10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2011
As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. The proposal now goes to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for final approval or denial. The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 5, 2011
A Chance for Bliss takes in and provides lifetime care for senior and special needs animals, as well as those others who are facing end of life circumstances. The purpose is therefore to provide a Forever Home for those companion and farm animals that have virtually no chance of being adopted due to their age or condition. This means that once an animal arrives at the sanctuary they become a permanent resident, and will remain until such time that they pass away, be that a matter of days, weeks,
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Critter News
JULY 27, 2011
Interestingly, we just went on a tour of the Canadian Rockies where the wildlife corridors and fences were lauded by the tour guide as a way for wildlife to avoid the roads. Apparently, there's room for improvement. From the Calgary Herald. The second bear to meet its end this year on the Trans-Canada Highway has prompted an animal rights group to call for immediate repairs to a fence line intended to protect wildlife in Banff National Park.
Animal Ethics
JULY 28, 2011
Keith, I am writing today to ask for your help in raising awareness about the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events taking place in more than 35 cities across North America this fall to promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2011
We are very fortunate here in Broome to have such great beaches for cycling. Some people just use the wide open space for exercise, but it is great to load up your bike and cycle in search of birdlife. Only the resident shorebirds remain during these winter months, but there are also Brown Boobys diving for fish close to shore at the moment and we rarely see them during the rest of the year.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2011
Back when we used to run the 10,000 Birds ID Clinic (as opposed to just answering lots of e-mails about bird identification!), we received an inquiry about a bird “about the size of a small duck, much bigger than a jay… a crest similar to a jay or a roadrunner and it has a remarkably long neck.&# The querent included many other details about location, coloration, and what not but once I heard about that neck, one bird sprung immediately to mind… Green Heron !
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10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2011
While the Rovio Angry Birds game franchise is hugely popular and has even led to a post here on 10,000 Birds that speculated on the identification of what the Angry Birds birds actually are , little attention has been paid to those that came before. You see, Rovio merely capitalized on the underground Angry Birds scene about which well-informed hipsters, insiders, and cool kids – you know, birders – were already aware.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
What started as me posting a link on my private Facebook page about how much I hate the Transportation Security Administration, quickly turned into a very revealing conversation about race and could be a very large and underlying issue of why we don’t see more people of color in birding or enjoying nature in general. The original link was about TSA officer Nelson Santiago who was caught stealing an iPad out of someone’s luggage and stuffing it in his pants.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
What’s the deal with manakins? Are they for real? These are just a few of the questions that come to mind when watching these bizarre little birds. On a recent filming trip with Tropical Birding in Ecuador I had the awesome experience of getting up close and personal with two bizarre manakin species. Most manakins are a mixture of Fred Astaire, Tweety Bird and Mozart in that they have the admirable talents of dance, adorable plush-toy cuteness and music that combine to produce some of the
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2011
Western Grebes ( Aechmophorus occidentalis ) and Clark’s Grebes ( Aechmophorus clarkii ) are probably best known for their elaborate courtship displays. These ceremonies are some of the most complex displays in the world of birds. We are fortunate in Northern California to have four lakes that support 76% of the total number of nesting grebes in California 1.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 8, 2011
There are a lot of aspects which surround taking a trip to the vet that can make animals feel uneasy. Cats in particular are renowned for kicking up a fuss when it comes to making a visit to the clinic and some owner’s concerns for their kitties are rewarded with screeches and scratches. When you consider the circumstances behind this behavior however, your kitty kicking up a fuss becomes somewhat understandable.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2011
I know, I know, the cuteness lately is getting out of hand. First it was a bunch of baby waterfowl , then it was the baby Gadwall , then a variety of baby birds on the beach. What can I say? I am addicted to adorableness! Besides, it takes a hard- hearted, callous, and cruel person to have a negative reaction to fuzzy baby birds. Seriously, what kind of monster doesn’t want to look at adorableness all day long?
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2011
It is one thing to read the scribblings of a birding celebrity, a field guide author, the birderati. It is another thing entirely that is happening here, now, on 10,000 Birds. You see, we have scored the most incredible coup ever in the history of the bird blogging world. Ladies, keep your underwear and optics on tight. Gentlemen, ditto. We at 10,000 Birds are honored, flabbergasted and delighted to introduce Felonious Jive.
10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2011
Or, to be more specific, how many American Goldfinch can you find in this picture? It was taken up the street from my folks’ home over the long Independence Day weekend. Seeing as I was just trying to get a lousy shot of a single bird I was surprised by what I found when I got this image downloaded onto my computer. If you click the picture you will get a larger image.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2011
( This joke has apparently been making the rounds for years, but just came my way. I hope it goes without saying that we don’t wish to offend anyone. But I wonder how many readers would have answered this question correctly… ) Mick, from Dublin, appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and towards the end of the program had already won 500,000 pounds. “You’ve done very well so far,&# said Chris Tarrant, the show’s presenter, “but for a million pounds youR
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2011
Is there anything cuter than precocious fuzzy baby birds? I don’t think so. A recent visit to a nesting colony on Long Island’s south shore led to levels of adorable so high that diabetics are hereby warned to stay away from this post for fear that your blood-sugar levels might skyrocket through osmosis. These baby birds are sweet! And cute!
