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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. Not an enticing subject, I think. How is birding like rock climbing?

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Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

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

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. These cliffs are a birder’s dream destination, and with the promise of seeing millions of breeding seabirds in Europe’s largest bird cliff–all within close range–I knew it would be worth it.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

If you don’t have a blog either give a three-sentence description of your Best Bird of the Year in the comments below or email a description to corey AT 10000birds DOT com by 26 December (you can include an image if you want – just make it a maximum of 600 pixels across). We would like you to join in!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Corey was most pleased with a host of Bobolinks at the same place he suspected them of attempting to breed this spring (though he ended up short of evidence). If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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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 you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift.

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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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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

His summers during college were spent as a biological technician, monitoring breeding birds for Point Reyes Bird Observatory in Eastern Oregon, and also five seasons in Black Hills, SD, working for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Over time the hobby grew into a career. He attended Iowa State University where he earned his B.S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Image by Adam Riley Of the 115 African species now listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered, nearly half occur on the islands surrounding Africa or are non-breeding migrants to Africa. There has been growth in the breeding population at the colonies in Morocco (now estimated at 106 breeding pairs and approximately 500 birds in total).

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 228

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

Which domestic breeds do you think are represented below? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Have you been brushing up on your manky mallards ? Share your guesses while you share your best bird of the weekend!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

By their unexpected numbers and activity, I wouldn’t be surprised if they we’re planning on breeding here. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. While waiting for the fumes in my kitchen to vent, I could enjoy lots of Bay-breasted Warblers from my yard.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2011

Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a male Long-tailed Duck in breeding plumage off the coast of Queens. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. April is a most mercurial month; hopefully, you found a an opportunity to get out this weekend and seized it! Do you agree?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

In an elaborate experiment, adult Sheawaters were take away from their nests during nesting season and given a series of treatments, and released hundreds of kilometers away. The photograph of Cory’s Shearwater is from this blog post. The mechanisms underlying their surprising navigational performance are still unknown.

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Investigation 2013 Humane Research 225

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

MAY 15, 2011

And, as a bonus question, from what blog post on 10,000 Birds is the picture taken? Right now great flocks of wood-warblers are making their way north from the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America to breed across the United States and Canada. Read about them here but also get out and experience them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2015

And, not surprisingly, the breeding birds present were largely the same species as last year which was not a problem at all! But this blog isn’t about neither carrying buckets nor throwing rocks. It was a great experience for a second year in a row and we can’t wait to get back next year! The horror!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Why tediously write blog posts when ChatGPT can do it for me? So, I asked ChatGPT: “Please write a 500-word blog post about birding in Shanghai in the style of Kai Pflug for the website 10,000 birds” This is the result: Greetings, fellow birding enthusiasts!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. Of course, I also managed to take a bunch of incomplete or unfocused bird photos and turn them into a blog.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

While I have written several blogs on the topic (e.g., ” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. I have visited my local landfill for the last seven years, usually several times per winter, only to recently stumble upon a book called the Landfill!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Outside of the breeding season a few birds may join together in a loose flock if the feeding is good. The resolution has been reduced for the blog, but in high-res, 2 or 3 dark filaments are visible. Their function?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Now it is a book from a swank New York publishing house, with a fantastic jacket design and a significant marketing push (I ran across a quote from it in Outside magazine yesterday, and of course it is being reviewed on the premeire birding blog on the entire Internet.)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

And one that I have written about before when I was pleased to find Blackburnian Warblers like the one above breeding.). Check out my mom’s blog post where she has a nice shot of my father and I looking at the wood-warblers. In other words, it is an awesome place. This Red-eyed Vireo had just swallowed a very large bug.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

If you don’t have a blog either give a 100-word description of your Best Bird of the Year in the comments below or email a description to corey AT 10000birds DOT com by 31 December (you can include an image if you want – just make it a maximum of 630 pixels across). She blogged about it here. Sound good? Though Clare K.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

Lovitch rightly recommends David La Puma’s Woodcreeper website as “one of the best and most accessible blogs about birding by radar”. Reading radar has become the latest frontier for ornithologists and birders, and it’s nice to know that anyone with Internet access and an appetite for a challenge can try it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2019

The birds that most caught his eye (and the focus of his digiscoping rig) were some Ruddy Ducks coming into breeding plumage at Brookville Park in Queens. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. They are his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

I will, of course, gather those responses and use them in a blog post, so make sure you indicate in your email if you want your full name used (and if you have a blog include the URL so I can link it). As promised, one winner has been chosen at random from all entries that [.] Thanks for visiting!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

It is kind of unappealing to see blog posts with highly specific and rather boring-sounding titles such as this one. They breed in the tunnel area, giving those birdwatchers anxiously waiting for the Chinese Monal to show up something to do in the meantime – like watching the shift change. Yes, I know.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

William Blake, the 18th and 19th century English poet, painter and engraver, is most remembered for his two linked collections of poems, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Perhaps this is how all songbirds feel when they pair up on prime breeding grounds after a long migration.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. Spotting 57 species of birds in the couple of hours we put in to seeking out birds was never so ho-hum in my life.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Tara Tanaka described the experience of digiscoping this spoonbill as such: Tara Tanaka : Merritt Island NWR was the last stop on a 10-day Florida birding trip last winter. We got there mid-afternoon and I had a great time photographing Reddish Egrets and Tri-colored Herons feeding—my main reason for going there.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2017

June may be the gateway to summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but the birding still delivers the thrills of spring migration when you have access to the right birds’ breeding grounds. I visited Letchworth State Park this weekend, renowned for a ridiculous density of breeding wood warblers. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Third of all, the bird that was first seen on 30 October is, as of this blog posting, STILL THERE! Here’s hoping this bird makes it back to its home turf to breed and comes back to spend another winter in New York State! It made it through the rough winter and is still coming around to the feeders.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). End of side note. Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.

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