10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2013
'10. Find a Four-leaf Clover. 17. Start your own Plants from Seed. 40. Find your State Bird. These are just three of the 448 great things to do in nature before you grow up that are covered in illustrated detail in The Kids’ Outdoor Adventure Book by Stacy Tornio and Ken Keffer. I previously wrote a post entitled “Plugging Kids into Birding” in which I presented 10 ways to get kids into birding.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 5, 2013
'“It’s interesting to learn how different cat and dog owners can be when choosing, and making decisions for, their pets,” said Dr. Brent Mayabb, veterinarian and manager of education and development at Royal Canin. “Whatever factors come into play, understanding an animal’s physical and physiological traits is critical to providing the best care.”. “Matching a dog or cat’s personality with that of your family is essential,” said Steve Dale, certified animal behavior consultant and host of Steve
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Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 6, 2013
'When you think about the word “partner” in your channel sales strategy, you may not necessarily conjure up images of close-knit teams like Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or any of the Ocean’s Eleven gang. Businesses recognize that partnerships are important, but there are a few key reasons they often get neglected.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2013
'Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. Isla Isabel, a picturesque volcanic island situated 15 miles off Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit coast, is just such a place. The island is half a mile wide and about three-quarters of a mile in length. It was made a National Park in the 1980s and is a major breeding and nesting area for over 30,000 seabirds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2013
'Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and, in the instance of this epic report, India.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2013
'This is just ridiculous: With a fixed amount of money in their wallet, respondents had to “buy” either an old-school lightbulb or an efficient compact florescent bulb (CFL)…Both bulbs were labeled with basic hard data on their energy use, but without a translation of that into climate pros and cons. When the bulbs cost the same, and even when the CFL cost more, conservatives and liberals were equally likely to buy the efficient bulb.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2013
'Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and India, where he chased that country’s rarest owl.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2013
'I have raved on and on about how Kaikoura is the best place in the world to see albatrosses , but the once sleepy seaside town is not actually famous for these magnificent birds. What put this once small fishing town on the map was not birds but mammals, specifically whales and dolphins. Being a convenient stop between the ferry town of Picton and the city of Christchurch didn’t hurt, but it was the chance to get up close and personal with marine mammals that turned the place into a popul
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
'See that gross bug on the Red-tailed Tropicbird ? It’s a hippoboscid, otherwise known as a flat fly. I hate them. Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. Flat flies and vulture vomit: either one can send an otherwise cheerful vet technician running from the room. Why am I posting a photo of a hippoboscid on a Red-tailed Tropicbird, a bird I’ve never rehabbed?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2013
After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions. The only issue we really have with the feral cat advocates is that they haven’t taken their arguments far enough.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
'This Wednesday I saw my first of season Osprey soaring over the Clark Fork, not far from the nesting platform at the entrance to Hellgate Canyon. It was flying relatively low, easy to see against Mount Jumbo, and a couple of bystanders spotted it too. “Look,” one said to the other. “Do you see the eagle?” I didn’t correct them — maybe I’m getting old — but it was a tourist mistake.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2013
'Since at least 2009 there has been at least one hypopigmented, or piebald, American Robin living in Alley Pond Park in my home borough of Queens, at least for the breeding season. It (or they?*) is assumed (confirmed?) to be nesting there each year but all I had ever managed were fleeting glimpses and couple of lousy photos. That changed on a recent visit when the partially leucistic bird and its mate decided to cooperate for me and my camera.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2013
'Where the Americas have hummingbirds, the Old World has sunbirds; brightly coloured jewels that flash in the light. The males often wear showy colours which makes identification straightforward while females tend towards the dull and difficult (my non-birding, proof-reading wife has just suggested that I change that last sentence, but you know what I mean).
