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. Two weeks later, it was a young math and science teacher from Oregon named Brent who asked me to take him with me.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Mentorship is an essential part of the birding experience, and it needs to be encouraged. Le Conte’s Sparrow!”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Zamorano University may be regarded as one of the crown jewels of Latin American higher education, particularly in the areas of agriculture, environmental management, and food science, but this idyllic campus excels for more reasons than simply academics. Zamorano happens to be incredibly birdy.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2012

NARITA, JAPAN, DECEMBER 2012 – The art and science of layover birding deserves more rigorous study and perhaps a federal grant. What I learned convinced me to block out a full day to experience my first taste of Japanese birding. From what airports should one sally forth during a layover of many hours?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Nick Lund , formerly at birdDC and then the Birdist , should be no stranger to readers of 10,000 Birds. He’s previously shared his surprisingly strong feelings about the bird logos of NFL and MLB teams.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

While some people never overcome this vestigial aversion to sour and bitter sensations, this innate prejudice can be overturned with experience, becoming acquired tastes we learn to enjoy just as much as the more dependable, uncomplicated pleasures of sweetness, salt, and fat. Your move, Budweiser.).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ’ What was left to write about? ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis. Eurasian Tree Sparrows frequently find themselves out in the wild without a glass to drink from. The Finch Research Network calls it a high mountain specialist, which seems a bit weird given that my photo was taken exactly at sea level.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

While this is a very charismatic bird, the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow emphatically is not. On Quora , one question asked (presumably not by a sparrow) is “What does he mean by I have a beautiful soul?” ” This sparrow does not want to hear it has a beautiful soul. USD) net profit per month.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

Gulls and sparrows are tough but manageable; Empids may require DNA analysis (as it actually did in the case of the non-vocalizing Western Flycatcher seen in Central Park, NYC in November 2015). .” Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. The thousands of hours of observations that have been added up over the years would not have been possible without the help of the many volunteers and assistants who have offered their time and energy in the cause of science and conservation.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And yes, sparrows in areas with polluted air are less healthy. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. Thank god that this does not apply to humans. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ). Not this one though.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. I hoped it was an anomaly. Were they always there and I just never noticed?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Phenology is a vital science. Cultures that experience it generally put a holiday of some sort at the end to motivate people to even bother living through it. Black-capped Chickadees , Song Sparrows , and Dark-eyed Juncos start testing their breeding songs as well, though they have a longer wait before things get serious.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Three are biology students, one is an elementary-school science teacher, and I am a birding, well, fanatic. There was plenty of passion and humility to go around, and it was a great experience. One of my biologist colleagues was delighted to see his first American Pipit and, believe it or not, Song Sparrow. Not a Snowy Egret.

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