10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2013

'Snowy Owl in Queens, New York, 1 December 2013. The midwestern and northeastern United States, especially coastal regions and areas along the Great Lakes, is currently experiencing an invasion of Bubo scandiacus. Snowy Owls have been sighted as far south as North Carolina and some locations have as many as seven! Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 30, 2013

'Mad over Maltese. . These tiny fluff balls will make you laugh out loud and drive you crazy. Best friend and protective- pampering parent, you will have to switch roles and shift gears with these sprightly creatures before blinking an eyelid. “The tiniest dog Nature has ever produced –. Her coat of long hair, whiter than ermine, Her movements exquisitely graceful and.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 15, 2013

'Issue Date: 2013-12-16. Author: Danny Smith. Teaser: Frontline salespeople are in a good position to determine what and when customers will buy, but often they are not fully involved in the enterprise’s formal planning process. Many companies employ statisticians or other demand planners to predict what sales will occur. The frontline view is something I want to leverage, not leave behind.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'How, then, shall we sum up in a sentence the principle of our duties to the lower animals? I do not know that it can be better done than in the words of George Nicholson, one of those early pioneers to the influence of whose writings, though now almost forgotten, the cause of humaneness owes so much. "In our conduct to animals," he wrote, "one plain rule may determine what form it ought to take, and prove an effectual guard against an improper treatment of them—a rule universally admitted as a

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'The video above, taken yesterday at New Jersey’s Stone Harbor Point by Tom Johnson , is pretty awesome. He was simultaneously filming with two different devices so the video starts with the wide-angle view and then starts over again with the closer look. As we have already mentioned here on 10,000 Birds, Snowy Owls are in the middle of a pretty epic irruption , and they are facing all kinds of pressure, from people harassing them to crows and falcons taking exception to their presence.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'Well, this doesn’t seem to make much sense : The Port Authority doesn’t give a hoot about the lives of snowy owls. The agency that oversees the city’s airports has added the majestic snowy owl to the list of birds it kills to protect airplanes from bird strikes. The Port Authority’s “wildlife specialists” started exterminating the owls Saturday, killing three at JFK Airport with a shotgun, a Port Authority source said.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'Last time it was birds and bling. Now it’s birds AS bling. Normally wildlife rehabilitators do not go around wearing birds on purpose. It’s just something that happens. “The Chimney Swifts I had this season made fabulous brooches,” said Leslie Jackson, who sent the photo above (along with the caption “All the rage in Paris.”) Swifts and swallows are notoriously hard to raise and/or rehabilitate, so rehabbers who don’t specialize in them tend to lose their heads when they’re successful.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

'Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. First of all: most of us don’t have much, because we spend all our money on gauze, antibiotics, and frozen rats. Second, even if we do, we have discovered through bitter experience that jewelry can either be snatched or, like very small guns, used against us. As for nice clothing … right! People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'I don’t know what those so-called meteorologists are doing: they all claim a moderately cold morning, but do not say a word about the fog! Yet, tree branches are covered in hoar frost and the fog is so thick one could cut it with a machete! Of course, I was going – birding, so the view of the fog (certainly not through the fog) has drawn several comments which I will not share here with you… While the car is bumping along the dirt road, a Common Reed Bunting awaits me on a low branch̷

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2013

'Baby recently got some new treats to try thanks to Rachael Ray Nutrish! They sent her some of the new Soup Bones and Savory Bites. As always, we weren’t sure if they would be a hit or not, since Baby is an odd dog and doesn’t always love treats. So, what was the verdict? They were a hit! Baby tried the Soup Bones Minis. Since she is a smaller dog they were just the right size for her.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 20, 2013

'On November 30, SeaWorld Orlando welcomed the first chick to hatch at Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, the all-new attraction featuring a colony of more than 250 penguins from four species – king, Adelie, gentoo and rockhopper. The nearly two-week-old king chick is now weighing in at 30 ounces (882 grams) and currently being raised by its parents with routine check-ups from the SeaWorld Orlando Aviculture Team who monitor the chick’s weight and overall development.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2013

'As we might have already mentioned here on 10,000 Birds, this year is shaping up to be a historic year in terms of a Snowy Owl irruption. And because birders are often bloggers, the amount of material that has already been published regarding this invasion of big, white owls from the north is pretty impressive. Not only are there a host of blog posts simply featuring images of Snowy Owls but there are quite a few out there that tackle a whole host of different issues related to Snowy Owls.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'When I was kid, I tried to turn every House Finch we had in Indiana into a Purple Finch. Trying to figure out if one is a little bit more raspberry red from another was the id of choice as the local bird ladies told me. I was also trying to see how far down the pink coloration went on the body. The above bird is clearly a male House Finch. But now that I live some place where we get Purple Finches regularly, there is no question on how to tell them apart.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

'With the Audubon Christmas Bird Count season in full swing here in the Western Hemisphere, one of the birds on my mind is Golden-crowned Kinglet , a bird often heard and seen on the counts I do every year, and thus one that holds special seasonal significance to me. So naturally, I got to thinking about kinglets, and their Palearctic kin, the “crests,” and where they belong in the avian family tree.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'What was your first bird of 2014? Hopefully it was better than a pigeon! Let us know in the comments…and, if you wrote a blog post or have a picture of your first bird of the year online somewhere, well, leave a link in the comments too. Happy New Year from all of us at 10,000 Birds! And here’s hoping you see many great birds, including lots of lifers, in 2014!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2013

