10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Based on their physical attributes and lifestyle, falcons enjoyed a very long run as a founding member of the order Falconiformes, along with the rest of the diurnal raptor-y type birds like vultures and eagles and hawks and hawk-eagles. Come check out the newest I and the Bird ! What is a falcon, really? Like falcons?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Aesthetic charm is probably a big part of making a bird interesting to outsiders, and unfortunately most gulls fall fairly short in both form and voice. But cute is not the same as interesting, as a brief survey of OKCupid will tell you just as well as birds can. And what about lifestyle? Not all, though. What say you?

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 266

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

and am not a lifestyle writer to comment on those claims. I am a birder and I can claim that out of Serbia’s total of 350+ bird species, highly urbanised inner city areas of Belgrade hold almost 100 birds, while the outskirts have more than 200 species. The question is, where to see them? mi and 2.5 eBird checklist.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

Find your State Bird. I previously wrote a post entitled “Plugging Kids into Birding” in which I presented 10 ways to get kids into birding. Our increasingly sedentary and indoor lifestyles have taken their toll on our kids with childhood obesity, ADD/ADHD diagnosis and childhood drug abuse at unprecedented levels.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. One of the central papers, Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds (Jarvis et al. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2014

The real challenge in discussing a patch is making it somehow interesting to other birders…after all, a patch is a personal thing, so blogging about one’s patch is akin to blogging about one’s bird list…it may be interesting at first, but it gets old really quick. After this, patch birding will never be the same.

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Oakland Lifestyle Woodpeckers Sparrows 238

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Every time I go to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I make sure to go out of my way to spend some time with Snail Kites. The birds interacted in the air several times and watching their behavior with each other and while they were hunting was educational and enjoyable. Adult birds have an orange base to the bill.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2012

Field guides are usually more helpful regarding this former, but Jon Young’s expert analysis and practical instruction in interpreting bird behavior should definitely supercharge the latter. If I go out tomorrow and see and really recognize that same individual bird again, the thread will thicken and strengthen just a little.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Last year there was a spate of books specifically about bird “behavior” – though one might well say that every book about birds, from field guides on up, is about behavior in some way or another. The page or two of text for each bird has some good stuff, not all pertaining to migration. A “broad spectrum,” indeed.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

“Target birds” The term can foster excitement but is easily contentious. Aren’t all birds worth watching? There’s nothing wrong with appreciating and watching every bird but there’s also nothing wrong about going to great efforts to see lifers only found in dreams. Fiery-throated Hummingbird.

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Nicaragua 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

But surprisingly, this niche is not frequently filled by the birds Eurasian birders call flycatchers, which are those more chat-ish species in the family Muscicapidae. Those birds, which popped up along every elevated perch during my time in India were by and large Black Drongos. Birding Drongo India'

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India Lifestyle North America Family 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2014

An itinerant lifestyle, while wonderful in some regards, does not lend itself to forming certain connections. While I enjoy birding with others, I’ve never really been part of the warp and weft of a birding community. The Queens bird count seemed like a good place to get my feet wet.

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Chinchillas Ducks Lifestyle Sparrows 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2015

Thus a younger, leaner (and if I am brutally honest, prettier and better able to carry off “The Look”) fleet of crew have been recruited to bolster the established flight attendants who carry the weight of experience and a few extra pounds besides from their indulgent lifestyle. Slender Mongoose.

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Mongoose South Africa Africa Lifestyle 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2013

So I wasn’t aware there was any controversy about the matter, until I saw a passage in a new monograph on the bird, The Snowy Owl , by Eugene Potapov and Richard Sale. Birds owl owls Snowy Owl taxonomy and systematics' Three hundred pages of Snowy Owl goodness for those who just can’t get enough.).

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Owls Indonesia 2002 North Carolina 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. White article on bird feeding stations. I just count the wings.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I am a birder, and I love birds. I don’t mind that they share the world with other creatures, and I have even developed an appreciation for mammals, reptiles and amphibians – but only so long as watching them doesn’t collide with my finding birds. This small pine tree was very recently demolished by a brown bear.

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Europe Mammals Animal Reindeer 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The status of its preferred wetlands throughout the year dictates movements that often results in a nomadic lifestyle. The highly specialized foraging strategy of flamingos makes them vulnerable to the effect of subtle changes in habitat quality. This may include long distance movements in short periods of time.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 157

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 11, 2009

Take your time and do your homework in order to make sure you choose the cat that is most compatible with you and your lifestyle. Cats, particularly when acquired as kittens, can be taught to get along happily with a wide variety of other companion animals, including birds and dogs. Here are some things to consider: Temperament.

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Cats Kittens Lifestyle Companion Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2014

This year Redgannet has agreed to include birds on his year list only if they are logged from a site that he has either not birded before, or has not visited for more than 5 years. Whilst his nomadic lifestyle allows him to bird all around the world, he tends to favour certain spots and sticks to where he knows.

