10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2012

Here is a picture of many Cobalt-winged Parakeets and Orange-cheeked Parrots sharing some good mineral water without causing any harm to the environment: Cobalt-winged Parakeet and Orange-cheeked Parrot Here is another large group of Parrots and Parakeets flying without polluting the air: Dusky-headed Parakeets – Mealy Amazon Parrots – (..)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2020

And lots of birds, of course. After all, no human contact need be involved. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.). But every Monday, when my weekend work peak has passed, I literally head for the hills, and recharge my batteries with a healthy dose of total solitude.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2020

As we humans are animals, like birds are, it often seems to make more sense to me to assume that their and our drivers are similar, not different. Of course, we humans tend to give slightly elevated terms to our motives – but that does not generally mean that they are really different from those of other animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. Of course, as places that are largely “untrammeled by man,” wilderness areas also have birds ( 591 species according to one study ) for birders willing to leave roads and infrastructure behind.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2011

We humans have a very deep and powerful urge to assemble individual data points into some sort of larger construct — to label and categorize them and understand how they relate to other things we know. Of course, none of this solves the taxonomy and systematics problems we face with the modern-day Hoatzin.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. The first place I started birding a lot was a sewage treatment plant…I still equate the smell of human waste with great birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t. Radio Road, Redwood Shores, CA.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In any case, the minivets do not care either way … Apparently, the Ryukyu Minivet was originally endemic to the Ryukyu Islands but has spread to other islands of Japan, possibly due to the decline of the Ashy Minivet, which may be a bit less inclined to use human-modified habitat. Not a good policy in this world. Start with the male.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

I say unceremoniously – but I am using the human metric by which we decide what makes noise and what doesn’t. Over the course of the following hour or so we observed many different species *coincidentally* alight on the wall near to the body of the fallen yellowlegs.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2024

Central Mexico has, of course, its own trash birds. This is a species that has very much learned to cohabit with humans, causing its population to explode into new areas. I would certainly have to include the all-beige Inca Dove as a regional trash bird, and European House Sparrows are to be found wherever humans are present.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Humans have altered their habitat for hundreds of years, creating various new habitats that some aspects of nature have come to colonize. There are of course, many other birds which feed on flying insects, such as jacamars and trogons.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

More often, the parents are nearby, just waiting for interfering humans to leave. Usually, the best course is to leave the baby where it is, or to observe for a while from a safe distance. They quickly adapt to the presence of humans (and even dogs) in the yard and don’t seem to be frightened by much of anything.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. In fact, the family name Lanius derives from a Latin word for “butcher”, though the “butcherbird” was a butcher long before humans even developed the language to describe these activities.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Of course, Desi chose Sunday to first awaken extremely early, at 5 AM, and then refuse to go back to sleep until 7 AM. The gull didn’t lower itself to paying attention to what we lowly humans were doing. What will be the ultimate decision of the New York State Avian Records Committee?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Of course, it should not be hard to find birds angry with Matthew Gonshaw of London, a pig in human form, who was recently jailed for six months after admitting to “ten charges of theft and possession of rare eggs.” …and some seriously pissed off birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2021

We humans need protection from thorns, while for birds, thorns often provide protection. Of course, the sparrows can’t have the thorn forest entirely to themselves. In a thorn forest, as in some other situations, protection can be vital. But, the birds! Protection, for birds, can be a very different thing than it is for us.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Even if the birds could speak like humans, their instincts would still come into constant play. No, you wouldn’t be allowed to count those avian ambassadors but human attendees would benefit from interaction and insights coming straight from the birds. There would also be drama!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This can mean some interesting birding, if you can bear the Shanghai heat … Of course, the egrets and herons described in my last post are still around. And of course there are passerines, some which spent the summer at Nanhui, some just returning from their breeding grounds elsewhere. Some cuckoo species. Tiger Shrike.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2020

Being generally more charming and attractive to us humans, birds aren’t generally included among these unwelcome hordes. In Europe, favorite foods of the waxwing include berries of the rowan and the hawthorn, which do see limited use in human cuisine and drink in products like teas, conserves, and country wines.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Blame human intervention in the form of breeding programs so that there would be more to hunt. Of course, I have reported both birds and when I hear where they came from I will share the information. Birders tend to ignore them, non-birders tend to loathe them, and few defend or admire them. That is really a shame. I named it Stumpy.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. required. ” Now, it doesn’t take much to notice a “mouse gradation year”: of course you’ll simply see them, much more frequently than in non-gradational years. No “gophers” etc.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The bird guides have not worked for over a year now, and of course being a young industry, most of the bird guides had invested in other alternative businesses. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe.

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MARCH 21, 2014

Of course, in real life this cannot be so simple as good news. It’s natural that the geese will take their fill of the smorgasbord human activity has laid in front of them. At the same time, philosophically, only a handful of ecologists would throw up their hands and say we must let nature take its course here.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2011

Rather than risk the chick’s imprinting on humans, the team cleverly thought to pair their two charges. but I’m certainly impressed with and grateful for SeaWorld’s commitment to animal rescue (and adorable freaking photos, used with permission of course!)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2022

Last week we talked about the human “snowbird” migration, in which thousands of northerners flock south to the Sun Belt of the United States to escape the frozen wasteland their home states and provinces will turn into from about November through March or later.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

a sea gull.''” Of course, that raises an important question – what is the most interesting gull in the world? Gulls are generalists, as a group, and unfortunately that does not get a lot of respect from humans, even though we’re the greatest generalists of all. And what about lifestyle?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

I know humans as a whole are a powerful species, but really, we do not have that much control over hummingbird migration ( Trumpeter Swans , maybe, but not hummingbirds). Let’s just start this post with the answer someone googling this info will need: You do not need to take your hummingbird feeder in on Labor Day.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. Climate Change. So what does climate change mean for birds?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

Of course, I was young and stupid (and I have a phenomenal memory for absolutely awful, nauseating jokes, seriously, once I hear them I never forget them). But we mustn’t let go of our humanity or forget the humanity of the people we disagree with. Who among you has never told a dirty joke? Or make us better people.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

This, of course, is a major reason to be concerned about climate change — more devastating than simply warmer overall temperatures is a change in the timing of various components in relation to each other, a wrench in gears of such vast complexity that we are still only beginning to grasp them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Shortly after I arrived I got word of the Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island, and of course I went after it right away. Both gull and mockingbird are so in place in this unwilderness, so seemingly at home dealing with noise and human bustle.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” When they called our state agency, they were told to “let nature take its course.” Our world has changed, and humans have created that change.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

Though spring migration is only just starting to ramp up there, of course I had to visit the Ramble. The Magic Hedge in Chicago, of course. Not only was it pleasure, it was now that most dignified of activities, Research. Plum Beach in Brooklyn. And my favorite, the iconic Ramble itself. Those pesky metaphors cropping up everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. 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. Can you handle the cuteness?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

It was the Slate-colored form, of course. I’ve always held that we need to see cities as habitats and work to embrace and enhance them, if we are to have any chance at all of maintaining the human connection with nature. Yesterday I saw a Dark-eyed Junco while I was walking my dog.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Would probably wear heavily patterned fisherman`s wool sweaters if turned into a human. Of course, sometimes Dunlins are awake as well. Black-faced Bunting is a slight misnomer for the male bird and a serious one for the female. The Rustic Bunting indeed looks rustic, helpful in memorizing its name. What a pathetic life.

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