10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2022

Anyway, the strange swampy area close to Dongfangs main drag and its associated real and fake Playboy stores has a number of interesting birds – fortunately, none of them displaying any embarrassing brand names. I guess the red bill is the bird’s equivalent of wearing Playboy branded clothes.

Micronesia 257

Micronesia Branding Buffalo Rabbits 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

Fortunately, a pair of fellow Queens birders who will be known to those who read my posts about going to Ecuador, Karlo and Alison Mirth, witnessed a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from a Raccoon in Forest Park, Queens, recently and Alison got some pictures that she agreed to let me share here on 10,000 Birds. … a.

Raccoons 260

Raccoons Woodchucks Opossums Squirrels 260

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. Like a film star wearing a whig and big sunglasses in a public place, this bird at first glance looks fairly nondescript. Once the bird takes up a different position, it gets more interesting.

China 264

China Pythons Birds Rabbits 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

One of the defining characteristics of birds, besides the obvious features of wings and feathers, is their bills. From toucans to curlews and from hummingbirds to flamingos, birds display an almost otherworldly diversity in these body-parts. Bills are instrumental in defining three of the senses in birds – taste, touch and smell.

Mammals 261

Mammals Mozambique Birds Colombia 261

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One good thing about birding during a pandemic–the forced restrictions on place and time translate into more time to observe what birds do. Bird behavior–endlessly fascinating, but so much still hidden and unknown. Extreme behaviors also push scientists to look at birds in new ways.

Science 264

Science Birds Costa Rica Research 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Some more photos of Australian birds mixed with irrelevant facts and mediocre half-jokes, as a way to pass away the time while being under lockdown in Shanghai (note: it is over now but this post was written during the lockdown). It must be a bit frustrating for a flower to be less colorful than the bird visiting it though.

Australia 262

Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2021

The Guinness toucan is easily the most iconic bird mascot in beer history, but the storied Dublin brewery also boasted an ostrich and a pelican in its colorful, avian advertising menagerie of yesteryear. Good birding and happy drinking! A note of caution about this beer’s alcohol content: at a walloping 8.3 Consider yourself warned.

India 264

India Ostriches Porcupines Rabbits 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2024

After having explored some vineyards above the village of Rüdesheim am Rhein recently, I decided to go birding in a similar area closer to Bonn. Seeing this bird immediately after arriving reminded me of my recent Cirl Bunting sighting, also the first bird I saw on my last outing to look for buntings. Mission accomplished!

New Zealand 246

New Zealand Rabbits Adoptable Family 246

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. I had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!”

Hamburgers 250

Hamburgers Squirrels Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2014

One of the pleasures of birding through a landscape no man has gone before is that one has frequent encounters with individuals – birds, mammals, herps, whatever – that have never seen a human in their life. I mean, it is hard enough to comprehend that birds can live in Mangghystau. Mammals Kazakhstan rabbits'

Humane 208

Humane Kazakhstan Camels Rabbits 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

They are clinging birds and use the technique on branches and tree trunks. Chickadees, woodpeckers, titmice (like the bird above) and nuthatches are considered “clinging type birds&# and can easily hang upside-down to get access to food. Gradually add and increase the amount of safflower in your bird feeder.

2011 248

2011 Woodpeckers Blackbirds Deer 248

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Once you start down such a rabbit-hole it is difficult to stop the plunge into full on data-nerd mode. Obviously, not all bird records have been reported to eBird. It happened during a Christmas Bird Count in Louisiana in 1984. ” That means that the observer counted 1,010 aggregates of 100,000 birds.

Louisiana 189

Louisiana Birds Nicaragua Iowa 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Apparently the lack of birds and the abundance of cold has led to him thinking that writing a blog post about bunnies is an acceptable topic for Bird Love Week. that we would just let him carry on so we can see what his frozen, bird-deprived mind will come up with next. To see all of our Bird Love Week posts, just click here.

Rabbits 252

Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

In any case: joining the already-packaged food items in my freezer are wild birds who didn’t make it. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. Birds raptors turkey vulture wildlife rehabilitators' He ate my last quail.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Chipmunks 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2015

Owls are among the birds with the greatest power to fascinate non-birders, for good and ill. Young Scott put in yeoman’s work first identifying, then attempting to photograph the birds he stumbled across while hunting rabbits with a friend, and apparently his drive has stayed with him from that day to this.

Owls 235

Owls Wounded Colorado Rabbits 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

But later in August, Alexander Suh at the University of Münster emailed me about a new paper he and his colleagues have just published: Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of passerine birds (PDF). Galahs ( Eolophus roseicapilla ) in Victoria, Australia © David J. Ringer Suh et al. Ringer Suh et al.

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Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

birds that we are lucky to have with us today, species that seem to have beat the odds and have been migrating on the long and bumpy road to recovery. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Here are some U.S. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain.

Albatross 253

Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Previously, scientists had pegged the maximum range of a swimming stoat at 1.5 kilometers.

New Zealand 182

New Zealand Rabbits Sanctuary Wildlife 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades. It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades.

Alligators 176

Alligators Leopards Protection Rabbits 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The Ferruginous Hawk ( Buteo regalis ) is truly a regal bird. They are often seen on the ground since their prey consists mainly of rabbit, prairie dog and, you guessed it, ground squirrel. The latest study I found was a migration study which included Canada, the United States and Mexico done by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.

