10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2012
The Great Blue Heron nest camera at Cornell’s Sapsucker Woods had essentially been the typical nest camera. Bird lays eggs, sits on eggs, etc. That changed in the early morning hours when a Great Horned Owl decided that, well, watch for yourself! Wow! a.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 2, 2012
You’ve seen the trend on people, but now your pet can join the fun! Fine Featherhead’s Pet Plumes are feather extensions for your pet. They come in a variety of colors to fit your pet’s unique personality, with lengths that range from 2-5 inches. Our Maltese Baby looked adorable wearing her Pet Plume, but she wouldn’t hold still long enough for us to capture a good photo.
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Critter News
APRIL 20, 2012
D'oh! From the Wildlife Extra News. April 2012. King Juan Carlos of Spain, Honorary President of WWF Spain, is recovering in hospital after breaking his hip in Botswana where he was on an elephant hunt. Apparently it isn't the first time the King has been shooting big game in Africa, or elsewhere (Apparently he killed a bear in Russia a few years ago too).
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 9, 2012
How does a done deal come undone? Your rep had a good relationship with a great contact, the right solution to meet the customer’s needs, and strong buying signals right up to the last. Then came the dreaded call: “Thank you for the proposal, but we’ve decided to go with someone else.” So, what happened? Could this loss have been prevented?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2012
Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down along limbs. The family has representatives throughout the forests North America, Eurasia (including North Africa), and Indomalaya. Nuthatches are related to the Wallcreeper, treecreepers (Certhiidae), gnatcatchers, and wrens.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
This unhappy-looking tar baby is covered with a green, environmentally-friendly product called Tanglefoot. It is a non-drying, sticky compound that is used to protect trees by forming a barrier against climbing insects. Normally it might not be a problem, but last October a farmer in upstate New York spread it on an apple tree so thickly that the product slid down the branches and pooled in the tree’s crotch.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2012
Here is another in a series of posts that celebrates the beauty hidden in plain sight, the astounding in the ordinary. Our subject today is the humble Mallard. While we all love birds for their spectacular and stupefying relationship to the air, waterfowl have another element to navigate and they are equally attuned to its demands. Above, a Mallard preens in New Zealand and sends pulsing waves into the morning light.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2012
How to Be a Better Birder is a very different kind of birding book, and, once you think about it, the perfect book to be written at this particular moment in the birding universe. Reading it might take a little bit of adjustment, because for many of us, being a better birder has meant perfecting our identification skills. We buy field guide after field guide, have long discussions on which is the best, listen to bird song CDs in our cars, and invest in large, expensive handbooks.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2012
Purple Swamphens are large gallinules and despite their name they are not actually “purple”, but it’s amazing what you can get away with when naming birds! They are a magnificent blue with a red frontal shield and stout bill. We have discovered that they are more likely to show their “love” for each other in areas where they have some onlookers and can even be quite devious.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2012
This post comes by way of an assignment. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post , The Management wrote to me suggesting that they would like one of those. Now perhaps the word “suggesting” makes it sound like I have a choice and that would be true in the same way that I have a choice to retain full use of my legs or the accepted complement of fingers.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2012
I am so sick of the feral cat colonies that infest so many locations that I like to bird. And while I am sick of the cat colonies I am even more sick of the deluded people who believe that by feeding feral cats they are somehow helping them. Outdoor cats live short, ugly, violent lives. They get hit by cars, suffer from parasites, predated upon by coyotes, and die from disease.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
There are plenty of famous courtship performances in the bird world; those of the lyrebirds, the birds-of-paradise, the manakins. It would be hard to describe these performances as being about love, however. They are often too quick, too frenetic , and lead to a union so brief if you blink you’lll miss it. You won’t find love here anymore than you would in a hot and noisy nightclub.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2012
It’s a beautiful day, you’re out birding, and you come across a bird who, instead of perching 20 feet over your head or winging its way past your face, is standing on the ground with its wing askew, wearing a dismayed expression. What do you do? You pick it up (carefully, if it’s a goshawk) and bring it to me. Or to one of my cohorts, of whom there aren’t nearly enough, and who are hidden across the country in a “Where’s Waldo?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2012
I know it’s dangerous to title a post “Birds From Behind” during “Bird Love Week” but I have to admit… it’s kind of the point. I’m getting swept up and unduly influenced by duck anatomy and countless pictures of avian copulation. But in all seriousness, this post is actually about those moments that seem to get away… but don’t.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
