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Blog Raised Species 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2012
Seeing as it is near the midway point of the year I thought it would be nice to check in on how the blogging Big Year birders are doing thus far in 2012. Josh Vandermeulen is sitting pretty at 317 species for the year in Ontario, only 21 off the province’s record of 338, set by Glen Coady in 1996. It’s quite a list!
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2013
On a Big Year, every species counts equally, even the lowly House Sparrow. 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.
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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. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Quite a few bird species have crests. 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
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. I added yet another new Monroe County bird in the form of a Stilt Sandpiper this weekend, which is the only way this species earns my Best Bird honors. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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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
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
APRIL 8, 2011
Of course, the fun of a bird race increases exponentially by the quality and quantity of the species that might be seen. The species list for this rich expanse of avifauna represents nearly 75% of the Lone Star state’s 600 birds, with some teams spotting over 300 in a very intense 5 days!
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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. That species is the Antillean Cave Rail or DeBooy’s Rail Nesotrochis debooyi , and the reason none of us will ever add it to our lists? It is extinct. What a horror!
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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. Typical of the species. Both species seemed content to observe each other though. Hopefully they found a suitable place nearby to raise the next generation!
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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. Her determination was further fueled by the fact that this year, the status of this species had been changed to Endangered in Nova Scotia. Chimney Swifts remain classified as At Risk in other provinces.)
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
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. “The birds” as a whole will be “fine” but many individual species will not. Break just one link of the chain and the entire species is in trouble.
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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
DECEMBER 27, 2021
High up at almost 4500 meters, some Alpine Accentors were posing in the sunshine, justifying the description in the HBW as “large, attractive accentor” (though eBird seems to disagree, instead characterizing the species as a “stocky, stout, and unobtrusive bird”). I side with the HBW on this issue.
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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. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Extinction is what befalls the species that fails to adapt, to survive, to thrive. Most species go extinct.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2024
Somewhat strangely, the HBW calls it a “small grey to yellow babbler” – while the species indeed has some grey parts, that is not the color that sticks to mind when seeing or remembering the bird. Plus the sibia apparently plays an important role in the pollination of one endangered rhododendron species ( source ).
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Even the Latin species name soror (“sister”) indicates the similarity to another pitta species (blue-naped). The eBird description of the Small Niltava starts with the surprisingly dull statement that “size distinguishes this species from other niltavas” Who would have thought.
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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
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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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2016
Tomtits are not a species I have ever talked much about on this blog. They were present in Karori Sanctuary but have declined as other species have prospered. They are a widespread species that shows quite a bit of variation: there are five subspecies that are quite distinctive. I’m not actually sure why this is.
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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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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. So: we have bird identification shorthand, which is usually the bird’s North American Ornithological Society abbreviation, but which could be just one particular rehabber’s nickname for the species.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2014
There’s no way around it as the various species are reasonably common, and you will surely want to identify them. So easy a group it is not even worth blogging about. And since River Warbler is an incredibly neat species (aka difficult to get on your life list), it sure is worth the effort of peeking at its undies.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
He also blogs for birdingblogs.com 19 Responses to “Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor&# Corey Mar 15th, 2011 at 1:49 pm Nobody tell Daisy, OK? Dawn Fine Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:50 pm NO Comment YourBirdOasis.com Mar 15th, 2011 at 10:07 pm Yeah, polygynandry is really weird…what other species have this breeding system?
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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
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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10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India! The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2018
July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species. Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. Following me here? We may know these birds well, but should we love them? How about you?
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10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. The African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa).
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2016
After collecting nearly 70K bird photos, he felt that it was time to share them, so he now has his bird blog in order to do just that! La Paz, the capital city of Baja California Sur, the southern half of the Mexican Baja, has been a real joy, with both the desired weather, and a much expanded variety of bird species. Mom on nest.
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JUNE 6, 2017
The guide covers 520 species of birds regularly found in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, including, interestingly, a number of exotic species. There is also a traditional index to bird species, by common and scientific name. Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
and share their expertise , or do big years or write excellent blog posts. Over 3,200 photographs have been used, most showing species in their habitats. There is also text, distribution maps, a dark red bar “warning” about similar looking rare species, and conservation symbols. The design focuses attention on the photographs.
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AUGUST 30, 2015
Redgannet, the blog, has taken a back seat while 10,000 Birds does most of the driving and Mrs Gannet does the navigating, so it has slightly lost its way over the last year or so. Black Oyster-catchers will usually be found on the rocks too, but this morning each of these species gave their best views in the receding waves.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. While 6 local species utilized these artificial nests, the Chinese Grosbeak did not, preferring its own construction.
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NOVEMBER 24, 2011
Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE will feature a team of free-divers and conservationists putting their safety on the line to separate myth from reality and dispel negative myths about sharks while raising public awareness about shark species which are being driven to extinction.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2021
It has come time to put together another blog entry and I find myself bed ridden with a bad back so I will share a brief description of some of my local birds. With this headline, and my bias, I am tempted to include every bird however I will restrict myself, on this occasion to just three species. The first two species are related.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2012
Plumb forgot about blogging, I did. Forgot about my own blog; forgot about my kids (just ask them). The book has 25 chapters, each one treating a different species of bird. Songbird rehabilitation, unlike the vastly more popular raptor rehab, mostly involves raising orphans. The big new book. Baby hummers, not so much.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2011
One of the joys of blogging for a widely read blog is that it gives one a platform on which to moan and complain about subjects which interest the blogger and no one else in particular. In addition to this tight clustering of related parakeets, the genus also had two species in the far-flung Society Islands (now in French Polynesia).
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2021
In fact, it is so good that it merits two separate blog posts. In fact, indeed one or two of the Japanese-language bird books I own have this species on their cover. .” Another attractive species on offer is the Chinese White-browed Rosefinch. Unfortunately for them, this is what raising chicks requires.
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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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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. The eight species above still exist. And if we continue to do nothing more and more species will continue to blink out. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Most species go extinct.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Initiating a hunting season on a large, charismatic species like a crane is no way to resuscitate hunting. I overlooked the date.
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MARCH 20, 2011
It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It may be as simple as trying to hit the big white one. The big white one. It flies on.
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