10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But that time, I was shocked to find that about half the birds I had expected were missing — along with half the lake. But here in 2020, the eastern half is also suffering the effects of drought — leaving it shallow enough to keep a fair number of Teals, Pintails, and Shovelers happy. Just part of one flock.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. The birds I admired most this weekend were Barn Swallows swooping over strawberry fields. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Here in Western NY, we suffered a 40 point swing in temperature over two days; one moment, you’re enjoying drinks by the pool and the next finds you wrapped in a shawl sipping got cocoa. With birds on the wing all over the world, I imagine everyone who tried saw something interesting. Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. The birds are in trouble and some of them are going to go extinct because of climate change. “The birds” as a whole will be “fine” but many individual species will not.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Rather than belabor the obvious, I’ll just point out that the global pandemic may have spawned a new wave of birders, but collectively we’ve seen far fewer species of birds. As I’m not traveling these days, I’ve been spending lots of time with my local birds. It was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Maybe this kingfisher should have chosen another island to live on – according to one paper on the species, Java is the most densely populated island in the world and has suffered extreme anthropogenic pressure, resulting in the loss of over 90% of its natural forests.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2022

Personally I’ve seen over a hundred species over several birding trips there, the overall species list for the location is approximately 160 – a tally that will only increase. It was admittedly difficult to concentrate on any single bird with trogons calling non-stop. This large and charismatic bird was surely the bird of the trip.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

I am not dissatisfied with guides who do not manage to find the target bird, if they do try with all their heart. I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. What makes a good bird guide?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Or whether there are certain handicaps that prevent the ready discovery of shorebirds or waterfowl or grassland birds. A community of which I count myself as a member, not so oddly enough, so you’re just going to have to either suffer through this anecdote or try to appreciate the tiny victories that birding can bring you.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

I’m at a yearly disadvantage when it comes to deciding my Best Bird of the Year (BBOY) here on 10,000 Birds. Borneo did turn up some great birds, as expected, but it still turned out to be quite hard to pick a winner. Birding best bird of the year Borneo storks' In fact, I can often guarantee it.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

so I’m a bit behind in my intense pursuit of scientific findings related to birds. First, the bird butts. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of birds flying by out there are going the other way. But I do have a few items. All I see are their buts. But that’s not the most interesting thing I’ve seen recently.

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Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines Birds 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

But apples and those who love them definitely suffered most substantially. My Best Bird of the Weekend was probably a perched American Kestrel , a paltry predator I never tire of seeing. Birding is a healer. What was your best bird of the weekend? Berries burst early and corn came in early. How about you?

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2012 New York Suffering Birds 206

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act. The group and its members typically allege that they observe birds or run birding companies or have a mission to protect and preserve birds, so the standing requirement is satisfied. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Critter News

MAY 24, 2010

It is unclear if the area can even be cleaned, or if the birds can be saved. Tags: birds marine life pelicans 2010 oil spill. Pelican eggs were glazed with rust-colored gunk, and new hatchlings and nests were also coated with crude.

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Suffering Marine Life Pelicans Louisiana 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

But what about birds? One enterprising New Orleans-area bird rescuer is doing just that. The bird was such a hit with residents that Kasia, who went on to found the rescue organization Kasia’s Ark Bird Rescue , continued the effort once she returned to New Orleans. But that’s a whole ’nother rant.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2022

They are very distinct in flight due to their white wings being clearly visible and size wise there is no other bird similar. I always seem to hear some of the smaller shriller sounding birds, which Grant does not. So, whilst we get older and start to struggle to hear the birds they can still hear us!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In September, I had the fantastic opportunity to travel to an increasingly popular destination for birding: Honduras. Chris Lotz, the owner of the international bird tour company Birding Ecotours , invited me to join him on a familiarization trip that included several highland sites as well as Pico Bonito Lodge.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

If you’re suffering through a sweltering patch of record summer heat, you may feel much as Ralph Waldo Emerson did when he penned this line: “When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2012

Familiar birds across the European countryside are suffering precipitous declines. In order to boost food production across Europe, the wholesale ripping up of hedgerows, draining of wetlands and ploughing over of meadows has robbed farmland birds of their homes and food.

