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

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

While we at 10,000 Birds wouldn’t advocate taking such an approach , it is not without its merits: Nico Dauphine told a D.C. Dauphine works at the National Zoo studying wild birds, where her research has focused on one of birds’ enemies: cats. ” The Ph.D.

Feral Cats

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. In any case: joining the already-packaged food items in my freezer are wild birds who didn’t make it. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases).

Wildlife Rehabilitation

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

When looking for birds in Costa Rica, the Central Valley isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Tongues and patches of green space host birds but most birders leave as soon as they can. Why linger when you can go where the birding is better? I can’t blame them, I would too.

Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2012

Birds are consumate improvisors and they are always open to the demands of the moment. They are known for capturing ground prey but as generalists they are more than happy to take birds… though Rock Pigeons are on the upper end of their scale. When you spend a lot of time outdoors you get to see strange things happen.

Rats

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

He hypothesized that the bird Bloxam shot, which by this point was origin uncertain because no one was sure where Bloxam had shot it, might be a juvenile Striated Starling. ” And because he was the first to publish a scientific description of the bird with a name attached the name stuck. ” … Extinction is forever.

Killing

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2015

Nest predation is the driving force of nest site selection by bird. The long, sharp, and barbed thorns discourage rats and other small mammals from climbing the cacti to reach the eggs and chicks. The long, sharp, and barbed thorns discourage rats and other small mammals from climbing the cacti to reach the eggs and chicks.

Mammals

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

We sail into the relative calm of a cliff, the mast takes an upright position, navigation becomes calm and quiet… quiet enough for our bird guide, Andrea Bonetti to pick up a voice of a Western Rock Nuthatch coming from the rock face. We come closer to it, but I cannot find the bird with binoculars. Chukar (c) Marius Bolck.

Greece

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In short, it was the perfect day to go birding, so I grabbed my binoculars and camera and set off for the forest. The trouble with mature pine forest is that it isn’t really very good for birds, and in winter there’s little to be found there apart from Goldcrests and Coal T**s.

Barn Owls

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2014

More reviled than perhaps any other species for the mess they make, their copious poop, and their general ubiquity, they are disliked, cursed, and stuck with monikers like “rat with wings.” It is, after all, a bird. Even the piebald birds are beautiful. Birds Flushing Meadows Corona Park pigeons rock pigeon'

Rats

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

This week it emerged that the island is important for another rare New Zealand bird, the critically endangered New Zealand Petrel. Little Barrier had rats at one point, so it may have re-colonised, or may be still recovering from the rats. The species was lost for over a hundred years before being rediscovered in 2003.

New Zealand

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. In fact, early, photographic versions of several chapters appeared in Living Bird and Audubon Magazine (see the above links). is through the personal and the specific.

Cyprus

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A rather small black bird moved about, making short hops to and fro until finally it stopped for a couple of seconds, lowering its head to the side watching us inquisitively. That’s how it is with most smaller Amazonian birds. The post The Cocha Antshrike first appeared on 10,000 Birds.

Solomon Islands

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Mark Gamin, a Cleveland lawyer, likes cats and birds both. This is Mark’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. In Oregon, the Barred Owl is taking over Northern Spotted Owl territory and threatening that smaller bird’s survival. Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic.

Feral Cats

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

A plant in South Africa, commonly called Rat’s Tail but referred to by scientists as Babiana ringens , evolved a perch for birds to use while feeding. Now if only one of the plants in New York would evolve a couch near a good birding spot… a. This aids the plants because they get pollinated as part of the bargain.

South Africa

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

If there is one order of birds that is guaranteed to draw involuntary gasps and odd keening noises, it is the Strigiformes. Alert calls from a small patch of woodland at Tyson’s Corner, VA, near Washington DC, prompted me to take a look and see what was upsetting the flock of scolding birds. Birds Barred Owl'

Owls

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When you bird afar and wander wide, you carry a field guide to the birds of the region you are exploring, a pair of binoculars, likely a camera, perhaps a spotting scope and a tripod too, plus clothing, medicines, toiletries, electronics, money and documents… Did you notice the missing item? Yet, those bird guides are hefty.

