10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'This Rufous-capped Warbler was seen and photographed without the aid of playback. It was a very pleasant experience. Florida Canyon, AZ. Not long ago, my dear colleague Seagull Steve (Global Birder Ranking System’s U.S. #7) had a blog post that got me thinking. Here are a couple excerpts. [The Rufous-capped Warbler] quickly skulked off, but I was happy.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 10, 2014
'Pets Aplenty is a humorous book written by Malcolm Welshman, a retired vet who has worked at London Zoo, in a small animal hospital, and as a consultant dealing with exotics. He has written for newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Daily Mail and national magazines including The Lady, Yours, Cat World and Dogs Today and was the My Weekly vet for fifteen years.
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Sales and Marketing Management
OCTOBER 23, 2014
'Issue Date: 2014-10-23. Author: Frank Visgatis, President and COO, CustomerCentric Selling®. Teaser: Emptying pipelines in a fourth-quarter rush usually creates future repercussions, so tread carefully. Emptying pipelines in a fourth-quarter rush usually creates future repercussions, so tread carefully.
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'This blog had 812 visits during September, which is an average of 27.0 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 44.9.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2014
'While there are some two dozen birding spots in Belgrade, Serbia, that stand out, in this guideblog I will focus on the river Danube and its floodplain, inside the Important Bird Area “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers”. The top-5 places to bird along the Danube, without leaving the city: THE DORCOL PROMENADE (44°49’50″N, 20°27’16″E).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2014
'One of those mornings that somehow let the light in, but without a trace of sun. I leave tarmac behind, entering a dirt track with my low clearance hatchback, carefully avoiding the trenches deeply rooted by combine harvesters. Going over the side corrugations, I wonder if they have used the snow groomer to flatten this section of the track? Some 40 km north of Belgrade, Serbia, I am driving to the very end of an oxbow lake with the intention of looking for the Ruddy Shelducks ( Tadorna ferrugi
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hatchling that I got in two years ago,” wrote Leslie Jackson, a rehabber in Tulsa, OK, and sent the ‘before’ photo above and the ‘after’ photo, six weeks later, below.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'Parrots are smarter than Nebo the dog. “Nebo.” The dog’s name came from the direction of the enclosed front porch of the tin-roofed concrete block home of my friend Bwana Ndege, in Isiro, Zaire. “Nebo.” It sounded like an older woman, a somewhat crackly voice, insistent. “Nebo. Kuya. Nebo.” The old woman was calling the dog, in Swahili.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2014
'Why is camping so interesting? I ask because, despite my deep affection for warmth, indoor plumbing, and uninterrupted Internet access, I found myself and my family enjoying an overnight out of doors. Camping and birding both fall under the category of “nature” activities, yet the two seem only tangentially related. How many of you birders enjoy camping and how many of you would rather skip the whole thing?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
'I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015! That will be the opening day of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. I had a great time back in 2012 and even more fun in 2014. Who knows what great birds 2015 will bring? Florida is a great place to bird in January because in addition to the year-round species there are a host of birds that winter in the relatively balmy climate that Florida has in winter.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! Well, do you really? I was about to say that I haven’t seen any of these in the wild (only tracks of Bear and Wolf in the snow, but not in this park) and then I remembered one Serbian ornithologist who often visited this area and once, while driving through the forest in the night, had the most elusive of the trio – the Lynx – framed in his headlights.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2014
'About half way between Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, lies a mountain valley containing the Itatiaia National Park. The endemic-rich Mata Atlantica, or Atlantic Forest is a habitat type found close to the coast in the south-eastern states of the huge country. Chestnut-bellied Euphonia (not actually a tanager, but gorgeous just the same). It is easy enough to find decent accommodation in Itatiaia NP and all of the establishments are keenly aware that many of the punters are foreign birde
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2014
'What follows will not be elegant artspeak about how certain photographers can capture not only the beauty but the spirit of wild birds, although my friend Russ Cusick , who took these photos, has certainly produced some of my favorite avian images. This is more of a cautionary tale about one of the perils lying in wait for wildlife rehabilitators who decide to take shortcuts.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2014
'One reason so many of us love birding is that the activity engages all of our senses. Getting out into a wild space and locking in on a special bird can, when all goes well, elicit a moment of total absorption that both energizes and calms us. But what happens when such a singular focus can prove hazardous to a birder’s health? We’ve all heard stories of unfortunate birding encounters with perilous flora, fauna, and even terrain.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2014
'The inaugural Queens County Bird Club Big Sit at Fort Tilden yesterday, 12 October, was as wonderful a time for which a birder could ask. There was gorgeous weather with beautiful blue skies, lots of great birds, and the good company of a host of birders. We set the standard at 74 species, one short of my hoped for 75, but not bad for a first attempt.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2014
'I realize that no one wants to hear about other people’s lists. It can be boring, for sure, but my own birding lately has been pretty much exclusively in service of my home county list, that of Guilford County, North Carolina. As I’ll mention to anyone who cares to listen (and many who don’t), county birding is particularly great for keeping motivated when other aspects of life manage to get in the way of going farther afield.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2014
