10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

When we first ran this post in March 2009, we received links from David Ringer , Danny Germer , Nick Sly , Coyote Mercury , and Shelly. Frankly I love them, especially since I just spotted my first Common Grackles of spring. Have you written about a species of grackle or captured a photo that does this dashing dastard justice?

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Coyotes United States Blackbirds 2009 250

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MARCH 29, 2014

2009 – 15 March. Here are my arrival dates for my first Eastern Phoebes of the year for the last nine years: 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March. What about you?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)

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2009 Elephants Hawaii Protesting 100

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APRIL 28, 2011

“National Geographic has assumed management of day-to-day operations for Scienceblogs.com, expanding a relationship with Seed Media Group that started when National Geographic took on ad sales responsibility for Scienceblogs.com in 2009.&# That is the entire text of the statement National Geographic put out.

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2009 Science Groups 196

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MARCH 28, 2015

2009 – 15 March. If you are interested, here are the dates of my first phoebe from each of the last ten years. 2015 – 28 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March. Great, I’m your first phoebe of 2015.

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MAY 4, 2012

Queens, New York, May 2009 May is the month of migration in North America. … This post was first published on 04 May 2009 but a post like this shouldn’t be left to languish in the archives ! ……… a.

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New York City New York Litter 2009 194

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JUNE 16, 2013

One proposal, citing a 2009 paper, suggests that North America’s three rosy-finch species be lumped into Leucosticte tephrocotis. Photo above by Matt MacGillivray). Lumping Rosy-Finches? Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch ( Leucosticte tephrocotis ) by Corey Finger.

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North America Sparrows 2009 America 249

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MARCH 6, 2014

Brian Stoneman (1946-2009) was a friend of mine and a top class birder. He grew up in the London East End and spoke hardly understandable cockney.

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Turkey 2006 Europe Pelicans 240

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MARCH 10, 2012

… This post was originally published on 24 May 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! … If you liked these images make sure to head on over to 10,000 Clicks , the 10,000 Birds photo-galleries page, and see our growing collection of galleries. ……… a.

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Jamaica Collecting 2009 Breeding 228

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APRIL 30, 2017

Birds of Borneo (2009): based on taxonomic order from 2008, with some changes due to practical reasons, review here. In the book from 1993 they are at the beginning of the songbirds, in 2009 three quarters towards the end, in 2014 almost on the last pages and in the most recent 2016 guide they are right in the middle. Phillipps, Q. &

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Brunei 2009 2014 2016 210

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JUNE 1, 2012

Kazakhstan, May 2009 During the two days spent out in the steppe in Kazakhstan I couldn’t help but notice the sheer number of flowers that dotted the grassy steppe. It seemed that anywhere one looked some kind of flower, whether it was an iris, a tulip, or something else, was blooming.

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Sri Lanka Kazakhstan 2009 Portugal 248

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JUNE 22, 2011

My last encounter with a Hooded Crow was in May of 2009 in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan. .* After all, Hooded Crows are a bird of eastern and northern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and are not known as long distance migrants. But the more I thought about it the more I wanted to see a Hooded Crow again.

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New York Kazakhstan North America New York City 267

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MARCH 15, 2012

Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 15 March 2009 It was at about 1:30 AM on Saturday morning that I startled awake and found myself sitting in an empty subway car in an unfamiliar location. … This post was originally published on 15 March 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives !

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New York Honduras Jamaica Geese 215

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Since 2009, International Bird Rescue has released over 1,100 California Brown Pelicans with blue bands from their wildlife hospitals! I follow my friend, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for International Bird Rescue, Cheryl Reynolds to the release site where we document the event.

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Bird Rescue Pelicans Rescue California 250

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MARCH 10, 2015

You see, back in 2009, I put up a blog post called “ First Robin of Spring.” And, here on 10,000 Birds, we have already had our first comment on an old blog post talking about “stamping” the first robin of spring. Who stamps on robins? What kind of blog is this? Not to worry, not to worry.

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Iowa Nebraska Indiana Michigan 257

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

But I did chase one back in 2009 that I dipped on. The first, back in 2009, was when I was in Honduras. No, I will persevere and see each of these birds at my next opportunity. Otherwise, they will become true nemesis birds. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – I haven’t made a ton of effort to find one of these.

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Costa Rica Hungary Honduras Woodpeckers 251

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JANUARY 13, 2012

That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? My personal favorites are three photos of the 2009 Cape May Ivory Gull. Development, conservation, and climate change have affected bird distribution in good ways (a record 282 Bald Eagles found on the January 2009 official count!) No wonder people were excited by it.)

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New Jersey 2009 Bald Eagle New York City 250

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DECEMBER 26, 2021

In 2009 when the Semi-palmated Plover came to Broome for its first visit it was initially thought that it may have been a Ringed Plover , but it was finally identified as a Semi-palmated Plover.

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Australia 2009 Rights Birds 261

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Their were 1,805 pairs of Kirtland’s Warblers found in Michigan this year, second only to 2009′s 1,813. The population has stabilized with neither increases nor decreases of greater than five percent since 2007. A couple dozen pairs also nest in neighboring states and provinces.