Madagascar

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it to a new edition between the trips. Similar with bird books, the maps are as accurate as can be, but do not forget that they are showing our knowledge of mammal distributions, rather than their true ranges.

Mammals

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2022

and I am taking my observation-sofa position next to a glass wall, overlooking bird feeders in the misty cloudforests of the Cordillera de Talamanca. I met Serge five years ago, when he invited me to a mad bird race all the way from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is 6.40

Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. The global population is now estimated at 15,000 birds and, even on islands where it is relatively common, its distribution remains severely fragmented. So he began to put out extra feed for the birds.

Antigua and Barbuda

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it.

Georgia

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

We conduct four Christmas Bird Counts in our part of Northern California, the first of which is the Fall River Christmas Bird Count coming up in just about two weeks. We began birding at Fall River overlook, a vista parking area overlooking a canyon.

California

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Doves tend to get a bad rap when it comes to birding. In neotropical birding circles, the ability of this ground-dove to avoid detection is pretty much legendary. Bird as much as you want from Mexico to Bolivia, and you could easily never see or hear one for years. “No respect! Not a chance!

Costa Rica

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!”

Wildlife Rehabilitation

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. Midway’s birds are also protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Employing long-term biosecurity protocols to prevent the reinvasion of the island by mice and rats.

Mice

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

Bidding is on TradeMe (New Zealand’s eBay), and the money raised will go to clearing the Antipodes Islands of introduced rats ( a story we talked about before ). The Department of Conservation in New Zealand is giving you, yes you , the chance to spend two days and one night raising Kakapo chicks ! So it’s win-win really.

Raised

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A Just for one day, not to be pooped or puked on and to not find rat guts hanging off my clothes,” wrote Susan in Michigan.

Wildlife

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

The famous Red-tailed Hawk of Central Park is apparently using his pad with a great view of Central Park to woo the women who find themselves unable to resist his rat-catching ways and wiles.

Rats

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

But appreciating the humble “flying rat” doesn’t mean that when a Peregrine Falcon shows up I’m not rooting for that bad boy. I even understand, though I don’t condone, the urge that drive people to heap birdseed and stale bread on the sidewalks for them.

Falcons

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. Sardinian Warbler by Szabolcs Kokay.

Spain

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I often poke fun at listers I perceive as being more interested in ticks than birds. But there is one kind of tick that I genuinely do enjoy, and as I do more and more birding it becomes harder and harder to get; new families. Getting entirely new families is easy when you start birding.

Family

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.

Penguins

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The Inaccessible Island Rail is perhaps the coolest bird that neither I nor anyone I will ever meet will ever see. The bird will therefore now be known as. It is a small bird of the rail species, I think, wingless, unable to fly, but can run with great speed, shelters in the tussock, and lives in a burrow. Atlantisia Rogersi.

Science

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat. It’s not only the fact that you see more birds of prey than in “normal” years, they also show a different behaviour. In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse.

Fox

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2019

And indeed, a slender grey bird with black tail and head, red eyes and legs, comes to within a few meters of us to check us out. Through the Rat-penat houses, enveloped in their lush green gardens, the road winds up the edge of a limestone gorge towards the Garraf nature park (pronounced a bit like barking, garrrrAf).

Terrapins

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Long-time readers of this blog probably also know Tai Haku, the scuba-diving, tree-planting, bird photographing nature blogger at Earth, Wind, and Water. For a successful relocation, check out Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who Brought it Back from Extinction.)

Puerto Rico

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2018

I have written before of the intersection between the human need for entertainment and the bird need to live bird lives and make more birds: it partakes of both the compelling and the ridiculous at the best of times. So what does this mean for birds? And now is the best of times. And People. And Cosmopolitan.

New York City