Living in Northern California offers nature lovers many opportunities to view wildlife in there native habitat. Living near the Sacramento River and its many lakes and tributaries makes it even more likely to see the incredible fish hawk or sea eagle we call the Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). Click on photos for full sized images. Osprey can be found on all continents of the world except Antarctica, on or near any body of water allowing them access to an adequate supply of their nearly exclusive
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2012
As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects. Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feral cat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources. Trap-neuter-release programs sound nice and let folks think that they are doing good but they actually often add to the problem , and never reach the goal of zero feral cats in an area.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2012
Though this question is probably only relevant to birders in the midwest and northeast of the United States I feel compelled, like last year , to ask it. Have you seen your first Eastern Phoebe of 2012? When? Was it earlier or later than usual for you? my first decently photographed Eastern Phoebe of 2012 at Bayonne Park on 4 April 2012 This year I had several first phoebes.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2012
Whilst leading a birding tour to Sri Lanka, I spotted a flash of bright white in a lily-choked wetland near Ambalantota in the south-east of this verdant island. A bright flash of white caught my attention in this lilly-choked wetland Closer investigation revealed a stunning male Pheasant-tailed Jacana perched atop a female. Our excitement at finding these avian gems soon turned to amazement as the entire tour group became enraptured by the fascinating behavior that we were fortunate enough to
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
Since 2006 a pair of Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) nesting at Turtle Bay in Redding California have successfully raised a dozen eaglets! The past three years the eagle pair dubbed Patriot (the male) and Liberty (the female) have been watched by thousands on an EagleCam installed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). This year when the pair returned to Turtle Bay, they decided to build a new nest in an adjacent tree.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
As migration proceeds in fits and starts I find myself torn between wanting to find as many birds as I can on each birding outing and wanting to take my time with each species that I haven’t seen since they left for fairer climes back in the fall. It is a conundrum and one that I don’t mind not being able to figure out, just so long as there are any birds at all around to see.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2012
Today a friend asked me if ducks mate for life. Aside from creating an opportunity to deliver the whole “ducks are creepers” lecture, which is always entertaining in its effects on the listener, the question got me thinking about why people are so obsessed with animals mating for life. It’s one thing to decide that among humans, the most successful relationships are those that end in a mortality event, although even then it’s a little morbid.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
I have put this post off for a couple of months now because I wanted to avoid dealing with the huge pile of American Bittern images I had after my experience at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival back in January. You see, the Black Point Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is kind of ridiculous when it comes to good looks at American Bitterns.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2012
Nothing frustrates me more than a report of a good bird that reaches me while I am at work or on my way there. And the frustration is magnified all the more when the bird, like the one Thursday morning, is reported from Queens and is also one that I have not yet seen in my home borough. I may have mentioned before that I really like adding birds to my Queens list.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
One of the admirable things about Montana is how it contains prime examples of not one, but two iconic North American landscapes. I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
We here at 10,000 Birds have long wanted to include the best in bird bloggers and feel that we have largely accomplished that goal. Our Beat Writers are awesome! But we would like to add a new Beat Writer on a specific beat – that of Bird Topography. We are looking for a Beat Writer to write a weekly or biweekly post on the parts of birds, one part at a time.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2012
Early April is a special time for most, especially those of us in the Northern Hemisphere that love each emerging sign of spring. The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way! My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker sp
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2012
On Wednesday this week we had a very close encounter with a Wedge-tailed Eagle on the edge of the road. The Blue-tongued Lizard that was also having the same experience was definitely not as excited and was trying its hardest to protect itself. It all looked rather hopeless as it tried to make itself look fatter and wider & arched its back & forced a sound out.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. When he isn’t snapping photos in the field, training local bird guides, or supporting seabird-related conservation initiatives, he runs Avian Leisure , a birding and wildlife safari company out of Cape Town established in 1998, with his wife, Marie-Louise.
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