10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2011

From what I read, birds are the class of Aves [feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying and vertebrate animals]. Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Also, and this is pretty cool, there are extinct birds that have different characteristics [no wings, for example. Who knew?].

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MARCH 13, 2011

8 Responses to “Sea Snakes of Northern Australia&# tai haku Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:15 am Awesome post Clare. Renato Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:20 am What amazing snakes and great photos. Carrie Mar 13th, 2011 at 1:50 pm Fascinating post, and some interesting pictures. Jochen Mar 15th, 2011 at 4:19 am YES!!!

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APRIL 5, 2013

Early April is a fairly typical time for the earlier-migrating Osprey to arrive (both birds at Dunrovin are already onsite,) but eggs probably won’t appear until late April or early May. Because the stadium is by the river. And Osprey love them some nest platforms. Adaptation has its privileges!

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Bald Eagle Idaho Primates Eagles 252

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APRIL 6, 2014

The breeding season in the north of Australia starts from about July 1st and there are often several attempts if the eggs fail, are lost or the chicks don’t survive. On July 1st 2007 an egg was laid by a Pied Oystercatcher that was known to be an adult in 2002 and had been banded in nearby Roebuck Bay.

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JULY 18, 2012

One could have been just another cat-triggered tragedy ( keep your cats indoors ) turned into an unforgettable experience… My wife and I (retired) had a truly wonderful experience at the end of 2011 when our cat brought in a newly hatched Dikkop. We raised this little fella to a young adult.

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APRIL 27, 2016

In 2011, a collaborative effort among state and federal wildlife agencies teamed up with Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to begin releasing captive-bred birds into the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area. A pair from the released batch set up housekeeping last month and lo and behold, eggs gave way to chicks.

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AUGUST 23, 2015

To the north they are very unlucky with predation before the eggs even hatch out, but to the south the eggs hatch out and then the predation occurs on the chicks. A normally quiet species, that walks a lot more than it flies, takes on a whole new role once it has laid eggs.

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MARCH 11, 2011

With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. Nicole Mar 11th, 2011 at 10:49 pm I’ve always like the Collared doves. Carrie Mar 13th, 2011 at 1:26 pm @Will: I was curious about that myself.

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Montana 2011 Bahamas Deer 183

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AUGUST 4, 2015

in 2011*) came about. He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). The 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , p.36, million people in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

A typical distant photograph was taken in May 2011 at an ephemeral lake near Broome. The female is polyandrous and can defend a large territory laying several clutches of eggs (usually four) in nests built by male birds. They feed on insects and seeds as they pick through the floating vegetation and they do not feed their young.

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Australia 2011 Eggs Species 180

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AUGUST 10, 2016

In 2011, my wife and I sailed into a beautiful little anchorage here in the Sea of Cortez, on Isla Espritu Santos. Each nesting pair will have 4-8 eggs, and there is some reference to location being a factor on that quantity. Years went by, and I had still not been able to track down a real live shrike to add to my list.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. Feral Chickens number in the thousands in Key West alone and that population has not been dented even as hundreds of birds are trapped and removed – in fact, in 2011 0ver 1,500 were captured and trucked to an organic farm in central Florida. Americans love chicken.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice. Press, 2011). Davis and Martin Renner in 2003, appropriately titled Penguin s (Yale Univ.

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JULY 1, 2014

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 247

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. The male and female position themselves close to each other, on top or in back, so that the eggs are fertilized as the female releases them.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 239

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S. history, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has agreed to support national legislation that will, upon enactment, improve the welfare of all laying hens in the nation.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In 2011 their population was estimated at over 3,000 individuals, increasing steadily at 5-8% every year. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

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APRIL 2, 2013

Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

David J Ringer , on January 11th, 2011 wrote a story called Moorhen Mania: Splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen. These birds have been known to be prolific breeders, with as many as 8 broods a year, and each clutch holding from 5-13 eggs. After I discovered his story, I scrapped mine, as there was nothing left to tell.

