10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2024

He trained as a journalist, founded Birdwatch magazine in 1992, and ran the title, and latterly also BirdGuides, until 2019. By Dominic Mitchell Dominic Mitchell’s earliest birding memory is of seeing an Atlantic Puffin off the Bass Rock, in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, in 1967 at the age of seven.

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MARCH 19, 2013

Even the fact that his byline originally read “Ted Williams is editor-at-large for Audubon magazine” does not seem like it would be much of an issue, especially as it was subsequently revised to read “Ted Williams writes an independent column for Audubon magazine.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. Receiving Birding magazine is a benefit of being an ABA member, so its circulation numbers are the same as ABA membership. Again, not all birders subscribe to birding magazines, but these are also modest numbers. million birders.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

With one American birding magazine already having closed its doors this year it would be a real shame to lose another. Julie Zickefoose explains what Bird Watcher’s Digest has meant to her and why they are doing a subscription drive.

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JANUARY 1, 2015

The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. But you’ve never heard a drunk Zebra Finch try to sing. Unless you’re a scientist who studied just that very thing and recently reported your results in PLOS One.

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JANUARY 31, 2015

Prizes include cash, a creative writing class in Wales, a tour of East Anglia with British nature writer Mark Cocker, and publication in British poetry magazine The Rialto. The good folks at BirdLife International remind us that there are 4 weeks left to enter this year’s RSPB/Rialto Nature Poetry Competition.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Duncan let me know about this fascinating article from The New York Times Magazine about the changing ecology – and population – of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans which was, of course, devastated by Hurricane Katrina seven years ago. The bird connection? Just read through to the end.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

The author, Catherine Ngarachu, is the founding editor of Kenya Birding, the country’s only magazine dedicated to birdwatching. The scientific names are not mentioned through the book, but it is certainly useful to have them included here. She has been active in conservation, working for the East Africa Natural History Society.

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APRIL 30, 2020

In a better world, I would get rich by selling this photo to the producer of Valentine`s day cards … … and this one to a pornographic magazine. The obvious local star of the bird world is the Reed Parrotbill. The Reed Parrotbill is at Nanhui year-round, though it is much more visible in spring.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

If you don’t know much about Dr. Archibald’s work, see his recent interview on The New York Times Green Blog and Audubon magazine.). Uma Thurman and Bette Midler (Diane Bondareff/Invision for the National Audubon Society/AP Images).

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APRIL 8, 2011

New York Magazine uses a more descriptive term for Pale Male’s recent behavior but the fact that he has had a veritable harem since the demise of Lola is beyond a doubt.

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APRIL 9, 2013

As editor of Birds & Blooms magazine, she is able to share her love of backyard nature with others. Through their work, they are both well qualified to author such a book. About the authors. Stacy Tornio grew up in Oklahoma, though she’s lived in Wisconsin for the last ten years.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

Both have been featured on the ABA Podcast and Freya has written for the National Audubon Society , Birding magazine and the LA Times. Learn from resources that are out there (our Welcoming and Inclusive Birders webpage , or the article I wrote for Audubon magazine on this topic) are great places to start…!).

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APRIL 25, 2022

The ABA has numerous strengths, including being the only North American birding organization, Birding magazine and other ABA publications (and their historical content), the ABA Podcast , the website and an established social media presence. It has about 13,000 members, a 50-year history , and a cool logo.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. If it’s representative, I can definitely see why he’s such a popular author.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

You may have read about Kikinda in the Wall Street Journal or the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Have you heard of a small town in Serbia graced by the presence of its 700 communally roosting Long-eared Owls ? Great Bustard Sanctuary.

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MAY 21, 2013

Even when we weren’t out in the field, we had a great time visiting the historic and cultural sites lined up by our sponsors, as well as chowing on excellent cuisine.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s such a far cry from the way things were in pre-Internet times that those days almost seem to be located in another world, another universe where we opened the pages of a magazine and gazed in awe at images of unbelievable birds.

