10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Most of us have bogey birds – certain species that for one reason or another elude us for years. Forty years ago my bogey was the Bohemian Waxwing, and by 1986 I was sufficiently keen to see one that I was prepared to resort to twitching.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2024

In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh. I can also pretty much count on one or more joints to be a bit cranky on any given day — especially after a long day of birding.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2024

I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated on 40 species. So one day, in search of new birds, I drove from my base at Agios Nickolas, south of Kalamata, to the Gialova Lagoon, on the west coast.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2024

In that very demanding category, Sarah Pedry and David Obuchowski’s award-winning How Birds Sleep is a gem. They are books that children will love and adults can read, and re-read, over weeks, months and often years. Of course… Source

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

I have mixed feelings about ranking different bird species. So I kind of feel that I should not talk about which birds are best. This Monday, I went in a group of four to bird around the town of Atzimbo. And yet, anywhere in Michoacán offers some special birds, and Atzimbo was no exception.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2024

Bondar’s handsome new book of photographs, Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight, comes in two halves, but it has several subjects and multiple viewpoints.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2024

This is a slightly self-centered post – less about birds and more about the 10,000 Birds website. Who reads 10,000 Birds? A slight majority of visits (56%) come from the USA, where 10,000 Birds was founded. You have been warned.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2024

Some birds are especially exciting, because they are so hard to see. Others are unusually beautiful, or perhaps, just plain unusual. And a few are both. When they actually afford you a whole new blog subject to write about, that is certainly an extra bonus.)

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The ongoing epizootic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1) has sparked concerns among health officials because of the viruss ability to infect diverse animal species, including pigs, big cats, and humans, raising fears of a potential pandemic.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. of the birds I encounter. It’s satisfying to come back from a day’s birding, download my photographs on to my iPad, and relive the excitement of each encounter.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Birding Nanhui these days is far more troublesome than it used to be, as the seawall road is blocked for cars. So, the intrepid bird photographer parks somewhere, unloads a foldable bicycle, curses the tires for being almost flat again, and sweats from inflating them before having even seen a single bird.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

Unfortunately, this makes it sound a bit more interesting for birding than it turned out for me – though admittedly, I spent less than a day there. And the area was recommended to me, so most likely my limited birding skills are to blame, rather than the birds themselves. ” That seems a bit unfair to me.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2024

The sea is frothing with Great Cormorant and Herring Gull , with more than 100 birds diving into the water. I park the car and walk through a cacophony of bird song to the viewpoint. I spend the next 45 minutes walking around the tree from which Mick is singing but just can’t find the bird. But where’s the bird?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

August started how July ended – with a few birds spending their summer in an extremely hot Shanghai. Or finding a dead fish but deciding it is too big or too smelly to eat … … making the bird shiver in… Source

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

I admit this is not quite on the level of fellow writers’ posts describing birding as an extreme sport. The bird has now started using its scientific name, Hemipus picatus , as it is substantially shorter. Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2024

A quick bus ride brought us to the border crossing near the International Birding & Research Centre, a fantastic birding site in Eilat. I was panicking and working through in my head how we would maximize the day without our gear – all those birds just too far away, the pictures we would not be able to take.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2024

July is the least interesting month for birding in Shanghai – it is too hot, and there is pretty much no migration. A good month to go abroad and watch birds elsewhere, which I did (Indonesia). Just remember that this does not mean you actually… Source

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2024

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. On the bird recording site Waarneming, I saw that a Great Northern Diver ( Common Loon ) was found on a lake just south of the city.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The blogger in Toronto asked if he would like to spend a day birding together. That is how Fitzroy and Leslie became possibly the first writers in recent times from 10000 Birds to meet up. Then, the blogger in Panama mentioned that he was going to be in Toronto in early October. White-crowned Sparrow My husband… Source

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2024

Though the birding around Lake Kerkini may be outstanding, it’s inevitably the lake itself that is the centre of interest. The Greylags are interesting, as they are of the eastern race, rubrirostris , with distinctive pink legs and beaks, unlike the orange of our birds at home in Britain.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? As you start birding, you also start to form a clear list of your favorite birds in your mind, such as the Black-backed Grosbeak. That bird to me is a symbol of where I come from as a birder. A tough question!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Statistics elude me at this point, but I believe it is a safe statement to make that the majority of visitors to the very famous Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya are not necessarily interested in birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2024

I was especially looking forward to take some better photos of the birds I saw last time, which I only managed partly. After all, I’d rather call myself a birder than a bird photographer, although I have to admit that I enjoy doing both more or less equally.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2024

For more bird-related public art in Portland, check out Tweets and Chirps. The post Golden-Crowned Kinglets are Trash Birds first appeared on 10,000 Birds. Photo: Golden-crowned Kinglet by Mick Thompson.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Of course, there are things that we hate about birding, as per Kai Pflug’s blog of August 15, 2024. Otherwise, why would we be getting up early, baking in the sun or shivering in the cold, to get that one special bird? But, I think there are so many pluses. Spending time with the nice birders.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ours, as always, are birds. When you ask someone what they know about Brazil, you will likely hear answers about the world-famous Rio de Janeiro Carnival, the vast Amazon River, or even Iguazu Falls along the border with Paraguay and Argentina. Brazil ranks fifth largest country by area, occupying about half of South America.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? My favorite bird species is the Great Blue Turaco. What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? I’m based in Nyungwe National Park and am a bird guide there and at Akagera National Park… Source What is your name, and where do you live?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2024

The Black-winged Cuckooshrike is breeding in several Shanghai locations – I suspect that some trees near the Nanhui hotel might be another one, given the vigorous singing of this bird. The Silver-throated Bushtit is a species in which the juvenile birds seem to be more colorful than the adults, in a reversal of the typical situation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2024

These birds are out here creating architectural masterpieces while we struggle to assemble flat-pack furniture without swearing. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the top five bird nests that will put your DIY skills to shame. These birds construct intricate hanging nests that resemble high-end condominiums.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2024

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness is about birds and taxonomy, history and art, the birding god we have revered and torn down, the ornithological originals we’ve ignored or simply don’t know.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? The whole of China How long have you been a bird guide? 15 years How did you get into bird guiding? Reeve’s Pheasant What is your name, and where do you live? Steven An, I live in Nanjing City.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? I love all birds but the Shoebill is my favorite bird. My name is Kenneth Tumusiime, I live in Nyabushozi, Kiruhura District in south-western Uganda near Lake Mburo National Park What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

So Eduardo set aside the afternoon to show me some of the city, and take me birding in two city parks. Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. Two other birds, both residents, surprised us.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

You want to do some serious birding? And yes, Sable Antilope is very cool, but birds are sub-zero cool! And yes, Sable Antilope is very cool, but birds are sub-zero cool! And it was birds we came for, so his customer service wasn’t great. Consequently, he would drive too close to any bird party we came across.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2024

All of us are, or we wouldn’t be meeting here on 10,000 Birds quite so frequently. Birds rule our world. The prospect of encountering birds is what makes us get up early in the morning and leave the comforts of our homes to venture out into nature’s wilds and wilderness. And yet… Source

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2024

What is your favorite bird species? What are the main regions or locations you cover as a bird guide? North-eastern South Africa including the Kruger National Park and the Western Cape How long have you been a bird guide? 5 years How did you get into bird guiding? René Rossouw, I live in Nelspruit, South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. Birders biking around Mission Bay Each year, the San Diego Audubon Society hosts their annual birding festival in the third week of February.

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