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. of Army Medical Department 1815-1851.

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MARCH 18, 2014

This humble blog has been serving people of all nations for over a decade through our online collaborative exploration of birding culture, conservation, citizen science, and amateur ornithology. Also, we’ve bragged a lot about the fancy birds we’ve seen in fancy places. Library of Congress photo by ctj71081.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

Do you get out birding much? If you’re checking in here on a Monday morning, chances are you have a bird tale to tell. Then again, maybe like me you simply enjoy hearing about the avian observations of others even when you can’t make time for your own bird chases. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. We should return to the issue of plant molecules and the good stuff they can do, vis-a-vis birds. Birds use potpourri, and apparently, to good effect. Insects ruled. At one point, for some reason, we had a debate.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Do birds use odors and a sense of smell to communicate with each other? The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. ” (p.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2013

It’s been awhile since we added a new Beat Writer here at 10,000 Birds and I am pleased to announce that the long drought has ended. … Meredith Matthews is a long time reader of 10,000 Birds who regularly let Mike and Corey know about cool news stories, blog posts, and other tidbits related to birds that she found.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

Why am I posting a photo of a hippoboscid on a Red-tailed Tropicbird, a bird I’ve never rehabbed? Also called louse flies, they’re squat little parasites that hide in the plumage of birds and suck their blood, especially sick or compromised ones. Birds flat flies hawks hippoboscids wildlife rehabilitator' It’s not good.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

That particular summer I had what seemed like 40 or 50,000 patients, and I was whining about how difficult it was to deal with large, stress-prone birds when they were starting to feel better. In order to minimize handling, any sort of medical treatment needed is done then, as well. When birds are down and out, this is not a problem.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2016

Giving the bird a wide berth I veered towards the other side of the road, assuming she would fly off. I felt compelled to go back and see if the bird was just being fickle, or if it was something else. That was definitely a bad sign; it’s almost impossible to just walk up to and snatch a healthy adult wild bird.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The bird usually turns out to be a hawk, vulture, exotic chicken, or sometimes a pigeon. It took Maryjane a considerable distance to run him down and grab him, then she had the pleasure of lugging the 12-pound bird back to her car. People who say they have found an eagle have rarely found an eagle. Will he be okay?” Please help!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It seemed whoever set the trap had ‘released’ the injured eagle upon finding him, as the bird could not have freed himself without the loss of the entire foot. This bird was lucky to be found and rescued by a Good Samaritan in this remote area. We immediately started the bird on Clavamox for infection, and Tramadol for pain.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

After nearly a week of traveling through Arizona’s very dry southeastern corner, I decided to make a detour to Flagstaff for a change of pace, a change of scenery, and a chance at seeing an assortment of birds more typical of the Great Basin than the Sierra Madre of Mexico. A poor photo of a great bird, American Three-toed Woodpecker!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2019

Birdwatching whilst driving has always brought an element of drama to our outings, but now that summer is upon us, the illusion of seeing birds where there are none brings a thrill to even the shortest journey. “ During the summer, ” I tried to explain, “ the birds moult and stay hidden. Don’t you see?

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JULY 3, 2015

These saintly people are are stressed out, sleep deprived, and working insane hours, but they somehow manage to stick to the feeding/medical treatment schedules and give all kinds of wild creatures a second chance at life. It’s summer, so rehabbers all over the country are being deluged with babies as well as the usual injured adults.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

There is no excuse for putting a banner photo like this on a renowned birding site. So: we have bird identification shorthand, which is usually the bird’s North American Ornithological Society abbreviation, but which could be just one particular rehabber’s nickname for the species. We do real birds.”. You raptor people!”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2020

Being generally more charming and attractive to us humans, birds aren’t generally included among these unwelcome hordes. But there is one bird in history that has been associated – rather unfairly – with times of pestilence and disaster: the waxwing.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2018

