10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2017
Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far. He’s been working as a writer and editor for almost 20, and has contributed fiction and nonfiction to more than a dozen online and print journals. He cohosts the independent comics review podcast Comics for Grownups and has self-published a novel about water wars in the western U.S.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 3, 2017
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Nestle Purina PetCare Company. As a #PurinaPartner I am being compensated for sharing this information. Did you know that May is National Pet Month? That’s right!
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Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 18, 2017
Author: John Bennett, Sales & Business Development Leader with Peak 10 Sales success is about much more than converting prospects to customers. Many of the most important strategic skills that help sales professionals master their craft are ones that help them navigate more nuanced interpersonal situations, rather than convincing someone to buy a product or service.
Animal Ethics
MAY 5, 2017
This blog had 1,519 visits during April, which is an average of 50.6 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 57.5.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2017
Once again thanks to the good folks at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt we here at 10,000 Birds are giving away books! This time the tome that three lucky readers will receive is Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne. Carrie reviewed the book here and, like me, she has a soft spot for Pete Dunne’s prose. Here’s a quick excerpt from Carrie’s review so you have some idea what it is you can win.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2017
In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. It was my first trip to the Neotropics, and I had no idea what I was getting into. More than a difference in humidity and temperature, everything was different–from the hundreds of species of plants and trees, to the way the trees grew out and around and in and out rather than simply up, to the Morpho butterflies fluttering around those trees in dreamlike swoops that never landed, to the birds themselves, which d
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10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2017
When I was a kid I loved books like My Side of the Mountain , Island of the Blue Dolphins , and Julie of the Wolves. Looking back, they can seem quite dated – questionable environmental ethics and anthropology and all that – but the sense of adventure that they conveyed, and the sense that I too, if necessary, could someday rise to the occasion and share a bond with nature, were catnip to a middle-grades reader.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2017
I was especially pleased with this sighting of an American Woodcock for so many reasons. For a start, it was the first bird that had caught the attention of my new binoculars (Busnells 8×42 L series, in case you need to know). There were plenty of House Sparrows in Bryant Park, but they didn’t warrant first focus. For a second reason, I just don’t see enough woodcocks, so I was delighted to find it shading under a small evergreen.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2017
I start my day with a coffee, a strong Turkish coffee without sugar – it is the stuff that makes the chest hair grow, as one UK friend of mine has put it. The next thing is starting the computer to check the news. And the first news web site is… eBird. I go to the Hotspots page to click on the Past week only, to see which reachable Belgrade sites – especially my favourite patches – were recently visited and which birds were spotted there.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 29, 2017
Your dog might understandably be quite apprehensive about going to the vet and the whole experience is often very stressful for them.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2017
If you are a birder and can’t help but put most or all of your results into eBird , then you are no doubt birding somewhere today, May 13th. Global Big Day is finally here and thousands of birders around the world are marking the date by identifying birds at favorite local patches, backyards, national parks, and wherever else they happen to focus on the avian side of life.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2017
When I was a kid, and couldn’t travel, I thought patch birding sounded dreadfully boring. Now that I can travel, I have perversely discovered the charms of really working over one spot of habitat across the seasons and the years; as such I’m on a mission to find 100 species of bird in Socrates Sculpture Park, a bit of Queens between the East River and Vernon Boulevard where artists create open-air displays.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2017
Mid-to-late April keeps birders in the northeastern United States on edge as we want to see every species as it arrives and we don’t want to miss anything. We had some great birding in New York City parks this past weekend and I managed to get my Queens wood-warbler count up to nineteen for the year. And while the bright and colorful wood-warblers are always a crowd-pleaser, I spent some time paying attention to our colorless wood-warbler this weekend, Mniotilta varia , the Black-and-white
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 24, 2017
The simple answer is no, you should not treat pain in your dog with over the counter medicine. Please look at this helpful infographic from PetMD to learn why.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 24, 2017
Imagine your dog running amuck while you celebrate your anniversary or in the middle of an important phone call with your boss.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2017
This Memorial Day weekend may still be rolling for Americans, but even the standard two-day array can hold a lot of excitement this time of year. This is a precious time of year, so make every moment count. I was pleased to discover that Hooded Warblers can be found consistently at my mother-in-law’s home, but they weren’t my best bird. Instead, I lucked into the best sighting I’ve ever had of a male Mourning Warbler in the same spot.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2017
