10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2022

My recent brief trip to California made this strategy especially easy. I had planned to follow this strategy, while adding just one longer birding trip during our five-day stay. Usually, my solution involves mild sleep deprivation. First, California is two time zones further west, so I was able to get out the door at 8 a.m.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2022

.): The Amazing Lives of Migratory Birds (“Author Scott Weidensaul talks about the millions of birds flying unseen over our heads in the night sky, how the bar-tailed godwit can fly more than a week over water without stopping, and how new tracking technology may help with strategies to keep them alive.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We noticed a strategy being used by the Little Terns that we have observed before with Pied Oystercatchers and Black-fronted Dotterels. Shorebirds will not nest below the high tide mark and therefore it is the safest place to walk. Little Tern nest.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2021

My strategy for managing the summer slump has been to chase county birds. ., the end of June feels like the official beginning of the summer birds have already committed to months ago. We’re heading into some slow birding, so start coming up with good ideas for the absence of many good birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two patterns that are fairly extreme that fall into this category: brood parasitism and helper-at-the-nest strategy. In the case of brood parasitism, made famous by the many species of Cuckoo as well as cow birds and some fiches, among others, one might expect the host birds to evolve anti-parasitism strategies.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2021

One of the nice things about winter finch irruptions is that they usually take place across two calendar years, allowing ardent listers to tick the very same species in January for their new year lists as they saw in the final weeks of the previous year. After all, it could be years before some of them come back again.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

That time when if you were keeping track of the bird species you had identified, and wanted to reach a certain number, you better come up with some strict birding strategies. It’s getting to be that time of year. If you were doing an actual Big Year, then you would have been strategizing since January.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The strategy is not successful and it is quite common for Bar-shouldered Doves to hit our windows in a panic. When we get a visit from the local Brown Goshawks the Bar-shouldered Doves stand motionless. Even if they are in the middle of the open space they appear to think that by not moving they are not visible to the birds of prey!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

” So says Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, from the infamous “ Miracle on the Hudson ” flight, about strategies to make air travel safer. Until an effective strategy (or strategies) is adopted by the aviation community, Sullenberger warns, “What happened to us could happen again tomorrow.”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A clever strategy to specialize on something that everybody thinks is disgusting. I wish I could be more precise about them, but I am not an entomologist. Tiger Shrike. Brown Shrike: Shrikes that are on a diet only eat the legs. Cuckoo species (common?): Black-winged Cuckoo Shrike.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Unfortunately, sometimes this strategy fails, when even the best two out of 100 photos of a species still are not very good. A juvenile Crested Tit-Warbler. Of course, the secret to being seen as a competent bird photographer is to never let people see the vast majority of photos you take. I present to you: Chinese Fulvetta.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2020

It is interesting to see the different evolutionary strategies of closely related bird species – the various snow-white egrets with their “I don`t give a damn who can see me” attitude contrasting with the ridiculously well-camouflaged yellow bitterns.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

” In that document they speak of a strategy for new opportunities stating that “the team will work with States and other conservation partners to complete a strategy for developing new opportunities for hunting, fishing, WILDLIFE VIEWING AND PHOTOGRAPHY , with special emphasis on youth and people with disabilities.”

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service. It's all part of a campaign to cut carbon emissions.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

The strategy of this pair of Pied Oystercatchers is to lay their eggs in a dune area which is amongst the busiest area for vehicles on the beach. This pair of birds, which we presume to be the exact same pair, has been laying eggs in this area since 2008. However, they immediately move the chicks north once they are a day or two old.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

In what must be one of the most unusual conservation strategies ever, dead mice laced with acetaminophen, trailing streamers meant to catch on tree branches, will be dropped one-by-one, by hand, from helicopters.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

In October of 2012, the Institute for Bird Populations released “ A Conservation Strategy for the Black-Backed Woodpecker in California 3.” ” The purpose of this Conservation Strategy is to provide a roadmap for conserving Black-backed Woodpeckers in California through informed management. Siegel and, D. Version 1.0.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

Continuing to release more birds into an environment that could not sustain them was a losing strategy. Though Whooping Cranes have recovered greatly since their nadir of 23 total Whooping Cranes in 1941 as of 2011 there were only about 600.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain as day, yet only a surprisingly limited number of bird species on Borneo have ventured down that evolutionary road. Interestingly, the females are more varied between the species and are far more readily identified.

