10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

It’s Poop Week on 10,000 Birds and Sewage, though far from glorious, is great fertilizer. And the water treatment facilities built to support them are kept wet throughout the year, even in the blistering heat of summer in Cyprus. Shorebirds occasionally visit too. Enjoy, and make sure to wipe up afterwards, would you? _

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APRIL 15, 2011

All our six endemics have exclusive or partial populations living in forest habitats – exclusive being the Cyprus Jay Garrulus glandarius glazneri , Cyprus Coal Tit Periparus ater cypriotes , Cyprus Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae and Cyprus Scops Owl Otus scops cyprius. That’s quite a lot!

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APRIL 26, 2024

I’ve been a regular visitor to the island of Cyprus for over 25 years, making around a dozen trips during this period, every one in search of birds. I made my most recent visit earlier this month, arriving with my three birding companions, Martin, Mike and Chris, on a warm spring evening.

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APRIL 4, 2011

This just in… Dan Rhoads, weary to the bone with eyes nearly burnt out from competitive bird watching, just completed his report of the Second Annual Cyprus Bird Race , transmitted it to the 10,000 Birds home office through secret back channels, and then collapsed.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

“The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus have now released the report on their bird protection camp during the peak of bird migration in autumn 2011. The report highlights four important issues.” ” See the whole report here.

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JULY 15, 2011

The big story of the fortnight in Cyprus isn’t about birds, but it crosses the path of birding (kinda). But the biggest story that is about birds is the conference that took place last week. From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

In reality I’ve returned from filming the second Champions of the Flyway Bird Race. Compared to the 135 participants of this, arguably the most grueling 24-hour birding competition in the world. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and is a crucial stop-over for migrating birds. And I had it easy.

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APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. In fact, early, photographic versions of several chapters appeared in Living Bird and Audubon Magazine (see the above links). is through the personal and the specific.

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JULY 12, 2024

Six months of the year have now slipped by, so time to review the state of my bird lists – my UK list, and my European list. An everyday bird, the Woodpigeon. One tends to take woodies for granted Brown but not boring: a Meadow Pipit An everyday bird it might be, but the c**k Blackbird’s song is one of the best.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you are old enough, you will remember birding without a phone? Later I carried it because of a stash of bird songs I compiled in it. And now I carry it for the same reason, only now they are a part of the bird ID app. Anyway, I don’t even have an app for the European birds at the moment, but for the Birds of Southern Africa.

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JUNE 10, 2011

And as a result, fun things like pelagic birds are rather scarce. Other pelagic birds are extremely rare to see. Could it be that the passage of other pelagic birds goes unseen just because too few birders take birding cruises, as opposed to just watching from the coasts? Or are they? That’s about it.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

A type of birding experience that I greatly enjoy is one of those moments where I’ve come across a simply huge number of birds. As I mined my old birding photos, I recalled one such experience at the Palekhori-Kambi Dam in the eastern part of the Troodos mountain range of Cyprus.

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MARCH 18, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Spring is for Wheatears Spring is for Wheatears By Dan • March 18, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share What is true in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US holds true for Cyprus as well: Spring is prime-time for Passerines.

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MAY 8, 2013

Birds are supposed to have feathers and birds without feathers look incomplete, like they left home with shaving cream on their ear and toothpaste spots on their shirt. The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. T urkey Vulture, photo by Dawn Puliafico.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

We are sad to say that two of our beat writers, one of whom joined in the first group and the other of whom joined in the second wave of beat writers, will be leaving 10,000 Birds. As always, to see the full profiles of all of the 10,000 Birds beat writers, as well as a schedule, please check out the page for 10,000 Birds Beat Writers.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since the 2nd edition of the Collins Bird Guide (published as “Birds of Europe” in the US) from 2009, the field guide market for European guides is practically dead. For example, songbird flight illustrations in the Collins Bird Guide are tiny, while here they cover the better part of a page. And the result?

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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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APRIL 18, 2024

I would be fascinating to know how many species of birds it was pointed at during its time with me, but it must have been well over 1,000. As a bird-tour leader, the scope was an essential part of my equipment, and I became pretty quick at getting it on to distant birds so that my clients could see them, too.

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

I dreamed of birding the Sundarbans delta – roughly the size of Connecticut or Cyprus – ever since my very dear friends Tim and Hanna Balke told me a story of their visit to these swamps where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mehgna rivers converge in the Bengal basin.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Note the short legs, stout body and white rump and tail I see Muntjac on virtually every birding (or dog-walking) outing, as these small Asian deer are now very numerous around my home in the Suffolk Brecks. I’ve yet to see one in the UK, but I had a memorable encounter with one while birding from a small boat on a river in Lithuania.

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MARCH 4, 2011

Of course hybridizations have been reported, and there may or may not be apparent gradations of these descriptions, making identification even tougher in Cyprus where they can all be seen at various times of the year. There are also juvenile birds to confuse a birdwatcher. at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or

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MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It flies on.

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APRIL 5, 2024

With the first three months of the year now gone, it’s time for a review of my birding efforts so far this year. The next couple of months will of course see a boost to my British list, as summer migrants flood into England, while forthcoming trips to Cyprus, Greece and northern Spain will also turbocharge the European list.

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JUNE 26, 2011

The whole 10,000 Birds team has got to be wearing sh*t-eating grins right about now because we actually did it… POOP WEEK was awesome! Which groovy-necked bird suffers from such a colorful but unfortunate moniker? Ever want to share your worst birding/nature and pooping-related story? What is Bird Poop?

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JULY 19, 2024

Handsome but never flashy, the Old World Buntings are a fascinating family of birds. Regular readers of 10,000 Birds will be familiar with Kai Pflug’s great photographs of the variety of buntings that migrate through Shanghai). This is a Balkan special, and a bird I know well from Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Though it’s more than 50 years since my first bird photograph was published, I’ve always remained a birdwatcher who photographs birds, not a photographer whose favourite quarry has feathers. However, 400mm wasn’t really long enough for bird photography, so I eventually bought myself a secondhand Nikon 600mm f5.6

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AUGUST 5, 2014

In birding, we like to think that we don’t need much ‘stuff’. Another book, maybe a bird finding guide. Our ‘stuff’ allows us to bird more, better, further. It defines our birding lives when it’s not threatening to overwhelm our cars and homes. Maybe a spotting scope. And a long lens camera. You get the idea.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

After a long hiatus that included a new cat, a new apartment, and enough time with the in-laws to last me quite awhile, here’s a rundown of April’s bird news: Funny, sad, and thought-provoking … an African-American ornithologist’s video tips for birding while black. Cyprus count yields a rarity: an almost all-black flamingo.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Here are the picks of the 10,000 Birds reviewing team (Tristan, Donna, Dragan, Mike, Corey, Carrie, and Mark) for 2021 bird books and other things with high quality, uniqueness, and giftability. * There are lots of big, well-produced books with exquisite photos of birds from around the world. Tristan). ==.

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