10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Our posts on where birds meet verse are some of the most popular on the blog, beating out even wood-warblers. Click here to see our brand-spanking-new Bird Poems Page. We therefore decided that it was high time that our poetry posts got a page of their own.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2021

Last week I humbly offered up a totally unprofessional, possibly misinformed guide to taking bird photos that aren’t completely embarrassing, and that might even make you proud on occasion. Our focus is on seeing as many birds as possible on a given outing. No doubt other digital brands come with equivalent software.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions. Please consider donating your time and money.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2019

There are a lot of birds in Washington, DC. Oh sure, you can go to Rock Creek Park or the Tidal Basin to seek out living avian species, or visitors can head to the Smithsonian museums for a dose of past and present bird lore from all over the world. In early June, I took note of each museum bird I spotted.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I travel for birding. I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as I’m packing, I thought I would share with you some essentials I think any birder should plan to have in their suitcase–no matter where they are visiting. I’ve never regretted any of these items being in my suitcase.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

I came late to bird feeding, and when I was finally able to put out a “thistle” sock and a seed feeder (or two or six), I was amazed by the learning curve. There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation by Paul J. And conservation.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2012

When you’re done, come back and we’ll talk birds. What else is nice is the prospect of seeing brand new birds in beautiful habitat. Corey will be experiencing birding bliss all weekend long at the mighty, mighty Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Nice, right? Keep your eyes to the skies.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Probably because I find it very uncomfortable, so I prefer to bird from a sitting position, of which I have already written here (birding by car , by kayak …), but I have only rarely written about birding on foot (e.g. Hence, to do any proper birding, I need to sit down. in the Lazarev Canyon ).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2011

I got very exited two weeks ago when I finally met face-to-beak with a rare bird that I have wanting to see, the Tit-like Dacnis. This bird is very difficult to find except for one place in Ecuador where you are almost guaranteed to see it: The Cajas National Park. Tit-like Dacnis - Female Tit-like Dacnis - Male a.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2015

This time I was lucky enough to join a fam trip organised by Natural Greece, an ecotourism company from Athens, and spend a few days at my favourite Kerkini Lake, which you already birded through my bins ( April and September ). These cute little birds are common in the villages. Picture 6: Little Owl – Athene noctua.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Take birds. With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

so I’ll cut to the chase: Where are you birding this weekend and will you be birding? For 13 years now, an ever-expanding group of friends and family have looked forward to the third weekend in July for spectacular rural revelry culminating in our inimitable brand of poultry-themed pyrotechnics. What’s my deal?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Bird races, as anyone who’s competed in one knows, can be big fun. The addition of a competitive component adds a thrilling edge of urgency to the normally relaxed act of chasing birds. Even sitting around watching birds can be charged with adrenaline when team pride is on the line.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The full title of this exceptional book by Marie Read is Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior. As a birder who photographs, rather than a bird photographer, this never occurred to me before and I find the idea intriguing.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2013

The birding in North Carolina, for reasons both of my own making and the vagaries of southern “winter” weather, has been a bit slow. As many of you may know, in addition to holding down the southeast/IATB fort here at 10,000 Birds, I also do some work for the American Birding Association.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At the risk of yet again reinforcing our predictable North American slant at Booze and Birds, it has to be noted that this year’s United States presidential campaign season has certainly been an occasion for drinking, especially as we enter the final two weeks before the election. I hope they’ve been bird-related drinks, at least.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2014

But the one group of birds that we North Americans can legitimately claim to puzzle over are the tyrant flycatchers, particularly the difficult genus Empidonax. It was, in short, a pretty good bird and I was going to make an effort to see it. You can see why this is a problem for birds, who lack both lips and teeth.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2011

