10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

I myself picked up a tick while looking for warblers on Long Island during spring migration and had to do a course of antibiotics that played merry havoc with my digestive system, if you know what I mean. Steal and eat their eggs? They want an authentic nature experience, but a relatable authentic nature experience.

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Since this is the closest spot to the bird action, this is of course where we all want to be. “Pinto” is rice and beans and comes with your choice of eggs, breaded Tilapia, chicken or other options. Well yes, of course! Watch birds however you please… but seriously, you gotta experience the Cafe Colibri!

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century. Cleaning brushes, for example.

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Birds Eggs Laws Oregon 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. Can you handle the cuteness? But, just like with human babies, you have to admit that sometimes you anticipate fawning over a baby bird and instead nearly end up retching instead. We will have some of those less attractive baby birds as well.

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Birds Eggs Humane Experiments 178

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. Geography is destiny. 188 for that location and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

Of course, that latter name could be applied to most of the Old World warblers, Jochen’s deluded thoughts about which warblers are best notwithstanding , but it particularly works for the young of the Barred Warbler. When the adult male bird has more than one mate, the femaleincubates the eggs and tends to the chicks alone.

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Hungary Eggs Abandoning Abandonment 168

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The top three things that you need to do are; Experiment. Experiment. Do not place all your eggs in one basket. One place that you can learn how to market yourself is an online MBA course. With this course you will learn the things that you need to know in order to run a successful marketing campaign.

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Emotional Campaign Branding Eggs 71

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

He’d like to thank his mom, his agent, and of course the Birding Academy. Does anyone here have personal experience visiting the Charles M. The votes are in, and Red-naped Sapsucker is the winner and my proud new nemesis, although Gray-crowned Rosy Finch also made a strong showing. Hooray, in short, for nest cams.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Of all of the sections of the book I definitely learned the most from Evolution.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. My first instinct when something bites me, of course, is to yelp and yank my hand away with all possible speed.

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Florida Birds Groups North Carolina 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. And for that alone, we can be sure our world is richer in the high coursing flight of Peregrines and the man who was determined to bring them into our future.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

Around 100,000 of these terns breed on almost every available space on the island, and walking through groups of them is a deafening and quite painful experience. Black Noddy ( Anous minutus ) Everyone’s favourite tern is of course the beautify White Tern , famous for nesting in the most lunatic of locations such as on bare branches.

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Hawaii Breeding Wildlife Eggs 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 178

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

To make a great omelet you've just gotta break eggs. An Experiment. Of course you're afraid to dial the CFO. Is it your success? Ruffling feathers? Do you think you can hunt for new business and win without stepping on any toes? Next time you prospect a company, add a board member. Just add them on LinkedIn. Don't you!

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Sheep Psychology Hunting Compassion 131

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. Although we are not close nor on a direct course, the geese are skittish.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

There will be no pies or cakes that were made with milk that was meant for calves, or eggs that represent dead male chicks , forced molting, debeaking and other mutilations and cruelties. Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story. There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 226

Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As a result, for the first time in my life I've been living like many working people do: I get up early and rush around to make breakfast for myself and my husband and the three creatures, prepare lunches for my husband and myself (all vegan, of course) and then drive 1.5 It's been 92 degrees outside, by the way.

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Vegan Chickens Morals Animal 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

In addition to Pileated Woodpecker, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania documents increases in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hooded Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, Alder Flycatcher, Common Raven, Wild Turkey, and, of course, Canada Goose. Images courtesy of Pennsylvania State University Press.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses. In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Of course I was appalled, but out there in the mainstream world, she is an outlier. Of course that can be debated. People believe one thing and do another.

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Vegan Morals Pit Bulls Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2024

It’s when I step outside my back door, look up, and fail to spot the black scimitar shape of a Swift, coursing across the sky. The first eggs are usually laid at the end of May or sometimes in the first week of June, but this can vary depending on the weather. Swift boxes erected on an old mill on a Suffolk farm.

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Liberia Africa Mozambique Breeding 209

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Here they were easy to overlook.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yet he spends time describing the miserable deaths of day-old male chicks and understands what happens in dairy production, and I assume he doesn't partake of anyone's eggs or milk. He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." But why does he say "vegetarian?" The plate might have to be five feet across" (50).

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

One Oriental Pratincole of them was courageously raising its wings when I unknowingly drove towards its eggs – I reversed, but I am not so sure about the next person using that road … Being yelled at by the chick of an Oriental Pratincole. The birding life. A somewhat older chick. Also available as a set of two.

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Uganda Birds Rats Breeding 212

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. I do wish that Gorman included more of his personal experiences and stories in the natural history tradition of ornithologists like Alexander Skutch.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. They were missed.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 195

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Lovich and Whit Gibbons bring decades of research and experience to this book. This of course is not true.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In an interesting experiment featuring a stuffed model of a Collared Scops Owl , Crested Goshawks arrived when hearing the mobbing call of Light-vented Bulbuls that they use when encountering such a scops owl, but not when hearing other mobbing calls. On the plus side, it looks rather funny when wet.

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China Vietnam Monkeys Birds 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

Females seem to be the only sex to sit on the eggs according to literature, but no research appears to have been done on the night time routine. Female Red-capped Plover on nest in jogging area Another nest was in the higher area behind where vehicles access the beach and despite the odds the eggs successfully hatched.

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Eggs Shelters Family Protection 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

While I would not want to encourage anyone to put birds in cages, it is interesting to read about the experience of somebody breeding Black-headed Sibias in captivity. Of course, here in Tengchong, it is a very common bird. If you do not want to be put in a cage, it presumably helps to be a bit aggressive.

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