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. ” Falcons do hunt pigeons, we all know that, but what is a Kamikaze pigeon?

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Switzerland Serbia Feral Falcons 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets. These two species are quite similar, with black bodies, pale wing panels, and vary only in their bill color.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2022

Hunting and disturbance, deterioration, fragmentation and destruction of habitat were the forces behind the decline of this, once widespread species, making it Critically Endangered on the IUCN Global Red List. After my trip, I followed the news of this species closely. Males reach 1.2 meters (3.9

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Gazelles India Pakistan 2012 264

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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Barn Owls Finland Owls Portugal 231

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2015

The Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside is one of the premiere places in New York to get great looks at a variety of saltmarsh species without having to slog through a saltmarsh.

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New York City New York Hunting Sparrows 253

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Not how many bird species , but how many bird individuals. I reckon that this will keep me busy for at least a year, but one of the project’s most critical aspects has recently led to an interesting insight, which I feel is worth blogging about. I want to know – just roughly – how many birds I have seen in my life.

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Germany Birds Ducks Feral 234

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. Last weekend I wasn’t on the hunt for any species in particular though. Their mysterious nature piqued my interest and it’s never waned since. Greater Yellowlegs.

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Trinidad South America Blackbirds Game 247

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. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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Killing Raised Industry Research 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

Sure, there is unlimited potential and every single species can once again be counted, but, nonetheless, birders often put forth the energy to get that list built up again, to erase that zero, and to hopefully put three (or even four) digits in its place before the end of the year. Amazingly, it worked! Notice that it is rubber band free.

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2014 Fox Birds Owls 199

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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Birds Elephants Eagles Rhinoceros 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It feels good to start a post with some truly attractive birds – such as two species of broadbills. Strangely, there do not seem to be many papers on this species. In one paper , you can find fascinating sentences such as “The new species is most similar to D. My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets.

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Sri Lanka Taiwan Birds Cats 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). I guess it would be wise for Shanghai not to make this species its city bird, as it may not be around for much longer.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. The eight species above still exist. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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Mauritius Djibouti Guam Goats 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2023

Numerous blog posts have been written about the birds I see every day – you can check out the fruits of our rewilding project in a residential area here and the last time we changed backyard here. Swifts are aplenty, one is likely to see Gray-rumped , Band-rumped , or Short-tailed Swift hunting insects each morning. Interesting.

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Trinidad Barn Owls Owls Reptiles 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. In any case, our hang-ups with vultures clearly stem from our own issues rather than any inherently bizarre trait of the species themselves. Vultures famously feed on carrion. Dead things. New World Vultures.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 233

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

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Guatemala San Diego Mexico South America 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

John from A DC Birding Blog , and Patrick from The Hawk Owl’s Nest at Jamaica Bay at 8 AM Saturday morning for some birding. Tree Swallows squabbled and hunted in the air overhead and spent time examining the numerous nest boxes erected for them. Why does this matter? Needless to say, I was a bit groggy when I met up with them.

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New York Honduras Jamaica Geese 191

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some people, apparently unaware the name is taken by a proper European species, call them), and, even worse, no small amount of poetry. And they are always a pleasure to see.

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Africa Ethiopia Feral Tanzania 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. We watched Purple Gallinules , Pied-billed Grebes , several species of swallow, Great-tailed Grackles , and every other bird that crossed our paths.

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

One – the Takahe is far too cool a species to lose. Two – there is so much distinctness amongst the different forms of the Purple Swamphen that lumping means we may as well lump all the world’s reed warblers into one huge species and be done with it. This is ridiculous for two reasons.

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Spain Hunters Africa Hunting 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

In the Neotropics the barbets have been placed into two families, the original Capitonidae (New World Barbets) with 14 species and Semnornithidae (Toucan Barbets) with 2 species (Toucan and Prong-billed Barbet). Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird is a woodland species that occurs widely through Africa. Benson to collect birds.

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Ethiopia Tanzania Uganda Africa 252

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. It often seemed like we had more Flickers come into the center than any other species of bird. The result is the same though — loose Flicker and plenty of fun hunting him down. Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA.

