10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2012
Birds have captivated us for time eternal, not only because of their ability to fly, but also because of the color they add to our lives. Ok, let me be clear that I’m not suggesting that ALL birds are colorful. Birds like Plain Chachalacas and Grey Catbirds hardly evoke images of stunning beauty. But a vast number of species DO exhibit dazzling displays of color.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 20, 2012
Yes, apples are a wonderful treat for your dog! Just be aware that apple cores and seeds should not be eaten by dogs. Apple seeds contain a compound similar to cyanide (it’s called amygdlin) which can prevent oxygen from being carried through the blood. Cores can be hard to digest as well, and could cause a blockage. Be aware that too many apples can cause loose stools.
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Critter News
AUGUST 31, 2012
From the Telegraph. State-financed broadcaster RTVE said it would screen a bullfight from the city of Valladolid on September 5, overturning a ban imposed under the previous socialist government. In 2006, guidelines prohibited the showing of live bullfights because the "violent images" were unsuitable to be broadcast between 6 and 8 pm, during hours when children were most likely to be watching.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 11, 2012
Issue Date: 2012-08-12. Author: Kathy Maixner. Teaser: Turning down business is not easy, in strong economies as well as struggling ones, but it may be preferable to lose the sale than to start a new customer relationship by cutting into your own profit. Turning down business is not easy, in strong economies as well as struggling ones, but it may be preferable to lose the sale than to start a new customer relationship by cutting into your own profit.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 24, 2012
With regard to wild animals, the general policy recommended by the rights view is: let them be! Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g., halting the destruction of natural habitat and closer surveillance of poaching, with much stiffer fines and longer prison sentences), the rights view sanctions this intervention, assuming that those humans involved are treated with the respect they are due.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. These charismatic, colorful and finely formed birds are favorites amongst birders from experts to novices, and lie within the group of birds whose beauty even non-birders really appreciate.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2012
Some of us around here ( some more than others) wear our love for Green Herons on our proverbial sleeves. But how could you not love these birds with their distinctive chestnut and pine plumage, their ribald nickname , their groovy necks ? But you shouldn’t just admire Butorides virescens for its beauty: this bird is smart! Researchers have documented Green Herons employing a variety of baits to lure prey within reach of that serpentine neck.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2012
Rehabbers are all – well, almost all – connected by the internet. We join listservs so we can talk to compatriots, even if they live across the country, about things like the latest treatment for aspergillosis, what’s going on with West Nile, and who’s had what kind of experience with eye infections. Every once in awhile, though, night will fall and you’ll read some kind of rant, and you know there’s a rehabber out there in cyberspace sitting in front of his/her computer with a great big glass o
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2012
In southern Berlin there is a massive old decommissioned airport that has been turned into a park. Templehofer Feld, now generally called Templehof Park or just plain Templehof, has pretty decent habitat for open country birds, considering that it is huge, flat, and gradually returning to nature. Sure, the old runways and service roads are still there but the areas between them are not mowed very often, some of the paved areas have been allowed to go completely wild, and nature, as always, finds
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2012
1. Report the rare birds you see, including known “continuing” rarities. This is a no-brainer. 2. Sometimes, report the rare birds you DON’T see. This could be very helpful to those debating a chase trip. 3.Quit being so anal retentive. Birders have the capacity to be bafflingly anal (its all part of the nerd persona I guess), but this is evident online more than anyplace else.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2012
If your diet usually consists of dry seeds, imagine how luscious and shlurpy a long strand of algae must feel. These little Lonchura finches were sucking it up like spaghetti after plucking it from a small puddle in a Hong Kong wood recently. I had never noticed them do this before and until now, had assumed that they were exclusively granivorous. To find out if this was normal behaviour, I made a search on the internet.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
“Peek!” Plunk. “Peek!” Plop. “Peek!” Plip. These were the sounds I heard as I walked around a small pond in Amherst, Massachusetts last week, looking for dragonflies, listening for birds. The “peeks” were loud and high-pitched. I knew the plunks, plops and plips were the sounds of frogs, green and black, jumping into the water, so camouflaged, it looked as if the grass and mud were in action.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2012
Tonight’s full moon is something special. It is a blue moon! No, don’t go rushing to outer space in the hope of getting bleu cheese – not only is the moon not made of cheese but it isn’t actually going to turn blue either. The term “blue moon” refers to the second full moon of a month, something that happens only every two or three years (to be exact, seven out of every nineteen years).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
When I read somewhere that Pygmy Geese were not actually geese at all I started doing some research. I discovered that there are actually a fair number of ducks and other waterfowl that are wrongly called geese. True geese belong to the tribe or sub-family Anserini within the larger family Anatidae that encompasses ducks, geese and swans. Members of the Anserini tribe include the genera Anser (Grey Geese), Chen (White Geese) and Branta (Black Geese).
