10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“Why do you always keep a list?” my brother asked on a hot and muggy afternoon in North Florida. Gwynn sat behind me in the canoe as we paddled lazily around a shallow lake. Visiting from California, he had visited local gardens and trails with me, spent time by the pool, and took a few mini-canoe trips. Each time, a small notebook tagged along with me, and I would note the bird species I spotted, then put it away. “Well…” was my first answer, as I struggled to arti

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Many reps love sales but hate sales prospecting, mostly because they're going about it with antiquated techniques. Time for an update. The post 5 Ways to Save Time While Sales Prospecting appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Indeed, you only live twice: your second life starts when you bird Costa Rica for the first time. And, yee-haw, this would be my second attempt at a second life: three weeks ago I was invited to bird Costa Rica! And that is how this mess I am in, started. Do you ever manage to get ready for a birding trip in a calm and orderly fashion? And find enough time to study the field guide to your destination?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

When looking for birds in Costa Rica, the Central Valley isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Fly in to Juan Santamaria airport and this is where you arrive; a heavily populated and urbanized intermontane valley. Tongues and patches of green space host birds but most birders leave as soon as they can. I can’t blame them, I would too.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

September has arrived, bringing the first waves of a new season of migration. Millions of birds around the world are making moves. Will you move with them? I spent the last week in Alaska chasing all kinds of excitement but finding fewer birds than I’d hoped. The weekend found me in the Fairbanks area, where the dominant bird right now has to be Sandhill Cranes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

An unfortunate side effect of birding in the developing world, is the amount of habitat destruction you are likely to see. Michoacán has such wonderful forests — I just wish I didn’t have to witness so many being cut down. A few months ago, images made their way around social media here promoting the idea that each person plant one tree.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus is an unmistakeable medium-sized raptor that we observe very regularly around Broome. We currently have a pair of Brahminy Kite nesting at the top of a dense tree in our local neighbourhood, but the tree is too tall and dense to take photographs. I was lucky enough to observe the birds carrying nesting material over a period of time into the tree in somebody’s garden, because you would have no idea the nest was there otherwise.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. And not just deep in the bush, either, but at the beach, in urban parks – even in the country’s suburban homes. Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dea

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Some people read cookbooks though they have no intention of whipping up a mushroom risotto, some people read bird guide books, even when the likelihood of actually seeing the creatures in those guides is remote. It’s intriguing, it’s fun, it’s even educational. For the past two weeks I’ve been enjoying a superb new addition to the bird guide genre: Seabirds: The New Identification Guide by Peter Harrison, Martin Perrow, and Hans Larsson.

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