'The final weekend of October positively burns with activity, from spectacular seasonal fare to sports extravaganzas to Halloween hullabaloo. How does a person even find time to look at birds? I was able to spare a few moments to appreciate the Northern Cardinals that, while always present at my home, seem so much more welcome once days turn gray. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was either of the two amazingly cooperative Eastern Bluebirds he came across on Saturday morning in Kissena Cor
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2014
'Keep your eyes to the skies… you never know what you’ll see! Autumn in October means many things to many people more eloquent by half than I. Rabindranath Tagore observed, “The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.” According to Percy Bysshe Shelley, “There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky…” What are your favorite fall quotes?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'I was sorting through a large mixed flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings at Fort Tilden on Friday morning when Isaac Grant, the intrepid Staten Island birder, showed up and asked if I had seen the white one. I had no idea what he was talking about and told him so and he then showed me a couple of distant pictures he had gotten of a white Brown-headed Cowbird.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2014
'After work on Friday I decided to stop at Strack Pond at the western edge of Forest Park, where wood-warblers had been around in numbers recently. Upon my arrival I ran into Danny Melore and Andrew Baksh, both of whom were impressed by the variety of wood-warblers around, which were feeding on the abundant insect life. (Something must have hatched though none of us knew exactly what the little bugs flying around were.).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2014
'Two weeks after finding a Say’s Phoebe at Edgemere Landfill in the company of my family I convinced them to return to Edgemere yesterday afternoon for another visit. Northwest winds had been blowing all day and the flight of both passerines and raptors had been impressive. We had a grand old time dodging grasshoppers, checking out the snails, and watching the hawks.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'How would you like to see a lot of bird species in a day? Like, more species than anyone else anywhere has ever seen in a day? Well, a team from Louisiana State University managed to pull that off on 14 October, seeing an astounding 354 species in one day in Peru. Jealous? The website isn’t updated with details yet (probably because they must be recovering) but check back in a day or two and I am sure that they will have a host of stories to share about an amazing day’s birding!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'In honor of fall, and of the Chipping Sparrow that just smacked itself (thankfully not too hard) against my balcony window, here’s a blast from the past: Oct. 2009. The morning is cold, and it’s damp, although not the buckets-from-the-sky affair that yesterday was. Dawn is getting later and later. The lawn seems bare of birds, except for a single female Flicker.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2014
'Keep your eyes to the skies for raptors on the move, like this Griffon Vulture over the Straits of Gibraltar. If you live in the northeastern United States, you recognize the upcoming long weekend as the peak of leaf-peeping season. If you don’t live in a temperate zone, you may not have even known that leaf-peeping is a thing! I’ll be hazarding some chilly October camping in Lyman Run State Park this weekend.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'October much resembles March in these parts, but reversed in polarity. This month comes in like a lamb, unless you’re paying attention to fall migration, in which case the lion is roaring right now. Enjoy! I don’t know why I’ve done this to myself, but I’ve been working every weekend morning. This weekend will be the same, which will definitely impede my birding exploits.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Not having to work until the afternoon on a Wednesday, I took advantage and decided to go birding yesterday. At seven in the morning I had just refound the Eurasian Wigeon at the north end of the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and turned around for the long slog down the east side of the pond when my phone buzzed with an email. At first I was going to ignore it but curiosity got the better of me.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2014
'Complain on a birding trip to Costa Rica? What?! Not possible! Yes, and as much as I love taking in all of that biodiversity, I have to admit that the complaints are valid. However, there are solutions to every grievance and that’s what this post is really about. Without further ado, the following are the five most common annoyances and gripes that birders have when doing their thing in Costa Rica, along with my personal solutions: 1.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2014
'When you hear the word “biofuel,” you probably think of corn, right? But other types of plant matter can power our vehicles and our homes. And some of those options may be more beneficial to birds than are acres and acres of cornfields. That’s the gist of a new study published in PLOS ONE. In it, researchers from Wisconsin compared cornfields with grasslands in terms of which provided better bird habitat.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2014
'On Sunday morning I was out birding across several Queens hotspots with my friend Seth. When I got home and found Daisy and Desi ready to enjoy the beautiful day I was pretty pleased that Desi decided on Edgemere Landfill, the capped landfill on the Rockaway Peninsula at the southeasternmost extremity of Queens, as his destination of choice. He’s a big fan of the grasshoppers and crickets that swarm over the landfill in autumn and he actually was talking about how he wanted to see birds t
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 19, 2014
'Halfway through the month, we in the temperate zones are clearly moving from one season to another. Here in New York, the warm portion of October may be naught but a memory. Wherever you are, get excited for whatever comes next, because it’s coming! In the absence of notable rarities this weekend, I took greatest pleasure in observing big Red-tailed Hawks , which are always awesome despite their ubiquity.
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