4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
In this touching memoir Julie Barton shares how powerful puppy love can be. Dog Medicine, shares the power of the human animal bond, as Julie recalls the darkest point in her life. A year out of college, she was struggling … Continue reading → The post Dog Medicine; How My Dog Saved Me From Myself appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Cover photo: Yellow-legged (left), Caspian Gull (right) – Courtesy of cro-ringing.blogspot.com. How to count tens of thousands of birds that are all white below and grey above? I mean, it is easy to count them all, but what I want are numbers of individual species within such flocks and not just numbers of them all together. I am an experienced bird counter, but until a few years ago, I was mostly counting waterfowl, where you can easily tell the species apart, even in large mixed flocks.
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Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Issue Date: 2015-11-06. Author: Adam Honig. Teaser: Once dominated by the pin-striped suit-wearing, Montblanc-wielding sales rep from an older generation, sales is now dominated by the scrappy, more casual Millennial. While many have their doubts as to how Millennial sales reps will perform, it’s time to put those doubts to rest because Millennials have all of the right ingredients to be the best, most successful sales generation of all time.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 28, 2015
This blog is 12 years old today. Here is the first post. There have been 296,367 visits, which is an average of 24,697.2 visits per year, 67.6 visits per day, and 473.3 visits per week.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Most birders in the northern hemisphere are familiar with the Marsh Hawk , an expected denizen of marshes, tundra, and grasslands across a huge swathe of the globe. Otherwise known as the Northern Harrier (in the Americas) or the Hen Harrier (in the English-speaking Old World), Circus cyaneus brings terror to voles and other small mammals as it courses low over open country, ready to plunge, talons-first, at the first sign of movement.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Cuba is on my mind. It’s probably on your mind too, especially if you live in the United States. 26 endemics! Bee Hummingbird, the smallest hummingbird in the world! Cuban Black Hawk, split in 2007 from Common Black Hawk! Fernandina’s Flicker, a tongue-twisting alliterative name for one of the most endangered woodpeckers in the world! Cuban Trogon, the national bird who wears the colors of the Cuban flag!
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4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
This is a fun one! The Most Influential Internet Dogs. Do you recognize any of them? Do you have any that you would add to the list? Fun graphic thanks to. The post The Most Influential Internet Dogs appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Do you love charming stories? What about charming stories that involve a deer? If you said yes to either of these questions, Dillie the Deer is for you! Be sure to read to the bottom of the post too for … Continue reading → The post Dillie the Deer (and a giveaway) appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
This post is sponsored by Purina, who is providing the calendar for our giveaway. Purina Pro Plan set out to shred perceptions of both traditional cat food and the typical cat owner with the Purina Pro Plan #MenAndCatsContest, for the … Continue reading → The post Extraordinary Men and Cats (and a giveaway) appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind. However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
Calling all cat lovers! You know the joy that these furry friends bring to your life. Now there is a place just for cat parents. This virtual community is just for cat lovers, and it’s called the Meow Mix Acatemy. … Continue reading → The post Join the Meow Mix Acatemy appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
I think I was 19 when I made my first bucket list of things I’d like to do, from horse-back riding to sailing, rafting, caving, climbing… all sort of things Willie Garvin was good at (minus the knife throwing). Somewhere at the very back of the list was birdwatching. Why at the back? I knew nothing of it – but the fact that it had a geriatric image.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
It’s 3:30 AM when the night’s relative tranquility is shattered by the ancient Landranger’s engine roaring to life. Early starts are the rule when monitoring endagered species in Mkuze Game Reserve, in South Africa, but there’s a particular urgency to this morning’s start. The day before, the day I arrived, was a transport day, and that meant the pack hadn’t been seen in the afternoon.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Taking up the pertinent question of how the newest form of recreational aviation technology affects avians is Liz Greene, who hails from the beautiful city of trees, Boise, Idaho. She’s a lover of all things geek and is happiest when cuddling with her dogs and catching up on the latest Marvel movies. You can follow her on Twitter @LizVGreene or dig deeper into her internal musings on InstantLo.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2015
Thanksgiving was celebrated a couple of days ago across the USA. In other words, millions of people got together with family and friends for a cozy day of mashed potatoes, gravy, apple pie, naps, football, and some serious turkeyliciousness. That last little bit is also why we call it “Turkey Day”! In Costa Rica, although I did spend a memorable one years ago in the Osa Peninsula where flocks of parrots flew into the mangroves while we feasted on turkey, pie, and the works, we have n
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain as day, yet only a surprisingly limited number of bird species on Borneo have ventured down that evolutionary road. In fact, flipping through your field guide of choice will reveal a dominance of browns and an abundance of blues, but a bright green is hard to come by.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
