10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee. Corey and I will, as is our wont, both be a-hunting with the bee, only in different parts of New York and likely with different bees. – In June. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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2014 Hunting New York Birds 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

But, like everyone else, my 2014 year list started at zero and I couldn’t wait to get it going! Get to my early morning birding destination while it was still dark, sit in the car with the radio on to prevent the inadvertent identification of a run-of-the-mill bird by voice, and wait for a Short-eared Owl to fly past on the hunt.

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2014 Fox Birds Owls 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The photo at the top of this post is from Adam’s awesome post on seeing a Snow Leopard hunt. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Birding February weekend'

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Snow Leopard Leopards 2014 Hunting 169

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Unfortunately, these conflicts haven’t been entirely eliminated, as evidenced of this unhappy story of a Golden Eagle poisoning just this month at another Scottish hunting estate. On that unhappy note, perhaps it’s best to get on with the tasting and drink to a better life for eagles in Scotland.

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Eagles Ireland Deer 2014 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. At night, we keep our eyes out for the passage of the neighborhood Barn Owl , oftentimes a Tropical Screech-Owl would hunt insects from a low perch on our almond tree.

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Opossums Barn Owls Reptiles Hunting 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2014

As part of my commitment to birding excellence in 2014, I signed up for eBird alerts — receiving messages each time a bird not yet on my year list is reported in Missoula County. We arrived at Maclay Flat just in time to see three men unloading the sort of heavy-duty optics and camera equipment that signals serious birders on the hunt.

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Owls Minnesota Montana 2014 253

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-07-25. Author: Barrett Riddleberger. Teaser: A window company’s decision to train the sales organization to target the most winnable projects sparks companywide growth. A window company’s decision to train the sales organization to target the most winnable projects sparks companywide growth. read more'

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Hunting Ducks 2014 95

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I had a great time back in 2012 and even more fun in 2014. The most likely bird would be Fulvous Whistling-Duck which I tried for and dipped on last year thanks to the refuge that was good for them being closed for hunting on the day that I made the attempt. I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015!

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2015 Wildlife Florida Honduras 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 261

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-02-05. Teaser: Sales teams can’t find the right resources, so they spend less time selling and more time hunting for resources, which means lost opportunitie. Sales teams can’t find the right resources, so they spend less time selling and more time hunting for resources, which means lost opportunitie.

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Hunting 2014 Rights 103

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. For a long time the plants were mostly left untouched but their dead leaves and protoleaves were consumed by things like ancestral millipedes. Erickson, and David J.

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Rodents Primates Bats Science 218

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Their names echo musically in my brain (and challenge my typing skills) as I look at photos fuzzy and sharp, and read tales of habitat encroachment, avian disease, and hunting. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). The story of the Mamo is particularly poignant. by Errol Fuller.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

There is a breeding pair of White-tailed Eagles at the Veliko Ratno Island and they can be seen year-round, but the best chances are in winter, when they hunt ducks around the island. In March and November, Common Cranes are a possibility. eBird list. More: 10000birds.com/all-my-patches.htm.

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Serbia Ducks Birds Eagles 254

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

of Chicago Press, 2014). Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. He has spent time studying and teaching in New Zealand and more recently in Germany, which explains some of the bird choices in this book.

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Barn Owls Chicago Penguins New Zealand 230

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

million by the EPA in 2012 and was sold to Global Harvest Foods in 2014. The 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , p.36, Scott’s was fined $12.5 If any of the authors would like to respond, I would welcome an explanation. ——————– *U.S.

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 250

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. Para Maria de los Tecolates is a California red wine blend from Stolpman Vineyards of Santa Barbara County, released every year since 2014. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too.

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2017 Owls Game Fowl 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The two-page spread, shown above, gives a history of the species interaction with humans (fortunately, it does not taste good so it is not actively hunted) and documents records for each of the four areas covered by the guide. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. By Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillipps.

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Brunei Asia Birds China 198

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. According to the Eponym Dictionary of Birds (Helm, 2014), “James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was an Irish hunter, explorer, and naturalist.

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Elephants Congo Birds Africa 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

This species, one of the heaviest birds able to fly, was once common through most of southern and central Europe and all the way to Mongolia, but was driven to extinction by hunting and changes in agricultural practises in most of its European range during the 19th and early 20th century.

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Germany Abandoning Abandonment Abandon 104

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There are two excellent guides to the birds of Borneo: Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan , 3rd Edition , by Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillips, (2014), and Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan by Susan Myers (2009).

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Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. That’s Redgannet’s BBOTY at the top of the post.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Penguins 226

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

But whatever birders think about falconry, someone is sure interested in reading about it – they’re lapping the stuff up, from Helen Macdonald’s big prizewinning kahuna of 2014, H is For Hawk, reviewed here , and further discussed here , to Big Brother: A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife , reviewed just a few weeks ago here.

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New Hampshire Chickens Hunting Falcons 258

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2015

From a global low of less than 300 birds in the late 80’s, the species has recovered to 2726, according to a survey in early 2014. Habitat destruction, disease and hunting are still major problems that affect the conservation efforts, but the breeding sites and wintering grounds now have international protection.

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Taiwan North Korea Vietnam 2003 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The closest I’ve ever come to breaking that run was in 2014, when I only had six lifers all year. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

These are fairly simple activities, no scavenger hunts or bird identification exercises, and it occurred to me that some are activities I thought up on my own in past years, to work through with my nephews. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2022

If you look at this post that I did in December 2014 you will see how different the track looked then. If they are hunting you will undoubtedly find out if there are Nankeen Night-herons in the area when they take off. There are often both Sacred Kingfishers and Red-backed Kingfishers in the boab trees and also Blue-winged Kookaburras.

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Geese Ducks Breeding Cattle 248

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Let’s take this thought–that some birds should be extinct–and apply it to some actual extinct birds.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 107

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That’s probably not such a bad place to hunt. Live in the moment while you can, grasshoppers… winter holidays are coming. My coolest birding encounter this weekend involved watching a Sharp-shinned Hawk lurking under a highway overpass.

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2014 New York Hunting Birds 196

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Market prices have tracked demand: in 1987 birds retailed for $ 14, rising to $ 44 in 2014 and $ 99 in 2016.” The only explanation I have for this unequal treatment is that it must be a witch hunt. If that all sounds a bit too exciting to you, why not look at photos of the Brown Fulvetta ?

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers Birds Wounded 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Hunting: You may have noticed that the Written Species Accounts include a section on hunting. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. I was really taken aback when I saw this.

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Ducks Geese North America Hunters 149

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” Obviously the dictionary does not equate hunting with conservation. If you have some insane idea that Hunting Is Conservation: I think we all remember the fate of the Passenger Pigeon ?

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 133