10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2014

Seeing as Plumb Beach is a known stopover area for large numbers of shorebirds, a known breeding area for a variety of saltmarsh species, including Clapper Rails , and habitat for a wide variety of mammals, reptiles, insects, and other bird species, this is a long overdue move. Signs like the one above went up late last week.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

Warbling Vireos are found breeding in open deciduous woods, often riparian, across Mexico, the United States, and southern Canada. Their fondness for open woods means that they often adapt well to breeding in parks and it was Van Saun Park in New Jersey’s Bergen County that I found the individual shown in this blog post.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Ala Shan Redstart (which I will not call Przevalski’s Redstart, see my juvenile rants about the evil Mr Przevalski in earlier editions of this blog) is a very attractive bird and – as many attractive birds – listed as Near Threatened. Finally, always good to end a blog post with a vulture as a gentle memento mori.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2012

Skimming through the myriad of posts in my blog reader yesterday I came across a post from the ever-watchful guys at the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog that left me cold with anger. Over the last 25 years they have recovered to the extent that they may now be Britain’s commonest raptor and breed in most of their former areas.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2013

Three of those — the Black-chinned , Calliope , and Rufous Hummingbirds — breed in the Missoula area. That is, in extremely precise mathematical terms, three times more species of hummingbirds than breed near the Olde Homestead. It breeds into Alaska. I’m not mad at you, Calliope Hummingbird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

June is the breeding month, when New Yorkers mostly give up on migrant birds and look for birds where they nest. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. June is also the month that the bugs come out to play in earnest. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

From experience, these primarily frugivorous birds do show local movements that may depend on the local ripening of fruit outside the breeding season. During the 1986-1991 Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, breeding was confirmed in three quadrangles that more or less reflect its present distribution.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2020

The message she relayed made me blurt out a string of words that cannot be repeated on this blog – let’s just say that my priorities immediately shifted. Bon voyage , friend, may you traverse the next two thousand miles safely, may you not encounter any glass windows and may you find a mate and breed successfully!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to keep up with what is going on up there you can do worse than The Bruce Mactavish Newfoundland Birding Blog. Here’s hoping that they find the food they need and survive the winter to return north to breed. Can you even imagine hundreds of Snowy Owls ? I certainly can’t.

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Owls Rhode Island North Carolina New Hampshire 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2020

Alas, these gentle rains may not always speed spring migrants on their way to breeding grounds far from the equator. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. April showers most assuredly bring May flowers in the more temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere. Any luck this weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 28, 2013

I am blogging on behalf of BlogPaws Pet Blogger Network and Plexidor. The post PlexiDor Dog Doors: A “New Breed” of Dog Doors! I received compensation for my time from Plexidor for sharing my views in this post, but the views expressed here are solely mine. appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.” It’s a blog well worth visitation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

In addition to the camping and camaraderie he took some time to catch up to the local breeding birds of which there were quite a few. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

The current header image of my own blog is another Barn Owl, this one a ringed individual I found daylight hunting, and unconcerned by the presence of my car as it hunted from posts presumably feeding young in early summer last year. Above our fireplace is a large painting of a Barn Owl.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Heermann’s Gulls form large breeding colonies on arid islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico, from March through July. The largest colony exists on Isla Raza, where an estimated 90–95% of the total world population breeds 1. This photo by Basar from Wikipedia Commons shows the adult in breeding plumage.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So, while I have my doubts about the complete end of our three-year drought here, the bird blog situation is looking up. Alas, our rainy season seems to be slowing down — although I heard a rumble of thunder as I wrote the sentence — fingers crossed! Also, our winter visitor species are starting to arrive.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Well, the blog is back just in time for me to post a story… which is annoying as it would be nice to have a week off without having to fabricate a story for Mike and Corey to cover my bone idle nature. Birds behaviour Borneo breeding hornbills Singapore' We can hope!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

Seriously, cardinals are both gorgeous and interesting , but their familiarity across most of North America breeds indifference if not contempt. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

There has been a Little Owl living in this hollow branch for at least 3 years as documented in Simon’s Mote Park Blog and it is assumed to be the same individual though I am not sure whether it is a she or a he. Photo courtesy of Paul Riddle He has very kindly sent a couple of his pictures for your viewing pleasure.

