10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2024

The Cuckoo Cuculus canorus has a bad reputation because of its habit of laying its eggs on the nests of other birds, who then raise their young. But in south-west Europe there is a bird that kicks out the sitting tenants and takes over the nest altogether. In other words, it was a rare bird.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The poster bird of this area is the near-threatened Black-necked Crane. Not sure how I (or the bird itself) feel about the bird being named after a bird collector, though. A beautiful bird, but a disastrous name, if even some of the accusations against Przevalski of him being a massive racist are true.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. As most of my regular readers know, I am a big fan of nest cams, feeder cams, and other such technologies. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

For instance, one could have to cope with many different screaming mammals, living in many different habitats, making many different noises, all of which sound enough like bird noises that maybe, just maybe, you should check. Montana has four species of chipmunk and six species of ground squirrel.

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Chipmunks Squirrels Rodents Montana 240

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time! Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Aren’t they usually in their nest with their parents?”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Family Birds Collecting 290

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

We have had a pair move due to human traffic increasing through the dune system and others have had to adapt to the changing landscape. Last week I shared with you all some of the delightful chicks that we hope to see in upcoming weeks, but these birds are not always successful on their first attempt at breeding due to predation.

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Feral Cats Turtles Eggs Investigation 231

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.

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Australia Koalas Parrots Birds 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Given that according to the HBW, the species prefers dense primary and secondary montane forests, the note that the bird also forages among kitchen waste (in the same HBW entry) seems somewhat incongruous. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Construction is still ongoing at Nanhui, there are constant rumors that key birding sites will be made inaccessible … you have to take every Nanhui visit as it is your last (yes, another clichee). Still, there were a few birds there this September. Still, there were a few birds there this September. A juvenile male.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

You’ve probably heard of many different kinds of bird cams—web feeds that spy on the inner lives of birds. Common Ravens tend to avoid nesting around lots of humans. Why else would they build their nest, which already contains two eggs, on the fire escape of the college’s science center?

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Puffins Boston Massachusetts Science 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

I am so happy to be back on 10,000 birds – I have missed Mike and Corey and my fellow Beat Writers! Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. These huge guys with long beards and Harley T-shirts were almost in tears when I told them the bird would be OK.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The recently released 2014 State of the Birds Report lists the Bank Swallow as one of the common birds in steep decline. These birds have lost more than half their global population, and the 33 species combined have lost hundreds of millions of breeding individuals in just the past 40 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWptY0dfDsU.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

Nearly wiped out by human heedlessness, development, and pesticide use, under the protection of the Endangered Species Act this handsome fish eagle has made a stunning comeback, rebounding in numbers and recolonizing areas where many thought they were gone forever. As an experiment, I also ran this book by a non-birding friend.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Endangered Species Washington 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. Lots and lots of birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Mating systems and parental care patterns can be odd among birds. Male-female role reversal, happens in some familiar birds, but is rare. Male Phalaropes, Jacanas, Tinamous, and Rheas build nests, incubate the eggs and take care of the chicks. Females then begin to lay eggs in the nest the male prepared.

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South America Eggs Raised America 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

But there is one Cape bird that stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to character – the African Penguin. The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is the second part of a post showing some birds seen at Nonggang in December 2022, along with the usual (mostly irrelevant) comments. The poor bird’s Latin species name is macgrigoriae , apparently (HBW) named after Jane Grant McGrigor, the daughter of Maj. Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Director Gen.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. As such success suggests, it is adaptable, taking readily to artificial nest platforms, coping well with most human developments save DDT and mercury pollution. Adaptation has its privileges!

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Bald Eagle Idaho Primates Eagles 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2011

Brown-headed Cowbirds evoke strong feelings in many birders, some of whom can’t abide a bird that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, often to the detriment of the nest owners’ offspring. Now nearly ubiquitous from forests to urban centers And our young have even more bird species as mentors.

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Eggs Buffalo Sparrows Humane 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When out birding, I prefer completely wild habitat. There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Humans have altered their habitat for hundreds of years, creating various new habitats that some aspects of nature have come to colonize. Yellow-breasted Flycatcher.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Birds have been migrating earlier. The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. If you know a lot about birds, this might be entirely expected. But individual birds are not migrating sooner. Then, the birds migrate in relation to the earlier hatch date.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

…and some seriously pissed off birds. Of course, it should not be hard to find birds angry with Matthew Gonshaw of London, a pig in human form, who was recently jailed for six months after admitting to “ten charges of theft and possession of rare eggs.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I I mean, how could he know it was a merlin, but not know it didn’t eat bird seed?”. Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. Bird communication is a complex and evolving science.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. Two weeks in July though eats through prime birding time up here. But I just haven’t seen birds like normal, although a large part of that has been effort. Fresh whitewash gives me hope that they were still there, but I’ve not seen a bird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. The introduction gives both a simple overview of how birds use their feathers as well as brief idea of how humans have been fascinated by feathers since prehistory.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

See, being in tune with the migration of tiny, globe-trotting birds feels like a secret window to a life so grand we may have to each live several times to begin to fathom it. Typically birds of the coast, it was a bit odd to see several Willets in this location. Suffice to say I am thrilled to be seeing them again.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Its a hard life being a bird but its especially hard if you’re a crane. The Wattled Crane unfortunately finds itself amongst the majority, with an estimated 7,000 birds remaining on the planet. And we headed down to this part of the world in early 2012 to find out more about these threatened birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. million in the late 1990’s.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Here is a handy exercise that you can try to give you long frustrating hours on the computer and provide a good excuse to avoid contact with the rest of humanity. But please also consider that the subject of this exercise is an image gained without having to disturb a hungry bird refuelling during its migration.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. It is likely that the population of African Pythons was started the same way as the Bird Drive Area is bordered by major highways and is adjacent to urban areas. Rock Python.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

… especially if you’re a lady bird in heat. Because unlike those of mammals, avian ova need penetration by multiple sperm in order to successfully develop into baby birds. This differs from humans and other mammals, in which the addition of extra sperm essentially destroys the egg.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

He’d like to thank his mom, his agent, and of course the Birding Academy. This bred both indifference, and on the flip side a tendency to overly pester the few charismatic birds they did come in contact with. ” This weekend, remember a bird you love.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Some lingered to gaze at samples from the Field’s collection of bird specimens, such as perfectly preserved thrushes, warblers, and even a Rose-breasted Grosbeak under glass. Other hardy souls signed up for an early morning “Ostrich Run” 5k, with the prizes beinging–you guessed it–actual ostrich eggs.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

According to a bird guide published in 1911, “Competent authorities have proposed to divide the world, biologically, into two parts – Australia and the rest of the world, and they have considered Australia the more interesting part.” chocolate-bird (??), little fieldwren, and speckled jack.

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