10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On this blog, I have spoken previously of a trend I managed to pick out while compiling the information for a book I published last year. For such a small place, birders are often spoiled for choice, there seems to be a representative of almost every neotropical family making their presence felt in some corner of habitat.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

There was no overriding subject trend, as we’ve seen in recent years, rather a diversity of topics and approaches. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

While it’s true that gin will always contain some juniper, Neversink joins a growing trend in gin-making over the last several years in muting its piney, Christmas tree aroma with a fine-tuned, complementary medley of botanical flavors.

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MAY 23, 2017

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I keep year and life lists on eBird, which helps scientists collect and analyze movement and population trends, but most of my daily lists originate in areas I tread on a weekly or even daily basis. . “Well…” was my first answer, as I struggled to articulate all the reasons I regularly noted the birdlife in my neighborhood.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

Birdlife International – which presumably focuses more on birds than the HBW does – lists the species as Vulnerable: “Although this species has an extremely large range and likely exceeds 10,000 mature individuals, the population trend appears to be decreasing with occupancy and reporting rate trends suggesting rapid declines within (..)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Would my next lifer follow this trend, and be so far into the future that this much celebrated wood-rail would take considerable effort to relocate within the vast chasms of bird-related memories? A pair of Greater Ani hunted tirelessly to feed two voracious nestlings. This Northern Waterthrush foraged in the tangle of roots over the water.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Hopefully, we can eventually turn that trend around. Despite the range map showing it occuring over a broad swath of land in eastern and northern Costa Rica, unfortunately, the cagebird trade has eliminated this choice species from most of the country. Sharing a Memorable Birdy Day.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Note: There has been a disturbing trend to drop the hyphen in many “second” names, or to fuse their two parts. I have chosen to ignore this trend, because it messes with my enjoyment of double-hyphenates. . But you will have to head south to do so.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

The trend in CII is positive and similar in the two regions. On both continents, interspecific and spatial variation in population abundance trends are well predicted by climate suitability trends. Two primary indices were derived, the Climate Suitability Trend Negative (CST-) and the Climate Suitability Trend Positive (CST+).

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APRIL 16, 2012

Current trends indicate that African ape populations will decline by an additional 80% in the next 30 to 40 years. CHIMPANZEE Challenge Fact #1: Chimpanzees are endangered: Just 100 years ago, roughly 1 million chimpanzees lived in the lush rainforests of equatorial Africa. See CHIMPANZEE, Save Chimpanzees!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For this reason, the species is evaluated as Vulnerable.” ” While I am generally not fond of leaf warblers due to their infuriating habit of being virtually indistinguishable (ever heard about individuality, bird?)

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Still, this is a very clear trend. Our Kite #1, dark morph Nacho’s Kite #2, light morph adult, with what appears to be a snail in its bill My Kite #2, light morph immature In Mexico, there is always the possibility that a given species has not been reported because of a lack of birders, rather than a lack of birds.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

Introducing the newest coffeeshop trend: t he bird cafe. (While I have yet to make it down to Philadelphia’s Kawaii Kitty Cafe , I can attest that Le Cat Cafe —and its kitty yoga nights—are awesome.). From—where else?—Japan.).

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APRIL 2, 2012

You’ve seen the trend on people, but now your pet can join the fun! Fine Featherhead’s Pet Plumes are feather extensions for your pet. They come in a variety of colors to fit your pet’s unique personality, with lengths that range from 2-5 inches.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

” Species descriptions include physical features; distribution; population and population trends; locations of main populations; breeding; food; threats; impact of climate change; migration where applicable; Red List status (vulnerable, near threatened, etc.). Davis and Martin Renner in 2003, appropriately titled Penguin s (Yale Univ.

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Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

Is this a long-term trend? A recent federally funded study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 1 in 200 American adolescents are vegetarians. Stay tuned.

