new ruling reference guide. The game didn’t change. But has time vindicated Crossley’s bold vision?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In talking to the local guides, and Rangers, they all agreed that they had not been seeing too many species around in the last couple of weeks. Crows, Ravens, Clark’s Nutcrackers, White-crowned Sparrows and assorted waterfowl were all still present, but that was about it. Little Big Year species – 888.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2012

A revelation amongst the optics people, this piece of equipment steps up in the game and that VR makes the hobby much more interesting. Ultimately, this species can look drastically different in their molting phases, but this bird should prove to be a male. So, how about this adult female Common Goldeneye for example.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bird Studies for Teens was running simultaneously, which allowed the adult group to share meals, certain boat trips, and after-dinner speaker presentations with sixteen 14- to 17-year-olds. There are over a million species of arthropods. Hog Island offers programs for all levels of birders , from beginners to experts.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. That’s what you do with other game, right? Eventually, I found the lone whooping crane present at the refuge by its call. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It may be as simple as trying to hit the big white one. The big white one.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2021

After spending Christmas Day birding around Broome and observing 92 species we spent the week making a mental note of what bird species were where. Then you take into account that the tides will be completely different and it is a whole new game! The female bird with the yellow eye is in the header photo above.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The new species was subsequently named Sinosauropteryz prima , ‘first Chinese lizard wing’ Its discovery disrupted the paleontologic community, and it hasn’t been the same since. Things got more complicated when evidence was found that even the larger dinosaur species, such as tyrannosaurs, probably had feathers.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Over the years, birders have followed suit and Thanksgiving Weekend at Niagara has become popular among birders hoping to get their gull game on. Many have enjoyed the parade of oropendolas, tanagers, and hummingbirds that visit the feeders, and views of more forest-inclined species on the trails.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

In addition, it has over 450 bird species and more than 30 in-country endemics, of which it is possible to see every single species! More than 140 bird species have been recorded, a list that includes dozens of rainforest and/or wet-zone specialists unlikely to be seen anywhere else readily accessible to tourists.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Then came the realization that apps could present information in ways not remotely possible for the artifact known as the book. The App offers most of the content of The Warbler Guide —species accounts, photographs, songs and calls, and diagnostic clues to identification of the 48 wood warblers found in the United States.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Then we relocated to a spot where people were seeing several and arrived just in time to see the last one present get snatched by a Peregrine Falcon. Fortunately for me, I came across one in a mixed-species flock while out birding one morning in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe. It turns I saw it on the last morning it was present.

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