2012 Eggs Experiments 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2012
My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2012
In this way, the cuckolding Cuckoo can convince its cuckoldee, the Reed Warbler, to back off when the Cuckoo comes around, allowing the Cuckoo to toss out one of the Warbler’s eggs and replace it with one of its own, to be raised by the hapless Warbler parents. Science 3 August 2012: 578–580 a.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. Rutgers University Press/Rivergate Books, 2012.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
Brauning, a Summary of Atlas Results by Physiographic Region and Section, Breeding Phenology (date ranges of nest building, nest with eggs, nest with young, fledged young), Atlas Safe Dates (the period of time within which it is safe to say that if you saw or heard a bird in suitable habitat it is likely breeding, ruling out migrants).
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. It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. I wrote about the experience here.
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