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JULY 16, 2012

Now your pooch can get in on the feather extension trend, and help animals at the same time! Pet Plumes with a Purpose donates 10% of proceeds to the charity assigned to the design purchased. The Pet Plumes with a Purpose come with 5 feathers, of varying widths, bonded at the tip.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Don’t put off that birding trip to Ghana on your to-do list—if trends continue, illegal logging may leave you with nothing left to see. Birds facing a long migration are more apt to take a gamble and stop for a bite in predator-prone habitat, according to findings in The Auk.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

Lindblad’s Naturalist David Stephens, who snapped this remarkable photo , sees this fashion trend on the rise: “While odd coloration may make fishing a bit more difficult, leucistic birds are regularly found breeding normally.” Worried that wearing white after Labor Day might be lethal for penguins? Don’t be.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I’m hoping it may become a trend. I’m a big fan of Snipes. At least here, Snipes tend to hid out in brush about their height, and are very hard to see. But these Snipes were very bold. Sometimes, a White-faced Ibis just has to scratch.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2015

But I wonder how these trends are impacting every other species on Earth… yes, sometimes I can think of someone besides myself! The title of warmest year on record currently belongs to 2014 , but the crown may pass in just a few weeks to the present year.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

The overall numbers are still tiny compared with the original populations before whaling started, but the trend is at last in the right direction,” said John Calambokidis, a marine scientist whose research on whale movements and populations has just been published in the journal Marine Mammal Science.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2011

Populations are trending upward and there is new hope for the carrion eaters still dealing with the ravages of diclofenac, a drug used to treat livestock that vultures then consume, causing their death. Cambodia’s “Vulture Restaurants&# are helping to increase the numbers of three imperiled species of vulture.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2012

I can see this becoming a trend. Artist Monique Habraken has come up with an alternative to taxidermy that preserves the beauty of a bird’s plumage without making the corpse a decorative curio. Check out the exquisite tapestry she made with the complete set of feathers of one Mallard. What bird would you love a plumage tapestry of?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

And, amazingly, pigeons are apparently getting in on the pizza-eating trend too ! Now this is one ambitious squirrel ! Perhaps more so than the one I found several years back trying to crack a coconut.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

Well, it is classified as Least Concern, so who cares – though confusingly, the HBW also admits that there is “very little information available about population sizes and trends.” ” If in doubt, just classify species as LC?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2019

While hoppy and sour have by turns been the defining traits of American craft brewing in recent years, combining these two assertive flavors in a single beer is surely enough to put off drinkers disenchanted with either trend, let alone some unholy union of the two.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

For a very long time, within the diverse array of theropod dinosaurs (the two legged ones like T-Rex), there was a strong and rapid trend of evolution of smaller and smaller body size along the lineage that eventually launched birds. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. As Lee Et.Al

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2012

” A monoculture of crops destroys habitat for wildlife – and the trend continues. It was only when we added up numbers of all the different farmland bird species for each year since 1980, when we started keeping records, that we found their overall population has dropped from 600 million to 300 million, which is a calamitous loss.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This new campaign, sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Maddie’s Fund, and the Ad Council, hopes to reverse this trend and find homes for these homeless, lovable pets. Luckily, The Shelter Pet Project hopes to change this! The campaign has one unified goal, to increase pet adoption.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

Parts of her real-life biography provide an explanation why before around 1880, the life expectancy of male humans was not lower than for females and may even have been higher. Elizabeth died four days after the birth of her eighth child, when she was 37. (I

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Is there a trend toward more literary paper titles? A paper describing interspecific allopreening between the Nonggang Babbler and the Spot-necked Babbler may well describe observations from exactly the same hide where these photos of the Nonggang Babbler were taken.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2015

Is this a glitch, then, or part of a larger trend of later, lost-er, more lingering kingbirds? Historically, you don’t see vagrant kingbirds in New York in January. You do, however, see them in January in places like Florida and North Carolina. Obviously, one year cannot tell us.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2017

And the subject of earnest conservation-related concern as habitat loss, pesticides, and the like cause their population numbers to trend down, down, down.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

Population estimates from “Birds of Serbia: Breeding Population Estimates and Trends”, BirdLife Serbia, 2015. While certainly unpredictable and impossible to plan, keep your camera ready, just in case you win the lottery. Cover photo by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic.

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JUNE 11, 2009

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