10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Recognizing its value for eco-tourism and biogeographical research, it is essential to conserve this magnificent bird. Some research topics seem a bit bizarre to me. This photo explains the scientific species name haemacephalus (bloodheaded).

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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. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It did go a bit slower than I was hoping for, however, I came to Costa Rica with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre in Turrialba. More about it in the weeks to come. Cover photo : C.A.T.I.E.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

We are at 2000 feet altitude, in dry chaparral, desert scrub, and the feature on this sign was the Acorn Woodpecker. We are so far from any kind of habitat or plant life that would possibly support the Acorn Woodpeckers. Low and behold, the trees are full of Acorn Woodpeckers. As we passed this sign, I had a bit of a good laugh.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2023

It seems there is not much research done specifically on Blue-naped Parrots – the only paper I could find featuring the species was from 1981 and had the somewhat unappealing title “A Preliminary Study Comparing the Pharmacokinetics of Ampicillin Given Orally and Intramuscularly to Psittacines: Amazon Parrots (Amazond spp.)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

Birdathons are typically used by state programs and chapters to raise critical funding for conservation and research programs. The Red-bellied Woodpecker. Zooming in on the Orchard Oriole. 2021 marked the second year I participated in a Birdathon for Audubon Florida. The most common species we shared amongst our list?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. I came with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. Daniel the driver was way smarter, finding the only shadowy spot next to the D-Max.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In other words, crows evolve into woodpeckers when there are no woodpeckers. From Nature : Eben Paxton, of the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center in Hawaii, and his colleagues analysed data on seven native species of forest bird on Kauai. Here’s a video.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. Assuming that the (North American) Imperial Woodpecker and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker are both extinct, the Great Slaty Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker species alive.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

I’d love to have known where and when the Great Spotted Woodpecker in my photograph below was ringed, but though the ring is clearly visible, the number stamped on it isn’t. Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2012

Researchers at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama conducting a two-year study focusing on the diets of Tiger Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico have made an alarming discovery: not only are these sharks eating the expected fish and other assorted marine organisms, but they’re also eating land-based songbirds!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2018

They are so inspirational that an entire research effort, Project SNOWStorm , was crowdfunded to allow researchers to put tracking devices on Snowy Owls to see what they are up to when they are out of sight. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I did a little research, and came across good birding reports on Gulf Park, so to Gulf Park I went. Though we arrived in the afternoon, we quickly spotted not one, not two, not three… but eight Red-headed Woodpeckers ! Red-headed Woodpecker. Turns out, Gulf Park is huge.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The resident fashion critic of eBird is not very impressed with the Orange-backed Woodpecker , stating that it is “dressed all in patchwork” It has one of the more stupid-sounding genus names – Reinwardtipicus, which is made up of the name of Dutch naturalist Prof.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2017

My wife, Jeanne had previously done a bit of research and found another as yet unexplored park, that was just a couple of miles from our hotel. There were a few other woodpeckers to found in the area as well. Several Gila Woodpeckers , A couple of Ladder-backed Woodpeckers , and one beautiful Gilder Flicker.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Among Woodpecker Finches, young birds quickly learn to use tools by watching how adult birds do it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

You could add Middle Spotted and Grey-headed Woodpeckers to the list. Syrian Woodpecker is a species of forest edges or open woodland and parks; it doesn’t go into closed canopy forest. Middle Spotted Woodpecker is a species of well-developed forests. Another British expat birder, G.L.,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2018

That’s the match-up the graduate students and post-docs of the Cedar Creek Long Term Ecological Research Site saw play out every day this summer from their living quarters near the field sites. Still, few unleashed animosity towards each other on a regular basis.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Project FeederWatch data prove that woodpeckers are at the top of the backyard bird feeder pecking order. If you’re a cuckoo or cowbird hoping to pawn off your parenting duties on another species, new brood parasitism research shows you’ll have better luck if the eggs you deposit in their nest are blue-green instead of brown.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

The book is designed with quick searching and researching in mind, with colored blocks indicating bird family in upper right and left corners, common bird names in large, bold print, and a highly readable font. Lengthy captions point out key identification features, mostly plumage-based, sometimes including behavior, size, and structure.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Little by little, that woodpecker-like voice takes me ever further and yet, I see no bird. A woodpecker in flight, I can tell by the way it flies, but all I can see is a silhouette disappearing in sunset. Following some bird call, I walk across the hanging deck bridge. a kinglet), but it could be a Goldcrest, or even a Firecrest.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

Another challenge to bird research is that it is woefully underfunded and relies heavily on citizen science. Remember the whole Cornell Ivory-billed Woodpecker search and how you literally had to apply for a volunteer position to pay your own way down to Arkansas for 2 weeks to try and look for that bird?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Forest Service research biologist Vicki Saab studies, birds evolved alongside fire and flee in the face of conflagrations. Vicki states that fire benefits several bird species, like the Black-backed Woodpecker which feeds off the bark and wood-boring beetles that lay eggs in the charred trees.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

When I began to research this phenomenon, I discovered that sapsuckers create elaborate systems of sap wells and maintain this resource throughout the day to ensure sap production. Because of this large investment in maintenance, sapsuckers defend wells from other sapsuckers, as well as from other species 1.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

birder, as in ‘who needs art? I like the journalistic flavor added by these interviews. The notes also identifies the black-and-white photographs of birds that begin every essay, some of the actual bird talked about in the essay.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2012

Unfortunately, no one knows for sure, despite constant research. Although the Alaska Science Center concentrates on chickadees, they also study deformity cases in crows, nuthatches, woodpeckers, and jays. So far, they have discovered 2000+ cases of chickadees as well as other birds that have a beak deformity.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

It can take a bit of research to figure these notes out, especially when they are citing taxonomic differences (Riparian [Blackish] Antbird, for example, is treated differently in three of the four taxonomic systems), but it is tremendously helpful just to know that there is an issue to be researched.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2016

They almost never stopped moving… They morphed into Black-cheeked Woodpeckers. I can at least say that this woodpecker foraged on the same tree as the wrens. Looking for a research project? They checked under branches. Back to the real, Band-backed deal. Yeah, probably. You might to try this one.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

After contemplating the page, I realized I really do want to see these incredible seabirds, and have been researching pelagic voyages for the near-future. “Or an American Three-toed Woodpecker ? However, one page is nearly blank, indicating that I have completely missed pelagic species. ” I wondered.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In the e-era now, print magazines are going the way of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Take a moment, then, to give thanks for the remaining good ones, the primary example being National Geographic. These effects are shown in periodic “Then & Now” spreads about such things as bird migration, hummingbirds, and field guide art.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

convergent aquatic adaptations of loons and grebes on the morphological side and certain molecular sequences on the DNA side) and that by synthesizing all available information, we can both achieve greater confidence in hypothesized relationships and expose areas needing further research.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2017

This morning I drove to the Kapela (“a chapel”) research area of mine, a small geological reserve 15 km / 9 mi upriver from Belgrade, whose management is interested to know whether there is more than just 620,000 years of sediments exposing the ancient glaciations in a high loess bluff. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker – Dendrocopos minor.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Like the red in Red-bellied Woodpecker and the ring in Ring-necked Duck , this part of the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet’s name describes a feature that is not obvious to the casual observer or from a great distance. The tyrant name is now inseperable from flycatchers. Next: Beardless. Please do not yell at me.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. And, in a strange way, it’s a book about hope. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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