'Some time ago, I was doing research of waterbird migrations with a friend of mine, a young ornithologist currently busy writing his Ph.D. thesis and trying to annoy most of us by uplisting some subspecies to full species and downlisting some species into mere races! A knowledgeable birder and great company, he was able to forget just about everything.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2013

'As you can see in the picture above, all Snowy Owls do not just sit there like lumps of white awesomeness just waiting for a birder to come along and take their picture. Sometimes, if you are lucky, Snowy Owls fly! Well, I guess everyone knows that Snowy Owls fly – they certainly don’t walk from the Arctic. But I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the amount of times that I have seen a Snowy Owl fly that wasn’t a direct result of people getting too close to an owl a

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'For many of us, our dog is one of the most important friends in our life. Of course, when we aren’t with our human friends, they can generally entertain themselves pretty well and know that they will eventually see us again. Unfortunately, a dog has less of an ability to occupy itself while we’re away, and for some pups, the idea of us leaving is truly heartbreaking to them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 14, 2013

'This book can best be described as charming, fun to read, and even a bit enlightening! Told through the perceptive of one very lucky cat, we get a glimpse on what it might be like to live inside the home of the Dali Lama. ‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

'In under a month I will looking at lots of great birds at the 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I can’t wait – two years between visits is too long. I want to see Limpkins and Snail Kites and American Alligators and Yellow-throated Warblers and Painted Buntings and this list could go on for quite some time. I thought it would make sense to share which trips I would be on so if any of my legion of adoring fans (Hi mom!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2013

'The promise of rain and high winds ahead of Tropical Storm Karen might have brought a few warblers down into New York’s Central Park during a visit last month. I stood, eagerly waiting, ready to give them a good watching as soon as they dropped into the Ramble, but the storm veered out across the ocean and left the city in the gloom under a blanket of low cloud.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'In 2013 I birded in two countries, submitted eBird checklists for seven U.S. states and thirty-seven counties, and added a whopping ninety-two species to my life list. At the beginning of the year I said the following about my goals for the year’s birding: I start 2013 with 297 birds on my Queens Life List , 500 birds on my ABA Life List , and 1,096 birds on my World Life List.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'Oh my how does time fly! It’s hard to believe that our furry friend is now 10 years old. What an amazing 10 years it has been. There is truly nothing like a dog to make life sweeter. The post Baby turned 10! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2013

'Frank Izaguirre is a nature writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. His ornithological travels have taken him from Costa Rica to Tierra del Fuego to the Pantanal. He has a voracious appetite for the memoirs and travelogues of Neotropical ornithologists and naturalists, the more obscure the better. When not reading, writing, or birding, he can’t figure out what to do with his hands.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2013

'Steve Leddy is a business writer and editor, based at various times in London, Dublin, and Paris and once even part-owned a villa in Tobago, where the birdlife is out of this world. Steve now live in the Auvergne volcanic region a few hours south of Paris, where the birds sometimes inspire him to verse. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds: Near the lightning breach in my blister-barked beech –.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'Over the past two weeks, an incursion of Snowy Owls ( Bubo scandiacus ) has spread rapidly across the Great Lakes region and down the Atlantic Coast, as far south as North Carolina. (The haunting image above is from another year, by Kate Ter Haar.). It’s the third year in a row for a significant, hunger-driven push south by these spectacular predators of the far north, so commanding of the imagination with their striking plumage, remote origins, and wondrous peregrinations.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

'The North Wind doth blow, and we shall have snow. And what will the robin do then, poor thing? He’ll sit in the barn to keep himself warm. And hide his head under his wing, poor thing. Nursery rhymes are not, perhaps, renowned for their ornithological accuracy. Nevertheless, Mother Goose does occasionally see fit to drop some knowledge of her feathered compatriots onto a youthful mind, as the above shows.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

'The end of the year is nigh and birders the world over are looking over their checklists and reminiscing about their amazing sightings and devastating dips. As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Each Beat Writer was offered the opportunity to include what they thought was the most excellent avian to cross their path this year and the variety that they came up with

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'How’s this for an exciting weekend? The linked post, from The Bruce Mactavish Newfoundland Birding Blog , also has a possible explanation for where all the Snowy Owls in this amazing irruption year are coming from: First I found out where Snowy Owls were in low to normal numbers in the Canadian Arctic (Rankin Inlet on western shore of Hudson Bay, Igoolik on the Melville Peninsula and northern Baffin Island including Bylot Island – information thanks to Alastair Franke, University of

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2013

'The Pygmy Nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea ) is a non-migratory bird that lives primarily in Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pine forests in western North America. These Pygmy Nuthatches were seen in June nesting in a pine tree at Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California. Click on photos for full sized images. They are one of the few cooperatively breeding passerines in North America and a third of the breeding pairs have 1–3 male helpers, usually progeny or other relatives.

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