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San Diego 2014 Sparrows Lifestyle 175

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While New Zealand is famous for its endemic oddities, once upon a time New Zealand also had many birds from groups and families that are no longer found here. More curious was the owlet-nightjar, an already obscure group to begin with, but made all the more astonishing by virtue of its flightless and ground living lifestyle.

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Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 111

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. Most exotics, at least in the bird world, stick close to their point of arrival and barely hang on – or don’t – over the generations. In 1998 W. And of Wyoming.

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Montana 2011 Bahamas Deer 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Whether their authors are scrutinizing this pink wine’s recent rise as a millennial obsession in clickbait lifestyle pieces, lamenting its fate as the perennial victim of wine snob invective, or endeavoring to discredit the many myths that surround this underappreciated style, come June, it’s rosés, rosés, all the way.

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2017 France Lifestyle Feral 121

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 21, 2012

Whether its Dalmatian dog, a Persian cat, a tropical bird or even an exotic lizard from a faraway country, this is what you have been craving, the satisfaction you get when your pet looks up at its new owner with that ´please look after me’ look. Then the Christmas day finally came when that dream became a reality and it was acknowledged.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Some of the provisions will be implemented almost immediately after enactment, such as those relating to starvation, ammonia levels, and euthanasia, and others after just a few years, including labeling and the requirement that all birds will have to have at least 67 square inches of space per bird.

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Welfare Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

This special place in a birder’s heart or on a list of best birds of the year certainly pertains not only to their extravagant lifestyle but also to the fact that most birders – particularly visiting birders – often struggle with finding them. Crazy, I know. And you know what? A silly name from a German prespective.

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Germany Hamburgers Austria 2016 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

2, 2009 To the Editor: While Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article demonstrates our folly in oversimplifying solutions to many of our challenges and offers many viable solutions to sustaining our lifestyles in generations to come, she leaves out one very green practice: hunting and fishing. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J., Indeed, in Ms.

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New York Times New York San Antonio Meat 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Layer hens spend their entire lives permanently confined in battery cages with 6-9 other hens and have only half a square foot of living space per bird.

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Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

What are the world’s most distinctive birds? That question could be answered in several ways, but a new paper released this month — Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds (Jetz et al. It’s important to understand that the evolutionary distinctiveness ranking proposed by Jetz et al.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

When people think of birds and their sex lives…most of us don’t know much, although it’s not for a lack of interest. Within the bird world, so many different strategies and methods of mating and reproduction have evolved, it simply boggles the mind. This is just a small slice of how birds get it done.

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Albatross Lifestyle Birds Raised 241

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

My initial reaction was, “Really, dude, of all the birds that you’re allowed to have in Wisconsin, you choose the bird that is going to make birders who don’t understand falconry angry?” They’re not known to be the easiest birds to work with , especially when the temperatures are high. Go home now!”

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 260

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2015

Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. Unnatural selection indeed: None of these are traits that particularly recommend themselves in a wild bird. As I have pointed out before , we owe the much-maligned sky rat a debt of gratitude.

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Lifestyle Rats Falcons Breeders 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

In June 2023, I again went to Balangshan, a mountain about 3 hour’s drive from Sichuan’s capital Chengdu – and again with Alpinebirding , fortunately no longer for them to partly deal with confusing covid restrictions but only to help me find birds that I am too incompetent a birder to find on my own. Evidence-based!

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China Science Birds Mongolia 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

In trying to find further evidence of the warbler’s behaviour and the sapsucker’s lifestyle, I found numerous mentions of Rufous Hummingbirds and “other species” coming to feed from sap wells. My first internet search was an attempt to sex the bird. Does he vigorously defend his food source?

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San Francisco Maryland Jordan Colorado 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2023

Otherwise, why would eBird call it a “heavily built, flat-headed dark blue bird”, which sounds more like a description of a robot or a piece of machinery than that of a beautiful bird? See the video links at the end of the post for an illustration of this lifestyle.

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Malaysia Indonesia Lifestyle Japan 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

In many ways, birding Wawushan is a nightmare for a solitary and crowd-hating birder like me. An unnamed bird guide called them “avoidless tourists”, which sums it up rather nicely. So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience.

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Pandas Eggs Birds China 261

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Evidently, the birds that were not afraid of the unknown at a trusted feeding station were not necessarily the same birds as those that were seeking out completely new feeding locations or opportunities. • Explore These Related Posts I spy Osprey Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? What do you think?

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Cats Costa Rica 2011 Deer 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Trips / A long way from nowhere A long way from nowhere By Clare M • March 6, 2011 • 5 comments Tweet Share Once again this week we have been restricted on our movements due to the weather. Get yours today!

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