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Woodpeckers Wildlife Rehabilitation Seattle Wildlife 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2020

In this case it is you, the innocent reader who should thank me for not setting the title of this piece to “Just Like Paradise” Not that I have anything personal against David Lee Roth but this isn’t a blog post about something that can be likened to paradise. The Trinidad Motmot is the only endemic species on the island.

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Trinidad Parrots Hunting Raised 227

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The old runway in particular is excellent shorebird habitat, and the open wet woodlands growing up from, for lack of a better word, fields, elsewhere on the property shelter nesting Warbling Vireos , Orchard and Baltimore Orioles , Yellow Warblers , Common Yellowthroats , Tree Swallows , Song Sparrows , and other species.

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New York City Homelessness New York Baltimore 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

One of my sisters is pregnant, as is one of my cousins, my boyfriend’s sister, a classmate’s partner… and now, suddenly, this very blog is joining in the chorus of constant baby babble. So lately it seems like I’m just surrounded by baby talk. It’s easy to see why some birds adopt this way of life.

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Eggs Neglecting Adoptable Hunting 163

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2011

By the time this blog post goes live Daisy, Desi, and I will be in the Jet Blue terminal at JFK International Airport waiting to board the plane that will whisk us across the country to the land of temperate rain forests, grunge music, overpriced coffee, and Seahawks. Daisy is excited because she loves travel and visiting new places.

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Seattle Rhinoceros Puffins United States 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Located along the Atlantic Flyway, 280 avian species live or migrate through the Meadowlands, including “almost half of the 77 birds on New Jersey’s list of birds that are endangered, threatened or of special concern.” There are, at least 2 species, thank goodness. The Index is adequate, listing species and names.

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New Jersey Legislation Mammals Pigs 198

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). My best bird of the year is based on the sighting rather than the species.

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2013 Costa Rica Birds India 171

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I make mention of birding done naturally ; the definition of which is taken as an action that is untainted by extraneous effort; consider birding within the framework of not interfering in the probability of seeing a species. I probably wrote about it on this blog but it escapes me at the moment. We needed a spot to have breakfast.

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Trinidad Hunting Rights Birds 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. A personal encounter with a wild species changes one’s perspective. Lead remains in both fishing and hunting products, with strong lobbies that insist lead poisoning is not real, even as our facilities fill regularly with birds afflicted with it.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. Since the last time it was made fun of in my blog, the Marabu Stork has not gotten any prettier. ” (HBW).

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Elephants Congo Birds Africa 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! What species will be the ten to get me to 289? It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn.

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Jamaica Owls 2010 New York City 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Since he retired from being a high school teacher in 2003 he has really focused on getting amazing images and his blog, Feathered Photography , is loaded with them. Ron Dudley is an amazing nature photographer who is based in northern Utah. Seriously, click on through and see some amazing images.)

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Falcons Ducks Utah 2003 135

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

This post is picture-heavy because I think it is helpful to see everything, but the blog only supports small images, so larger versions (and even more photos) are on Flickr. The refuge is a popular birding location and approximately 230 species have been observed by about 1,400 birders who have submitted nearly 8,000 checklists.

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Portland Oregon Laws Virginia 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

For starters, Costa’s is a desert species and we were primarily up in the mountains. The hunt was on in earnest. At this point I was cursing the promiscuity of this particular species, it having denied me a full-blooded lifer on at least two occasions. And I wanted the complete set. Now, I knew it was a longshot.

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Arizona Wounded North America 2012 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2014

We lose a handful of species, mostly waders flying across the whole Pacific but also a cuckoo flying just half of it. I don’t ski, or hunt, and I sadly haven’t been to the tropical Pacific for a while. But I can’t blog about it too often. A few South Island birds spend the winter on North Island.

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New Zealand Pigs Albatross Australia 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

The Eastern guide covers 545 species and the Western guide covers 636 species. Each species is depicted in as many or as few photographs as is necessary for identification. I think the quotes do give an idea of the high degree of detail incorporated into each species description.

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North America Birds Falcons Los Angeles 209