A recent comment thread on Facebook about absurdly high counts of some species in the eBird database got me curious. Who has seen the most Green Herons at one time? Painted Buntings ? Gyrfalcons ? What is the most of any one species that has ever been reported at one time? And how reliable is this data? Once you start down such a rabbit-hole it is difficult to stop the plunge into full on data-nerd mode.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
As I always do on the way home, following a short visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, I take in at least one of the National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) found in the Sacramento Valley. I usually stop at the two refuges that have easily accessed auto tour routes, the Sacramento NWR and Colusa NWR. California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
Wood Sandpipers- Tringa glareola are a shorebird species that are found on inland fresh water rather than along the coast. At our local ephemeral lakes the Wood Sandpipers spread themselves around the muddy edges and feed when they return from the north each year. The number of Wood Sandpipers can reach close to one hundred when all the lakes are drying out and there is little choice over habitation.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
The Andean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus andinus ) is one of the three flamingos occurring in the high Andes of South America. It is the largest and easiest to identify in all age stages. It is also the rarest of the flamingos of living in the high Andean. In fact, the Andean Flamingo is regarded as the world’s rarest flamingo. The largest of the Andean flamingos is native to the wetlands and shallow alkaline lakes of the high Andes mountain range, from southern Perú to northwestern Argentina and no
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
As my faithful readers know, I have a long-standing fascination with helping (and, at times, inadvertently confusing) interested non-birders – those who are entering the admittedly weird and wild world of birding for the first time. Lately this fascination has increased, not only because of my book project but because I’ve been invited by one group and another to speak to various audiences, from sixth-graders to adult learners, about getting started with birding.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Question: What’s one of the best things about being a wildlife rehabilitator? Answer: The presents you get from friends who are trying to distract you from all the stress in your life. Case in point: Vino Vodka Vulture. My friend Jon Walsh is a lawyer, writer, sailor, hiker, and fix-it guy. Depending on the circumstances, he can either repair things or tear them down.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
As an exercise in futility, few chores can rival deleting photographs to gain a bit of space on your hard drive. With memory so cheap these days it is a pursuit that will never repay you the time that might otherwise have been spent outdoors. However, the nights are closing in. My family have already grown bored of my presence this week and are asking when I will be going back to work.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2015
If a bird were to sing “What I Did for Love,” from A Chorus Line , it wouldn’t warble about devoting itself to theater and dance. Although both of those talents come into play in avian mating. Which leads us to what some birds would do for love. Great T**s would likely boast about their loyalty. A new study out of Oxford University found that these birds will stick close with their mates, even if that means going hungry.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2015
I started birding in what must have been 1978. At the time, I didn’t really take note of the year because I was seven. Since then, I have pretty much lived for lifers. Each new bird has been and still is a major personal achievement, another goal made, and always cause for unquestionable personal celebration. It was that way for my first Indigo Bunting (a male that absorbed all light and sang in morning wet forests of northeastern Pennsylvania in 1979), and my first Brown Noddy seen from a
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Is 10,000 Birds your favorite bird blog? We certainly hope so, not that we are insecure or anything. It’s just that Birdwatch Magazine is running its Birders’ Choice Awards 2015 and we are–for the first time in our 12-year history–on the ballot for Blog of the Year. The deadline for voting is coming quickly, so the time for action is now!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
We’re getting close to Turkey Day here in the United States, but the birds you should focus on this weekend are wild and free. Yes, Wild Turkeys count, but that bottle of Wild Turkey on your shelf doesn’t! I’m hoping one of those Cave Swallows or Franklin’s Gulls invading New York cross my air space this weekend, as I won’t have time to seek them out.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 21, 2015
We have a fun giveaway today. As you know, we love Best Friends and all the great work they do for animals. They have a fun online store where you can find gifts for yourself and those you love (perfect … Continue reading → The post Best Friends dog collars giveaway appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
I was laid out with a bad back last week, which didn’t really affect my birding as I wasn’t planning any at the time. But what happens when you’re on a trip and you can’t get out? I found out on my second day in Mkuze, a great game reserve in South Africa, earlier this year when on my first dark night, poor visibility, uneven ground and unsteady footing resulted in a twisted ankle and a day in camp keeping weight off it.
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