Do You Suffer From Avian Snob Syndrome?
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2012
Larry of The Brownstone Birding Blog shares five symptoms of this affliction.
Help Wanted!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
We pay nothing, you have to suffer through my emails, and the fame associated with bird blogging is fleeting, at best. But we would like to add a new Beat Writer on a specific beat – that of Bird Topography. We are looking for a Beat Writer to write a weekly or biweekly post on the parts of birds, one part at a time.
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Critter News
JUNE 14, 2009
Well, this is post number 1982, and I guess we're sort of suffering a crisis of confidence. A blog is a voracious beast (or critter!) Do we keep going or give it up? that needs to be fed constantly. We've been at this for a long time, and just wonder what the payback is.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2014)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2014
Patrick’s Day by doing more than donning green didn’t “celebrate” so much this weekend that you’re suffering today. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Hopefully, those of you who observe St. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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Celebrate Birding Tourism This Month with 10,000 Birds
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Far too many of the guides, operators, lodges, and attractions we as birders love suffered the economic impact of the coronavirus as keenly as anyone and far worse than most. Put the blog post directly into the body of the email: we will not open attached documents. But ever so slowly, the world is opening up again.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of June 2013)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2013
Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Aren’t we lucky? How about you?
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Welcome to Invasive Species Week!
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2014
Will native species suffer? Blogging introduced species invasive species Invasive Species Week' One reason is that the topic is broad and fascinating. As organisms move into ecosystems where they haven’t occurred it is very difficult to figure out what will happen in advance. Will the invader prosper?
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2013)
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
Here in Western NY, we suffered a 40 point swing in temperature over two days; one moment, you’re enjoying drinks by the pool and the next finds you wrapped in a shawl sipping got cocoa. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. September is as unpredictable as a month can be.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2020)
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2020
Responsible social distancing has savaged the travel and tourism industries, which means that all of our favorite birding lodges, vendors, and guides have suffered and continue to struggle as we enter 2021. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of September 2012)
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
But apples and those who love them definitely suffered most substantially. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. For example, here in western New York, our warm winter and dry spring dramatically impacted many of our fruit crops. Berries burst early and corn came in early.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2012)
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
If you’re suffering through a sweltering patch of record summer heat, you may feel much as Ralph Waldo Emerson did when he penned this line: “When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of June 2013)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2013
Forgetting how one feels in certain conditions and thus failing to prepare accordingly can lead to a lot of suffering. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This question came to mind as I rapidly fled Island Cottage Woods this weekend. How about you? Birding best bird weekend'
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Not enough Woodpeckers
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of July 2011)
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2011
Those of you not living across a Great Lake from Canada may be suffering, but I’ve been absolutely loving this month! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. For me, nothing beats a hot, sunny summer, though you wouldn’t know it based on where I live.
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What’s Up with the ABA?
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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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of November 2016)
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
I suffered a deficit of happiness this weekend when my scheduled birding time became subsumed by a rare work emergency. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right?
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Cactus Wren Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2013
In southern California, however, the species has suffered an estimated eighty percent decline since 1993 , largely due to a couple of catastrophic wildfires. It seems likely that the bird depicted in this blog post is the subspecies C.
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Birding Shanghai in October 2023
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In blog posts, photo galleries presumably have a similar function: Brown Shrike … … Amur Stonechat … … Mugimaki Flycatcher … … Red-flanked Bluetail … … Rufous-tailed Robin … … Japanese Paradise Flycatcher … … and Taiga Flycatcher.
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Lessons Learned, The Finale
Animal Person
MAY 26, 2010
My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of February 2019)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
I’m not saying we suffered like our friends in the Upper Midwest, but taking off my glove to quickly snap the photo above induced pain I felt for hours. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Yet two days later, we’re about 50 degrees warmer! How about you?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Corey spent the weekend visiting his folks upstate and suffering from the symptoms of food poisoning. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Mostly what he looked at was the inside of his own eye lids and the interior of bathrooms. How about you?
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of August 2017)
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2017
Some of us have been suffering through the wettest weekend of our lives. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Some of us had a hot weekend. Some of us had a cold weekend. No matter how inclement your weekend was, just remember… it still beats Monday! How about you?
