10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cocoa Woodcreepers are the largest species of woodcreeper in T&T, and they have a proportionately massive bill. As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance. And so, we continued. No photograph as yours truly was busy with a bowl of cereal.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures. I responded. It's not profound, but an opinion. We are made in God's image.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The tipping point was the morning of February 10th, when I saw 20 species during two hours simply by looking out my back window as I had breakfast and read the news online. (My It included a question about how many species one has seen in one’s yard, total, with the options being 0-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, or 20+.

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Critter News

JUNE 22, 2010

Another commonality between the two species , this one found by the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute. Tags: primate/human similarities animal research monkeys.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms. I saw them at Ayers Rock which while I was there had the worst floods in memory (my parents in Germany thought I must be traveling under a bad star, as they heard about these floods in the German news and knew I was there at that time).

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AUGUST 23, 2015

Some rejoice at this news since it provides them with an additional tick. Some lament the invasive nature of the species and fear for the welfare of their native waterfowl. The ABA checklist committee has recently added the Egyptian Goose to the official ABA checklist, based on an established population in southeastern Florida.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide. In the United States, a few of those conundrums are making news.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Research published in Nature examines colors across species and genders. It suggests that the more monogamous a species is, the more colorful its females tend to be. All of which kind of turns human behavior on its head. News behavioral research color feeding Great Tits passerines

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A European Starling in New Zealand made the news this week. This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America). The bird is now bonded to humans and an ambassador to her class and the bird has quite the vocabular y.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Way to go humans! Tags: vietnam laos endangered species. The wild Saola, which resembles antelopes and was only discovered in 1992, is already near extinction due to hunting. Another notch to add to our belt!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2016

It sometimes feels like being a conservationist is like being a punching bag, blow after blow of bad news after bad news hits us day after day. So let’s celebrate some good news today; Kakapo are having one of their best ever breeding seasons since European settlement. . This year was a good year for the species.

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2010

I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.

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Critter News

AUGUST 22, 2010

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. Tags: birds hunting endangered species. Really sad. Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

A week ago today, the federal government proposed a “threatened” listing for the Greater Sage Grouse in Nevada and California , as part of a larger study considering whether the species as a whole should be listed. Conservation Endangered Species Act Greater Sage Grouse sage-grouse'

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2010

The world is facing a growing threat from new diseases that are jumping the human-animal species barrier as a result of environmental disruption, global warming and the progressive urbanisation of the planet, scientists have warned.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2019

I do count, write and eBird all crow species I encounter, but, I admit, without much excitement. When I started to bird, sometime in the last millennium, the common knowledge was that there were about 8,500 species of birds in the World (by some evolutionary miracle, nowadays we have 2,000 more). Slowly, I started to hate that movie.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I don’t consider my little garden to be a terribly birdy patch, although years of observation have resulted in my seeing 59 species there (64, if you count the White-throated Swifts , Black and Turkey Vultures, Red-tailed Hawks and Common Ravens that may fly high overhead). Días de precipitación = Days of precipitation.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

This is good news, and especially so for birders. Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story. Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Marion has a fascinating history with invasive species. and seabirders.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. ” This can also explain why advances in migration timing are not common among species migrating over long distances. Migration Shift Cause Better Understood. Birds have been migrating earlier. ” GannetCam.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Nevertheless the subject of eradicated species has become publishing hot property after a bidding battle in the US saw Henry Holt, a publisher, beat its rivals to buy The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert last week. According to the New York Times, a "mid-six-figure advance" has now been agreed between writer and publisher.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2018

The Dry Tortugas National Park , seven bits of lands comprised of coral and sand, is home to seven nesting avian species, 40 winter visitors, and 250+ fly-through bird species during spring and fall migrations. Between February and September, Bush Key is ‘closed’ to human traffic. Sooty Tern. Photo by © Toby Hudson.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food! They are one of three species in the genus Perisoreus and the only found in North America (the others, Siberian Jay and Sichuan Jay , are found in Eurasia). Others include Camp Robber , Lumberjack , and Moose-Bird.

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MARCH 21, 2014

Of course, in real life this cannot be so simple as good news. Snow Geese overgrazing their breeding grounds, displacing other Arctic-breeding species and setting themselves up for a fall. It’s natural that the geese will take their fill of the smorgasbord human activity has laid in front of them.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

The scope is to give you the illusion you might be able to work out the species). My first view of this amazing species! Note bonus swift in background (no idea what species). I saw the species in one of it’s remaining strongholds, the Kinabatangan River. All you need is a boat, or a scope on a windy day.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2018

It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. Pick up the newspaper, turn on the news, go for a drive on a crowded highway and we are all too easily subjected to witnessing negative behavior.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

For those of you that have been following along on the news for the US, things are a real mess up there, and I do not mean in the political arena. I imagine I have a pretty good idea of what this does to the human inhabitants of the area, but what does it do to the birds? This is the area that fostered my lifelong interest in birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

I know humans as a whole are a powerful species, but really, we do not have that much control over hummingbird migration ( Trumpeter Swans , maybe, but not hummingbirds). In other hummingbird migration news, the wildfires in southeast Arizona this summer did a number on hummingbird habitat and birds are swarming to feeders.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

H5N2 is a bird influenza virus that is making news. And, of course, the reputation of certain species of birds as troublemakers for humans is a problem in bird conservation, so this is worth watching. But if that does happen, and it continues to spread and reproduce, then we might be looking at an entirely new form.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

At the same time, or ideally shortly thereafter, the science will convince and stimulate popular writings to reach a broad audience, one that eventually enlist the general public to demand reasonable, justifiable changes that will benefit human society, which is part and interdependent with nature. (p. Did the model work?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

When scientists created a sense of threat by playing another species alarm call, the parents increased their efforts in feeding the grounded birds, but not the birds in the nest. In other bird science news, we should be concerned about waterfowl in China.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2012

The latest news from IUCN Redlist regarding birds is not good.

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Critter News

JUNE 21, 2009

From Wildlife Extra News. Tags: malawi africa animal rescue elephants endangered species. There has been a lot of violence between the elephants and subsistence farmers (unfortunately, I think the violence is pretty one-sided.)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list. This bird was kept in captivity until it died a year later.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2017

If you are doing any sort of year list, you know what I’m talking about and also know that now is the time to take a moment, count up the species, and go over strategies to reach those birding goals for 2017. Of course, while we see those friendly, expected common species, sharp eyes and ears also pick up uncommon birds.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Good news for wolves in the Great Lakes area. TRAVERSE CITY - State officials say they're not pleased with a federal court's ruling overturning the government's decision to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list for the Great Lakes region. Fish and Wildlife Service was not supported by the federal Endangered Species Act.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

The Common Raven is found across the northern hemisphere and because of this huge range and its large and growing population it is considered a Species of Least Concern by BirdLife International. That is some seriously good news for those who love big, smart, black birds.

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