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Michigan 2007 2009 169

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JUNE 30, 2012

The cullings have happened every year since the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River after the plane struck geese and was disabled. New York City killed less Canada Geese this year than any year since they started rounding the geese up and slaughtering them.

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New York City Culling Geese Slaughtered 165

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MARCH 21, 2012

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. … This post was originally published on 08 March 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! ……… a.

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 240

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

When my book “ Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings ” came out in 2009, one of my favorite reviews was by Corey Finger of 10,000 Birds. At that point I didn’t know about 10,000 Birds; I had been a wildlife rehabilitator and mother for years, with no time to surf the net for amazing birding sites.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Birds 2009 244

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MARCH 5, 2015

In the northern Backa region of Serbia, in the mid-1970s there were more than 37,000 active nests of Rooks, while in 2009 there were less than 8500, indicating a loss of more than 76% over a time span of 35 years ( source ). The smallest rookery in Pancevacki Rit had a mere 4 nests, the largest 102 – on average, 31.5 nests per colony.

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Experience Experiments Science Serbia 260

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Edwin Rist, a 22-year-old from the United States, stole 299 bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring (in England) in 2009 and had been sentenced to a 12-month suspended sentence has now been ordered to pay a fine of £125,150, which is the amount that he had made from the sale of the skins.

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United States 2009 Birds 160

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MARCH 17, 2013

Proposal 2013-A-3 recommends adopting that split on the basis of a 2009 study (I wrote about it back in the day here ). New World populations of the widely distributed Sandwich Tern ( Thalasseus sandvicensis ) are treated by some authorities (including the British Ornithologists’ Union) as a distinct species: Cabot’s Tern ( T.

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2013 Sparrows Stray Owls 244

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Since the website’s launch in May 2009, an additional 5,300 banding records and over 30,500 resighting records have been entered! A web-based initiative www.bandedbirds.org has been developed by partners in New Jersey and Delaware (USA) to incorporate shorebird sightings (or resightings) made by the public into a centralized database.

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Peru South America Delaware New Jersey 257

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APRIL 5, 2012

Suzie Gilbert first came to our attention here at 10,000 Birds when she published Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings in 2009. She is also the author of Hawk Hill which was published in 1996.

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2009 North America Bird Rescue Rescue 157

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

In late 2009 there was huge excitement in Broome when a Plover was observed at the famous Poo Ponds and was initially presumed to be a Ringed Plover , which is extremely rare, but not unheard of in Australia. Semipalmated Plover in Broome… am I mad!?

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Australia Asia 2009 Fish 252

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Therefore, you can observe them in their hundreds and thousands if you spend the last hour of the day observing the flight corridor and distinguishing distant black Pygmy Cormorant dots from other equally distant and black Rook and Jackdaw dots, all of them melting into tree crowns as the sunset thickens.

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Protection Serbia 2004 Legislation 279

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JANUARY 11, 2023

I began recording my bird sightings with photographs in late 2009, and since then I have seen (or at least heard) a fair proportion of species recorded within my home country of Trinidad & Tobago. How can one, in what is barely the second week of the first month of the year – even think of suggesting a Bird of the Year?

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Birds Trinidad 2020 2009 264

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

We spent two months in Portland, Victoria in late 2009 with Grant’s work and whenever we could we were birding. Due to the fact that we will still be camping and birding when this goes online I thought I could share some photos of a well-known marsupial in the southern parts of Australia.

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Koalas Marsupials Portland 2009 189

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

I saw the Queens Ash-throated Flycatcher in 2009, but someone else had identified that and I just went along for the ride. So you can see why I long for the reassuring black-and-white tyrant who cheerfully sallies out to take on crow, hawk, eagle, or birder, and sits in full sun.

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Montana 2009 Eagles Birds 234

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MAY 10, 2012

Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras, March 2009 After our trip to the Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge was rained out on our first morning at The Lodge at Pico Bonito we rescheduled our visit for our second and last morning at the lodge. ……… a.

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Honduras Wildlife Monkeys Bats 213

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Is this the same individual that tracked south through Britain and France in Autumn 2009? It’s been interesting to note that a solitary Sandhill Crane first seen in Finland in recent days migrating with Common Cranes has now provided Estonia with its first record of Sandhill.

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France Estonia Ireland Finland 258

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MARCH 26, 2012

In fact, prior to my visit to Florida in January for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I had never seen an Anhinga at all save one lousy look in Honduras back in 2009. In fact, he pointed out the exact same bird as the bird below.

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Florida Honduras Turkey Wildlife 219

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The author, Chris Mason-Parker, has lived in Seychelles since 2009, where he is an active member of the conservation community. He is the author of Underwater Guide to Seychelles (2015), Underwater Eden (2019) and Reef Fishes of Seychelles (2021).

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Seychelles Wildlife Tortoises Reptiles 264

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

When my bird rehabbing memoir came out in 2009, HarperCollins sent me on a New England book tour. Her fine china repair business pays her bills, but her budget is often strained past the breaking point by the 250-300 birds she takes in per year – such as this Eastern Screech Owl , who is recovering after being hit by a car.

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Rescue Wildlife Rehabilitation Homelessness Wildlife 226