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Critter News

JUNE 1, 2010

I think this is a great strategy. I'm sure this is old news, but PETA keeps buying corporate stock to gain influence in corporate decision-making. From the AP. Companies don't always change their policies, but Byrne said the effort has paid off.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In China, wherever there is one real tourist attraction (like the Great Wall), the local strategy seems to be to add some fake attractions – replicas of palaces or tombs, amusement parks, shopping centers – in order to maximize the income from tourists. But the starting point has to be a real attraction, not a fake one.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

This strikes me as a puzzling communication strategy for an important issue. As far as I can tell, this announcement was not posted on any of the ABA Facebook pages and the only mention in the ABA Twitter feed is a retweet of Jeff Gordon’s tweet from his personal account.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

They use this strategy each year and food is a lot more accessible there and there are plenty of places for a Pied Oystercatcher chick to hide until it can fly. The Pied Oystercatcher chick circled! Over the next few days we expect the Pied Oystercatcher family to make the trek two kilometres down the beach to Gantheaume Point.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2020

.’” One of the plenary speakers is Bette Loiselle and her talk is entitled: “Three decades of studying Neotropical birds: lessons learned along the way.”.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The main thing you need to focus in on when developing a trading strategy is making it as simple as you possibly can. Developing a strategy that hinges on in depth analysis of the Forex market is your best course of action and the best way to avoid making investment mistakes.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2011

Such is the variety of survival strategies employed by the hummingbirds that several authors have attempted to categorize them into well-defined groups. And at Tandayapa Lodge you can view all of these strategies in action from your bedroom window or from the breakfast table. Let’s start with the Turf Protectors.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. This is a book that requires attention. ” (p.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

One of the more interesting aspects (in my opinion) of breeding in birds is their mating strategy. There are four main mating strategies in birds: 1) monogamy, 2) polygyny, 3) polyandry, and 4) polygynandry. The final, rarest mating strategy, found in less than 0.1% Polyandry is found mostly in shorebirds (e.g.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2022

It is a risky strategy due to the fact that there could be a tidal surge with strong winds. It can be quite amusing when a Pied Oystercatcher walks a dog away from an area rather than just fly off. Pied Oystercatcher nest on rocks. Another pair of Pied Oystercatchers have chosen to nest just above the high tide mark.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Mist nets are a popular strategy. If you need to capture a bird for study or rehabbing, there are a number of tools at your disposal. You can use garden-variety butterfly nets or bigger, pool-cleaning nets. What if, however, you want to nab a group of shorebirds that will scurry or take flight at the merest approach?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2011

The worms that would have traditionally made up the thrush’s diet were baked into the soil and he needed to explore other feeding strategies. I imagine that it was an opportunistic act rather than a planned strategy, though success may encourage a repeat attempt and it could develop into a regular behaviour.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

The adult Streaked Xenops (top right) keeps an eye on the younger bird, now acclimatizing to the workings of their unorthodox feeding strategies. Xenopses move along thin branches much like woodcreepers do, main difference being that they do not generally use their tails for support.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Engineers, airport managers, and wildlife authorities have devised a number of strategies. Sometimes, the impact—literally and figuratively—is much, much more serious. Whither the solutions to this dangerous (for all parties involved) problem? Hardcore birders already appreciate the value of radar.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

Before you start plotting out your weekend birding strategy, consider joining Richard Crossley and Brian Sullivan for Raptor ID Happy Hour, a conversation about North American raptors, at 6pm tonight, March 22nd. What are you doing this Friday evening?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It’s also kind of a long term strategy–you have to wait for the tree to grow, the berries to ripen. If you have a showy mountain ash as in the above photo, the berries don’t ripen on the exact days you are home and will a flock or robins find them before the waxwings?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

Sharing the same river with another forktail (the Little Forktail) is facilitated by both species having different foraging strategies and different prey items, as described here.

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