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Farming Turtles Suffering Europe 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. After this longish and completely irrelevant introduction, finally here is a photo of the first bird of September 30th, a Black-winged Cuckoo Shrike.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

Forgetting how one feels in certain conditions and thus failing to prepare accordingly can lead to a lot of suffering. This deplorable lack of foresight landed me in an environment with plenty of resident birds that I was utterly unable to watch while being slowly drained of my lifeblood by swarms of ravenous bugs. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2019

While a huge swath of the United States braces for record-setting heat–again–other parts of the world may be suffering equally oppressive though dramatically different weather. Wherever you are, whatever you do, stay safe, but also try to find time to check out some birds! appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2012

We here at 10,000 Birds have long wanted to include the best in bird bloggers and feel that we have largely accomplished that goal. But we would like to add a new Beat Writer on a specific beat – that of Bird Topography. Our Beat Writers are awesome! Include a sample post in the body of your email.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2014

After all, I’m sure North America has suffered under the tyrannical grip of a polar vortex before, even though the term seems new to me, just as we survived last year’s Snowpocalypse and Sharknado. Considering how painfully cold my part of the world is, I’m watching birds from my window this weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Given that according to the HBW, the species prefers dense primary and secondary montane forests, the note that the bird also forages among kitchen waste (in the same HBW entry) seems somewhat incongruous. Specifically, we are all particularly interested in the microbiota of birds living in a mining area.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2014

Complain on a birding trip to Costa Rica? I share this gripe because we of course see more birds before eight in the morning, and from four to five in the afternoon. Or, I bird somewhere near the park during top birding times and enter when it officially opens. There’s never enough time to see 900 species of birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I travel for birding. I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as I’m packing, I thought I would share with you some essentials I think any birder should plan to have in their suitcase–no matter where they are visiting. I was at a birding festival in North Dakota in June and it was a chilly morning.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Why don’t you take the weekend off to focus on some of those finer things in life that are free and go birding? That is assuming, of course, that the pepper spray burns you suffered during a Black Friday shopping frenzy have healed! What are you doing this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2014

Unfortunately for you, I have gathered up some of the images of these birds, cropped out superfluous parts like faces, legs, and most of the easy field marks. Also, please give the full common name of each bird that you guess. You get none, other than that all of these birds were photographed in Forest Park, Queens, this spring.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Though it was pretty warm for an October morning when I spotted this bird at Fort Tilden, Queens, it was fluffed up as if it was suffering from extreme cold. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds make sure to check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and growing) page of galleries here at 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Fascinating, no? Where did you see an eagle?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2012

John Mark Simmons, the co-founder of Two Birders and Binoculars , has enjoyed birding all his life and has won various birding competitions. So far, they have discovered 2000+ cases of chickadees as well as other birds that have a beak deformity. It helps prevent beak deformities in birds!

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Alaska 2000 Science Suffering 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2014

Please identify which image each of your guesses correlates to by number and give the full common name of each bird you are guessing. For example, if you think one of the birds is a Song Sparrow then type just that, not “sparrow” or anything else.) Guess or suffer! Birds diabolical ID Quiz migration'

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United States New York Sparrows Suffering 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2012

Most readers of 10,000 Birds know that nature is full of surprises and that we aren’t the only ones with a lock on intelligence and creativity. Still it is always nice to add to the evidence of animal intellect.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2011

Those of you not living across a Great Lake from Canada may be suffering, but I’ve been absolutely loving this month! Now how about those birds… Corey has really beaten the summertime birding blues by focusing on the best of what the season of resident breeders has to offer: baby birds!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2012

The waterhole, an unassuming little vernal pool, is often the only water in the eastern half of Forest Park which means that any bird that wants a bath or a drink has to visit. And on this past Saturday were the birds ever coming! Add those twenty to the species I saw before work and I totaled 23 species of wood-warbler for the day!

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