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JUNE 4, 2017

The first time we ever observed an Australian Painted Snipe was on Grant’s birthday in 2011 near Broome and since then we have had numerous other encounters, but this year for the first time we have seen them both nesting and with young. Australian Painted Snipe nest with four eggs. Four eggs in the Australian Painted Snipe nest.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

2011 is about to become 2012 and birders the world over are taking a look at their year lists and reminiscing about the awesome sightings and devastating dips that they have experienced. On Seymour Island, my group witnessed a very human-like interaction amongst three boobies , one female and two males.

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MARCH 19, 2011

As I watched, it slowly moved into a patch of dried vegetation and I noticed that it was settling over a single egg. Two or three eggs may be laid and either bird may incubate. A multi-part trip report from Cape Town can be found at Redgannet, March 2011. Elephants Eye Mar 19th, 2011 at 7:34 am I vote for night-plover.

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2011 Deer Africa Peru 221

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AUGUST 18, 2013

While many saw these multiple lines of evidence converging on one conclusion, Brad Livezey, up until his untimely death in a 2011 accident, maintained a very different perspective on the evidence. Modern flamingos build mud nests for a single egg, while modern grebes build nests of vegetation for multiple offspring.

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APRIL 10, 2013

About three billion birds fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs. This is a photograph of the same area in 2011. As of September 2011, roughly 663 square kilometers (256 square miles) of land had been disturbed for oil sand mining 3. For many waterfowl, this area is their only nesting ground 2.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Egg loss to predation has been extraordinarily bad this year and all of the nests mentioned in the last post were lost and all of the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers laid a new clutch of eggs. In fact they have not just laid once again, but many pairs have laid up to five clutches of eggs this season.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

This is a 44% reduction from the 258,000 birds seen during the 2011 Survey and a 63% reduction from the 395,000 birds seen during the 2008 Survey. It appears to have been the most comprehensive Statewide Survey ever, with 143 participants surveying for tricolors at 802 locations in 41 counties. www.youtube.com/watch?

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APRIL 17, 2012

Aerial view of the scale of the clean-up operation 6 January, 2011 The White House oil commission concludes that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of systematic management failure at BP, Transocean and Halliburton. October 26, 2011 BP is awarded a permit to drill another exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico.

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MAY 3, 2012

Common and differing traits will include type of coloring, thorax patterning, how they perch or fly, how they copulate, and how they oviposit, lay eggs. Princeton University Press, 2011. With odonates, there are always exceptions! Length of copulation for forktails, for example, varies greatly. By Dennis Paulson. 675 color photos.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The second edition, with the slightly different title Birds of Trinidad & Tobago , was published in London in 2011. The 2011 edition of the Kenefick book, the one with the green-bordered cover, can also be purchased through Buteo Books, the Book Depository and a couple of other online booksellers. by Martyn Kenefick, Robin L.

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AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

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JUNE 7, 2022

The Wryneck is full of stunning photos of Wrynecks–anting, flying, nesting, writhing, being ringed, their habitat areas, nests, eggs, and closeups of museum specimens. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman. Many photographic images are full or half-page, allowing us to enjoy the elegance or weirdness of the image.

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JULY 21, 2011

Accessed July 12, 2011 at [link] a. Sources Laden, Greg. Where the abyss touches the sky: A Booby and Noddy ecosystem. Birdingblogs.com Leigh, Egbert Giles. Tropical Forest Ecology: a view from Barro Colorado Island. Oxford University Press. Myers, P., Espinosa, C. Hammond, and T. The Animal Diversity Web (online).

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Mammals Rodents Reptiles Birds 227

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JUNE 1, 2021

Press, 2011, cited as “RTP to Paul Brooks, March 6, 1945, Peterson Institute.” Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. Dunlap, Oxford Univ.

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

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JUNE 7, 2012

The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. Less than 200 singing males were found in the 1987 census, and this was 20 years after it had been placed on the U.S.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 258

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

As 2012 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 and 2011 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. Felonious Jive really likes a ravishing returning rarity – a Falcated Duck.

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