Squirrels 194

Squirrels Prairie Dogs North America Rabbits 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The collapse of the UK rabbit population during the myxomatosis outbreak in the 1950’s allowed the previously well-cropped vetches to grow long and lush, lowering the ground temperature and the butterflies were wiped out from much of southern England within two years.

Rabbits 178

Rabbits Ireland Sheep 2002 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there. As a wildlife rehabilitator I’ve always wanted to believe that if I put enough time, energy, and devotion into healing a wounded creature, our combined karmic payback will insure that it will live out its life well-fed and trouble-free.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Coyotes Wounded Rabbits 223

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2019

White-throated Flycatcher : I have to go with context here; this bird loves marshes. They seem to exist only to send you down a rabbit hole of eye ring shape and primary projection. The post The indistinguishable Empidonax Flycatchers appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Pine Flycatcher : looks just the same, but brownish-gray.

West Virginia 198

West Virginia Mexico Illinois Rabbits 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Audubon chapter leaders meet once a year for these council meetings to share their ideas and successes with other chapters and discuss ways to improve members participation and enjoyment of birding and conservation activities. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Click on photos for full sized images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tVjohOIdI.

Nevada 160

Nevada Utah North America Oregon 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

New Zealand has one of the direst records of extinction is modern times, second on really to Hawaii in terms of bird species lost. Once the link between mammalian invaders and bird extinctions had been confirmed without doubt (something that took a lot longer than it really should have) the problem became what to do about it.

New Zealand 210

New Zealand Rats Mammals Possums 210

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

“I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

Woodpeckers 264

Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 264

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 5, 2014

They were nice enough to send us personalized frames for our dog and bird. Another thing we love about Etched In My Heart is that they donate part of their proceeds to The PetSave Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Bona Tucker in June 2000 as a rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption resource for domestic rabbits, cats and dogs.

Rabbits 100

Rabbits Horses Cats 2000 100

Animal Person

APRIL 11, 2009

It wouldn’t matter if it was a puppy, a fox cub, a rabbit or, any other lost or hurting Animal, Jasmine would peer into the box or cage and, where possible, deliver a welcoming lick. But she is like that with all of our animals, even the rabbits. But Jasmine had other ideas. Geoff relates one of the early incidents. “We Link: [link].

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Guinea Pigs Stray Puppy Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2014

To plenty others it is a beuatifully accessible patch of lowland rainforest, the perfect location to pick up a host of lowland birds. We heard, but didn’t see, a Brown Wood-ow l, and best of all a massive cat-sized Red Giant Flying Squirrel and a rabbit-sized Sunda Stink-badger. Birding Borneo Pittas' It happens.

Badgers 160

Badgers Skunks Squirrels Rabbits 160

Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2010

In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia. According to a Wales on Sunday investigation, the number of animals used at Cardiff has risen by 13 percent since 2006.

Animal Research 100

Animal Research Guinea Pigs Mice Research 100

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 20, 2012

Any type of pet is game, be it dog, cat, horse, ferret, rabbit, etc. I mostly paint dogs but I also do cats, horses, ferrets, and other small critters and birds. The custom portraits are painted in acrylic on a gallery style wrapped canvas. You can choose the color and the amount of texture or flatness of the background.

Pets 100

Pets Ferrets Horses Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined. They are large, noisy birds of drier areas of East and southern Africa. They live for up to 100 years.

Buffalo 246

Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The very first bird on our list was a Great Horned Owl responding to a screech owl call and, at another site, the Eastern Screech-Owls themselves made a brief whistle then passed over our heads, tiny round shapes against the sky in the gathering daylight. The three main impoundments at Pea Island were packed with birds.

North Carolina 150

North Carolina Rattlesnake Sparrows Owls 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Cedar Waxwings ( Bombycilla cedrorum ) have the unfortunate distinction of being the undisputed poster-birds for avian intemperance. Happy drinking and good birding! Perhaps it’s only just getting started? I’m also certain waxwings would find this cider just as enjoyable, but I don’t think we should be encouraging them – do you?

Farming 100

Farming Pennsylvania Rabbits Fox 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2016

When you talk about birding botanical gardens in South Africa, Kirstenbosch in Cape Town is perhaps what automatically comes to mind. This is by no means a mistake, a birder could spend many happy hours there without seeing a bird and just admiring the fynbos vegetation. And then several more hours admiring the birds.

South Africa 100

South Africa Africa Vietnam Geese 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Dogs, cats, birds (given there is no avian bird flu alert), rabbits and non-venomous reptiles are allowed. Well, why not take your furry pals with you? At Disneyland, you can! That’s right! Disneyland has a Kennel Club where you can board your pet for a day.

Pets 100

Pets Kennels Rabbits Reptiles 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Two full days at Hart Mountain Wildlife Refuge, three days at Dog Lake, and a short visit to Upper Cottonwood Lake brought back many great memories, in addition to a nice list of birds. So, we made the 10 mile run up in the truck each morning before daylight, in order to get a jump on the birds and other wildlife.

Oregon 138

Oregon Owls Barn Owls Wildlife 138