10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2019

I’m hardly the first person to observe that it’s all too easy to get overwhelmed by bad environmental news, and the title Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest sounds like a pretty major downer. Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams – Indiana University Press, $29.00.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

After being home for just over a month, I’ve been doing two things to keep my birding sanity. Firstly, I’ve been birding the heck out of our backyard, and encouraging people to do the same (both here and elsewhere ). The post A Walk in the Desert appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Speckle-fronted Weaver.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Since I first started hand-coding 10,000 Birds using Microsoft Frontpage in 2003 , we’ve seen all manner of technology (e.g., 10,000 Birds has ridden the waves of blog proliferation, consolidation, and gradual decimation by social media, but we’re still going strong. rss ) and trends (e.g., blog carnivals ) come and go.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2012

But none of my local birds here in the Alps got quite so neglected as the Blackbird ( Turdus merula ) – I do not seem to have a single photo of a Blackbird in my library. For (almost) the largest flying bird on planet earth, “subtlety” is not a word one would think of using all to often with them.

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Neglecting Blackbirds Species Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to bird this time round. My “birding”, such that it was, consisted mostly of morning walks with my young daughter in her stroller. The birds were what you’d expect.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Especially because my summer birds are gone. My friends with boats tell me of some great birds that are still around, of Ivory Gulls and Black-legged Kittewakes , of Arctic Terns and Dovkies. All great birds, and the Dovkies are not normally found in my corner of the Arctic, although they’ve been seen regularly this Fall.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2016

Johnsgard blends a scientific and a poetic regard for these birds and the habitats they depend on in a way that’s reminiscent of Aldo Leopold — a higher compliment than which I cannot think to bestow. His prose is elegant and vivid without shading to purple or neglecting to communicate actual facts.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Just try to ensure that birding makes the itinerary. I’m working part of the weekend but home to finally spy some shorebirds, which I’ve been assiduously neglecting. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. There were subsequent expeditions to the region in search of Guans, but none yielded evidence of the bird.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

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. Would the photograph be better if the whole bird was portrayed without being masked by unwanted greenery? Do you have a picture that is spoiled by an intruding piece of plant stem?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Last weekend, I went on a birding binge. I spent two full days where the birding was near constant, and, just to keep the binoculars from being neglected, topped it off with another half day of birding on our drive back from Cano Negro, Costa Rica. Most of the counting was done from boats.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

Most people think of brood parasitism and two kinds of bird spring to mind: the cowbirds (most often the Brown-headed Cowbird ) and the Old World cuckoos (most often the Common Cuckoo ). It’s easy to see why some birds adopt this way of life. Babies… babies… ok, how about brood parasitism?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

(Boring bureaucratic note to dissuade casual readers: This post covers birds seen in Shanghai in January 2023, except for those seen at Tianmashan – these are shown in a separate post. End of note) Probably the most interesting bird in Shanghai this month was a Barred Cuckoo-Dove choosing a small downtown park to feed on berries.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

I know I neglected to ask you where you were birding this weekend, but don’t ever think that means I don’t want to know. Any good bird sighting deserves to be shared and enjoyed. What was your best bird of the weekend? So fire away! Better lay out some suet once the real cold arrives. How about you?

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Neglecting 2017 Jamaica Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida By James • March 8, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

Reports abounded of a huge variety of birds, from thrushes to nightjars, terns to vireos. Despite the amount of time spent birding I did not neglect my family at all, enjoying an outing to the Bronx Zoo on Saturday afternoon and a hike at Doodletown Road in Bear Mountain State Park on Sunday. And was it ever!

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New York City New York Kentucky Abandon 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2018

And yet…take a closer look and you won’t find any hummingbirds acting like cute little singing birds ready to perch on the finger of some lost, happy princess. And that begs the question, anthropocentric comparisons aside, what makes a bird a jerk? So easy to love, admire and cherish! Maybe even pyschos.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Some pets will benefit from specific forms of entertainment, for example, a bird feeder. For cats, a bird feeder provides a constant source of entertainment which will keep them busy for many hours each day. There are many fun, colorful and interactive pet toys that can provide sufficient entertainment for your pet.

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Pets Shelters Neglecting 2009 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2018

In adopting this long-neglected style and making it their own, American craft brewers have married the unusual palate of Gose to all sorts of fruity and hoppy partners in the brewhouse. ” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose appeared first on 10,000 Birds. So it goes? Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose.

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Germany Utah Stray Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. Memoirs are rare in the birding world.

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Emotional Birds Nepal Minneapolis 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

I bring this up not to boast (well, not much) but because I think that this approach to wildlife travel is somewhat neglected in birding circles. Read most accounts of how birders see birds outside their patch and one way or another, they’re tourists. Nothing forms bonds like rolling around in bird…uh… waste.

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Uganda Sharks New Zealand Africa 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Other birders might however owe their very lives to this neglect. A small brown bird. Boy, this pic (and bird) was surely worth the wait. On the contrary, it may very well be one of the most dangerous bird species in Asia, if not the world. ” Birds Indonesia prinias' Many birders might regret this one day.

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Burma Laos Cambodia Indonesia 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

I’m not a big fan of bird banding. When I see a band I imagine something slipping beneath it and trapping the bird, I’ve seen photos of birds with so many bands it looks like they’re wearing stockings, and then there’s the awful story of Violet , whose band eventually killed her. to find out her actual age. Should they keep her?

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

But there was one trip I wasn’t going to miss, a midweek excursion by the Cumberland Bird Observers Club , the people to go out with in Sydney if you want birds. Next was White-naped Honeyeaters , a compact pretty little bird with a white front, black head and olive back. Spotted Pardalotes are uniquely Australian birds.

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Owls Birds Hawaii Neglecting 236

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Having come back to the blog in whatever form and persistency, the overarching subject of language in birding seemed to be a suitable and deserving theme since bird names were part of my original beat. How have birds infiltrated our everyday language, even of non-birders? No birds required. ” – You have a bird!

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Germany Hunters Birds Owls 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2018

He pointed out that Illinois had been sadly neglected up to this point, so Redgannet made a special visit to Chicago to redress this oversight. They birded 6 countries; USA, UK, Costa Rica, Serbia, Australia, and Mexico. Gray Go-away-bird – Corythaixoides concolor. Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. 25 May 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

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