When we got home, she laid me out for my medicated nap and called in the professionals that you see credited beneath the photos. . “Of course it is dear”, she enthused. Courtesy of Yurgen Kellers ). There was no stopping me now. Not all matches are perfect. I have had to put this one down as Oriole sp.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. No, to me the saddest part of this whole situation is that the National Audubon Society has been missing in action for years on what is one of the most crucial conservation challenges facing our native birds, mammals, and herps.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2016

The opportunity for new birds is a lure that is very seductive. The whole reason for the trip was to interview a doctor for some upcoming medical work that Jeanne needs. Within two minutes of getting out of the taxi, I spotted the first bird, a Lifer, a Blue Mockingbird. I did not even have the camera ready.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2015

The book opened and closed with Woods’ quest for the Harpy Eagle but in the middle chapters the bird faded away to an aside. The sojourns with various close-to-the-earth, oh-so-spiritual jungle peoples made me worry that I’d stumbled onto a manuscript for Eat, Pray, Bird. Part of me, then, rolled her eyes at this book.

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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.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

We talked about past trips, birds we wanted to see, and birders who were not on board the boat. There were three birds I really wanted to see. White-faced Storm-Petrel – This is the bird that most of the boat was hoping to see. And, of course, there were more outlandish birds for which we hoped. And what birds!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

But, by December 2013, my eyes, and the eyes of birders across the country, were fixed on Neil and where he was headed next, and if—that huge if—he would see “The Bird.” L ost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year is Neil Hayward’s story of his Big Year, and it is well worth the read. Please—don’t do that!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. The post The Falcon Thief: A Book Review appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) are reminding pet owners monitor their pets’ health closely. Ferrets and birds are susceptible. Ferrets and birds may develop swine flu, or other human flu viruses. Cats should be monitored.

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JUNE 23, 2013

Try a bird bath or a bird feeder right outside the window. The owner simply enters all necessary pet information into the online database (name, your phone number, relevant medical needs, veterinarian contact information, etc.), Lock up the doggy doors when you leave. Visual Entertainment: Cats love a good show.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In the midst of a global pandemic, medical professionals have been heralded as heroes, with some even rising to the status of pop culture icons – even as some supposedly advanced nations have been plummeting into the depths of anti-science superstition lately. I can think of no higher honor. Doctor bud a cunny bud. Hard bud fi dead.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

But Nadeem and his brother, Mohammad Saud, have kind hearts, boundless energy, and ever-increasing medical skills, and have been almost single-handedly returning Delhi’s injured raptors to the sky for the past twelve years. The first injured bird Nadeem and Mohammad ever found was a Black Kite.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2024

Tan Phu Forest is about 2 hours North of Ho Chi Minh City, and the location of a few bird blinds set up by a Vietnamese who used to be a park ranger at Cat Tien National Park and probably learned about the economic potential of attracting foreign birders. My way of squeezing more blog posts out of my birding trips. ” And why not.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

As a resident of New York City the only predator I am ever concerned about while birding near my home is other people. Even with medical treatment, an alligator bite may still result in a fatal infection. It was weird to think twice about approaching the vegetation-covered edge of an innocuous pond but it only makes sense.

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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. But haven’t we all done these things? The Latin name scouleri is derived from Prof.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

You (or your child/friend/etc) have just found a seemingly parentless baby bird. Here with the answer(s) is Maureen Eiger, a bird rehabilitator in Roanoke, VA: . Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Pecs are a rare bird in Australia but they do turn up annually. This was a bird I had never seen in Australia so, given that I had a day off for a medical appointment I decided that I would grab a few mates and make a day to find the bird. Recklessly we returned to the mud where, sadly , there were fewer birds before.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. And like humans, if a wild animal is injured he needs to be treated by a licensed medical person, not a well-intentioned accountant, plumber, or six year old child. To these people, we owe our gratitude.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

It is near a river, attracting some birds that like to eat wet food. As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. The birds I asked about this pretended not to be related to anyone though.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

She is a lifelong champion of all birds, and a hero and inspiration to me. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. We medicated her for maggots, picked at least 100,000 of the creepy critters from her abdomen, and finally treated the injury. in Antigo, WI. The phone rang early.

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