10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Donna’s BBOTY – an African Penguin. Below are our Best Birds of the Year. What was yours?

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Reading to your kids before they go to bed is an easy and simple way to subtly put birding right into their sub-conscious. Publications like Ranger Rick and National Geographic Kids can also satisfy their curiosity through their kid-friendly articles on birds and wildlife. Birding with your children starts right in your backyard.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 276

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Cochran followed thrushes for 34 years and is now considered one of the founders of wildlife telemetry (instead of patenting his radio transmitters, he gave away his knowledge), but was a scientific outsider for much of his life. And reading the table of contents (trust me, most people do not read the table of contents). Geological Survey.

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 142

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. Here one is close to the scenically impressive Cape of Good Hope National Park as well as the Boulder’s Coastal Park, home to hundreds of breeding African Penguins.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

Even so, he still knew many species and always yearned to learn about the wildlife he encountered. Not about the City of Brotherly Love, not about the Steelers or Penguins, but about forests with deer, birds, and elbow room. Both can be a challenge and require patient Zen birding in the right places.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2012

But as I walked around my local wildlife refuge seeing all my local birds for the first time it occurred to me I’d fallen into a competitive listing trap. Many of them are not hard birds to find if you look in the right places, it is just that I haven’t been looking in the right places.

2012 166

2012 New Zealand Birds Albatross 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

I went out with the morning sunrise tour and then came back with the wildlife tour in the afternoon, something they are prepared to do for birders who want to spend time on Blumine Island (if both tours are going anyway). The stage to the left and the stands to the right – the Birdbath. A colour-banded South Island Robin.

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Charlotte New Zealand Seals Fur 111

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Well, sort of, as there are no penguins in Madagascar, indigenous or otherwise.

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 231

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. The timing of seasonal changes is shifting, so that some birds are at risk of showing up at the right place at the wrong time (see: Birds migrating at wrong time for warmer climate ). And penguins. Forget about penguins.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 214

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). In September 2015 a group of eight intrepid bird watchers linked up with the African Wildlife Foundation and arranged for a 10-day stay in Yemi [DRC]. When was the last time you chose a book by its covers?

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Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. Jean Loscalzo is a penguin buff (Can you blame her?) and would love to watch Rockhopper Penguins. Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 196

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Tuttle Marsh Wildlife Area. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

2018 113

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. Ra’s al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary–Flamingo Hide. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. Alphabetic Taxonomic.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113