10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It took me a moment to grab my passport and safely restore it to its place in my carefully organized travel pack because I could not help but stare at my name carelessly written into this large book that was halfway around the world from my home. We traveled maybe ten miles on the only road before turning back around.

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Lesotho Sheep South Africa Africa 235

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

Yet, there is one group of birds where even I prefer photographs: gulls. In field guides I’ve seen many beautiful gull paintings, where I couldn’t help asking myself: however alluring they may be, is the JIZZ just right? The authors are among the foremost experts on this taxing group. Or slightly off? Philippe J.

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Europe Africa Greece Groups 244

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. One, it requires that organisms be placed in relation to each other by means of characters (features) that were evolutionarily meaningful and that properly sorted out relationships. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right?

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 144

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2011

How is a bird blogger to figure out how much social media is just right? While we would like to believe that the online birding world is huge the fact is that there is a finite number of birders using social media and most groups have overlapping memberships. Exceptions include posts directly relevant to a group.

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Rights Birds Groups Lions 178

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Whether you are traveling with your family, in a small group, or alone, our tours are customizable to suit your every need and wish. Pink-headed Warbler is a favorite among birders in our tours.

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Guatemala El Salvador Belize Honduras 256

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. Nevertheless, I believe there ought to be a group that represents birders, so I renew my membership every year.). An organization under threat of financial collapse cannot be effective.

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2019 Legislation 2017 2018 292

Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I was browsing for some quotes when I came across this group - The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA). They had a page with quotes from animal rights activists, but as I was reading, I noticed that they were very unfavorable quotes from such activists as Wayne Pacelle and Ingrid Newkirk.

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Animal Welfare Wayne Pacelle Welfare Groups 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. 10,000 Birds also has an eBird profile and since I as a beat writer in 2016, I have been a part of that group.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 153

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Thus, its listing has been contested by groups advocating more development. More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies.

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California District of Columbia Los Angeles San Diego 191

Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. I'm going to try and research other groups to see if there is a group that is more in line with the philosophy I'm trying to follow.

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Animal Rights Advocacy Rights Marine Life 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. All species in every one of these groups is described even if not every single species lives on the ocean, a guideline continued from the earlier volume. Organization of the species accounts, called “Systemic accounts,” is a great improvement over the 1983 volume. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 227

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Other than paint, the only other thing I do is organize and joint-lead wildlife tours, mostly in Africa and India. They specialize in tailor-made safaris for private groups.

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 185

Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

Here's a group I've never heard of. I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless.

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Groups Advocacy Biomedical Research Animal Research 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. You call the SWAT team.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

An organization called the Carolina Avian Research and Education states that “if you google the top ten most beautiful birds in the world, it [the Golden Pheasant ] always makes the list.” Within the species, reactions were stronger by males, by groups of birds rather than individuals, and by captive birds.

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Pandas Research Phoenix Science 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 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 medieval flint churches of Norfolk stand right in the center of the most exciting birding in England, and our Black Sea cruises from port to historic port feature Dalmatian Pelicans and Audouin Gulls.

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Birds New Jersey Guatemala France 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” Species Accounts: Each Species Account Section starts with species and genera totals in that particular bird group, and text summarizing common and differing characteristics.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 270

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

Hopefully, my description of the guide and its unique organization will also be useful to more advanced mycological enthusiasts. As in the ornithological world, there has been a major shift in groupings and scientific names of mushrooms. Like Boletes, they have tubes, but they are separate groups according to my reading.).

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North America America Species 2018 270

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Analysis : The first and third paragraphs seem right to me, but the second is weaker, in my view. It includes multiple illustrations for each species, showing different plumages, variations, and age groups. Established in 1968, the ABA serves as a membership-based organization that supports and connects birders across North America.

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United States North America Birds America 147

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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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Collared Aracaris are weird for toucans in that they often travel in groups unlike other toucan species which are in general likely to be seen in ones or twos. In addition to the serrated bill, Collared Aracaris have a barbed tongue, which you can see in the bird on the right. I don’t think they miss, ever. Disturbing, no?

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Costa Rica Horses Farming Collecting 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. The section is organized in PowerPoint-like outline format, organized by headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings and with tiny bird-bullets setting off each information point.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2022

White-collared was the most common but we also had many very good looks at Chestnut-collared along with a few Gray-rumped , two Lesser Swallow-tailed right at the end of the day, and views of both elusive species- White-chinned and Spot-fronted Swifts ! In the morning and even during mid-day, dozens of swifts coursed through the skies.

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Costa Rica Eagles Species Blackbirds 254

Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. We're simply asking you for just a couple of hour to help greyhounds in serious trouble right now. Donate to ARAN, make checks or postal orders payable to Animal Rights Action Network and mail to the address above, thank you. "The

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Greyhounds Animal Rights Rights Ireland 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

At first, the birds were absent, it was just that one shearwater, a sad lost Eastern Kingbird flying low over the waves, and groups of Brown Boobies making a beeline to feeding grounds. It didn’t have a galley, nor a bathroom but with possible pelagic madness less than an hour’s ride from shore, it was packed with potential.

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Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

Howell and colleagues propose a standard sequence of species for field guides based on eight groupings–swimming waterbirds that swim, flying waterbirds, walking waterbirds, upland gamebirds, raptors, miscellaneous larger landbirds, aerial landbirds, and songbirds. The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. Wait, let’s backtrack a bit.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The different main groups of living birds differentiated from one another prior to the extinction of the dinosaurs, ca. 66 million years ago, and one of those groups gave rise to the ducks and geese. One of the few reasonably well studied really early true birds is a member of this group, the genus Vegavis. And, guess what?

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Groups Collecting Primates Bats 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. Right now, it is in the midst of an ambitious recruiting drive , to expand its membership from about 12,000 to 16,000. Facebook : Another possibility is to look at “likes” for birding-related organizations on Facebook.

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Wildlife Portland 2002 Collecting 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

The 224-page book is organized by habitat and behavior, not taxonomy. Of course, this is not a formal “field guide,” but it is interesting to look at this alternative form or organization. I have to say right off that taxonomic organization is imprinted in my brain.

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 180

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Species Accounts are smartly designed, utilizing font color and size to organize information and help the user quickly find it. More on Species Accounts.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Costa Rican birders are clearly up to the task, because the Annual Arenal Bird Count stood out as one of the best organized and attended bird counts I’ve ever seen. The festivities kicked off with a pre-count presentation led by organizers Diego and Juan Diego. What a treat! Corey and I held our own.

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2014 Costa Rica Birds Groups 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

They were different from previous guides, notably Peterson’s, utilizing photographs instead of artwork, and organizing the photographs by habitat, bird shape, and bird color rather than taxonomy. Species Accounts are organized taxonomically. It’s excess information that I think will only confuse beginning birders.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. Local birdwatching groups play a crucial role in monitoring populations, documenting sightings, and advocating for conservation measures.

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

After a good introduction called “The Miracle of Migration,” the substance of the book is organized not by strict taxonomy, but by “loose association” into six sections: Wildfowl and Diving Birds, Seabirds, Shorebirds and Waders, Songbirds, Raptors and Owls, and “Other Bird Migrations.”. A “broad spectrum,” indeed.

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Alaska Breeding Kenya Africa 221