10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

But while humans mainly try to stay slim and fit for health reasons, Eurasian Siskins care more about the danger of being eaten. Bird pairs were observed over time – it seems that (unlike in humans, particularly US Americans, these days) most pairs lasted until the death or disappearance of one of the two birds.

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OCTOBER 17, 2021

Of course there is always something interesting about bowers wherever they are, but especially amongst human habitation. It is quite an achievement as always and the items around and in it continues to increase. Great Bowerbird bower and stolen nails and screws.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

How, to humans, is “behavior” separate from the bird itself? For example, ritualistic displays of aggression and appeasement, of coming to the brink and then backing off, are common in humans and, probably, all animals. Again, both these behaviors seem quite human — or maybe our equivalents seem quite avian.

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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

JULY 6, 2023

Some researchers did an experiment that among humans is only done rarely and only via mistakes made in maternity hospitals. Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

Angus directed me to a story about the Calgary Stampede (rodeo) and the Calgary and Vancouver Humane Societies which had me asking: Whose side are they on? The Calgary Humane Society works with the Stampede to make sure the animals are safe (and by the way that's impossible if the animals are being used in the rodeo. Not the rodeo.

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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

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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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

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

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

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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SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In this morning's New York Times editorial " There Is No 'Humane' Execution ," we have an imperfect yet nevertheless baby step toward acknowledgment of the HumaneMyth. Of course, less suffering is always better than more, but when you are taking someone's life, I'm pretty sure it's the life-taking that's most important to them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

From page one Stotts and collaborator Kate Pipkin illustrated how environmental work, especially with raptors, has the power to change the course of people’s lives. I read Rodney Stotts’ Bird Brother in two days, as part of a National Audubon Society-wide collective of 250 staff members who received a copy of the book.

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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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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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

brings the wind from every quarter in the course of an hour or two.” (Their trip took ten days; Clavruel’s, mostly by car, was somewhat quicker.). Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. On the other hand, Davis is, of course, a big fan of the Bald Eagle, as Audubon was not.

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10,000 Birds

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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APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. Of course, for the birds involved, this often leads to death. Apparently, this name is derived from the well-ordered patterns of the male.

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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 24, 2024

There were other birds, of course – Brown-throated Parakeets that flew past low and quickly threw us for a heart-pounding loop. Typically, there would be at least one male already at the lek, even as human observers would be getting in position. And waited. No birds yet.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2024

Maybe it thinks that not having chicks will help the environment, but I guess that really only applies to humans. It is well known that chicks of this morph immediately start having an identity crisis when combining the knowledge of their species name with the information gathered from a look in the mirror. ” Hurray for science.

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JUNE 21, 2024

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. In my opinion, the crux of the question touches on what is “humane.” Here is my opinion.

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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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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2024

I know what a Herring Gull would do with this information: Can we say something Human Intelligent (HI) perhaps? Of course, we saw an enormous number of these birds, because (a) they are not rare at all and (b) my rascals actively sought out the birds just to ridicule dad. Maybe, starting with some perspective.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. It is one of the more commonly seen owls, based on it having a relatively high tolerance for human activity as well as its partially diurnal habits.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Somewhat confusingly, its Latin species name is boulboul – a word that stands for nightingale but of course is also the name of a large bird family, the bulbuls. The Blue Whistling Thrush is of course named for its whistling – you can hear it here. The male Grey-winged Blackbird is similarly attractive.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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JULY 7, 2021

Of course, various species of bats as well. Life here is experiencing a boon in the face of encroaching human activity, at least in my immediate vicinity. It is my hope that they all can continue to benefit from this rewilding project; I shall gladly handle the complaints from human quarters.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. Of course, he could not care less about the majestic look of the buzzard, probably thinking it is a bit of a show-off.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2021

Interestingly, these heronries frequently seem to be near highway exits – either because these relatively ugly places are less likely to be disturbed by humans, or because this shortens the commute of those birds working in downtown offices. Of course, looking stylish in black and white is easy. I am afraid I think it is failing.

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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. I had also not seen any Common Kingfisher for more than 2 months, a situation that is generally being frowned upon by human rights lawyers.

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