Birders of the world, this is your time. Migrants are still on the move, which places us at one of our annual peaks of avian observation excitement. Within a month, your odds of a serendipitous songbird encounter will decrease dramatically, at least until the next migration. So gather ye migrants while ye may! I’m working this weekend but will make every effort to get out to catch the back half of what is still an active stream of migrants pouring through Rochester en route to the great bo
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2017
Most birders are enamored both of raptors and Pete Dunne, which is why Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is a book any birder would love ( Carrie certainly did.) No wonder we had such an excellent response to our triple-tiered Birds of Prey giveaway. The first and easiest way to win a copy of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America was simply to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2017
“What’s that?” I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). We walked some of the trails at the reserve, and I had spotted a large bird hovering in mid-air, almost like a helicopter, just with more flapping. Peering through my binoculars, I saw a white bird with black spots on the undersides of the wings.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2017
Global Big Day 2017 is in the books, with 15,954 participants submitting 40,698 checklists to eBird accounting for 6,068 species … so far. What a weekend for birders all over the world. I hope you were able to be a part of the festivities. Despite poor conditions, I was able to add a few FOY migrants on Global Big Day, including a snazzy Cape May Warbler (like this one ) at Cobbs Hill Park.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2017
It is not every day that you get the chance to see a hummingbird’s nest. And it is even less frequent in New York City where we only have one species of hummingbird, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird , and they don’t nest very often. When they do nest it can be difficult to track down the nest’s exact location or you might figure out where the nest is but be unable to get a good look at it because it is too high or obscured by foliage.
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2017
Somehow, when I started writing this story, I just could not get Maria Muldaur’s 1974 hit out of my head… ”Midnight at the Oasis” Well, last Sunday morning it was not midnight, but in fact 6:30 in the morning when I was sitting in my hide, waiting for enough daylight to be able to get some photos. The sun did finally show up, and so did the birds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2017
I’ve lived in Queens for eight years now and have visited Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge over one hundred times while I’ve been here. Every spring American Redstarts get back to Jamaica Bay and set up territories and I’ve never failed to learn exactly where those territories are. But despite my hard-earned knowledge I’ve never managed to figure out exactly where they hide their nests.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2017
Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. Yes, some birders may frown at this statement. At least one birder will now likely grab his war hammer and check flight availabilities from New York to Frankfurt as well as average prison sentences in Germany for first degree murder. However, even in the age of alternative facts, there is no denying it: Here in Germany, Black Woodpeckers are no big deal.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2017
Last month we were driving south from Wiluna towards Lake Miranda when the sky became very threatening late in the afternoon. Our original plan had been to travel off-road for some distance to camp, but we were able to pick up a mobile phone signal and checked the weather warnings. Our plans had to change! The rain radar did not look good and there was also a severe weather warning that included everything from hail to strong winds to the south.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2017
If you do eBird , there’s a pretty good chance you were birding somewhere on May 13th. You may have birding from the window of your home, you may have been counting birds at a local wildlife refuge, you may have been counting birds on a feverish run from one end of a state to the next. No matter how you were digging the birds on that day, you probably also put the results into eBird, and in doing so, took part in the biggest day of birding ever.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2017
Did you know that migration doesn’t actually last forever? Believe it or not, those exotic, multicolored charmers populating your favorite patch aren’t just lingering for your amusement. Migratory birds have destinations and destinies in mind, ones so powerful that they traverse thousands of miles to meet them. This bodes well. of course, for the futures of your favorite migrants, but not so much for their enduring presence in your current spring.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2017
Now that the cast is off my arm, and I am moving around pretty normally, we have continued our exploration of the Sierra De La Laguna Biosphere. This last weekends entry point to the reserve was on the east side of the mountain range, near the small town of Santiago [link]. On this side of the Sierra De La Laguna mountains, there are several large canyons, three of which have year round running streams that fall down out of them.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 23, 2017
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10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2017
More migrants means more birding fun. Tons of avian observers hit the highways and byways of this big world to see what they could see. How did y’all make out? Rochester hosted a nice push of Bay-breasted Warblers , which I was quite pleased to intercept at Cobbs Hill. Corey’s Beat Bird of the Weekend was a singing male Mourning Warbler at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that was chosen despite it giving a brief awful look.
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