10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

Babita Wildlife Tours. Wildlife Explorers. Send a 500-word blog post to 10000birds AT gmail DOT com and/or 10000birdsblogger AT gmail DOT com that will entice birders to visit or work with you when this pandemic is over. Put the blog post directly into the body of the email: we will not open attached documents.

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MAY 18, 2020

Mourning Warblers are never a guaranteed bird in Queens and seeing one at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was a real treat. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I can’t wait to explore outer space at the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival from 25-30 January 2012! I don’t get to go to outer space as part of the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival ? Visiting Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. They must be very odd indeed.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

My weekend was actually pretty slow from a wildlife appreciation angle, but the bare husks of coneflowers in my garden are still drawing curious American Goldfinches. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. October can be a fantastic birding season in the right places. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Corey explored the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on Saturday morning and Fort Tilden on Sunday morning. 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

AUGUST 9, 2021

While at San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge he tracked down the long-staying Neotropic Cormorants , a new Orange County bird for him and then found a Black Tern , which was also new for him on the state. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

This offering is actually hard to part with: a copy of Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil signed by both John Gwynne, who managed the project, and Guy Tudor, eminent neotropical bird artist and art director of the project. Time to give away a wonderful book on 10,000 Birds!

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

First the news, in case you haven't heard: Animal Acres in Los Angeles now has a blog by Philip called Vegan Sanctuary. For more information and to get the code for a widget to display your support on your Facebook page or blog, go here. Check it out! I'm ambivalent every time I bring an animal there and leave a donation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

When you live in Queens and you only have one morning of an August weekend to go birding there is only one place to go – the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Get out to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond and enjoy those shorebirds. What makes it so good? Shorebirds! Well, it is. See you out on the pond!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Denver has more than its fair share of areas with a nuclear military history and we drove to the one nearest to the office, Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge. That is arguably the scariest sentence you will ever read in a birding blog. From 1952 to 1989 plutonium was used at Rocky Flats to manufacture triggers for hydrogen bombs.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Please read Doug’s book and / or listen to him on one of the many podcasts or via Youtube and then get to work turning your backyard into a minor haven for nature and wildlife!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2020

Corey enjoyed a morning walk on Saturday with three friends at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where they spotted over fifty species between mosquitoes and biting flies. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. It was easily Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

But, of course, it was Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that paid off the most when Corey carefully scanned the margins of the West Pond and turned up a surprise American Bittern. 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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AUGUST 24, 2020

But the birds he most appreciated were the juvenile Least Sandpiper feeding at his feet on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. As an example of how close they were, the shot above is uncropped. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

Of the 113 species they spotted it was hard to pick a single Best Bird of the Weekend, but the Common Nighthawk perched in the north garden at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge rose to the top of the heap. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Corey got his Best Bird of the Weekend early this weekend as while he and his family were making their way home from a week-long vacation in Cape Cod on Friday a Black-throated Gray Warbler was found in Queens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. Watch this remarkable video about Wildlife Rescue, and read their blog. It is our duty to save them.”.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. As a wildlife rehabilitator, I’ve used many of their gathered facts to improve my bird care. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers. It’s bad PR.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2015

Through the internet, they have forged bonds with other wildlife rehabililators throughout the world. In March, rehabbers in the United States will gather at the annual National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association conference to make contacts, swap information, and learn new techniques. Conservation India wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

This week offers the ideal opportunity to look back at your most recent wildlife watching adventures; next weekend, the game begins anew. 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

JULY 6, 2020

In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.” It’s a blog well worth visitation. (the In addition to his D.C.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky. That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. I scrambled for a box. I was mortified.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers. For some reason, the Mandarin Chinese name of the Scarlet Minivet translates as “Red Mountain Pepper Bird” I do hope a Chinese reader of this blog can explain the origin or meaning of this name.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Until Mute Swans took over Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, gallinules bred there. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sadly, that was before Corey moved to Queens. So it was a pleasure to see one and the gallinule was Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2016

At that point I didn’t know about 10,000 Birds; I had been a wildlife rehabilitator and mother for years, with no time to surf the net for amazing birding sites. Not only that, the blog writers were fabulous. I kept searching for a head tilt or a wing droop, but there were none to be found.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

” One of my favorite birding blogs is Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds and I’ve written a blog post in the past wondering about drunken birding. This is all a long-winded way of saying that we on 10,000 Birds clearly need a dedicated writer exploring the intersection of birds and booze.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Rehabilitators educate constantly, encouraging the public to leave healthy wildlife alone.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Corey saw quite a few quality birds on his trip to the southeastern United States in the last week but he best bird he saw that fits the criteria of having been seen on the weekend was a nice Sora in the early morning sunlight at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge’s Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

Matt Daw just had the find of a lifetime at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. For more on the bird check out the ABA Blog. He was busy filming a Least Bittern , a pretty good bird to get video of to begin with, when, well, watch the video! Congratulations, Matt Daw! … Birds rails rarities'

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AUGUST 26, 2018

Corey enjoyed shorebirds on the beach in the Rockaways, in the mud at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Wildlife, and on pavement at Floyd Bennett Field this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Godwits are awesome and seeing a year bird is always welcome. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2015

Yes, it’s been nearly two months since the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival and, yes, I am still writing blog posts about it. But, man, does the Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge pay off or what? Of the five shots what is your favorite and why? Or are they all rubbish? ….

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MARCH 3, 2019

He didn’t see a ton of birds but he did appreciate the number of Snow Geese flocking up at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. 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 9, 2020

The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. Why are birds a good proxy for broader human-wildlife interactions?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Now Global Wildlife Conservation is out to get some fresh evidence and hopefully re-discover the species, which was officially last seen in the 1949. Members of the expedition – which include Richard Thorns, Errol Fuller, Pilar Bueno, and John Hodges – will update the world through a blog over the coming months.

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