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. 10K Birds is Top Ten About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.
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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. But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. We should be expecting sea level rise. ” GL: Aha.
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The Twitch
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2013
Yes, suffering readers, it is time once again for a blog post in verse. If you’re curious about the circumstances of any of them feel free to click on the pictures, which will take you to the blog posts that describe the twitch. It is just doggerel. A rare bird is reported, genuine, assured. Your skin starts to twitch.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect as it Relates to Birding
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2012
The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2019)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2019
If, on the other hand, you managed to eke out a bird of interest this weekend, tell us all about it… I brought the family to Chimney Bluffs State Park, a magnificent slice of New York currently suffering from extremely high levels on Lake Ontario. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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Critter News
DECEMBER 2, 2008
This is an interesting post from Econista, a "guerilla environmentalist and fashionista" blog that, sadly, is not often updated. The desire to end the suffering of animals is noble and necessary. It's too bad because I like the content and commentary. For example, here's Econista's take on Natalie Portman's vegan shoe line.
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No, We’re Not Checking Into Rehab
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2012
Luckily, she has birder friends who will rush to her aid, although she must then suffer their mockery. Suzie Gilbert is a licensed wild bird rehabilitator whose shameful secret is that on one occasion (well … maybe more than one) she has received a little brown job, or a fledgling whatever, and has been completely unable to ID it.
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The Fabulous Animal Rescue Project
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
“The Fabulous Animal Rescue Project&# is a global artistic effort to raise funds and awareness to the needless suffering of animals. To learn more about the project and how to take part, visit The Fabulous Animal Rescue Project blog. If you are an artist, you might want to consider donating an image to the project.
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Greenport Harbor Brewing Company Black Duck Porter
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
But the controversy of the ugly and violent Black Duck incident helped turn the tide of public opinion against Prohibition, leading to its repeal in 1933 (and a good thing too, or else you wouldn’t be reading a beer review on a birding blog right now).
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of February 2016)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Here in New York City we suffered through our coldest period of the winter with wind chill values dipping well below zero degrees Fahrenheit. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Mike’s Hoopoe. How about you?
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How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome
SalesFuel
JUNE 4, 2024
Most employees have felt like they are suffering from imposter syndrome at least once in their professional career. And imposter syndrome sufferers may find it difficult to distinguish between which tasks they handle well from those they avoid. The fear of failure can prevent us from thinking creatively and doing our best work.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Magical“ is one of those words that suffer from overuse and I usually avoid it – but in this case, I cannot think of a better description. His answer was, this site is already dry, that one may not be too bad, but the Kerkini is always good. A „ magical place “, he calls it in that chapter of his book.
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Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 11, 2018
Author: Kostas Chiotis Guest blog posting is arguably the best method of inbound marketing that your team can employ. After all, marketers who prioritize blogging are 13 times more likely to receive a higher ROI than those that don’t. But that’s not the only benefit of guest blogging. Strengthen Your Backlink Profile.
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Birding Chongming Island in summer
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). That means that.
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Animal Person
MAY 9, 2009
My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane."
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Animal Person
JULY 24, 2009
You are preventing untold exploitation and suffering by tackling them. If a publisher is purchasing your words and you are already making the same ones available for free on your blog, why should they buy them? Books based on blogs have to have a significant amount of new information/posts/concepts in them.
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4 Things to Consider Before Adopting a Dog
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 9, 2012
New allergies develop over time for most allergy-suffers. Author Bio: This is a guest post by Nadia Jones who blogs at accredited online colleges about education, college, student, teacher, money saving, movie related topics. Violation is used as terms for eviction. Or be opened to moving. Are You Allergic?
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 18, 2006
First of all, I would like to thank Keith for inviting me to be a part of this blog. I simply believe that when animals are killed it ought to be for a good purpose, and in a manner that is respectful to their capacity to suffer. Hi there, I'm Jonathan. Currently, I do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong.
Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2006
For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering. If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering.
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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 2, 2008
For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering. If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering.
Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
I suspect that many readers of this blog are Christians but not vegetarians. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. I read Martin’s essay only recently, having discovered it by accident.
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