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2012
John Mark Simmons, the co-founder of Two Birders and Binoculars , has enjoyed birding all his life and has won various birding competitions. John Mark also has an interest in the intersection of ornithology and aberration, as we learn in his first guest post on 10,000 Birds… Beak deformities have baffled scientists for a number of years. They come in many forms: nuthatches with extremely long bills, thrashers with oddly curved bills, and chickadees with many different shapes and sizes of
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
When you live in Queens and you only have one morning of an August weekend to go birding there is only one place to go – the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Even a bad day on the East Pond in August is better than a good day at other locations that can be reached from Queens or a morning’s birding. What makes it so good? Shorebirds!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2012
This elusive, night-feeding, endemic bird of the Galapagos Islands is not easy to see. I have only seen it a couple of times; once flying above the city lights of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, and once flying early morning past La Loberia Beach going away from Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. This all changed on my last trip when, upon request of my clients, I organized a half day boat trip to Punta Pitt.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2012
Rufous Hummingbirds ( Selasphorus rufus ) breed farther North than any other North American hummingbird and have the longest migration route of all U.S. hummers. Their spring migration brings the majority of them through Northern California in April when these photos of the male Rufous Hummingbird were taken. Click on photos for full sized images. They appear again in my yard in August, on their way back to Mexico where most of them spend their winters.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
A new study conducted in Athens, Georgia, by National Geographic and the University of Georgia put cameras on house cats allowed outdoors. Thirty percent of the cats killed wild animals, an average of two kills per week. Even though only 12% of the kills were birds, if you extrapolate the data it leads to huge estimates of the numeber of birds killed by free-roaming cats each year.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 17, 2012
We were laughing out loud when we watched this interview of Rory the guinea pig! “Have you seen what turtles can do?” he asks, but more importantly he will let you know the real reason why being an only pet isn’t much fun! You can see more pet interviews on the PAL YouTube channel. PAL recently started a great pledge campaign on their Facebook page.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2012
We humans often understand things by exploring their relationships. Ourselves, for instance; just consider how many sweet or gritty stories you’ve seen about Olympic athletes’ family backgrounds over the last few weeks. Well, the American Birding Association’s Bird of the Year — the Evening Grosbeak – deserves no less. We’re going to look at its family tree today, at where it fits in the grand avian assemblage, at what makes it at once unique yet not so alone
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2012
This is Arizona This is Arizona This is Arizona! I just returned from a phenomenal long weekend in Tucson, AZ where I participated in a really enjoyable event. Our friends at Swarovski Optik organized a Birding Social Media Summit to discuss the many ways in which birding and socal media intersect. As you can imagine, I spent time with some extremely interesting individuals.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2012
Swainson’s Hawks are special. As special as any bird that is abundant… just not abundant in your neck of the woods. OK sure, it is only an hour drive before I reach Swainson’s paradise in the Central Valley of California… but where I live, any large brown Buteo has a higher probability of Red-tailed Hawkishness. It takes a special trip to see these special birds, and as such, the pointy-winged migrants are particularly cool to me.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2012
Once upon a time the average bird on Earth was a rail. Before humans spread across the oceans of the world, wiping out huge numbers of endemic insular species , pretty much every decent sized island far from the continents had its own species of rail. There is something about the group that predisposes them to end up on far flung islands and having done so lose their ability to fly and thrive.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 3, 2012
Baby was very excited to try the new Rachael Ray Nutrish Naturally Delish wet dog foods! If your dog would like to try, be sure to keep reading, as we have a Naturally Delish giveaway for you at the end of this post! One lucky dog will get to try the four flavors (one of each) just like Baby did! First things first, this food looks and smells amazing.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 20, 2012
There is nothing more special than having a portrait done of a loved one, furry loved ones included! Pet Portraits by Bethany specializes in capturing your furry friends on canvas, and though we haven’t seen them in person, we are impressed by the images Bethany sent us! The custom portraits are painted in acrylic on a gallery style wrapped canvas.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2012
Photo of Common Cuckoo by Flickr user jamalhaider There is some interesting new research you will want to know about concerning Reed Warblers and Cuckoos. In the common European Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus , females come in two morphs: Gray or rufus. It is thought that the gray morph mimics a bird eating hawk. In this way, the cuckolding Cuckoo can convince its cuckoldee, the Reed Warbler, to back off when the Cuckoo comes around, allowing the Cuckoo to toss out one of the Warbler’s eggs and replace
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2012
Brown Creeper ( Certhia americana ) photos by Larry Jordan A few weeks ago I headed up to Lassen Volcanic National Park to photograph a family of Water Ouzels that one of our Audubon members sighted near the visitor center there at Manzanita Lake. Since it’s only about an hour drive for me, I like to go up and scout the area for rare and nesting birds before our annual Audubon Camp Out and the timing was perfect.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
As I’ve switched over to paid corporate birding (doing bird surveys for companies that want to put up wind farms or transmission lines), I’ve been fascinated by the world that has been opened to me and differences from the bird feeding world. Whenever I get my hands on a trade publication for any industry, my favorite thing to do is see what is being advertised in the magazine.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 22, 2012
As any pet owner will tell you, sometimes it is expensive to own a pet. Worth every penny of course, but it’s good to be aware of the costs. This is a cute infographic that will give you an idea of what owning a pet can cost. from Total Bankruptcy.
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