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JUNE 8, 2021

Based on analysis of other information (magazine subscriptions, Facebook “likes,” field guide sales, organizational memberships, etc.), Of course, there are many other possible definitions of “ birder ” so accurately estimating the overall number is more art than science. I believe that FWS wildly overestimates the number of birders.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It’s just that Birdwatch Magazine is running its Birders’ Choice Awards 2015 and we are–for the first time in our 12-year history–on the ballot for Blog of the Year. Is 10,000 Birds your favorite bird blog? We certainly hope so, not that we are insecure or anything.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Collins Birds of the World is “ a must for the travelling birder ,” as the BBC Wildlife Magazine reviewer has put it. And I cannot agree more. But I have to disagree with the publisher, HarperCollins, calling it an “ all-encompassing new field guide” – it is a world checklist and I say it with a lot of respect.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

Choices have been made as to which birds to cover (none of these introductory guides are comprehensive, which is, I think, a good thing), and how to describe each bird’s appearance, distribution, and habitat in limited space. So, each guide has an individual personality.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

Many 10,000 Birds readers know author (and New Jersey resident) Rick Wright from his activities as writer, blogger , book editor of ABA’s Birding magazine, past department editor of Birding and Winging It, WINGS tour leader, speaker, and explicator of bird history.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

In the e-era now, print magazines are going the way of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Its magazine began publication then, too, with the first photographs appearing (over the protests of some board members, who didn’t want their journal being turned into “a picture book”) in 1906.

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JULY 24, 2014

When I was a boy, I was fascinated with mediaeval citadels and still remember an illustration in some kids’ magazine depicting a castle with explanation of its parts. While my invisible bird didn’t exactly walked out of a henhouse, it almost did. At the top of the tallest tower, there was one small tower with many holes.

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APRIL 6, 2021

In fact, early, photographic versions of several chapters appeared in Living Bird and Audubon Magazine (see the above links). Many of these stories will be known to avid readers of environmental news items and social media.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Wind-blown Shore Pines, sunny beaches, rugged rocky outcroppings, deep blue waters, and green hills often fill tourism magazines and Instagram pages to attract visitors and brag about where you have been. Many imagine life on the Oregon Coast as idyllic.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Some time ago, I published a series of birding-for-beginners articles in my local birding magazine. Hence I normally carry binoculars and the scope only, while the camera comes with me only if I hope for some rarity. Despite the rising popularity of birding, paper field guides are becoming more expensive than ever.

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MAY 13, 2020

The village has been featured in various documentaries and magazines over the years. This sleepy fishing village on the north coast of Trinidad should ring a bell – it boasts the densest nesting population of Leatherback Turtles in the entire western hemisphere. Don’t believe me? See for yourself here.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

I had the good fortune to be asked to represent one of the UK’s national birding magazines ‘Birdwatching’ on a press trip to Southern Portugal earlier this month.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

It was far better than subscribing to a nature magazine as I was able to get to know the writer ‘behind’ many of the blogs and I formed some good friendships thanks to NBN. NBN was such a great place to find niche blogs that I’d never have found through any search engine …easily!

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MAY 18, 2011

I wrote about it for WildBird Magazine a few years ago and recently David Sibley tackled it in his blog. The use of digital devices to attract birds is getting more and more attention. It’s been brewing on birding listservs for years.

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JANUARY 15, 2012

Talking to Jan Södersved the editor of the Birdlife Finland magazine Linnut whilst we were both in Portugal in early October suggested that all of the owl species in Finland had had a very productive breeding season. Short-eared Owls do breed in Britain but every few years an ‘irruption’ of the like we are seeing occurs.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

I have just returned from Costa Rica, the country about which I knew very little, despite it coming under my radar all the way back in 1999 when the “Africa – Birds & Birding” magazine published some of John Graham’s experiences from his visit in 1993.

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AUGUST 31, 2013

The old definition was put forward by the Maine Farmer’s Almanac, but was misinterpreted in a popular magazine and brought about today’s more widely quoted definition (I have been guilty of perpetuating this mistake and wish to atone for my foolishness here).

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JANUARY 8, 2019

These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine.

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