10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2014

The featured image above shows a female incubating eggs from my first resident breeding pair back in 2007. Violet-green Swallows will nest solitarily or in colonies and in my experience seem much more mellow than other swallow species. The four to six eggs are white and unmarked.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

the book follows through mating and egg-laying, incubation and hatching, and the rearing of three young to successful fledging. As an experiment, I also ran this book by a non-birding friend. Starting in winter as the adults return to and repair their nest on the outskirts of Washington D.C. with a view of the Capitol, no less!)

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Bald Eagle Eagles Endangered Species Washington 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

One could have been just another cat-triggered tragedy ( keep your cats indoors ) turned into an unforgettable experience… My wife and I (retired) had a truly wonderful experience at the end of 2011 when our cat brought in a newly hatched Dikkop. A very special experience!! We raised this little fella to a young adult.

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Senegal Cats South Africa 2011 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Whether they are altricial or precocial; eggs, nestlings, or fledglings; born in a scrape, a nest, or a cavity; a seabird or a land bird; we here at 10,000 Birds will make sure that they are covered on 10,000 Birds during the marvelous experience that will be Baby Bird Week. Can you stand the anticipation?

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Birds Eggs Humane Experience 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Corey never figured out exactly what the bird was trying to eat (Some kind of egg sac? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. but the mystery made the vireo his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2012

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 it with one of its own, to be raised by the hapless Warbler parents. However, Reed Warblers are social learners.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

They are often raised by single mothers after their deadbeat dads disappear: Once the pair have mated, the female lays a clutch of three to six eggs and the male bird may abandon the female to take-up a new territory, in attempt to mate with additional females. You know what is interesting about Barred Warblers?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? However the night before last all hope was lost, the egg now gone, the birds still on the lake. A different Glaucous Gull.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Eggs 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

This is the time of year when the Pied Oystercatchers breed and already three of the sixteen pairs along this stretch of beach have successfully laid eggs. The first pair to lay eggs this season have only a few more days of sitting and then they will be very busy guarding their chicks from predators.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2013

The Pied Oystercatchers are predictable each year and have just laid their first eggs and the Red-capped Plovers already have young. In this situation we always stop immediately because the chicks or eggs may be a lot closer than you think. The bird is leading you away from its eggs or young and you should follow.

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Eggs Australia Protection Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare.

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Fish Ostriches Woodpeckers Breeders 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

They know how to find food for themselves only a few moments after emerging from their egg, and then likely produce a special protein which allows them to harness quantum entanglement for global navigation. Add to that their incredulous migration facilitated by physiological capabilities we can barely imagine. There is still so much to learn!

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Buffalo Kenya Trinidad 2019 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Of all of the sections of the book I definitely learned the most from Evolution.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Medical Research 237

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. .” But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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2018 Agenda Science Massachusetts 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

And if you take this phrase, “stamps in weathered passports,” my interpretation is that the experiences from travel are the “stamps” as sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, on your “passport,” or soul. Hannah overlooking a valley Traveling into Lesotho from the Sani Pass is an experience more than just the journey to the top.

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Lesotho Sheep Groundhogs South Africa 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

Around 100,000 of these terns breed on almost every available space on the island, and walking through groups of them is a deafening and quite painful experience. This one found a ledge on one of the buildings a suitable place to lay an egg, a location which is positively decadent for the species. Look at all that room!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 211

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

We nailed down a few lifers for Ivy, the best of which was Yellow-crowned Night-heron at Big Egg Marsh, which we don’t ever see upstate. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Birds 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. A lot of his travel experiences involved camping and independent travel on small sailing yachts, and if this is your preferred mode of travel this book will be particularly useful. Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. He has lots of experience with its close relative in Morelia, the endemic Spotted Wren. In spite of being a winter migrant, which only reproduces in the U.S. Was it practicing?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2017

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the five Atlantic Puffins he saw on Eastern Egg Rock off the coast of Maine. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He’ll be sure to share pictures once he’s back home and has access to his computer again. How about you?

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Puffins 2017 Laws Eggs 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. Of the ten students, two had gone on the trip the year before and one had experience with the Sooty Terns, meaning 30% of us knew what we were doing, and 70% had zero idea.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

And then there was a Green Heron , not only showing us its nest, but also an egg. Still, this sort of wildlife experience is available in pretty much any Mexican city. This species is relatively common in tropical Mexico, but I certainly never expected to see it nesting in an urban park. And yet, there it was. But what could I do?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

Spending days searching for an elusive bird you finally get to see, a bird that few others have seen, a bird about which very little is even known, and then seeing it is a tremendous and unforgettable experience. Clutch size, incubation period, time to fledge, and eggs are all undescribed.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2018

The Tern colonies in Queens didn’t produce anything but the expected species but Gull-billed Terns , Corey’s first of the year, were a pleasure to see loafing on a mudflat at Big Egg Marsh. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Honduras 2018 Eggs Birds 139

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2016

While so many spent the weekend obsessing over eggs, others cast their eyes to the feathered fruit of eggs… not necessarily Easter eggs, but different, non-chicken eggs. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Eggs 2016 Chickens Turkey 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

Every spring I look forward to monitoring my bluebird trails when I not only get to watch Western Bluebirds develop from eggs to fledglings, but other cavity nesters as well. This film is condensed from about a three hour fledging experience of Western Bluebirds being coaxed from their nest box.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off. I didn’t get to witness such cooperation in the second year of the project, as only one egg hatched. Further, they would make sure that both of their young eagles were fed. They would feed a bite to one.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

I’ll still probably try again next June, as this June has been the driest and hottest in memory, and in my experience, summer rains make it much more likely that one will see the Sinaloa Martin. And for the first time, I saw a Bronzed Cowbird (which lays its eggs in other birds’ nests) checking out one of these nests.

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Mexico Oregon Squirrels Falcons 225

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Most of the chapters in The Bird Way focus on one or two scientists who has done extensive research on ‘outlier behavior.’

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Science Birds Costa Rica Research 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

“Pinto” is rice and beans and comes with your choice of eggs, breaded Tilapia, chicken or other options. Watch birds however you please… but seriously, you gotta experience the Cafe Colibri! A “casado” is a full lunch plate and works for when you want to eat a lot. I hope to see you there.

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

Fortunately, just like when we visited Washington State , Daisy was amenable to taking a boat ride to see some puffins so on the evening of Saturday, 27 May, we (me, Daisy, Desi, and my mother-in-law) found ourselves on a boat in New Harbor watching Black Guillemots swim in the harbor while we waited for our boat to head out to Eastern Egg Rock.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Brauning, a Summary of Atlas Results by Physiographic Region and Section, Breeding Phenology (date ranges of nest building, nest with eggs, nest with young, fledged young), Atlas Safe Dates (the period of time within which it is safe to say that if you saw or heard a bird in suitable habitat it is likely breeding, ruling out migrants).

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