10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Their name refers to their habit of eating nectar and pollen, though most of them also eat insects and/or fruit. The book hastens to assure us that “we may safely assume that it referred only to bright plumage” While larger, the White-eared Honeyeater seems to follow a somewhat similar color scheme. .” (HBW).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Every country has them, the nonnative aggressors that some refer callously to as trash birds. Large black birds like crows and grackles may also be referred to as trash birds. flocks of grackles can grow so large and indifferent to humans that they dominate public parks. In some parts of the U.S., Gulls can be even worse!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

With a reduced level of human interaction, the birds in this patch of forest seemed relaxed. Especially within recent times the birds have become very edgy and if they don’t fly off immediately, they would tend to choose obfuscated perches from which they would peer at us human intruders – vanishing once eye-contact is made.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

By the way, and for point of reference) there are some 47 million active American birders. There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression. The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

She thought about it, though, as all rehabbers do whenever someone refers to having their eyes pecked out. Lisa installed a mirror in his enclosure, handled him as little as humanly possible, and hid her face when she brought him his meals so he wouldn’t associate a human with food. Lisa didn’t really say that. said a rehabber friend.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. It certainly does not refer to the status of Nanhui. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. A juvenile male. The real thing: an adult male.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). Well, you could always pretend to fall asleep.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2015

Gulls are often referred as “seagulls” due to their general association to the sea or sea shores. It eats just about everything and tolerates the presence of human and human disturbances rather well. On the series “North American birds with Neotropical Counterparts”, this time I introduce the Andean Gull.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

I think Turkey Vultures deserve a lot more respect from we humans and especially birders. link] References: 1 Birds of North America Online. [link] Can you imagine how many rotting animals we would have on the roadsides if we didn’t have vultures cleaning them up for us? ” Come on folks, lets give TVs a fair shake here.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But the cost of changing the installed hardware base and the human capital invested in QWERTY effectively precludes those alternatives. When we refer to an American Robin , we all immediately know the precise species in question. For example, the standard QWERTY keyboard is arguably inefficient and there are likely better alternatives.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

Humans are not always bad for birds, only about 95% of the time. Humans often use a similar concept, for example, by excluding US Supreme Court Judges from following pesky rules regarding the declaration of gifts. Biologists – or as Ze Frank would say, the Science Hippies – call this ecological segregation (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Grey-backed Camaroptera (fondly referred to as Grey-backed Camera-operator throughout). I was thrilled to see a Lesser Honeyguide – the relationship between honeyguides and humans dates back to early hominids, a whopping 1.9 Yellow-breasted Apalis. million years ago! Several larger, cryptic brown birds were also on the table.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. It is one of the more commonly seen owls, based on it having a relatively high tolerance for human activity as well as its partially diurnal habits. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

I usually restrict my unfair jokes to humans. Judging from my experience in the human world, a very predictable result. A weight loss strategy also recommended for humans. I have to confess I do not quite know what the “whiskered” in the Whiskered Yuhina name refers to. ” That seems a bit unfair to me.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Species formerly referred to as P. Apparently, this is another bird species that feels not so certain about flying (many humans have similar feelings). The HBW delights with exciting information on systematics history: “Specific name sometimes erroneously spelt P. barbata , but present name has priority.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Do you know of any references for this? I cannot seem to find any evidence that any of the other accentors are polygynandrous; at least some of them seem not to be. yes you, Dawn, coy.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2022

Whenever I find a good spot to see Reed Parrotbill at Nanhui, I can be pretty sure that there will be some human activity within the next three months that will destroy this site. And they rhyme “winner” with “five-piece chicken dinner” (finally getting to the stretched lapwing reference).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. This species is listed as vulnerable – similar to the Yellow-breasted Buntings, it is trapped on a large scale. Or duck?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2019

And the only birds known to actually attack humans, not just try to scare them with screeching and low flights, but to establish a full contact in protection of their offspring, were owls. Such news would usually end up in tabloids with some title reference to Hitchcock’s The Birds. The panicky human parents are the worst kind.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2012

So modest and retiring is this well named woodland recluse that it will not sing if it suspects humans are taking notice of it. Perhaps it feels some measure of security from human intervention in subdued light. To hear the song at its best, one must be there at twilight, which eliminates most people. Gabrielson and Stanley G.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

This pervasive pandemic we’re currently experiencing has squashed everyone’s travel plans – humans that is. And when I say bird migration I’m referring to a specific group of birds – shorebirds. Migration (in particular bird migration) is well underway, however.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. Its Latin name, Halcyon smyrnensis , refers to … … Halcyon: “denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

Formerly known as Jackass Penguins , a reference to their strange braying calls, African Penguins have become the unofficial mascots of marine conservation in the region. Today, there are more than 3,000 birds at this accessible colony and they are protected by fences and stiff fines for human disturbance.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Historically, all Bank Swallow colonies in North America were found in natural sites such as banks along rivers, streams, lakes, and coasts; today, many colonies are in human-made sites like sand and gravel pits and road cuts. References: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

During the very late 15th century and early 16th century, there are about five or so references to one Spanish explorer or another finding a “Turkey” and maybe or maybe not bringing it back to Europe. Another from the King of Spain dated 30 september 1512 refers to two turkeys which had arrived in Spain from Hispaniola.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Oh, and by the way if you call our buffalo a Water Buffalo, as it’s so often referred to in nature documentaries, you might get head-butted by anyone familiar with African animals – the Water Buffalo is an Asian species, but this error is curiously widespread and frustratingly tough to stamp out! to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2012

And much of that time is spend loafing around the breeding colonies trying to pair off and engaging in silly-looking behaviours referred to as dancing by scientists. The same evolutionary pressures that drove humans to evolve the capacity for love have had their way with the albatrosses. Years in fact. So what is going on?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). Apparently, the dissimilis (“unlike, different”) refers to the difference between the male and the female of the species. ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2023

These small crocodilians pose no threat to humans, but I had never before seen one in these ponds. Perhaps the bird was trying to get a closer view, so as to reference the images of possible threats it learned as a young bird? Two immature Least Grebes approach an adult, asking kindly for a snack. And closer.

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SalesFuel

JULY 18, 2024

In modern selling, with the fusion of technology and humanity a certain balanced integration is essential. Consequently, the right questions posed at the optimal time can capture the human essence of connection, empathy and trust. Often referred to as ‘soft skills’, EQ is seen as “an accelerant on all other skills.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

1978, for reference, was the year of my birth. There’s a certain suburbanization of the natural as well as the human world. I would be the last person on earth to complain about the creatures who have adjusted to living in our cities and towns – they provide a vital link between human and wild.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Meanwhile across the ditch , my useful column last week explaining how awful oxygen thief Tony Abbott could distract Australia from his flailing incompetence has sadly for him arrived too late and he has been disposed in what Australians mysteriously refer to as a spill. Progress, of a sort. This is a double edged sword for me.

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