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2013
'All winter long I birded the old Edgemere Landfill, especially after the surprising Le Conte’s Sparrow just before the Queens Christmas Bird Count. The site is just too interesting, too potentially good for vagrants, too underbirded, and too picturesque not to bird it as a Queens birder. And, yes, I understand that calling an old landfill picturesque might sound odd to you but when you consider that from up on top of the capped dump you have a long-range view of the Manhattan skyline, a b
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2013
'Here in the United States, April 15 is Tax Day, which means that countless Americans have toiled through the last 48 hours to prepare their taxes. Some are surely at it still. What a way to ruin a weekend! With the foresight to get my taxes taken care of early, I was free to enjoy the cold spring weather and lingering winter species around here. It’s nice to see that Red-breasted Nuthatches still haunt my home turf.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2013
'One question every self-described birder must grapple with is to twitch or not to twitch. Some of us love to chase down preposterous vagrants, while others eschew bird chasing for contemplation of standard local fare and seasonal specialties. I raise this perennial issue because I found myself twitching a rare ABA bird this weekend. Did you? My ill-advised twitch was a run for the Long Island Ruffs recently spotted on the south shore.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2013
'No Kea were harmed in the making of this story. (Image by Duncan). Much has been made in these pages about the havoc that feral cats wreak on native birds. Just yesterday, Mike reported on a study finding that they are responsible for decimating populations of Hawaiian Petrels. And the TNR/exterminate debate rages on. (Maybe Daleks could be trained to focus on feral cats?).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2013
'Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. He now wakes up to the choruses of Northern Cardinals and Northern Mockingbirds in sunny Vero Beach, Florida. Alfredo, an experienced birder in Peru and well-rounded naturalist, founded a birding and nature eco-travel company , known as Surbound Expeditions (Sur=Spanish for south).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2013
'The C-111E Canal, one of several canals crossing the main road into Everglades National Park, provides another point of access to the same block of semi-continuous tropical hardwood hammock and lower scrub found at Lucky Hammock. Being no where near as heavily birded as the aforementioned birding hotspot, I decided to do some exploration and see what the habitat was like all the way south to where the tropical hardwood hammock switches over to open sawgrass prairie.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2013
'No matter where you live in the world, you’ve probably noticed how interesting the unfolding of this season is becoming. True, many of you live in locations that are verdant and vibrant all year long or cold and white most of the time. But from pole to pole, creatures are on the move and blossoms and berries are bursting to greet them. Isn’t that exciting?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2013
The nesting season is underway and people love to put up nest boxes. It seems an easy thing to do, you buy or make a wooden box and put a hole in it and viola–BIRDS! But it’s not always that simple. And though bird houses are a great addition to a yard to provide nesting habitat, we don’t always have to go the traditional route. Bird houses are great, but in the case of Purple Martins , they have to have very specific habitat and landscape to even get their attention, much less
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2013
'Icterus is a wide-ranging neotropical genus consisting of the technicolor blackbirds we call orioles. The two dozen species are, nearly to an individual, long bodied and bicolored. Most make impressively woven, deep, nests, and eat insects and nectar, often coming to feeders well-stocked with oranges and jellies. In North America, at least in the eastern part of it, we celebrate the return of the Baltimore Oriole to parks and farms this time of year.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
The many islands of the Caribbean Sea are as unique a place to experience the amazing potential for speciation and diversity as the more famous Galapagos and Hawaiian islands are. The Lesser Antilles not only have a series of unique bird species, like Todys and Antillean Bullfinches, that are unique to individual islands, and for the herpers out there, the adaptive radiation of Anolis and Cnemidophorus (whiptail) lizards is as good as anything Darwin’s finches can throw at you, provided yo
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2013
'Years ago it was pointed out by somebody, probably Tinbergen or Lack or Wynn-Edwards or one of the other great bird-savvy ethologists of the day, that young Pelicans would blackmail their parents by biting their own wings, a very self defeating activity for a bird with a huge and powerful beak. “If you don’t feed me right way, I’m taking off this wing and your reproductive success is done!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2013
'WILDGuides, a British publishing company, had a problem. They wanted to put together a book about The World’s Rarest Birds , but were finding that it was pretty difficult locating photographs of the 590 bird species considered Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered or Endangered. The solution? Hold not one, but two international photo contests, one in 2010 and one in 2012.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2013
'One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America are often cheaper than going to places like Arizona, Colorado, or California. Many of the Caribbean islands (except Cuba and Hispaniola) make for ideal, quick birding trips where one can see all the endemics and Caribbean specialties at a leisurely pace — usually, with extra spare time to explore historic cities such as old San Juan in Puerto Rico or lounge on beautiful beac
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2013
'If you are a fan of British broadcaster, naturalist, and “national treasure” David Attenborough, you won’t want to miss this. He’s signed on to produce a “Tweet of the Day” for the BBC. The broadcast, to air at 5:58 a.m. (just in time for the dawn chorus!), will feature songs, information about life and behavior, and interesting historical context for a different bird each weekday.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2013
'These “allegedly artsy” Golden Eagles courtesy of Corey. … to perils associated with mankind. To wit: A ruling by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service caps at five the number of Golden Eagles that members of the Hopi tribe can collect from neighboring Navajo lands. The permit allows the Hopis a total of 40 birds that may be sacrificed for use in religious ceremonies.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2013
'Today we take a brief reprieve from birder commentary to talk actual birds, specifically those of Santa Cruz Island, where my lowly-esteemed colleague Seagull Steve is currently doing field work on some of the nearshore seabirds there. The fundamental question is, where is it? Many people, birders and otherwise, if a poor grasp on the realities of this place.
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