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
There are tons of interesting birdy in this world and so, every now and again, I would like to share something of some of the exceptional people I meet along the way. So, meet Hannes: I first met Johannes early last year and his sponge-like desire for knowledge and a deeper understanding of digiscoping was wonderfully infectious: he peppered me with questions I had rarely or never come across, and critically questioned assumptions that I or others had made in their digiscoping.
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2011
Butterflies are often beautiful. Flowers are often beautiful. When both are together, as often happens, the level of beauty increases exponentially through some form of natural world legerdemain. It is impossible to figure out exactly how it happens because it seems like natural beauty would have additive or at most multiplicative powers when combined with more natural beauty, but it is also unnecessary to figure it out.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 28, 2011
Nat Geo WILD’s The Lady with 700 Cats, airs Saturday, July 30. Narrated by actor Jane Lynch of Glee fame, the program chronicles the story of Lynea Lattanzio, who is the founder and owner of California’s largest cat sanctuary. Can you imagine, 700 cats?! Tune into Nat Geo Wild on Saturday, July 30 at 10pm ET/PT to see the full story. As always we are happy to share some sneak peeks with you!
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2011
On our lowland birdwatching trip we visited Rio Canande Reserve , Botrosa Road and then we also visited the nearby reserve of Mache Chindul; specifically we went to Bilsa Research Station of Jatunsacha Fundation. Jatunsacha purchased the land it currently protects in 1994 and the government declared it an Ecological Reserve in 1996 due to it large biodiversity and high degree of endemism.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. Two weeks of strong westerly winds have pushed thousands of Southern Ocean prions onto the land along the entire western coast of New Zealand in the biggest seabird wreck since 1974.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2011
I recently had a bit of a revelation. It concerns how I watch birds. And it’s kind of neat, now that I’ve thought about it. While plowing through my computer-hard-drive-clogging downloads of recent bird photographs from my various cameras and trying to delete the crummy and enhance (or even just keep track of) the keepers, I noticed that I had a long series of images of a displaying male Ruddy Duck.
10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2011
The United Kingdom fosters what may be the most vibrant and fully-developed birding community on the planet, and there is at least one or two Germans out there who love nature deeply and truly. So why is illegal killing of birds such a widespread practice throughout Europe? “Birds are shot, trapped, caught with nets, glued to lime-sticks or even soaked with lethal poisons to lure and kill other birds… The creativity of those who break the law to kill a bird is appalling!
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2011
Gulls can be gorgeous. Gulls can also be not very gorgeous at all. In summer, when feathers are worn and younger birds are molting into their next plumage, gulls can be downright ugly. They can also, because of their odd appearance, be difficult to identify. On a recent family trip to Jones Beach, on New York’s Long Island, I had the opportunity to observe a small flock of gulls bathing, resting, and preening in some shallow brackish water that had collected behind the beach.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2011
Black Skimmers are another of those birds, like White-breasted Nuthatches , that people can’t help but like. They have awesome bills that slice through the water in search of fish, they bark like small dogs, they have a cool color scheme. It is impossible not to be amazed by skimmers as they effortlessly glide over the water, their bills cutting a furrow that will not be planted but harvested.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2011
So, I have now been living in the Alps for about 4 years. And I cannot claim that it was easy at first. I grew up in South Africa where my garden list was over 200. I then lived in Central America where there were more bird species than my bird books (and my competence) could hope to identify. The Tirolean Alps are – well – rather barren by comparison.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. See why we keep the location undisclosed? The Chicken Inferno is always one of the highlights of my year, but bird watching rarely takes center stage at the event.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2011
The big story of the fortnight in Cyprus isn’t about birds, but it crosses the path of birding (kinda). I’ll get to that below. But the biggest story that is about birds is the conference that took place last week. From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. It seems that it came off rather well, and was co-organized by the Cyprus Game Fund and members of the Bern Convention.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. I’m sure there were a lot of insects in range of my eyeballs, hiding behind leaves or camouflaged against bark as insects are wont to do. A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. But it happened at that moment that a lot of what I was looking at was avian in nature: a few crows, some sparrows, blackbirds, and other run of the mill inner-ring suburb fliers and flitterers.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2011
Out on the Big Meadow in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, the ranger (that is Virginia the state, not Virginia the ranger) drew our attention to an unmistakeable bird call. I had never heard it before, but as soon as it registered, there could be no doubt about which bird was responsible. “ Bob, Bob White ,&# came the emphatic call across the grassland as the sun dipped towards the horizon, but the bird did not come out into the open.
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