10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Thomas Wolfe wrote an interesting story back in 1940, called “You can never go home again” While I am no writer, and have not penned any stories about my home town, there certainly was some trepidation in my return last week for my 40th High School Class reunion. This is the area that fostered my lifelong interest in birds.

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Oregon Montana California Washington 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The bird is now bonded to humans and an ambassador to her class and the bird has quite the vocabular y. Birds starlings' The woman in the video found it as a chick at a few days old and hand reared it. In areas where starlings are introduced, the laws for keeping them as pets are relaxed.

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New Zealand North America Laws Raised 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again.

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Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Texas Protest 148

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to how we date some ancient sites. But also, birds certainly use multiple cues to get around. ” For years, my answer was this: “Well, maybe a lot of them do, nobody said life was fair.

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Investigation 2013 Humane Research 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. This is Hannah’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Hannah and Erik ready to see some birds! I love to go on cruises.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

Birding in Florida is unique in that so much of that state’s plenty is evident even to the casual observer. It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. One had a cluster of recently fledged birds and their nonplussed parent.

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Owls Tenant Florida United States 192

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

Not only is Kenn Kaufman a world-class birder and all-around naturalist who makes his living doing what he loves. More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights. How blessed can one guy be?

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2013

I pass over the bridge on my way to class and a Song Sparrow is starting to defend a clump of bushes along the river. That said, I can use ear birding to tell me when something is nearby that I am not familiar with — whether it’s an entirely new bird or a familiar species trying out a new tune is up to my eyes to figure out.

Canada 171

Canada Sparrows Breeding Humane 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Last year I reviewed The Feather Thief , an enjoyable tale centering on the use of feathers in the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying, and how that led to the theft of priceless bird skins by one obsessed young man. Women’s hats, specifically, a significant sartorial symbol of class and status in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries.

Virginia 117

Virginia Portland Industry New York City 117

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

When I was just a wee’ lad, in my formative birding years, I was introduced to the plight of the Western Snowy Plover. A bird, which thru the years took on a mystical component. There is little doubt about the serious nature of the threat to this bird.

Oregon 102

Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Isn’t it a Eurasian bird?… No, I’d remember that, I didn’t see that many birds in France. Our Target Bird . Had the bird moved to a different area? I drove up to where now only two cars were parked, and saw Steve and Isaac, two New York birding friends, stood in the middle of the median.

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New York North America France Feral Cats 146

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It was already dark in mid-October when we arrived to the Costa Rican birding mecca of Rancho Naturalista to have dinner on the veranda but then were interrupted with a call: There’s a Mottled Owl at the other side! Lisa Erb, the manager and owner, but also a former bird guide, perfectly understood her guests. My jaw drops.

Costa Rica 148

Costa Rica Woodpeckers Farming Owls 148

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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Wildlife Coyotes Wolves Hunters 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds&# but they do in fact fly; They just do it underwater. The evolution of the living penguins is one of the best known cases among birds, or even vertebrates in general, mainly through the study of DNA, bio-geography, and anatomy.

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Penguins Seals Peru Sharks 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

My spark bird was the Red-tailed Hawk that lives next to Central Park, the one named Pale Male I’ve always been a little embarrassed about this. There have been three books written about Pale Male and 2 movies made about him, and saying that he was the bird that sparked my birding obsession makes me feel like I am living out an urban cliché.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 106

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. That’s what makes us such good company: No birds to be seen at the moment?

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New Jersey Guatemala France Birds 237

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The NYC owls have little to do with the book in front of me except that it too is about birds and people. The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.

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New York City Fox Owls California Condor 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

The last time I birded Longcanggou, a national forest park in China’s Sichuan province, was in November 2021. Now, 14 months later, the place has changed – unfortunately, for the worse, at least as birding is concerned. Shame on the researchers. But haven’t we all done these things?

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Eggs China Mammals Birds 162

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Two weeks ago I wrote a post entitled, “How do Birds get their Color?” ” This got me thinking about eye color in birds. As humans we place exceptional value in the beauty of an individual’s eyes. I have been wondering if it is the same with birds.

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Birds Humane Breeding Pelicans 250

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Philosophers make distinctions in order to focus attention on particular classes of things. Suppose you are marooned on a desert island inhabited by edible birds. Each argument has an audience.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

More than 50 years ago, the Hawaiian Goose (Nene) was one of the first birds listed under the Endangered Species Act, part of the inaugural “ Class of 1967 ”. The program became more effective as managers learned the best ways to release the birds. Due to substantial improvements in its population and its prospects, the U.S.

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Endangered Species Species Hawaii 2018 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, experts have determined that the current rate of bird extinction is somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 times the background rate. Globally, 1,313 bird species of a total of count of 10,064 are threatened, a frightening 13% of the total.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2019

Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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2016 Hunting Killing Collecting 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. Although she has loved birds all her life, she is relatively new to birding and enjoys everything about it except the bug spray. This is Amy’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds.

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West Virginia Maryland Chickens Birds 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Acrocephalus palustris is the old world Marsh Warbler, and is one of the birds in the Chernobyl area. Antioxidants are a class of chemicals that interact with oxidants including the reactive oxygen caused by radiation. And, of course, of all the tissues that make up a bird or a mammal, neural tissue is the most demanding of oxygen.

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Mammals Birds Cooking Fish 222

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. The birds do the flying for you. But what is migration, why do birds do it, and how is it accomplished? Image source.

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Compassion Humane Research Egypt 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Sepilok is one of the best places I ever spent time birding at – I did so for a week and could have easily spent more time there. So, in order to economize a bit, the Sepilok birds are described in three separate posts. Maybe the HBW should be administered by a university with a stronger interest in birds than Cornell.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

According to a local African superstition that I just made up, it is not harmful to eat toxically colored birds if you eat them in the dark. Colonial history reflected in bird names. Unfortunately, the Fork-tailed Drongo is not the honest and god-fearing bird one could wish for.

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South Africa Africa Cape Verde Birds 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

.” Then my sister weighed in who is as passionate for cats as I am for birds, “Nature is nature. I have a dog, cats (domestic and feral), birds raccoons, hawks, owls, coyotes, foxes, bunnies and mice…they all share the yard and the woods. Maybe we should go back to giving individual wild birds their own names.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Family 175