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Owls New Zealand Europe Mammals 223

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2020

In fact, the very first post I wrote for this blog centered around the search for a particular shorebird. Many of these were still in their breeding plumage, a special treat for us here in the tropics as they would soon shed their richly patterned exterior for a drab and more mundane outfit. For my eBird list , I estimated 150 birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2015

This excerpt comes from a blog of one such Serbian pigeon fancier (the entries had to be translated first): “11 April: first kamikazes flew off and clearly brought a hawk to the ground. APRIL 12: Second flight of a b h and then she hunts.

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Switzerland Serbia Feral Falcons 247

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

She contributes regularly to Ontario Nature , reviews books for Birding, and also blogs about her misadventures in bird identification while offering trenchant analysis of avian coiffures on her own blog Birds and Words. In her former life, she worked as a professor of Russian literature and culture at the University of Missouri.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

While Mike was busy looking for breeding wood-warblers I spent my time scouring Queens for something new for my year list. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

No matter how much we do to protect the breeding grounds of Neotropical migrants, we can’t assure the safety of those species that lose essential wintering habitat. Conservation of migratory species must be an international affair.

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Dominican Republic Haiti Pythons illegal 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed.

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Florida Birds Groups North Carolina 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The latter figure very significant when you remember that many breeding passerines depend on the humble caterpillar to feed themselves and their offspring. Native trees, unsurprisingly, had a far higher insect biodiversity and a far higher biomass of insect life.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They are the only dabbling duck that regularly breeds in the marshes of the south and while they are a Species of Least Concern because of their large range and population, according to BirdLife International, there is concern that they will be genetically swamped by Mallards , with whom they readily hybridize. Will the excitement never end?

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Ducks Illinois Florida Mississippi 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. Then there is the fact that indicus sparrows tend to avoid human habitations while domesticus doesn’t, leading to sympatric breeding with a disputed amount of hybridisation. First of all, this really does not sound like something subspecies occurring in the same area should do.

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Sparrows Italy Kyrgyzstan Asia 258

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. Migratory birds are at particular risk, requiring multiple and specialized habitats to breed, raise their young, migrate and overwinter. We should be expecting sea level rise.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2013

He heard another on breeding territory in Sullivan County on Sunday and wondered if the bird he saw Friday had made its way north. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If only we could recognize birds as individuals! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2012

Eastern Fence Lizard Sceloporus undulatus (both above and below) Of course this is a bird blog so I should probably at least mention some of the birds that we spotted. Pine Warblers , Turkey Vultures , and Carolina Chickadees , all birds that breed in large numbers in the pine barrens, were everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. Presumably, potential predators will assume they have not taken a shower for weeks, and consequently stay away.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

They both breed in Siberia, which is pretty far from Jamaica Bay. Oh, and did I mention that the stint was still in breeding plumage? We all watched the sandpiper, also an adult in breeding plumage, and I was content with the so-so looks at its cap and “chevroned” flanks. A quick word about both of these birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Literally, at my bird blog, I invited interested people to a coffee with a view of the Danube and the Veliko Ratno Island Reserve at the confluence of the Sava and the Danube rivers in, almost, downtown Belgrade. One expat birder, who had just arrived to Serbia, described the event: “Had a great birding, led by Dragan Simic. We met at 10.00

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

We find reasons to praise Darwin on this blog all the time and explain why in this post, first published in 2009. These tanagers breed only with each other, eschewing the company of parrots, warblers, and even other groups of tanagers, some of which are really, really beautiful. Judgments of fitness are not necessary!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A Northern Boobook showed up after I had already written my owl blog post last month. Not that easy to spot outside of the breeding season, though relatively quite common. And though I probably have shown this Oriental Scops Owl before, it is well worth showing again, in my opinion.

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