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The world’s biggest flying bird—the Sarus Crane , with a maximum of height of 6 feet/1.8 meters—has had a rough go of it. Due to habitat encroachment and environmental degradation in its traditional home base of Asia, the bird’s worldwide population has dropped to roughly 20,000 individuals, marking it as a Vulnerable species. But the International Crane Foundation—with the support of some Thai farmers—is slowly but steadily making headway toward restoring the crane in the wild.
Cats makes us healthier and happier, no jokes. This is backed by research and science on many levels. Wondering just how beneficial they are? Read on! Research has shown that cat owner’s show less signs of loneliness, feel less depressed … Continue reading → The post 22 Ways Cats Make People Happier And Healthier appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
Issue Date: 2016-11-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, has explored the irrationality of people’s decision-making processes in best-selling books. In his latest book, “Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivation,” he explains that what drives people is far more complicated than most of us understand – and why business leaders would be wise to take a closer look.
I started this blog 13 years ago today. There have been 310,008 visits, which is an average of 23,846.7 visits per year, 457.0 visits per week, and 65.2 visits per day (taking leap years into account). Here is the first post, on 28 November 2003.
Can you remember any birding movie before Schrodinger’s Cat? Probably not. For me, the only “birding” movie that I knew of were the Dogs of War (1980). If you are not familiar with the story, it’s about an Anglo-Irish mercenary, Jamie Shannon (played by Christopher Walken), hired to overthrow the regime in a fictional Western African country (it was actually filmed in Belize, Central America) and prior to the real thing, he was doing a reconnaissance trip posing as a “rare birds photographer”.
Who doesn’t love a good owl? There are few families of birds where despite a cosmopolitan distribution I’m always so pleased to see any species of the family. owls aren’t rare, but they are seldom easy. I can spend months in some locations without seeing a single one, in fact in 10 years in New Zealand although I hear them on a monthly basis I have seen them precisely 3, yes three, times.
The people at the Peru national tourist office are giving you the chance to win a 7-day birdwatching adventure for two in Peru. Your trip will take you from the Amazon rainforest into the peaks of the Andes—with plenty of opportunities to take in Peru’s over 1,700 species of bird (the second most of any country) along the way. During your trip, you’ll stay at three spectacular properties run by Inkaterra.
The people at the Peru national tourist office are giving you the chance to win a 7-day birdwatching adventure for two in Peru. Your trip will take you from the Amazon rainforest into the peaks of the Andes—with plenty of opportunities to take in Peru’s over 1,700 species of bird (the second most of any country) along the way. During your trip, you’ll stay at three spectacular properties run by Inkaterra.
Little things, you may have heard, mean a lot. L.M. Montgomery wrote that it’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. That observation hits home this week, but I stand with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who pointed out that the little things are infinitely the most important, not just in solving mysteries but also in our daily lives.
By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. In the days leading up to the Expo we’ve been touring the small East African nation, primarily visiting the big national parks in the south and west of the country looking for birds and other amazing wildlife.
I’m on a fortnightly schedule here now, but I’m submitting a quick story in my off week in the light of recent events. Not that event, I don’t feel like posting five hundred lines of increasingly incoherent swearing, but the 7.5 earthquake that struck South Island just after midnight on Monday morning. That event also had me swearing a lot this week, especially when it struck.
Do you consider yourself a wildlife conservationist? Do you contribute to wildlife conservation organizations? Maybe a worldwide organization like the Wildlife Conservation Network , BirdLife International or the Peregrine Fund ? Or maybe something closer to home like the American Bird Conservancy or a wildlife rescue organization like the Marine Mammal Center or International Bird Rescue.
There are a lot of side benefits to birding. Those of us who have had our eyes magnetically drawn to all things avian have realized this from time to time, especially if we have spent years squishing through marshes in search of LeConte’s Sparrows , giving blood to bugs in places like Alaska, heavenly scented boreal bogs, and muddy mangroves, and trudging through thin air landscapes to see if we can spot a bird that looks kind of like a chicken.
The first thing most people think of when the Baja, Mexico comes up, is “Cabo” or Cabo San Lucas, as it is officially called. Squid Row, Cabo Crazies, and of course the Spring Break follies! I am old enough now, that the wild parties, and crazy Cabo bar scene hold very little appeal for me. For me, the southernmost end of the Baja, is all about the estuary in nearby San Jose Del Cabo.
In terms of early morning birding, I’m the worst. I have the best of intentions: planning my trip, getting my gear ready, setting my alarm. But when the time comes, the snooze button is ever ready and I immediately fall back asleep. As a result, I more often bird in the afternoon or evening, despite the fact that there are fewer birds I can actually see.
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It is finally here, that glorious time of year, when our northern birding friends all say good bye to the beautiful bird species that have spent the summer with them. Our doldrums are over, and all the migrants are coming back to the warm summer climes for the winter. Just in the last few days, I have seen large numbers of arrivals, shorebirds and waders like Marbled Godwits, Greater Yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitchers and the White-faced Ibis , as seen in the feature photo.