Paul is a great trip leader, an often hilarious character, and a member of the repeat winners of the World Series of Birding, the Nikon/DVOC Lagerhead Shrikes. Here he shares the story of how he became, um, interested in an odd part of the birding world. my Crappy Bird Pics gallery on FaceBook. I do not have an “obsession”.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Those birds that you love, on the other hand, don’t need chocolates or roses… just get out there and spend quality time with them! I will be birding in a brand new place this weekend: Israel ! Corey will be birding Queens this weekend while prepping for his big Winter Break trip. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

” But the tanager brand is changing. Most of these birds are small, finch-like species with thick, conical bills for cracking seeds or eating insects. ” For these reasons, it is perhaps no surprise that bird bills have played a prominent role in their classification.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2014

I have participated in something like twenty Christmas Bird Counts since I started birding in 2005. And now for two years I have been a compiler for the Queens County Christmas Bird Count, which is a whole other pile of headaches. So, who’s coming to participate in the Queens County Christmas Bird Count in 2015?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

. “Although the film may be very cute and funny in parts, there is a hard-hitting message that we want to get across—that we don’t want other animals to go the way of the dodo,” Michael Webber, Campaigns Manager at Durrell, told 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2024

Dip (verb): [in birding] to miss seeing a bird you were looking for Many times when we speak about the trips we’ve been on we concentrate on the things we experienced, the ruing of missed opportunities tends to be saved for nighttime conversations after a few drinks perhaps. Which birds? The bright yellow birds!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2024

Here in the UK the Austrian manufacturer Swarovski dominates the quality end of the birding market, outselling by a sizeable margin its German-based rivals, Zeiss and Leica. So if someone has Swarovskis hanging round their neck, there’s a fair chance that they take their birding seriously.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. This grim scenario is a fact of life for millions of migrating songbirds, raptors, and other birds each year. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2021

Last week, I took you to the La Mesa reservoir, the higher-altitude of the two thorn-forest sites on my regular birding rotation. This site is near and dear to my heart, and not only because of its birds: It is the area immediately around the auditorium of the church my wife and I pastor, Comunidad Vida (Life Community).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Though I have been birding for a few years now, I had only birded west of the Mississippi once before my recent trip to Austin, Texas. Given how far west I found myself, I was hoping for at least a handful of new birds. As we walked, I noticed two unique birds on the power lines. Monk Parakeet.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2014

Birders have been eagerly anticipating The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , since it was announced that David Allen Sibley was working on it. You will have to wait until Donna Schulmann publishes her thoughts in April to get a full review of the new Sibley on 10,000 Birds. This is not intended to be a full review.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2019

The last ten day days have been one of the most intense, yet invigorating days of birding that can ever remember embarking on. It has almost been a “Perfect Storm” scenario, with several contributing factors all coming together to start me on this birding blitz.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Now the humble Ajila family has made a great effort and built a brand new small cabaña where you can stay the night before. Also includes a guide to see the Umbrellabird and a few other great birds that Luis will find you until noon. I stayed there with six other birders and it was very clean and comfortable.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. The enigmatic Shoebill is perhaps Uganda’s most famous bird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

But once it’s been raining for days on end, a bird’s gotta do what a bird’s gotta do. And sometimes, as when I visited my parents at the beginning of the month, what a bird’s gotta do is visit a feeder and grab a snack. Result — a series of breakfast-table and front-porch observations of damp birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2013

One of my favorite birding spots is Kissena Corridor Park in Queens, New York. It is nearby, accessible, and loaded with birds. As you can imagine, it has become a great place to see good birds , especially in fall migration when all of those native plants contribute seeds and berries for the birds to eat.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

10,000 is the approximate number of bird species in the world but certainly not the actual number. The truth is that, as far as the actual number of bird species living in our wide world right now, sometimes we have bad days when we lose a bird forever. Birding and Biodiversity. This can happen for a number of reasons.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Clearing a space, I retrieved my field notebook – untouched since April of 2018 – and flipped to a brand new page. Sibley – author of the famed Sibley Guides that sat on my bookshelf and essentially taught me how to identify birds – is collaborating with Audubon for a series of how-to drawing guides.

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