10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

Priority in all of these blog posts will go to those keeping a blog about their big year, simply because it is easier to track what they are doing. Also, big year blogs are one of my favorite types of blog to read. No blog, but you can check out this post on the New Jersey eBird portal.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2021

The beginning of August raises all kinds of mixed feelings, especially if you live in a temperate zone north of the Equator. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Do we feel weird about being psyched about shorebirds, at least this month? How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

I raise this perennial issue because I found myself twitching a rare ABA bird this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. One question every self-described birder must grapple with is to twitch or not to twitch. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Their main use is to display – either to communicate with other members of the species or to scare other species, as a raised crest makes the bird appear larger. So much for the educational part of the blog post. Crests are made of feathers.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2012

In my previous blog Bird Photography Equipment Lens and filters I compared two telephotos which I use regularly, the 300 f/4 IS USM which is an excellent prime lens, and the 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 I had read that this was not possible since the 2X raised the f stop by two-stops making it a 300 f/8. I also tried the Canon Extender EF 1.4X

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2020

No, I haven’t lost track of the calendar — though that’s quickly becoming a more common experience in our new reality — but occasionally life gets in the way of blogging, which is what happened this week. I don’t have a proper post ready for you today, meaning there’s no customary Birds and Booze story and review for now.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

This time around I will only be reporting on big years with a blog component because that is where the interest is. If you are doing a big year why wouldn’t you blog it? By the way, where current numbers were readily available on the blogs big year birders use I took numbers from there.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Editor’s Note : Though he is a very nice guy and a great blogger Clare Kines, the author of this blog post, might have lived in the far north for too long. Apparently the lack of birds and the abundance of cold has led to him thinking that writing a blog post about bunnies is an acceptable topic for Bird Love Week.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions. There are also surprises.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2014

So raise a glass to the hope that 2014 will further your search for the Holy Quail and that Nature will continue to amaze and delight us. Blogging Inspiration Happy New Year' May you be happy, healthy and successful. Bottoms Up!

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South Africa 2014 Africa Raised 162

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He posts photos and descriptions of the birds he finds on his blog, Birderlife. I raised my binoculars and was happy to see it was the osprey. Adam Cairns is a photographer, writer and poet. He is returning to the UK after a four year spell in Qatar, in the Middle East. This is Adam’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Competitions like these can also be powerful drivers of habitat and species conservation, which raises the stakes for a Big Day or Big Sit even more. Most bird races I’m familiar with depend on teams directly raising money from supporters, usually on a dollar per bird species basis.

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Texas United States Houston Raised 205

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. For the next two and a half weeks Sue continued to raise them, along with four other swifts she had in care. Timing is everything when it comes to releasing Chimney Swifts.

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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. Hopefully they found a suitable place nearby to raise the next generation! Just over a week ago I received an urgent phone call from a long-time friend and fellow birder.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This blog was written by Sherry Turner Teas, a rehabber in Chattanooga, Tennessee: It started out as a normal day for a wildlife rehabilitator here in Tennessee – giving medicine, cleaning cages, and feeding baby birds. In a soft release, you let the bird you’ve raised go but continue to provide food until they choose to be independent.)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2013

I leave acacias behind and enter the village, at first raised on low concrete platforms, barely half a meter above the tidal mud flat. Chiku raises a fist and smiles victoriously. Or my next destination should be that beach in Mozambique (tourism officials of Mozambique, I sure hope you do read my blog)?

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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. There are any number of concerns one could raise. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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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. Sadly, the downtime means that the usual post crafting process got slightly short-circuited this week.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. There are countless field guides and other birding books, websites, blogs, tour companies, and podcasts. If anything, birders confront too much information rather than not enough.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2019

Better, though, is finding a way to raise the quality of your bird sightings and enjoyment of them. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Those of us north of the Equator should be enjoying our summer weekends no matter how boring the birding might be. How about you?

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2019 California Birds Raised 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2021

DNA fingerprinting has been used to show that, within broods, there is often mixed paternity, although the female is always the true mother of the nestlings raised within her nest. The male looks much more interesting, but that does not help this blog post much. In turn, males seek matings with all the females.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. Most of the birders in the audience for this blog, and certainly those who record their year lists here , use the Gregorian calendar.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I received 138 replies, but you can only blog on for so long before your readers have to shut down their computers and get on with their lives. It’s sad but true: by September, we’re far beyond the reach of subtle humor. A few weeks back I posted a question on Facebook, asking my rehabber friends about their use of slang and abbreviations.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Good, I say.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

In a recent article on birding in USA Today, I was quoted as saying the following : Nate Swick, editor of the ABA’s blog, says some people compare birding to golf, in that everyone keeps their own scores, relying on the honor system. What sets birding apart: No one cheats, “because that would be cheating yourself,” he says.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 26, 2014

This weekend I went to a blogging conference. I also love his cover of Royals: So, what does this have to do with blogging? I also love his cover of Royals: So, what does this have to do with blogging? We run fund raising for causes that help rescue animals and donate part of our ad revenues to the animal causes we support.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

Tomtits are not a species I have ever talked much about on this blog. This isn’t because I don’t like them, on the contrary, they rate as one of New Zealand’s cutest birds, and I’m a big fan of cute. No, it’s simply a case of not seeing them very often. So let’s hear it for Tomtits! Yay for Tomtits!

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 26, 2011

Here’s all you need to include in your post: The Write a Post, Help a Dog program is aimed at raising awareness and food for the more than four million dogs that wind up in shelters and breed rescues each year. This year the Foundation has already raised more than $376,570 against its goal of $1.5 Ryan Rice at Houston Dog Blog.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

First published in November of 1843 the tale of a baby swan, or cygnet, being raised among ducks strikes a chord with many people, but in Denmark the works of Hans Christian Andersen bring feelings of national pride. It is no wonder that the ugly duckling grew up to be the national bird of Denmark. Thanks for visiting!

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 12, 2009

The fund raising Web site also offers exclusive content for cat and dog owners which includes information on pet care and safety, information on animal shelters, as well blogs, groups and open forums. The site’s primary purpose is to raise money to help shelters care for homeless pets. About Bring Pets Home.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2017

The second way to win a copy of Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White was to share this blog post on Facebook while using the hashtag #GoodBirders. Cliff was raised in the Central Valley of California and discovered a love of birds at 14 when he found a male Vermilion Flycatcher in his yard.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

So, potentially plenty of cuckoo chicks would have been raised by the bulbuls. For example, a hypothetical National Bulbul would have no chance to get any coverage here. This is in contrast to the Brown-chested Bulbul. Poor bulbuls, but then again, they are large dull birds anyway, according to eBird.

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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. It is paradise.

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Trinidad Parrots Hunting Raised 236

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 264

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. If I have missed something or if the photos here or in the Flickr album raise additional issues, please let me know in the comments.

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