Every so often, I have to ask myself, how such an unusual bird, can become so common place, that now, I pay it little or no attention? How is it that a bird, just a few months ago, was a new “Lifer”, and such a thrill, now fails to excite? My new “home” here on the Mexican Baja, or Baja California Sur, as it is officially known, has provided so many new birds to my Life List.
I have always considered the American Avocet , Recurvirostra americana , one of the most elegant waders that we see here on the Baja. With its gray legs and black and white coloring, this large member of the stilt family is an occasional visitor to our area. In my past trips to the reserves and wetlands in the US, I have seen these birds gather in very large number after the breeding season, but rarely do we see mort than a few birds here on our tidal flats and brackish pond edges.
Hi all! In addition to birding as much as I can and my full-time job in Okaloosa County, I also work part-time for Voices for Biodiversity , an online magazine. If you’re like me, you’ve been a bit unsettled by the recent anti-environment rhetoric thrown around the American political arena, but Voices for Biodiversity (V4B) is adding more pro-conservation voices to the conversation by funding up and coming researchers and writers from around the world.
Snow has touched down in some places up north, up there on the breeding grounds of Mourning Warblers , Baltimore Orioles , and Sharp-shinned Hawks. Although some of the tougher Sharpies stayed behind to risk stalking Black-capped Chickadees and Blue Jays in a winter landscape, millions of orioles, grosbeaks, and wood-warblers with a strong instinct for survival flew the coup back in September.
I was ostensibly taking a day off from birding. But I don’t think birders ever truly relax their watchfulness. Lady Gannet complains about my driving in that I spend more time with my eyes on the skies than on the road ahead. Even when I take her for dinner, she knows to wrap up warm because I always prefer to sit outside, just in case something flies over.
As the long Thanksgiving weekend ends (at least around here) and an excess of conspicuous consumerism ensues, we’ll all do well in the coming weeks and months to consider how best to close out this calendar year. What are your values? More important, are you living them? For those of us who love nature, these questions matter a lot. My core values demand that I get outside often enough to experience the real world, rather than what I see while watching football.
“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote poet Robert Frost. While his poem was about the dubious nature of boundaries kept in check by surly New England yankees, the sentiment holds true in Hawaii, at least. Specifically, the state’s Big Island, where a new fence was just completed in the hopes of protecting an endangered bird. Though the Hawaiian Petrel lives throughout the Hawaiian islands, its numbers are low, and fewer than 100 pairs breed in the Big Island’s Hawaiian Volcanoes
After spending the first three days of the long Thanksgiving weekend in my hometown of Saugerties I decided I would spend Sunday morning in downtown Manhattan, specifically in City Hall Park searching for some recently reported rarities. Though I had seen four different Western Tanagers in New York and had seen one out west this year already I hadn’t seen one in New York this year.
Do you ever have those moments when you’re supposed to be paying attention to something serious, but you’re immeasurably distracted by the bird species around you? For me, that experience encompassed an entire trip to Picayune Strand. Located near Naples, FL, Picayune Strand is part of the wider Everglades. Unfortunately, it is also part of a failed housing development, and a grid of roads and canals still remain.
Over the past two weeks I have introduced you to the section of items that Great Bowerbird will collect in a remote area of Keep River National Park with no human influence and then at the Big Horse Creek camping ground. Following our trip east the next National Park was Katherine Gorge, which is located to the east of Katherine in the Northern Territory and is very popular with tourists.
Travelling east from Keep River National Park on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory the next National Park that you come to is the Judbarra/Gregory National Park. It is a vast park with much of it only accessible by four-wheel drive. It is also a very popular park for accessing the Victoria River to catch a Barramundi! There are plenty of opportunities for observing crocodiles, a huge variety of birds, rock art, hiking trails and spectacular scenery.
Since I got literally three scattered hours of sleep last night—which is not enough for me, much less the mini-me inside who’s more than halfway to the hatching stage—this will be a brief but, I hope, somewhat coherent post. In the aftermath of yesterday’s election, thoughts turn naturally to what the next four years may bring. Likely of particular interest to 10,000 Birds readers, no matter their nationality, is that U.S. support for environmental protections and measures against climate change
Here in the United States, we’ve emerged unscathed (well, most of us anyway) from one season of horror , only to find ourselves facing even greater terror, a portentous sense of dread that smothers even the faintest joy or optimism. Enjoy this last weekend before Election Day 2016… who knows where any of us will be birding next weekend! I’m enjoying a blissfully beautiful autumn here in the Finger Lakes region, though our dazzling foliage serves a backdrop to mainly resident bi
The proper definition of an oasis, is “A fertile spot in a desert where water is found” Living here in the desert we don’t take for granted that “Water is life”, so where you find a consistent source, you will find all kinds of fun things to enjoy. Plants, animals, as well as birds. I am reasonably certain that the average person, sees an oasis as that beautiful body of water, surrounded by palm trees, in the middle of miles and miles of barren desert sand.
This calendar year is slipping away, but we still have plenty of time before the ball drops on December 31 to add more birds to our respective lists. We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right? I suffered a deficit of happiness this weekend when my scheduled birding time became subsumed by a rare work emergency.
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